On 26/02/14 00:13, Mark Wieder wrote:
Some cross-cultural issues:
http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/02/how-to-say-this-is-crap-in-different-cultures/
I take issue with that word 'British' as we Scots from the East coast up
from Dundee will not
do things in the same way as people from, say, London.
Due to easier reading I have copied hereafter some statements from various
posts I don't agree:
I haven't built for PowerPC in ages and no one has ever noticed. I vote to
drop support for OS 10.5.
Please continue to make LIvecode 6.5 and 6.6 commercial licenses avaialble
who feel compelled to
Will play with this soon...really, having a way to interact with MMa would open
some new doors and users too!
thank you for a tease ;-)
btw, some history, Wolfram came close to crafting MMA around HyperTalk..well,
rest is history as it goes.. :-(
shalom, Andrew Meit
Please visit my gallery:
On 26/02/2014, at 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
Good idea with the forum post. We may find others in the community who
have the time and interest to devote to maintaining a PPC build while
the core team and RunRev keeps their attention on their own ROI.
Hi Folks
Market share is one thing and sales to that market share is another. People
still on 10.5 and below are quite used to not being able to buy new software by
now so probably aren't even looking. So really this is just a maintenance
market (which even Apple with their huge resources
This is absolutely right:
The Kickstarter campaign was all about modernizing LC. It's a clear choice to
me: drop 10.5 support. As others have said, people who want to maintain
their old systems can use old versions of LC.
Thanks,
Tom Bodine
There are many of us waiting for major new
Hi Trevor,
As promised I have made two short videos and uploaded them to dropbox.
Here are the links:
https://db.tt/N5uFSHft
https://db.tt/Em7cHRsS
Both zip files are approx. 25mb.
The first link is to a video of the Data Grid and demonstrates it’s action.
The second link is to a Table
On 25.02.2014, at 18:08, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com
wrote:
No longer supporting OSX 10.5 will definitely be a blow in the face for the
educational market!
I agree with the direction of Mark's point, but maybe not with the way he
assesses it's severity.
Maintaining
Oh I forgot to say: I appreciate this conversation started by Ben/RunRev
immensely, and think these kind of questions should be asked several times each
month, ideally as often as any kind of decisions, for example syntax changes,
come up.
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On 26/02/14 11:22, FlexibleLearning.com wrote:
I need to do a similar table for my wife... I'm a Brit, and she is Polish.
After 30 years she's only now kinda getting the idea!
I have a feeling that, very shortly, you are going to have to relabel
yourself, as we all will.
I am 75% Scots, 25%
On 26/02/14 11:23, Dirk prive wrote:
snip
Dropping XP seems to be a little more controversial, but it looks like this
might be dropped as well, since MS won't support it anymore anyway.
I guess support for the old platforms takes up time and needs to stop at a
certain point in time. There is
And those Bulgarians with a good running MacBook from 2007 have the money to
buy a new one???
Even in Germany most ones would hesitate for another couple of years to
spend such a sum, if the old machine still runs.
Tiemo
Dropping support for Windows XP would be fairly foolish (while dropping
So if I was to say iTunes Radio, everyone in every language wouldn't
agree that what I really meant was Crap?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:26 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote:
On 26/02/14 00:13, Mark Wieder wrote:
Some cross-cultural issues:
Richmond - what you write about Irish history is 'interesting'
-
Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon
them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior
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On 26/02/14 16:09, Mike Kerner wrote:
So if I was to say iTunes Radio, everyone in every language wouldn't
agree that what I really meant was Crap?
LOL!
Well; only the subset of those who used Macintosh or Windows on a
regular basis who had ever tried iTunes Radio.
For the sake of
If you haven’t tried the new iTunes radio, I suggest you give it a try. It is
almost as good as Pandora with no ads.
Tom
-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
mcgra...@mac.com
On Feb 26, 2014, at 9:39 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:
For the sake of argument; the last
On 26/02/14 16:22, Dave Kilroy wrote:
Richmond - what you write about Irish history is 'interesting'
Well, that is not, quite honestly, my opinion, but that of an Irish
friend of mine who had this to say:
Unfortunately, it is the ‘Anti’ element of nationalism of which I was
most aware
iTunes Radio for me is FULL of ads, AND it sucks.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:13 AM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.comwrote:
If you haven't tried the new iTunes radio, I suggest you give it a try. It
is almost as good as Pandora with no ads.
Tom
-- Tom McGrath III
Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
I haven't built for PowerPC in ages and no one has ever noticed. I vote to
drop support for OS 10.5.
Please continue to make LIvecode 6.5 and 6.6 commercial licenses avaialble
who feel compelled to build for Mac PPC computers
I don't know, why you set 10.5 == PPC. I
Richmond
I value how the LiveCode community works so I'm not going to engage in
discussing your views of Irish history any more - except to say that (in my
opinion) what you write is some distance away from being fair or balanced.
You have already aired your opinion so I hope we can now let
Hi Tiemo
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote
...and I have to pay 500 bucks every year just that runrev doesn't shut
off my old
license.
Yes it does seem unfair that you would have to keep paying just to access an
older version of LC - maybe Heather could make an exception and change the
licence type of
Hi Tiemo,
i did a quick search and found this here
https://discussions.apple.com/message/19930525#19930525
So it seems you have to contact Apple Sales to order an SL upgrade dvd for your
MacBook 2007.
Regards,
Matthias
Am 26.02.2014 um 17:12 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de:
Hi Matthias,
thats what I did, and the installer of snow leopard told me, my hardware is
out of date and incompatible.
Tiemo
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Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im
Auftrag
von Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 26. Februar
So Apple sold you an upgrade for your MacBook and the upgrade cannot be
installed?
Is it really a retail DVD and not a gray recovery DVD?
What is support saying? I read in other forums that the white MacBook 2007
runs fine with SL.
Regards,
Matthias
Am 26.02.2014 um 17:32 schrieb Tiemo
Dropping support for Windows XP would be fairly foolish
(while dropping support for 10.5 and lower will just elicit a
tired sigh);
I think it's a really bad idea to embed something as important as this is a
thread about 10.5.
Check out this Computeworld article:
Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
Hi Matthias,
thats what I did, and the installer of snow leopard told me, my hardware is
out of date and incompatible.
I'm sorry to hear that. Apple makes good computers, but their costs
average about twice that of PCs. Good components and all that so I'm
not making a
Message: 29
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 20:22:48 -0800
From: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Wolfram language
Message-ID: 530d6c18.3080...@fourthworld.com
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Did you see what
I didn't asked Apple to sell me an upgrade for my MacBook. I just bought the
standard white retail DVD on my own risk and was surprised by the failure.
Afterwords I found several informations that it was a fact that my series of
MacBook wasn't upgradable. It was just a matter of some month, which
Hi Terry,
I watched both videos, also played them side-by-side for comparison. I do
see a slight difference but I'm sure it's mostly due to the complexity of
the datagrid caused by its extra functionality over your table, even though
you're not using the extras. Sounds like Trevor may have some
Lynn Fredricks wrote:
Dropping support for Windows XP would be fairly foolish
(while dropping support for 10.5 and lower will just elicit a
tired sigh);
I think it's a really bad idea to embed something as important as this is a
thread about 10.5.
Check out this Computeworld article:
Jim Hurley wrote:
And, Richard, as a petty aside, that formula and graph in the forum you cite
don’t “compute.”
Not petty at all. It's just one more reason we love having you in this
community: you help keep our math straight.
But there is another significant difference between LC and
Le 26 févr. 2014 à 18:31, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com a écrit :
11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/windows-xp-users-may-switch-linux
This article notes that as of October there were about 500 million PCs
Should I dare to say is this the year of linux on the desktop that we've
been hearing about? Honestly, I think it stops becoming fanboyism when it
makes the shift to a real trend. I think some major players are making a
cultural shift away from microsoft that makes linux the realest contender I
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:37 AM, François Chaplais
francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr wrote:
The methodology is flawed, as it does not take into account those who flee
Linux (which is not an OS, but a kernel) like the plague
My technological incorrectness aside, unix-like unix-derived
you forgot ios
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 11:37 AM, François Chaplais
francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr wrote:
The methodology is flawed, as it does not take into account those who
flee
Linux (which is not an OS,
Sure did. I'm honestly not far at all from saying goodbye to windows for
all but testing and infrequent purposes. The only thing keeping me here was
occasional PC Gaming and some wonky livecode stuff from a few versions ago.
I tried it for almost a year but found myself booting less often into my
François Chaplais wrote:
Le 26 févr. 2014 à 18:31, Richard Gaskin a écrit :
11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/windows-xp-users-may-switch-linux
This article notes that as of October there were about 500 million
PCs
The past 5 years have been the year of linux on the desktop for many people
that I know. Friends, family, and colleagues bring me their computers to
fix when malware has held their systems hostage. My first question is
always, does the system contain any valuable data, and what software do
you
On 26/02/14 19:31, Richard Gaskin wrote:
prune
11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2014/02/windows-xp-users-may-switch-linux
This article notes that as of October there were about 500 million PCs
running XP:
Hi,
I have looked at modTableField but noted in the docs you can’t have right
alignment
unless I misread that would mean no decimal point alignment.
All the best
Terry
On 26 Feb 2014, at 17:23, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
If you're looking for a ready-to-use table control, I will,
Scott Rossi wrote:
I've been looking for a way to accomplish zooming into (what are
essentially) flow charts, and the scaleFactor property is making this
possible.
...
The biggest restriction in all this is that *everything* in a stack is
scaled. It would be great if there was a way to keep
Wait - is that in German or Irish?
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 1:08 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote:
On 26/02/14 19:37, François Chaplais wrote:
Le 26 févr. 2014 à 18:31, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com a
écrit :
11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux,
Hi Terence,
You're right, modTableField doesn't have a built-in way to right justify a
column. I hope one day LC implements right (and center) tabs.
I did come up with a workaround to right justify a column which seems to
work speedily. If you're interested email me off list and I'll send it to
Thanks for the responses. Yes, we are saving a 100+ MB data file to disk,
and when the free memory gets to be under 100 MB, saving to a standard hard
drive (not SSD) sometimes ends up taking a very long time (in Mac OS X),
making it appear to the user that the program has locked up. We have
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Terence Heaford
t.heaf...@btinternet.comwrote:
It can be seen that the simple table has better performance than the Data
Grid probably because it has no
bells and whistles.
Could this be why I am getting a performance hit from the Data Grid?
I hope there is
Hi Trevor,
Thanks for the script.
Tried it a few times, average 5420
So, it seems it’s the scrollbarDrag message?
I don’t suppose there’s much that can be done then without RunRev input?
I am on a Mac, I wonder if the update to Cocoa will sort it out?
I am not really sure what is happening
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Terence Heaford
t.heaf...@btinternet.comwrote:
Thanks for the script.
Tried it a few times, average 5420
So, it seems it's the scrollbarDrag message?
I don't suppose there's much that can be done then without RunRev input?
Try setting the repeatRate to
Tried it, no difference.
set the repeatRate to 10
in the openCard handler with no effect
changed it to 0 with no effect.
Is there a particular place to use this?
All the best
Terry
On 26 Feb 2014, at 20:32, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.com wrote:
Try setting the repeatRate to 10.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote:
iTunes Radio for me is FULL of ads, AND it sucks.
I don't like the idea of a machine picking music for me, but the worst is
the artists getting practically no money for their performances.
The good name and history
On 26/02/14 23:02, stephen barncard wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote:
iTunes Radio for me is FULL of ads, AND it sucks.
I don't like the idea of a machine picking music for me, but the worst is
the artists getting practically no money for
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Terence Heaford
t.heaf...@btinternet.comwrote:
Tried it, no difference.
set the repeatRate to 10
in the openCard handler with no effect
changed it to 0 with no effect.
Is there a particular place to use this?
It is a global property. I just set it via
Yes the potential for scaleFactor is big! But for me the first priority is
being able to control stack positioning, when we get that working smoothly
I'll be a very happy man.
If we can later on 'zoom' in and out of different areas in a stack that
would be some splendid icing on the cake.
repeatRate is clearly working because if i raise it significantly everything
slows to a crawl but honestly
I can't notice much difference between 50 and 10 or 0 with my 1700 records.
Perhaps it’s time to give this one up and put up with it, unless you have any
other ideas.
Thanks
Terry
On
I'm writing some scripts to allow me to edit the style of text in a
field, and looking for advice / suggestions on what the script *should* do.
(I might be back later to ask *how* can I do ... those things I should
do :-)
If I select a chunk of the field, and click on the Bold button then
I
On 2/26/14, 4:50 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
But the question is
- if the chunk is currently 'mixed', then which of the following
should happen ?
I've seen different ways to do that. What comes to mind is the way
Thunderbird marks/unmarks a group of selected messages if they have
mixed
Hi Alex,
On the un-mixed example, I wonder whether you should set the textstyle to
plain or empty?
For the mixed examples, I'd say 4 in both cases but the problem is that
won't always be what users want or expect. If it's just for your own use,
that's not a problem. If it's a utility for other
I have a need to group controls within an existing group into a subgroup by
script, but I get a runtime error when trying to do that - in 6.5.2 the
message is Object cannot be grouped.
Any ideas on how to do that? The only way I can think of is to ungroup the
main group, group the selected
On 26/02/2014 23:31, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 2/26/14, 4:50 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
But the question is
- if the chunk is currently 'mixed', then which of the following
should happen ?
I've seen different ways to do that. What comes to mind is the way
Thunderbird marks/unmarks a group of
On 26/02/2014 23:52, Peter Haworth wrote:
Hi Alex,
On the un-mixed example, I wonder whether you should set the textstyle to
plain or empty?
Neither I'm going to set the textStyle[bold] to either true or false,
and hence sidestep the empty vs plain question completely.
For the mixed
Hi Pete
In 6 + versions, I use the relayer command as it gives full control and
works really well.
on mouseUp
new grp
relayer last grp to back of grp G
relayer btn A to back of last grp
relayer btn B to back of last grp
end mouseUp
If you do not want to use relayer you can do this
Hi Mats,
That works great, thanks. I was using a group command with a list of the
selected objects before and that's what threw an error (that was for pre
v6).
Pete
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Hi all.
I’m trying to devise a way to implement a “near text search” when querying a
mySQL database. My problem is, I get spreadsheet forms filled out by hand from
our dispatcher, and he sometimes makes typos, just small ones, and I need to
ensure there are no virtual duplicate customer
Hi
If I get what you want, why not just append the ASCII values to create a much
longer number?:
on mouseup
answer textToNum(abcdefgh)
end mouseup
function textToNum theString
put lower(theString)
repeat for each char theAscii in theString
put charToNum(theAscii) after
People do not change easily. They will stick to what they know. If they *have*
to get a new PC, and they were running XP, they will almost certainly buy
another Windows product. I know this because I have spent my life trying to get
users to just look at something new, try some new way of doing
The elephant in the room here is that there isn’t a world of nasty people
waiting to release exploits of 10.5 into the wild the moment Apple drops
support for it. There IS however, for Windows XP.
Bob
On Feb 26, 2014, at 08:46 , Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com
wrote:
Dropping
Yes I think I will make it available to the list users here, but be forewarned
it makes extensive use of sqlYoga. In fact it requires it. If there is some
particular aspect of the forms generator you are interested in, such as the
actual filling of the forms, maybe I can throw something
Sorry all. I though we were dealing with someone who just hopped on the forums
and then slammed Livecode for not being good enough to do any real programming.
I see that is not the case. My humblest apologies to the gentleman.
Bob
On Feb 25, 2014, at 08:57 , J. Landman Gay
Does mySQL have a Soundex function?
If I remember correctly, Devin has some functions that implement a
Levenstein Distance algorithm which will identify potential misspellings of
a word
Pete
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Reminds me a lot of a trip I took with my Dad and Stepmom around the big island
of Hawaii. I would hear her say something that barely registered with me, but
my Dad seemed to immediately act upon it. After watching this interaction for a
bit, I realized she was speaking in a kind of code, and
Richard-
Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 9:31:05 AM, you wrote:
I promise this will be my last Linux fanboy post this week,
I had a choice at work between a Thinkpad to run linux and a Mac air,
and I opted for the mac (I'll need both platforms), figuring that it
would be easiest to run linux in
I compared a PC laptop once with the same hardware, memory, hard drive and
quality of display, including the graphics chip, and the price difference was
within $200 for Apple’s top of the line Macbook Pro. The difference is, as you
touched on, that Apple does not make lower end products that
On 2/26/14, 8:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Ever try to get someone who uses spaces and carriage returns and
multiple tabs to align their document to start using space before
paragraph, margin and tab stop settings in Word? They. Will. Not.
Change. No not ever, no never ever, no.
I knew a guy like
Stephen-
Wednesday, February 26, 2014, 1:02:42 PM, you wrote:
If one wants to hear real radio with entertaining and musically informed
presenters, listen to the free 'BBC Radio 6' the best radio music stream
.
Seem like a good time to recommend fip internet radio:
Don’t know how I missed that, thanks.
Bob
On Feb 26, 2014, at 18:50 , Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
Does mySQL have a Soundex function?
If I remember correctly, Devin has some functions that implement a
Levenstein Distance algorithm which will identify potential misspellings of
a
Well if Apple continues to solder it’s memory onto the motherboard of it’s
laptops, and glue it’s batteries to the cases, I may not be far behind you guys
in switching to Linux.
Bob
On Feb 26, 2014, at 19:05 , Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote:
Richard-
Wednesday, February 26,
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:20 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.comwrote:
Well if Apple continues to solder it’s memory onto the motherboard of it’s
laptops
Doesn't it have to for the Air? No room for sockets...
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On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 7:08 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote:
Seem like a good time to recommend fip internet radio:
http://www.fipradio.fr/player
Fip was my favorite while in France, and one of the earliest streaming
stations on the net. I was so happy to find it when I returned
I'm still missing it - where can one find Devin's Levenstein function?
Bob Sneidar:
Don’t know how I missed that, thanks.
On Feb 26, 2014, at 18:50 , Peter Haworth wrote:
If I remember correctly, Devin has some functions that implement a
Levenstein Distance algorithm which will identify
So if the survey methodology pans out, that'll mean roughly
55 million new Linux installs.
Hey Mr Fanboy -
I think once the Steam Machines start rolling out later in 2014, you'll see
a lot of Linux in the living room :-)
There's a little button that lets you exit out to Debian from SteamOS.
RichardG wrote:
I'm still missing it - where can one find Devin's Levenstein function?
Try Rishi's
http://www.rghosh.com/code/levenshtein-distance-livecod/
And yes, that ‘livecod' is correct, though a bit fishy.
Jim Lambert
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use-livecode
I suppose, but then I could call the Air a high end tablet that doesn’t have
touch yet. :-) (strtching…) But I’m talking about their line of Mackbook
Pros. If I’m buying a top of the line Apple, I would very much like for them to
NOT glue the battery in place. And soldering the memory onto
I just did a query on soundex for 3 values: Whittier Fun Center, Whitier Fun
Center and Wittier Fun Center. All returned the same result. I think what I
will do is create a column populated with the soundex of the customer name as a
secondary lookup when I don’t get an exact match, then alert
That is kind of what I was doing, only a little different.I was doing a kind of
binary bit significance on each character and totaling the ascii values times
the bit significance. Does that mean I’m a genius?? no… that can’t be right…
Bob
On Feb 26, 2014, at 20:04 , Jim Lambert
Yup. I agree. My Mackbook Pro with retina has 16 GB RAM glued to the
motherboard, as well as the SD card. Order as you want it, because
nothing can be upgraded!
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Bob Sneidar
bobsnei...@iotecdigital.comwrote:
I suppose, but then I could call the Air a high
So, I guess I click send before editing too often. I was rather harsh, I see
after going back and reading my post. I am a real fan of Livecode, as many here
can guess, but I’ve thought through and lived through the difficulties of
someone in a corporation trying to sell the virtues of creating
You don't need another column.
If you don't get an exact match
SELECT soundex(name)=soundex(Wittier Fun Center)
Not sure of performance implications.
Pete
lcSQL Software
On Feb 26, 2014 8:12 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote:
I just did a query on soundex for 3 values:
Oh right! Duh…
On Feb 26, 2014, at 20:54 , Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
You don't need another column.
If you don't get an exact match
SELECT soundex(name)=soundex(Wittier Fun Center)
Not sure of performance implications.
Pete
lcSQL Software
On Feb 26, 2014 8:12 PM, Bob
On 2/26/14, 10:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
even if I (erroneously) think he’s a drive by critic
Don't beat yourself up too hard. You may have been right.
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Gabriel,
I am working on a program where I need to know the amount of
available memory.
You can shell this:
sysctl - a | grep mem
or
sysctl hw.usermem
or
HTH,
Thierry
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