Strange folder config for Windows standalone

I'm building a standalone for my app for Mac (Intel only) and Windows. After the build, I compress the two versions separately (using the OS X "Compress this file" option) so they can be downloaded from my web site by clicking on a link to them. After they Windows version is unzipped, I see two f

Re: Colors/Borders

Thanks Jacque. I switched off 3D to get the borders and it looks OK for this particular purpose. STill not sure what's going on with the color. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 8:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/11/12 2:15 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I have a group that has all the default properties set ex

Re: Revzilla?

On 2/11/12 10:02 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Ken, I don't see v. 2.3 there, actually the 2 download links are for 2.1.1, ostensibly. (I don't know how I got 2.2) Try a page refresh, maybe? I see it under the sidebar box. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com Hyp

Re: Colors/Borders

On 2/11/12 2:15 PM, Pete wrote: I have a group that has all the default properties set except I switched on showBorder with a borderwidth of 2. All looks as expected with a light gray background and a visible border. Now I set the background in the Colors and Patterns tab of the inspector to a

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 11:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/11/12 9:56 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > >> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >> On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >>> >>> After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I >>> laun

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

On 2/11/12 9:56 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on my device

Re: Revzilla?

On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > Mark, I just realized that I hadn't uploaded 2.3 to the STS web site, so > Peter couldn't download it. I have jus remedied the situation - anyone who is > having trouble with RevZilla, feel free to download 2.3 from: > > http://www.sonsothunder.com/

Re: Revzilla?

On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> Peter- >> >> Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: >> >>> I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the >>> past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks

Re: Revzilla?

On Feb 11, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Peter- > > Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: > >> I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the >> past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the >> SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been upd

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 10:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I >> launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears >> on >> my device within a couple of seconds. >

Re: Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

On 2/11/12 7:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on my device within a couple of seconds. That is damned clever. There wouldn't be a startup message, but that'

Re: Spell check for text fields

On 2/11/12 5:58 PM, Pete wrote: Despite the lack of full platform support, sure would be nice of LC hooked into the native spell checkers on those platforms that do support it. Sounds like a job for an external. Wonder what Monte's doing these days? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac.

Using DropBox for Faster Mobile Development

This may already be old news, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case this helps someone... If you're already using your DropBox account to help speed up your mobile development process, read no farther. I've been developing stacks for iOS use on and off over the last year, and have been ann

Re: Attn Jerry... ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.6

Mark, thanks for the update. We had a mail server problem last week (2/8 - 2/9), but most of those messages didn't bounce with 554. If your bounces were outside that window, or are still happening, do let me know. jhjen...@sonic.net is an alternate address for me (for now) if needed. On Feb 11,

Attn Jerry... ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.6

Jerry- My emails to you are bouncing back with the strange error message 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable I've released a new version of PowerDebug, and it incorporates a fix for the problem Ken found. You can download it here: http://www.ahsoftware.net/PowerTools/files/PowerDebug -- -Mark Wieder

Re: Spell check for text fields

Despite the lack of full platform support, sure would be nice of LC hooked into the native spell checkers on those platforms that do support it. Pete On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Scott McDonald < runrevpla...@smpcs.server101.com> wrote: > Keith, > > >don't all target platforms have native spe

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

Richard- At least Ted Nelson is still among us: http://www.xanadu.com/zigzag/ -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscri

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

On Feb 11, 2012, at 6:01 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > I know this topic has come up before. About a year or so ago Tom McGrath > posted some very useful info. So now that some time has passed, I'm curious > as to how most of you are developing apps when you need to support multiple > device resolutio

Re: Spell check for text fields

Hmmm. Disappointing that. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Scott McDonald < runrevpla...@smpcs.server101.com> wrote: > Keith, > > >don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? > > One software segment that I produce for is cross-platform desktop -- needs > to run on PCs (with Windows XP

Re: Spell check for text fields

It seems to work ok on the web. For text entry I think it's sort of expected that it underlines the wrong words as they are typed. On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Richmond wrote: > Spilling Chuckers . . . Hmm > > This is rather interesting: > http://norvig.com/spell-**correct.html

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

And it occurs to me that likely the next time I would be opening the editor would be at a remote client's location, on the clock, under pressure. Whew! On Feb 11, 2012, at 3:09 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > yes, Ken I made the mod too. Thanks for your observation and fix. > > sqb > > On 11 Feb

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

yes, Ken I made the mod too. Thanks for your observation and fix. sqb On 11 February 2012 14:56, Jerry Jensen wrote: > Ken, > > THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU (no dashes) > for bringing this up before it bit me. It would have taken me FOREVER to find > the prob

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

On Feb 11, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know > who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanadu. Kids... My wife owns a laser printed, hand bound user guide for Project Xanadu that she got from one of the guys on the

RE: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Chris Sheffield Sent: Friday, February 10, 2012 4:32 PM To: How to use LiveCode Sub

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

Fortunately (for me) apparantly Remo seems unaffected. Livecode stall and I have to force-quit. On 11 February 2012 14:25, Ken Ray wrote: > If you take advantage of downloading the DAZ3D software for Mac 64-bit > computers, you need to be aware of a "gotcha": > > It turns out that after in

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

Ken, THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU (no dashes) for bringing this up before it bit me. It would have taken me FOREVER to find the problem! Your fix worked perfectly. Add one notch for keeping a recent clone backup around in addition to Time Machine. Jerry Jens

Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

If you take advantage of downloading the DAZ3D software for Mac 64-bit computers, you need to be aware of a "gotcha": It turns out that after installing the 64-bit versions of DAZ3D on my Mac that LiveCode can't open a script editor window anymore. This turned out to be because it inserted two

Re: Spell check for text fields

Keith, >don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? One software segment that I produce for is cross-platform desktop -- needs to run on PCs (with Windows XP and newer) and on Macs. There is no native OS level spellchecker for Windows XP. Instead of having platform specific code to ha

revOnline ? ? ?

Does this thing function any more? Cannot upload to it to save my life. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailm

Re: Spell check for text fields

On 02/11/2012 11:14 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Yep http://www.runrevplanet.com/ http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/211/spellCheck Well, well; that made my last posting look a bit redundant. Although, quite honestly, I am rather glad, as I shall now merrily try to incorporate Craig Newman's sta

Re: Spell check for text fields

On 02/11/2012 11:07 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: I'm intrigued yet confused - don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? Why can't these be accessed? Well, it's news to me. I work mainly with Linux, and decreasingly so with Mac PPC [it's a money thing . . . :) ] and I don't think the

Re: Spell check for text fields

Yep http://www.runrevplanet.com/ http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/211/spellCheck On Saturday, 11 February, 2012 at 15:15 , Michael Chean wrote: > Is there any addon that checks the spelling of words as they are entered > into a text field? > > Mike >

Re: Spell check for text fields

I'm intrigued yet confused - don't all target platforms have native spell-checkers? Why can't these be accessed? Best, Keith.. On 11 Feb 2012, at 20:58, Richmond wrote: > Spilling Chuckers . . . Hmm > > This is rather interesting: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html > > as is this : http

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

On 02/11/2012 10:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Alejandro Tejada wrote: So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard. I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanad

Re: Frame-based animation

Hi, Richard. I tried a frame based demo animation with one main animation loop that locks the screen then updates all objects. I found that instead of trying to update certain objects at frame X, etc, updating everything on every frame worked best (for this particular demo anyway). Objects do

Re: Spell check for text fields

Spilling Chuckers . . . Hmm This is rather interesting: http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html as is this : http://wordlist.sourceforge.net/ I wonder how feasible (and how fast) an in-built spell-checker would be . . . certainly SCOWL 7.1 looks rather attractive. __

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

Alejandro Tejada wrote: So, I find rather revealing that today so many developers are mostly unaware of the existence of HyperCard. I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanadu. Kids... :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth Wo

Re: Spell check for text fields

Hey Mike, Check out: http://runrev.com/store/product/runrevplanet-spell-2_0/ I've not used it personally, however, so can't comment on that. Marty K Is there any addon that checks the spelling of words as they are entered into a text field? Mike __

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

On 02/11/2012 09:42 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: After reading about this recent legal bout for the interactive web: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1248234/texas-jury-strikes-down-mans-claim-to-own-the-interactive-web I found revealing the way in which HyperCard keeps appearing as the fir

Colors/Borders

Hoping to get some guidance on a couple of issues regarding colors and borders. I have a group that has all the default properties set except I switched on showBorder with a borderwidth of 2. All looks as expected with a light gray background and a visible border. Now I set the background in the

Spell check for text fields

Is there any addon that checks the spelling of words as they are entered into a text field? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http:

Re: RSS Tutorial with XML commands?

On Feb 10, 2012, at 10:06 PM, John Patten wrote: > Answered my own question… http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=7011 > > It should have dawned on me that with most tags, XML or otherwise, the first > word is key identifier… duh…long week If your feed isn't really long, and/or you w

Re: Revzilla?

On Feb 11, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Peter- > > Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: > >> I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the >> past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the >> SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been up

Re: moving and scaling an image

Hi David, David Glasgow wrote > > The only thing I can think of is that if the location moved to is closer > than the step size in the repeat loop, then you won't get the scaling, or > only a very little bit. What happens when you step through in the > debugger? > Ah, now it works! I just cha

[OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

After reading about this recent legal bout for the interactive web: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/12/02/10/1248234/texas-jury-strikes-down-mans-claim-to-own-the-interactive-web I found revealing the way in which HyperCard keeps appearing as the first inspiration for the web browser as we know it t

Re: Frame-based animation

On Feb 11, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Ken Corey wrote: > > I don't know what the engine does to the code...the code might be "compiled" > (I use that term loosely) down, where evaluated code isn't. > > Hrm...can you abstract each little script enough to make little commands? > > on appearFlower > set

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

Speaking of resolution support: Apple Now Requiring iPhone Developers to Submit Retina Screenshots -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld

Re: Frame-based animation

On 11/02/2012 17:53, Richard MacLemale wrote: Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea. It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two lines of code that way. My window is more like 33 milliseconds. Back to the old drawing b

Re: Frame-based animation

Hi Richard, here is a bareBone frame based handler... Very crude, nothing special. I assume for starters this is in a button. You will want to do adjustments. Cheers, Malte local sStartTime,sCurrentFrame on mouseUp set the flag of me to not the flag of me if the flag of me then

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

On 2/10/12 3:31 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: What's the best method? Two separate stacks, one for each resolution? Or a single stack with code to handle positioning of controls? Definitely a single stack with resizing code. That will automatically adjust to whatever resolution happens to be rel

Re: Error in mail list MBOX file format 2012 February

Hi Richard, Richard Gaskin wrote > > I asked Heather about that and apparently the team is using the list > manager's default settings, so it's not clear what more they can do. > > I've looked into this before, and it seems that if you need to parse > it you can do so reliably not by relying on

Re: Frame-based animation

Well, I know one thing - trying to put script steps in an array and run it on the iPad 1 is NOT a winning idea. It's taking 163 milliseconds to execute two lines of code that way. My window is more like 33 milliseconds. Back to the old drawing board, as they say... --- Richard MacLemale Musi

Re: How alive is LiveCode?

Lynn: Thank-you, I think that I will be looking at your DB product. Mike On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > I want to write databased applications to take care of some of the > > pain-points at my current employment. And if this works

Re: Revzilla?

Peter- Saturday, February 11, 2012, 7:01:10 AM, you wrote: > I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the > past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the > SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been updated in a long time. > Ken, is there a more recent update tha

Re: Recursion

On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > haha... > > ever tried a Google search for recursion? Circular definition: see Definition, circular. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode maili

Re: moving and scaling an image

On 10 Feb 2012, at 6:00 pm, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Subject: Re: moving and scaling an image > Reply-To: How to use LiveCode > > Hi David, > > David Glasgow wrote >> >> Thanks to all the help with this. >> I ended up with a script that created sequential moves, >> with an image scale in bet

Revzilla?

I have been using Ken Ray's Revzilla plugin for years but in the past year or so it has been broken for me. It looks from the SonsOfThunder website that it hasn't been updated in a long time. Ken, is there a more recent update that I can try? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://h

Re: Frame-based animation

On Feb 11, 2012, at 7:38 AM, Ken Corey wrote: > I'm a LiveCode newbie, but I'd want to minimise the time spent asking "is it > time for me yet" for each of those commands. > > I'd probably try to put the commands into a list ordered on the frame number. > Your insert is a little trickier here,

Re: Frame-based animation

On 11/02/2012 12:19, Richard MacLemale wrote: I'm creating a variable called frameNumber and each time the loop is triggered I'm adding 1 to it. Since I've scripted my loop to run 30 times per second, after 1 second the frameNumber would be 30. OK, so I want certain lines of code to be run a

Frame-based animation

After finishing the Gaming course (which was AWESOME,) I can now do frame-based animation in my own stacks. The key is basically a loop that re-triggers itself at scheduled intervals. But now I'm trying to take the next step and actually animate a sequence of events. Here's what I have so far