[TIPS] Mouse-wheel field scrolling

2012-06-17 Thread FlexibleLearning
Sometimes the tips posted here may be a bit intimidating to folks who are new to LiveCode, so here is a Back-to-Basics one. A simple stack or card script handler to help smooth field scrolling with the mouse-wheel... --| If you already have a rawkeyDown handler in a

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-17 Thread Ken Corey
On 17/06/2012 03:09, Mark Rauterkus wrote: With LC 5.5, within the application, I save files (LC stacks) but they are NOT visible when I surf the computer's hard drive from outside of LC. Furthermore, when I create a new folder from within LC, even the new folders are not visible when I browse

Re: LiveCode Meeting

2012-06-17 Thread John Allijn
Hallo Mark, Groeten uit frankrijk :) Succes met de meeting morgen. Ben benieuwd naar wat er uit komt. Groet, John On Jun 16, 2012, at 16:16, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi, Just a quick reminder. Tomorrow 17 June at 13:00, eHUG organises a meeting at the

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi Ken and Others, (Happy Fathers Day too!) Thanks. Sorta fixed. What Ken wrote worked. I put the suggested code from Ken into the message box. Fine. File showed up in the desktop as expected. Next, with the same LC project open, do SAVE puts a visible LC project on the desktop too. Wonderful

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Richmond
On 06/16/2012 11:02 PM, Richmond wrote: On 06/16/2012 10:49 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: OK, today's kindergarten question, to which I think I knew the answer once upon a time (but then, i thought that I used to use send some message to every field in this card . . .). I want to be able to leave a

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I'm posting from nabble, and that seems only to have whatever version of the list this is going to. Is there some other service that has the right new address? If so I will use it. On the install issue, it may well be 32bit libs. On a 32bit Debian install, it went in just fine. Is it

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I have just made a merry little stack with 3 fields all in a row. And a button containing this script: on mouseUp  put the id of the focusedObject into fOB  put (fOB + 1) into fOB  focus on fld id fOB on mouseUp

set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Is there a way to set the tab widths on a combo box? I'm getting a no property specified error when I try set the the tab widths of button exTyp to 3 of Error description: Properties: token is not a property The default stops are way to large for a 1 char hotkey, and there's enough

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 7:07 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Tried this and had NO JOY: on mouseUp  put the id of the focusedObject into fOB repeat until control id fOB is a field  put (fOB + 1) into fOB end repeat  focus on fld id fOB on mouseUp was this an end the

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, on closefield focus on fld x end closefield on exitfield closefield end exitfield -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 16

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: on closefield  focus on fld x end closefield The catch, though, is that I don't necessarily know what fld X is at the time I write--fields get hidden and unhidden depending upon context. This is why I'd

Re: set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Richard, Am 17.06.2012 um 17:01 schrieb Dr. Hawkins: Is there a way to set the tab widths on a combo box? I'm getting a no property specified error when I try set the the tab widths of button exTyp to 3 the correct term is the tabstops of ... But I doubt that buttons can have

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: The catch, though, is that I don't necessarily know what fld X is at the time I write--fields get hidden and unhidden depending upon context.  This is why I'd like to have a tab sent somewhere (I liked the send tab to me in

Re: set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Is there a way to set the tab widths on a combo box?  I'm getting a no property specified error when I try    set the the tab widths of button exTyp to 3 the correct term is the tabstops of ... set the tabstops

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-17 Thread Ken Corey
Just sounds like permissions from hell kinda problem. Have your administrators set up permissions for a LAN? Ar eyou running with an account that does not have administrative privs? In either of these cases, you need to figure out where you have permissions and only save there. I guess

Re: set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread Klaus on-rev
Am 17.06.2012 um 18:02 schrieb Dr. Hawkins: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:17 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Is there a way to set the tab widths on a combo box? I'm getting a no property specified error when I try set the the tab widths of button exTyp to 3 the correct

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, It seems that the HIG and the Mac App Store requirements are at odds for some reason. Here's what the OS X Developer Library Submitting To The App Store document has to say. Note there's no mention of the Preferences folder. - *Your application may write to the following

Re: set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread Mike Bonner
You might read the article here. http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/march/issue87/newsletter4.php It details a custom built combo box. The link to the example is no longer valid, but a copy of it can be found at http://www.imksoftware.co.uk/JDCombobox.zip (I found this link at

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Since you already have already have code to hide/reveal fields depending on context, isn't it possible to detrrmine which field needs to have focus in that same logic and use a focus on field x command? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:58 AM, Dr. Hawkins

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Since you already have already have code to hide/reveal fields depending on context, isn't it possible to detrrmine which field needs to have focus in that same logic and use  a focus on field x command? If I went to a

Re: set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com wrote: Yes, sorry, I forgot to mention that the tabstops of... is a FIELD property (only), not a button property! See the dictionary. Yeah, but this is one that combo boxes *should* have for their field-like behavior . . .

Re: set tab widths on combo box

2012-06-17 Thread stephen barncard
it's gotchas like this that have caused me to make my own custom controls. One can make those work exactly for the task at hand. here's a custom control I made back in 2007 in Revolution/Livecode. Inspired by a Ken Ray presentation at Revcon 2. http://houseofcubes.com/examples/trioPanel.png On

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/17/12 10:15 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: on closefield focus on fld x end closefield The catch, though, is that I don't necessarily know what fld X is at the time I write--fields get hidden and unhidden

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/17/12 8:57 AM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Things work as long as I don't do SAVE AS or SAVE with the LC and direct it into the Comuter / Progams / RunRev / LiveCode 5.5 branches. You may be seeing the behavior described here: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/tips/env007.htm --

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Kay C Lan
This should get you headed in the right direction In normal fields: on closeField goNextUseableField the number of me end closeField on exitField goNextUseableField the number of me end exitField In the Card Script: (watch for line wraps) on goNextUseableField pNum put the number of

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Kay C Lan
Sorry, this: put the number of flds of this stack into tMax should have read: put the number of flds of this CARD into tMax I have become too accustomed to using single card stacks. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: This should get you headed in the

lcTaskList Plugin 1.0rc2 Released

2012-06-17 Thread Bill Vlahos
I've released the second open beta release candidate of the Task List plugin for LiveCode for download. What's New: Color banding in the list (thanks to Bernd Niggemann for this) Preferences for color banding and font size Preference to exclude specified stacks from being