Re: GPS and iPod or iPad wifi

Le 31 mai 2012 à 21:46, John Dixon a écrit : > > > Did you check to see if the location sensor is available ? > mobileSensorAvailable(sensor) > Now, yes, it return "True" when i use my external GPS. But the mobileCurrentLocation return empty If i take a picture with the apple application, t

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

yeah, like me, I was devoted to read the Evangelist and Hypercard forums every day. I piped the forums into the studio First Class systems. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 2:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/31/12 1:45 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > >> I'm not sure they would use Livecode anyway. >> > > I

Re: Upgrade to Lion

On May 31, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > 2 weeks. ;-) Hey Bob, I didn't know that you were an engineer, too! Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subs

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Use to think the LC equivalent of the keyboard shortcut to 'recompile' was cmd+return (I assume alt+return on Windows). Finally figured out it's actually cmd+s (alt+s on Win?). Does exactly the same with the added bonus of providing a very substantial safety net. I don't think it's possible to hi

Android: custom prop vs. .txt?

Hello All, Wondering aloud here. I have an Android app that uses a small amount of data (under 10Kb). The data gets updated regularly. Haven't decided when. Perhaps every half-second, or perhaps when the user hits the hardware home-button. Right now, the data is stored both as a custom prop of t

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Mark- Thursday, May 31, 2012, 6:24:43 PM, you wrote: > Recap: WIN Vista, LC 5.5. Vista? Seriously? 32- or 64-bit? > Tonight I'm able to replicate the crashing on two different instances. > So, I've got it to crash 2 out of 4 times. Granted I'm on xp rather than Vista, but I can't replicate you

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

On 5/31/12 8:24 PM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi, I did save the stack. So, the recent stacks command sees the stack, but when I click on it to open it -- the computer says "File not found." Do you know what folder it was saved in? Have you tried looking there manually in Explorer? If the file wa

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Scott- Thursday, May 31, 2012, 7:35:59 PM, you wrote: > Recently, Mark Wieder wrote: >> Apparently Reboot episodes are online. Amazing: >> http://www.tvduck.com/ReBoot.html > I have all the action figures, still in the packages. Yowza! I'm seriously impressed. I have to make do with the DVD an

Re: Transparent button issue

Hi Tom, Set the alignment to center and adjust the margins setting under the text formatting tab for the button. be well, randy - On May 31, 2012, at 7:48 PM, tbodine wrote: > Hi, > > I have a series of transparent buttons that use imported backgrounds > assigned via the button Icon. Works

Re: hello

Two of my other contacts have "sent" me spam from their Yahoo accounts in the past week. I suspect that someone has recently succeeded in a large scale Yahoo attack. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On May 31, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > So

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Recently, Mark Wieder wrote: > Apparently Reboot episodes are online. Amazing: > http://www.tvduck.com/ReBoot.html I have all the action figures, still in the packages. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design ___ use-livecod

Re: Transparent button issue

Do this and you can see what is going on. Drag the button rect wider a little more than the width of the name and taller a little more than the height of the name. It might help to put a border with no 3D on it, too. Then change the alignment. You will see that left puts the name on the left

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Bob- Thursday, May 31, 2012, 1:41:50 PM, you wrote: > Har! I don't think that law applies here though, because I wasn't > calling anyone a Nazi. I was saying the words "Trust no one." > reminded me of the movie. Of course you could apply this law to > anything really. The probability of broaching

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Hi, I did save the stack. So, the recent stacks command sees the stack, but when I click on it to open it -- the computer says "File not found." Poof. Went away from the computer all day. Thanks for the advice so far. Recap: WIN Vista, LC 5.5. Tonight I'm able to replicate the crashing on two d

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

>From a prior thread in the archive: Sorry to be late to the party on this, but currently the status icon support > in LC is for Windows only (at least according to the Read Me). > > I have a step-by-step tutorial on setting one up using Xcode, that includes > calling AppleScript from any status m

Re: Export display of Livecode app doesn't work

Seems my webmail client didn't like the formatting of my last post - you can get the whole like of current engine args here, along with an explanation of which ones still work and which ones are no longer used: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1644 - rg/4w ___

Re: Export display of Livecode app doesn't work

Glen Bojsza wrote: I just got a response in the way of a work around... *As a workaround you can explicitly disable the use of shared memory by passing the -sharedoff parameter to the engine on the command line, which will allow the app to display correctly. Note that this parameter will als

revCopyFile

Is there any way to get a meaningful error message from revCopyFile other than the ubiquitous "execution error" (on OS X)? Pete lcSQL Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subs

Transparent button issue

Hi, I have a series of transparent buttons that use imported backgrounds assigned via the button Icon. Works fine. But when I add Label text and enable Show name, two odd things happen: The Label text appears vertically off center (too low) and the Icon graphic background shifts upwards about 25

Re: Export display of Livecode app doesn't work

HI Richard, I just got a response in the way of a work around... *As a workaround you can explicitly disable the use of shared memory by passing the -sharedoff parameter to the engine on the command line, which will allow the app to display correctly. Note that this parameter will also work with

Re: hello

This is Michael. I admit I had a real weak password -- a four letter word for a common bird. My mistake was that I clicked on a link that was supposedly sent by my sister. If I don't know the sender I don't click on anything. I apologize for any problems I caused. First time in 14 years, so I gu

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2 weeks. ;-) Bob On May 31, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Thanks Kay, interesting stuff on excluding the TM disk form a backup. > Sounds like even though it's listed to be excluded, it isn't! > > I also found a comment on one of the blog posts indicating how to get rid > of the Spot

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Thanks Kay, interesting stuff on excluding the TM disk form a backup. Sounds like even though it's listed to be excluded, it isn't! I also found a comment on one of the blog posts indicating how to get rid of the Spotlight index file and start over. I'm tempted to try that but wondering how long

Re: Upgrade to Lion

After reading that article, it reenforces this growing concern that I have that more and more people at Apple are not competent. It feels like after Steve passed that a lot of people who were not getting their way earlier are getting their way now, and screwing things up. I am probably just imag

Re: Upgrade to Lion

On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > And they all > "Start Up" and "Shut Down" in record time (now that IS a big advantage !) > Are there any other advantages ? > > I misread this the first time, I thought you were confirming that Lion takes forerrr to st

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Richard, Peter, Thank you for your excellent insights, you are both far more knowledgeable in this area than I, so I appreciate learning from you. On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 6:08 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I was hoping you had found something to explain some of my Lion issues in > your comment ab

Re: (Case 8066) Bodega/Mac App Store

Yeah, I like that too! Seems like they are not very well known in the Mac community unfortunately. Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Speaking of Bodega, I am liking it more and more. One very cool feature is > that it picked all

Re: (Case 8066) Bodega/Mac App Store

Speaking of Bodega, I am liking it more and more. One very cool feature is that it picked all my apps from my Applications folder and is telling me what apps have update available even though they were not originally purchased with Bodega. On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: >

Re: hello

Someone else here at work reported a compromised Yahoo account. It might be coincidence or it might be enemy action. Bob On May 31, 2012, at 3:18 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > If you don't mind me asking, what was your old password. I don't need the > exact, I'm just wondering if was 'my birthday' o

Re: Upgrade to Lion -- why Valentina has columnar format ...

SQL only creates indexes on the fly in very specific circumstances so most of the time, you'll get a serial scan if your'e selecting on a column that is not indexed. You can use the EXPLAIN QUERY PLAN statement to find out exactly how any given SELECT statement is processed by sqlite. Even if you

Re: hello

If you don't mind me asking, what was your old password. I don't need the exact, I'm just wondering if was 'my birthday' or like '12345' or something that would be considered weak. I'm just interested in how sophisticated the attack was. My passwords are getting more complex, but I'm wondering i

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Hi Kay, You raise some interesting theories. For your gps-based system, I would have recommended that you take a look at the sqlite rtree extension which is specifically geared to range-based queries such as gps coordinates. Unfortunately, the version of the sqlite library that is currently embed

Fwd: (Case 8066) Bodega/Mac App Store

Folks, I think we already figured this out but here's the official word from Bodega re selling in the MAS. Pete lcSQL Software -- Forwarded message -- From: Bodega Support Date: Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:27 AM Subject: Re: (Case 8066) Bodega/Mac App Store To

RE: Upgrade to Lion - backups

I may be old school but in my data centers I do the following: 1) Raid arrays for local disks so no disk failure will either stop production or incur data loss. 2) Either rotating off-site tape backups or raid disk swaps of current data will take care of water/fire/wind. 3) Rotating tape backu

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

On 5/31/12 1:45 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: I'm not sure they would use Livecode anyway. I'm not so sure. A large number of the old HC mailing list are here now. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

And ... what do you do if part of your failure instance includes a lack of network connectivity? No way back from that one. Just saying... Tim On May 31, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems > like Carbonite, and b

Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

OIC that makes sense then. I priced out some of these online backup systems like Carbonite, and by the time you pay as much as a 2 tb drive with enclosure would cost, you could have paid for a 5 year subscription to Carbonite. 5 years is as much as you can expect a drive that is used for Time Ma

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Har! I don't think that law applies here though, because I wasn't calling anyone a Nazi. I was saying the words "Trust no one." reminded me of the movie. Of course you could apply this law to anything really. The probability of broaching any comparison becomes more likely the longer the discussi

Re: Upgrade to Lion - backups

bob, alternate drive is for redundancy if a drive were ever to poop out and I keep one off site or in a firesafe if here as well for the theft/fire issue. I learned this thru a friend who had a very redundant backup system. only problem was not good about offsite and there was a fire in the o

Re: Upgrade to Lion -- why Valentina has columnar format ...

On 5/31/12 9:35 PM, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > Yes, but it is my understanding of SQL that a query on a non-indexed column > will create a temporary index in mySQL and maybe others. I do not think so ... Look. To build index db engine need read all values of column yes? and yet build the whole inde

RE: GPS and iPod or iPad wifi

Did you check to see if the location sensor is available ? mobileSensorAvailable(sensor) And if so, have you used :- mobileStartTrackingSensor to start the tracking ? > From: ludovic.theba...@laposte.net > Subject: GPS and iPod or iPad wifi > Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 21:14:13 +0200 > To: use-live

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

You had to pay Apple for the development version (v.s. player) of Hypercard. I think this started with version 2. Le 31 mai 2012 à 21:08, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Even Hypercard was not > free. We paid for it when we paid for the Mac it was in

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Godwin strikes again...;^) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law -Ken On 31/05/2012 19:48, Bob Sneidar wrote: Reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail where the guy who hires him to find his father is in cahoots with the Nazis. God, I hate Nazis! ;-) On May 31, 2012, at 11:35 AM, K

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

On 05/31/2012 10:08 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Even Hypercard was not free. We paid for it when we paid for the Mac it was installed on. People who want things to always be free need to also consider the term "freeloader". Someone somewhere pays

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

On 05/31/2012 08:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Check your Recent Menu in Livecode. If it exists, Livecode will know where it is. If it isn't there, it was never saved. In the future, New Stack - Save Stack. No more problem. Also saving after compile is a great strategy as pointed out by Mark W as

GPS and iPod or iPad wifi

Hello, I want to add a function to get the gps location in my app. I've only an ipod touch and an ipad wifi for my test. I can use a bluetooth gps with my jailbroken ipod. But none display any location when i ask ! put mobileCurrentLocation() into theLocation answer theLocation["latitude"

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Even Hypercard was not free. We paid for it when we paid for the Mac it was installed on. People who want things to always be free need to also consider the term "freeloader". Someone somewhere pays for the "free" thing. Even if Apple gave

RE: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

"I hate Illinois Nazis." Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2012 2:48 PM To: How t

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Reminds me of Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail where the guy who hires him to find his father is in cahoots with the Nazis. God, I hate Nazis! ;-) Bob On May 31, 2012, at 11:35 AM, Ken Corey wrote: > Mark Weider was right: trust no one. > > -Ken _

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

I'm not sure they would use Livecode anyway. They want to moan about "the good old days", but when presented with language xyz which is free, and which has hundreds of free libraries, etc. they will find something to bitch about when it comes to Livecode. "What? I have to pay for it! But, I get

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Hi all, Am 31.05.2012 um 20:35 schrieb Ken Corey: > On 31/05/2012 18:06, dunb...@aol.com wrote: >> I am on a Mac, so I probably cannot help here, but know that this is >> the worst report I have ever heard of. It is NOT usual. LC is very >> stable. That said, no particular code construction or au

RE: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Mark, I have got some of these debugger freezes now and again and the F5 key has restarted things EVERY time. An example: I have resizing code library for my mobile applications. When testing in the IDE if I set a breakpoint and then drag the corner of the active card the IDE will lock up tighter

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

On 31/05/2012 18:06, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I am on a Mac, so I probably cannot help here, but know that this is the worst report I have ever heard of. It is NOT usual. LC is very stable. That said, no particular code construction or authoring methodology should be at any particular risk. Wow.

Re: Upgrade to Lion -- why Valentina has columnar format ...

Yes, but it is my understanding of SQL that a query on a non-indexed column will create a temporary index in mySQL and maybe others. I might be wrong about that. But Foxpro does not do that. In fact if you set a filter or seek using a FOR statement that has no indexed columns or has some non-ind

Re: Upgrade to Lion -- why Valentina has columnar format ...

On 5/31/12 8:14 PM, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > Foxpro does, but it's slow. You mean that foxpro can do search on column that is not indexed ? Well, of course each db engine can do this. :-) And Valentina, and Light, and mySQL, ... And yes it is much slower than indexed search, I did mean bel

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

On 5/31/12 12:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think that menu item lists all stacks that were ever opened, but does not discriminate between files on disk and new stacks that were created but not saved. You know, I think I'm wrong about that. The menu only shows files you really did open from

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Bob Sneidar wrote: > On May 31, 2012, at 10:16 AM, René Micout wrote: >> I have an application ready to work (a todo list...) and I want >> to trigger the opening of my application by clicking on an icon >> placed in the right side of the menubar (like spotlight, Time >> Machine, wifi, dropbox, e

Re: On-Rev : CSS with LC

Yes but it's probably not the best way to go as long as the CSS presentation's layer will always stay more easy to manage and update if it's not included in the the application's logic provided by your LC-Server scripts and libraries stacks. HTH, Le 31 mai 2012 à 17:46, Christian Langers a écr

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

On 5/31/12 11:33 AM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: I was in the debugger and tried to make a test button with a mouse up line that was "copy card" -- and the dictionary or debugger froze. Restart the computer and the whole project is gone. I can't even find a broken icon. If you have never saved the

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Thank you Bob ! Your answer is almost the same of Mark... I don't want to invest in Xcode because I have no time and probably not enough competence... This is the reason I use LiveCode... I am an "amateur" never mind... :-( Thank you Mark and Bob for your answers... René Le 31 mai 2012 à 19:33, B

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

I found this while googling. Remember everyone, Google is your friend! https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/StatusBar/StatusBar.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/1073i Bob On May 31, 2012, at 10:16 AM, René Micout wrote: > > Le 31 mai 2012 à 17:35, Bob Sneidar a

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Oh! LC has no internal way to do that. You would have to have an app compiled in a different language that ran as a service and created that menu. You could launch your LC app from that app. But unless the menu provides some functionality, like launching an updater, or turning on or off some fu

Re: Upgrade to Lion

First time was software, back when I was maintaining a database on an 8086 machine that used EIDE drives (remember that hell?) Second time it was the drive. It went bad and took out the tapes. The person overseeing the backups was getting errors, but didn't tell anyone until the very last tape,

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Check your Recent Menu in Livecode. If it exists, Livecode will know where it is. If it isn't there, it was never saved. In the future, New Stack - Save Stack. No more problem. Also saving after compile is a great strategy as pointed out by Mark W as there are times when a code error will lock u

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Le 31 mai 2012 à 17:35, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > I do not think so, but as soon as I say that, someone will prove me wrong. If > the menu were in the card itself, I would say you could mimic a menu easily > enough, but if you mean in the OS Menu bar, I think you are going to be > restricted to

Re: Upgrade to Lion -- why Valentina has columnar format ...

Foxpro does, but it's slow. Bob On May 31, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: >> Additionally, the structure of an SQLite DB, particularly the indexing, >> can radically improve performance. > > Not very right. > > Any db have indexing. And relational, and navigational, and columnar.

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Should not need to alternate drives with Time Machine. Bob On May 31, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: > two 2tb external drives and just alternate between them once a week with time > machine. figure if a drive goes worst case is loosing a week. so far they > have zipped along for a w

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Hi. I am on a Mac, so I probably cannot help here, but know that this is the worst report I have ever heard of. It is NOT usual. LC is very stable. That said, no particular code construction or authoring methodology should be at any particular risk. Can you say exactly what it is that you we

Re: On-Rev : CSS with LC

Uh... Thanks Andre ; sometimes I don't understand why the same lines of code do work and why they don't. I tried everything to get it run before posting here... Damn, you must have some kind of "coding siddhis" !! After you wrote me it worked... hehe ! Cheers, Christian Am 31.05.2012 um 17

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Mark- Thursday, May 31, 2012, 9:33:13 AM, you wrote: > What do you do with your development so you don't crash and kill a day > of work? Is this to be expected? I save after every compile. Trust no one. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ u

Re: Upgrade to Lion -- why Valentina has columnar format ...

On 5/31/12 5:47 PM, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: Hi Richard, >> The sql statements were not that complex, just a LOT of toing and froing >> between LC and the db. I soon abandoned SQLite as it was clear that >> Valentina was getting the answers quicker. > > Ruslan's genius is noteworthy, but perhaps

Re: Upgrade to Lion

> On May 30, 2012, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > >> 3 times I had tape backups fail me when I needed them most. I will never, no >> ever, no not ever use tape again. >> >> Bob I can feel your pain as we hear nightmare stories all the time, but I would be willing t

Re: Upgrade to Lion

two 2tb external drives and just alternate between them once a week with time machine. figure if a drive goes worst case is loosing a week. so far they have zipped along for a while now with no issues. of course with murphy's law of backups i have not had to use them as they are effective backup

Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

Hi, Newbie alert: I've been working on my first project and hitting the manuals, tutorials and such -- and then CRASH. WIN Vista Home Premium with LiveCode 5.5. I was in the debugger and tried to make a test button with a mouse up line that was "copy card" -- and the dictionary or debugger froz

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

You know, advertising for Livecode should really focus on informing the old Hypercard community that Hyper Programming is not gone forever, that it lives on in Livecode. There seems to be a LOT of people mourning "the good ol' days" of Hypercard, who are completely oblivious of Livecode. Posting

Re: [ANN] TickerTape 1.0 in the appStore

John, Congratulations! Jim Lambert ___ 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: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

On May 31, 2012, at 8:44 AM, René Micout wrote: > under name "pmbrig " ? Yes, I just posted something on this forum mentioning LC. So did Lynn Fredericks. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > Le 31 mai 2012 à 13:15, Bernard Devlin a écrit : > >> http:

Re: On-Rev : CSS with LC

Christian, That should work with LiveCode server with no problem. Just remember to set the HTTP headers correctly. =) On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:46 PM, Christian Langers < ch...@whitelotus.on-rev.com> wrote: > Hello ! > > I'm working a website for my pupils and I host it on "on-rev". > > My que

On-Rev : CSS with LC

Hello ! I'm working a website for my pupils and I host it on "on-rev". My question is if you can do this with livecode ? Has someone succeeded in doing it that way ? Thanks in advance, Christian ___ us

Re: Upgrade to Lion

That is too bad you paid for Snow Leopard. Apple since has been giving Snow Leopard away to those who upgrade to Lion from Leopard. Perhaps you can get a refund? Bob On May 31, 2012, at 5:19 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > Then I spent several days updating my 2 iMacs from OS 10.5, through

Re: Upgrade to Lion

I think in a good economy Apple would do that, but in this economy I believe that would be a big risk. It's my humble opinion that Apple is focusing on the big revenue generators and waiting out the "global recession" is what I believe they are still calling it. Bob On May 31, 2012, at 3:57

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

I do not think so, but as soon as I say that, someone will prove me wrong. If the menu were in the card itself, I would say you could mimic a menu easily enough, but if you mean in the OS Menu bar, I think you are going to be restricted to the look and feel of whatever OS you are running. Bob

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

Done. Stunning isn't it, that people who knew about Hypercard can write articles about it and not know about Livecode? Bob On May 31, 2012, at 4:15 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/ > > It might be useful if so

Re: Export display of Livecode app doesn't work

Glen, were you able to turn up any answers on this? Have you been able to find any other app which exhibits similar behavior? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: iOS: print to pdf crashing app, please help

Thanks, William. Turns out there's something on my card that the print command doesn't like. When I created a new clean stack with nothing but a single button and a single field on the card, it worked just fine. But with my regular stack, it crashes. I'll submit a report to RunRev and send them

Re: Preferences menu behaviour on Mac changed in LC 5.5?

I personally think that LC should strip NULL characters from anything except the clipboard, variables and fields. Property names, menus etc. there is no reason to have a NULL there. Bob On May 31, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > I figured out the problem. > > In the text of the "Edit

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Kay C Lan wrote: As for SQLite being ubiquitous on moblie devices, in my own opinion it's due more to it's price, like mySQL and gmail. If people had to pay $5 a month for the privilege I think suddenly the numbers would shift. Just because a billion people do, doesn't mean it's the best. True

Re: iOS: print to pdf crashing app, please help

Hi Chris, This is my code: lock screen put specialFolderPath("documents") & "/screenshot.pdf" into tPDFPath open printing to pdf tPDFPath print this card from 13,6 to 750,753 into 13,6,600,600    close printing unlock screen Hope this works for you now. greetings, William 2012/5/

Re: iOS: print to pdf crashing app, please help

William, I've tried different paths as well, including documents. Doesn't seem to make a difference in this case. Every time my handler hits the "print this card" line the app crashes. Are you able to successfully print a pdf into the documents folder? Thanks, Chris On May 31, 2012, at 4:45

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Thank you Mark, I red all that, but... it is too much complex for my little (french) brain... ;-) I don't want to make a menu, but only place an icon when clicked triggers the oncet of a little application under it (oh ! my poor English, sorry)... And all that with only LiveCode... Is it possib

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Hi from you know where, Jacqueline wrote : > I really like Time Machine too -- for backups. It's always > running, and it's saved me repeatedly. Same with me, but NEVER, NEVER rename any of your files. If you do, you will never find ye olde file versions. -Francis "Nothing should ever be done

Re: Preferences menu behaviour on Mac changed in LC 5.5?

I figured out the problem. In the text of the "Edit" button of the menu bar group there were 5 invisible characters at the beginning of the line with the "Preferences" menu item. I only discovered them when I was using the arrow keys to move through the text of the button. When I copied the tex

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

under name "pmbrig " ? Le 31 mai 2012 à 13:15, Bernard Devlin a écrit : > http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/ > > It might be useful if some of you who can compare Hypercard and > Livecode posted a comment to the article showing that the grandc

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, After spending half a day on reading all the "Upgrade to Lion" posts (Oufff !), I have a few comments : 1 - I bought a Macbook Pro portable with Lion, and was driven mad by the problem of scrolling, and the strange trackpad. It took me about a week to solve the problem

Hypercard: the missing link to the web

http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercard-the-missing-link-to-the-web/ It might be useful if some of you who can compare Hypercard and Livecode posted a comment to the article showing that the grandchild of Hypercard is alive and well. I've left a comment on the aggregating site t

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Jeff, Sorry for the slow reply. I agree, although I didn't suggest it would be an iPad only world. I can see MacBook Airs/Pro, keyboards for input, trackpad/touch screen for manipulation. Who knows, maybe even Siri will immigrate, so all those keyboard shortcuts can be perfomend by Voice - the l

Re: iOS: print to pdf crashing app, please help

Hi there, I use 'put specialFolderPath("documents") & "/screenshot.pdf" into tPDFPath' This works fine with me. I don't use 'temporary folder'. greetings, William 2012/5/31 Thomas McGrath III : > I could not get this to work for me either. > > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Hi René, There is a statusIcon property, but I don't think it works correctly. It is "experimental". Ken Ray wrote a tutorial about creating a status icon with XCode: http://qery.us/28d -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://eco

How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

Hello, How to put, with LiveCode, an (application) icon to the right of the menu bar of Mac OS X Lion? Bon souvenir de Paris René ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Peter, Please accept my apology for the slow reply but my access to this List can be sporadic. I'm sure you are more wise than I am in this regard as I've gleaned many SQL tidbits from your posts to this List. As for SQLite being ubiquitous on moblie devices, in my own opinion it's due more to i

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