Re: What is the way to replace frames on a website?

2012-05-28 Thread Pierre Sahores
Igor, Many thanks for pointing the attention on AngularJS. It appears to be both an amazing JQuery powered library and a semantics driven swiss-knife framework. Le 28 mai 2012 à 04:17, Igor de Oliveira Couto a écrit : On 28/05/2012, at 8:26 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: is there a better

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Pierre Sahores
Is't for me ;-) Le 28 mai 2012 à 06:36, Andre Garzia a écrit : Folks, Can anyone confirm that Loki is down? Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. ___

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Shawn LC
I'm new to LC, but what are the advantages to using on-rev compared to installing the LC server on your own VPS or dedicated? On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Pierre Sahores s...@sahores-conseil.comwrote: Is't for me ;-) Le 28 mai 2012 à 06:36, Andre Garzia a écrit : Folks, Can

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The advantage is that you don't need to install the LC server on your own. :) On 28.05.2012, at 14:23, Shawn LC wrote: I'm new to LC, but what are the advantages to using on-rev compared to installing the LC server on your own VPS or dedicated? On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Pierre

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Shawn, On-rev has a special client that allows you to do remote debugging (as in stepping thru the server side code). The special client also was supposed to make your life easier because it would do all the upload and stuff for you. The fact that the on-rev client has not been updated in ages

RE: (OT) 3D Contest this Weekend, Give it a Shot

2012-05-28 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Colin, The site does mention MAX as a format, and lists the art ones you mentioned, but does not say 3DS. I mean, it mentions 3DS on the home page I think, but in the individual store pages it doesn't. Are there any entries for the competition yet?I have an idea for something, but

Rotating a 3D object / movie

2012-05-28 Thread Sergio Schvarstein
Hi, I am developing an iOS app and I am trying to show a 3D object which I have in a 10 seconds mp4 movie loop. My idea is to insert the movie in a card and programming a slider and while the slider is moved, to show the correspondent video frame. I've made the programming using:

Re: (OT) 3D Contest this Weekend, Give it a Shot

2012-05-28 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm waiting, I think, for an activation link to be sent to me. Otherwise I can't log in to then post. On May 28, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: This contest ends after today, so don't be shy. ___

Re: (OT) 3D Contest this Weekend, Give it a Shot

2012-05-28 Thread Colin Holgate
Ok, I got in, and entered my idea. On May 28, 2012, at 11:42 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: I'm waiting, I think, for an activation link to be sent to me. Otherwise I can't log in to then post. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Rotating a 3D object / movie

2012-05-28 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hi Sergio, I have a little desktop stack I've been playing with. I want to show a movie as the background of several cards, and have control over looping and playback. I tried an animated GIF, but the downsampling to 8-bit left me with some ugly, posterized images. I came up with this: the stack

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Guglielmo, I think we're in agreement - I was mainly pointing out that the folder inside Application support can be your company name as well as the app's bundle idetifier, I don't think that was in Igor's summary. One thing for sure, specialFolderPath(Preferences) is no longer the right

Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
I just upgraded to Lion a couple of days ago. I thought I was suffering from a bout of color blindness initially but then realised that Apple made up for all that drab greyness but displaying lots more of of those pretty colored, spinning beachballs. I'm guessing Lion needs more RAM for some

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, I thought there is a way to save different versions? I'm pretty sure I saw a way to save a version under a different name in Apple apps. I installed lion and decided to use it for testing only. It is not for me and continue to use Snow Leopard on my work machine. My next new work

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
On May 28, 2012, at 9:35 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: I just upgraded to Lion a couple of days ago. I thought I was suffering from a bout of color blindness initially but then realised that Apple made up for all that drab greyness but displaying lots more of of those pretty colored, spinning

RunRev Position on Mac App Store issues

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
I emailed support a couple of days ago about two Mac App Store issues: - The ability to chack Mac App Store Receipt Files - Plans to support the sandboxing requirements I rceived the following reply this morning: LiveCode does not support this feature. This is definitely on our list of future

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Mark, I'm still getting acquainted with Lion so you may be right. I think there is some srot of versioning system in Lion but I haven't learned anything about it yet. But even so, I needed to save a totally different version of the file without affecting the original file so not sure the

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Bill, Yes, old habits die hard! I guess I'm one of e people who want to do funny things with some of my files (guessing that most of us developers need to do that from time to time) so I'm hoping there's some way of bypassing the built-in versioning. Looks like I could duplicate the original

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Peter, I installed Lion on a memory stick and plug in into my Mac when I want to use it. A 16 GB memory stick works, a 32GB memory stick is perfect. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You have to use the new duplicate menu option. some people have used the system preferences to make the shift-s command key combo to use duplicate. There's also a way to disable the new save behaviour for most apps, you have to use one of those weird apple command lines, but i don't have it

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Shawn
Thank you Andre. Sent from my iPhone 4S On May 28, 2012, at 8:33, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Shawn, On-rev has a special client that allows you to do remote debugging (as in stepping thru the server side code). The special client also was supposed to make your life easier

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Mark, I'll try that. Fortunately, I kept a disk image of my Snow Leopard environment. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Peter, I installed Lion on a memory stick and plug in into my

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/28/12 12:19 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: You have to use the new duplicate menu option. some people have used the system preferences to make the shift-s command key combo to use duplicate. And you have to remember to duplicate first before changing anything. If you forget and make

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Bjornke. I found the duplicate option and that works for me. Most of the time, the simple save will be fine but I definitely have circumstances where a special version of the file is needed. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Björnke von Gierke

BUG 10230 - RS232 Serial Comms broken in versions later than 4.5 to 4.6.4

2012-05-28 Thread Camm
This has now been reported as a bug. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10230 Regards Camm -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Camm Sent: 22 May 2012 19:56 To: 'How to use LiveCode' Subject:

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread stephen barncard
I've found that 'export' is the key to getting around not having a 'save as...'. Not a natural workflow to me, and I have to remember which apps are and are not part of the 'new paradigm'. Apple has suddenly decided that its user base are now helpless dumbasses and we can't be trusted keep track

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Dave Cragg
On 28 May 2012, at 19:19, J. Landman Gay wrote: destroying 30 years of entrenched work flow I'm glad you posted this grumpy old man of the year award comment before I did. Remember when Metacard didn't even warn you about saving? And there's me telling the kids just to stick at it. You'll

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Stephen, I concur that Apple are treating their user base as dumbasses these days. It's probably fair to say that there are a substantial number of them that fit that moniker! The problem is that Apple doesn't always provide a way to tell them I'm not a dumbass and I would like to not be

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Mind you, there are still some surprises in the LC IDE. My favourite is when you delete a substack - there's no confirmation dialog issued and often the substack is still displayed after you've deleted it. When I first started using LC, that was really confusing! I remember thinking I had

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread stephen barncard
I don't think Lion likes to be installed on partitions. It wants to own the disk. As part of the the installation process, it makes it's own, secret partition that acts as an 'emergency disk' when you boot, hear the chime, and hold down command and R. Pretty useful, unless one's partitions

Re: Kicking Off a Standalone Save

2012-05-28 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Pete Look at the savingStandalone and standaloneSaved messages sent to the mainstack. I usually trap this in a frontscript and mess with the target ;-) Cheers Monte On 29/05/2012, at 6:43 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm trying to formalize my build process by having a stack that takes care

iOS Take Save Open Photos

2012-05-28 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi All, I've had time to begin playing with the camera and photo library on the iPad. I can take a pic with the camera and can open images from the library. I've checked out the forum and list archives and have found good info on placing the image on the card, naming the image. But, I'm still

Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
The dictionary entry for constant says: If you place the constant statement in a handler, you can use the constant anywhere in the handler. If you place the constant statement in a script outside any handler, you can use the constant anywhere in the handlers of that script. NB - can use the

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Even if you didn't get a founder's membership, it's still a reasonably cheap way to get access to revserver. You get decent disk and transfer quotas for $250 per year; getting a VPS somewhere else, plus the additional cost of a revserver license, is likely to come to more than that.

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread stephen barncard
It's Coda 2 now -- a lot of improvements! On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Even if you didn't get a founder's membership, it's still a reasonably cheap way to get access to revserver. You get decent disk and transfer quotas for $250 per year; getting a VPS

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
-- Understanding Old Save + Save As... x New Autosave Versions + Duplicate -- When I first upgraded to Lion, I, too, became irritated and grumpy

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/05/2012, at 9:34 AM, stephen barncard wrote: It's Coda 2 now -- a lot of improvements! Could someone tell me if there is a syntax mode or theme for LiveCode for Coda somewhere? Many thanks in advance. -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread stephen barncard
Igor, reasonable points about how you you've come to accept the new features. Perhaps you are a better man than I. Fossilized into our old working habits ? Excuse me, I take exception to that. I'm a 'fossil-luddite' because I argue that I'm suddenly forced to work an entirely different way?

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Bill Vlahos
Igor, Nicely said. Bill Vlahos Sent from my iPhone On May 28, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@superstudent.net wrote: -- Understanding Old Save + Save As... x New Autosave Versions + Duplicate

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/28/12 7:14 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: Apple's solution to the Save As... problem was simple: get rid of the Save As... command, and replace it with a Duplicate command. The Duplicate command forces the user to make a copy of the document FIRST. If you open a document and start

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/28/12 3:44 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 28 May 2012, at 19:19, J. Landman Gay wrote: destroying 30 years of entrenched work flow I'm glad you posted this grumpy old man of the year award comment before I did. Remember when Metacard didn't even warn you about saving? Yeah, but that was

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
On 29 May 2012, at 10:17, stephen barncard wrote: I wish I could turn off the predictive spell checking features too. I am a lousy typist, make a lot of dyslexic mistakes, use backspace a lot and spend more time trying to fix wrong guesses by the checker. Too much predicting and guessing

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Since I never got that far, can't comment on that but I did get the idea fro a post on the web specifically about dual booting Snow Leopard and Lion so maybe it can work? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 2:21 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-28 Thread dunbarx
Alex. I have found that if you say this: contant x = 4 on mouseup answer x end mouseup You get a 4 But, if you place the contstant statement below the handler, you geet x. Is this what tripped you up? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Stephen, my apologies to you and to anyone else I might have offended - it wasn't intentional: On 29/05/2012, at 11:35 AM, stephen barncard wrote: [...] Fossilized into our old working habits ? Excuse me, I take exception to that. I'm a 'fossil-luddite' because I argue that I'm suddenly

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/28/12 11:29 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: PS: Jacqueline, had my first sip of home-made milk liqueur on the weekend. Had to go and make 2 more batches straight away... Will be testing out the 'orange' and the 'chocolate' versions... I'm afraid you've unleashed a monster! :-0 LOL! I

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Alex, I don't know if you and I are reading the dictionary in the same way: On 29/05/2012, at 9:00 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: [...] The dictionary entry for constant says: If you place the constant statement in a handler, you can use the constant anywhere in the handler. If you place the

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Igor- I have to say that the concept of a local constant makes absolutely no sense to me. In any reasonable language I would expect a compiler error if I tried to redefine a constant, much as the LiveCode engine does if you try to redefine a constant outside of a handler. -- -Mark Wieder

Save vs SaveAs (was Re: Upgrade to Lion)

2012-05-28 Thread FlexibleLearning
Very nicely explained, Igor. As a grumpy old man with fossilised tendencies I appreciate the explanataion of my own occasional work-flow irritations and frustrations, and why my father (who only started using computers aged 70) always seemed to have issues with document archiving despite being a

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread stephen barncard
I wish I could turn off the predictive spell checking features too. I am a lousy typist, make a lot of dyslexic mistakes, use backspace a lot and spend more time trying to fix wrong guesses by the checker. Too much predicting and guessing what I'm thinking. I liked it better when it just