I've come up with a set of tests to use to compare different languages Unicode
capabilities. I call them the Unicode Out Of The Box Tests. At the moment
Apple's Cocoa Objective-C is the top scorer with 15 out of 15. Livecode
scores 12 out of 15.
Despite what the scores seem to tell, the team
Devin-
The contextual menu that pops up when you right-click on a control is
different from the one that pops up when you right-click a stack,
which is different from the one that pops up in the Application
Browser, which is different from the one that pops up in the Project
Browser.
Drives. Me.
Hi Richard
Not sure if this would work - creating a daemon from a shell script and
using the ps (or top) command to monitor and output everything for the
livecode cgi process to text file, that you can then examine.
- Simon
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 5:54 PM, Richard Gaskin
On 15 May 2014, at 07:01, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote:
I've come up with a set of tests to use to compare different languages
Unicode capabilities. I call them the Unicode Out Of The Box Tests. At the
moment Apple's Cocoa Objective-C is the top scorer with 15 out of 15.
This is exciting news:
On 15 May 2014, at 7:25 pm, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@runrev.com wrote:
The hint I wrote shows how to do proper case conversions (i.e don't use
toupper and tolower - they don't take language-specific rules into account).
We do expect to add these into the engine
It is very easy with pure LiveCode.
Just set itemDelimiter to }” to extract the JSON elements, strip {
-characters from those, look what you need to use as the next itemDelimiter and
do it again. Then move to array.
It probably takes less that 10 lines of code.
This is the way I have done it
Just reporting that I have had success with Andre's Facebook Lib in a
commercial product. Got it working on the Window's side as well, which
was initially a bit more challenging. And we received the necessary
approvals from Facebook..
Thanks, Andre!
Richard Miller
On 5/3/14, 8:58 PM,
On 15 May 2014, at 8:47 pm, Pyyhtiä Christer chris...@mindcrea.com wrote:
Just set itemDelimiter to }” to extract the JSON elements, strip {
-characters from those, look what you need to use as the next itemDelimiter
and do it again. Then move to array.
It probably takes less that 10
Thanks for the responses folks. Keep them coming, and I'll post a summary.
Here's another one of mine:
Names of blendLevel inks: Whaaa? What do those things even mean?
Devin
Devin Asay
Office of Digital Humanities
Brigham Young University
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Try resizing something, or using the alignment tools.
I just ran into this, again, this week, when I was trying to fix a vertical
line. The line is too short, so I changed the length. The line
lengthened, UPWARD. So I then changed the top of the line, thinking that
would help me except the
And another:
If you have your lappie hooked to two monitors at work, and you use both
monitors, and then you go home, guess what happens to windows, especially
on a Mac, where you are using multiple workspaces? That's right, the
windows, even the LC development windows, are off-screen somewhere
Whoops! Wait, a second, here's another:
The locked of the properties palette for each object is separate and
persistent. This is really great when you are working with a component or
object that is installed by another developer, and want to look at two of
the developer's objects side-by-side
On May 15, 2014, at 9:12 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Devin Asay wrote:
Thanks for the responses folks. Keep them coming, and I'll post a summary.
It may be helpful if you'd post your summary to the IDE Contributors Forum:
Devin Asay wrote:
Thanks for the responses folks. Keep them coming, and I'll post a summary.
It may be helpful if you'd post your summary to the IDE Contributors Forum:
http://forums.runrev.com/viewforum.php?f=67
Here's another one of mine:
Names of blendLevel inks: Whaaa? What do those
On May 15, 2014, at 9:16 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com
wrote:
Whoops! Wait, a second, here's another:
The locked of the properties palette for each object is separate and
persistent. This is really great when you are working with a component or
object that is installed by
Mike, this is the part that I don't get about open source... yet. I guess we
don't have the community structures to handle it.
I mean, I've made that (free) plugin to handle this specific problem. lcMover
moves stacks/windows around, whether they are off-screen or not. I even added
an option
There's a small view of two overlapping images at the bottom of the inspector
that shows what the ink will do.
The names of the inks are the same as the ones that Photoshop and many other
image processing programs use, so that's a tough call. Specialists might
complain if they are changed.
On May 15, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Charles E Buchwald char...@buchwald.ca wrote:
Mike, this is the part that I don't get about open source... yet. I guess we
don't have the community structures to handle it.
I mean, I've made that (free) plugin to handle this specific problem.
lcMover moves
On May 15, 2014, at 10:00 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
There's a small view of two overlapping images at the bottom of the inspector
that shows what the ink will do.
Well, I'll be d**ned. How many times have I looked at that, and it never
registered until now. What
I have received the following rejection notice from Apple for my Football
Statistics application.
The problem is that I neither have any contacts features or call any
contacts functions or APIs in this application. Is there some flag I am
missing in the build process that is adding a contacts API
On 15/05/14 17:42, Devin Asay wrote:
Thanks for the responses folks. Keep them coming, and I'll post a summary.
Here's another one of mine:
Names of blendLevel inks: Whaaa? What do those things even mean?
Yes: a set of names that had some sort of connexion with the effects
produced
would
This one might be just me.
It is awkward to move off the keyboard while editing a script to hover over a
control in the Object Inspector waiting for it to take so I can see the name of
the property.
On May 15, 2014, at 8:42 AM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote:
Thanks for the responses
It's persistent between launches of LC.
The case in question is dealing with the dataGrid, because there are issues
with the DG, which I detailed in a bug report that I filed this week, in
particular related to resizing a header. Because a DG is an amalgam of
numerous LC objects, issues can
Charles,
I was not aware of your add-on. Your add-on, like numerous other add-ons,
have not made it to the collective consciousness, yet. That's exactly why
we're talking about taking the revOnline project broader and trying to get
it organized and improved, so that it becomes a catalog of
Most of the LC-coded portions of LC are not part of GitHub. This also
includes dataGrids, which have several issues I discovered earlier in the
week.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:07 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote:
On May 15, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Charles E Buchwald char...@buchwald.ca
I’d call this one more than an oddity. This is a bug. It goes along with the
one about how no window can be higher than the icon bar even if it is on a
display placed high and the bar is not even on that display.
Dar
On May 15, 2014, at 9:23 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote:
+1
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote:
This one might be just me.
It is awkward to move off the keyboard while editing a script to hover
over a control in the Object Inspector waiting for it to take so I can see
the name of the property.
On May 15, 2014, at
OK, so what do we have to do, as a community of users, to get RevOnline working
again? This seems like a good way to encourage and coordinate community
participation. Particularly so because we are talking about LC code, outside of
the GitHub ecosystem, and outside of the IDE. And because it's
Look at the [Off] Cool Plugins thread.
--
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the second day, God created the oceans.
On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,
and did a little diving.
And God said, This is good.
Richard is heading up this effort. It is being discussed in another
thread. Volunteers have been...volunteering.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Charles E Buchwald char...@buchwald.cawrote:
OK, so what do we have to do, as a community of users, to get RevOnline
working again? This seems
yawn/ wow. I ignore a thread and this happens, lol.
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.comwrote:
Forget I wrote that... after seeing the other responses.
Best,
Steve
On May 14, 2014, at 9:41 PM, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.com
wrote:
Hi
Folks:
I’m doing a lot of moving objects around on the screen. I find that it’s super
cumbersome and generates a load of code. It would be really nice if there could
be more compact operations.
For example:
put pt1 + pt2 into sumofPts
2,3 + 5,6 would result in 7,9
or
put rect1 + pt1 into
Charles wrote:
OK, so what do we have to do, as a community of users, to get
RevOnline working again?
Fix it. :)
My Community meeting this morning with Ben focused almost exclusively on
RevOnline.
It's true that LiveCode is inherently problematic to attempt to
integrate into tools like
On May 15, 2014, at 2:28 PM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org
wrote:
Folks:
I’m doing a lot of moving objects around on the screen. I find that it’s
super cumbersome and generates a load of code. It would be really nice if
there could be more compact operations.
For example:
Thanks Ralph.
My fundamental problem was that I was not using the “Copy Files” tab. I
incorrectly assumed that since they were all listed on the “Stacks” tab they
would have been copied. This does not appear to be the case.
Regards,
Mike
On May 12, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Ralph DiMola
This is similar to a discussion I had earlier this week about fixing the
issues I found in DataGrid.
However, what do we do about OnRev, especially if we are going to work on
it as a group of sorts?
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Richard Gaskin
ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote:
Charles
Mike, I did follow the whole [Off] Cool Plugins thread. I was a bit
disappointed that it kind of petered out after several people expressed an
interest in helping. I did propose that the forum for plugins and extensions be
split in two. My thought being that developing either is very different
Mike, I did follow the whole [Off] Cool Plugins thread. I was a bit
disappointed that it kind of petered out after several people expressed an
interest in helping. I did propose that the forum for plugins and extensions be
split in two. My thought being that developing either is very different
On 15/05/2014 21:29, Richard Gaskin wrote:
As an example of this workflow in action, we have a simple fix here:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11493
Since the code change is comprised of adding only five characters to a
comparison string and can be easily seen in the Message Box,
Mike Kerner wrote:
This is similar to a discussion I had earlier this week about fixing the
issues I found in DataGrid.
I think I missed something. Did you submit fixes with those? If you
did, please add a FIX: prefix to the report titled so they can be flagged.
However, what do we do
Well, always good to anticipate future-proofing. :)
On another note, as I promised you last week I did ask Ben if RunRev
planned on open-sourcing the On-Rev real-time debugger. He's not sure
and will check with Kevin, but he did confirm my hunch that it requires
specific sockets open on the
On 16 May 2014, at 8:34 am, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
On another note, as I promised you last week I did ask Ben if RunRev planned
on open-sourcing the On-Rev real-time debugger. He's not sure and will check
with Kevin, but he did confirm my hunch that it requires
Charles E Buchwald wrote:
Mike, I did follow the whole [Off] Cool Plugins thread. I was a
bit disappointed that it kind of petered out after several people
expressed an interest in helping.
I wouldn't be too disappointed. Things ebb and flow; we all have many
things to do. But two very
On 5/15/14, 12:59 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
It is awkward to move off the keyboard while editing a script to
hover over a control in the Object Inspector waiting for it to take
so I can see the name of the property.
You can select go the the General pane in preferences, look for
Property labels
Devin:
Tnx for the hint. But, I am doing a lot of adding points and putting various
vertices of rects at specific points. and it occurred to me that just being
able to add points to get the resultant point and that adding a point to a rect
could move the rect by the amount of the point, and
On 5/15/14, 10:35 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
The locked of the properties palette for each object is separate and
persistent.
From what I can see, cards and stacks selected from the app browser
will open a locked inspector (anything in the left-hand pane.) Objects
on a card (anything in the
Thanks for your considered and thorough answer, Richard.
As a footnote, I posted another little plugin I made. I've been working with
HTML a lot, and the itch I've been scratching with it is having to switch
between HTMLtext and styledText, and sometimes look up LC-legal HTML entities.
The
Yeah, I was aware of that, but never tried it. I’m afraid I’d get very
confused. I should be brave.
Also, I’m greedy and want both. I’ll try what you suggest and see if that is
too greedy.
Dar
Dar Scott Consulting
d...@swcp.com
Helping LiveCode programers with Externals and Libraries
On
Devin Asay wrote
[snip]
Yes, I agree that sometimes concepts are too complex to describe in a
short, neat label. But in the interface, perhaps the menu could show the
effect of the ink visually, or maybe there could be a help button that
would pop up a list explaining the inks in simple
Thank you for correcting me. I was merely looking into the example provided,
and indeed proposed a simplified solution. And further I was ignoring that as
any of the standard ways of representing data expand, there won't be a
generalized way of sorting those out (for example vCARDS). And I
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Cheers
Monte
On 2 May 2014, at 10:46 am, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote:
Hi Folks
You're right, the results aren't predictable, as you've seen, since
object-level effects are modified when compounded by an effect applied to
a containing group. Color sometimes plays factor too.
But realistically, there aren't that many results that are useful.
Generally, I've found the
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