Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 7:27 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > > Thanks Mike! I don't think the docs could have been any muddier. ;) We are happy to accept pull requests on the docs Roger if you can think or a way/where to clarify it. It seems more of a fundamental

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465 Cheers ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Only one navigation bar widget?

Monte: Will do. I had the first card with two navigation widgets on it, one in a group and another not in one. A second card had the grouped widget and another one to do ops on that card. Monte, by the time I got back to my email, I had made a workaround, but I did make a test stack with a

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:35 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:15 AM, Roger Eller > > wrote: >> >> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465 >>

Re: Waiting for the train

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > My preference is the send in time as shown by paul. I don't think that it's even a matter of "preference" for what Richmond is trying to do: even though messages can fly about, being stopped on a line of code will block

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:15 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465 > Thanks for that report. It addresses the example in the mouseUp docs but I still feel there’s a deeper

Re: Japanese (unicode?) text problem

Thank you. All of those worked. -- Nicolas Cueto On 21 September 2016 at 15:08, AndyP wrote: > or > > put url tUrl into tTextToDecode > put uniDecode(tTextToDecode,”Japanese") into field “indices" > > > > > > - > Andy Piddock > > > My software never has bugs. It

The Achilles heel of Android and iOS

The neck-breaking speed of their hardware obsolescence (planned or not) is the Achilles heel of Android and iOS... Take a look of these eye opening charts: https://priceonomics.com/phones/ http://blog.musicmagpie.co.uk/2016/06/10/how-quickly-does-your-phone-fall-in-value/ Buying a NEW PHONE or

Re: ANN: new glx2 script editor now on line

On 09/22/2016 12:09 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: It doesn't appear to be hiding. I thought that, too. It also doesn't appear in the list of windows, but I haven't checked the PB to see if it's just misbehaving in multiple ways. And we're talking about OSX el cap or whatever 11 is Interesting. Did

Only one navigation bar widget?

Folks: I was trying to use a second navigation bar widget on my app, to control various functions. But, it looks like only a single nav bar is recognized in the simulator. Is there a way to have more than one of those useful widgets, or am I limited to a single one? Best, Bill William

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

I've purged all of my own settings and 7.1.4, and reinstalled. It hasn't made a difference, and still refers to 6.6 community. I've tried opening in 8.1, and am getting the error executing internal 3:04:10 PM Type Handler: can't find handler Object revbackscriptlibrary Line send

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > > On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:15 AM, Roger Eller > wrote: > > > > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465 < > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465> > Thanks for that

Re: Fast way to retrieve a range of data

Thank you, Mike. -- Nicolas Cueto On 21 September 2016 at 11:31, Mike Bonner wrote: > This should be pretty fast if I understand your criteria well enough.. > > put field "yourfield" into tData > filter lines of tData with ("2" & tab & 54 & tab & "*") > > On Tue, Sep 20,

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

On 09/22/2016 03:39 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Possibly. But I learned long ago to never assume even the most basic knowledge because "brain-farts" are a real problem. ;) Very much agreed. But this isn't a problem with the mouseUp handler per se. When you declare a handler ("on xxx" or

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On 09/22/2016 01:24 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: global gRevDevelopment; put true into gRevDevelopment Unfortunately, it's not getting me there. one of the problems with setting gRevDevelopment to true is that you expose yourself to bugs and unremoved breakpoints in the IDE stacks. With the

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

If the syntax example had been pWhichBtn instead of mouseButtonNumber, I "might" have recognized it as a parameter. On Sep 22, 2016 8:26 PM, "Mark Wieder" wrote: > On 09/22/2016 03:39 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > > Possibly. But I learned long ago to never assume even the

Re: Only one navigation bar widget?

Jackie: Not sure I did. But I’ll check and get back. I think (but I’m not at work time now) that I just let the widgets take the default name they had when I dragged them onto the stack. Bill > On Sep 22, 2016, at 8:33 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Did you give each

iOS font issue - iPhone 6 + 6S not using custom font

Has anyone else seen a custom font (imported using the Copy Files part of Standalone builder) not being used in iPhone 6 and 6S, but it works ok with anything earlier? This is on Simulator 8.2. Strange that there's this anomaly, isn't it? Using LC 8.1. cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse

Re: Only one navigation bar widget?

Did you give each widget a different name? On 9/22/16 6:52 PM, William Prothero wrote: I had the first card with two navigation widgets on it, one in a group and another not in one. A second card had the grouped widget and another one to do ops on that card. Monte, by the time I got back to my

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

Ah ha. The insertion point must be INSIDE a handler and only re-indents that handler when you press TAB If the insertion point is between handlers or outside of any handler, nothing happens. Ok, tab is useful, but something that reformatted ALL handlers in a script would be even better. Not

Re: Waiting for the train

Yeah, if you want to use wait.. wait 18000 is blocking wait 18000 with messages is not blocking My preference is the send in time as shown by paul. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:33 PM, Richmond wrote: > You Rock: > > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=27986 >

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

The parameter is passed on, not set by you. To do what you want it would be more like on mouseup pvar if pvar is 3 then do stuff end if end mouseup On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:11 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > The script editor won't compile a mouseUp handler with 1 2

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

Thanks Mike! I don't think the docs could have been any muddier. ;) ~Roger On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > The parameter is passed on, not set by you. To do what you want it would > be more like > > on mouseup pvar > if pvar is 3 then > do stuff >

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

Thanks for the link to LTI. I am interested in a technology that could integrate my LiveCode app into LMS's. I think that Tin-Can API or the ExperienceAPI (xAPI) were also developed as a successor to SCORM to address its shortcomings. https://experienceapi.com/history/ They list a number of

Re: Difficulty with Load command

Hi Peter, Have a look at this lesson, its a very clear example of how Load works. The dictionary entry is not very helpful for Load.

Malte Brill stack

I found it! :D The tutorial I was looking for is a chapter within the MS Windows executable Program named: Derbrill Tutorials. Many thanks again for pointing this quest in the correct direction :) Have a nice weekend! Alejandro ___ use-livecode

Re: Difficulty with Load command

Thanks Andy, you’re right, that a good explanation. I’m also seeing Richards discussion of encoded arrays: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.ide.revolution.user/176711 I tried base64/compressed/encoding as he suggests with a “.txt” suffix and that seems to work. It seems it won’t work at

copy a stack from dropbox to temp-folder (script)

Hi, I’m trying to copy a file from my dropbox’s public folder to my local temp-folder. I get the filename, create a destination path and put the remote file in the local folder. This seems to work (there is a file by that name in my temp folder), but when I go to this copied stack I get an “this

Re: Malte Brill stack

I only know the contest description referenced building a robowars clone as one of the objectives, I wasn't around at the time, so I don't know if starbattle is one of the entries.. But most likely my answer is yes, I do! I'd love to see it if it's available and ok with Geoff. On Thu, Sep 22,

Re: Export PNG with alpha channel/mask

I don't quite understand why your transparent areas are exporting as Black: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=27984 Richmond. On 22.09.2016 18:02, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I want to compose an image using a bunch of LC objects, then export a PNG, with an alpha channel containing a

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

Martin: Just a thought. Since Todd Fabacher is in a group working on LTI (he called it LIT, but I think he meant LTI), and he will make the code open source, I think, for me anyway, it’s best to wait for the result of their efforts. LTI has a pretty wide capability. SCORM came about and was

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

I, personally, playing on my G5 running PPC 10.5, cannot for the life of me see any obvious advantages of Supercard over Livecode. It strikes me that this is probably largely used by people who have dug themselves into a Macintosh-only corner. Richmond. On 22.09.2016 20:43, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

Re: ANN: new glx2 script editor now on line

that doesn't seem to fix it for me. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Mike Kerner > wrote: > > > > 2) I'm trying to edit the prefs for GLX2, but the prefs window only > flashes > > and

Re: ANN: new glx2 script editor now on line

1. WordPress: See above re how I feel about WordPress. 2. preferences: What platform is this? I've seen the preferences appear and then hide behind the script editor. So the panel is there, but you have to move the editor panel out of the way to get to it. Annoying. I see there are pull requests

Supercard 4.8 public beta

On the other side of the fence . . . SupercCard just emailed me about their public beta for 4.8. Since it's mac only (again), I have no interest, and it apparently still doesn't have things I need from LC 5 (and I presume at least 4). (For that matter, the only things that I *really* need that

use "" as an array key

I find myself in want of a YAML library again. Mark posted some functions on the forum that I'm debugging http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=21434 Something I discovered while debugging is that "" is being accepted as an array key. It seems like it shouldn't be possible to use the

Re: use "" as an array key

Matt Maier wrote: > Something I discovered while debugging is that "" is being accepted > as an array key. > > It seems like it shouldn't be possible to use the absence of a string > as an array key. Is it supposed to work that way? I'm using 8.0.1 on > Windows. Works that way on Ubuntu 14.04

Re: use "" as an array key

On 22/09/2016 18:58, Matt Maier wrote: I find myself in want of a YAML library again. Mark posted some functions on the forum that I'm debugging http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=21434 Something I discovered while debugging is that "" is being accepted as an array key. It seems like

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

Martin: Just a thought. Since Todd Fabacher is in a group working on LTI (he called it LIT, but I think he meant LTI), and he will make the code open source, I think, for me anyway, it’s best to wait for the result of their efforts. LTI has a pretty wide capability. SCORM came about and was

Re: copy a stack from dropbox to temp-folder (script)

My guess is that you need to use binfile instead of file, as a stack is binary. Vennlig hilsen Tore Nilsen Den 21. sep 2016 kl. 23.47 skrev John Allijn følgende: Hi, I’m trying to copy a file from my dropbox’s public folder to my local temp-folder. I get the

validating xml

Hello list I have a script server-side that sends xml data to a web page. The xml content is enriched text (featuring several html tags) made by other users and stored in a DB. When enriching text with a js library, it often happens that something goes wrong with tags... So my question : is there

Re: copy a stack from dropbox to temp-folder (script)

Hi John, > Am 22.09.2016 um 12:46 schrieb John Allijn : > > Hi, > > I’m trying to copy a file from my dropbox’s public folder to my local > temp-folder. > I get the filename, create a destination path and put the remote file in > the local folder. This seems to work

Re: copy a stack from dropbox to temp-folder (script)

on mouseUp put “myStack v1.0.0.livecode” into myRemoteFileName put myRemoteFileName into myLocalFileName -- same name put URL ("https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14355803/PVT/"; myRemoteFileName) into URL ("binfile://" & specialfolderpath("temporary")& myLocalFileName ) go to stack URL

Re: Any characters wildcard or regex?

Thanks Mike, pilot error here - replacetext(tData,"<.*>",empty) looks to be a viable direction of travel once correctly typed. Time to rest my eyes, methinks! 8-) Best, Keith.. > On 22 Sep 2016, at 16:23, Mike Bonner wrote: > > if you want to use regex, I think you have

Re: Any characters wildcard or regex?

> On 22 Sep 2016, at 16:45, Keith Clarke wrote: > > Thanks Mike, pilot error here - replacetext(tData,"<.*>",empty) looks to be a > viable direction of travel once correctly typed. Time to rest my eyes, > methinks! 8-) > Best, > Keith.. I think you might need

Re: Any characters wildcard or regex?

if you want to use regex, I think you have to use replacetext rather than replace, unless replace has been updated when I wasn't looking. I did a quicky test.. put field 1 into tData -- field with text containing html tags put replacetext(tData,"<.*>",empty) into tNewData put tNewData Also, in

Re: Export PNG with alpha channel/mask

Hi Ben, > Am 22.09.2016 um 17:02 schrieb Ben Rubinstein : > > I want to compose an image using a bunch of LC objects, then export a PNG, > with an alpha channel containing a mask (ideally > 1 bit, but that part's not > critical). > The documentation for export snapshot is

Re: ANN: new glx2 script editor now on line

A couple of things: 1) The Everything under "blogroll" on the wordpress site points to wordpress things, not Marky things 2) I'm trying to edit the prefs for GLX2, but the prefs window only flashes and disappears, again. On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 11:05 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

Martin, I hadn't heard about xAPI. I've really just dabbled in this subject. I know that my campus uses a highly customized version of Moodle, so it would be compatible with xAPI. Our local community college is changing over to Canvas after using Moodle, and before that, Blackboard. An

Re: Any characters wildcard or regex?

Thanks Mike & Klaus, The simple line 'replace "<.*>" with empty in tFileText’ would be ideal, but it seems to be ignored. The html approach seems to hit an early hurdle, too - if I... set the html of field "FldFileText" to URL(tFileName) set the text of field "FldFileText" to the text of field

Export PNG with alpha channel/mask

I want to compose an image using a bunch of LC objects, then export a PNG, with an alpha channel containing a mask (ideally > 1 bit, but that part's not critical). The documentation for export snapshot is not very clear. I've tried things like exporting a transparent group containing some

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

Well, every time there is a new Supercard release I download the trial and, every time, I wonder why I do that. But I do the same sort of thing for HyperNEXT as well [ http://www.tigabyte.com ] so I'm obviously bonkers. I owned a copy of SuperCard in 1995 and really could never work out how

Re: Waiting for the train

add "with messages" On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Richmond wrote: > I have a stack that sits around as a Palette with a script in it that > repeats itself every 18000 ticks (that's 5 minutes to Thee and Me) with > a code like this: > > *put 1 into KOUNT** >

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

gRevDevelopment is the one you're thinking of I believe. On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Things are getting out of control more and more often. Today it was the > lack of buttons on dialog windows about closing stacks, the previous couple > of days had

Re: Waiting for the train

Well . . . that works as far as menu commands from the revMenubar stack go, but it still blocks mouseClicks on the revTools stack and keyboard commands . . . Richmond. On 22.09.2016 22:55, Richmond wrote: Thanks. Where? wait 18000 ticks with messages ? Richmond. On 22.09.2016 22:38, Mike

Re: ANN: new glx2 script editor now on line

It doesn't appear to be hiding. I thought that, too. It also doesn't appear in the list of windows, but I haven't checked the PB to see if it's just misbehaving in multiple ways. And we're talking about OSX el cap or whatever 11 is On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:21 PM, mwieder

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

I was a hypercard ACE but my three purchases of Supercard over the years never got used. I found the whole system baffling, an annoying workflow. I always went back to HC. sqb Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Richmond

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Richmond wrote: > I, personally, playing on my G5 running PPC 10.5, cannot for the life of > me see any obvious > advantages of Supercard over Livecode. It strikes me that this is probably > largely used by people > who have dug

The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

Things are getting out of control more and more often. Today it was the lack of buttons on dialog windows about closing stacks, the previous couple of days had a couple of rounds of the browse/edit suddenly applying to the application browser, and then there's the perennial untraceable euro

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On 9/22/16 2:40 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Could someone remind me of the property that lets the IDE step into the source stacks? gRevDevelopment -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

...as in... global gRevDevelopment; put true into gRevDevelopment -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com - -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com -- View this message in context:

IDE Script Editor question...

I find myself periodically working with stacks where the individuals handlers come from a number of sources. Some of these sources have their script editor set to the default 3 space indent. Some to 2 spaces, some to 4 spaces, etc. Is there any easy way to tell the script editor to RE-indent all

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > gRevDevelopment Ahh, thanks. Now I'll reload and se what happens . . . at the moment, I get my own error dialog, which has an option to pause so that I can single step, but it goes nowhere . . . -- Dr. Richard E.

Re: Waiting for the train

Thanks. Where? wait 18000 ticks with messages ? Richmond. On 22.09.2016 22:38, Mike Bonner wrote: add "with messages" On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 1:37 PM, Richmond wrote: I have a stack that sits around as a Palette with a script in it that repeats itself every

Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

The script editor won't compile a mouseUp handler with 1 2 or 3 as a parameter. on mouseUp 3 do stuff end mouseUp I am trying to get a right-click to show a contextual menu on Windows. ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

Does pressing the tab key fix it for you? > On Sep 22, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > > I find myself periodically working with stacks where the individuals > handlers come from a number of sources. > > Some of these sources have their script editor set to the

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:48 PM, mwieder wrote: > ...as in... > > global gRevDevelopment; put true into gRevDevelopment > Unfortunately, it's not getting me there. I have a log stack, and the simple function on cck stuff put stuff & cr & the milliseconds & cr & cr

Re: Waiting for the train

You Rock: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=27986 Thanks so much. Richmond. On 22.09.2016 23:13, Paul Dupuis wrote: You probably want to restructure your handler, so that instead of a repeat loop, it calls itself using send in So something like: local KOUNT on startMyThing

Re: Waiting for the train

You probably want to restructure your handler, so that instead of a repeat loop, it calls itself using send in So something like: local KOUNT on startMyThing put 1 into KOUNT send "doMyThing" to me end startMyThing on doMyThing add 1 to KOUNT if KOUNT <= 1003 then send "doMyThing"

Re: Any characters wildcard or regex?

Using replacetext, you're probably looking for "<.*>" but you might be able to use a field for this.. set the htmltext of the field to your source text, Then if you don't want the formatting preserved set the text of the field to the text of the field. One problem with this method is that you

Re: Any characters wildcard or regex?

Hi Mike and Keith, > Am 22.09.2016 um 16:03 schrieb Mike Bonner : > > Using replacetext, you're probably looking for "<.*>" > but you might be able to use a field for this.. set the htmltext of the > field to your source text, Then if you don't want the formatting preserved

Any characters wildcard or regex?

Hi folks, I’m trying to strip out all HTML tags from text in a variable. Replacement of specific tags works fine... replace “" with empty in tText …but I’m struggling to find (documentation on) a blanket ‘any number of any characters’ wildcard or regex approach... So far I’ve tried "<*>”,

Re: ANN: new glx2 script editor now on line

> On Sep 22, 2016, at 8:21 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > 2) I'm trying to edit the prefs for GLX2, but the prefs window only flashes > and disappears, again. I noticed that too. I found a workaround. 1. Edit some code in GLX2. 2. Go to LiveCode/preferences This will