Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Wood
Did the omega bundle include updates? Have you contacted RunRev about this? I'm paid up until 2015 but LC 5.0.0 wasn't showing up as a downloadable item, they fixed this within a couple of hours of my contacting them. Ian On 20 Oct 2011, at 05:47, Admin wrote: I wish Runrev would man up and

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Wood
On 20 Oct 2011, at 03:51, RevList wrote: What does the second category mean? Does this mean that my license has expired, and if I want to be able to deply stand alone apps for Mac, Windows and Linux I have to pay? Whatever version of LiveCode you have will continue to work. If you have

Re: how to read an specific page into pdf document?

2011-10-20 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to Ken Ray for his close to a one-liner. put char 1 to 3 of field MyPagesC into GVPage put tell app quote Skim quote cr \ set LVDeskTop to path to desktop as string cr \ open ( LVDeskTop quote SkimTest1.pdf quote ) cr \ tell

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Ian Wood
According to Heather, he didn't upgrade to Complete but to some other bundle. Ian On 20 Oct 2011, at 12:17, Mark Schonewille wrote: If you upgraded to Complete a few months ago... shouldn't you be receiving updates for one year without having to pay again? If not, then I'm so happy I

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Ian, Hence if. I hope Mike will tell what actually happened, after sorting it out with Heather. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Admin
Heather, Oh. In every other program I have purchased, including software IDEs, it is almost always common to get a year (or more) of updates, so it was kind of assumed. For some reason, I thought I upgraded to complete, but you are right about me upgrading to Gold. I checked my purchases.

Was New rendering test or something like that

2011-10-20 Thread James Hurley
Richard, Alejandro, Ken, et. al., I thank you for your kind words, but RunRev and this list provides a whole body of specialists. I speak a foreign language, Math--and I'm not the only one. I ought to have mastered a bit of math after 40 years teaching mathematical physics. (In retirement I

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, I agree. It would be nice to either know what to expect or get free updates for a reasonable amount of time. RealStudio offers 3 months of updates for free. That's reasonable and avoids unexpected surprises. Thus I didn't need to think long before buying my RealStudio license. When I

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread RevList
It seems my original post was hijacked with the first response and no one answered my question. I need to know when my licenses expire and what it all means. Please point me in the right direction. Stewart I have to admit that I have not paid much attention to this lately so I may have missed

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Keith Clarke
Licences do not expire - only the right to free updates. These, in turn, depend on exactly what you bought, when and whether you specifically purchased an an active renewal pack (or are living in the grace period from your original/last order). Any recent order will have the updates grace

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Felker
I would talk to Heather at runrev directly to get your answer. To me, the answer seems to be depends. Mike RevList revl...@createchsol.com wrote: It seems my original post was hijacked with the first response and no one answered my question. I need to know when my licenses expire and what it

Re: Resizable DataGrid Question

2011-10-20 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Mike Doub m...@doub.com wrote: on FillInData pDataArray set the text of field Name of me to pDataArray[LastName] \ comma space pDataArray[FirstName] space pDataArray[MiddleName] put char 1 of fld Name of me into field spacerLable of me put

RE: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I'd like to re-iterate however, that we certainly never promised a year of updates with the Omega bundle. The only license type we sell that carries a year of updates is the Complete license. The Omegabundle included Pro 1 desktop and 1 mobile, which came to a $499 value (at the time). I

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Felker
In all fairness, I attended the summer academy and earned quite a few upgrades/deployment options for free and then they offered me a great deal on the gold option. If it were not for the buginess of the web deployment module and the incompleteness of the android deployment module, I would be

RE: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Felker
Funny thing is, of all the goodies offered in the omega bundle, I bought it for live code, android and Franklin 3d. The SQL yoga seemed cool, but I have yet to use it. It was easier for me to just code the MySQL directly inside live code. It was all very straight forward and easy. But the

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, I think everybody got a good deal on the Gold edition, exactly because 5.0 was around the corner. Pay for 4.6, then pay again for 5.0 or pay extra for free updates. A very good deal always has a catch. Ultimately it doesn't matter much whether you accept a special offer or pay for a

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Admin wrote: Oh. In every other program I have purchased, including software IDEs, it is almost always common to get a year (or more) of updates, so it was kind of assumed. For some reason, I thought I upgraded to complete, but you are right about me upgrading to Gold. I checked my purchases.

RE: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Lynn Fredricks
But the price of the omega bundle, together with earning deployment options in the summer academy was just too enticing. I gave in and spent the money. However, for my troubles, I lost my main client due to the web deployment module simply not working. You can see why I am a bit jaded.

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Heather Nagey
Please email me in supp...@runrev.com and I can help you work out what you need. Regards, Heather On 20 Oct 2011, at 15:28, RevList wrote: It seems my original post was hijacked with the first response and no one answered my question. I need to know when my licenses expire and what it all

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Pete
I'm curious as to what happens if you do this. If I opt to not get my 5.0 upgrade, then when 6.0 comes out decide I want it, do I have to pay the 6.0 upgrade fee AND the 5.0 upgrade fee? I would guess yes otherwise I'd be getting the 5.0 fixes and enhancements for free. Pete Molly's Revenge

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, You never know what future brings, but I believe you'd pay for a new license instead of a renewal. If you wait yet another year, you'd still pay the same price for 7.0, which means you get all 6.0 features for free, just like any new customer. In my case, I'd pay for 5.0 after having

Re: iOS Simulater No Sound

2011-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/20/11 12:28 PM, Todd Geist wrote: I am trying to play sound files in the iOS Simulater. But I am not getting any sound. When I build it and put it on an iPad the sound works fine. IS there a problem with sound and the simulator. Yes, and it took me ages to figure that out. The

Re: iOS Simulater No Sound

2011-10-20 Thread Scott Rossi
Do you have multiple audio devices connected to your system? If so, make sure both input and output audio settings are set for the same device. Todd's message confused me because I have an app that I recently updated which plays sound that I know was working fine. Sure enough, when I saw this

RE: iOS Simulater No Sound

2011-10-20 Thread John Dixon
Todd, Jacque... I find that sound plays in the iOS simulator. After reading your posts I quickly tried it with an mp3 file and found no problem. I used the 'copy files' pane to bring in the file on mouseUp put specialfolderpath(engine) /Do You Want To Know A Secret.mp3 into musicTrack

Re: iOS Simulater No Sound

2011-10-20 Thread Todd Geist
Thanks very much for all your help! I will try out Scott's suggestion Todd On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 11:34 AM, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Todd, Jacque... I find that sound plays in the iOS simulator. After reading your posts I quickly tried it with an mp3 file and found no

Can I hide/encode FTP name and password?

2011-10-20 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, In my new app I need to use a FTP name and password. What is the best way to do this? Is there a way to hide or encode these? Greetings, William -- groeten, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Transparent window example?

2011-10-20 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Hi Again, Is there a way to set a stack to a blendlevel of say 75, but keep an object (such as a button) at a blendlevel of 0? That is, a somewhat transparent window, but a solid button/control on the transparent window? I have played around with it, but the object seems to inherit the

Re: Transparent window example?

2011-10-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 10/20/2011 10:27 PM, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote: Hi Again, Is there a way to set a stack to a blendlevel of say 75, but keep an object (such as a button) at a blendlevel of 0? That is, a somewhat transparent window, but a solid button/control on the transparent window? 'fraid

Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Pete
Posted this a couple of days ago and have also been working with LC support on it but no joy. If you have a few minutes and are on a Mac, could you execute the following code and let me know the results: *put* line 1 of shell(defaults read .GlobalPreferences AppleLocale) into $LANG *put*

RE: Transparent window example?

2011-10-20 Thread John Dixon
Keith... Have a look at this, I think it might help... http://www.runrev.com/developers/lessons-and-tutorials/tutorials/advanced-inks-windows/ Dixie From: ke...@gulfbreezeortholab.com To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Transparent window example? Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2011

Re: iOS video grabbing external

2011-10-20 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Well, I guess that means nobody is interested :( On Wednesday, October 19, 2011, Maarten Koopmans maarten.koopm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Has anybody made a grab video external for iOS, and if so, could you contact me off-list on sharing/pricing? I saw that I can take pictures, but sometines

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, I get decimal_point=, thousands_sep= grouping=127 and it is the same in the terminal and in Revolution 4.0 running on Mac OS X 10.6.8. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Andre Garzia
Pete, The terminal and the shell command are different beasts. On your mac, you can check some hidden files: .profile .bash_profile .bashrc For example, my .profile changes my locale $LANG var. I think that .profile always load but .bash_profile and .bashrc only loads then you launch a

RE: Resizable DataGrid Question

2011-10-20 Thread Mike Doub
I have made all of your suggested changes and have verified that tIndex has no value. This seems really odd to me. The reason that I was taking this approach was to accommodate my intention of building the array for the data grid only once then using the following to create different sortings:

Re: libUrlDownloadToFile

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Use delete URL to cancel FTP downloads. You can have multiple connections to different servers. I don't think you can have multiple connections to the same server. I tried this a long time ago and the downloads waited for each other, causing them to finish one after another instead of

Re: Can I hide/encode FTP name and password?

2011-10-20 Thread ddas
Hi William, I am no expert but I might have a simple solution for you. 1) Signup on Amazon s3 2) create a bucket 3) upload a file 4) Use S3Fox(Firefox Addon) to make an encoded to the file(time limited link). 5) Use https url to connect to your file That might do it. Please feel free to update

Re: Transparent window example?

2011-10-20 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Thanks Dixie! Just what I was looking for! I really, really appreciate it! Cheers from Florida, - Boo -Original Message- From: John Dixon Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:05 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: RE: Transparent window example? Keith... Have a look at

Re: libUrlDownloadToFile

2011-10-20 Thread ddas
Thanks Mark. Few more related questions. What happens to the partially downloaded file. Does that linger? Does it resume from where it left off of does it start from the beginning again? Thanks, Debdoot On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi, Use delete URL to cancel

Re: libUrlDownloadToFile

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Debdoot, I am not sure. If you want, you can always check whether the file exists afterwards and delete it if necessary. I believe that the file always starts downloading from the beginning. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: libUrlDownloadToFile

2011-10-20 Thread ddas
Oops. Figured it out. Thanks again. On Oct 20, 2011, at 5:00 PM, ddas wrote: Thanks Mark. Few more related questions. What happens to the partially downloaded file. Does that linger? Does it resume from where it left off of does it start from the beginning again? Thanks, Debdoot

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Pete
Thanks for the quick responses everyone. I should probably explain that I'm trying to set initial values for some application preferences, which the user can then change if necessary, so this is not a show stopper, just something that would be nice to do. Andre - I'll check out the files you

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Pete
Hi Andre, Where are these files located? If I just run Terminal, I'm in my home group but more doesn't find any of them. Sorry, not much knowledge of Unix! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Pete,

Re: Can I hide/encode FTP name and password?

2011-10-20 Thread Admin
I have used ftp within a Live Code program, hard coding username and password, with no problem. Choose to encrypt the code (isn't that an option?) on compiling. Mike On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 20:42:26 +0200, William de Smet wrote: Hi there, In my new app I need to use a FTP name and

Re: iOS Simulater No Sound

2011-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/20/11 1:34 PM, John Dixon wrote: Todd, Jacque... I find that sound plays in the iOS simulator. It was fuzzy brain syndrome (been ill for a couple of days.) What I should have said was that in older versions of the simulator (3.2), there was no sound. In 4.2 sound is okay. So the

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/20/11 3:40 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Hi, A few weeks ago, I installed LC 5.0 for the Mac desktop. Seems to work okay. If it has new features, I haven't discovered them yet. I've gotten notifications about a maintenance upgrade. 5.0.1 or something like that. I follow the links, but can't

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Thursday, October 20, 2011, 1:02:53 PM, you wrote: If you could let me know the OS X and LC versions too, that would be great. I'm on OS X 10.6.8 and LC 4.6.3 If it helps any (it probably doesn't) on Fedora Core 15 I get exactly the same results whether I do this from the message box or

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Thursday, October 20, 2011, 2:22:55 PM, you wrote: Hi Andre, Where are these files located? If I just run Terminal, I'm in my home group but more doesn't find any of them. Sorry, not much knowledge of Unix! type ls -al in a terminal window and it'll display the hidden files --

Re: iOS Simulater No Sound

2011-10-20 Thread Todd Geist
I was trying to with 4.2, 4.3, and 5.0 none of them were working. But I haven't tried Scott's suggestion, yet. That may have been it. Todd On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 3:52 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 10/20/11 1:34 PM, John Dixon wrote: Todd, Jacque... I find that

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark. None of the files Andre mentioned show up with this command, lots of other .xxx files though. The fact that you get back sensible results when using shell in LC makes me think this has something to do with shell commands on OS X, especially that weird 127 thing. Hopefully the

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread Timothy Miller
I'm on: http://www.runrev.com/store/account/products/ I'm logged in. I see seat 1 I see my name I see a popup button labeled version I see 5.0.0 What am I doing wrong? Tim On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/20/11 3:40 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Hi, A few weeks

Re: Anyone using LC 5 and GLX2 on Mac?

2011-10-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Matthias- Download the latest. I couldn't quite replicate your problems, but I found something similar and fixed it. If this works out for you, I'll make a more generic announcement about the new version. https://bitbucket.org/mwieder/glx2/downloads -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Was New rendering test or something like that

2011-10-20 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Jim, James Hurley wrote: [snip] from Alejandro I have been introduced to the beautiful mathematics behind the Bezier curve and the utility of ExportToIllustrator (I can't imagine what must have gone into that) Actually, I have make that question myself. If some of you take notice,

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/20/11 7:56 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: I'm on: http://www.runrev.com/store/account/products/ I'm logged in. I see seat 1 I see my name I see a popup button labeled version I see 5.0.0 What am I doing wrong? It might be a server thing. Best to write supp...@runrev.com and see if they

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
Tim, it just occured to me that you may not be in the dev program. The 5.0.1 release is a pre-release for those members. If you aren't in the dev program, I'm not sure how you saw an announcement. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Question regarding K12 Education pricing...

2011-10-20 Thread Judy Perry
John, My department killed off my class a good seven years ago, but they were always very accommodating in terms of lab pack licenses as well as arranging good student purchase pricing. Contact them off-list. Oh, and as for financially-struggling schools, well, is there any other kind? Judy

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi Jacque, True. I'm not in the dev program. The announcement showed up as some kind of alert when I launched LiveCode 5.0. Somebody at LiveCode goofed I guess. Tim On Oct 20, 2011, at 7:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Tim, it just occured to me that you may not be in the dev program. The

Re: Making Sense of Licenses

2011-10-20 Thread Maarten Koopmans
...precisely why I renewed, because upgrade fees per component are not too much compared with a new license. But, I have the dev program too, so far worth the money, especially if you're doing mobile. LC has a much more agressive release cycle these dats, with smaller improvement coming faster in

Rotate a field?

2011-10-20 Thread Bill Vlahos
Is there a way to rotate a field without making it offscreen, taking a snapshot of it, and then rotating the resulting image? The field doesn't have to be editable. I just want to display the contents? Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your