Re: Regular expression escape characters

I don't think punctuation are word characters, so the \b might not be working right. Try \!\!\! without the \b and see if that matches something. If it does, then work on getting the boundary conditions right. -- Dar On Mar 28, 2012, at 9:19 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > I am building a regular e

[OT] ACer A100 Tablet

Anyone got one of the above and willing to share thoughts on it? -- Pete Molly's Revenge ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscrip

Re: PaintCode LiveCode

You would have to include the code in an external. On 29/03/2012, at 2:35 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: > PaintCode is a new drawing program for the Mac that generates Objective C > code to draw visual objects. Can it be use with LC? > > Sent from my iPad > > ___

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

Hi Mark, Mark Schonewille-3 wrote > > I've been in computer labs where computers wouldn't have an > (accessible) CD-rom drive or USB port. Computers in offices > may not allow limited users to start an exe that's not installed > in the programmes folder on the network. > Well, maybe (just mayb

PaintCode LiveCode

PaintCode is a new drawing program for the Mac that generates Objective C code to draw visual objects. Can it be use with LC? Sent from my iPad ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Regular expression escape characters

I am building a regular expression to find a set of question marks and exclamation points. For example ??? or !!!. These are special characters so they mean something to a regular expression. How do I find them in the text? If I want to find a word such as "Bill" I can matchText with (\bBill\b)

Re: File path to image on iOS?

John, Yes that is possible in LC to use the mobilePickPhoto to grab a photo and then save it to an images folder in you apps sandbox and or your apps documents folder. Then you can use those images in your app by using the image path to your images folder. What you can't do is have the iOS came

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

Roger, I was able to post to RevOnLine this morning. Jim > > Message: 7 > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 12:10:41 -0600 > From: Roger Guay > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: ANN: ScaleMatic > Message-ID: <1116b76a-8c30-4aff-a1cf-b2601961c...@mac.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

Argue for your limitations and, indeed, they are yours. What obstacles, Bob?  You show me true obstacles, not just bullshit, and I'll show you how they might be overcome. Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 11:53:08 -0700 From: Bob Sneidar To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI

Re: Read from process

Very cool! I kept staring at the code you sent but i'm just too fuzzy today to make much sense of things. Glad its working for you! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Read from process

Solved... it is where the end if's were placed! local nM on mouseUp startProcess end mouseUp command startProcess put fld dbPathList into nM open process nM for update set the cRunning of this card to true readloop end startProcess command readloop if the the cRunning of this c

Re: Read from process

Well I appreciate the input. This area needs more examples since the potential is huge (IMHO). Worst case I lock the user down until the process completes but give a nice "Be patient" message. regards, Glen On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:14 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Maybe its time to go with the B

Re: Read from process

Maybe its time to go with the Bob method? On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Interesting. Not sure whats up then because "read until empty" should grab > whatever happens to be in the buffer at the time. Whether its read for 10, > or whatever all the same data passes through

Re: Read from process

Interesting. Not sure whats up then because "read until empty" should grab whatever happens to be in the buffer at the time. Whether its read for 10, or whatever all the same data passes through the buffer. Meaning the data is the data and the method used to read shouldn't make a difference as far

Re: Read from process

Hi Mike, Well using your code I get the expected result at the end of the process but the interim output that I try to capture shows nothing? So good news - using your method I get the end result and the user is free to do other things ; / bad news - I can't show the interim output for feedback.

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 6:56 PM, Pete wrote: > I guess my original point, perhaps not well enough explained, was that, > according to the study in my local paper here in California, using iPads to > replace text books costs about 4 times more than using the hard copy text > books. Personally, I c

Re: Read from process

Sorry for posting and falling off the earth. A bit sick today but will try and give the gist of a send in time loop. This is just off the top of my head and as always there are probably better ways to do this (also as I mentioned before, not sure which forms of read will block and which won't so yo

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

I have noticed in talking to people about funding education that there is an almost irresistible tendency to presume that if you spend more money doing something, the results are bound to improve, even if only a little bit. This is of course, absurd. Some of the greatest minds we know in the las

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

Hi Alejandro, I think the discussion of whether education brings everyone down to the lowest common denominator is a different topic! I guess my original point, perhaps not well enough explained, was that, according to the study in my local paper here in California, using iPads to replace text boo

Re: CSV Files

Thanks Richard. I'm happy to say my handler parsed the extended test csv lines with flying colors. I'll try it along Alex's with some large datasets to see if there's any significant performance difference. By conicidence, I want the output form my handler to an array and I see Alex's does creat

Mobile App Development Challenge for STEM education [was Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5]

DOD Launches Mobile App Development Challenge: http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=15142 This is in line with recent discussions, because there is no money to encourage development. Recognition is the only reward. The focus is tools for STEM education in grades 9-12.

Re: Read from process

My first test has come back fairly well. I missed some of the initial lines of output but got all the remaining lines. I broke out of the loop no problem with the unique output line... when it was seen in the output I exited the repeat. So the first issue I would like to solve is either have the

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

Excellent points, Paul. Your suggestions have been made. Thanks, Roger On Mar 28, 2012, at 3:10 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 14 > Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:15:31 -0400 > From: Paul Dupuis > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: ANN: ScaleMatic > Messag

Re: Read from process

One method I have heard of is to redirect output to a text file, then open the file for read and read from the file every so often in a repeat loop. You still need to know when the process has ended so you can break out of the loop. Bob On Mar 28, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > The d

Re: Read from process

Right now I am trying combinations of a number of lines in x amount of time... My first test is actually running right now and I can compare the output to what is done in a terminal window. The send in time could be promising do you have a small sample? thanks, Glen On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 3:4

Re: Read from process

Could do a send in time to do the read loop, and I believe the form of read you use will determine how blocking it is. if you read till end, eof, number of bytes etc I believe it will block until the criteria is met. Haven't done this much though so not positive. When I do, I tend to use the "unti

Re: Android play sounds

You are correct it could be device related. Unfortunately I only have a HTC Inspire. -= Mike On Mar 28, 2012, at 5:30 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/28/12 4:07 PM, Michael Doub wrote: > >> I am thinking that it is a timing related bug in the engine. I >> ended up testing for "no sound

Read from process

The documentation seems slightly confusing (to me). On Linux I want to open a process for update, then write the command to be executed and then read from the process and fill the output to a field. The command takes anywhere from 1 minute to 8 minutes to execute and while it is running it output

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Re: Android play sounds

On 3/28/12 3:45 PM, Michael Doub wrote: Thanks for the locations of the native android sounds Are these paths universal to all Android systems? I vaguely recall that vendors can store system sounds wherever they wanted, but I'm fuzzy about that. Anyone know for sure? Using the following pa

Re: Android play sounds

On 3/28/12 4:07 PM, Michael Doub wrote: I am thinking that it is a timing related bug in the engine. I ended up testing for "no sound support" and issuing a second play command. I gathered statistics and it is only ever failing on the first play attempt. I am wondering if it is related to

Re: CSV Files

Pete wrote: OK, so I know CSV files are not everyone's favorite subject but sometimes you have no control over how data reaches you! I have a handler in place that deals with the vagaries of CSV files, like returns, commas, and quotes in the data (did I miss any?) but it relies on a repeat loop

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

Hi Alejandro, I've been in computer labs where computers wouldn't have an (accessible) CD-rom drive or USB port. Computers in offices may not allow limited users to start an exe that's not installed in the programmes folder on the network. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Cons

Re: Android play sounds

This is very late in the startup sequence. The point of the app is a timer for BBQing so we are talking a minute or two before the first alarm depending on what is cooking. ;-) I am thinking that it is a timing related bug in the engine. I ended up testing for "no sound support" and issuing

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

just to say it seems to have been fixed in livecode 5.5: function revDebuggerValidGlobalNames local tGlobalsRaw put the globals into tGlobalsRaw replace comma with return in tGlobalsRaw # For now we just filter out the Vista 64 bit ones. Really we should remove anything that i

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

Hi all, I have read the messages in this thread and please, correct me if I understand wrong: 1) Too many students and teachers are too "inexperienced" (not dumb) to use the available computer educational tools in their institution. 2) Most of the digital educational applications aim to teach us

Re: Android play sounds

Thanks for the locations of the native android sounds I have been looking for that. I worked around my problem by testing for "no sound support" and just playing the sound a second time and it works reliably. On Mar 27, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Barry G. Sumpter wrote: > Yep, a timer to sound an

Re: Valentina 5 Server Sneak Peek

If we buy that excellent bundle does it include both windows and mac os installs as part of the price? I'm thinking of making a windows development machine also just to make things easier on me. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > Hello all,

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

What do you think of Khan academy? My nephew is in the Glendale Unified S.D. and they are making use of it. Mike On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Judy Perry wrote: > Hahahaha! Well, in my own defense, it WAS fake, therefore it can't be, > well, you know ;-) > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Scott Morr

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Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

Apple just seeded about $800,000 worth of iPads to my one state university campus alone; most instructors privately concede that they just gave them to their kids to play with. The problem isn't with the hardware; it's usually the software and curricular integration end (or largely lack thereo

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

Very nice. Of course, an option to set the text color would be nice if you choose a dark ruler color. Also, the units (feet, km, lyrs, etc.) doesn't appear on the vertical ruler, only the horizontal one. On 3/28/2012 2:10 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > Hi all, > > Here is a small utility for making sca

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

Hahahaha! Well, in my own defense, it WAS fake, therefore it can't be, well, you know ;-) On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Scott Morrow wrote: Judy, Do you think it is alright to mention even fake cheese? : ) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

Rick Santorum is a Livecode programmer?? heh heh. But seriously, try actually coming up with some suggestions at least about how to overcome the obstacles. Otherwise, I declare your cry of "bullshit" to be the true "bullshit" that all who have no answers cry when they are confronted with the dif

Launching several applications via shell...

Have a go at: launch url urlToLaunch Summary: Launches a url in the appropriate manner for the current system. Example: launch url "http://www.runrev.com"; launch url "file:/Users/ben/Desktop/test.pdf" launch url "tel:44 7818 8822" - maybe Launch app A that launches app A1, A2, A3

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

A bit further off topic... I used to donate my spare clock cycles to seti at home. Fun at first. I stopped for two reasons. One -- If anyone finds ET's phone number, it will cause global pandemonium. The human race isn't ready for this discovery. Two -- If I find ET's phone number and I become

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

Roger and RIchard, Two more distinctions: 1) Theories that supersede vs. theories that overturn The General theory of relativity superseded Newton's theory of gravity and QM superseded Newtonian dynamics. In each case, the second is the classical limit of the first. On the other hand, Newtonia

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

 Well, Roger, since you hijacked your own thread ... So 20th century! Speculation may not be "scientific", but neither is "this is the world" (as opposed to "this is the world as scientists presently know it"). See the difference; it is apparently a point of great confusion on this thread (and

ANN: ScaleMatic

Hi all, Here is a small utility for making scales/rulers for your stacks: http://web.me.com/irog/Roger_Guay/Downloads.html Scroll down to lower left. Sure would be nice to get RevOnLine back!! Cheers, Roger __

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

Using this shell method any of the applications launched run as if they were launched natively from Linux Menus so I guess the answer is yes. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > 2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > > > I found that this will work > > > > get shell("trafficgen > /dev/nul

Re: CSV Files

The csv files are created by an export from a database, not from a spreadsheet so I don't think I need to worry about the Excel/Google issue (thankfully). Non-numeric strings will be in quotes, and the data between the quotes can contain commas and returns, escaped quotes, just about any visible A

Re: CSV Files

Now that I think about it, a properly formatted CSV file will quote string values but not numerical values, the obvious reason being, a value may actually contain commas, so they should be quoted to prevent false terminations. Excel will not do that. Maybe that is a good thing, so long as your v

File path to image on iOS?

Hi All... Is it possible to save an image from the iOS camera in a folder other than "camera Roll?" And is it possible for the iOS camera command to save the image in a folder within the app and then use those images by saving their path and then setting the filename of image object in app to

Re: CSV Files

...that seems to be the same for Google sheets, too - though I've not dug into whether there is an obvious end-of-line character. Best, Keith.. On 28 Mar 2012, at 18:03, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I have noticed that csv exports from Excel will stop short of including all > the columns in any given r

Re: CSV Files

I have noticed that csv exports from Excel will stop short of including all the columns in any given row if there is no more data, so you will get rows with varying numbers of columns if you have any empty "cells" at the end of a row. That has tripped me up a few times with other software that e

CSV Files

OK, so I know CSV files are not everyone's favorite subject but sometimes you have no control over how data reaches you! I have a handler in place that deals with the vagaries of CSV files, like returns, commas, and quotes in the data (did I miss any?) but it relies on a repeat loop looking at eve

Re: Clean Plugins

Also have a look at the cantModify property of the stack + cantSelect for single controls. Hth, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Windows: Programm Compatibility Assistent

Hi friends, I have a strange problem with my windows app(s) on Win7. 1. I created a runtime XYZ.exe, UAC Execution Level -> Default 2. I created an installer "Install XYT.exe" with UAC Execution Level -> ADMNISTRATOR, Its an installer :-) Everythings gets installed fine in general on XP and Win

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > I found that this will work > > get shell("trafficgen > /dev/null 2>&1 &") > > According to Linux it places it as a background process. > > thanks, > > Glen > > Hi Glen, Out of curiosity, if you start an interactive process, i.e an editor; does your solution still works ?

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

I found that this will work get shell("trafficgen > /dev/null 2>&1 &") According to Linux it places it as a background process. thanks, Glen On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > launch "path/to/app" should work right? > > or > > open process "path/to/app" for neither > > ma

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

launch "path/to/app" should work right? or open process "path/to/app" for neither maybe? Or the other way as mentioned by theirry I think if you do it like so get shell("mycommand & ; disown") so that disown is on its own it might work. (with no arguments it acts on the current job which in th

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012/3/28 Thierry Douez > > > 2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > >> Hi Thierry, >> >> I just tried your idea but with the same problem... unless I close the >> first application that has been opened the other won't open. >> >> >> and about this one ? > >get shell("trafficgen & disown &") >.

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 102, Issue 56

Thanks for your great post, Richard. Just one clarification if I may. Hypothesis, Theory and Law have different connotations in science. A good explanation is found at: http://wilstar.com/theories.htm Cheers, Roger O

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > Hi Thierry, > > I just tried your idea but with the same problem... unless I close the > first application that has been opened the other won't open. > > > and about this one ? get shell("trafficgen & disown &") get shell("editor & disown &") S

Re: Clean Plugins

You're asking me about something I haven't touched in about ten years. ;-) I don't think I did anything in particular other than prefix the stack name with "rev" so it wouldn't show up in stack lists unless the "show rev stacks" item in the preferences was set. Other than that, as Richard said, it

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

Sigh . . . if only a mere 10% of this discussion could have been relevant to the technical merits of my SETIproblem stack. I feel like my thread has been hijacked! Thanks and cheers, Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

Hi Thierry, I just tried your idea but with the same problem... unless I close the first application that has been opened the other won't open. On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 9:21 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > 2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza > > I am trying to have a simple application launcher (on Linux) where

Re: Launching several applications via shell...

2012/3/28 Glen Bojsza I am trying to have a simple application launcher (on Linux) where the user > can launch different applications but a clicking the associated button. > > The problem is that once the user has launched one application none of the > others will launch until they close the appl

Launching several applications via shell...

I am trying to have a simple application launcher (on Linux) where the user can launch different applications but a clicking the associated button. The problem is that once the user has launched one application none of the others will launch until they close the application they just opened. I wo

Valentina 5 Server Sneak Peek

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Re: CalendarWidget

For instance, in your stack, or in your field script: start using stack "calendarWidget100" -- d = date, in dateitems format put altAnswerDate(item 1 of d,item 2 of d,item 3 of d) into theDate stop using stack "calendarWidget100" if theDate = "" then exit to top put item 2 of theDate & "/" & item

LC5.5/Xcode 4.3.2 - App does not show up in the 5.1 simulator

Hi, maybe i am doing something wrong. I am trying to run an app in the iOS 5.1 Simulator. But for whatever reason this does not work. In the standalone settings i chose iOS 5.0 and above. There is no option for 5.1. Is this correct? When i press test then the 5.0 Simulator opens and the app sh

Re: May be OT: where is iOS 5.1 SDK and how can I deploy it?

Tom thanks - The charm of living in Europe and getting the LiveCode digest is that you wake up in the morning and someone has answered your question! Sadly though in this case it doesn't work: when I do exactly what you suggest, LC pops up a dialog box which says: "The chosen folder is not a

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

On Mar 27, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Judy Perry wrote: > And, yupp, iPads are the shiny new toys... that will suck budgetary funds out > of nurses and teacher's aids and lunches for nothing (remember when having > laptops in the classroom was the new shiny toy that accomplished what > exactly??? and be

Re: revsecurtity.dll

Hi Al, Am 28.03.2012 um 06:32 schrieb Alejandro Tejada: > Hi Klaus, > > Could you use a virtualization application > like Cameyo, Evalaze, Xenocode or ThinApp? > > These applications produce a single executable > that package many applications and all their > associated files. Looks good, will