Re: Sharing a little stack

Hi David Line = Poly1 Yellow Rect = Poly2 Field = Thicknes This is the script inside one of the small squares. Adjust the script for the other one accordingly. local gDragging,loc2,T on mouseDown put true into gDragging put line 2 of points of grc Poly1 into loc2 put fld Thicknes in

Re: My first LC iOS App approved today!

Ralph- Tuesday, November 20, 2012, 7:07:56 PM, you wrote: > Thanks to all for your help making this happen LC community! "What a > long strange trip it's been" Yowza! Congratulations! -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mai

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

Thanks guys. I use all of these features on my MacPro and 30" Monitor, but with a couple of broken fingers on my right hand, coupled with the poor vision, it is a real hassle. Reaching 80 in April, so I've got lots of other health issues as well. Were it not for my Mac, I'd have packed it in age

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

Although there is a Zoom feature in Universal Access, even when it's turned Off there is a Screen Zoom feature which can be used. Screen Zoom is available with any trackpad or if you have a Magic Mouse, Mighty Mouse or mouse with a scroll wheel. Press *Ctrl + Scroll UP (two finger if using a trackp

Re: My first LC iOS App approved today!

On 11/20/12 9:07 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Thanks to all for your help making this happen LC community! "What a long strange trip it's been" That's great, Ralph! I know you've been working on this for a long time. Pat yourself on the back. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyp

Radio button in datagrid

Hello, I would like to have a column in a datagrid that has a radio button. This isn't a problem but getting the radio buttons in the column to only hilite a single radio button at a time (similar to when you group radio buttons you can check hilite one radio button at a time under the group prop

Re: The properties property

Peter Haworth wrote: > Missing out the ones that can be derived from others seems reasonable > and I've found a property named colors that fits that bill in terms > of fore/background colors/patterns etc, and that the decorations > property will contain "system" if systemWindow is true (or vice v

My first LC iOS App approved today!

Thanks to all for your help making this happen LC community! "What a long strange trip it's been" The app's name is JBT. It is a b2b reference app for jewelry industry salesman. Couldn't have slid the maps by Apple without mergeMK. There is only 3 tests for iOS/Android: 1) For iOS I Change th

Re: The properties property

Hi Jacque, Missing out the ones that can be derived from others seems reasonable and I've found a property named colors that fits that bill in terms of fore/background colors/patterns etc, and that the decorations property will contain "system" if systemWindow is true (or vice versa I guess). Stil

Re: iOS popover position

On 21/11/2012, at 9:38 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/20/12 3:05 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> Hmm... Popovers don't exist on android as far as I know. If its a >> contextual menu then mergPopMenu presents the appropriate native UI >> (like the menu from a field selection) that your users will

Re: Table property settings

On 11/20/12 3:40 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Hmmm... I cannot seem to be able to access the array as a whole, nor the keys of the array. However I seem to be able to access the elements of the array. What kind of weird beast is this? Is it a custom property?? At any rate, pointing at the object in

Re: The properties property

On 11/20/12 3:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I think I've seen posts in the past mentioning that getting the properties of an object doesn't return all of them but I didn't realise until today just how many are missing. I've only been working with getting the properties of a stack but here's just a

Re: Table property settings

Sounds reasonable, although it seems then that you cannot have editable and non-editable cells interspersed with each other. I guess I'm also going back to the original question. Do these settings have equivalent properties or not? You mentioned the cRevGeneral one but neither the tooltip nor se

Re: iOS popover position

On 11/20/12 3:05 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hmm... Popovers don't exist on android as far as I know. If its a contextual menu then mergPopMenu presents the appropriate native UI (like the menu from a field selection) that your users will expect. mergPopSheet presents an action sheet (not a popover

Re: Problem with the formattedWidth

On 11/20/12 2:34 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: It's only one line and I've tried it with dontWrap set to true and false with the same result. I tried getting the formatted width of line 1 of the field and that does seem to work reliably. interestingly, it reports a different value than the formatted

Re: using send to "multi-task" ? [was: Non-blocking URL commands]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > No that isn't how it works. That is what I thought as well. Send in time > really means >"do this after you have done everything else that is not send in time". The >command will >still be a blocking command. I thought it was too good to

Re: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host address", other internet functions work correctly

I just read your post that you have no AV. If this is a Windows system, this opens up the possibility that you may have become infected with malware that redirects your DNS requests. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND getting AV software as soon as possible. If you are using OS X, there is a small chance that

RE: http://www.haiku-os.org/

> It would have been used, too, except that Be thought they had > Apple over a barrel. > > OK, they kind of did, but for that barrel price, Apple > discovered that they could buy Jobs, err, NeXT . . . which > was for all intents and purposes, the end of Be. They were pretty high on confidence,

Re: Table property settings

Oh, well cell editing obviously allows or disallows the editing of any of the cells, maximum editable column is the last column you are allowed to edit (meaning the columns beyond that will be visible but not editable) forcing a wrap to the next line when you are tabbing through the last column,

Re: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host address", other internet functions work correctly

Not necessarily. There may be a global hosts file, as well as a local one for the account. But when troubleshooting, an alternative to divide and conquer is do the simple stuff first. Disable the AV temporarily and see if the problem persists. If a new profile solves the problem, that means ther

Re: Table property settings

So does mine but that doesn't tell me what it does. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > My tooltip shows cREVTable[celledit] as the property for cell editing. I > suspect that you can get the array cREVTable of the table object an

Re: Table property settings

Hmmm... I cannot seem to be able to access the array as a whole, nor the keys of the array. However I seem to be able to access the elements of the array. What kind of weird beast is this? Is it a custom property?? At any rate, pointing at the object in the inspector shows the applicable prope

Re: Table property settings

My tooltip shows cREVTable[celledit] as the property for cell editing. I suspect that you can get the array cREVTable of the table object and determine more. Bob On Nov 20, 2012, at 10:28 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > There are a couple of settings on the Table tab of a filed which don;t seem >

Re: WMA/WMV files in Livecode

Hi all, Am 20.11.2012 um 22:14 schrieb Andrew Kluthe : > There were some cool externals that someone posted recently to play > using Windows Media Player and another that uses VLC to play media > files. I haven't used it but it sounds nice. Search for XMediaPlayer > on the list. I believe it was

Re: iOS popover position

There is also the HUD Panel Factory on RevOnline that can be used on iOS and Android. It needs tweaking to get right but I have used it with success. How to determine the line number on Android??? I don't know. I would use mobilePick for a List Picker but it is only a popover on iPad as far as

Re: WMA/WMV files in Livecode

There were some cool externals that someone posted recently to play using Windows Media Player and another that uses VLC to play media files. I haven't used it but it sounds nice. Search for XMediaPlayer on the list. I believe it was made by Klaus. Regards, Andrew On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 2:48 PM

The properties property

I think I've seen posts in the past mentioning that getting the properties of an object doesn't return all of them but I didn't realise until today just how many are missing. I've only been working with getting the properties of a stack but here's just a partial list of missing properties: mainSt

Re: iOS popover position

Hmm... Popovers don't exist on android as far as I know. If its a contextual menu then mergPopMenu presents the appropriate native UI (like the menu from a field selection) that your users will expect. mergPopSheet presents an action sheet (not a popover with a table view in it) which is also mo

Re: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host address", other internet functions work correctly

Is the URL in question HTTPS or HTTP? On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:39 AM, Gabriel Johnson wrote: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> Gabriel Johnson writes: >> >> put url("http://www.google.comm";) into tHtmlText; put the result >> >> ...and when in doubt, don't trust the m

Re: WMA/WMV files in Livecode

Unfortunately the usefulness of LiveCode's use of the native Win player is dependent on the needs of the application. For example, unless there's been a recent change, LC can play movies fine using the native Win media engine, but only if you play from the beginning of the video; if you need c

Re: WMA/WMV files in Livecode

Hi Paul, I believe on Windows you can just set the dontUseQT to true and set the filename of a movie object to your favorite movie, and it should play. You don't need QT on Windows unless you're trying to play QT movies. Phil Davis On 11/20/12 12:08 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: Does anyone out t

RE: Problem with the formattedWidth

Peter, Let the message path clear and try again querying the formattedwidth. I have gotten different answers for the same data in the same field after letting the engine settle down. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- Fro

Re: Problem with the formattedWidth

It's only one line and I've tried it with dontWrap set to true and false with the same result. I tried getting the formatted width of line 1 of the field and that does seem to work reliably. interestingly, it reports a different value than the formatted width of the field! Pete lcSQL Software

Table property settings

There are a couple of settings on the Table tab of a filed which don;t seem to have any equivalent property names. What do the "cell editing", maximum editable column" and "cell formatting" settings do? Pete lcSQL Software ___ use

Re: Problem with the formattedWidth

On 11/20/12 11:47 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: It appears that the formattedwidth doesn't always get updated when a new value is entered into a field. I typed something into a field, then used the message box to get its formatted width. Then typed a shorter string of characters into the field, got

WMA/WMV files in Livecode

Does anyone out there have a solution for playing WMA/WMV file in LiveCode under Windows? Under OSX, you can use the Flip4Mac add-on to Quicktime and LiveCode's quicktime based player will play Windows WMA/WMV file in Livecode under OSX. Perversely, Flip4Mac is not available for Windows and Quickt

Re: Mark Smith archive

thanks, Matthias... On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Matthias Rebbe < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > Hi, > > they are still there… > > http://marksmith.on-rev.com/revstuff/files/ > > > Regards, > > Matthias > > -- > Matthias Rebbe > matthias (at) rebbe.tk > Tel +49.5741.31 > Te

Re: "Badge" in answer modal?

On 11/20/2012 12:10 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/19/12 3:13 PM, Richmond wrote: What I haven't quite worked out is what gRevSmallAppIcon is for and where is might"manifest itself" in a stack. It's in the dictionary. Indeed it is, and explained with a model of fogginess. ___

Re: Mark Smith archive

Hi, they are still there… http://marksmith.on-rev.com/revstuff/files/ Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel +49.5741.31 Tel +49.160.5504462 -- "Life is too short for boring code" Am 20.11.2012 um 18:40 schrieb Richard Gaskin : > The LiveCode work Mark Smi

Re: Mark Smith archive

I have them here, Richard, if you need them. In most cases, he released all his code to the world for anyone to use; I think that's made clear in the sample stacks and source code. There was also someone on the list that has placed them online, who should be posting shortly. On Tue, Nov 20, 2012

RE: Problem with the formattedWidth

I have seen something like this in my mobile resizing library and have not been able to put my finger on it. I think you're getting closer to nailing a recipe for this one. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livec

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

Thanks Mike. I'll see if I can wrap my brain around that to some useful purpose and ends. Joe Wilkins On Nov 20, 2012, at 9:16 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > For the dictionary you might look at bvgdocu > http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=bvgdocu > > It works really well, you can set the font si

Problem with the formattedWidth

While testing out the solution for right justifying a column in a table (in another thread), I've come across a problem with the formattedWidth of a field It appears that the formattedwidth doesn't always get updated when a new value is entered into a field. I typed something into a field, then u

Mark Smith archive

The LiveCode work Mark Smith did was valuable to the community, but with his unfortunate passing the status of those libraries is in question. A few of the items listed on this page are no longer available: Those that are unlikely to remain in place forev

Re: URL function fails on http requests, results in "invalid host address", other internet functions work correctly

On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 5:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Gabriel Johnson writes: > > put url("http://www.google.comm";) into tHtmlText; put the result > > ...and when in doubt, don't trust the message box - put the code into the > script > of a button and click it to see the results. > > Tried th

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

Hi Joe, Not sure what platform you are on but Macs have a Universal Access control panel in the Settings that has various options to help in these circumstances, not just with Livecode but with any program. I'm sure there's something equivalent on Windows too. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: iOS popover position

On 11/20/12 7:33 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: For the rreHardcopy external (which is a popover) it is automatically positioned based on the position of the calling button so I put the script in an invisible button located where I wanted it to pop up and then called that from the original button

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

For the dictionary you might look at bvgdocu http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=bvgdocu It works really well, you can set the font size (though in preferences it only applies to the main field) if you want to change the other font sizes just" toplevel "bvgdocu 2", change the textsize properties

Re: iOS popover position

Tom, Chris, thanks for the tips. I need the popover to point to a line in a field the user clicks on. I'd considered an invisible or transparent button, so I may go with that. I was hoping there was a way to avoid an extra object. I'd love to help out Monte by using his externals because his w

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

Thanks Jan. I'll see (I hope) if I can find it. Is there a way to increase the Font Size of the Preferences? That would make finding other things a lot easier. The Dictionary is also very tiny. (sigh!) That's my world. Gracias a todos! Jose On Nov 20, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > H

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

While not the best solution, if you do: set the textsize of group "panes" of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to 16 -- or whatever size you need It seems to work ok. Some of the other panes objects have their textsize set so that it overrides the panes setting, but the error pane doesn't so it inheri

Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

Hi Joe, You can definitely modify the script editor settings: - Go to menu 'Edit' item 'Preferences' - then select 'Script editor' in the left-hand side list. - In the right-hand side panel you should see option menus for the font and size. On my Windows machine I picked Consolas size 12; I jus

Re: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC

Hi Bernie, et al: Yeah, I followed it at the time, but was never satisfied with the results. Again, it goes back to my poor vision. I have managed to resolve all my issues in a somewhat clumsy fashion that took me ages to accomplish. Turns out it was a good thing, since I had left a script poorl

Re: iOS popover position

You can using Monte's excellent mergPop external. :-) That is if you're wanting to present a list of options to the user. The default behavior positions the popover relative to the calling control, but there's a property where you can set the rect in order to position it wherever you want. Handy

Re: iOS popover position

Jac, What kind of popover are you using? LC? Native? For the rreHardcopy external (which is a popover) it is automatically positioned based on the position of the calling button so I put the script in an invisible button located where I wanted it to pop up and then called that from the origina

Re: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC

Joe, there was a long discussion on ExplicitVariables a while back (see the thread entitled "Explicit Variables Again". There are several ways in which these can be set. I think one way is through your LiveCode preferences, another is a menu option in the Script Editor. Bernard On Tue, Nov 20,