Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Judd
Since about an hour ago I can no longer open the script editor in LC 6.1.1 rc3. This problem only seems to affect this version (older versions are still OK) and occurs with both commercial and community versions. Trying to open the script editor causes Livecode to hang, requiring a force quit

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Terry, What have you tried to solve the problem so far? -- 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

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Richmond
On 08/29/2013 10:35 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Since about an hour ago I can no longer open the script editor in LC 6.1.1 rc3. This problem only seems to affect this version (older versions are still OK) and occurs with both commercial and community versions. Trying to open the script editor

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread AndyP
Hi Terry, This looks like a bug in the rc3 version. Similar problems have been reported on the Devlist. Best to submit the problem to the LiveCode Quality Control Centre http://quality.runrev.com/ http://quality.runrev.com/ - Andy Piddock My software never has bugs. It just develops

[OT] The Nigerians are back

2013-08-29 Thread Richmond
Sheer Joy! I opened my e-mail client and there was a message from one Lois Ashante (such cross-cultural poetry in a name! Makes me think of a fine, upstanding young lady beside her boyfriend Super Yoruba) promising much fine gold in exchange for a measley $100 of mine as an 'act of

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Judd
On 29/08/2013, at 05:40 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Terry, What have you tried to solve the problem so far? Hi Mark - I tried deleting the revpreferences file and trashing and reinstalling from a fresh download. Still no go. It seems to affect all 6.1.1 versions (6.1 and earlier are OK)

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Terry, Did you do a complete uninstall *and* delete the revPreferences stack again before re-installing? What does the syntax there is a stack revNewScriptEditor return? What happens if you put true into gRevDevelopment and try to edit a script? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Judd
On 29/08/2013, at 05:53 PM, Terry Judd wrote: On 29/08/2013, at 05:40 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Terry, What have you tried to solve the problem so far? Hi Mark - I tried deleting the revpreferences file and trashing and reinstalling from a fresh download. Still no go. It seems to

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks Mark - all good now but if the problem recurs then I'll try what you suggest below. Terry... On 29/08/2013, at 05:59 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Terry, Did you do a complete uninstall *and* delete the revPreferences stack again before re-installing? What does the syntax

Re: Can't open script editor

2013-08-29 Thread Terry Judd
A restart fixed it for now but I have my eye on it ;) Terry... On 29/08/2013, at 05:47 PM, AndyP wrote: Hi Terry, This looks like a bug in the rc3 version. Similar problems have been reported on the Devlist. Best to submit the problem to the LiveCode Quality Control Centre

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/28/13 9:03 PM, AC Marketscout ac.marketsc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, We are developing a new application using LiveCode. One requirement is that there is some easy way to alter the underlying DB schema, on-the-fly, by an administrator, who can then also immediately use it to make front-end

Re: Datagrid: Edit row, save to database

2013-08-29 Thread Pascal Lehner
Thanks Björnke, I somehow missed those two articles. Works exactly as hoped, especially in combination with several of those: *set* the dgColumnIsEditable[IngrCurrency] of *group* GridIngredients to false Best regards, Pascal On 29 August 2013 00:48, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote:

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Mays
On Aug 29, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin ruslan_zasuk...@valentina-db.com wrote: To better understand possible benefits of Valentina I advice you review in 5-30 minutes few our articles of such kind in Valentina WIKI

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Kay C Lan
I think that's because the link is not represented in the mail List correctly. Everything betwenen and needs to appear on one line. I show the last :articles appearing on the second line and not part of the hyperlink. But even if you go to the 'This topic does not exist yet' page, in the left

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Michael, http://qery.us/3yz -- 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 colour spaces.

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

2013-08-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham
Yeah, I started out using an ellipsis but then I ran into the Mac/Windows font inconsistencies in another context. It took me a month of intermittent experimenting to discover how to use a option/alt keystroke to insert ® and — into the Windows field. So in trying to solve the menu-building

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

2013-08-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham
Yes, exactly. I simply took the code out of the function handler and used it in place of the function call in the mousedown handler in the button script, and it worked fine. This happened with two quite different functions that accomplished the same result: both of the approaches worked in the

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Michael Mays
Pet peeve of mine people posting messages with links to their product or whatever and not actually clicking them to see it they work. Should have taken it off line. Sorry. Michael On Aug 29, 2013, at 6:54 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: I think that's because the link is not

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/29/2013 07:12 AM, Michael Mays wrote: Pet peeve of mine people posting messages with links to their product or whatever and not actually clicking them to see it they work. This is almost always a result of an email client reformatting messages to fit within a certain column width, and

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Kerner
Really. The client SHOULD NOT do this, but many do. The sender has no way of knowing that the client is, for lack of a better word, stupid, when it comes to handling hyperlinks. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.uswrote: On 08/29/2013 07:12 AM, Michael Mays

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread AC Marketscout
Thank you very much for the information and links On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: Really. The client SHOULD NOT do this, but many do. The sender has no way of knowing that the client is, for lack of a better word, stupid, when it comes to

Re: [OT] The Nigerians are back

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Kerner
As an aside, I understand that may $100 bills are contaminated with cocaine. I also understand that gold is not. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 3:49 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Sheer Joy! I opened my e-mail client and there was a message from one Lois Ashante (such

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Lynn Fredricks
http://qery.us/3yz -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Thanks Mark! :-) Our wiki produces these incredibly long but logical URLs that get kinked up in email replies. BTW, if you picked up Valentina Studio Pro last year, its worth watching the 10 minute intro video now on the top page for

Re: Google's SPAM filters [was Re: Finding the calling code/object/script?]

2013-08-29 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Nicolas Cueto nicon...@gmail.com wrote: Each few hours now for several weeks Google's SMAP filter has been mistakenly categorizing a handful of list messages at a time. Seems like 10 to 20 messages a day, with no recognizable pattern to them. Ironically, this

Re: Search Replace with lf and/cr

2013-08-29 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 1:56 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: numToChar(2325)) break i.e. stripped out the linefeed. Obviously that is no good. I've always found it simplest to change the difficult character to ZZZ or myMagicString, make my changes, and move it back. . . --

Re: Google's SPAM filters [was Re: Finding the calling code/object/script?]

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Kerner
You can (and I have) create filters that will prevent these messages as being marked as spam. In your Filters, set anything that has from lists.runrev.com as not spam. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Nicolas Cueto

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

2013-08-29 Thread Peter Haworth
At someone's suggestion on the list, I ended up using the hellip; html tag and setting the htmltext to avoid the Mac/Windows issue, but I was putting the data into a scrolling list field not a menu. Not sure if menus accept htmltext, would be interesting to check that out. Pete lcSQL Software

blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Is there any way in LC to set a graphic effect such that everything behind is blurred, much like we see in mobile apps? I need to do something like this and am not sure how. If it's not possible, can something be done to an image to create this effect, and then have that image imported into an

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Colin Holgate
I think you’ll need to use code to do the blurring: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/26580-vision-how-do-i-blur-an-image ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Hmm. Except I'm not really working with images. At least, I'm trying to avoid that if possible. Maybe I should have explained a little better. I've got a stack that will eventually be a mobile app. I have to toggle a screen overlay of sorts that will present to the user only certain words to

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi CHris, Import a snapshot of the card. Set the blendLevel of the new image control to 50 and move the image control 3 or 4 pixels to the top-left. You can easily to this by script. You don't need to use static picture for this. You can do this dynamically, to make correspond to the current

The Database File Is Locked sqlite

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Kerner
How the heck can a single-threaded environment like LC create this error? I have a series of queries that hit sqlite, followed by UPDATE x SET y = 0 WHERE y = 1 which results in this error. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On

spitting nails at the IDE

2013-08-29 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I am so frustrated with the bugs in the IDE, and the other alpha-minus pieces, that if I had a another straightforward way to code the cross-platform interface that I'd do it. This just isn't good for my blood pressure (which is normally superb). The breakpoints that oly break if they feel like

Re: spitting nails at the IDE

2013-08-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/29/13 4:27 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: The breakpoints that oly break if they feel like it, the reloading several times an hour over the strict compilation shadowing bug, the database funcions that don't return the right information (revDatabaseTableNames is usually incomplete with postgres) or

Re: spitting nails at the IDE

2013-08-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Aug 29, 2013, at 2:27 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: The breakpoints that oly break if they feel like it About 99% of the time, this happens because there is a bug in your handler that is tripping up the compiler. We see this all time and know to look for the bug in the code.

Re: The Database File Is Locked sqlite

2013-08-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Mike, Can happen if you issue a BEGIN without a corresponding COMMIT or ROLLBACK, then issue another BEGIN. Also, if by some chance you're using an admin tool that has the db locked for some reason. I've never used an sqlite db over a network connection but I've read that locks don;t work

Re: spitting nails at the IDE

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Kerner
how about not being able to undo deleting an object? This happens when you think you are in e script editor and hit the del button, but, for whatever reason, the IDE has the focus instead, and the del hits the button that you selected to edit the script to begin with. It's especially painful

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Chris, Here's a trick I used a while back: make a snapshot of the card, then scale the image down, then scale it up again. Simple recipe to try it out: - create a new stack and drag random controls onto it - drag on a button and set its script to ## constant kBlurFactor = 2 on mouseUp   

Re: spitting nails at the IDE

2013-08-29 Thread Marek Niesiobedzki
As I see 99% of this bugs depends from developer. I don't have such problems. Marek ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: