On 24/07/14 23:51, stephen barncard wrote:
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 9:35 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks for quick and comprehensible answer!
It would be quite a good thing if that were explicitly explained
somewhere,
The Dictionary, perhaps?
years ago, there was a
Hi Skip,
If you are adventurous, here is a Perl module
to do the job:
http://search.cpan.org/~sgoeldner/BTRIEVE-FileIO-0.05/FileIO.pm
Regards,
Thierry
Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com
Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage
2014-07-25
On 24/07/14 23:51, stephen barncard wrote:
snip
years ago, there was a Datagrid type control for REV (before the actual
Datagrid was possible through changes in the engine).
snip
The datagrid we all know and love (possibly 'lurve' might be better
here) was
introduced in version 3.5.0.
Richmond
That's probably because it was a Field with the Table properties set.
I found that out by taking a look at Bernd's stack which was referred to
earlier.
Regards
Peter
On 25 Jul 2014, at 16:22, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24/07/14 23:51, stephen barncard wrote:
Hi Graham,
Once in a while, Apple filters out my (and others') e-mails without
returning an error message. I've heard that people who send an e-mail to
me first, are able to receive my replied on their Apple account, but I
don't know if that's true. Apparently, it works now.
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On 25/07/14 14:03, Peter W A Wood wrote:
Richmond
That's probably because it was a Field with the Table properties set.
I found that out by taking a look at Bernd's stack which was referred to
earlier.
Regards
Peter
Well that is very much still a feature, and I'm not going to bother
Hi everyone,
After I got some feedback, I decided to create another version of the
emulated button. This button is 24 pixels high instead of 28 pixels.
It is available to everyone who has made a donation in the past year.
You can find it here http://qery.us/9w8 I didn't add a version number
This is my first speech here, it's more a (slightly provocative) plea.
I'm now 18 months with LC, at about one year participating LC's forum. In the
last weeks I sometimes looked in here. There are very interesting and high
level threads in this club of since-the-early-days-of-MC-users-corner.
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark side.
But what do you suggest? Merging? Discarding one in favor of the other, to
provide only a single venue for LC discussion?
There was a poll taken a year or two ago about which forum was the most
favorite among the helpers. You have sort of voted for
On 25/07/14 16:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark side.
But what do you suggest? Merging? Discarding one in favor of the other, to
provide only a single venue for LC discussion?
There was a poll taken a year or two ago about which forum was the most
favorite
Hi Craig,
But what do you suggest?
To integrate the use-list into the forum, in its own first level sub-forum.
There is an RSS option available, yields pretty much the same 'news'-effects.
Hermann
On 25 Jul 2014, at 15:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Hello, Hermann.
Welcome to the dark
Richmond.
The only thing that matters to me is that new users be able to find and
participate in a forum of any kind at all. If two separate ones throws a
wider net, I am for it.
That said, I think two forums dilute the interchange of ideas. So I am with
Hermann on that score, to create a
Hi Klaus,
the only wrong thing with this are the main syntax-lines in dictionary's entry
for name. These should read
get the [long | abbr[ev[iated] | short] name of object
set the name of object to shortName
But the description is clear:
get the name of obj yields the *abbrev* name of obj
set
Richmond,
you certaily don't want that coffee or tea determine who's talking with whom.
Hermann
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Hi Herrmann,
Am 25.07.2014 um 16:53 schrieb hh h...@livecode.org:
Hi Klaus,
the only wrong thing with this are the main syntax-lines in dictionary's
entry for name. These should read
get the [long | abbr[ev[iated] | short] name of object
set the name of object to shortName
But the
I have a script which opens a user-chosen stack then grabs some information
about the stack. All works fine unless the opened stack has a runtime
error somewhere in it's preOpenxxx or Openxxx handlers, in which case
execution stops and the statements after open stack in my script are never
On 25/07/14 17:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Richmond.
The only thing that matters to me is that new users be able to find and participate in a
forum of any kind at all. If two separate ones throws a wider net, I am for
it.
That said, I think two forums dilute the interchange of ideas. So I
On 25/07/2014 16:24, Richmond wrote (my emphasis added):
From my point of view the *only thing that is an advantage* of the
Use-List is that messages come sequentially: one doesn't have to keep
hunting through the sections of the Forums to find out
whether new posting are there.
What more
hh wrote:
This is my first speech here
Very glad to see you here. I figured you'd wind up here sooner or later. :)
Let's find a way to come closer in the community, to come together,
right now. Why not make an Insider's corner in the forum?
I'm not opposed, but given that newcomers
I've said it before and I'll say it again:
I wish RunRev would allow me to add MY OWN notes to the Dictionary.
That way, when I read something useful here or discover some workaround on
my own, I can add it how I want to the IDE dictionary and not have to try
and remember where I last read it
Alex Tweedly wrote:
It's beyond me how anyone can be bothered with the forums (which makes
me wonder if what I need for the forums is a Forums for Dummies guide).
How do you tell which forums and/or which topics have posts you haven't
read yet ?
How do you tell which forums and/or which topics
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
If I could solve those questions then I might have a chance of sticking to
using the forums for more than a couple of days. The topic comes up ever so
often, I go look at the forums, see ow much good stuff there is in there,
Dear List Members.
We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7 DP6.
The LiveCode community and our test team have been working hard to test and
report bugs against the latest builds. Thank you once again for your
support. To give you an insight into the past week we’ve seen:
Bugs
larry wrote:
I've said it before and I'll say it again: I wish RunRev would allow
me to add MY OWN notes to the Dictionary.
I've said it before* and I'll say it again:
I wish anyone here wanted this sort of notebook badly enough to just
write it as a plugin.
I appreciate your submitting an
Thank you Richard for the information.
If I had the knowledge, I'd write the plugin myself and just give it away.
But I've never had any formal programming training.
The thing that I LOVE about LiveCode the most is that it is such an easy way
for a person to learn programming concepts AND fairly
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps make
Revolution easier to use.
Now the question I cannot
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps make
Revolution easier to use.
Now the
On 25/07/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps
On 25/07/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the Revolution dictionary is easy and helps
On 7/25/2014, 11:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
To download for offline reading see Jacque's helpful tip on setting up
email subscription for the entire forum:
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2014-June/202871.html
It's a stopgap solution that I use daily, but even so it doesn't
On 25/07/14 20:47, Richmond wrote:
On 25/07/14 20:27, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
I just had a look at the Dictionary [6.6.2] and clicked on about
notes
and got a window/stack called Popup Help and had this
in a sort of red-wine mixed with milk colour:
Contributing notes to the
This is an ongoing problem that has persisted ever sine the start of the
Community versions.
On start up the revTools.rev palette loads in the center of one's
monitor right below the revMenubar.rev
stack rather than off to one side. Because of the nature of the revTools
drag bar it is
Hi Hermann:
Jacque summed up the issue well, as has been done many times. Her points
explain why many of us choose to participate more on this list, rather
than the forums -- none of the reasons have to do with exclusivity or
knowing veteran developers.
What's funny is, forum users have often
Monte recently helped me with a shell task by reminding me that I can
use this for asynchronously calling another process:
open tSomeProcessCommand for neither
Useful enough, but the syntax kinda bugs me.
When you read the full Dictionary entry for open process it kinda
makes sense, but it
Don't read, don't write, don't wait for it. Perhaps for neither could
be changed into without waiting. Definitely not asynchronously,
because that frightens new users. We should do anything we can to keep
the language as accessible as possible.
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Mark Schonewille
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=21174
Richmond.
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Only works with a Brit accent though. ;-)
On 25 July 2014 20:49, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=21174
Richmond.
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On 25/07/14 22:50, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
Only works with a Brit accent though. ;-)
Ah don't quite jalouse what you're ettlin eftir,
and what's a Brit accent [mair til the point,
what's a Brit?].
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Richard Gaskin wrote
Monte recently helped me with a shell task by reminding me that I can
use this for asynchronously calling another process:
open tSomeProcessCommand for neither
Useful enough, but the syntax kinda bugs me.
I am not in front of a Linux computer to test
this command,
I need to use the formattedHeight of data for calculations of slzes as I
lay out forms
I have the sequence of
lock messages
push card
open invisible (long id of source card here)
pop card
unlock messages
to insure that the necessary card is open.
This results, though, in my main
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
What more advantage does anyone need ?
It's beyond me how anyone can be bothered with the forums (which makes me
wonder if what I need for the forums is a Forums for Dummies guide).
Yes.
Listserves and usenet on the one
Sounds good to me Richard although Jacque did get a bee in her bonnet when we
started adding adjectives to the language last year (globally, recursively) ;-)
Personally I think all IO should at least have an asynchronous option similar
to sockets so there should be a `with message` option on
On 26/07/14 00:35, Monte Goulding wrote:
Sounds good to me Richard although Jacque did get a bee in her bonnet when we
started adding adjectives to the language last year (globally, recursively) ;-)
Those are adverbs.
Richmond.
Personally I think all IO should at least have an
On 26 Jul 2014, at 7:45 am, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:
Those are adverbs.
That's what I meant.. I haven't had a coffee yet ;-)
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[Alex wrote:] So - is there a beginner's guide?
See below, the short paragraph to RSS Reader. This is faster than your Browser
and faster than your Mailer and answers all your (ironic) questions leading to
this question. After what I've seen from you, I know you'll need at most 5
minutes of
hh wrote:
[Richard H. wrote:] Listserves and usenet on the one hand, and web
fora on the other, are completely different creatures.
No, some of the users are. It's sometimes just another kind of
thinking, of being ready or not for changes.
I like the spirit of adventure in that last line.
[Richard wrote:] ;)
Is the first tutorial of the new WebKit (about that) already work in progress,
or are they waiting until HTML5 is running?
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Richmond.
You are on Windows? On my several Macs, the tools palette always loads where I
last left it, always at the topleft of my screens.
Craig
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To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Fri, Jul 25,
Richard,
Isn't this what your code says? You push your main card, go to the source card,
and then go back to main, no?
Craig
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Sent: Fri, Jul 25, 2014 5:13 pm
Subject: getting
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=21174
Richmond.
spit out my coffee
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On 7/25/2014, 4:35 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
Sounds good to me Richard although Jacque did get a bee in her bonnet
when we started adding adjectives to the language last year
(globally, recursively) ;-)
Adverb or adjective, I will continue to not make you any sandwiches if
you add ly.
Recently I tested a lot with colors and color models, had no problems with
that, but different results on an somewhat older LCD. May be this is a problem
of your display (or it's calibration)? Some displays appear to be 'darker' at
top 20%.
Did you try to compare this effect with a tool like
Pete-
Friday, July 25, 2014, 8:18:12 AM, you wrote:
Any ideas of how to have my script continue AND have the opened stack
script error show up?
This is a limitation of the built-in debugger.
coughPowerDebug/cough doesn't fall into this trap and allows you
to do what you'd like to do.
Well in that case I'd better propose an alternative. Having had some caffeine I
am now awake enough to recognize that 'for neither' is completely redundant.
Just drop it off and the statement makes perfect sense.
Cheers
Monte
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Monte-
Friday, July 25, 2014, 6:33:53 PM, you wrote:
Well in that case I'd better propose an alternative. Having had
some caffeine I am now awake enough to recognize that 'for neither'
is completely redundant. Just drop it off and the statement makes
perfect sense.
Bingo! Caffeine to the
Hermann-
Friday, July 25, 2014, 3:31:09 PM, you wrote:
[Scott wrote:] It goes both ways. Jacque (and Richard) have
explained how this is sort of possible.
The collected mailing lists are one way but -- for me -- very
nasty. I can read very fast, but it's also very hard to filter out
Monte Goulding wrote:
Having had some caffeine I am now awake enough to recognize that
'for neither' is completely redundant. Just drop it off and the
statement makes perfect sense.
i thought some sort of default came into play without further modifiers, no?
What happens now when you call
Richard-
Friday, July 25, 2014, 7:18:12 PM, you wrote:
i thought some sort of default came into play without further modifiers, no?
What happens now when you call it with no modifiers?
I thought Monte was suggesting this as an enhancement?
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On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote:
I rarely venture onto the web forum, and when I do it's a pretty
shallow overview of recent activity in selected topics.
I want to play with the big kids too. Don't like the web based thing
either.
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On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 5:45 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:
Those are adverbs.
When Richmond corrects our English I can't help but think of this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc
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Richard-
Friday, July 25, 2014, 7:18:12 PM, you wrote:
i thought some sort of default came into play without further modifiers, no?
What happens now when you call it with no modifiers?
I thought Monte was suggesting this as an enhancement?
He was, but as I wrote I
Richard-
Friday, July 25, 2014, 8:36:17 PM, you wrote:
Should I submit a Dictionary bug to have this simpler less silly form
documented?
Weird... silly is an adjective that ends in ly. I suppose it's in
the same boat with jolly, portly, and unseemly. I don't think I
would want to be in that
On 7/25/2014, 10:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Well, I just tested it and it seems that the defaults it uses are
exactly what's been proposed here.
Oh, I do so love happy endings. :)
And now I don't have to ship Monte a corned beef on rye.
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On 26 Jul 2014, at 2:09 pm, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
On 7/25/2014, 10:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Well, I just tested
I'm with Jacque on this one, i just don't have the bandwidth; neither
mental or telecom.
On a news report last night they said that 50% of the world's
population have never made or received a phone call. Personally I
don't believe that but I can make up a statistic that confirms that
most people
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