Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-18 Thread Richmond
On 08/18/2013 01:18 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: snip An investment that cannot work on all supported platforms and not leverage the natural productivity of LiveCode isn't a good investment for Runtime. snip Very well put. There is a danger of getting distracted by these sorts of things. I

Re: Mac/WIndows ASCII characters

2013-08-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/17/2013 03:01 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Do you happen to know if all the entities mentioned there are supported within htmltext? Per my other post, they're not all mentioned in the dictionary entry for htmltext LiveCode seems to render all the html entities, in both forms where

mobileCanMakePhoneCall() ?

2013-08-18 Thread Dan Friedman
Is there a way to determine if a mobile device can make a call? I'm was hoping to find something like mobileCanMakePhoneCall(). If the user is on an iPad or other device that is not capable of making a phone call, how does the app know? -Dan ___

RE: mobileCanMakePhoneCall() ?

2013-08-18 Thread John Dixon
Read the iOS release notes... page 41... the explanation is there ! ...:-) Subject: mobileCanMakePhoneCall() ? From: d...@clearvisiontech.com Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 09:09:48 -0700 To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Is there a way to determine if a mobile device can make a call? I'm was

Re: mobileCanMakePhoneCall() ?

2013-08-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/18/13 11:18 AM, John Dixon wrote: Read the iOS release notes... page 41... the explanation is there ! ...:-) I wish I could find them. The current Release Notes item in the Help menu opens a 9-page PDF with almost no info in it. I had to go back to LiveCode 5.5 and open them there. Is

Re: mobileCanMakePhoneCall() ?

2013-08-18 Thread Roger Eller
I'm having the same trouble finding that info. The Release Notes PDF(s) for all versions of 6.x.x are either 15 pages or 37 pages long. Can't locate page 41. ~Roger On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 1:17 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 8/18/13 11:18 AM, John Dixon wrote: Read

Re: mobileCanMakePhoneCall() ?

2013-08-18 Thread Dan Friedman
John, Thank you for the reply, and I would LOVE to read the iOS Release Notes! But, where are they? They used to be in the Help menu... no more! When I choose Release Notes in the Help menu, I get a 15 page document. Can you direct me to where they are? -Dan Read the iOS release

Tabstops (was IDE Vs MSG box)

2013-08-18 Thread Peter Haworth
The original thread touched on a lot of interesting issues regarding tabstops/tabWidths and how they are entered/interpreted. Carrying on form there, is it time to think about adding the functionality of right and centered tabs to tabstops/widths/some other construct, now that we're in the open

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-18 Thread Mike Kerner
How about documentation so I can read up on it? I didn't see anything in the docs. On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 6:49 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Mike, On Windows and Linux, you can start a standalone from the command line with parameteres. The parameters can

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-18 Thread Mike Kerner
applescript will be hard - windows. Sockets are not an option here, but thanks. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Mike, Search the dictionary for: $ relaunch socket appleEvent Search in the mailing list or on the forum for

saving part of an SQL SELECT back to the table in the same transaction/ getting order

2013-08-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
As usual, I'm trying to limit the number of transactions as the lag is more expensive (to the user) than the transaction. I can do something like SELECT name, petname FROM mytable WHERE pettype='cat' ORDER BY petname to get a list ordered by the names of the cats. I'd like, though, to fill

Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
In all my time with LC, I've never used menus - until now. I'm having some trouble getting the hang of it. I'm using LC Community 6.1.0 on OSX 10.8.4 . I'm simply trying to add a menu of my own to the mac menu bar with a disabled item. I have made one with the Menu Builder in a new empty stack.

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mike, You still haven't explained what you want to do. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab

Re: loading time much faster on slower machine

2013-08-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
(the faster machine taking notably longer than the slower machine to open livecode and a file). On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Ah well. I give. If you find a solution let me know, i'm curious now. *blush* This could, ahh, be explained if, perhaps, the

Re: An SQL query to return an UPDATE for the results?

2013-08-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I'm only getting the results from the second query. If done separately, I get multiple rows from the first query. That's what I'd expect, the results of

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Saturday, August 17, 2013, 4:04:38 PM, you wrote: And there is the question of what to return if asked for Name and there is no name for the exact color. The nearest color? RGB instead? theColorThatShallNotBeNamed

Re: saving part of an SQL SELECT back to the table in the same transaction/ getting order

2013-08-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Sunday, August 18, 2013, 3:25:01 PM, you wrote: It seems kind of silly to do the SELECT, loop about forming a bunch of UPDATE one line statements in LIveCode, and then to feed it back . . . Some stored procedures may come to the rescue here. And once those are working, maybe triggering them on

Re: An SQL query to return an UPDATE for the results?

2013-08-18 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: And I'll need to add a cup of cleverness to align the field types for the first few entries of the table with far fewer columns (after that, I can just select a bunch of NULL. . . ) Yes, forgot to mention that there must

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Kay C Lan
There is something flaky with the Menu Builder If you watch the Menu Buider you'll see for Menu Items it simply puts an open bracket '(' before the Item Name. Why this is making the name disappear and not come back I don't know, BUT if you manually or via script simply add or remove the '(' the

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
Eureka! That works. So the Menu Builder is in the same doghouse as the Geometry Manager... Thanks a million, Jerry On Aug 18, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: There is something flaky with the Menu Builder If you watch the Menu Buider you'll see for Menu Items it

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
Bugzilla # 0. Thats decimal. Really. .Jerry On Aug 18, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: Eureka! That works. So the Menu Builder is in the same doghouse as the Geometry Manager... Thanks a million, Jerry On Aug 18, 2013, at 5:06 PM, Kay C Lan

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- Sunday, August 18, 2013, 8:38:58 PM, you wrote: Bugzilla # 0. Thats decimal. Really. Put another quarter in. If you get two more, maybe it will roll over and you get a new game. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
I'm chicken. If its Baudot it might go NULL and trigger a singularity. Jacque might want to try this for her sock. .Jerry On Aug 18, 2013, at 8:46 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Jerry- Sunday, August 18, 2013, 8:38:58 PM, you wrote: Bugzilla # 0. Thats decimal. Really.

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- Sunday, August 18, 2013, 9:07:30 PM, you wrote: If its Baudot it might go NULL and trigger a Is that Brigitte Baudot? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Jerry- Sunday, August 18, 2013, 9:07:30 PM, you wrote: If its Baudot it might go NULL and trigger a Is that Brigitte Baudot? Not for 5 bits. .Jerry ___ use-livecode

Re: Menu newbie confusion

2013-08-18 Thread stephen barncard
Mark: *Is that Brigitte Baudot?* I hear she's running for office. On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: On Aug 18, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Jerry- Sunday, August 18, 2013, 9:07:30 PM, you wrote: If its Baudot it