Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread John Craig
Hi, Craig. There's no message build up : every time you send a 'showRandoms tSecs', you schedule another 'showRandoms tSecs' if your time check is true, so there's one pending. Pressing the stop button just makes another call to the handler, it doesn't cancel the scheduled message - it's still

Re: Working with retina projects and development screen size real estate

2012-10-03 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Mmmm ... why not develop simply for the normal iPad (1024 x 768) and then make a retina scaling ? iPad3 is like iPhone4 ... same screen size of previous model but double density. Creating your stack on a real 2048 x 1536 Mac screen can lead you to put too many objects (controls) that, on the

RE: What Apple,Microsoft and the Rest of Them Don't Get

2012-10-03 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Not too far OT, apropos some recent discussions here: http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2012/09/29/what-apple-microsoft-and-the-re st-of-them-dont-get/ Very interesting, but he mixes together some things that do not seem to me to go together, and he's failed to make himself an informed

Datagrid not showing all lines

2012-10-03 Thread James Hale
I am still having datagrid problems. I am unable to get the datagrid to display all the records I populate it with. I am using a form datagrid that has a single field of variable height. If I populate it with more records (from an array) than the datagrid can show the vertical scroll appears

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Robert Presender
on Oct 2, 2012 Jacque wrote I suppose in ten years we'll look at our desktop machines with the same nostalgia as we do now with typewriters. At least, those of us who remember typewriters, which of course I've only read about… Hi Jacque When I was 12, my mother bought me a Royal portable

Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Scott- Yes to all the above with the exception that I'm not sure send xyz to me in 0 milliseconds gives any time for other messages to get through. It seems to, at least with this test: 1 card, two buttons. Script of btn A: on mouseUp global g put true into g end

Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread John Allijn
I've created a large number of buttons designed to look good on an iPad3. I created these buttons by scripts that combining images and icon fonts and saving these as snapshots. After that my script uses these snapshots to skin buttons. So far so good. The problem that I now run into is that

Re: Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread John Craig
Hi, John. You have to resize the image object as well. Quality = 'good' or 'best' works for me - 'normal' is usually too rough. On 03/10/2012 15:42, John Allijn wrote: I've created a large number of buttons designed to look good on an iPad3. I created these buttons by scripts that

mobileBusyIndicatorStart is displayed top left

2012-10-03 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i created a stack in which i want to use mobileBusyindicatorstart. But for whatever reason only a part of the busy indicator is displayed on the top left of the screen and not in the center. Tested in the iOS simulator. Could not test on an iPhone directly. I tried with a blank stack

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 10:13:48 PM, you wrote: Litigation doesn't provide ad space. This article is about selling to the masses. Although I did just read recently that Facebook users don't click on ads much, so that's one-seventh of the online population down the tubes. No,

Re: Reading the First Line of a DataGrid

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I believe it's dgSelectedLine On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get the first line of a loaded DataGrid to be selected. At the end of the script that loads the DataGrid, I have the following 2 lines: set the dgLine of grp DataGrid to 1 send

Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Wieder
John- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 11:12:58 PM, you wrote: Pressing the stop button just makes another call to the handler, it doesn't cancel the scheduled message - it's still there and will still fire. The problem, as I see it, is that the documentation incorrectly states that exit to top will

Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 9:26:31 PM, you wrote: Mark: One thing worth noting is that send xyz to me in 0 millisecs can allow screen updates and other events to take place, while attempts to do the same in a repeat loop may not. So I'm pretty sure other events will take place before

Re: Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread Randy Hengst
As far as I know, LC does not copy the referenced art of a skinned button when moving a button to a different stack… at least, it never has for me. If you have the original stack still open when you paste the skinned button into a new stack, you'll still see the skinned view in that new stack.

Re: Reading the First Line of a DataGrid

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry, it's dgHilitedLine or dgHilitedIndex. Then dispatch selectionChanged to the group. Bob On Oct 2, 2012, at 9:40 PM, Mark Stuart wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to get the first line of a loaded DataGrid to be selected. At the end of the script that loads the DataGrid, I have the

Re: How do you group two groups on two separate cards?

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
You cannot do that to my knowledge, unless they are backgrounds, shared among cards, and then they do not actually belong to a card per se, but the whole stack. It would be interesting to see what would happen if you grouped two backgrounds and then told one it wasn't a background anymore.

RE: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread Ralph DiMola
I reported this on this exit to top thing on this list back in July. Is it a Engine or Documentation bug? Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net The problem, as I see it, is that the documentation incorrectly states that exit to top will cancel

Re: What Apple,Microsoft and the Rest of Them Don't Get

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I agree Lynn. I was going to post on this that I didn't really see a coherent point in the article, or that he wasn't making his point very well. It ended up sounding like someone who was frustrated because something he wanted to do didn't work, and he is picking the biggest thing he can find

Re: Datagrid not showing all lines

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
It is likely that your datagrid data has nulls in it. If LC encounters a null in the array data, it will think that there is no more array to work with. If you are getting your data from a sql database, make sure that all your columns are defined with not null as an easy way to prevent this.

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think you are trying to communicate, but all I see are groups of strange shapes with random spaces between them. Wait, how are you going to read this?? Can you imagine a worldwide confusion of type Babylon-esque? Bob On Oct 2, 2012, at 8:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday,

Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 2, 2012, at 1:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I just meant that anyone developing cross platform apps (Windows, OS X, mobile) couldn't use the same code base for all builds. The menu is strictly an OS X service, so there would have to be a lot of code-branching for each platform, and

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
People don't read junk mail much either, or click on web ads, but the few that do and end up buying something must net huge profits, because companies continue to send a ton of junk mail and pay for banner ads on websites! The entire web seems to be powered by this. Bob On Oct 2, 2012, at

Reading the First Line of a DataGrid

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Stuart
Thanx Peter and Bob for the suggestions. LC: 4.6.4 I tried all suggestions but unfortunately, they're not working. dgHilitedIndex sets the line to the added sequence line, which in my case is the last line because the DataGrid is sorted descending order. The most recent record is at the top of

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'd like to point out something I noticed when I was young. People tend to put a lot of stock in what has happened in the past, and then apply it to predict what will happen in the future. From stock prices to global warming, everyone seems to think that trends will continue in a linear fashion

Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
While working last night with my program, somehow, all three tables were wiped clean of data. The columns are still there, but the data is not. For that matter, the keys are still there, but the data for the other columns of each row was wiped. When I read the binary file, I can see the data

Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
This is actually very informative. I also was under the impression that exit to top meant stop everything. I thought it was the equivalent of a kill command. It seems another nuance of Livetalk (is that what we are calling it now) has surfaced. Bob On Oct 2, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Scott Rossi

Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Apparently we now need a kill command that stops everything! Bob On Oct 3, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: John- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 11:12:58 PM, you wrote: Pressing the stop button just makes another call to the handler, it doesn't cancel the scheduled message - it's still

Re: Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
You would need to make the distinction about developing in house. I am strictly an in house developer, although some of what I do or plan to do might find it's way into a commercial app eventually. Would I be considered a home-brewer or a pro? I am certainly still an amateur! Bob On Oct 3,

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-03 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Yikes! Hopefully you have everything backed up! I am curious to hear of the possible causes of this... very scary scenario. SKIP On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: While working last night with my program, somehow, all three tables were wiped clean of

Re: Reading the First Line of a DataGrid

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry Mark. Not sure why it doesn't work for you. I call set the dgHilitedLine of group myDatagrid to 1 all the time and it does just what you would expect. The only reason to send selectionChanged is if you are trapping for it in the datagrid script, and want to execute some code afterwards. I

Re: Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I think LC is a PERFECT tool for developing in house and being a home-brewer. What is even better is when you decided to go commercial and go big because you have developed an amazing product, you are still using the same tool to do it! SKIP On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Bob Sneidar

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
I take it you have viewed the data in an SQL utility? Firefox has an sqLite plugin that works pretty well and it's free. Without opening your database myself, I can't do much to help. Bob On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: While working last night with my program, somehow, all

RE: Entire SQLite database wiped of data??

2012-10-03 Thread Ralph DiMola
I have been using SQLite in LC extensively for about a year on IDE PC/IDE Mac/Android/IOS. I have an SQLite app on the PlayStore also. I have not seen this type of problem. As far as I know there is no simple way to wipe data across multiple tables unless you do some SQL joins. Ralph DiMola IT

Re: Datagrid not showing all lines - resolved/sort of

2012-10-03 Thread James Hale
After trolling through the list archives and thinking I had it after reading Peter's major issues thread of April this year. Unfortunately I already had in place the measures that resolved his variable height field issue. But maybe there were other properties to be cleaned, massaged or whispered

[OT] State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I'd like to point out something I noticed when I was young. People tend to put a lot of stock in what has happened in the past, and then apply it to predict what will happen in the future. From stock prices to global warming, everyone seems to

Re: Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread John Allijn
Ooh, that must be it! Thanks Randy. On Oct 3, 2012, at 17:49, Randy Hengst iowahen...@mac.com wrote: As far as I know, LC does not copy the referenced art of a skinned button when moving a button to a different stack… at least, it never has for me. If you have the original

[ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi everyone, Right now you can download a full working Livecode tutorial with a trial version of sunnYmidi version 2.0 at: http://sunny-tdz.com/dwn and select sunnYmidi demo v2.0 This new version: - manages all your midi IN and OUTPUT devices, physical or virtual. - sends raw or sysex

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: I'd like to point out something I noticed when I was young. People tend to put a lot of stock in what has happened in the past, and then apply it to predict what will happen in the future. That's a very important point. All of the predictions about the future market

Re: Datagrid not showing all lines - resolved/sort of

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
That is because the datagrid only processes the visible rows, plus the row before and the row after. This is one of the main features of a Datagrid, as speed for a table object with large amounts of data was one of the hurdles to overcome. The dgNumberOfRecords property and method are for

Re: Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Tim Selander
This is my classification as well. Though with the use of tablets really gaining traction in the company, it is may become important to have a tool I can use on desktop as well as mobile. Tim Selander On 10/4/12 1:42 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: You would need to make the distinction about

Re: Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
You are right Randy. I came across this when I copied a button in one stack to another. Later I opened the second stack and the art for the button was blank. The stack containing the graphic must at least be loaded into memory for the graphic to show. It may be a good idea to copy all the

[RESOLVED] Reading the First Line of a DataGrid

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Stuart
Reading the rev-list, I found a reference to: dispatch selectionChanged to grp DataGrid with var Notice the with var So I've modified my command to: put the dgHilitedIndex of grp DataGrid into firstLineNum dispatch selectionChanged to grp DataGrid with firstLineNum This

Re: Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Richmond
On 10/03/2012 07:20 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: On Oct 2, 2012, at 1:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I just meant that anyone developing cross platform apps (Windows, OS X, mobile) couldn't use the same code base for all builds. The menu is strictly an OS X service, so there would have to be a

Re: Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread Peter Haworth
One other thought - you could use the image itself as a button, just code a mouseUp handler for it to deal what happens when someone clicks on it. Then you can just resize the image and you're done. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 7:42 AM, John Allijn

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/3/12 10:43 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 10:13:48 PM, you wrote: Litigation doesn't provide ad space. This article is about selling to the masses. Although I did just read recently that Facebook users don't click on ads much, so that's one-seventh of the

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-03 Thread Peter Haworth
There is no sqlite single command to clear out all the data in all tables. If the keys are still there and you can see the data in binary mode then I'd guess something in your program is not working correctly. Try using one of the many sqlite admin tools out there to see if it sees the data.

Re: Finally found one.

2012-10-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/3/12 10:47 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: John- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 11:12:58 PM, you wrote: Pressing the stop button just makes another call to the handler, it doesn't cancel the scheduled message - it's still there and will still fire. The problem, as I see it, is that the

Re: [ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread René Micout
MERCI Thierry !! I have not yet red the tutorial... (je travaille sur ma palette d'outils LiveCode Mac OS X) A bientôt René Le 3 oct. 2012 à 19:09, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi everyone, Right now you can download a full working Livecode tutorial with a trial version of

Re: [ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread Thierry Douez
Bonsoir René, 2012/10/3 René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com: MERCI Thierry !! I have not yet red the tutorial... It's not something to read... It's a LC stack which in 20 cards shows most of the features of sunnYmidi in live. I like one of them very much where LC ask the user for a note,

Communicating with External processes

2012-10-03 Thread Todd Geist
I am thinking of building a GUI to a Xplat server that is similar to apache. I have two questions. 1. Does any have any example stacks showing how to startup monitor an external process like Apache? 2. Is there any reason why you couldn't include the the executables along with the GUI.

Re: State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
They already have that law out here in California, and they tax us for it too. (just kidding. Everyone knows it never rains in California!) Bob On Oct 3, 2012, at 11:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/3/12 10:43 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 10:13:48 PM, you

Re: [OT] State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/3/12 12:04 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Maybe the presumption that regression lines go on to infinity represents a universal human cognitive bias. Humans are not rational creatures, though we like to think we are. I'm sure it's a human trait. We are very good at pattern recognition, and a

Re: Skinning buttons

2012-10-03 Thread John Allijn
One other thought - you could use the image itself as a button, just code a mouseUp handler for it to deal what happens when someone clicks on it. Then you can just resize the image and you're done. I tried to make this work for quite some time, but i don't get it to look nice and behave

Re: [OT] State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Part of the problem is finding the right facts. If you read a fact that happens to support your argument then obviously you think it's true. Problem is, so many facts spouted by experts on any number of subjects these days are either misguided, biased, or flat out wrong. There's a great book by

Re: Communicating with External processes

2012-10-03 Thread Todd Geist
On Oct 3, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Todd Geist t...@geistinteractive.com wrote: I have two questions. 1. Does any have any example stacks showing how to startup monitor an external process like Apache? Ok so this turns out to be easy simple use of shell seems like it will work for most things

Re: [OT] State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 12:27:13 PM, you wrote: Part of the problem is finding the right facts. If you read a fact that happens to support your argument then obviously you think it's true. I'll see that when I believe it. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Debug and IDE scripts

2012-10-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Mark, In connection with my continuing problems in lcStackbrowser, I remembered you sent me an email about debugging the IDE. This is concerning the problem in opening a stack when the open is preceded with an answer file dialog for the user to choose a stack. To add to the mystery, if I set

Re: [OT] State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
This all goes to another principle I have, that no two parties in a debate will get anywhere at all, unless both have the grasping of truth as their highest priority. Both parties must love truth. If either party has proving they are right as their goal, neither will get anywhere. People like

Re: Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Bob Sneidar
Reminds me of Madagascar 2. All hail the New York Giants! On Oct 3, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Tim- Wednesday, October 3, 2012, 9:20:58 AM, you wrote: Is LC the preferred tool for non-pros developing for their own use? If not then what is? Asking that on the LC list is like

Re: [ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread Mike Bonner
is sunnYperl (not sure how you spelled it) available? Think I checked at one time and couldn't locate a download but its been long enough ago that i'm foggy. Would love to try it. On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: Bonsoir René, 2012/10/3 René Micout

RE: [ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread Jonathan Adams
Great job Thierry! Powerful and simple. This is going to be fun… Jon ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: I take it you have viewed the data in an SQL utility? Firefox has an sqLite plugin that works pretty well and it's free. Without opening your database myself, I can't do much to help. Unfortunately, it's client data. On Wed, Oct

Re: Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:04 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Does that make me a home-brewer? Bah. Soak some malted barley in hot water, rinse with hotter water, boil the rinse with female hop flowers, cool down,and add yeast. *Then* you will be a home brewer . . . :) --

valid signing identity not found

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
Why does xcode 4.5.1 say it cannot find a valid signing identity for my provisioning profile and what in heck can I do about it. I'd use stronger language but this is probably a family-oriented forum. Thanks -- Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: valid signing identity not found: now code signature not found

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
Okay, now I can compile (it appears I have a valid signing whatever) but now when I copy the app to the ipad it says no code signature found. Translation please and again, what can I do about it?? Thanks -- Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: valid signing identity not found

2012-10-03 Thread Mark Smith
For those who run into the same digital signature/signing authority quagmire, these instructions worked: Close all your stuff except your webpage that should be logged into App Dev center. Open Xcode. Click WINDOW ORGANIZER. Then click the Devices tab and select Provisioning Profiles on the

Re: [ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Mike, 2012/10/3 Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com: is sunnYperl available? Think I checked at one time and couldn't locate a download but its been long enough ago that i'm foggy. Would love to try it. Go to http://sunny-tdz.com In the download page, you have 2 versions of sunnYperl,

Re: [ANN] sunnYmidi V 2.0 ( MacOsX)

2012-10-03 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Jonathan, 2012/10/4 Jonathan Adams ad...@switchintime.com: Great job Thierry! Powerful and simple. This is going to be fun… Jon Thanks for your words. I'ld be happy to have some news from your project with your band :) Regards, Thierry ___