Re: silent fail of revDataFromQuery() in standalone; works in IDE

2014-05-25 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Richard, what does the function revOpenDatabase return? Is that function really successfully executed? Do you have any other handler in your script which traps the activity of the standalone builder and might prevent it to create a standalone with all needed information As i wrote before i ran

Numbering of development versions?

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
I see that both a DP4 and a DP5 for 7.0.0 have been made available: on installing DP5 it comes up saying it is DP4. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread Terence Heaford
I have noted this in the documentation for the resizeStack message: The resizeStack message is sent after the resizing is finished. This means that you cannot prevent a stack's size from being changed by trapping this message. If the stack's liveResizing property is true, resizeStack messages

Re: [ANN] Full justification for fields

2014-05-25 Thread John Craig
I've just uploaded 2 new versions. The first has a slight performance tweak (which fixes a bit of sloppy programming!) and may save a few cycles when processing larger amounts of text. The second upload uses the offset function instead of the charIndex property, so will will work with the

Re: ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread BNig
Hi Terence, try this, there may be other (better) ways to do this, I do it in variations of this code. put this code into the card script (or wherever) resize your stack and watch a field fRes you put on the current card for testing purposes -- on resizeStack -- do

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-25 Thread Peter Haworth
Only one card but regularly go to other stacks and back without losing the hilite . Pete lcSQL Software On May 25, 2014 2:58 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I don't know, I don't think I ever tried it in a non-toplevel stack. Does your modeless stack have more than one card

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Okay, that would explain it. The hilitedline is lost when the card containing the list changes. Switching stacks won't affect it because the card with the list doesn't change. On May 25, 2014 9:13:00 AM CDT, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Only one card but regularly go to other stacks

7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. 2. Still unable to put an insertion point into the search fields in the Dictionary and RevOnline. 3. Double-clicking on a control in the toolbar does nothing. 4. Unable to switch back and forth between Browse and Point except via the

Re: silent fail of revDataFromQuery() in standalone; works in IDE

2014-05-25 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 11:25 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: what does the function revOpenDatabase return? Is that function really successfully executed? Normally, on successful execution, it would return empty, and an error message if unsuccessful. Do

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:29 AM, Richmond wrote: Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. 2. Still unable to put an insertion point into the search fields in the Dictionary and RevOnline. 3. Double-clicking on a control in the toolbar does nothing. 4. Unable to switch back and forth

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 9:26:57 AM, you wrote: It shows the same build number in the About screen. You have to wonder exactly where the mixup is. If you're going to follow Richmond into the deep end of the pool, you might want to build the source from the development branch. Either

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/05/14 19:52, Mark Wieder wrote: Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 9:26:57 AM, you wrote: It shows the same build number in the About screen. You have to wonder exactly where the mixup is. If you're going to follow Richmond into the deep end of the pool, you might want to build the source

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: or wait for an actual release announcement. Mark, If we assume this is a mislabeled dp4, I suppose it's possible there are problems resolved in the actual dp5 that we can't experience just yet, but the issues he's talking about here have plagued

7.0.0 dp 5 Serial Communications fail

2014-05-25 Thread Camm
Hi , Serial Communications seems to be broke in 7.0.0 dp 5 , noticed this was listed as bug fix ? Regards Camm ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread Terence Heaford
Thanks for your assistance. Clearly, using resizeStack is not as straightforward as first thought. I have just tried this handler in the card script: on resizeStack tWidth,tHeight put tWidth , tHeight end resizeStack It returned 1590,972 In the stack property inspector the stack width is

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/05/14 20:56, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/25/2014 11:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: or wait for an actual release announcement. Mark, If we assume this is a mislabeled dp4, I suppose it's possible there are problems resolved in the actual dp5 that we can't experience just yet, but the

Re: ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread Paul Hibbert
Terence, Could it be + 22 pixels for the stack menu? Paul On 2014-05-25, at 11:06 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com wrote: on resizeStack tWidth,tHeight put tWidth , tHeight end resizeStack It returned 1590,972 In the stack property inspector the stack width is 1590 (as

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 25/05/2014 16:29, Richmond wrote: Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. Mea cupla! As we spent Friday working on bugfixes for the Global Jam, we wanted to get out a new release of 7 as soon as possible as quite a few bugs were resolved. Unfortunately, coming at the end of the

Re: ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread Terence Heaford
Yes, Your probably right but only working on a a Mac so don’t think of such things. If you are developing on windows resizeStack should return 972 and 972 should show in the property inspector? If you are developing on mac resizeStack should return 950 and 950 should show in the property

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 10:29:02 AM, you wrote: Kevin made the release announcement for 7.0.0 dp 5 in his pre Q A blurb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq2BNghE9yc so the cat is out of the bag. Without wanting to spend a Sunday watching an hour of Kevin in order to find out what

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 10:56:30 AM, you wrote: If we assume this is a mislabeled dp4, ...which was also not announced... -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Fraser- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 11:16:51 AM, you wrote: We also intend to supply 64-bit Linux builds in the near future. I look forward to being able to build those again. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security

[ANN] DGH 2.0 is released - Open source

2014-05-25 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear List Members and DGH Users, DGH is now available under the AGPL license with an optional commercial license available. DGH engine improved: - DGH is now using improved codes for building properties topics, help topics and for generating ready to use scripts. - The editors for managing

Re: ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/05/14 21:06, Terence Heaford wrote: Thanks for your assistance. Clearly, using resizeStack is not as straightforward as first thought. I have just tried this handler in the card script: on resizeStack tWidth,tHeight put tWidth , tHeight end resizeStack It returned 1590,972 In

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/05/14 21:16, Fraser Gordon wrote: On 25/05/2014 16:29, Richmond wrote: Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. Mea cupla! As we spent Friday working on bugfixes for the Global Jam, we wanted to get out a new release of 7 as soon as possible as quite a few bugs were resolved.

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/05/14 21:55, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 10:29:02 AM, you wrote: Kevin made the release announcement for 7.0.0 dp 5 in his pre Q A blurb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq2BNghE9yc so the cat is out of the bag. Without wanting to spend a Sunday watching an hour

Vector Graphics

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
I have recently found that Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/en/ does a fantastic job tracing bitmap images and converting them into vector graphics. It uses, as far as I know, something called 'potrace' [not, I assume, a marathon run by large-scale cannabis users]:

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 01:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...which was also not announced... With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. The fact that there is a public link on the LiveCode site to downloads of versions

Re: ResizeStack message

2014-05-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/05/14 22:18, Richmond wrote: On 25/05/14 21:06, Terence Heaford wrote: Thanks for your assistance. Clearly, using resizeStack is not as straightforward as first thought. I have just tried this handler in the card script: on resizeStack tWidth,tHeight put tWidth , tHeight end

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5 Serial Communications fail

2014-05-25 Thread Dar Scott
What was fixed was a write bug. That bug made it hard to examine other serial bugs. I am guessing there is an ‘until empty' vs ‘until EOF' issue with severe kinds of communication in 7, not just serial. I have seen indications of other bugs that I have not tracked down yet. With write

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5 Serial Communications fail

2014-05-25 Thread Dar Scott
If you are reading ‘until empty’, try a timeout. The timeout is probably fixed. On May 25, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Camm cam...@tesco.net wrote: Hi , Serial Communications seems to be broke in 7.0.0 dp 5 , noticed this was listed as bug fix ? Regards Camm

Re: Vector Graphics

2014-05-25 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond I have recently found that Inkscape: http://www.inkscape.org/en/ does a fantastic job tracing bitmap images and converting them into vector graphics. It uses, as far as I know, something called 'potrace' [not, I assume, a marathon run by large-scale cannabis users]:

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/25/2014, 1:25 PM, Terence Heaford wrote: Is there a reason why the hilitedLine is lost when switching between cards? I don't know. The loss doesn't always happen though. If the list field is part of a group with background behavior and it has sharedtext set to true, the hilite is

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:31:34 PM, you wrote: With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. Ah, ok... maybe I missed something here. You're saying there was a version that was released but wasn't announced

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:31:34 PM, you wrote: With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. Ah, ok... maybe I missed something here. You're saying there was a

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
That's what the dp and rc designations are for, but it would probably be more clear if there was a statement on the page explaining what those mean, along with appropriate caveats. Final releases should be clearly marked as stable. On May 25, 2014 11:05:33 PM CDT, Warren Samples

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That's what the dp and rc designations are for, but it would probably be more clear if there was a statement on the page explaining what those mean, along with appropriate caveats. Final releases should be clearly marked as stable. We're

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 9:05:33 PM, you wrote: There was recently a version announced on one list which I did not see announced on the other. It struck me as odd. I don't remember which That's what I thought. This urban legend has been batted around lately. Time to put it to rest. Here