Re: Formatted text in a field.

2014-04-04 Thread James Hale
Mike asked, So clearly the engine knows how to do these calculations, so I have to believe that all of the properties must be available to us to do the same calculation. The one that I think I am not understanding correctly is the property for the number of pixels in the visible part of

Re: Home stack

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, The Home stack contains a bunch of functions and commands for setting up the IDE when LiveCode starts. Some of these commands and functions are also useful to other parts of the IDE. I don't think the Home stack handles licensing; that should be the engine now. You should be able to edit

another newbie question

2014-04-04 Thread larry
If I make a change to my stack script (I only have 1 stack) is there a way to test the code in the script without having to close the IDE and then restart LC to see if my stack script is running properly - such as something within the openStack command? Thank you

Re: Home stack

2014-04-04 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello Mark, Long time no 'see'. Yes, but where is the Home stack ? What is its name ? How come the commands mentionned didn't work ? Can I edit the script of home ? Thanks, Alain F. On Friday, April 4, 2014 2:53:30 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi, The Home

Re: another newbie question

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Larry, There are several ways to do this. You can click on the green arrow at the top of the script editor window and choose the handler to run, after which you click on OK. In most cases, you can also type the handler name in the message box and press return. Another way is to

Re: Home stack

2014-04-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The home stack's name is home. But it is not your stack, it belongs to the IDE, and does IDE stuff. If you make a standalone, there won't be a home stack in it, unless you make one. There is no need to manipulate or interact with the home stack, unless you write your own IDE, where it servers a

Re: occasional runaway control - anyone else seeing this?

2014-04-04 Thread Dave Kilroy
Bob I usually post to the list from nabble rather than my email client Bob Sneidar-2 wrote Curious, why are all of Dave Kilroy’s emails threaded together, and everyone else’s replies to his posts in a completely separate thread? What are you using to post to the list Dave? Just curious.

Re: another newbie question

2014-04-04 Thread dunbarx
Larry. if I understand you correctly, is it that you might simply invoke a handler from a button or via the message box? In other words, if you have an openstack handler in the stack script, you can just write, in a button: on mouseUp openstack end mouseUp Or do this from msg. If

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I suppose, but the elegance of working in the IDE leads me to develop accordingly. If then when I compile an app for the first time I discover my methods will not work, I am tempted rather to find a way to make it work, and eschew changing the way I develop. But one leg is both the same I

Re: occasional runaway control - anyone else seeing this?

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
I suspect that is what is doing this then. It’s invisible from your perspective, but I get a thread of all your replies and none of what others have posted. It’s like you are talking to your make believe friends! Very disconcerting. But then, have we any proof that these supposed “friends” of

Re: another newbie question

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yet another is to have a test button on your card. This way you have the opportunity of setting up the environment before calling your handler. Bob On Apr 4, 2014, at 24:21 , Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Larry, There are several ways to do this. You can

Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. Read all about it in on the blog here: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/04/04/announcement-livecode-community-manager/ Richard has also contributed this newsletter article:

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Walt Brown
Great! Good luck, Richard! On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote: Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. Read all about it in on the blog here:

Re: another newbie question

2014-04-04 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Larry, Right click on the stack window, not on a control, and you'll see two options, Send Card Message and Send Stack Message. They both expand to show a list of the handlers in the card and stack respectively and clicking on a handler sends a message to it. Incidentally, I don;t think you

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ahhh, the voice of calm and reason amidst the chaos of confusion! :-) Bob On Apr 4, 2014, at 08:28 , Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.commailto:ke...@runrev.com wrote: Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. Read all about it in on the

Re: Home stack

2014-04-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/4/14, 2:15 AM, Alain Farmer wrote: Can I edit the script of home ? As it turns out, you can, but you need to quote the stack name home. Like you, I was using edit script of stack home and it doesn't resolve. Once you see what's in there, you won't want to edit it. Nor should you. --

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/4/14, 10:28 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. That's great! No one is better qualified. Congrats, Richard. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Marty Knapp
Congratulations to Richard and RunRev! Marty Knapp Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. Read all about it in on the blog here: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/04/04/announcement-livecode-community-manager/ Richard has also

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/2014 18:28, Kevin Miller wrote: Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. Read all about it in on the blog here: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/04/04/announcement-livecode-community-manager/ Richard has also contributed this

codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Richmond
snip at which point I discovered a GENERAL FIELD PROBLEM with 7.0.dp 1 under UbuntuStudio 14.04 beta: snip Nipped over to Mac OS 10.6.7 [I love VMware, I love VMware, I love VMware] I found that the problem I mentioned with 7.0. dp 1 on Ub-Linux is NOT a problem in Mac 10.6.7 So,

Re: Formatted text in a field.

2014-04-04 Thread Michael Doub
Thank you James, This was quite helpful. I am trying to use the pageranges technique but the ranges I am getting are larger than what is visibly being displayed within my field. The character 722 is actually not visible. What properties are being used in the pageranges calculation to

Howto get the name of current Livecode process

2014-04-04 Thread Thierry Douez
Hello all, I need to know the current running Livecode IDE (process name or application name). i.e: LiveCode 6.5.2 or LiveCode Community 6.6 Do we have a property/function for that in LC? By the way, it's for Mac/Desktop only! (applescript client/server) Regards, Thierry

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Phil Davis
My sentiments exactly. Congratulations! Phil On 4/4/14, 9:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/4/14, 10:28 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. That's great! No one is better qualified. Congrats, Richard. -- Phil

Re: codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/2014 20:30, Richmond wrote: snip at which point I discovered a GENERAL FIELD PROBLEM with 7.0.dp 1 under UbuntuStudio 14.04 beta: snip Nipped over to Mac OS 10.6.7 [I love VMware, I love VMware, I love VMware] I found that the problem I mentioned with 7.0. dp 1 on Ub-Linux is

Re: Howto get the name of current Livecode process

2014-04-04 Thread Phil Davis
on mouseUp put way1() CR way2() into fld 1 end mouseUp function way1 set the itemDel to slash return / item 2 to -1 of last line of shell(ps the processID) end way1 function way2 set the itemDel to colon return item 2 to -1 of the address end way2 :-) Phil Davis On

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote: Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin. Congratulations and massive thanks to Richard. Lets all remember this is a volunteer position. Thats a credit to Richard's

Re: Howto get the name of current Livecode process

2014-04-04 Thread Thierry Douez
Thanks Phil, the address property was what I was looking for :) Thierry 2014-04-04 20:16 GMT+02:00 Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net: function way1 set the itemDel to slash return / item 2 to -1 of last line of shell(ps the processID) end way1 function way2 set the itemDel

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thank you Phil, and everyone else, for your generous words. I think Kevin's sigline says it all: LiveCode: Everyone can code With the new Community Edition, the vision so many of us have had of a world full of happy LiveCoders is now a more tangible possibility than ever before. In

Re: Howto get the name of current Livecode process

2014-04-04 Thread Phil Davis
Actually I re-read your email and it's easier than my first solutions. put the version CR revLicenseType() into fld 1 Phil On 4/4/14, 11:16 AM, Phil Davis wrote: on mouseUp put way1() CR way2() into fld 1 end mouseUp function way1 set the itemDel to slash return / item

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Thanks Richard for taking on this selfless service. It is a much needed role and will no doubt take Livecode forward big time Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote:

RE: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Ralph DiMola
Richard, Thanks for taking this responsibility This will no doubt help expand the LC universe. Good Luck Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf

Re: Howto get the name of current Livecode process

2014-04-04 Thread Thierry Douez
Actually I re-read your email and it's easier than my first solutions. put the version CR revLicenseType() into fld 1 Phil almost.. returns: 6.6.0 community Well, this is the one which does exactly what I need: function way3 get matchText( the address, /([^/]+?)\.app/,

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Dave Kilroy
Congratulations Richard, the LiveCode community is lucky to get you, I hope you enjoy what will undoubtedly be a lot of hard work - best of luck! Kind regards Dave - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior --

Re: codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 04/04/2014 18:47, Richmond wrote: So, checking out codepointProperty in the Dictionary [AND, I am very happy to say, the Dictionary seems more up-to-date than it has been for years] I read this: This function is not intended for general-purpose use; please use functions such as toUpper

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Wieder
J. Landman Gay jacque@... writes: That's great! No one is better qualified. Congrats, Richard. I think Richard is much better qualified than No one. Seriously, this is the next logical step in the FOSS process after the Kickstarter open-source drive. Richard has been spearheading the effort to

Re: codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/14 22:02, Fraser Gordon wrote: snip That note was really just to encourage people to look elsewhere in case they stumble across the entry when searching for uppercase or similar. Trying to uppercase a string using codepointProperty is likely to be significantly slower than using the

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/04/14 22:10, Mark Wieder wrote: J. Landman Gay jacque@... writes: That's great! No one is better qualified. Congrats, Richard. I think Richard is much better qualified than No one. Seriously, this is the next logical step in the FOSS process after the Kickstarter open-source drive.

Re: codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 04.04.2014, at 19:30, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why 'codepointProperty' is not for general-purpose use (it is stated without any explanation) as it looks an extremely useful tool . . . Richmond, your usage and expertise of unicode is way beyond general-purpose.

Re: occasional runaway control - anyone else seeing this?

2014-04-04 Thread Dave Kilroy
Well of course from my point of view all of you only exist in my head and the falling tree makes no sound if I'm not there :) Bob Sneidar-2 wrote I suspect that is what is doing this then. It’s invisible from your perspective, but I get a thread of all your replies and none of what others

RE: occasional runaway control - anyone else seeing this?

2014-04-04 Thread John Dixon
LOL... 'It's the voices... the voices in my head that made me do it'...:-) Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 14:47:57 -0700 From: d...@applicationinsight.com To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: occasional runaway control - anyone else seeing this? Well of course from my point of view all

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello y'all, Congratulations Richard. Good move, Kevin. :-) I would like to share hundreds of handlers I have developed over time (years). I will also want to share stacks I'm crafting to master certain features; revXML at this time. What is the best way to do this ? Btw, I may be asking some

RE: occasional runaway control - anyone else seeing this?

2014-04-04 Thread Dave Kilroy
We are such stuff / As dreams are made on, and our little life / Is rounded with a sleep. John Dixon wrote LOL... 'It's the voices... the voices in my head that made me do it'...:-) - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alain Farmer wrote: Hello y'all, Congratulations Richard. Good move, Kevin. :-) Thanks, Alain. I would like to share hundreds of handlers I have developed over time (years). I will also want to share stacks I'm crafting to master certain features; revXML at this time. What is the best way

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Wieder
I want to add that this announcement comes on the auspicious 20th anniversary of Fourth World's founding. So even more congratulations on 4/4/14. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: I want to add that this announcement comes on the auspicious 20th anniversary of Fourth World's founding. So even more congratulations on 4/4/14. Thank you, Mark. It did work out rather nicely with the timing. While Fourth World's 20th anniversary isn't quite as big a deal

Re: Formatted text in a field.

2014-04-04 Thread James Hale
Hi Mike, I am trying to use the pageranges technique but the ranges I am getting are larger than what is visibly being displayed within my field. The character 722 is actually not visible. Every word or line break character is invisible in a field. So I suspect that char 722 is

HTML CSS

2014-04-04 Thread Nakia Brewer
Hi All, Just wondering if there are any HTML /CSS oracle's among us? COPYRIGHT / DISCLAIMER: This message and/or including attached files may contain confidential proprietary or privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from using,

Re: HTML CSS

2014-04-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Did you mean HTML5/CSS3? Not sure that currently applies to LiveCod currently, but I’ve been looking into it with other tools. On Apr 4, 2014, at 9:57 PM, Nakia Brewer nakia.bre...@westrac.com.au wrote: Just wondering if there are any HTML /CSS oracle's among us?

Re: HTML CSS

2014-04-04 Thread Nakia Brewer
Yep understand it's non livecode. Just looking for someone who might be willing help me with a little Nav bar I need to build in HTML... Got it mostly working but just hit a hurdle I can't seem to overcome.. Sent from my iPhone On 5 Apr 2014, at 1:03 pm, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net

Re: HTML CSS

2014-04-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Wasn’t too worried about it being non-LC, just whether it’s ordinary HTML or HTML5. Lots of people here know HTML, hopefully someone can help. On Apr 4, 2014, at 10:13 PM, Nakia Brewer nakia.bre...@westrac.com.au wrote: Just looking for someone who might be willing help me with a little Nav

Re: HTML CSS

2014-04-04 Thread Nakia Brewer
Ordinary HTML. I will post it up when I get home to the computer... Probably an easy one for someone who knows HTML and CSS Sent from my iPhone On 5 Apr 2014, at 1:19 pm, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: Wasn’t too worried about it being non-LC, just whether it’s ordinary HTML or

Re: codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Björnke- Friday, April 4, 2014, 2:38:21 PM, you wrote: Richmond, your usage and expertise of unicode is way beyond general-purpose. Therefore you're hereby granted a certificate to use whatever you please, offered to you by the BvG heritage institute of you should already have known this.

Re: HTML CSS

2014-04-04 Thread stephen barncard
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 6:57 PM, Nakia Brewer nakia.bre...@westrac.com.auwrote: Just wondering if there are any HTML /CSS oracle's among us? you don't need one. read this recent blog post. Bootstrap may be your answer. http://livecode.com/blog/2014/03/19/better-faster-stronger/ *--* *Stephen