>
> Doing a 'Get Info' for those fonts, they all come up with names like this:
>
> Myriad Pro-Cond
> Myriad Pro-Bold
> Myriad Pro-Italic
> etc...
>
> Using my calibrated eye, the hyphen between 'Myriad Pro' and 'Cond'
> looks like an em-dash. Could that break things?
>
> Has anyone else seen
On 3/23/12 7:26 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
It turns out that the stack had inexplicably had its mainstack
reference changed to another stack. Resetting this back to itself
(there is only one stack in the file) seems to have fixed everything.
Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?
Ken-
Friday, March 23, 2012, 7:24:09 PM, you wrote:
> With the change in file format for 5.5 and the fact that RevZilla
> hadn't been touched in over two years, I thought it would be good to
> bring the program up to date. Version 2.5 has an updated interface
> using data grids, plus a better loo
What is the maximum size of a string used as a key of an array? I can't find it
in the documentation. 256 sticks in my mind. ???
-- Peter
Peter M. Brigham
pmb...@gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
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Hi All,
Finally, recording sounds is working fine in Windows
using mci, but I don't know if mci recording is available
anymore in Windows 7 or 8. Please, answer to this message
if you could test this Sound Recorder stack in these Windows
versions.
I am using the scripts of the stack "MCI recorde
dunbarx wrote:
> I had posted earlier about a stack I use that became neurotic. If launched in
> a new session from the finder, no problem. But if closed,
> it could not be reopened in the same session. The "stacks" showed no
> reference to it at all soemtimes, though at other times it was
> ind
With the change in file format for 5.5 and the fact that RevZilla hadn't been
touched in over two years, I thought it would be good to bring the program up
to date. Version 2.5 has an updated interface using data grids, plus a better
look and feel for Linux, plus a handful of bug fixes.
You can
Hi Klaus,
Haven't used revBrowser before but I got the example from runrev's web site
at
http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/15963-how-do-i-display-a-pdf-in-rev
However, nothing displays in the browser image no matter what pdf file I
select. Also tried it with a straightforward http:// u
I had posted earlier about a stack I use that became neurotic. If launched in a
new session from the finder, no problem. But if closed,
it could not be reopened in the same session. The "stacks" showed no reference
to it at all soemtimes, though at other times it was
indeed listed, albeit still
Hello All,
"set the htmlText of field" has odd results sometimes. Here's the
one's I've caught so far:
replace "’" with "'" in tResult
replace "‘" with "'" in tResult
replace "—" with "—" in tResult
replace "…" with "…" in tResult
replace "£" with "£" in tResult
replace
http://www.ehow.com/how_5946398_create-training-manual-word.html
On Mar 23, 2012, at 4:07 PM, Pete wrote:
> Folks,
> Still playing around with different formats for this.
>
> One possible format is the one used by the Datagrid reference manual. It's
> a pdf file including a navigation pane on t
Folks,
Still playing around with different formats for this.
One possible format is the one used by the Datagrid reference manual. It's
a pdf file including a navigation pane on the left with
expandable/collapsible entries; clicking on an entry goes directly to the
associated page. Pretty sure t
Write verification? Maybe LC's low level file functions do not verify, whereas
the shell command does.
Bob
On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:24 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
> It is stunning to me that this is faster than using a shell command. I did
> the same test as before (about thirty files, about 70k eac
It is stunning to me that this is faster than using a shell command. I did
the same test as before (about thirty files, about 70k each) and copying
them by using binary reads/writes took about one-third the time of using
the shell command. I thought it might be overhead with calling shell, but I
ra
On 3/23/12 3:58 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:
Is anybody trying to use load url with iOS?
I'm having an issue where I don't ever seem to get the cachedURLs populated
and the URLStatus is never updated, but my callback message is fired.
If I use a get url things seem to work.
See page 19 in the iOS
Thanks Colin and Phil for the ScreenSteps recommendation. I'll definitely
take a look.
Pete
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
> You should look at ScreenSteps:
>
> http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/
>
> In addition to being a very good way to prepare documentation
For those of you who care about this sort of thing:
Livecode 4.5 for Windows installs and runs successfully under WINE 1.5.0:
http://www.winehq.org/announce/1.5.0
However, if any of you are caring, you might want to either:
Stop caring, or
Start badgering the WINE people about PNG implementa
Is anybody trying to use load url with iOS?
I'm having an issue where I don't ever seem to get the cachedURLs populated
and the URLStatus is never updated, but my callback message is fired.
If I use a get url things seem to work.
--
On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth
On the
There was a video I watched recently about using screen steps in exactly this
way. Users would request help, and the response would be a either a new or
existing article on how to do what the user needed to do. In this way, the help
system was a "living document" to quote an oft misused phrase.
You should look at ScreenSteps:
http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/
In addition to being a very good way to prepare documentation, the tool was
created with LiveCode.
It can export to Word, PDF, and HTML. With PDF you can use a LiveCode player
object and set the filename of the playe
Hi Pete,
I use a "squeaky wheel" approach to user docs. Instead of creating volumes of
info that only I will read, I use ScreenSteps to create very visual "how to" web
pages on issues where users ask questions. The apps I build for my clients all
use the same "Help Topics" plugin that appears
Many thanks guys!
On Mar 23, 2012, at 3:01 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You're right. 2.7 is the format used since 2.7 (which was finally released as
> 3.0 IIRC) and now the new format is 5.5. Before 2.7 it was 2.4. I don't
> remember being unable to open a 2.4 stack with any version
Hi,
You're right. 2.7 is the format used since 2.7 (which was finally released as
3.0 IIRC) and now the new format is 5.5. Before 2.7 it was 2.4. I don't
remember being unable to open a 2.4 stack with any version between 2.0 and 2.4.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting
Those are all the same font. You select them by using the "bold" or "Italic"
option on the text formatting tab in the inspector. If you did not have
say... the bold font loaded and you select the bold face the engine should
do a best guess mathematical bolding that never looks as good a the real
bo
On 3/23/12 3:27 PM, Ray Horsley wrote:
I've saved a stack in 5.5 but now I'd like to open it in 5.0.2 which
doesn't recognize it as a stack. I can open it in 5.5 and save it in
legacy but that takes me all the way back to 2.7 with an unknown
number of feature losses. Any suggestions?
Version
It would be helpful if there is a mapping between stack file revisions
(2.7.2.4, current) and the live code revisions. Is this documented anywhere?
What is the stack revision number for 5.5?
In Ray's case, I think that 2.7 is the format used by 5.0.2.
Please correct me if I am mistaken
-=
Hi All,
I was wanting to add a little nicety to my iOS app, so I used three fonts:
Myriad Pro Regular.ttf
Myriad Pro Bold condensed.ttf
Myriad Pro Italic.ttf
So, I duly copied the files into the Copy Files pane of the Standalone
Settings dialog, and then tried to run on the simulator.
No joy
I've saved a stack in 5.5 but now I'd like to open it in 5.0.2 which doesn't
recognize it as a stack. I can open it in 5.5 and save it in legacy but that
takes me all the way back to 2.7 with an unknown number of feature losses. Any
suggestions?
Thanks,
Ray Horsley
LinkIt! Software
_
Thanks Richard, that sounds like a possibility.
I'm using iPages to create the help text but I think it is capable of
saving a file in Word format although not sure how good a job it does. I
guess I'll give it a whirl with WordLib (hopefully there's a trial
available) and see what happens.
I'm n
Hi Richmond,
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
>
> [snip]
> Sound recording in Livecode is so low down the RunRev people's list
> of priorities it has dropped off the bottom; hence the Quicktime "thing"
> which has been there since very nearly the beginning.
>
I will use the Enhanced QuickTime exter
On 03/23/2012 10:37 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
"Me, I have moved to Fluxbox, because it gets out of the way and stays
out. Everyone I support will be moving to xfce over the next few months.
With any luck, they will not notice its not Gnome2!
Since XFCE allowed transparencies and ic
Check out Blue Mango's Screensteps.
Bob
On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Pete wrote:
> I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and
> wondering what tools people are using to creat help files.
>
> I'm finding that it is much easier to use a word processor to write the
Pete wrote:
I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and
wondering what tools people are using to creat help files.
I'm finding that it is much easier to use a word processor to write the
help text and graphics than trying to do it within the confines of LC text
fields
On Mar 23, 2012, at 1:06:12 PM, "Bob Sneidar" wrote:
From: "Bob Sneidar"
Subject:Re: Fields with negative top numbers visible?
Date: March 23, 2012 1:06:12 PM EDT
To: "How to use LiveCode"
Hmmm... Are you in OS X and do you have a custom menu in the stack?
Bob
Hi Bob,
Yes I
Hi All,
I'm starting to think about the possibility of using my app on a Retina
iOS device.
The central feature of my app is a datagrid that was originally designed
for the older iOS screens.
I could just let it pixel double, but that just doesn't seem right, somehow.
After reading the dat
Hi Pete,
Am 23.03.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Pete:
> I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and
> wondering what tools people are using to creat help files.
>
> I'm finding that it is much easier to use a word processor to write the
> help text and graphics than trying to
Bob Sneidar wrote:
Maybe the trick is to find an IT guy who really knows his stuff, and then let
him rule his little bit of the roost?
Ideally that would be the CTO.
But I also recognize that not enough companies understand why they added
"CTO" to their org chart. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
F
The syntax is there at the top but it's not formatted -- tabs or space-runs
between the lines instead of cr's. Looks like a problem in the dictionary stack
with displaying the text from the customprop. If it were displayed properly you
could see the structure, and then the commentary would expla
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
Richard Gaskin wrote
Like Tim noted, any user of any current major distro who prefers Gnome 2
can install it and use it. Ubuntu goes so far as to make this a
one-click option at login.
Richard, I wish that were true, I would simply do it. But its vanishing
from th
I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and
wondering what tools people are using to creat help files.
I'm finding that it is much easier to use a word processor to write the
help text and graphics than trying to do it within the confines of LC text
fields. I can't lea
Mark Schonewille wrote:
> I believe RealStudio WE does everything we can reasonably expect from
> an HTML5 app.
Qualified with "reasonably expect" in terms of automated translation, I
would agree.
Here's a nifty HTML5 app that's the sort of thing one can also make in
RB for the desktop (and
Hi Pete.
I am not saying that try/catch is necessary when using revDB, but it certainly
is when using sqlYoga, or any other plugin that is a locked stack that can
generate errors. I would use try catch anyway because I am used to it, and if I
am using it in certain places, then for consistency
Look up "throw" in the dictionary. Apparently you can use it with or without a
try/catch structure. It's a way to generate an error outside the scope of
engine generated script errors.
try
if not (there is a file
"/Users/MyProfile/Library/Preferences/MyAppCriticalPreferences.plist") then
Does anyone know how to have a numeric keyboard with an "enter" key on
Android? When you select the numeric keyboard with mobileSetKeyboardType
"numeric"
You do in fact get a numeric keyboard but there is only a done key that just
closes the keyboard and the returninfield message is not sent. I hav
Bob,
Maybe I'm missing something but you seem to be saying there are some
database errors that can only be detected by using try/catch, not by
checking the result or the "revdberr" string.
Taking your example of a database going away, I just created a small db,
opened it in LC, then deleted the db
Richard Gaskin wrote
>
> Like Tim noted, any user of any current major distro who prefers Gnome 2
> can install it and use it. Ubuntu goes so far as to make this a
> one-click option at login.
>
Richard, I wish that were true, I would simply do it. But its vanishing
from the repositories.
On 3/23/12 1:09 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
Yes I can. In fact, that is how I'm seeing it in the first place. I
have an openStack handler in the front script. My example script
doesn't normally generate an openStack message but LiveCode did.
Trap the openStack message and see if the target is a stac
Hi Richard,
I believe RealStudio WE does everything we can reasonably expect from an HTML5
app. So, yes, I'd say they did it. It is funny that you consider HTML5
traditional already, but I do tend to agree.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
H
In the words of Google, "Telle est la langue."
Bob
On Mar 23, 2012, at 6:24 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
> Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
>
> Klaus, I would hate to be pedantic, but I can't miss
> adding my 2 cents.
>
> Dictionnaries exist to clearly define the meaning
> of a word or phrase
I am an IT guy, and for me the pendulum has swung the other way. The upper
management think they know best what to deploy and how to use it, but from
where I sit they are just about as dumb as a post, and no argument I can make
will move them. As an example, I pushed for years to get an electron
Looking back at the original request, it was to translate the phrase "Copy
file XXX to your Applications folder", no mention of "into".
Pete
On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
> Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
>
> Klaus, I would hate to be pedantic, but I can't miss
> adding
Mark,
Yes! I agree with you about "throw".
Do you, or dose anyone, have an example that shows the use of the "throw"
command in conjunction with the "try-catch" structure?
Jim
>
> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 22:33:42 -0700
> From: Mark Wieder
> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
>
Hmmm... Are you in OS X and do you have a custom menu in the stack?
Bob
On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:22 AM, lunchnme...@aol.com wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> Sometimes I don't know how I would manage if I didn't have this group to
> get advice from.
>
> My latest problem is I have a stack that seems me
Okay so ID -G in OS X returns a space delimited list of groups the user belongs
to. If 80 is in that list, then he is an admin. You can use the form ID -p and
the results will be human readable, but you can't just look for admin because
other groups may contain the string admin, like _lpadmin fo
Going to have to shell it I am sure. I don't know the specifics, but I know
there are shell commands for the Mac. I came across this in a forum by googling
it:
ls -l /dev/console
I got:
crw--- 1 bobsneidar staff0, 0 Mar 14 09:43 /dev/console
There is also env. This will display en
I have run into a similar thing before, triggering an openStack handler when I
did not want to. I think the only real solution to what you are doing here is
to test conditionally in your frontScript openstack handler for your particular
conditions, and pass openStack messages when your condition
No clue how it would work on Windows. Here it is again:
*on* shellCopyFile tSource,tTarget -- full paths
*get* shell("cp" && quote & tSource & quote && quote & tTarget & quote)
*if* it is not empty *then*
*-- handle errors here*
*end* *if*
*end* shellCopyFile
On Thu, Mar 22, 2
I posted it earlier. Here it is again.
*on* shellCopyFile tSource,tTarget -- tSource and tTarget are both full
paths
*get* shell("cp" && quote & tSource & quote && quote & tTarget & quote)
*if* it is not empty *then*
*-- handle errors here*
*end* *if*
*end* shellCopyFile
On Th
Mark,
Thank you for the suggestion!
> put decompress(url myFilePath & "?=" & the millisecs) into tMyData
This seems to resolve the problem. Do you think there could be a problem in
that the "cached" urls could get piled up?
Thanks!
-Dan
On Mar 22, 2012, at 9:46 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lis
Yes, I understand, but for this case it was about French translation and the
"à" (à la place du "a" is a very important difference. I think...
:-)
Le 23 mars 2012 à 14:54, René Micout a écrit :
>
> Le 23 mars 2012 à 14:52, René Micout a écrit :
>
>>
>> Le 23 mars 2012 à 14:24, Francis Nugent
Mark Schonewille wrote:
> On 23 mrt 2012, at 11:29, Ray Horsley wrote:
>> After giving this idea some further thought I wouldn't bet on
>> it either. How would something like "import snapshot" be
>> exported to HTML5?
>
> RealStudio did it. RunRev can do it too.
Did they?
I think it depends on
Hi,
Does anyone have (good) experience with LiveCode apps running on an Android 4
tablet? I thought I'd ask before upgrading my tablet.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprog
Hi Everyone,
Sometimes I don't know how I would manage if I didn't have this group to
get advice from.
My latest problem is I have a stack that seems messed up somehow. The "top"
of most of the fields and buttons is a negative number. However, they are
visible. I want them to be visible but I
Like Tim noted, any user of any current major distro who prefers Gnome 2
can install it and use it. Ubuntu goes so far as to make this a
one-click option at login.
And it's Linux: there are more than a hundred distros to choose from,
most of them almost infinitely configurable, so any Linux
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Rene (without an accent)
I never put French accents in my mails ;
1 - Accents are a pane (almost as much as Windows !)
For I have an English International keyboard
2 - French accents usually give us strange results
when interpreted in forum lists (usual
Ray Horsley wrote:
> Thanks Richard for these thoughts. I believe I fall into a variant
> of the "camp A" which you've mentioned, working with organizations
> run by really dumb and most of all lazy IT staff. Not all of our
> clients are like this, but frequently we'll run into IT guys who
> ar
All very good points, Peter. I am also an XFCE and OpenWindows (OLVWM in Linux
speak) fan. One important distinction to keep in mind here - GNOME is not GTK
as KDE is not QT. So long as developers keep that in mind when creating
software, the desktop paradigm should not be a concern in delive
Hi Bernard,
When two companies specialise in two different activities, it doesn't mean that
one of them must be wrong. Also, the world changes and so does the path we
follow. Perhaps Apple was right both times and I would be surprised if
RealStudio doesn't come up with a locally running version
Le 23 mars 2012 à 14:52, René Micout a écrit :
>
> Le 23 mars 2012 à 14:24, Francis Nugent Dixon a écrit :
>
>> The French "a" denotes location only, but gives little
>> information concerning the direction, and even less
>> about the subtleties of "inside" or "outside".
>> I find it to be the
Le 23 mars 2012 à 14:24, Francis Nugent Dixon a écrit :
> The French "a" denotes location only, but gives little
> information concerning the direction, and even less
> about the subtleties of "inside" or "outside".
> I find it to be the worst possible translation.
Yes Francis ! But it is not "a
Hi Mark, you might not have said that such decisions are wrong, but
with finite resources, decisions must be made. Some decisions will
turn out to be the wrong decisions. About 3 years ago RealBasic and
Livecode looked like they were going in the same direction; they've
now branched off in differ
Le 23 mars 2012 à 11:57, Bernard Devlin a écrit :
> I wasn't particularly interested in the mobile space myself, but
> seeing the astronomical growth in that area, I have to think I am
> wrong and RunRev were right.
RunRev was right and i went wrong ! ;-)
--
Pierre Sahores
mobile : 06 03 95 77 7
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Klaus, I would hate to be pedantic, but I can't miss
adding my 2 cents.
Dictionnaries exist to clearly define the meaning
of a word or phrase in another language. But the
translations, based upon the etymology of the terms
in these languages are often betrayed by the
Hi Ken,
First of all, the definition of native isn't entirely clear to me. There are
over 500,000 apps in the iTunes store, no matter whether they are called native.
Second, a significant share of those 500,000 are HTML5 apps! It is difficult to
say how many, but since there are approximately 3
On 23/03/2012 11:21, Bernard Devlin wrote:
OK. Thanks for that explanation. It sounds like tomorrow has arrived
(although the emphasis is on "might replace desktop apps"). From your
description both RealStudio and RunRev are facing in the wrong
direction. But there are many people who have piv
Hi Bernard,
Well, what makes it wrong? The IT world changed quickly. Today HTML5, tomorrow
ABCD6. That doesn't mean that everyone who chose HTML5 today is wrong tomorrow.
I'm not sure where I'm saying RealStudio made a bad choice? Nor am I saying
that RunRev is going the wrong path, but it has
OK. Thanks for that explanation. It sounds like tomorrow has arrived
(although the emphasis is on "might replace desktop apps"). From your
description both RealStudio and RunRev are facing in the wrong
direction. But there are many people who have pivoted their careers
about to learn Objective-C
Hi Bernard,
HTML5 isn't for mobile devices only. HTML5 export would allow you to use
LiveCode to create really cool websites that might even replace desktop apps in
some cases. HTML5 is also great for creating web apps for mobile devices.
Besides that, it is useful that we can use LiveCode to c
But I don't think RealStudio can build for mobile devices like iOS or
Android. The two companies seem to be betting on different futures.
I wasn't particularly interested in the mobile space myself, but
seeing the astronomical growth in that area, I have to think I am
wrong and RunRev were right.
Thanks Richard for these thoughts. I believe I fall into a variant of the
"camp A" which you've mentioned, working with organizations run by really dumb
and most of all lazy IT staff. Not all of our clients are like this, but
frequently we'll run into IT guys who are simply too lazy too downlo
Hi,
RealStudio did it. RunRev can do it too.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
KvK: 50277553
Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.
After giving this idea some further thought I wouldn't bet on it either. How
would something like "import snapshot" be exported to HTML5?
On Mar 22, 2012, at 3:44 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Ray Horsley wrote:
>
> > I like the idea of HTML5 export, too.
>
> Me too, but although translating la
On 23/03/2012 06:48, Terry Judd wrote:
Hi Ken - don't know if it will help but what I usually do is put group the form
datagrid inside of another group (with the datagrid as the only member) and
then lock the 'parent' group to the required size. Then, each time I update the
datagrid I set it's
The first link is to a comprehensive review of Gnome 3, the whole thing being
worth reading, but which culminates in the following:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fedora-16-gnome-3-review,3155-16.html
The implications for the Gnome-Ubuntu usability project are quite devastating.
Basically
Hello,
I have some configuration in my program which I would like to show only to
the admin and not to a standard user.
Is there a way to read the logged in user from the system or his permission
level (win & mac)? I didn't find anything in the docs. Or is there another
approach to differentiate
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