Re: [PREVIEW] Task LIst Plugin (lcTaskList) for LiveCode

2012-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/05/12 09:56, Bill Vlahos wrote: Richmond, So the installation of plugins is a bit more customizable than I thought. My instructions worked for Mac and Windows but not Linux if there is no pre-existing location for them that the IDE already knows about. If there was or you specifically

Re: iOS Splash Screen masks display

2012-05-26 Thread Graham Samuel
Jacque thanks very much, works perfectly. My mistake was to think that the card is drawn after preOpenCard and before openCard (this is implied by the SC docs, which tell you to use a preOpenCard handler to execute stuff that you want to do before the card appears). It appears that actually the

Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear LiveCode users in Germany and the Netherlands, I would like to make two announcements. First of all, I would like to remind you of the existence of Dutch and German LiveCode forums. In these forums, you can freely discuss all LiveCode-related topics. You can find the german forum at

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2012 03:32 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Dear LiveCode users in Germany and the Netherlands, I would like to make two announcements. First of all, I would like to remind you of the existence of Dutch and German LiveCode forums. In these forums, you can freely discuss all

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Beste Richmond, Die mensen zijn zeker ook welkom op de bijeenkomst, als Nederland voor hen niet te ver weg is. Bovendien kan eenieder mij ook in het Vlaams of Afrikaans aanschrijven. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Mike Bonner
If I recall correctly, when you rent a movie you have 24 hours to watch it starting at the time you actually start playing the movie, otherwise I think it can sit there for a while (not sure how long) waiting for you to kick start the timer. . Not sure anymore though as my first gen (of the new

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2012 03:51 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Beste Richmond, Die mensen zijn zeker ook welkom op de bijeenkomst, als Nederland voor hen niet te ver weg is. Bovendien kan eenieder mij ook in het Vlaams of Afrikaans aanschrijven. Droevig, kon ik enkel me niet tegen dat cooment verzetten.

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, People can also contact me in Gronings, although I may not understand every word. I don't know if you're trying to write Flemish, Engrikaans or Gaelic. Sorry. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. snip So I give up on that and think, OK, let's watch a movie through my new AppleTV box. Already watched several NetFlix movies with no problem. Ordered a movie. After

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Marian Petrides, MD
I think you have 30 days from the date of purchase to start watching and 24 hours from the time you start to finish the movie. Sent from my iPad On May 26, 2012, at 8:56 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: If I recall correctly, when you rent a movie you have 24 hours to watch it

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Marian Petrides, MD wrote: I think you have 30 days from the date of purchase to start watching and 24 hours from the time you start to finish the movie. Sent from my iPad I like the DRM of a DVD better. Anytime, anywhere... which should be in the

Re: [PREVIEW] Task LIst Plugin (lcTaskList) for LiveCode

2012-05-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Richmond, On May 26, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Richmond wrote: You should not need to change the suffix unless you are installing it for Revolution instead of LiveCode. I am, and your website claims that your plugin works for ALL versions (might be a wee bit of an over-generalisation - think

Re: [PREVIEW] Task LIst Plugin (lcTaskList) for LiveCode

2012-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2012 05:04 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Richmond, On May 26, 2012, at 1:22 AM, Richmond wrote: You should not need to change the suffix unless you are installing it for Revolution instead of LiveCode. I am, and your website claims that your plugin works for ALL versions (might be a wee

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Colin Holgate
Purchased was probably the wrong word. Surely you are renting the video? If you rent a DVD from a video store, aren't you expected to return it soon, even if you didn't get around to watching it? On May 26, 2012, at 9:42 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: I like the DRM of a

Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
For those of you using Linux, building mobile apps requires us to move our work to either Mac or Win to make standalones. For iOS this is to be expected; Apple has the right to require that we spend a thousand dollars purchasing a Mac from them to build for their mobile OS. But for Android,

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Colin Holgate
You will be interested to hear that in the Flash community people have taken the iOS 5.1 SDK out of Xcode, got it over to Windows, and are successfully publishing iOS apps there. I don't know how legal that is, but it ought to work for Linux too. ___

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
When renting, yes. On May 26, 2012 10:47 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: Purchased was probably the wrong word. Surely you are renting the video? If you rent a DVD from a video store, aren't you expected to return it soon, even if you didn't get around to watching it? On May 26,

Re: what should be done with MobGUI?

2012-05-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
does he know that there's tons of unanswered questions on his support email as well as the forum? On 26.05.2012, at 05:30, Monte Goulding wrote: I was just chatting to John the other day and it's not abandonware. -- Monte Goulding On 26/05/2012, at 12:52 PM, Gerry Orkin

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: You will be interested to hear that in the Flash community people have taken the iOS 5.1 SDK out of Xcode, got it over to Windows, and are successfully publishing iOS apps there. I don't know how legal that is, but it ought to work for Linux too. There are some who run

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Why not just tell people some information about this meeting on the use list, the official forum etc. I'm sure runrev would retweet any announcements that you have about community meetings (if you tell them to), and there's probably sense in writing a newsletter for revup about this. Asking

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: So I give up on that and think, OK, let's watch a movie through my new AppleTV box. Already watched several NetFlix movies with no problem. Ordered a movie. After I've paid for it, I'm told a) it's only available to watch for 24 hours, and b) it's gonna take nearly 6

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thats how mine works. Mine also usually says 12 hours to download to begin with, then I check 10 minutes later and its ready to play. One HUGE performance factor ive found is if you use a centralised dns like opendns or unblock-us etc it pretty much destroys the download performance and its

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Colin Holgate wrote: You will be interested to hear that in the Flash community people have taken the iOS 5.1 SDK out of Xcode, got it over to Windows, and are successfully publishing iOS apps there. I don't know how legal that is,

Re: what should be done with MobGUI?

2012-05-26 Thread Graham Samuel
Good question. I bought MobGUI quite a time ago, and stopped using it when I couldn't get answers to my questions. I did get some advice but from an independent source, John Dixon. He was so knowledgeable that for a time I thought he was John Craig. Maybe John Dixon knows what's going on, since

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/25/12 11:45 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. Okay, I laughed. :) But only in commiseration. Still in the throes of dealing with Apple Store submission for my app. TO register it, I have to upload at least one screenshot (why?). No problem, I have

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: The Android SDK is already openly available for every popular OS, so it should be relatively easy for RunRev to support building for it from any of the desktop OSes their IDE supports. The Mac and Win IDEs

Re: Standalone problem

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Jacque, as usual you have the right answer! Might be useful to document everything I tried and the results. I did try setting up the folder structure outlined in the newsletter article since it says You only need the *Runtime* hierarchy for building Standalones containing your externals.

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 1:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/25/12 11:45 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Having a great Friday evening thanks to Apple. Okay, I laughed. :) But only in commiseration. Still in the throes of dealing with Apple Store submission for my app. TO register it, I have

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
You can also just use the iPhone simulator on your mac and hit cmd-s and a file appears on your desktop. Ive used these unaltered for the screenshots, they dont carry the network your phone is on and signal strength too :) Doesn't the power button + home button on an iOS device make a

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Colin Holgate
I think this makes sense, if the buyer has to pay the same price that Mac users have to pay for Windows. Windows 7 Ultimate (the equivalent version to OSX, because OSX does't come in cut-down variations) has a retail price of $320. Lion sells for $30. Now, to be fair you would have had to

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Haworth
This is for the Mac Apple Store for desktop apps, not iPhone/iPad apps, not sure if the requirements are the same. The error message detailed that the screenshot had to be in one of several file formats - mine was .png which was one of the valid formats. It also had to be at least 1280x800 - my

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/26/12 12:59 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Doesn't the power button + home button on an iOS device make a screenshot in your photo gallery? The screen should flash. Probably but I didn't bother. I was making screenshots in different sizes for both main Android stores as well as the iPad, and

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Roger Eller
Apple would have to be VERY specific as to compatible hardware. The hackintosh community at TonyMacX86 dot com have done all the leg work already. There are a sub-set of PC hardware, motherboards, CPU's video cards, etc. that in the right combination, allows OS X to actually 'believe' it is

[ANN] Launcher X 0b04

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi guys, A new beta version of Launcher X is now available. Launcher X is a recreation of the old Launcher for Mac OS 9 and earlier. This version works better with OSX Lion and no longer causes the Finder to block a few seconds. You can download Launcher X at http://qery.us/265 for free. --

Re: [PREVIEW] Task LIst Plugin (lcTaskList) for LiveCode

2012-05-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Richmond, You can get the count of script lines in the Application Browser. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. lcTaskList: (http://www.infowallet.com/lctasklist/index.htm) On

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear Björnke, It isn't entirely clear to me what the problem is. The message about the forum was meant for people who speak German or Dutch, the message about the meeting was solely for people who speak Dutch. There are still people on this mailing list who aren't a member of the Dutch forum

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 26.05.2012, at 23:44, Mark Schonewille wrote: I don't have date to announce yet. I might announce it here when I have one. The discussion about the meeting is done on the Dutch forum because it is a meeting for Dutch participants and it is easier to communicate about it in Dutch. Oh

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Björnke, It would be really cool to invite you to a meeting here in my country. Perhaps I should ask the attendants about their English or German skills and see if we could invite you as a guest next time? Actually, I think that we would welcome anyone from anywhere, but the initial

Re: Dutch and German Forums - Dutch User Group Meeting

2012-05-26 Thread stephen barncard
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: On a completely unrelated note, anyone know how I can learn dutch within a few weeks? I've had Dutch friends tell me don't even try it's so hard... Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb

Re: Request for Linux IDE to build for Android submitted

2012-05-26 Thread Andre Garzia
I keep throwing votes on the screen but nothing happens =) now, serious, this feature is way overdue... it should have been there from the start. On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: For those of you using Linux, building mobile apps requires us

AnimationEngine Question…?

2012-05-26 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hi All… I'm always a little perplexed on where I should post within the RunRev areas? I usually post to the discussion list, here, but noticed that AnimationEngine and a few others have dedicated areas in the forums. In any case, I had a questions about AE. I'm putting a little demo project

Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-26 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear LiveCode Masters, Could you experienced folks please give us a concise direction on *where* and *under what name/extension* to save user preferences in the different platforms? 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(Preferences) Prefs Name: anything you wish, but convention is that

How Do You UNDO?

2012-05-26 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear LiveCode Experts, A reliable UNDO mechanism is an essential part of most desktop apps. Programming UNDO functionality, however, is not a trivial task, and it usually involves quite a bit of meta-programming: turning function calls into stackable objects, assembling the undo/redo stacks,

Write limited content from different devices to shared Google Drive, anyone

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi All, Has anyone written a LC project that saves its output data to a file (or, better yet, modifies a file by appending it with new content put at the end) that is on the GOOGLE DRIVE? Google Drive is the new flavor of Google Documents? I want different (3 or 4) devices (laptops, smart

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Igor, The current Apple directive for OS X preferences is that they should go in: ~/Library/Application Support/app-identifier ~/Library/app-identifier ~/Library/Caches/app-identifier app-identifier can be a folder containing the prefs file or the prefs file itself, and the first of the above

ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.7

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Folks- We're a month away from the 2011 LiveCode Developer Conference, so I think it's once again time to issue an official PowerDebug update, and there have been some bug fixes and improvements along the way. I'm happy to announce that version 1.1.7 is now available for download. All registered

Re: How Do You UNDO?

2012-05-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Igor- Saturday, May 26, 2012, 7:42:31 PM, you wrote: How do you do it? How do you implement UNDO in your applications? Is there a generic mechanism or technique that you use, or do you re-invent the wheel with every project? Depends on what you want to undo. Here's what I do in an upcoming