Re: How to sort on keydown

2011-08-04 Thread Admin
If so, you will need to build your own control, easy and fun to do Not so sure if I want that kind of fun. I'd be happy with a drop down control that works. Already tried a more homegrown solution that was more trouble than it was worth. Mike

Re: Any LC mobile case studies available?

2011-08-04 Thread Admin
Chip, I plan on porting this massive database project to android and IOS, but the data is proprietary. I am more than willing to share the code or showcase it once I am done with it. Lots of bugs and gotchas right now. My next project, for my own company, will be of interest to you -

Re: [ANN] BvG Docu 2

2011-08-04 Thread Keith Clarke
...nice work, Björnke - the search capability really adds to the dictionary's usefulness and accessibility. Thanks for sharing. Best, Keith.. On 3 Aug 2011, at 18:18, Björnke von Gierke wrote: As mentioned in the last livecode.tv event, BvG Docu 2 is now available. It works with Rev / LC

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/03/2011 08:24 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: When I was in college, an insecure acquaintance of mine replied to an advertisement in a gentleman's magazine: Get a 12 inch penis in 30 days. The price was painfully high, but he hoped for rich rewards. About four weeks later, dizzy with

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/03/2011 10:09 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Reminds me of a time when my dad said there were ads for 'color tv converters' and what you got were several plastic gels to put over your black and white set. Color, right! Which one do you want? Red, Blue or Green. Funnily enough I remember

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/04/2011 03:46 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Tim- I'm sure there's a use for one of those things but it... er... escapes me right at the moment... It can be used for flagellating people who are meant to be concentrating on their Livecode programming but get side-tracked . . . :)

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 4 août 2011 à 06:30, Judy Perry a écrit : Something better is needed... and geared towards the true inventive user and less towards the newbie programmer. The great strength of HyperCard was to offer us hundreds of preprogrammed stacks that we could arrange as a lego to build our first

AW: Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
That is a real pain in the ass, because my app doesn't run anymore under lion and I haven't found a solution yet. I have read over the last days guidelines and threads, but have not found any answer yet. Apple says about the /library/application support/ in the Mac OS X Developer library: For

Re: AW: Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
You can place them there, but the user has to have the right permissions. LiveCode 4.5 added support for 'elevated processes' - so you'd have to create a separate (faceless) application and use 'open elevated process ...' which will prompt the user for the required password, and then the

How to fast-track a LC/iOS app

2011-08-04 Thread Richard Miller
Would really appreciate hearing comments on how to take an existing LC desktop app and convert it to a iOS app, to be approved by Apple for sale. The app is a straight-forward multimedia database. Nothing unusual in it. I have no LC iOS experience as of yet, but years of experience with Rev.

Jerry's Custom Combo Box

2011-08-04 Thread Charles Szasz
I wanted to try Jerry Daniels' sample stack that has his custom combo box that was in revUp issue 87 but the link has expired for downloading it. I contacted Jerry about it but he no longer has that sample stack. Does anybody have that sample stack that they could e-mail me? Sent from my iPad

Re: Jerry's Custom Combo Box

2011-08-04 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi Charles Yes I have a copy. I'll send it on. On 4 August 2011 13:39, Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com wrote: I wanted to try Jerry Daniels' sample stack that has his custom combo box that was in revUp issue 87 but the link has expired for downloading it. I contacted Jerry about it but he no

RE: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Something better is needed... and geared towards the true inventive user and less towards the newbie programmer. The great strength of HyperCard was to offer us hundreds of preprogrammed stacks that we could arrange as a lego to build our first applications before we had to put our

How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Admin
I have a reasonably well working database now, however, you can still duplicate usernames - my code is not working. I can gain access to he database, no problem. I can write to and read from with no problem Here, I just want to access the UserValidation table, grab all the usernames and

Re: How to fast-track a LC/iOS app

2011-08-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 4 Aug 2011, at 13:25, Richard Miller wrote: 1. Is there a tutorial out there that can walk me through the process of creating true iOS controls, look, feel, etc., then test it on my iPhone, then submit it? 2. Would you recommend using a tool like MobGUI, or is that overkill? If you

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Jeff Massung
Instead of checking for a username, mark the UserName field in the table as being UNIQUE. This will cause the DB to error out of a transaction that attempts to insert the same UserName into the table multiple times. Then catch that. Jeff M. ___

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 4 Aug 2011, at 17:42, Admin wrote: SELECT UserName FROM UserValidation into theUN This query returns all entries in the _column_ username. Later you check if that is _equal_ to the entered password. That makes no sense. either use a query that looks specifically for the entered name (watch

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think we overlook the novelty aspect of Hypercard when it was first released, combined with the fact that it was just there. Tell all Mac users that their new OS allows them to make custom apps without having to buy anything or install anything, and those inclined are going to give it a go.

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
On save, select username from uservalidation where username = the value of the new username count how many records got returned. If greater than 0 you have a duplicate. Bob On Aug 4, 2011, at 8:42 AM, Admin wrote: I have a reasonably well working database now, however, you can still

Building external for iOS: No such file or directory

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I followed this video tutorial http://qery.us/wa step by step but get two errors when I try to run the external in the iOS simulator: Error 1: linking step of external dylib build failed, probably due to missing framework or library references - check the contents of the rredevice.ios file

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ick! Do stuff that causes SQL to throw errors. I suppose that is a way to do it, but a simple select will do it cleanly. Keeps the SQL error logs clean too. If multiuser, lock the SQL database first, then check, insert if query returns 0 records, unlock the SQL database. A method I use that

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Jeff Massung
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Ick! Do stuff that causes SQL to throw errors. I suppose that is a way to do it, but a simple select will do it cleanly. Keeps the SQL error logs clean too. If multiuser, lock the SQL database first, then check, insert if query

Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Update available: http://www.hyperactivesw.com/downloads/AirLaunch10b2.zip This fixes an error with paths that contain spaces. Many thanks to Matthias for building a test standalone named Untitled 1 and staying up till 2:30 AM to report it. :) I hope these announcements don't annoy anyone,

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-04 Thread Martin Baxter
On 03/08/2011 16:52, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/3/11 8:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Lynn Fredricks I recommend NoScripts +1 on NoScript: makes browsing faster and safer. I've been using NoScript for years. Last week I discovered

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I guess the Russians are right! There IS no such thing as a free lunch! :-) Bob On Aug 4, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: On 03/08/2011 16:52, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/3/11 8:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Lynn Fredricks I

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Admin
And how do I do that? Mike On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 09:53:44 -0600, Jeff Massung wrote: Instead of checking for a username, mark the UserName field in the table as being UNIQUE. This will cause the DB to error out of a transaction that attempts to insert the same UserName into the table

Re: Building external for iOS: No such file or directory

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi again, After restarting XCode, I could get it to work. AFAIK I didn't change anything else. The external now works perfectly in the simulator. The next problem is that I can't launch test.app on my iPhone. The console says it can't load the external. When I start the app from within XCode,

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Admin
Sorry to sound stupid, but after the select statement, how do I then count for how many records got returned? Here's the select statement you wrote with my variable: put select username from uservalidation where username = SQ UN SQ into CountUN --count how many records got returned. If

Re: Delete a card?

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/3/11 10:10 PM, Pete wrote: Pretty sure none of those things were true, but wouldn't I get some sort of error message if any of them were true? I didn't get one when I just tested on a card with cantdelete set to true. Also, I've never noticed before, but I don't see a Delete option in

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Have you dug into the RevDB commands? Typically the commands will return the number of affected rows in it or return (I cannot remember which). All your statement below does is create a new variable called CoundUN containing your sequel statement. It doesn't execute anything. You would first

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry didn't read the whole post. revDataFromQuery will return empty if there were no records matching your select statement. Check to see if it is empty. Obviously, if you need it to be unique, and nothing has gone wrong in the past, there will only be one matching record if one already exists

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: I hope these announcements don't annoy anyone, it's the only way I can let people know. How can anything that enhances our LiveCode development be considered annoying? It's not like you're announcing CheeseLaunch or something... Thanks for the update

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/4/11 1:51 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Jaqui, When new cards are created with the clone command, how sure can we be that the new card will be given a unique ID for the current stack? 100% sure. As Bob said, no two objects can ever have the same ID. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/4/11 2:40 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: I hope these announcements don't annoy anyone, it's the only way I can let people know. How can anything that enhances our LiveCode development be considered annoying? It's not like you're announcing CheeseLaunch or

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Bob, Jacque, Thanks. Perhaps you might like to know how I plan to use IDs in my application. One of the Modules (stacks) has 56 basic forms. I record the ID of those forms in a field on the first card of that Module. Subsequently, circumstances on one or more of the other Modules requires that

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Judy Perry
Indeed. On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Pierre Sahores wrote: The great strength of HyperCard was to offer us hundreds of preprogrammed stacks that we could arrange as a lego to build our first applications before we had to put our fingers in the dust to understand how these stacks were coded.

RE: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Judy Perry
But clearly, having NONE is not the answer. Judy http://bingo.economy-x-talk.com/ On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Lynn Fredricks wrote: snip But I think the question is, if all the programmatic elements that created the HC phenonemon then were implemented in LC today, would the end result be similar to

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
You do not have to imagine. Jacque's Time Warp stack gives you access to all infinite alternate timelines. Trouble is, you have to go there before you can tell if it's the one you want. It may take some time. Bring extra socks... Bob On Aug 4, 2011, at 1:30 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Thu,

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Jacque's Time Warp stack gives you access to all infinite alternate timelines Except those with spaces in their dimensions. I'll fix that when I can figure out how to get space out of time. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

RE: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-04 Thread Lynn Fredricks
But clearly, having NONE is not the answer. Well, but it is an answer, until you find the right business case to ask the question. I don't think it's a question of if LiveCode could fit the role or not that HC did. We've been talking about all these great free stacks HC had (or caused to make),

[ANN] stsColorPicker DropTool

2011-08-04 Thread Ken Ray
Hey all - just a quick note to let you know that I've posted a new addition to the DropTools site - this free DropTool is a simple color picker with a color swatch and drop shadow that depresses when you click it. http://droptools.sonsothunder.com/products/sts/sts-cp.irev Enjoy! Ken Ray

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh that's easy! Since the alternate timelines are infinite, just call your stack recursively until you find yourself solving the problem. Then ask yourself how you did it. Then go buy some new socks because you will be out. In fact all of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, New York and California

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Thursday, August 4, 2011, 3:03:23 PM, you wrote: Jacque's Time Warp stack gives you access to all infinite alternate timelines Except those with spaces in their dimensions. I'll fix that when I can figure out how to get space out of time. replace space with empty in time -- -Mark

Distributing iOS externals

2011-08-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I just made two externals, one that reads the battery level (following the RunRev tutorial) and another one that returns the localized device model. Now I need to distribute these externals. It isn't clear to me whether I can just sign an external with my own provision profile for

Re: Airlaunch 1.0b2

2011-08-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/4/11 7:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Thursday, August 4, 2011, 3:03:23 PM, you wrote: Jacque's Time Warp stack gives you access to all infinite alternate timelines Except those with spaces in their dimensions. I'll fix that when I can figure out how to get space out of time.

Re: How to check for duplicate usernames?

2011-08-04 Thread Admin
Since I bought the special that was going on, it came with sqlYoga, but I have had zero time to look at it. I will now. Mike On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 11:34:47 -0700, Bob Sneidar wrote: Sorry didn't read the whole post. revDataFromQuery will return empty if there were no records matching your

Re: UNIQUE CARD IDs

2011-08-04 Thread Bill Vlahos
Joe, Could you change the name of the new duplicated card and then delete all the cards with the duplicate name? For example the original cards are names Form1, Form2, etc. When you duplicate the Form1 card call the duplicate DupForm1, etc. When you are all done simply loop through the cards