LiveCode and implementation of tail-recursion

2013-07-27 Thread Mitchell Duncan
Can anyone comment on the efficiency of LiveCode in recursive applications, and in particular, whether it handles tail-recursion well (if at all). ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-27 Thread Alan Stenhouse
G'day Cal Quote from the online docs: --- The position and appearance of the dialog box varies between platforms. On Mac OS systems, the dialog box is centered on the screen; on Unix and Windows systems, the dialog box is centered over the active window. On Windows systems, the buttons are

Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-27 Thread Scott Rossi
Good point about the platform being key -- had forgot about that in my X-centric view. But Cal might be able to make use of the suspendStack handler to position the answer dialog in the preferred location. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Jul 27, 2013, at

App builds but will not install

2013-07-27 Thread Jim sims
Have an iPad app that would install and run ten days ago. Did some work on it (it does not use externals) - builds fine - when synched to my iPad it will not install. Same ios application settings as before , in the one that installed and ran. No dialogs popping up with warnings. Just will not

Re: App builds but will not install

2013-07-27 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jim, How are you doing the 'syncing'? Xcode Organizer? iTunes? Other? Sometimes you have to delete the original app on the iPad before installing a new one? But there is usually an error. Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jul 27, 2013, at 5:30 AM, Jim sims

Google Cast

2013-07-27 Thread David Bovill
Anyone working on integrating Google Cast into LiveCode? - https://developers.google.com/cast/devprev ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Answer Dialog location

2013-07-27 Thread Roger Eller
Make a tiny hidden substack that stays at the screenLoc (hidden). On Windows, go to stack screenCenter before calling answer. ~Roger On Jul 27, 2013 5:22 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Good point about the platform being key -- had forgot about that in my X-centric view. But

Replicant

2013-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
The FSF has started fundraising to expand the reach of Replicant, an open-source version of Android. Currently running on 10 mobile devices, Replicant replaces the non-OSS parts of the Android operating system with free replacements. F-Droid is also available, and can be installed on any Android

Re: Replicant

2013-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 07/27/2013 07:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: The FSF has started fundraising to expand the reach of Replicant, an open-source version of Android. Currently running on 10 mobile devices, Replicant replaces the non-OSS parts of the Android operating system with free replacements. F-Droid is also

Re: Replicant

2013-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, July 27, 2013, 10:29:53 AM, you wrote: After a bit I get a bit sick of Stallman's galloping fundamentalism snip tl;dr, eh? It does sometimes pay to read the described material *before* issuing a kneejerk response. Note that this post is about Replicant, not FSF.

[OT] greetings

2013-07-27 Thread Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu
Hello Dear LiveCoders, We're still on the streets but there are other things to do. Legal prosecutions, seeking human rights in official echelons, etc. However, one must pay the rent and the bills ;-) Time to roll up my sleeves and get back to coding. I really missed you, guys :-) The

Re: Replicant

2013-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 07/27/2013 09:43 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, July 27, 2013, 10:29:53 AM, you wrote: After a bit I get a bit sick of Stallman's galloping fundamentalism snip tl;dr, eh? It does sometimes pay to read the described material *before* issuing a kneejerk response. Note that

Re: [OT] greetings

2013-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 07/27/2013 09:57 PM, Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu wrote: Hello Dear LiveCoders, We're still on the streets but there are other things to do. Legal prosecutions, seeking human rights in official echelons, etc. However, one must pay the rent and the bills ;-) Time to roll up my sleeves and get back

Re: Finding matched parentheses

2013-07-27 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: regex is notoriously unable to handle recursion. To see endless heated debate, search the web for how to parse HTML using regex. Hi Geoff, You piqued my interest and indeed there are endless debates about parsing html! I

Re: Finding matched parentheses

2013-07-27 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: There are solutions for recursive pattern matching with PCRE, but never being able to make them work within LC. Hi Thierry, Sorry, missed your post somehow. If you follow the link in my post to Geoff, there's an

unsetting behavior

2013-07-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm looking at the need to be able to set unset behaviors. If I have set the behavior of a field to some button, and then want it to go back to default behavior, is there any way to do this? Do I need a null script? And how long does a setting last? While Im o the card? While the stack is

Re: Replicant

2013-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, July 27, 2013, 12:16:35 PM, you wrote: I did, oddly enough, read about Replicant and F-Droid, and, as such I cannot see anything unduly wrong with them; but all that was mixed up with the Whiter than white specious nonsense of Stallman and his acolytes, which gives me

Re: unsetting behavior

2013-07-27 Thread Phil Davis
On 7/27/13 12:48 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I'm looking at the need to be able to set unset behaviors. If I have set the behavior of a field to some button, and then want it to go back to default behavior, is there any way to do this? Do I need a null script? set the behavior of control 1 to

Re: [OT] greetings

2013-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, July 27, 2013, 12:19:28 PM, you wrote: So the police belted people over the heads with batons, drawing blood, and not a sound is heard in the international media. There are dribs and such in the Guardian and some other places. But you have to go looking for coverage in

Re: unsetting behavior

2013-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
hi- Saturday, July 27, 2013, 12:48:08 PM, you wrote: I'm looking at the need to be able to set unset behaviors. If I have set the behavior of a field to some button, and then want it to go back to default behavior, is there any way to do this? Do I need a null script? And how long does

Re: unsetting behavior

2013-07-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: On 7/27/13 12:48 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: If I have set the behavior of a field to some button, and then want it to go back to default behavior, is there any way to do this? Do I need a null script? set the behavior of

Re: unsetting behavior

2013-07-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: The behavior of an object is treated the same as any other property. If you set it and save the stack, it's permanent. Until changed. If you set it to empty, you're essentially clearing the behavior property of the

huh? a non-table accepting tabs instead of leaving?

2013-07-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I have a handful of fields where I implemented a click-to open behavior as we discussed a few days--fields that are unlikely to need to be overridden, so shouldn't be tabbed through. On one of these, when I tab, it inserts a tab into the next field, rather than processing it. I've seen the

Re: huh? a non-table accepting tabs instead of leaving?

2013-07-27 Thread Mark Wieder
hi- Saturday, July 27, 2013, 3:21:11 PM, you wrote: On one of these, when I tab, it inserts a tab into the next field, rather than processing it. The tabstops of that field is not empty. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode