Re: Fairly offensive message - Domain does not exist

2014-02-24 Thread Richmond
On 25/02/14 03:17, Bob Sneidar wrote: yeah… troll. He might try looking at Wowmatrix, which was written ENTIRELY in Livecode. It goes out to various WOW add-on sites, checks for the latest versions, compares it with the users current version, allows the user to selectively or globally update

Re: Fairly offensive message - Domain does not exist

2014-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/24/14, 10:23 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: I thought the comments by Anthony reflected someone who was trying to make a quick appraisal, and were based on what he could easily find. It seems Livecode guys could improve their web site to hilight outstanding examples of sophisticated apps created

Re: Fairly offensive message - Domain does not exist

2014-02-24 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, I've been following this discussion with interest and, as a newby to livecode, but with a history going back to HyperCard and Supercard, you might be interested in my perspective. I've programmed in Fortran, Pascal, C, Corona, Php, Adobe Director (extensively) and Basic, so I've been expo

Re: [BLOG] What is LiveCode?

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
Nice Mark! I still like my construction metaphor though. ;-) Bob On Feb 24, 2014, at 04:03 , Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi, > > I have written a blog post to explain what is LiveCode, with CS teachers in > mind. If you have any comments, you can add them at the bottom of the article. > > ht

Re: [OT] Michigan Repository

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
If only someone would get their networking up to snuff I might go back to using it for things like, oh I dunno… Crystal QUEST! YAA! Even my dog years old copy of Myst! Bob On Feb 24, 2014, at 06:49 , J. Landman Gay mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote: To ensure a smooth import the st

Re: App and Doc Icons for Windows and Mac

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
All my unparalleled skill and expertise as an IT Jedi Master can be attributed to Google. Thanks Google! “You’re welcome Jedi Bob!” Bob On Feb 24, 2014, at 10:04 , J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/24/14, 10:40 AM, Ray wrote: >> Could somebody please show me where I can get all the specs I'll need

Re: Fairly offensive message - Domain does not exist

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
yeah… troll. He might try looking at Wowmatrix, which was written ENTIRELY in Livecode. It goes out to various WOW add-on sites, checks for the latest versions, compares it with the users current version, allows the user to selectively or globally update their add-ons, has a live update featur

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wouldn’t go looking under any bushels for lights! You might find cheese instead… Bob On Feb 24, 2014, at 01:36 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: Reading it, initially, I felt a bit offended; but, then on further thought I wondered if at least some of it might be true.

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/02/14 15:14, Peter W A Wood wrote: Good Afternoon Richmond On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:36, Richmond wrote: I wonder if RunRev might not be persuaded to have a webpage with links to all our 'clever stuff': it might serve RunRev's interests . . . 1001 Things to Do with LiveCode has a lot of

Re: App and Doc Icons for Windows and Mac

2014-02-24 Thread Ray
Hey Jackie, thanks. On 2/24/2014 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/24/14, 10:40 AM, Ray wrote: Could somebody please show me where I can get all the specs I'll need to help our artist create ICON files for Mac and Windows stand alones? We'll need to create icon files for both the Application

Re: App and Doc Icons for Windows and Mac

2014-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/24/14, 10:40 AM, Ray wrote: Could somebody please show me where I can get all the specs I'll need to help our artist create ICON files for Mac and Windows stand alones? We'll need to create icon files for both the Application and its documents. Google "windows mac icon sizes" and you'll ge

Re: Last Chance to get Studio Pro & Valentina Reports for LiveCode at 50% Off

2014-02-24 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Lynn, i see a 50% discount listed on your store for Studio and for Reports, but not for DB ADK. Regards, Matthias Am 24.02.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Lynn Fredricks : > Hello all, > > This offer ends today. We've had some spectacular results esp with Valentina > Studio Pro, since it now suppo

Last Chance to get Studio Pro & Valentina Reports for LiveCode at 50% Off

2014-02-24 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hello all, This offer ends today. We've had some spectacular results esp with Valentina Studio Pro, since it now supports all major databases, and adds several very useful tools like SQL DIFF, and Reports Builder, and availability on all three operating systems. Ive even gotten it working under St

Re: offset broken?

2014-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/24/14, 12:21 AM, As_Simon wrote: Sweet! In The Complete Works of William Shakespeare There are 328987 occurrences of the letter "t" It took 822 millisecs I knew it would be fast, but even I am pretty impressed by that. Thanks for checking. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...

App and Doc Icons for Windows and Mac

2014-02-24 Thread Ray
Could somebody please show me where I can get all the specs I'll need to help our artist create ICON files for Mac and Windows stand alones? We'll need to create icon files for both the Application and its documents. Thanks, Ray Horsley LinkIt1 Software __

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
dunbarx wrote: > He could be a valuable contributor, since some of his points are > quite valid. I think that's a fair assessment. He's obviously very bright and energetic, and while he seems somewhat unfamiliar with the role of common moderation in a forum I think the current thread he's pa

Re: Localization on iOS

2014-02-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi Ender, Just put a folder in there with no files in it. This made the MergExt externals show up in my native language (Dutch). On uploading last time (since 01-02-2014) it gave a notice on my Dutch.lptoj folder that it is not the way to go (never seen that before on iOS6). It still works however

Re: Localization on iOS

2014-02-24 Thread Alan Stenhouse
Hi Ender, Exactly this does it. Just create an empty folder called, I think for Turkish, tr.lproj Now use the copy file pane in the Standalone settings inside Livecode to copy that to your project. If you have your phone in Turkish then the iOS dialogs etc should now appear in Turkish. If yo

Re: Localization on iOS

2014-02-24 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Alan hi, That may be the solution, but I have no idea how to create a valid .lproj folder within a Livecode app. I’ve checked other iOS apps {facebook, evernote, etc.}. They have more than hundred of .lproj folders and each of those folders contain two files: Localizable.strings and InfoPlist.str

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter W A Wood wrote: > On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:36, Richmond wrote: > >> I wonder if RunRev might not be persuaded to have a webpage with >> links to all our 'clever stuff': >> >> it might serve RunRev's interests . . . > > 1001 Things to Do with LiveCode has a lot of links to "clever stuff" > buil

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread dunbarx
Richmond. He could be a valuable contributor, since some of his points are quite valid. It may be that the promotion of LiveCode needs a more professional effort and branding, analogous to the topic of the flame war that can be read in the forum, which was about whether LC is a product that li

Re: [OT] Michigan Repository

2014-02-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On February 23, 2014 11:49:36 PM CST, Richmond . > >I have a feeling opening a Hypercard file with Livecode is asking for >trouble. > >Presumably, among other things, the fact that a HC file should have >both >a resource fork and a 'what-ever-the-other-fork-is-called-bit-I-cannot >remember' fork

[ANN] The Scripter's Scrapbook v6

2014-02-24 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
LiveCode 6 compatibility The Scripters Scrapbook v6 for all Mac OSX standalone options has been updated to bring it in line with the Windows options... www.FlexibleLearning.com/ssbk And yes, there is a special upgrade price of £29 (about $47 or 35 EUR) for existing v5 users from www.FlexibleLear

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Peter W A Wood
Good Afternoon Richmond On 24 Feb 2014, at 17:36, Richmond wrote: > I wonder if RunRev might not be persuaded to have a webpage with links to all > our 'clever stuff': > > it might serve RunRev's interests . . . 1001 Things to Do with LiveCode has a lot of links to "clever stuff" built with

Re: Script local variables

2014-02-24 Thread Peter W A Wood
A quick update on the problem that I experienced with initialisation of script locals. Mark Waddingham posted the following comment on the bug report that I made: START COMMENT I think I know what is happening here - when the stack is being saved as a standalone, the stack is closed and reopene

Re: [OT] Michigan Repository

2014-02-24 Thread Martin Baxter
On 23/02/14 23:03, Bob Sneidar wrote: > What really made me give up on Hypercard and Supercard was the fact > that stacks with more that 2000 cards kept corrupting themselves, and > the xcmd’s capable of accessing dBase databases were sketchy at best. > > > What got me BACK into using a Hypercard

[BLOG] What is LiveCode?

2014-02-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I have written a blog post to explain what is LiveCode, with CS teachers in mind. If you have any comments, you can add them at the bottom of the article. http://qery.us/44f -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x

Re: Localization on iOS

2014-02-24 Thread Alan Stenhouse
Hi Ender Have you tried creating folders for each of the languages that you want to support and add them to the project using the copy folder tab in standalone settings? The folder names are of the form: tr.lproj (for turkish - I think!) de.lproj (for german) en.lproj (for english) etc

Re: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/02/14 11:53, John Dixon wrote: Richmond... This chap 'Amthony' has been a 'whinger' from his first post http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18735&start=30 Yes, he does bang on in the same way, doesn't he? You can't please all the 'Amthony's' all of the time I don't have any

RE: Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread John Dixon
Richmond... This chap 'Amthony' has been a 'whinger' from his first post http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18735&start=30 You can't please all the 'Amthony's' all of the time > Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 11:36:37 +0200 > From: richmondmathew...@gmail.com > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Fairly offensive message

2014-02-24 Thread Richmond
No; Happy Campers; it's not from me! On the Forum there's a fairly offensive message posted by somebody calling themselves 'amthonyblack' here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19273 You'll have to scroll down a bit. --- Reading it, initially, I felt a bit of

Re: [OT] Michigan Repository

2014-02-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/02/14 08:17, stephen barncard wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Richmond wrote: Maybe open it in a text editor, or, heaven forfend, Hypercard running on a Mac running a 'Classic' system, or Sheepshaver doing the same. Get it to run in System 9 in Classic mode, copy the scripts, ta