Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Peter Alcibiades
The problem is, people are being caught in the middle of a massive technology change and consequent change in markets caused by no-cost untraceable easy anonymous replication, and its not going back to the way it was. Don't know the answer, but like it or not, there is obviously no going back to

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Would anyone like to hear why somebody who doesn't know when and how to keep his mouth shut and his opinions to himself is running a hole-in-the-wall EFL school in a country at the bottom of the sack when he could

Re: Unicode in datagrid headers

2012-09-02 Thread Marek Niesiobedzki
You can do it easy with Data Grid Helper. It's very helpful tool working with DataGrids with a lot of futures. Marek ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Richmond
On 09/02/2012 12:00 AM, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond: Maybe you find your adopted country enchanting, and its people honest and real, as I sense you have a mission of duty, service and goodness that is underneath your expressive and somewhat crusty exterior. Your self-depreciating comments

LiveCode Apps Presentation Slideshow?

2012-09-02 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi there, In a month or so I have to give a 1 hour presentation to about 50 potential LiveCode buyers, about creating Apps in LiveCode. I can put together my own slideshow, but the thought occurred to me that someone out there must have done this before, and probably has a well-designed one

Re: another display image question

2012-09-02 Thread Graham Samuel
As a Digest reader, I see that your question has been ably answered by the usual suspects… I just wanted to add that I have an app where a user is allowed to extract a rectangular area from a larger image, with the added twist that the original image may be too large to display, so that the

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: IMO the red dots are like the Geometry Manager - to be avoided because they are flaky. YEah, but they can be added to a running script. I've never had the debugger ignore a specifically written 'breakpoint' in a

hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm kind of surprised that I'm not tripping over them; it's been nearly 30 years since MS had these in word 1.0 . . . Anyway, in an answer dialog, is there any way to have accelerator/hot keys other then enter/escape? For example, Y for Yes when the default is no? Or do I need my own little

So you think your password is long enough?

2012-09-02 Thread FlexibleLearning
A tip from Microsoft... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304 Hugh Senior FLCo ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: So you think your password is long enough?

2012-09-02 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Hugh, Am 02.09.2012 um 18:40 schrieb FlexibleLearning ad...@flexiblelearning.com: A tip from Microsoft... http://support.microsoft.com/kb/276304 :-D :-D :-D Hugh Senior FLCo Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com

Re: another display image question

2012-09-02 Thread Timothy Miller
Generous, knowledgeable, clear and concise, as always. You are a gift from god, Jacque, Tim On Sep 1, 2012, at 8:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: There's a built-in crop command, see the dictionary. Basically you pass it a rectangle and the image gets cropped to that size.

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/2/12 2:18 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Meanwhile, what's really interesting about the scale of piracy of Colin's book is that people see such a demand for it. Its a real compliment in a way, and the more the links proliferate, the more of a compliment it is. I don't think we can correlate

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Ken Corey
Real numbers will be hard to come by obviously, but androidpit seems to claim that they provide for those in eastern europe and russia (and maybe down into the far east for all I know), as they claim to have set up deals with merchant providers in those countries. Android pit seem to be

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Timothy Miller
When immoral behavior becomes common, profitable, and more or less anonymous, it is no longer generally regarded as immoral. If the victim is distant stranger, or an abstraction, like a corporation, the sense of immorality diminishes further. When people find hundred dollar bills lying around

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Richmond
On 09/02/2012 10:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/2/12 2:18 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Meanwhile, what's really interesting about the scale of piracy of Colin's book is that people see such a demand for it. Its a real compliment in a way, and the more the links proliferate, the more of a

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Richmond
On 09/02/2012 10:16 PM, Ken Corey wrote: Real numbers will be hard to come by obviously, but androidpit seems to claim that they provide for those in eastern europe and russia (and maybe down into the far east for all I know), as they claim to have set up deals with merchant providers in those

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Richmond
On 09/02/2012 10:17 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: snip My son's behavior gives me pain. That's what children are for; to cause their parents pain. Meanwhile, maybe we should zoom out and look at the bigger picture. About sixteen percent of the world's population consumes 80% of its resources.

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Understand that availability is not the same as demand. I was curious about the extent of this thing and looked for 50 Shades of Pages and pages of them. Presumably that is at least partly demand, though it doesn't seem to be hitting sales. But do you think that there could be a case for

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Ken Corey
I have always had an inkling that the best way to beat piracy is 1) to give users a reason to keep contacting you (regularly upgraded content/capabilities). 2) making it /easy/, even automatic in your app, to contact you. Both of which Runrev has gotten fairly right, at least for those of us

images and path names

2012-09-02 Thread Timothy Miller
If I set the source of an image in its inspector by clicking on the little file icon and selecting the file from the dialog box, the source field in the inspector shows ./test.image.jpg Same thing happens with File menu: New referenced control: Image file... Yet if I write a script: import

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: My 24 year old son has a normal conscience ... His conscience is entirely silent on these topics. He thinks I'm weird because I prefer to pay for the music I listen to. Oh, then he could join the Facebook

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-02 Thread dunbarx
Richard. I think this has to be your own. I do not think any messages are sent when a blocking gadget is running. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Sun, Sep 2, 2012 12:34 pm Subject:

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2012-09-02, at 9:33 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I'm kind of surprised that I'm not tripping over them; it's been nearly 30 years since MS had these in word 1.0 . . . Anyway, in an answer dialog, is there any way to have accelerator/hot keys other then enter/escape? For example, Y for Yes