Re: Simulate key pressed (arrow key)

2012-08-15 Thread Roger Eller
You need a rawKeyDown handler to determine what keycodes are sent by the arrow keys. I put this in the card script, then pressed the up arrow. on rawKeyDown theKeyNumber put theKeyNumber pass rawKeyDown end rawKeyDown It returned 65362. Then I made a button containing: on mouseUp

which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi, Working with LC 4.6.4 on W7 and XP I am using three non rev externals. I put them into the My LiveCode folder on C:\Users\myUser\Documents\My LiveCode\Externals, and edited the externals.txt within the folder and restarted LC. When testing my program in the IDE all three Externals seem to

Re: which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Tiemo, Try: put the externalPackages of stack Home -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Economy-x-Talk is looking for an amateur

AW: which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
That looks much better! - I will go on testing Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Schonewille Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. August 2012 15:28 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re:

Re: [ANN] DatePicker for LiveCode

2012-08-15 Thread william humphrey
Nice. In addition to local language and copying what is in the system can you also tell it to always use a particular format for the return of date? Say the SQL date -mm-dd ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

AW: which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Sorry, only half the way. In the IDE there is a stack home with all the externals, but the runtime doesn't have a home and when asking for the externals in myMainstack in the standalone there doesn't show up all externals. Is it straight forward to differentiate between the development

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Michael Kann wrote: Sounds like a good project. If you haven't discovered it yourself I'll just mention one of my alltime favorite scripts. It outputs a frequency list of words in a text file. Something like: on mouseUp repeat for each word w in fileContent add 1 to wordCount[w] end repeat

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-15 Thread Andrew Ctech
Thank you, Peter. On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I know. I feel like I am the cheated one because I work. But (and at the risk of inviting someone's ire) any politician who tries to fix this will

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-15 Thread Jim Hurley
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Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-15 Thread Jim Hurley
I haven't really followed this issue, but that has never stopped me in the past. Just diving in I tried:put the number of words in tText into msg box No matter what I put into tText by way of quotes or tabs or punctuation, I always seem to get what I expect. It would be nice if someone

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-15 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:23 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: Just diving in I tried:put the number of words in tText into msg box No matter what I put into tText by way of quotes or tabs or punctuation, I always seem to get what I expect. It would be nice if someone would post a line or two of

Re: AW: which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tiemo, In standalones, there is a stack revExternalsLibrary of your mainstack, which has all externals attached to it. AFAIK this only applies to the default externals. You need to attach customer externals to your own mainstack. No, I don't think this is straighforward. -- Best regards,

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: If I put the following into a field: How many words are in this field? and then try put the number of words of fld f I get 3 That is not what *I* would expect. There was a discussion last year on this list of the pros and cons of maintaining the HC

Re: AW: which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: In standalones, there is a stack revExternalsLibrary of your mainstack, which has all externals attached to it. AFAIK this only applies to the default externals. You need to attach customer externals to your own mainstack. No, I don't think this is straighforward.

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Colin Holgate
One of my pals while I was at Apple (he got me started on juggling) wrote a tech note about the dogcow: http://www.macfreek.nl/humour/tn31.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: revxxx messages in plugins

2012-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: The problem is, I'm probably going to need a front script anyway because plugins don't get revxxx messages for all the events I need to know about (e.g., the creation/deletion of a control). Not sure why the revxxx messages are quite so selective. I'm also running into

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-15 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter M. Brigham wrote: If I put the following into a field: How many words are in this field? and then try put the number of words of fld f I get 3 That is not what *I* would expect. There was a discussion last year on

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-15 Thread James Hale
On 15/08/2012, at 11:36 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: The sqlite library supplied with Livecode includes fts3 and fts4. Really? Well that gives me something to think about. (ah the cobwebs are clearing and I seem to remember mention of this in a Livecode 4 point something release

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
You can't have too much cowbell! On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
At lease the Macalope is still with us. On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Remember the dogcow? Miss that critter. --

Re: revxxx messages in plugins

2012-08-15 Thread Peter Haworth
Good to hear. I always get concerned that I might be going in the wrong direction when I discover a new way of doing something that duplicates an existing method. I already have fornt scripts in place so will stick with them. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I love that things like this are still out there (in any sense you like) on the Internet. Bob On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:36 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: One of my pals while I was at Apple (he got me started on juggling) wrote a tech note about the dogcow:

Re: AW: which Externals show up in the externalPackages?

2012-08-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Jacque, It depends on what you mean by instant. I believe one still had to start using the stack containing the external resources if one wanted to call the external from another stack. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I don't expect anything I author to actually work! And yet sometimes it does. I suppose it all balances out. ;-) On Aug 15, 2012, at 7:33 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: If I put the following into a field: How many words are in this field? and then try put the number of words of fld f I

Re: revxxx messages in plugins

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I've been told my IQ is probably as high as my age, so I guess I'm almost half smart! On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Noble as that goal may be, this is a development tool; it not only plays by very different rules given its radically different nature, but its audience

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks for that. I really want to make a few of these work on my iPhone. Bob On Aug 15, 2012, at 10:53 AM, stephen barncard wrote: The wonderful dog-cow sound is available online as an aiff, along with the other 8-bit favorites like hip, chi-toy and clink-clank:

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I noticed Sarah's stack has for parity, None, Odd, Even. I am dealing with an old phone system that uses space but there is also mark. What is the significance of this, and does parity even matter? I have the stack set to even now, and have had it set to none and I still seem to get

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread stephen barncard
Serial ports are an inexact science, especially with imbedded systems. Just jiggle the handle until it works and be glad when it does. Probably the designers of the phone system did away with parity checks and handshaking because they had trouble implementing it and is not needed for control

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread stephen barncard
Serial ports are an inexact science, especially with imbedded systems. Just jiggle the handle until it works and be happy when it does. Probably the designers of the phone system did away with parity checks and handshaking because they had trouble implementing it and is not needed for control

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks Stephen and Jerry, that helps. I just don't want to implement something and then find out I am getting bad data, or else incomplete data. Bob On Aug 15, 2012, at 11:47 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: Mark and space are the two possible levels of a single bit. Mark corresponds to a logical

Re: How to switch two popovers ?

2012-08-15 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Thomas, Thank you for your answer. I studied several applications for iPad, such Things or Calendar. In Calendar, to add a new event, a popover appears to enter the title of the event. If you want to change the start and end time, you must point to the corresponding button. At that time, the

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I personally would prefer that members of this list refrain from political jabs. -- Peter You're my hero! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Stack file file type

2012-08-15 Thread Peter Haworth
I've been using RSTK as the file type filter for opening LC stack files but some stack files are greyed out. They are files created with older versions of LC (4.5.2). Was another file type used in older versions? I had a program (FileType) that used to give me this info but it no longer runs as

Re: How to switch two popovers ?

2012-08-15 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jerome, I just created a very crude example. It is just to prove that nested scrolling groups could be put into other scrolling groups and that the nested could be restrained to vertical scrolling and the main group could be restrained to horizontal scrolling. This works. Here is the link:

Re: How to switch two popovers ?

2012-08-15 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jerome, ALthough the popover part needs a lot of work esthetically I did put in the code to scroll the field left and right in the button at the top and I put in code in the fields to allow scrolling while mousedown and yet edit text while mouse up in them. I don't know what you plan on

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-15 Thread Chipp Walters
Oh, thank God for Bjorke and Pete. Congrats on your strong committment to civility and thanks to you both we don't have to face any uncomfortable comments. I'd have hated to actually have to actually ignore a comment which I didn't agree with. You guys both all in their place. Way to go! Both