PSD file with iPhone 5 GUI elements

2012-10-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi friends, in case you need to create an iPhone 5 GUI, these guys supply a free PSD file with all the UI elements like they did before for iPhone 3 and 4: http://www.teehanlax.com/downloads/ios-6-gui-psd-iphone-5/ Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com

Re: Answer file filters

2012-10-15 Thread As_Simon
I just got bitten by this. Need glasses to see it but it's *.mp3 *.wav... Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Answer-file-filters-tp4656336p4656378.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

problems with loading externals

2012-10-15 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi, LC 4.6.2 on Wf. Where can I check, if and which externals are loaded successfully? In one of my old stacks the revxml externals seems not to be loaded anymore in the standalone and only sometimes after several restarts in the IDE. Asking for the externalPackages of stack myMainStack shows

Dumb question about deployment to iPad3

2012-10-15 Thread Graham Samuel
I have an iPad app in development which worked pretty well in earlier versions of LC and XCode and which I can run in the iOS 6 simulator as iPad only, Arm7 only. But I don't see how to simulate the Retina Display (double the number of pixels) of the iPad 3. It appears that what I am simulating

Re: Dumb question about deployment to iPad3

2012-10-15 Thread Chris Sheffield
Graham, Make sure the simulator is running, then go to Hardware - Device menu and select iPad (Retina). :-) Chris On Oct 15, 2012, at 8:29 AM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: I have an iPad app in development which worked pretty well in earlier versions of LC and XCode and which I

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Andre Garzia
Thanks Richmond, I am doing well here. I actually live in Niterói which is the city on the other side of the bay everyone sees on the postcard. I've been living with those kinds of raid since forever so its no as impressive for us as it is for foreigners. I live reasonably close to two slums

Re: Audio clips

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Klaus, So the proposed solution only works with a player control, not with imported audio clips? I'm kinda puzzled by this since, if the dictionary is to be believed, it is possible to pause and resume imported video clips, but not audio clips. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On

Re: Audio clips

2012-10-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Pete, Am 15.10.2012 um 18:13 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: Hi Klaus, So the proposed solution only works with a player control, not with imported audio clips? Exactly. I'm kinda puzzled by this since, if the dictionary is to be believed, it is possible to pause and resume

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'll check it out but as I recall with 5.0 it still crashed. On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Friday, October 12, 2012, 2:29:04 PM, you wrote: And may I add, if RunRev would get off their butts about the variable breakpoint CTD bug, it would be really simple to find

Re: Strict Compile Mode

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'm willing to bet that none of the variables supplied as an argument to a command or function do. Eg. on mouseup pButtonNum On Oct 13, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I just came across another instance of this situation. The variable you name in the catch part of try/catch does not

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/15/12 10:43 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: I think this was one of the reasons I was so amazed when I went to Edinburgh and saw people late at night with cameras and laptops walking on the meadows. In Rio you would not dare to do that. That's exactly what impressed me most about Edinburgh too.

Re: [UPDATE] Free 'Clearview' desktop clock v1.5

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/14/12 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: OK, Jacque, it's finally time for you to pull together the ultimate LC time travel tool, the one where the user can pull a fully debugged version of his\her beta software back from the future and

Re: [UPDATE] Free 'Clearview' desktop clock v1.5

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Eller
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/14/12 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: OK, Jacque, it's finally time for you to pull together the ultimate LC time travel tool, the one where the user can pull a fully debugged

Re: Missing Digests

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
When I encounter useless drivel, or what I consider to be, I just delete it. That is why it's a great habit to develop, to use descriptive subjects. I'm not sure I would call anyone on the list a twit though. I get the distinct impression they are all much smarter than me... unless you were

Re: [UPDATE] Free 'Clearview' desktop clock v1.5

2012-10-15 Thread Roger Eller
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:52 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/14/12 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: OK, Jacque, it's finally time for you to pull together the ultimate LC time travel

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Petrides, M.D. Marian
Thanks for the movie recommendations, Andre. I will definitely try to find a copy of City of God to rent--sounds like I could learn a lot from it. On Oct 15, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Thanks Richmond, I am doing well here. I actually live in Niterói which

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wish they would make a documentary in the US detailing the horrors the drug market in the civilized world actually causes in other countries, and then show it in all the public schools. I think a lot, although not all, kids just getting into smoking pot or thinking about other drugs would

Re: Audio clips

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
I wondered about the lack of formats! Just ran into another issue with this, although videoclips this time. I imported a .avi videoclip into a stack. When I try to play it, I get the spinning beachball forever and have to force quit the IDE. This is OS X 10.7.4, LC 5.5.0. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: [UPDATE] Free 'Clearview' desktop clock v1.5

2012-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/15/12 11:52 AM, Roger Eller wrote: On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: On Oct 14, 2012, at 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/14/12 9:07 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: OK, Jacque, it's finally time for you to pull together the ultimate LC time travel tool, the one

Re: Audio clips

2012-10-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Pete, Am 15.10.2012 um 19:03 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I wondered about the lack of formats! Just ran into another issue with this, although videoclips this time. I imported a .avi videoclip into a stack. When I try to play it, I get the spinning beachball forever and have

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: I wish they would make a documentary in the US detailing the horrors the drug market in the civilized world actually causes in other countries, and then show it in all the public schools. I think a lot, although not all, kids just getting into smoking pot or thinking about

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richard, Am 15.10.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com: Bob Sneidar wrote: I wish they would make a documentary in the US detailing the horrors the drug market in the civilized world actually causes in other countries, and then show it in all the public

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Just poking around in Google, I didn't find any references to any alcohol companies or breweries owning any of the major media outlets like ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, CNN of Fox. Do you have any references I could look at? This interests me. Bob On Oct 15, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Richard Gaskin

Set the layer

2012-10-15 Thread René Micout
Hello every body, I have a stack with several groups, in one group I have a button named btnStepper. There is 126 controls. My btnStepper have layer 124. When I type in the Message box : set the layer of btn btnStepper to 123 I have this message error : Script compile error: Error description:

Re: Audio clips

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Klaus, I'm beginning to think I shouldn't be messing with playing audio/videoclips. Only reason I'm doing it is because a user of my lcStackbrowser plugin requested support for them. I guess I can still provide support to import them and show them in the display but leave playing of them

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: On Oct 15, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: We will never have a reason-based discussion of substance abuse in our culture as long as our media is owned by a small number of companies, some of whom make booze and all of whom earn big bucks from booze advertising.

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/15/12 12:28 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Yep, and you may twist and turn it, the other true gateway drug is TOBACCO! Which doesn't even give you an intoxication***, so tobacco addiction is in fact a weird waste of money ;-) *** Is this the correct term? Yes, that term works. Actually

Re: Set the layer

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
René Micout wrote: I have a stack with several groups, in one group I have a button named btnStepper. There is 126 controls. My btnStepper have layer 124. When I type in the Message box : set the layer of btn btnStepper to 123 I have this message error : Script compile error: Error

Re: Audio clips

2012-10-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Pete, Am 15.10.2012 um 19:47 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: Thanks Klaus, I'm beginning to think I shouldn't be messing with playing audio/videoclips. Only reason I'm doing it is because a user of my lcStackbrowser plugin requested support for them. I guess I can still provide

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Jaqueline, Am 15.10.2012 um 19:51 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 10/15/12 12:28 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Yep, and you may twist and turn it, the other true gateway drug is TOBACCO! Which doesn't even give you an intoxication***, so tobacco addiction is in fact a

Re: Set the layer

2012-10-15 Thread René Micout
Thank you Richard, but I have skirted my problem... with hide and show some controls rather than change their layers... René Le 15 oct. 2012 à 20:01, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com a écrit : René Micout wrote: I have a stack with several groups, in one group I have a button named

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Thierry Douez
2012/10/15 Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com: Hi Jaqueline, Yes, that term works. Actually nicotine does have a sort of intoxication, there's a buzz, especially if you go without for a few hours. The next cigarette makes you feel a little stoned. If you keep your nicotine level constant

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Ken Ray
On Oct 12, 2012, at 9:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/12/12 6:50 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: I consistently put empty into all unused globals when a script starts. Unlike HyperCard, in LiveCode you can actually delete them entirely: delete global gMyGlobal I don't have a

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Ray wrote: ... Custom Props: ... Cons: *Much* easier to accidentally store permanently what should be a temporary change to a value (for stacks that need to call save for any reason); more difficult to use (gMyGlobal vs. the uWidgetType of btn 3 of card 123 of stack 'WhoTheHellCares')

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Richmond
On 10/15/2012 08:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/15/12 12:28 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Yep, and you may twist and turn it, the other true gateway drug is TOBACCO! Which doesn't even give you an intoxication***, so tobacco addiction is in fact a weird waste of money ;-) *** Is this the

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Monte Goulding
Do you consider this a bug in lockMessages? Perhaps set and getProps should be able to be marked in some way that they are required. I guess changing the behavior of lockMessages could cause issues. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 16/10/2012, at 6:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If any script attempts to get or set a custom property while the lockMessages is true, any getProp or setProp messages won't be triggered. If such handlers are necessary for execution unexpected behaviors will occur,

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/15/12 1:08 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Jaqueline, Am 15.10.2012 um 19:51 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 10/15/12 12:28 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Yep, and you may twist and turn it, the other true gateway drug is TOBACCO! Which doesn't even give you an

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ken Ray wrote: ... Custom Props: ... Cons: *Much* easier to accidentally store permanently what should be a temporary change to a value (for stacks that need to call save for any reason); more difficult to use (gMyGlobal vs. the

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Monte Goulding
That's exactly where I was going. Some way to let the engine know that it is the intention of the author that the code be executed even while lockMessages is true. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 16/10/2012, at 6:40 AM, Richard Gaskin

Re: Missing Digests

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Earp
Thanks Jacqui and you were one of the last people I would accuse of such, honestly. Maybe you suffer from dribble after a few martinis, but never drivel ;-) best, Bob... Bob Earp White Rock, British Columbia. Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2012 16:35:28 -0500 From: J. Landman Gay

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
No it's my understanding that customKeys are the names of all your custom properties of a particular object. customProperties is an array with the name of the custom property as the key. So if you wanted to get the values of all your custom properties but you script is blind as to what exactly

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Scott Rossi
Richard: I understand the intention of your suggestion, but aside from using setProp/getProp, what object properties *cannot* be set during locked messages? Has a reason ever been put forward from RunRev for why custom props cannot be set/read while messages are locked? It seems to me that the

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Jim Lambert
HyperCard was my gateway drug. Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
They promised me easy applications, and all I had to do was repeat all the commands over and over. on mouseUp. on Opencard. On closeStack. Over and over. One day I woke up in a teepee in Northern California smelling like smoke, with a big headache, a woman with armpit hair, two marmots and no

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: I understand the intention of your suggestion, but aside from using setProp/getProp, what object properties *cannot* be set during locked messages? Has a reason ever been put forward from RunRev for why custom props cannot be set/read while messages are locked? It seems to

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
I don't have any scripts that rely on it, but I have situations where I have had to avoid the use of get/setProp because of the lock messages issue so I would vote ofr such an enhancement (assuming I still could!). Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:09 PM,

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
I haven't used custom props much yet, but I do think that locking messages is something that should be used sparsely. There are times when it seems it's the only way around a prickly problem, but I suspect some of those situations could have been also solved by a design change. Once painted

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Scott Rossi
One situation in particular is when you make changes to numerous objects via a single script, such as grouping, changing location, scaling, etc. These cases will almost always execute faster when lock messages is true because the IDE (and/or scripts that track objects and their properties) won't

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Bob Sneidar
Do you still need custom props in this scenario? Also, complex groups got me thinking, LC does not include Datagrids when using edit group or select group. That is curious. They are obviously doing something different. Is it something the IDE just knows or is there some kind of property, or

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
The dgProps[control type] for a datagrid returns data grid and I've seen various places in the IDE code that uses that to detect a datagrid (like trying to ungroup one). I guess you could create a property like that in other groups if you wanted them to be treated the same as datagrids but it

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
If you want to set the menuhistory of an option menu button without triggering a menuPIck event, lock messages achieves that. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: I'd be curious if people can summarize all the times that

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread William Vlahos
There can be other benefits of using globals if you want to make information available to other stacks on purpose. In my lcTaskList plugin there is a global variable gLcTaskListBookmarks which contains the active words the plugin uses for building the indexed list. Mark Wieder was able to use

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

2012-10-15 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I experienced it every one of the dozens of times I quit. :) A Mark Twain put it, Quitting smoking is easy--I've done it thousands of times. -- Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462