Re: Bought the book but didn't hear from Economy-x-Talk?

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, In the first batch of shipments, there are still 3 people who never confirmed their postal mail address. If you bought the book but never heard from Economy-x-Talk, please contact me immediately. Make sure to use a different e-mail server (different IP and domain), if you tried to

Re: [ANN] LiveCode-bijeenkomst in Nederland

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, If you're Dutch, please register as soon as possible at http://qery.us/3i4. Anyone else is welcome too (Germans and Belgians?), if the travelling distance isn't too much for you. We might have one or two well-known people from the LC community attenting the event. -- Best regards, Mark

Re: change orientation on just one card

2013-06-12 Thread Pierre Sahores
Works fine here (LC 5.5.5) in using the following code to open a substack in landscape mode and return to portrait mode as soon as the app closes it and goes back to the main stack : 1.- In the substack stack's script : on preopenStack if the environment is not mobile then exit

Colours going all wrong in LC 6

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
So I typed this into my Message Box: set the hiliteColor of stack Home to 117,63,61 save stack Home then Quit Livecode and Restarted it, at which point selected items appeared in something that could perhaps be described as upset stomach brown which is very odd indeed when 117,63,61 is a

Changing the selection colour in LC 6

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
I have just uploaded a stack to do that: Forums/General./Feature Requests/Return Colour to the Application Browser it can change the selection colour to green or blue, and back to Henry Ford black if you so wish. For some odd reason it does not affect the Dictionary. Richmond.

Re: change orientation on just one card

2013-06-12 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Apparently it seems that the mobileUnlockOrientation is needed to allow a card to auto rotate to the desired new set of orientations allowed (even though there was no mobileLockOrientation set before). -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jun 12, 2013, at 5:54

RE: change orientation on just one card

2013-06-12 Thread John Dixon
No that is not the case... setting the setAllowedOrientations to a new configuration is sufficient... I have an example where viewing a map on a card in landscape... tapping the callout... the card rotates automatically to portrait when displaying the info on another card... all that has been

Re: Putting two groups onto the clipboard

2013-06-12 Thread charles61
Thanks Mike and Mark for your suggestions! Sent from my iPad On Jun 11, 2013, at 8:18 PM, Mike Bonner [via Runtime Revolution] ml-node+s278305n4666342...@n4.nabble.com wrote: Yeah, as mark said, you can do the snapshot thing. If you want to just get the text you'd have to loop through the

Re: Colours going all wrong in LC 6

2013-06-12 Thread Jacques Hausser
In RGB… R = red G = green B = blue in this order. I suppose your fairly groovy shade of green should be 63,117,61 (looks like a snooker table) Jacques Le 12 juin 2013 à 13:39, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com a écrit : So I typed this into my Message Box: set the hiliteColor of

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2013-06-12 Thread Heather Laine
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LiveCode 6.1 dp 1 available

2013-06-12 Thread Heather Laine
Hi all, I'm please to announce the release of LiveCode 6.1-dp-1. The installers and release notes can be found through the following link: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_1_0/ You'll notice that we've moved to a single set of release notes, dropping the separate iOS, Android and

Default hiliteColor at fault?

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
Copied from elsewhere: it looks like the the window manager returns black as the default hilite colour. If the hilite colour were empty and LiveCode wouldn't make any adjustments to that, you would be unable to see if any text is selected. I think this is a bug in the window manager, not in

Re: LC Community - Script Limits

2013-06-12 Thread Geoff Canyon
I built standalones with both community and commercial. In my limited experimentation, neither has scriptlimits. On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:00 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: To Richard Gaskin, I'm posting in this public domain as there are clearly

Re: LC Community - Script Limits

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2013 09:59 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: I built standalones with both community and commercial. In my limited experimentation, neither has scriptlimits. Pardon my naivety, but I have a standalone I market that has about 6,000 lines in a vast number of objects; I really don't know what

The Use-List on a new server

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
Does anyone jalouse the URL fae the server as I'm aye forjeskit that I cannae tak a glisk at the postings in contex ? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: LC Community - Script Limits

2013-06-12 Thread Geoff Canyon
6,000 lines of scripts that you set in the development environment? That's normal. 6,000 lines of scripts that you execute with do or that you set as scripts within the standalone? That's unusual (in LC). On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 2:05 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 06/12/2013

Re: LC Community - Script Limits

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2013 10:34 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: 6,000 lines of scripts that you set in the development environment? That's normal. 6,000 lines of scripts that you execute with do or that you set as scripts within the standalone? That's unusual (in LC). I have 6,000 lines under an image that has an

6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Just read the release notes for 6.1, some nice stuff in there - I really like the new pageRange property. However, I'm not so happy about the properties changes, at least until I check them out and see exactly what the changes are. It sounds like the properties doesn't return all the properties

Re: LC Community - Script Limits

2013-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/13 2:52 PM, Richmond wrote: On 06/12/2013 10:34 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: 6,000 lines of scripts that you set in the development environment? That's normal. 6,000 lines of scripts that you execute with do or that you set as scripts within the standalone? That's unusual (in LC). I have

Re: LC Community - Script Limits

2013-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2013 11:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/12/13 2:52 PM, Richmond wrote: On 06/12/2013 10:34 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: 6,000 lines of scripts that you set in the development environment? That's normal. 6,000 lines of scripts that you execute with do or that you set as scripts within

Re: The Use-List on a new server

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond richmondmathewson@... writes: Does anyone jalouse the URL fae the server as I'm aye forjeskit that I cannae tak a glisk at the postings in contex ? context, eh? Had to look that up: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/contex to weave together... nice one. The old stand-by:

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/13 3:03 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: It sounds like the properties doesn't return all the properties it used to return, only those needed to recreate it. That's great for those who want to recreate an object by maybe not so great for folks who want to use it for other purposes. It's the

Re: When is a color not a color

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter Haworth pete@... writes: Thanks Mark. I entered a bug report on this and it is being investigated. Meantime, I check for all the other is a possibilites first, then do my own check for a color. I submitted a fix for this bug today. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 6:03 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: However, I'm not so happy about the properties changes, at least until I check them out and see exactly what the changes are. Sorry to hear that.. you can read all the forum posts about the development of these changes if you

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 12, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: For example if you set the unicodeLabel to something which actually is unicode then it will return the unicodeLabel otherwise it will return the label. Huh? Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 7:58 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: Huh? These properties are actually stored as UTF8 so when the properties is called it works out if it's ascii or not and returns label if it is. -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 7:58 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: For example if you set the unicodeLabel to something which actually is unicode then it will return the unicodeLabel otherwise it will return the label. I realise now I should have said 'could not be represented as ascii' rather

Re: When is a color not a color

2013-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Great, thanks Mark. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:29 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Peter Haworth pete@... writes: Thanks Mark. I entered a bug report on this and it is being investigated. Meantime, I check for all the other is a

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar Scott dsc@... writes: For example if you set the unicodeLabel to something which actually is unicode then it will return the unicodeLabel otherwise it will return the label. Huh? Or rather, label will appear in the properties if the label can be represented as ASCII, and you won't see

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Dar Scott
Yeah, sometimes you have to watch out for those of us who are tediously obtuse. I do get it now. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13/06/2013, at 7:58 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: For example if you set the unicodeLabel to something which actually is

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 9:09 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Or rather, label will appear in the properties if the label can be represented as ASCII, and you won't see unicodelabel in the list. Otherwise label will not appear when you request the properties, and unicodelabel will. That is precisely what

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Monte Goulding monte@... writes: That is precisely what I should have said You did. I just translated from the Tasmanian. g -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, well the wording of the release notes implies that some properties that were previously returned are no longer there, at least by my reading. I know some properties that were missing have been included in 6.1 and that's great. I did a quick test to compare the properties returned by 6.1 and

Re: LiveCode 6.1 dp 1 available

2013-06-12 Thread Jim Lambert
Heather wrote: You'll notice that we've moved to a single set of release notes, dropping the separate iOS, Android and Server notes. Better! The new guides can be found here: Nice! Thanks, Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Where are these lists coming from? colors and patterns are now individual properties... you also can't have both a foreColor and a forePattern etc so it returns the one you have if you have one... Also as I said before if properties aren't set then it doesn't return them. On 13/06/2013, at

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Oh... and there were some read only properties being returned which it was documented not to do so they were removed. On 13/06/2013, at 10:07 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: Also as I said before if properties aren't set then it doesn't return them. -- M E R Goulding Software development services

Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Has anyone created a routine that will truncate text in a field to given pixel width, and append ellipses? I found one that limits text based on character count, but I'm looking to limit based on available space. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread Terry Judd
Scott - have a look at the truncateText routine (I think that's what it's called) within the datagrid. Terry... On 13/06/2013, at 11:14 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: Has anyone created a routine that will truncate text in a field to given pixel width, and append ellipses? I found one that

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
I wrote a script which I ran in 6.1 that got the keys of the properties of the objects I mentioned then stored them in custom properties. Then I I loaded the stack in 5.5, got the keys of the properties again and stored them in a different set of custom properties. Finally, compared the two sets

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Not returning them simply because they are not set is a step backwards. If there is a need for that, then let's have another form of the properties that indicates that, perhaps, the working properties or the effective properties. I like where you're going with that. It

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread dunbarx
Scott. This is a Kluge and a half, but I filled a field with some text. In a button script: on mouseUp ask What length to trunc? if it is not an integer then exit mouseup click at the left of fld 1 + it , the top of fld 1 + 12 put ... into char (word 2 of the selectedChunk) to

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Dar Scott
On Jun 12, 2013, at 7:32 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Whenever I'm teaching someone new to the language, one of the first questions that comes up is What properties are available for each object? Yes! And since LIveCode is evolving, this is also nice for review by old hands. Dar

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 11:21 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: While not returning properties that aren't set may satisfy your needs, it certainly doesn't fill my requirements. It's always been impossible to get a full list of properties simply because some of them, and I don't mean derived ones, were

Re: 6.1

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 11:32 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: like where you're going with that. It may also be helpful to be able to get a list of just the names, without the values, for a given object, similar to the propertyNames but limited to those relevant to the specified object: get the

Re: LiveCode 6.1 dp 1 available

2013-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/13 1:50 PM, Heather Laine wrote: You'll notice that we've moved to a single set of release notes, dropping the separate iOS, Android and Server notes. A lot of the information in those separate docs was better served being presented as a developers guide, with the main release notes

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread Scott Rossi
Yeah, a little kludgy but workable maybe with some labor (was hoping to avoid labor though). Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 6/12/13 6:44 PM, dunb...@aol.com dunb...@aol.com wrote: Scott. This is a Kluge and a half, but I filled a field with

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/13 8:14 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Has anyone created a routine that will truncate text in a field to given pixel width, and append ellipses? I found one that limits text based on character count, but I'm looking to limit based on available space. I did this ages ago, like back in MC. I

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 12:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I did this ages ago, like back in MC. I used a real field, but now that I know better I'd use the templatefield instead. It's ugly, but since you can only measure text width from a field, you have to loop. The pseudocode is something like:

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/13 9:57 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13/06/2013, at 12:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I did this ages ago, like back in MC. I used a real field, but now that I know better I'd use the templatefield instead. It's ugly, but since you can only measure text width from a field, you have to

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 1:01 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You bet. And while you're at it, make it so we can optionally insert the elipsis into the middle of the string too, like Apple does it. :) Lol... I didn't say I was going to do it ;-) ... I'm avoiding even looking at the field object code

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/13 10:16 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: I'm avoiding even looking at the field object code Dr Raney called the field object The Beast. Time to put on your lion tamer hat. I watched runrevMark s...c...r...o...l...l through the button code once. I hear the field object is even worse.

Re: Truncate Text Based On Available Space?

2013-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/06/2013, at 1:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Dr Raney called the field object The Beast. Time to put on your lion tamer hat. I had a quick look... and decided to stop looking... ;-) -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets

RE: Android and iOS embedded fonts used in native browser control.

2013-06-12 Thread Ralph DiMola
Paul, Did you submit this as a bug or to support? If not I will do it using your test stack, if that is OK with you? Thanks Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode