Re: where has Runrevs page with programming offers gone?

2014-01-22 Thread Dave Kilroy
I paid to get listed the best part of a year ago (it seemed like a good idea at the time). It was when they first announced it and before http://livecode.com went live. The process was (at that time) a conversation with Heather, and me putting together about 100 words as a profile. I think the

Re: ColorAtScreenLoc Function

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Al, Are you saying that the exported PNG is of the correct size, e.g. 5x5 pixels? I have to try that again. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553

Re: [OT] MIA

2014-01-22 Thread Monte Goulding
Thanks for all the public and private messages of support. We are home now and the funeral is tomorrow. Really touched today to get flowers today from the RunRev team. On 21/01/2014, at 7:12 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Hi Folks I'm going to be off the reservation

Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Graham Samuel
I am not sure if I could glean this from the current LC docs but it doesn't look easy. Maybe someone here could give me a clue: I have a desktop app which contains a field into which the user can type a character string which is then manipulated by the app. The user can just use the keyboard,

RE: [OT] MIA

2014-01-22 Thread Ralph DiMola
Monte, Margaret and I send our love and prayers to Rebecca, you and your entire family. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Monte Goulding

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 15:47, Graham Samuel wrote: I am not sure if I could glean this from the current LC docs but it doesn't look easy. Maybe someone here could give me a clue: I have a desktop app which contains a field into which the user can type a character string which is then manipulated by the

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: So . . . I'm not being much help really. We love you anyway, Richmond…. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 18:47, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:20 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: So . . . I'm not being much help really. We love you anyway, Richmond…. I wonder who is going to love me if I suggest that the next release might feature the capability

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 22 Jan 2014, at 16:55, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder who is going to love me if I suggest that the next release might feature the capability of working out if a textFld contains Unicode, ASCII, Macfunny, Windowsfunny, Amigafunny or otherwise? In 7.0, text is

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@runrev.comwrote: In 7.0, Any idea when we'll see the first V7 beta ? (sorry, you opened the door….) *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
Just belted off a stack that WILL tell you if a textField contains Unicode text or not; it's here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=18869 Love, Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 19:12, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@runrev.comwrote: In 7.0, Any idea when we'll see the first V7 beta ? (sorry, you opened the door….) Stephen: you stole my wooden spoon; the one I use for stirring the

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Fraser Gordon wrote: In 7.0, text is always Unicode (specifically, UTF-16...) Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? The latter would seem more compact, and appears to be the default for nearly every other dev tool (and text processors and so much more). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 22 Jan 2014, at 17:23, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8? Windows, OSX and iOS use UTF-16 in their native APIs. Android is (I believe) UTF-8. Linux is usually UTF-8 but could technically be anything… There are valid reasons for either choice but

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Fraser Gordon wrote: Windows, OSX and iOS use UTF-16 in their native APIs. Android is (I believe) UTF-8. Linux is usually UTF-8 but could technically be anything… There are valid reasons for either choice but in the end it shouldn't really matter to anyone who isn't fiddling with the

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 19:59, Richard Gaskin wrote: Fraser Gordon wrote: Windows, OSX and iOS use UTF-16 in their native APIs. Android is (I believe) UTF-8. Linux is usually UTF-8 but could technically be anything… There are valid reasons for either choice but in the end it shouldn't really matter

RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.5.2-rc-1. This a maintenance release containing bug fixes only. *Warning, there still may be bugs in this pre-release. It is always good practice to back up your stacks before testing.* *Release Contents* 33 bug fixes:

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 20:28, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.5.2-rc-1. This a maintenance release containing bug fixes only. *Warning, there still may be bugs in this pre-release. It is always good practice to back up your stacks before

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 20:41, Graham Samuel wrote: Richmond, thanks for inching my problem towards a solution. I downloaded your test. Clever, in fact too clever for me. I don't understand why the test works. Would you care to explain? What the script in the button does is it grabs the text in the

Martin Koob

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Martin, Please contact me from an e-mail address that is unrelated to Apple. (Apple's servers currently don't accept e-mails from Economy-x-Talk and we don't know where the problem is). -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/22/14, 12:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: 11286 - messagebox syntax for invoking functions is broken Oh yay! Double yay! It now works both with and without put. It was making me crazy. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/22/14, 1:54 PM, Richmond wrote: On 22/01/14 21:32, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/22/14, 12:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: 11286 - messagebox syntax for invoking functions is broken Oh yay! Double yay! It now works both with and without put. It was making me crazy. Could you give us an

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 21:32, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/22/14, 12:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: 11286 - messagebox syntax for invoking functions is broken Oh yay! Double yay! It now works both with and without put. It was making me crazy. Could you give us an example, please? Richmond.

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/01/14 22:00, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/22/14, 1:54 PM, Richmond wrote: On 22/01/14 21:32, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/22/14, 12:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: 11286 - messagebox syntax for invoking functions is broken Oh yay! Double yay! It now works both with and without put. It was

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Roger Eller
Funny thing: I went to backup my stack before testing so I can verify bug 11623 is fixed, and the stable 6.5.1 crashed on me for the very first time! ~Roger On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont b...@runrev.com wrote: Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/22/14, 2:06 PM, Richmond wrote: So, presumably this only affects the Message Box; which is NOT the end of the World as we know it. Yes. The bug I mentioned was a fix to the message box, which I use to call functions and handlers all the time. Not the end of the world, but an

a couple of curios

2014-01-22 Thread Martin Baxter
While reviewing some old scripts that have been in regular use but not actually edited for some time I came across: put .js after in jsfname And was surprised it compiled but it does, it even works on mouseUp local tmp put do into tmp put what? after in tmp put tmp end mouseUp ##

Re: a couple of curios

2014-01-22 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Right you are, and this (the dictionary does say that of is a synonym of in) works as well. on mouseUp local tmp put do into tmp put what? after of of in in of in tmp -- ! put tmp end mouseUp Weird... This is not at all possible with something like: put woops onto into

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:26 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: an inconvenience to my work style exactly - one can 'put' a complex single line term into the box, test it, and paste into a script. less editing and clicking. it wasn't an intuitive or needed change. We weren't

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread dunbarx
Stephen. it wasn't an intuitive or needed change. We weren't really warned. Jacque was talking about the fact that it used to always work this way, starting in 1987. It broke a few months ago. Or maybe I misinterpreted your comment? Anyway, thank heavens it is back. Craig

Re: a couple of curios

2014-01-22 Thread Martin Baxter
On 22/01/14 21:08, dunb...@aol.com wrote: on mouseUp local tmp put do into tmp put what? after of of in in of in tmp -- ! put tmp end mouseUp :D Runrev anticipated my coding style apparently Sadly unto is not supported :( MArtin

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 1:15 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: We weren't really warned by the mother ship. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: a couple of curios

2014-01-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Martin Baxter wrote: Sadly unto is not supported :( You might consider submitting a request for that. See also: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3157 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers:

Re: a couple of curios

2014-01-22 Thread Martin Baxter
On 22/01/14 21:51, Richard Gaskin wrote: Martin Baxter wrote: Sadly unto is not supported :( You might consider submitting a request for that. It is... ...tempting go unto stack Portentous send myExFriend unto stack purgatori in 0 seconds set the cursor unto watch [with theatrical

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

2014-01-22 Thread Tim Selander
My thought exactly what with all the data shuffling among apps/programs that goes on in modern computing Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 14/01/23 2:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: Fraser Gordon wrote: In 7.0, text is always Unicode (specifically, UTF-16...) Why UTF-16 rather than UTF-8?

RELEASE: rIDE 3.5 DP.1

2014-01-22 Thread Mats Wilstrand
Dear Developers! I'm glad to release an early Developer Preview of rIDE 3.5. Please be warned! It focuses on further integration of features into the main window. The Tools Palette can now be showned as a Pane together with the Browser Tree and the new Message Box. These new features are

[OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

2014-01-22 Thread Kay C Lan
As this is the largest community of Mac users I know please forgive me for asking this off topic question here. I'm on 10.9.1 MBP 15 Retina, I have the latest versions of TextEdit 1.9 (310) and Pages 5.0.1 (1478) I recently purchased OS X Mavericks - The Missing Manual as I find these Missing

[OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

2014-01-22 Thread Kay C Lan
As this is the largest community of Mac users I know please forgive me for asking this off topic question here. I'm on 10.9.1 MBP 15 Retina, I have the latest versions of TextEdit 1.9 (310) and Pages 5.0.1 (1478) I recently purchased OS X Mavericks - The Missing Manual as I find these Missing

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 11:32:15 AM, you wrote: On 1/22/14, 12:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: 11286 - messagebox syntax for invoking functions is broken Oh yay! Double yay! It now works both with and without put. It was making me crazy. It's somewhat fixed. There's still an

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

2014-01-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I’m using 10.9.1 on a 13 inch MBP, and with TextEdit I never see that black dot. I can type frantically and quit the app in mid keystroke, and still the document had already saved the changes. Your symptoms suggest you’re not on 10.9. ___

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/22/14, 8:57 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Wednesday, January 22, 2014, 11:32:15 AM, you wrote: On 1/22/14, 12:28 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: 11286 - messagebox syntax for invoking functions is broken Oh yay! Double yay! It now works both with and without put. It was making me

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

2014-01-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Wonderful! :D 11675 - Application freezes when importing certain PBM image files (All Unix formats now works! Just a small glitch with PBM easily to fix) 11673 - Setting the fillRule of a polygon graphic stops it rendering Now, SVGL works as expected. Test by yourself!