Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Howdy Thomas, Sorry about the bad news combo. I bet things will bounce back quickly. The good news is that you had 3 back ups, awesome! (Always have local and offsite, automatic and manual, more than one BU system.) And if we get an EMP hit or solar storm and lose grid power, sounds like yo

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Monte, You are too kind. This truly did make me smile today. This list is truly amazing. Thank you all for the positive feedback, it helps a lot... Thanks Tom Sent from my iPad On Jan 24, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > On 25/01/2013, at 9:07 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: >> I am re

RE: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
Tom, It Hurts I know. I was in Japan in the 1980's using Vax VMS and had a team working on a global stock product for Citicorp using their global network of the day. It was 11:00pm and everyone had left and I was backing up the what was to be the production SW the next day. I grabbed the wrong tap

RE: Persistence on iOS (and Android)

2013-01-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
As far as I've seen with using LC straight up... Hit the home button on Android it stays running until the OS reclaims the memory. On iOS it stops immediately. I've seen a thread on this topic and as I remember there are ways to keep the app running on iOS. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Info

Test only, do not reply

2013-01-24 Thread dunbarx
-Original Message- From: Lars Brehmer To: use-livecode Sent: Wed, Jan 23, 2013 7:51 am Subject: Moving focus between fields I want the tab key to move the cursor between the fields of a group. I want to restrict this action to that group. Furthermore, when the focus is on the last

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thomas, Time to time, things are going complex and it's the time we learn the most in short periods. I learned for my own lots when i discovered 3 years ago that i needed to solve a big problem with my eyes. Else, i would't bee able to work anymore… The eyes problem went solved (operation by th

Persistence on iOS (and Android)

2013-01-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Is there such a thing as suspend/resume on iOS, or just startup and shutdown? As far as I can see, when a LC app is suspended and resumed, it's in every way restarted. Unless we save our state explicitly in a file/database/stack, and then reconstruct it on startup. Is that correct, or am I mi

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, WOW, Thank you so much for the offer and inspiration! I am truly awestruck and blessed to know you. You are right and I am doing a lot of re-evaluation of my business and should be fine once I get my new computer in and make some decisions. Thanks for being there and for being you. Tom

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Monte Goulding
On 25/01/2013, at 9:07 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: > I am really sorry to hear this. At this moment, it might be hard to believe > that as these doors are closing some really great doors will be opening in > their place. I am really happy to hear that your data is backed up. That is > a nice sil

Re: Quicktime player only referencing .mov files

2013-01-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm glad to hear that it wasn't the OSX version, that would have been a bigger problem for you! On Jan 24, 2013, at 5:22 PM, "stgoldb...@aol.com" wrote: > >Thanks to Colin Holgate's report that it works on his Mac running 5.5.3, I > >upgraded to 5.5.3 and it now works! Thanks Colin! ___

Quicktime player only referencing .mov files

2013-01-24 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
I previously reported that the Quicktime player in LiveCode 5.5.2 on my Mac running system 10.6.8 would not reference any movie files except for those that were .mov, even when selecting the "All files" option.. Thanks to Colin Holgate's report that it works on his Mac running 5.5.3, I upgrade

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Mark Talluto
On Jan 24, 2013, at 11:46 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > > So, I'm still alive but i think I'm going a bit crazy. I just decided to take > up learning how to play the Harmonica and watching all 600 Dave Cantebury > YouTube videos (From Dual Survival). I think I'd know better how to survive >

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread kee nethery
Just think of all the weirdness of that 18 year client that you won't have to deal with and of the nice shiny new computer you'll be working on and how nice and defragmented your data will be on the new shiny computer. I think your life is about to get a whole lot better. If you want to ponder

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread Richmond
On 01/24/2013 08:26 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: We are all good people here. I don't think anyone will rat him out. ;-) Bob On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Richmond wrote: On 01/24/2013 08:02 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: I think you signed a non-disclosure agreement saying you wouldn't do this. :-

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Sneidar
That is going into my list of quotable quotes! Bob On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I don't imagine RunRev will go all Apple on him with a SWAT team. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Well, To report, it has been a very exciting month or so for me in case anyone was wondering where I've gone off to. First I lost my main hard drive due to a kind of grinding sound coming from inside of my computer. Shut it down immediately, after diagnosing it the problem is the main HD is Fo

Re: Mobile Browser overlays

2013-01-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/24/13 1:36 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Is it hidden? It does not appear an either the Android or iOS release notes. I'm using 5.5.3 I'll give it a try(mobileControlSet idOrName, "backgroundColor", "r,g,b,a") and see what happens. It's in the dictionary entry for mobileControlSet, near the top

RE: Mobile Browser overlays

2013-01-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
Is it hidden? It does not appear an either the Android or iOS release notes. I'm using 5.5.3 I'll give it a try(mobileControlSet idOrName, "backgroundColor", "r,g,b,a") and see what happens. Thanks Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Phone: 518-636-39

Re: Mobile Browser overlays

2013-01-24 Thread Monte Goulding
The mobile browser <> desktop browser -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 25/01/2013, at 5:06 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > I tried that once and it won't work. The browser control writes directly to > the monitor (ver od). It's not an actu

Re: Mobile Browser overlays

2013-01-24 Thread Monte Goulding
It's one of the core props for all native objects. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 25/01/2013, at 3:23 AM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: > I don't see a backgroundColor property for the native input control, just > the text color. ___

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: In any case, it would be appropriate not to quote the whole message in each response. Good point. I wrote him off-list when it first showed up to remind him which list he'd sent it to. I haven't heard back, but I'm sure it was just a simple mistake, intending to send t

Re: "launch document" synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
On the 18th I wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the "launch document" command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help->User Guide. I'm please to report

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Sneidar
We are all good people here. I don't think anyone will rat him out. ;-) Bob On Jan 24, 2013, at 10:08 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 01/24/2013 08:02 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: >> I think you signed a non-disclosure agreement saying you wouldn't do this. >> :-) > > Yes, I think he probably did: I wo

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/24/13 12:08 PM, Richmond wrote: On 01/24/2013 08:02 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: I think you signed a non-disclosure agreement saying you wouldn't do this. :-) Yes, I think he probably did: I wonder whether it would stick legally? In any case, it would be appropriate not to quote the whole

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread Richmond
On 01/24/2013 08:02 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: I think you signed a non-disclosure agreement saying you wouldn't do this. :-) Yes, I think he probably did: I wonder whether it would stick legally? Bob On Jan 23, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Sumner, Walt wrote: Rather than get any real work done this

Re: Mobile Browser overlays

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Sneidar
I tried that once and it won't work. The browser control writes directly to the monitor (ver od). It's not an actual object. What that means is when you activate the browser, it writes over and obscures all other objects on the screen. They all become inaccessible. I was trying to write a simp

Re: Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4

2013-01-24 Thread Robert Sneidar
I think you signed a non-disclosure agreement saying you wouldn't do this. :-) Bob On Jan 23, 2013, at 9:50 PM, Sumner, Walt wrote: > Rather than get any real work done this evening, I've been dutifully trying > to describe a bunch of issues with the property inspector in LC6.0 dp4 > through

RE: Mobile Browser overlays

2013-01-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
Monte, I don't see a backgroundColor property for the native input control, just the text color. Thanks again for all your help! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11 Cell: 518-796-9332 -Original Message- From: use-l

Re: Filter and the Question Mark (escaping ? in regex)

2013-01-24 Thread Monte Goulding
It's a pity filter doesn't support a more complete regex pattern. On 24/01/2013, at 8:18 PM, Thierry Douez wrote: > Wrong because regex inside Livecode behave sometimes in strange ways... -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that!

Re: Filter and the Question Mark (escaping ? in regex)

2013-01-24 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Bob, You are wrong and right :) Right because that's how regex works in most environment. Wrong because regex inside Livecode behave sometimes in strange ways... Anyway, be happy. Thierry 2013/1/23 Robert Sneidar > I mean Thierry > > > I just checked this, and Malte is correct. I see n