Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Richard MacLemale
After finishing the Gaming course (which was AWESOME,) I can now do frame-based animation in my own stacks. The key is basically a loop that re-triggers itself at scheduled intervals. But now I'm trying to take the next step and actually animate a sequence of events. Here's what I have so

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Corey
On 11/02/2012 12:19, Richard MacLemale wrote: I'm creating a variable called frameNumber and each time the loop is triggered I'm adding 1 to it. Since I've scripted my loop to run 30 times per second, after 1 second the frameNumber would be 30. OK, so I want certain lines of code to be run

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Richard MacLemale
On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Ken Corey wrote: I'm a LiveCode newbie, but I'd want to minimise the time spent asking is it time for me yet for each of those commands. I'd probably try to put the commands into a list ordered on the frame number. Your insert is a little trickier here,

Revzilla?

2012-02-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been updated in a long time. Ken, is there a more recent update that I can try? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com

Re: moving and scaling an image

2012-02-11 Thread David Glasgow
On 10 Feb 2012, at 6:00 pm, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Subject: Re: moving and scaling an image Reply-To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Hi David, David Glasgow wrote Thanks to all the help with this. I ended up with a script that created sequential moves, with an

Re: Recursion

2012-02-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: haha... ever tried a Google search for recursion? Circular definition: see Definition, circular. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Revzilla?

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been updated in a long time. Ken, is there a more recent update that I

Re: How alive is LiveCode?

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Chean
Lynn: Thank-you, I think that I will be looking at your DB product. Mike On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: I want to write databased applications to take care of some of the pain-points at my current employment. And if this works

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Richard MacLemale
Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea. It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two lines of code that way. My window is more like 33 milliseconds. Back to the old drawing board, as they say... --- Richard MacLemale

Re: Error in mail list MBOX file format 2012 February

2012-02-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richard, Richard Gaskin wrote I asked Heather about that and apparently the team is using the list manager's default settings, so it's not clear what more they can do. I've looked into this before, and it seems that if you need to parse it you can do so reliably not by relying on

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

2012-02-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/10/12 3:31 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: What's the best method? Two separate stacks, one for each resolution? Or a single stack with code to handle positioning of controls? Definitely a single stack with resizing code. That will automatically adjust to whatever resolution happens to be

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Richard, here is a bareBone frame based handler... Very crude, nothing special. I assume for starters this is in a button. You will want to do adjustments. Cheers, Malte local sStartTime,sCurrentFrame on mouseUp set the flag of me to not the flag of me if the flag of me then

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Corey
On 11/02/2012 17:53, Richard MacLemale wrote: Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea. It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two lines of code that way. My window is more like 33 milliseconds. Back to the old drawing

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

2012-02-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Speaking of resolution support: Apple Now Requiring iPhone Developers to Submit Retina Screenshots http://www.macrumors.com/2012/02/07/apple-now-requiring-iphone-developers-to-submit-retina-screenshots/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting:

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread Richard MacLemale
On Feb 11, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Ken Corey wrote: I don't know what the engine does to the code...the code might be compiled (I use that term loosely) down, where evaluated code isn't. Hrm...can you abstract each little script enough to make little commands? on appearFlower set the loc

[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
After reading about this recent legal bout for the interactive web: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1248234/texas-jury-strikes-down-mans-claim-to-own-the-interactive-web I found revealing the way in which HyperCard keeps appearing as the first inspiration for the web browser as we know it

Re: moving and scaling an image

2012-02-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi David, David Glasgow wrote The only thing I can think of is that if the location moved to is closer than the step size in the repeat loop, then you won't get the scaling, or only a very little bit. What happens when you step through in the debugger? Ah, now it works! I just changed

Re: Revzilla?

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Ray
On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter- Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been updated in

Re: RSS Tutorial with XML commands?

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Ray
On Feb 10, 2012, at 10:06 PM, John Patten wrote: Answered my own question… http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=11t=7011 It should have dawned on me that with most tags, XML or otherwise, the first word is key identifier… duh…long week If your feed isn't really long, and/or you want

Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Chean
Is there any addon that checks the spelling of words as they are entered into a text field? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Colors/Borders

2012-02-11 Thread Pete
Hoping to get some guidance on a couple of issues regarding colors and borders. I have a group that has all the default properties set except I switched on showBorder with a borderwidth of 2. All looks as expected with a light gray background and a visible border. Now I set the background in

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Richmond
On 02/11/2012 09:42 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: After reading about this recent legal bout for the interactive web: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1248234/texas-jury-strikes-down-mans-claim-to-own-the-interactive-web I found revealing the way in which HyperCard keeps appearing as the

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Marty Knapp
Hey Mike, Check out: http://runrev.com/store/product/runrevplanet-spell-2_0/ I've not used it personally, however, so can't comment on that. Marty K Is there any addon that checks the spelling of words as they are entered into a text field? Mike

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard. I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanadu. Kids... :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Richmond
Spilling Chuckers . . . Hmm This is rather interesting: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html as is this : http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ I wonder how feasible (and how fast) an in-built spell-checker would be . . . certainly SCOWL 7.1 looks rather attractive.

Re: Frame-based animation

2012-02-11 Thread John Craig
Hi, Richard. I tried a frame based demo animation with one main animation loop that locks the screen then updates all objects. I found that instead of trying to update certain objects at frame X, etc, updating everything on every frame worked best (for this particular demo anyway). Objects

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Richmond
On 02/11/2012 10:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Alejandro Tejada wrote: So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard. I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Keith Clarke
I'm intrigued yet confused - don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? Why can't these be accessed? Best, Keith.. On 11 Feb 2012, at 20:58, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Spilling Chuckers . . . Hmm This is rather interesting:

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Mike Kerner
Yep http://www.runrevplanet.com/ http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/211/spellCheck On Saturday, 11 February, 2012 at 15:15 , Michael Chean wrote: Is there any addon that checks the spelling of words as they are entered into a text field? Mike

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Richmond
On 02/11/2012 11:07 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: I'm intrigued yet confused - don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? Why can't these be accessed? Well, it's news to me. I work mainly with Linux, and decreasingly so with Mac PPC [it's a money thing . . . :) ] and I don't think

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Richmond
On 02/11/2012 11:14 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Yep http://www.runrevplanet.com/ http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/211/spellCheck Well, well; that made my last posting look a bit redundant. Although, quite honestly, I am rather glad, as I shall now merrily try to incorporate Craig Newman's

revOnline ? ? ?

2012-02-11 Thread Richmond
Does this thing function any more? Cannot upload to it to save my life. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Scott McDonald
Keith, don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? One software segment that I produce for is cross-platform desktop -- needs to run on PCs (with Windows XP and newer) and on Macs. There is no native OS level spellchecker for Windows XP. Instead of having platform specific code to

Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-11 Thread Ken Ray
If you take advantage of downloading the DAZ3D software for Mac 64-bit computers, you need to be aware of a gotcha: It turns out that after installing the 64-bit versions of DAZ3D on my Mac that LiveCode can't open a script editor window anymore. This turned out to be because it inserted two

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-11 Thread Jerry Jensen
Ken, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU (no dashes) for bringing this up before it bit me. It would have taken me FOREVER to find the problem! Your fix worked perfectly. Add one notch for keeping a recent clone backup around in addition to Time Machine. Jerry

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-11 Thread stephen barncard
Fortunately (for me) apparantly Remo seems unaffected. Livecode does stall and I have to force-quit. On 11 February 2012 14:25, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: If you take advantage of downloading the DAZ3D software for Mac 64-bit computers, you need to be aware of a gotcha: It

RE: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

2012-02-11 Thread Ralph DiMola
Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chris Sheffield Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:32 PM To: How to use LiveCode

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Kee Nethery
On Feb 11, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanadu. Kids... My wife owns a laser printed, hand bound user guide for Project Xanadu that she got from one of the guys on the

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-11 Thread stephen barncard
yes, Ken I made the mod too. Thanks for your observation and fix. sqb On 11 February 2012 14:56, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: Ken, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU (no dashes) for bringing this up before it bit me. It would have taken me FOREVER to find

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-11 Thread Jerry Jensen
And it occurs to me that likely the next time I would be opening the editor would be at a remote client's location, on the clock, under pressure. Whew! On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, stephen barncard wrote: yes, Ken I made the mod too. Thanks for your observation and fix. sqb On 11

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Chean
It seems to work ok on the web. For text entry I think it's sort of expected that it underlines the wrong words as they are typed. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Spilling Chuckers . . . Hmm This is rather interesting:

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Michael Chean
Hmmm. Disappointing that. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Scott McDonald runrevpla...@smpcs.server101.com wrote: Keith, don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? One software segment that I produce for is cross-platform desktop -- needs to run on PCs (with Windows XP and

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

2012-02-11 Thread Richard MacLemale
On Feb 11, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: I know this topic has come up before. About a year or so ago Tom McGrath posted some very useful info. So now that some time has passed, I'm curious as to how most of you are developing apps when you need to support multiple device resolutions.

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- At least Ted Nelson is still among us: http://www.xanadu.com/zigzag/ -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread Pete
Despite the lack of full platform support, sure would be nice of LC hooked into the native spell checkers on those platforms that do support it. Pete On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Scott McDonald runrevpla...@smpcs.server101.com wrote: Keith, don't all target platforms have native

Attn Jerry... ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.6

2012-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- My emails to you are bouncing back with the strange error message 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable I've released a new version of PowerDebug, and it incorporates a fix for the problem Ken found. You can download it here: http://www.ahsoftware.net/PowerTools/files/PowerDebug -- -Mark

Re: Attn Jerry... ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.6

2012-02-11 Thread Jerry Jensen
Mark, thanks for the update. We had a mail server problem last week (2/8 - 2/9), but most of those messages didn't bounce with 554. If your bounces were outside that window, or are still happening, do let me know. jhjen...@sonic.net is an alternate address for me (for now) if needed. On Feb

Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

2012-02-11 Thread Scott Rossi
This may already be old news, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case this helps someone... If you're already using your DropBox account to help speed up your mobile development process, read no farther. I've been developing stacks for iOS use on and off over the last year, and have been

Re: Spell check for text fields

2012-02-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/11/12 5:58 PM, Pete wrote: Despite the lack of full platform support, sure would be nice of LC hooked into the native spell checkers on those platforms that do support it. Sounds like a job for an external. Wonder what Monte's doing these days? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

2012-02-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on my device within a couple of seconds. That is damned clever. There wouldn't be a startup message, but

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

2012-02-11 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on my device within a couple of seconds. That

Re: Revzilla?

2012-02-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Feb 11, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter- Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been updated in a

Re: Revzilla?

2012-02-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter- Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

2012-02-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/11/12 9:56 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on my

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

2012-02-11 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/11/12 9:56 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I launch the simple

Re: Colors/Borders

2012-02-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/11/12 2:15 PM, Pete wrote: I have a group that has all the default properties set except I switched on showBorder with a borderwidth of 2. All looks as expected with a light gray background and a visible border. Now I set the background in the Colors and Patterns tab of the inspector to a

Re: Revzilla?

2012-02-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/11/12 10:02 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Ken, I don't see v. 2.3 there, actually the 2 download links are for 2.1.1, ostensibly. (I don't know how I got 2.2) Try a page refresh, maybe? I see it under the sidebar box. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com

Re: Colors/Borders

2012-02-11 Thread Pete
Thanks Jacque. I switched off 3D to get the borders and it looks OK for this particular purpose. STill not sure what's going on with the color. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 2/11/12 2:15 PM, Pete wrote: I have a group that has all the

Strange folder config for Windows standalone

2012-02-11 Thread Pete
I'm building a standalone for my app for Mac (Intel only) and Windows. After the build, I compress the two versions separately (using the OS X Compress this file option) so they can be downloaded from my web site by clicking on a link to them. After they Windows version is unzipped, I see two