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On Jul 23, 2012, at 9:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> One doctor I know says he's practicing until he gets it right. :)

Yeah, I'd like to think that too. Except that if you start thinking that you 
got it right, you start missing what else there is to learn. It's never 
completely absolutely right, just good enough for now.

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Re: Any suggestions?

2012-07-23 Thread J. Landman Gay


On 7/23/12 8:44 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote:

I've always thought that "practicing" was
an odd word for what I do, though it does capture the open-ended
nature of the medical field


One doctor I know says he's practicing until he gets it right. :)

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Re: Any suggestions?

On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

> Old joke: If you ask 10 Psychologists about any particular thing, you will 
> get 20 different answers. ;-) Sorry I just had to! 

Yes, it's OK, we're used to it.  :-)  20 different answers is sort of like what 
happens when someone poses a question to this list -- there are many different 
ways of approaching a problem. And LC is a finite system with a lowish number 
of degrees of freedom, at least compared with the human mind. So it's actually 
no wonder that even people who spend their lives studying people are only ever 
seeing part of the elephant.

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Re: Any suggestions?

On Jul 23, 2012, at 8:02 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:

> I will try your suggestion!  Thanks so much! By the way, I believe we are 
> both in the same profession. I am a school psychologist - retired now. I 
> remember seeing in your emails on the list that you are also in the 
> psychology field.

Right, I'm a psychiatrist/psychopharmacologist, still practicing (can't afford 
to retire). I've always thought that "practicing" was an odd word for what I 
do, though it does capture the open-ended nature of the medical field -- 
there's always more to learn, and especially re the mind and brain. The brain 
is not only the most complex organ in the body, it's the most complex thing in 
the known universe. As someone once said, if the brain were simple enough for 
us to understand, we'd be too simple-minded to understand it.

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Re: Any suggestions?

Old joke: If you ask 10 Psychologists about any particular thing, you will get 
20 different answers. ;-) Sorry I just had to! 

Bob


On Jul 23, 2012, at 5:02 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:

> Peter,
> 
> I will try your suggestion!  Thanks so much! By the way, I believe we are 
> both in the same profession. I am a school psychologist - retired now. I 
> remember seeing in your emails on the list that you are also in the 
> psychology field.
> 
> Charles Szasz
> csz...@mac.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Re: Any suggestions?

Peter,

I will try your suggestion!  Thanks so much! By the way, I believe we are both 
in the same profession. I am a school psychologist - retired now. I remember 
seeing in your emails on the list that you are also in the psychology field.

Charles Szasz
csz...@mac.com





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Re: Any suggestions?

On Jul 23, 2012, at 7:28 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:

> put round(the height of field "final"/ the textheight of field "final",2) 
> into tMaxLines

try trunc(the height of field "final"/ the textheight of field "final") -- this 
will cut off the fractional part

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Re: Any suggestions?

2012-07-23 Thread Peter Haworth

Great, sounds like you figured it all out!  My next suggestion was to
change the calculation of tMaxLines but you beat me to it.
Pete
lcSQL Software 



On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Charles Szasz  wrote:

> Peter,
>
> I did resolved my problem by changing the rounding precision from 0 to 2.
>  I have not tried this on Windows yet but it does work on the Mac.
>
>  put round(the height of field "final"/ the textheight of field "final",2)
> into tMaxLines
>
>
> Again thanks for your time and assistance!
>
> Charles Szasz
> csz...@mac.com
>
>
>
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Re: Any suggestions?

Peter,

I did resolved my problem by changing the rounding precision from 0 to 2.  I 
have not tried this on Windows yet but it does work on the Mac.

 put round(the height of field "final"/ the textheight of field "final",2) into 
tMaxLines
   

Again thanks for your time and assistance!

Charles Szasz
csz...@mac.com




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Re: Any suggestions?

Hi Peter!

I had already found that by moving "add 1 to x" to after the repeat loop 
corrects the numbering problem before receiving your email.  

The number 12 I mentioned is equal to the twelve checkbox. I did not set it.  
When x> tMaxLines, the twelve checkbox is not carried over and appears out of 
sight at the bottom of the box of the field "final" that the names appear in. I 
set the label field to no wrap. Anyway, I will try your suggestion of maxLines 
= 12.

Thanks for your time to respond to my scripting problem!

Charles Szasz
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Determine size of iOS keyboard

2012-07-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III

Has anyone figured out how to determine via script at runtime the size of 
current iOS keyboard being displayed?

Thanks

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Re: Any suggestions?

2012-07-23 Thread Peter Haworth

Hi Charles,
I gotta vow to test any scripts I publish!

Here's the fixes:

second line of the script should be "put zero into x".

I think that will fix the other problem too, but let me know if not.


Pete
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Charles Szasz  wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> I have been working with your suggestions on the following script:
>
> put the number of buttons of me into nbr
>put 1 into x
>repeat with n = 1 to nbr
>   put the short name of button n of me into tName
>   if not the hilite of button n of me then next repeat
>   add 1 to x
>   put x & "." & space & tName & cr after theList
>end repeat
>put round(the height of field "final" / the textheight of field
> "final",0) into tMaxLines
>
>put line 1 to tMaxLines of theList into field "final"
>if x> tMaxLines then
>   put line tMaxLines+1 to x of thelist into field "final2"
>   show field "final2"
>else
>   put empty into field "final2"
>   hide field "final2"
>end if
>
> This script works but I have  encountered two significant problems. First,
> the first checkbox that is checked and inserted into field "final" is
> numbered as 2. instead of 1.  The second problem is that when field "final"
> is "filled up" with the names of the checkboxes, the last checkbox name
> cannot be seen in field "final" and consequently the next checkbox that is
> inserted into the next field "final2" shows the next number. In other
> words, checkbox numbered 13 does not show up in field "final" but checkbox
> numbered 14 appears in field "final2".  Do you have any suggestions?
>
> Charles Szasz
> csz...@mac.com
>
>
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Re: breakdown of my book (LiveCode Mobile Development)...

Ordered both the dead-tree and dead-electron versions. Colin gave a quick
run-through at the conference and I'm seriously impressed. Looking forward to
kicking the tires.

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Re: "Enlargement supplement Free trials" : from my wonderful Spam Filter

Bob Sneidar  writes:

> 
> What is a recension and if you get it can it be treated? 

>From the source of all truthiness: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recension

"The term "recension" may also refer to the process of collecting and analyzing
source texts in order to establish a tree structure leading backward to a
hypothetical original text."

Softwarely speaking, recension is version control.




...that's funny... my spell checker doesn't like recension, truthiness, or
softwarely. I'll have to take it in for a tuneup.

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Re: Any suggestions?

On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:

> I have been working with your suggestions on the following script:
> 
> put the number of buttons of me into nbr
>   put 1 into x
>   repeat with n = 1 to nbr
>  put the short name of button n of me into tName
>  if not the hilite of button n of me then next repeat
>  add 1 to x
>  put x & "." & space & tName & cr after theList
>   end repeat
>   put round(the height of field "final" / the textheight of field "final",0) 
> into tMaxLines
> 
>   put line 1 to tMaxLines of theList into field "final"
>   if x> tMaxLines then
>  put line tMaxLines+1 to x of thelist into field "final2"
>  show field "final2"
>   else
>  put empty into field "final2"
>  hide field "final2"
>   end if
> 
> This script works but I have  encountered two significant problems. First, 
> the first checkbox that is checked and inserted into field "final" is 
> numbered as 2. instead of 1.  The second problem is that when field "final" 
> is "filled up" with the names of the checkboxes, the last checkbox name 
> cannot be seen in field "final" and consequently the next checkbox that is 
> inserted into the next field "final2" shows the next number. In other words, 
> checkbox numbered 13 does not show up in field "final" but checkbox numbered 
> 14 appears in field "final2".  Do you have any suggestions?

1. Put the "add 1 to x" line at the end of the repeat loop (which is what I 
suggested originally)
2. Make maxLines = 12. Are you assigning this value explicitly, or my some 
script calculation?

-- Peter

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Using mobileRestorePurchases

2012-07-23 Thread Dan Friedman

I posted this question about a week ago and got no answers.  So, I thought I 
would try asking one more time before sending this one up to the Mother Ship.

How do you use the mobileRestorePurchases command to restore in-app purchases?

I successfully purchased an in-app purchase with the "test" iTunes account on 
the simulator.  I put the mobileRestorePurchases command in an openStack 
handler and it did fire... I was prompted for my test iTunes password.  But, 
then nothing happened.  What should happen?  I figured that a 
purchaseStateUpdate would have been sent to the stack where 
mobilePurchaseState(pPurchaseID) that was "restored" – but it wasn't.

Furthermore, if I attempt to purchase the in-app purchase again, I am told that 
I have already purchased it and would I like to download it again.  When I tap 
yes, I get an error that I can't connect to the iTunes store.

ANY help or guidance would be GREATLY appreciated!
-Dan
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Re: "Enlargement supplement Free trials" : from my wonderful Spam Filter

I'm so relieved! At first I thought it was a term for this lump in my throat, 
but I found out that is my Adam's Apple! ;-)

Bob


On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:30 PM, Richmond wrote:

>> What is a recension and if you get it can it be treated? ;-)
> 
> "recension" is Richmond-speak for "version".
> 
>> 
>> Bob


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Re: Any suggestions?

Hi Pete,

I have been working with your suggestions on the following script:

put the number of buttons of me into nbr
   put 1 into x
   repeat with n = 1 to nbr
  put the short name of button n of me into tName
  if not the hilite of button n of me then next repeat
  add 1 to x
  put x & "." & space & tName & cr after theList
   end repeat
   put round(the height of field "final" / the textheight of field "final",0) 
into tMaxLines
   
   put line 1 to tMaxLines of theList into field "final"
   if x> tMaxLines then
  put line tMaxLines+1 to x of thelist into field "final2"
  show field "final2"
   else
  put empty into field "final2"
  hide field "final2"
   end if

This script works but I have  encountered two significant problems. First, the 
first checkbox that is checked and inserted into field "final" is numbered as 
2. instead of 1.  The second problem is that when field "final" is "filled up" 
with the names of the checkboxes, the last checkbox name cannot be seen in 
field "final" and consequently the next checkbox that is inserted into the next 
field "final2" shows the next number. In other words, checkbox numbered 13 does 
not show up in field "final" but checkbox numbered 14 appears in field 
"final2".  Do you have any suggestions?

Charles Szasz
csz...@mac.com




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Re: printing

Your check paper is shifting orientation in your printer. Make sure all your 
paper constraints are adjusted. Not all paper is created equal. Some printers 
have terrible "registration" is what I think it is called. Some are very good. 
I had some old HP 2100 printers years ago that were almost perfect, aside from 
a weak separation pad that allowed 2 checks to be pulled at the same time when 
it became dirty. They are still functional. 

Bob

On Jul 23, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:

> Hi, I made a small stack for check printing, but when finished i realized 
> that it does not print straight. its not perfectly horizontal. wondering?
> Thanks, Hershel
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Re: "Enlargement supplement Free trials" : from my wonderful Spam Filter


On 07/23/2012 11:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

What is a recension and if you get it can it be treated? ;-)


"recension" is Richmond-speak for "version".



Bob


On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Richmond wrote:


and then have a series of graduated upgrades that can allow one to 'enlarge' 
and 'grow bigger'
until one has the full-blown version of the latest recension of Livecode.


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Re: printing


On 07/23/2012 11:09 PM, Hershel Fisch wrote:

Hi, I made a small stack for check printing, but when finished i realized that 
it does not print straight. its not perfectly horizontal. wondering?
Thanks, Hershel




Well, I just set up a stack with a field "fPRINT" containing some text, 
and put this in a button:


on mouseUp
  revPrintField ("field" && quote & "fPRINT" & quote) -- mental syntax
end mouseUp

and, as I don't have a printer to hand, it printed to a Postscript file 
(Linux) which looked

exactly the same as the textField.

Maybe, just maybe, your paper was wonky in the printer tray . . . :)

Richmond.

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Re: "Enlargement supplement Free trials" : from my wonderful Spam Filter

What is a recension and if you get it can it be treated? ;-)

Bob


On Jul 23, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Richmond wrote:

> and then have a series of graduated upgrades that can allow one to 'enlarge' 
> and 'grow bigger'
> until one has the full-blown version of the latest recension of Livecode.


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printing

2012-07-23 Thread Hershel Fisch

Hi, I made a small stack for check printing, but when finished i realized that 
it does not print straight. its not perfectly horizontal. wondering?
Thanks, Hershel

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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Well, after thinking a while about how
could be distributed a free version of
LiveCode without harming the current
releases, I concluded this:

A free (an limited) version of Livecode could
be distributed as part of a bundle
with a book for teaching elemental
programming techniques.

Support could be restricted to the book exercises
and additional intermediate and advanced tasks
for brighter students.

Al   





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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Richmmond,


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> Personally I don't see this as a vast problem. Although I own later 
> versions of RR/LC for Linux,
> for my educational purposes at least (let's not get onto the eternal 
> Devawriter) the FREE 2.1.1 for
> Linux has served my purposes 100% for 7 years entirely WITHOUT support.
> 

There is only ONE like you.
(This is a compliment) :-D

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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future


On 07/23/2012 10:33 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

Ah... Linux.

That version got stalled after developers from that
platform stopped contributing to the development
of that Linux version.

Did you see what happens to a software without
support from their developers...


Personally I don't see this as a vast problem. Although I own later 
versions of RR/LC for Linux,
for my educational purposes at least (let's not get onto the eternal 
Devawriter) the FREE 2.1.1 for

Linux has served my purposes 100% for 7 years entirely WITHOUT support.



Alejandro



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"Enlargement supplement Free trials" : from my wonderful Spam Filter


Subject line: "Watch it grow bigger".

This seems a marvellous idea:

RunRev release a Free cut-down version of RR/LC 2.0.1

and then have a series of graduated upgrades that can allow one to 
'enlarge' and 'grow bigger'

until one has the full-blown version of the latest recension of Livecode.

Why not have a modular plan (rather like the current model where 
customers can add standalone building capabilities for a multitude of 
platforms), so customers can buy the "bits" they need and not the "bits" 
they don't ?


Oddly enough that e-mail didn't seem to be from anybody connected with 
Runtime Revolution
Livecode and was in the Spam Box of my 'other' e-mail account. 
Notwithstanding that, I will be eternally grateful to those people with 
funny names such as "Enlargement Supplement" (obviously they had parents 
with a warped sense of humour) for continuing to inspire me as to the 
future of an educatiuonal version of RR/LC.


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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Ah... Linux.

That version got stalled after developers from that
platform stopped contributing to the development
of that Linux version.

Did you see what happens to a software without
support from their developers...

Alejandro



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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future


On 07/23/2012 10:19 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

Richmmond, I had to disagree.

There is no point in releasing
an old version without support.
This could be, even damaging
to company reputation.
Software live or die depending of
the quality of support that their
developers offers.

For example Xara, the Graphic
company, used to sell previous
versions at a really low cost.
Less features, but better than
most graphic software anyway.
But They sell it, not give it away.


Xara gives a way a FREE version of their graphic program for Linux.

Oddly enough the person who alerted me to this fact was Alejandro Tejada.

http://www.xaraxtreme.org/

Hoisted by your own petard me old mucker.


I want to be wrong about releasing
free software without support...

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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future


On 07/23/2012 09:57 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

Hi Bob,

I sent a private message to you about your comment.

If you want to contribute to this particular offtopic and
intriging subject, send a private message to me or Bob.

Thanks in advance!


Too late "my love", you have let the cat out of the bag in a public space.



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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

On 07/23/2012 09:26 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:

I have two issues with that statement: "Worshipping" and "at any cost". Excuse me, that is a mouthful. Can you cite
some examples of "the USA" (whatever that means specifically) "worshipping" as in raising up to the level of God,
"successful people" (I need names please) "at any cost". If you are going to level accusations in this forum my lad,
you had best be prepared to back them up with verifiable fact.

Bob

On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

I just keep wondering how far is USA going in worshiping
successful people who get their way at any cost.

That is a load of old codswallop; the vast majority of people in the USA
have a fairly high and consistent
level of ethics. Of course there are people who have 'succeeded' by
dubious means; that does not detract from all those hard-working people
who have succeeded quite honestly.

You should try to avoid blanket statements.

The USA does 'worship' success (and what is wrong with that??? nothing
as far as I can tell), but NOT

at any cost.

However I have qualified 'worship' with single quotes so we can all see
I mean that in a sort of metaphorical way, and not in a Bull-of-Bashan
sort of way.

What is also the case, is that in Britain (and elsewhere) success is
(generally) squashed, regulated into a corner by the state, and
discouraged. I would argue that British education aims at a mediocre
conformity that results in a quite different outlook on success to that
in the United States.

The other day, driving back from Germany, my wife (who is neither
British nor American) asked me

this:

"How come, considering Germany was shot to blazes by 2 world wars in the
20th century, is it so

rich and pleasant compared with shabby, down-at-heel Britain?"

And my answer largely consisted of 2 words: "national mentality".

And while I'm here, I should point out that the USA has always struck me
as a 'Germanic' nation that happens to speak English. The English
version of North America (the CSA) fought against the Germanic version
(the USA) and lost.

British people should always be grateful for 2 things that saved them
from becoming a Nazi satellite:

1. The good people of the USA do speak English,

and

2. Winston Churchill was half American.

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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Richmmond, I had to disagree.

There is no point in releasing
an old version without support.
This could be, even damaging
to company reputation.
Software live or die depending of
the quality of support that their
developers offers.

For example Xara, the Graphic
company, used to sell previous
versions at a really low cost.
Less features, but better than
most graphic software anyway.
But They sell it, not give it away.

I want to be wrong about releasing
free software without support...

Al



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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future




I will use this occasion to beg for something of the order of RunRev
2.0.1 for Mac, Win and Linux to be released for FREE; possibly with a
fair few of the capabilities removed.


Just remember that this kind of gift is not free for RunRev,
because associated cost with supporting a free version


"supporting" . . . nonsense . . . they could release an early version 
with some suitable

sort of disclaimer:

"This version of RR/LC is released as a Free community offering with no 
guarantees

or support whatsoever - 'you're on your own buddy' ."

This would have no associated cost whatsoever, unless we suppose that by 
releasing said version

that would negatively impinge on sales of the latest recension of Livecode.


  could
go a lot higher that paid versions. But, I agree with you
that a free, but limited version could be useful to attract
new educators and their students.

Al






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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

2012-07-23 Thread Jerry Jensen

Thanks for taking it off-list!
.Jerry

On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:57 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> I sent a private message to you about your comment.
> 
> If you want to contribute to this particular offtopic and
> intriging subject, send a private message to me or Bob.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Alejandro
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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Hi Bob,

I sent a private message to you about your comment.

If you want to contribute to this particular offtopic and
intriging subject, send a private message to me or Bob.

Thanks in advance!

Alejandro



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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

I have two issues with that statement: "Worshipping" and "at any cost". Excuse 
me, that is a mouthful. Can you cite some examples of "the USA" (whatever that 
means specifically) "worshipping" as in raising up to the level of God, 
"successful people" (I need names please) "at any cost". If you are going to 
level accusations in this forum my lad, you had best be prepared to back them 
up with verifiable fact. 

Bob

On Jul 23, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> I just keep wondering how far is USA going in worshiping 
> successful people who get their way at any cost.

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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Hi Richmmond,


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> Mummy and Daddy should NOT provide little Twinkle-toes
> with a computer hooked up to the internet so s/he can
> go blotto on online games and associated crap.
> 

That particular phrase brings me memories of this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erun7qmpXds
Amazing... How much passion devoted to a single endevour...
Don't you think??? :-|


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> I remember part of my Master's degree from the "University" of Abertay 
> (the only bit worth anything)
> involved my trialling my Agent-led Software generation system 
> (completely authored in RR/LC) at
> the Primary School in St Andrews (Greyfriars RC). The teachers loved it 
> as they were sick-to-death of teaching 7/8/9/10 year olds how to write 
> "Dear Mummy and Daddy" letters in WORD, and endless PAINT programs. 
> However the headmistress (a very sharp Irish lady) told me that I had 
> about as much hope getting funding to continue development from the 
> local council (Fife) as a bar of gold falling on my head out of a tree. 
> She said that the unpleasant truth was that education was always pitched 
> at the lowest common denominator in the state sector.
> 

Yes, I have a very similar experience.
Actually, it's a lot worse if you have any kind of
success, because your effort is not only ignored,
but dismissed as "non-important"...


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> Britain, particularly, hates success and thrives on a culture of 
> mediocrity. What I liked a lot about the United States when I stayed 
> there was that success was admired and there were not so many things to 
> stand in your way as there are in Britain.
> 
> In Bulgaria, you are dead on the ground, unless you are a big business 
> interest in bed with a
> government that encourages business monopolies.
> 

I just keep wondering how far is USA going in worshiping 
successful people who get their way at any cost.
In the country where I live, if you are going to work
for the goverment, there are only two ways in which
you could receive a full payment for your work:
1) Bribe a goverment worker or have him as partner
2) Have a foreign partner who ask their Embassy to
press the goverment to fulfill their payments.



Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> [snip]
> Bulgarian children are told the first computer was built by John 
> Atanasov (a Bulgarian born in America to Bulgarian parents); which is 
> palpably NOT true. Arguably the second computer was built by Charles 
> Babbage (and programmed by Ada Lovelace), the first by some 
> Graeco-phoenician some 2,500 years ago. And where are Turing and so forth?
> 
> While Atanasov may have co-authored the first software reprogrammable 
> computer, that is not the same thing at all as what is claimed for him 
> here in Bulgarian schools. In context his achievement can be seen for 
> what it is, rather than some impossibility.
> 

Richmmond, everyone needs a hero. No big harm in that.
History if full of these kinds of divergent "points of views"...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/10/top-10-wrongly-attributed-inventions/

But it's a fact that special geniuses only appears in the correct
enviroment.
In most societies, they are already "Dead on Arrival"...


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> All of these young people worked with Runtime Revolution 2.2.1 (a FREE 
> version offered by NOVELL via a chap called 'Stompfi' for Linux), and 
> have computers running Linux either as the sole OS or on a partition at 
> home.
> 

Wow! Runtime Revolution 2.2.1 from NOVELL tutorials...
I have almost forgotten about this version of Livecode.

According to your descriptions, you have a really sharp eye about the
qualities of your students.
Don't you think that they could benefit of a different learning strategy
suited to their particular learning style?...
Instead of applying the same didactical method for all of them?

Applying the same didactical method for all of the students is, in my
humble opinion, one of the greatest failures of modern education.


Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote
> 
> 4. (23 year old man/boy) Now authoring stuff for my language school; 
> have a meeting set up for the last week of August to see if I like what 
> I see and am ready to pay him for the work. He has also worked his way 
> through the code of about 90% of my EFL standalones. I have given him a 
> list of criteria as well as copies of the textbooks I use with 
> guidelines on the topic areas that I feel I have not provided adequate 
> coverage on. As this fellow has a degree in tourism from a shitty 
> college here in Bulgaria that is worth next to nothing, but has enrolled 
> to do an MA in Applied Linguistics at the one semi-decent University 
> here in Plovdiv, he is extremely happy that he has found a skill that is 
> sellable, and is now putting his nose to the grindstone like nobody's 
> business; I have suggested that IF his programs for the summer are worth 
> having I will find a way to buy him some sort of LC li

Re: Not that's off topic ;-)

2012-07-23 Thread Peter Haworth

Brilliant!  The history/end of the world in 2 minutes.


Pete
lcSQL Software 



On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 11:20 PM, Pierre Sahores 
wrote:

> Good morning dear creative fellows,
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrqqD_Tsy4Q&feature=player_embedded
>
> Kind regards,
> --
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Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

Very nice. Geometry manager the way it ought to work! I think for graphics I 
would like to see LC support EPS vector graphics, which would solve the 
resizing of graphics problem, but I am not holding my breath. 

Bob


On Jul 21, 2012, at 4:03 AM, Chipp Walters wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> As you know, Ken and I have been working on some interesting libs for
> managing resizing of stacks. I'm particularly focussed on RevMobile and
> have created a toolset which allows developers to easily create resolution
> independent interfaces-- which smartly resize to take advantage of any
> mobile device, Android or iOS (Retina included).
> 
> Here's a preview. You may see some small resizing errors in the preview--
> they've been fixed. I hope to launch this sooner than later for you all to
> use. Contact me offlist if you need it sooner.
> 
> http://youtu.be/vY6r46O0cVA
> 
> Be sure to holler if you see anything which doesn't seem correct. :-)
> 
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Re: For crying out loud: messages on create card.

Doc-

Monday, July 23, 2012, 7:41:05 AM, you wrote:

> This stack has a lengthy script (thousands of lines), but openCard &
> closeCard are empty (to intercept before the main stack).

Aha! This is a substack? Sounds like something in the mainstack is
getting triggered. Any pre-xxx handlers in the stack scripts? Try
putting empty handlers in the substack script for openstack. Are you
in the mainstack when you create cards in the substack? In that case
could suspend and resume messages be getting invoked?

Try Richard's suggestion of catching the messages flying by. The
culprit will out.

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Re: just where does livecode go when the ide takes a minute or two off?

Mark-

Monday, July 23, 2012, 8:30:08 AM, you wrote:

> 3. Wait about 2 minutes for it to come back
> 4. Remember that you save after every line of code and just force quit to get 
> back to work

I tend to alternate between those two, either force-quitting or just
staring out the window for a couple of minutes and reconnecting with
the outside world. My guess is that some kind of garbage collection is
going on and that the mechanism changed with LC 5.x

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Re: just where does livecode go when the ide takes a minute or two off?

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Talluto

On Jul 20, 2012, at 4:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 1:57 PM, Bob Sneidar  wrote:
>> hmmm... What version of LC?
> 
> 5.5.1
> 5.5 did it, too.

I have seen this as well.  I do the following:

1.  Command - period sometimes works.  Interesting that it sometimes brings me 
to a secured front script that belongs to Scott Rossi's themes.
2.  Click the desktop and back sometimes feels like it works
3. Wait about 2 minutes for it to come back
4. Remember that you save after every line of code and just force quit to get 
back to work

I have noticed this behavior since version 5 came out.  Many have seen this 
elusive behavior.  It is difficult to make a recipe for this though.

Best regards,

Mark Talluto
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Re: Old timey data entry GUI problem

2012-07-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke

Thanks everyone for their hints, much appreciated. Note that the SQLite server 
architecture exists and works, and I'm not going to change to any other db 
right now :)

Also no big screen, printouts or anything like that, because we want people to 
mingle (and consume).

-- 

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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

Huh??

Bob


On Jul 21, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:

> Oh, bob slylabs is posting again? What a pity.


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Re: For crying out loud: messages on create card.

2012-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin


Dr. Hawkins wrote:

This stack has a lengthy script (thousands of lines), but openCard &
closeCard are empty (to intercept before the main stack).

This stack starts with a simple placeholder card, which is removed o ce a
"real" card is created (this is the output stack).

I forget whether I saved the milliseconds inside or outside of the
lock/unlock messages.

The only background is a small group of 4 nav buttons.


Unless the stack has many thousands of cards, chances are there's a 
script in play that you haven't caught.


You might consider using my "4W Flight Recorder" tool to find the 
culprit.  It's in the Stacks section of RevNet - in the IDE see 
Development->Plugins->GoRevNet


Click "Start Recording", do the action that creates a card, then click 
"Stop Recording" and review the results, which will be a list of 
messages and handlers triggered during the recording, nested for easy 
identification of the calling chain.  Double-clicking any line in that 
list will open the script referenced there.


Let us know what you find.

--
 Richard Gaskin
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Re: For crying out loud: messages on create card.

2012-07-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins

On Sunday, July 22, 2012, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
> Sunday, July 22, 2012, 7:05:38 PM, you wrote:
>
> > Thwo thirds of a seconding messages to create an empty card???
>
> You're doing something wrong. On a not-particularly-fast machine I can
> create 100 cards in 300 milliseconds. If I lock messages *and
> especially if I lock screen* I can create 1000 cards in 12
> milliseconds.
>

This stack has a lengthy script (thousands of lines), but openCard &
closeCard are empty (to intercept before the main stack).

This stack starts with a simple placeholder card, which is removed o ce a
"real" card is created (this is the output stack).

I forget whether I saved the milliseconds inside or outside of the
lock/unlock messages.

The only background is a small group of 4 nav buttons.

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Background Color Follow up

2012-07-23 Thread LunchnMeets

Hi Everyone,

Thanks for your help Craig. I have a follow up question though.

When I specify the backColor of a line in a field that color only goes 
behind any characters in the line. Is it possible somehow to have that whole 
line become the backColor?

Thanks in advance!

Joe in Orlando
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[OT] Microsoft in a self-revelatory mood?


http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18922629

Um!

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Re: Not that's off topic ;-)


On 07/23/2012 11:02 AM, René Micout wrote:

Merci Pierre !
Une vision très américaine du monde...
;-)


Very American, and, predictably, oversimplified.


René





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Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future