RE: LC 4.5 script corruption on Linux

2013-07-14 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Richmond, The stackFileVersion changed in v6, so trying to open it in 4.5 would report a corruption. Is this what may have happened? Hugh Senior FLCo Richmond wrote: Today, for the first time, I opened the script of a stack I was working on yesterday and found the script had been corrupted

Re: Learning Pack

2013-07-14 Thread Mike Kerner
It's just the a bit I would have issue with. No qualifier necessary, buddy! On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 07/13/2013 11:52 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 13 Jul 2013, at 15:59, Richmond wrote: Now what I cannot understand is how

Re: Is there any issue with a file and directory set up that includes a space?

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mark, Sometimes, people might have special characters in their names, such as Niña Mendoça. In such cases you'll have to deal with diacritics and then you might as well make sure to deal with spaces correctly. Otherwise, people will wonder why your system can't cope with perfectly normal

Re: Is there any issue with a file and directory set up that includes a space?

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ralph DiMola wrote: Case sensitive file names also burn my a##. It's an accident waiting to happen. In my humble opinion case sensitive file names is one of those Looks good on paper type of things. When I first started using Linux, getting used to case-sensitive file systems was very

Finding list items within a table field

2013-07-14 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, I've posted this question to Stack Overflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17639968/livecode-find-list-items-within-a-table-field - but it seems very quiet over there on LiveCode matters, so apologies for t the cross-posting. I'm trying to use LiveCode to clean up some contact

Re: Finding list items within a table field

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
I answered your question on Stackoverflow. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other

Re: Finding list items within a table field

2013-07-14 Thread Keith Clarke
…thanks Mark - and sorry all for my impatience (I was hoping to get this housekeeping done before the end of a rare sunny Sunday in the UK)! :-/ Best, Keith.. On 14 Jul 2013, at 16:03, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: I answered your question on Stackoverflow. --

Re: excluding fields from tab-advancement

2013-07-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Jul 13, 2013 at 8:44 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: The easiest way is to make the field non focusable. You can do this in the inspector or by script. But then the user can't click in, can he? Actually entering one of these to enter a value will be a rare event, but I do want it to be

Re: Is there any issue with a file and directory set up that includes a space?

2013-07-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:31 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Sometimes, people might have special characters in their names, such as Niña Mendoça. In such cases you'll have to deal with diacritics and then you might as well make sure to deal with spaces correctly.

Re: Is there any issue with a file and directory set up that includes a space?

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, Exactly that would be all the more reason to make sure that your software can cope with spaces :-) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use

Re: excluding fields from tab-advancement

2013-07-14 Thread Paul Hibbert
Then you could make the non focusable field temporarily focusable just to allow data entry, it worked OK for my test… == on mouseDown set the traversalOn of me to true focus on me end mouseDown on closeField set the traversalOn of me to false end closeField on exitField closeField

Re: LC 4.5 script corruption on Linux

2013-07-14 Thread Richmond
On 07/14/2013 01:33 PM, FlexibleLearning.com wrote: Richmond, The stackFileVersion changed in v6, so trying to open it in 4.5 would report a corruption. Is this what may have happened? No, nothing of the sort. I saved a script in LC 4.5 and then closed Livecode. Opening the stack 30

Re: excluding fields from tab-advancement

2013-07-14 Thread dunbarx
What Paul said. Another way, and much klunkier, is to monitor the field that next receives the command to open, maybe in the card script? on openField if the short name of the target is theFieldYouWantToBypass then focus on fld NextFieldInTheTabOrder end openField or The games you can

Buttons all in the same background

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, I have 3 buttons that I had hoped were all in the same background group so that when the script was changed on one card they'd be changed in all the other LC cards. Not so. Now what? I have 20 cards. Buttons Show Attendance, Show Performances and Show Health should all be in the same

Re: Buttons all in the same background

2013-07-14 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Make sure you use Place Object instead of just copying the group. On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:36 PM, Mark Rauterkus mark.rauter...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have 3 buttons that I had hoped were all in the same background group so that when the script was changed on one card they'd be changed in

é on Mac becomes Ž on Windows

2013-07-14 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour, In an app, I just finish to build on Mac (at least I was hoping so!) I have fields (lockText false) where special characters (in fact #) have an imageSource. (a small image showing the 3 letters Doc The images used to set the imageSource of # are invisible. Each one has a custom

LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Mike Kerner
LC has been sitting here doingsomething for several hours, taking 20% of my CPU. The stack I have open does not have any scripts that appear to be running, the Message Watcher isn't showing anything, so I'm confused. If I create a new stack, LC goes to nothing. Adding the same substacks

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: LC has been sitting here doingsomething for several hours, taking 20% of my CPU. The stack I have open does not have any scripts that appear to be running, the Message Watcher isn't showing anything, so I'm confused. If I create a new stack, LC goes to nothing. Adding

Re: é on Mac becomes Ž on Windows

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi AndrŽ, Convert your custom property with the MacToIso function before displaying the text (only in Windows of course). -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK:

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Dar Scott
A couple thoughts... In the message box, switch to pending messages (mailbox with flag up). Check IDE messages and auto update. If you see lines there, that might be the source. See if the names match any plugins. In your My LiveCode folder, look for externals and plugins that could be the

Re: é on Mac becomes Ž on Windows

2013-07-14 Thread Dar Scott
LOL! I almost didn't see it. I look forward to full unicodification of LiveCode and these things might go away. Dar On Jul 14, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi AndrŽ, Convert your custom property with the MacToIso function before displaying the text (only in Windows of

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Mike Kerner
Nothing showing up in pending messages. No pulsing buttons. Just a MG stack with a background, navbar and a button, butI had a push button (that wasn't pulsing). When I changed it to a square button, the CPU usage went to zero. I wonder why a push button would take so much CPU time.

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: Nothing showing up in pending messages. No pulsing buttons. Just a MG stack with a background, navbar and a button, butI had a push button (that wasn't pulsing). When I changed it to a square button, the CPU usage went to zero. I wonder why a push button would take so

Re: é on Mac becomes Ž on Windows

2013-07-14 Thread André Bisseret
Le 14 juil. 2013 à 20:59, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi AndrŽ, Excellent ;-o)) Convert your custom property with the MacToIso function before displaying the text (only in Windows of course). -- Thanks a lot Mark for your prompt reply. First time I hear about MacToIso! (I should browse

Re: Sockets on mobile…at last!

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Talluto
On Jul 13, 2013, at 2:53 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 14/07/2013, at 1:57 AM, Mark Talluto use...@canelasoftware.com wrote: What problems are you correcting regarding sockets for desktops? None, I was talking about getting the sockets implementation in the

Re: Buttons all in the same background

2013-07-14 Thread dunbarx
Hi. If you have a card script that does stuff to that group, it makes no difference whether that group has its backGroundBehavior set to true or not. Though that group will appear on any new card you make automatically, the script of the new card will always be empty. I think what you are

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Dar Scott
Same here. I even tried checking and unchecking default in the property inspector. On Jul 14, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mike Kerner wrote: Nothing showing up in pending messages. No pulsing buttons. Just a MG stack with a background, navbar and a button, butI had a

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Mike Kerner
Same here what, Dar? On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: Same here. I even tried checking and unchecking default in the property inspector. On Jul 14, 2013, at 1:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mike Kerner wrote: Nothing showing up in pending messages. No

Japanese Font Menu Problem

2013-07-14 Thread in...@kenjikojima.com
Hi, Can anybody resolve the problem? I made a Japanese font pulldown menu. It works fine on MacOS, But does not show correct font names on Windows. go to url http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/jpFontMenu.livecode; Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Dar Scott
As Richard, I can reproduce 20% (sometimes 17%) CPU usage with a default button, but not a usual button. I tried putting a default button on the card and then turning off the default checkbox. I got 20% with it on and about 1 or 2% with it off. I wonder if there could have been a button