Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 3/8/12 8:23 AM, "Pete" wrote: Hi Pete, 1) I believe in the past there was at least 1-2-3 externals from third party developers around SQLite. They was even sold at price 150$ So you going invent a bike ... 2) why tease self with SQLite if exists Valentina DB and now many ways with Valenti

RE: Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
> From: Pete > > I'm seriously considering trying to use the C API for sqlite > databases instead of the rev db functions. I'm finding too > many little inconsistencies and inefficiencies in the rev routines. > > The problem is I know nothing about using external libraries > with LC or the sq

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Hmm... what are the issues you are finding? Cheers Monte ___ 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/mailman/listinfo/use

Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
I'm seriously considering trying to use the C API for sqlite databases instead of the rev db functions. I'm finding too many little inconsistencies and inefficiencies in the rev routines. The problem is I know nothing about using external libraries with LC or the sqlite C API. I'm hoping there's

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
Hi Trevor, I tried this approach in Livecode an it works great. I do have one strange thing going on which I hope you can help with. There are 12 lines in my datagird. I put a breakpoint in GetDataForLine and I see it being called 12 times followed by a slight pause, then it's called another 12

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Pete wrote: > I emailed sqlitemanager support re the manage/sql tab performance > difference. Mystery solved by the reply: > > "In the Manage panel when you see SELECT * FROM table the real query > executed is SELECT rowid FROM table and then a SELECT * FROM table

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Android resolutions are more consistent than iOS. By which I mean that > consistently every new Android device is a resolution that you haven't > heard of before! > I've heard that Google is dealing with that by shipping a new Android Emula

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Colin Holgate
Android resolutions are more consistent than iOS. By which I mean that consistently every new Android device is a resolution that you haven't heard of before! I'm kidding, sort of. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Mike Bonner
Ok. This made me guffaw. > I know! Horrendous! Android would never treat us so poorly :) > > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://li

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
Tim Jones wrote: > I agree that the higher pixel density will provide for more comfortable > reading, but it also means that we'll now need to add still another screen > size to the three that we already must check for (iPhone, iPhone Retina, and > iPad). I know! Horrendous! Android would nev

Re: iOS: text field is coverd by the keyboard

2012-03-07 Thread Terry Judd
On 08/03/2012, at 10:07 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: See the keyboardActivated message. I had thought folks might be interested in a modal text editor for iOS (combines keyboard+field) but it didn't get any votes on the last mergExt poll. That does sound quite useful. Terry... Cheers Monte O

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/7/12 4:58 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: For now I can check the height with the formattedHeight after the user has resized the field and take action appropriately. That's pretty much what I meant. I don't think you'd need to store any previous values, just see what it is at this moment. -- Jac

Re: iOS: text field is coverd by the keyboard

2012-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
See the keyboardActivated message. I had thought folks might be interested in a modal text editor for iOS (combines keyboard+field) but it didn't get any votes on the last mergExt poll. Cheers Monte On 08/03/2012, at 9:59 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > Hi, > > maybe a dumb question, but how do

iOS: text field is coverd by the keyboard

2012-03-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, maybe a dumb question, but how do you take track of the iOS keyboard layering over a field. I have here a multiline field near the botton. When i enter the field most part of the field is covered by the keyboard. Do i have to group all objects on the card and move them up? Or what is the ri

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Glen Bojsza
For now I can check the height with the formattedHeight after the user has resized the field and take action appropriately. thanks, Glen On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:39 PM, wrote: > > What Jacque is saying is to load the formatted height, maybe into a custom > property, right after you resize. The

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Colin Holgate
It was already three sizes, now it's four. If you read some of the "iPad 3" topic you'll see we've been theorizing about what LiveCode will do in handling the new iPad Retina display. If you yourself did nothing to try and support Retina, then your iPad sized app should scale up seamlessly to th

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread dunbarx
What Jacque is saying is to load the formatted height, maybe into a custom property, right after you resize. Then, as the user types, check the current formattedheight, at each keystroke, and if it exceeds the initial value, disallow that text entry. I played around with this too, etting a cu

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
I was viewing the announcement more from a developer's point of view rather than a user's. I agree that the higher pixel density will provide for more comfortable reading, but it also means that we'll now need to add still another screen size to the three that we already must check for (iPhone,

RE: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Ralph DiMola
I was generating a file of InDesign Tags for a publishing project. The request was for me to break lines and pages manually because of some crazy header and footer requirements not handled by the $2,000 InDesign SW. I used the formattedwidth on a dummy fields to determine where the line breaks shou

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Glen Bojsza wrote: Another question which may not be able to be answered is... can you limit the number of characters in the field based on the new size the user has made? What I usually do is trap keydown and check the formattedheight while the user is typing. If the text is too long then ei

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread François Chaplais
Much of my work consists in reading PDF research articles. The retina display is a killer feature for that. And, mind you, PDF is resolution independent. Le 7 mars 2012 à 22:43, Tim Jones a écrit : > So, it's not the iPad 3, it's the "New iPad". > > Seems to me that the only thing that has happe

Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
So, it's not the iPad 3, it's the "New iPad". Seems to me that the only thing that has happened is that we (developers) now need to worry about 3 display sizes for our iOS apps. Does this mean that iPod / iPhone apps now get a 2x and a 3x button when running on the new iPad? I'm digging throu

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread dunbarx
Your second one is a poser. The formatted widths and heights do not help, I think, if you do not already have the field populated with text. You are asking for the "potentialFormattedWidth", essentially. Without using a monospaced font like courier, I would not know how to begin. If you did u

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Thank you Pete for that clarification. Jérôme Le 7 mars 2012 à 17:37, Pete a écrit : > I emailed sqlitemanager support re the manage/sql tab performance > difference. Mystery solved by the reply: > > "In the Manage panel when you see SELECT * FROM table the real query > executed is SELECT rowi

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 08:21 PM, Tim Jones wrote: Simply put - It's NOT Windows, and it's free, so don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Not any good really with the Livecode IDE as doesn't work at all well with PNG images. If, however, you are developing Livecode s

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Glen Bojsza
Thanks Mark. Good point about making certain no other objects can be selected (also that the second field shouldn't be invisible). Glen On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Glen, > > Your script works for me, but not in the IDE. I hav

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 08:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to using Wine as opposed to a VM like Parallels? Pretty hopeless for Livecode as WINE does not render PNG images. Personally I check Windows builds in XP in VirtualBox. Bob On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Rich

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
Simply put - no Windows license required; your app runs natively on the hosting platform (Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, etc.). On the other hand, there are a number of apps that don't run quite right. Tim On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to usi

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to using Wine as opposed to a VM like Parallels? Bob On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Richmond wrote: > WINE 1.4 > > http://www.winehq.org/ > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Ple

Re: AW: How to close a modal stack by keyboard?

2012-03-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes it's in the plugins folder. If 5.5 does not alter what that is then GLX2 will load if it's there. Bob On Mar 6, 2012, at 9:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/6/12 1:32 PM, Ken Corey wrote: > >> Could the things I've played with in the past (glx2, mobgui, etc) be >> leaving a plug-in some

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Glen, Your script works for me, but not in the IDE. I have created a front script. I do also see the behaviour you describe. You can solve this by adding another field. The field can be off-window but should not be invisible. Use the following as a front script: on mouseDown theButton if

[OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
WINE 1.4 http://www.winehq.org/ ___ 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
I emailed sqlitemanager support re the manage/sql tab performance difference. Mystery solved by the reply: "In the Manage panel when you see SELECT * FROM table the real query executed is SELECT rowid FROM table and then a SELECT * FROM table WHERE rowid=N is execute for each visible row of the li

Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Glen Bojsza
Hello, I would like to allow a user to be able to change the size and location of a text field in an application. The following allows the user to select the field via right-shift click and then with the pointer tool move the field to where they want and resize the field. With the next right-shi

Re: Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, With Livecode, you never know whether your control will still be in memory. I copy and paste first and then delete the original control. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtal

Re: [ANN] Data Grid Helper 1.6

2012-03-07 Thread Ken Ray
Hey Zyrip, there's some "version confusion" going on… > If you have not tried DGH yet, a trial version free for 30 days can be > downloaded here: > http://www.aslugontheroad.com/index.php?option=com_phocadownload&view=category&id=12:trial&Itemid=63 > > You can also reach the Data Grid Helper plug

Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
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Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-07 Thread David Glasgow
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Re: Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi all, Am 07.03.2012 um 13:46 schrieb Randy Hengst: > Hi Graham, > > I do this regularly LC 5.0.2 OSX10.6.8. > > Here are my steps. > Copy or cut the object to move. > Select the group > Edit the group > Paste. I do something similar: 1. Create new object(s) to be pasted into a group on the

Re: Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Graham, I do this regularly LC 5.0.2 OSX10.6.8. Here are my steps. Copy or cut the object to move. Select the group Edit the group Paste. be well, randy - On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:35 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > When I'm editing a group in the IDE (LC 5.0.2), if I copy an object before > the

Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Graham Samuel
When I'm editing a group in the IDE (LC 5.0.2), if I copy an object before the edit starts, I can't seem to paste it into the group I'm editing. It seems there's nothing to paste. Why not, and what's the workaround? I don't know why I've never done this before, but it seems obvious that one migh

Re: Windows 8

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I assumed that there would be some hiccups here and there seeing as how they removed win32 api for winRT api, Mark. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Windows-8-tp4449030p4452576.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.