Movies ?

2014-02-10 Thread Richmond
It's fantasy time again. I was musing on export/write to file a sequence of images as, either, an animated GIF, or a .mov/.avi file. I could just load the image sequence into Quicktime Pro and press button A: but that would not work in, say, a stack/standalone that would generate a film for an

Re: Stupid simple version control using dropbox

2014-02-10 Thread Martin Baxter
On 07/02/14 14:50, Geoff Canyon wrote: Not sure if this has been posted before, but just in case: If you store your stack files in the dropbox folder on your computer, dropbox does a really good job of saving a copy of each separate file whenever the file is saved. You can look at a list of

Re: Movies ?

2014-02-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, I have used the Enhanced QT external to create Snapper Screen Recorder. Additionally, there are severa image2movie utilities. There are also command line utilities such as ffmpeg, which can do this. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

RE: LiveCode in Elementary Schools

2014-02-10 Thread Cyril Pruszko
It would be perfect for younger students to learn about computers and programming. They can easily start writing programs without a lot of teaching. Then once they get excited about what they have created and want to do more, you slowly introduce the concepts and programming constructs. It

Re: repeating string

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Kerner
the BASIC RPT$ syntax is s not LC. of might work, though. I also hate the * syntax. Yes, I know what it means, but I'm a CS junkie. On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: How about rpt(15,5) ? If you don't quote the 15, the numberformat would take effect,

Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Kerner
I started this thread on the other list, but it's time to bring it over here. Now that LC is OSS, I'm thinking of starting a fund to get other things done in LC. For example, * code folding * stack-level setting for giving equal rights to all items, especially the last one * macros in the script

Re: new way closing a stack in IOS 7

2014-02-10 Thread Alain Vezina
Hi Ender, Thanks a lot. I think this solution is a bit risky but I will try it on a test app. Alain Le 2014-02-07 à 11:59, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu endern...@keehuna.com a écrit : Hi Alain, I think what you’re asking is in fact *how to keep alive your app even in the background*; then

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Tim Selander
I'm originally from Chicago... so in the tradition of that great city, I'm stuffing the virtual ballot box with votes for this one!! Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 2/11/14 12:02 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: * A real report editor/designer ___ use-livecode

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi Awhile back I proposed a (How to) to offer a LC Codebook for all users to use online to manage their scripts and several other types of LC content. I only got a minimal interest. I am still learning LiveCode like so many other developers. I found the LiveCode has a rather good Dictionary if

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Kevin Miller
We¹re definitely interested. The potential issue I have is that this stuff was (mostly) promised from Kickstarter and indeed either planned and specced or even being worked on. Mostly it will be delivered this year at various points. You guys already backed us on Kickstarter and we can will be

Re: new way closing a stack in IOS 7

2014-02-10 Thread Michael Gruenthal
This remains unsupported for now, but will hopefully (re)appear as an option at some point during the engine refactoring process. A checkbox was in the standalone builder in the past but hidden. To enhance what your app can do while suspended, take a look at http://mergext.com/home/mergbgtask/

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Since we all work on software too, some of us professionally, we understand it takes a while sometimes to deliver on a road map. I also understand that many kickstarter projects might add stretch goals that are indeed a bit of a stretch to deliver on to try and build/keep excitement. But progress

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Kevin Miller
Actually its the core refactor / Unicode that was the really tough bit. A long time with heads down and only internal dps so far. But in terms of actual throughput its been massive. The other goals aren’t of the same scope and as such aren’t as far away as it may seem. We’re deep into planning

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi all, With the right funding, I would consider making Quartam Reports open-source under a dual license. This would obviate the need for a whole new project that has to go through all the same pains I did. Admittedly, things have been quiet on the news front, but I have been preparing two

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 10:56 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: Any kind of timelines or updates on any of the stretch goals other than theming/res independence would be great. While I understand that is probably the hardest stretch goal you have had to deliver, it is also the least

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
On February 10, 2014 at 17:24:35, Kevin Miller (ke...@runrev.com) wrote: The only thing we could do would be to speed things up by  further expanding our dev team, which could bring delivery forward for  ³pet² features. I guess we could crowd fund that.  So - here is an open question I don¹t

Re: LiveCode in Elementary Schools

2014-02-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
j...@unmla.com wrote: I'm interested in learning whether LiveCode is an appropriate tool for introducing elementary school children to the field of computer science. LiveCode has been eagerly adopted in the educational market. I can't find the link, but Scotland's schools throughout the

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Kerner
The things I'm thinking of are generally not on the road map, which is how this thing got started in the first place. Some of them are on a wishlist that I gave to Kevin after our Pro meeting. I also don't want to unnecessarily fork LC just to get what I want (e.g. all items are created equal).

Re: repeating string

2014-02-10 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 8, 2014, at 10:41 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: put 30 a into goop, but that is a recipe for failure, and put 30 a's into goop is almost unreadable If we're devising syntax, I think some

Re: repeating string

2014-02-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/10/14, 11:51 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Seems like the most LiveCode-like syntax would be something like: pad container with string at beginning|end|chunk description [for] N [times] So, pad myvar with space at beginning 4 times pad fld foo with 0 at end 10 times pad hello with xyz after

Re: repeating string

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Kerner
I like that, too On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 2/10/14, 11:51 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Seems like the most LiveCode-like syntax would be something like: pad container with string at beginning|end|chunk description [for] N [times] So,

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu endern...@keehuna.com wrote: On February 10, 2014 at 17:56:39, Andrew Kluthe (and...@ctech.me) wrote: Any kind of timelines or updates on any of the stretch goals other than theming/res independence would be great. ... it is also the

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/02/14 23:34, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu endern...@keehuna.com wrote: On February 10, 2014 at 17:56:39, Andrew Kluthe (and...@ctech.me) wrote: Any kind of timelines or updates on any of the stretch goals other than theming/res

Message path question

2014-02-10 Thread Peter Haworth
Prowling around the IDE scripts, the revBackScript button of the revLibrary stack includes: dispatch revHookPostSaveStack to me . ... but there is no such handler in its script. My understanding of the message path is that since this is in a back script, the only other place for that

Re: Message path question

2014-02-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Prowling around the IDE scripts, the revBackScript button of the revLibrary stack includes: dispatch revHookPostSaveStack to me . ... but there is no such handler in its script. My understanding of the message path is that since this is in a back script, the only

Re: new way closing a stack in IOS 7

2014-02-10 Thread Gerry Orkin
Or, for location: keyUIBackgroundModes/key array stringlocation/string /array Gerry On 11 Feb 2014, at 10:49 am, Gerry Orkin gerry.or...@gmail.com wrote: BTW if you need the app to keep playing sound (or tracking location etc) you'll also need to add:

Re: repeating string

2014-02-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 10/02/2014 17:51, Devin Asay wrote: Seems like the most LiveCode-like syntax would be something like: pad container with string at beginning|end|chunk description [for] N [times] So, pad myvar with space at beginning 4 times pad fld foo with 0 at end 10 times pad hello with xyz after

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kevin Miller wrote: Actually its the core refactor / Unicode that was the really tough bit. A long time with heads down and only internal dps so far. But in terms of actual throughput its been massive. The other goals aren’t of the same scope and as such aren’t as far away as it may seem.

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread li...@duckworks.biz
Vaughn, I'd be interested in seeing where I could assist. It occurred to me to learn LiveCode a novice or better developer needs a better interface and to add code tracking in the distionary. I agree that added features for the dictionary would be valuable, I'd also like to see the

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Tim Selander
Hi Jan, I have on two occassions (pre-open source and post-open source) downloaded and tried Quartam Reports. But both times it fell down for me in trying to handle Japanese/UTF8. Can't recall if it was in presenting the data or in the editor itself (or, of course, could have been operator

Re: Message path question

2014-02-10 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: All backscript and library handlers are available to all other backscripts and libraries. Thanks Richard. Just to be sure I understand this correctly, I already have a library stack in place for this application

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Mike Kerner
monte, Yes, that's in line with what I was thinking. I was LESS thinking about having a generic fund that folks would vote funds out of and more spec'ing out improvements, and then, etc., as you are suggesting. As I've been talking with other folks about this, and even a little bit with

Re: Message path question

2014-02-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: All backscript and library handlers are available to all other backscripts and libraries. Thanks Richard. Just to be sure I understand this correctly, I already have a library stack in place for this application so

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Kevin Miller wrote: Actually its the core refactor / Unicode that was the really tough bit. A long time with heads down and only internal dps so far. But in terms of actual throughput its been massive. The

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread stephen barncard
On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote: It is fun to see what the team is working on and follow along with features you are interested in. A-V - player progress! Yes! *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote: We're deep into planning for the next phase at the moment. So I'll write you guys a more extensive post and/or a newsletter article with an update on things within the next couple of weeks. I always get a kick out of the

Re: SSL + static IP with an on-rev account

2014-02-10 Thread Phil Davis
This also works: http://marksmith.on-rev.com/revstuff/files/ Phil Davis On 2/2/14, 2:42 PM, PystCat wrote: The link worked. On Feb 2, 2014, at 4:44 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: crap. Bad link. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not