Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-23 Thread Gerry Orkin
Happy I could help :) g On 23 May 2014, at 1:30 pm, Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com wrote: This is exactly what I need! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-23 Thread Kay C Lan
So I wonder why On-Rev dropped PostgreSQL as a default inclusion. I believe you can still request to have PostgreSQL as part of your install, but if the licensing terms are so good and it works so flawlessly it begs the question as to what is the downside that caused RunRev to pull it. On Tue,

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-23 Thread Shawn Blc
On-Rev is still offering PostgreSQL databases. At least on pancake they are ;) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: So I wonder why On-Rev dropped PostgreSQL as a default inclusion. I believe you can still request to have PostgreSQL as part of your

Re: System menubar (on right) on Mac

2014-05-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 8:12 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: I want to enable the user to hilite any text on the screen go to that menu item and capture the hilited text for my program. This sounds more like a job for a 'Service' - which is what other developers do. Your biggest problem

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-23 Thread BNig
Hi Al, the crash occurs in LC 7 dp3 when setting the outerglow to none The bug fix is awaiting build Bug 12459 - setting any graphic effects to none crashes LC 7 dp3 see my comments here: http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=89t=20488p=104132#p104132 Kind regards Bernd -- View

Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread Terence Heaford
I have noticed when using a cd field as a list/table that when switching from the card containing the field and back again that the highlight setting of any text is lost. Is this expected/normal behaviour? Am I expected to save all the current highlight status when leaving the card and

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-23 Thread Kay C Lan
As I said, I think you can still ask for it but as listed here it's not part of the standard install: http://www.on-rev.com/hosting/features-chart/ On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Shawn Blc shawnlivec...@gmail.com wrote: On-Rev is still offering PostgreSQL databases. At least on pancake they

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
Get in touch with Heather if you need PostgreSQL available along your account ;D Le 23 mai 2014 à 08:06, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com a écrit : So I wonder why On-Rev dropped PostgreSQL as a default inclusion. I believe you can still request to have PostgreSQL as part of your install,

Global Jam Starting Now

2014-05-23 Thread Heather Laine
Folks, If you want to be involved in Global Jam, Ben is just kicking off now on Google Hangout: https://plus.google.com/events/cch2r065jmkceqcp0bti69lpgg4 What's Global Jam? http://livecode.com/blog/2014/05/16/livecode-global-jam-may-23-and-24/ Warm Regards, Heather Heather Laine Customer

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread dunbarx
Hi. If you set listBehavior to true, the hilited lilne persists. But it does not if false. I do not know if this is a feature, bug, or omission. You can always write an openCard (and concomitant closeCard) handler that sets a custom property for the table field, restoring the hilited line

XML Handling

2014-05-23 Thread Peter Hermsen
Sorry for the long post. I'm trying to convert some programs from PHP to livecode. I've been working with LiveCode for several years and haven't had the opportunity to work with XML until now. I went through the LiveCode lesson on reading from an XML file, but am running into problems when

Re: XML Handling

2014-05-23 Thread Pascal Lehner
Hi Peter, I'm on the road right now so I cannot post much. However, I did some XML last year. You can find all Informationen in stack script on my bitbucket repository, just download the. livecode file. https://bitbucket.org/tate83/t8converter Hth Greez pascal Am 23.05.2014 15:42 schrieb Peter

RE: XML Handling

2014-05-23 Thread Ralph DiMola
Peter, Delete the ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? line before you do the revCreateXMLTree and you should be golden. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On

RE: XML Handling

2014-05-23 Thread Ralph DiMola
Peter forgot to add some code snippets. This from my Google geo-coding xml parsing routine. *** put url (http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=; add1 comma + CSZ sensor=false) into gxml delete line 1 in gxml put revCreateXMLTree(gxml,true,true,false) into txml put

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread Terence Heaford
On 23 May 2014, at 13:57, dunb...@aol.com wrote: If you set listBehavior to true, the hilited lilne persists. But it does not if false. I do not know if this is a feature, bug, or omission. Whether I set listBehavior in the properties dialogue box or via. script the hilited line/lines do

RE: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC4

2014-05-23 Thread hlowe
Still getting ssl library not found error with 6.6.2 RC4 and iOS 7.1 when using encrypt and decrypt commands. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/RELEASE-LiveCode-6-6-2-RC4-tp4679769p4679842.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive

Global Jam: next up QA w/Kevin at 6PM GMT

2014-05-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
The LiveCode Global Jam kickoff live chat with Ben Beaumont brought many good questions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkWlUyNGwBY Next up is Kevin Miller at 6PM GMT (10AM PDT): https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ca0u3quncv2abaommapeuvkofb4 And tomorrow morning the Community QA with yours

Re: Global Jam: next up QA w/Kevin at 6PM GMT

2014-05-23 Thread Roger Eller
I find this useful for a quick visual of global time zones. http://everytimezone.com/ On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: The LiveCode Global Jam kickoff live chat with Ben Beaumont brought many good questions:

Re: Global Jam: next up QA w/Kevin at 6PM GMT

2014-05-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Eller wrote: I find this useful for a quick visual of global time zones. http://everytimezone.com/ Good find, Roger. Next time we have a Global Jam I'd like to include a tool like that right in RevNet itself, taking full advantage of having the info running in LiveCode. If anyone

[ANN] Full justification for fields

2014-05-23 Thread John Craig
Thanks to Dave Kilroy for sharing the work around and the generosity of Mark Stephens of Simulytics for donating the code back to the LiveCode community, a new function is available to fully justify LiveCode text fields. LiveCode version = 6.5 is required as it uses the measureText function

Re: [ANN] Full justification for fields

2014-05-23 Thread Roger Eller
Awesome! This takes me back to using Aldus PageMaker. Yeah, I'm THAT old. ;) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:43 PM, John Craig j...@splash21.com wrote: Thanks to Dave Kilroy for sharing the work around and the generosity of Mark Stephens of Simulytics for donating the code back to the LiveCode

New link for Kevin's QA

2014-05-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
New link for Kevin's chat, starting now: https://plus.google.com/events/cukdfnenvgvj3nrehc4r7una3cs -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: [ANN] Full justification for fields

2014-05-23 Thread Mike Kerner
So any hope of posting a FIX:? On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: Awesome! This takes me back to using Aldus PageMaker. Yeah, I'm THAT old. ;) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 12:43 PM, John Craig j...@splash21.com wrote: Thanks to Dave Kilroy for

Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
I have a command thisCommand that calles a 2nd command thatCommand which is in a btn script inserted as a backscript. So on startup -- some stuff insert script of btn thatCommandButton of stack myBackscripts into back -- some more stuff end startup btn thatCommandButton contains on

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Dar Scott
Could you have experimented with using front and left an old version there? Could “do a bunch of stuff” return? Is “thatCommand” built-in? On May 23, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com wrote: I have a command thisCommand that calles a 2nd command thatCommand which is in a

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Devin Asay
Paul, Could it be that the ids of the controls in your backscripts stacks are not resolving properly? This causes problems with behaviors that are stored in other stacks. See http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8993 Devin On May 23, 2014, at 1:09 PM, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
Dar, Thanks. Helpful suggestions. 1) Checking the frontscripts and the backscripts (by putting them in the msg) shows only 1 instance of the script of the button in question inserted. 2) Stepping through the thisCommand script line by line executes as expected right up to the call to thatCommand

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/23/2014, 2:09 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: Does the order backscripts are inserted matter? thisCommand is actually also in a backscript that is inserted BEFORE the script containing thatCommand? The order does matter, it's always best not to give two handlers the same name. -- Jacqueline

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
Devin, Thanks for the idea. I suppose it is possible there is a problem with the load of the backscript, however, other handlers in that specific backscript are available and work. We've been loading external stacks for some time succesfully as both library stacks or external stacks that have

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
I've seen similar issues when the backscript flags a runtime error of some sort, perhaps because arg1 or arg2 contains an unexpected value. I would try putting the thatcommand handler into the same script as the thiscommand handler then stepping into it to see what happens. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread Peter Haworth
Are you changing the contents of the list field in any way when you return to the card it is on, perhaps in a resumestack handler? Any change to Alistair field loses the hilited lines property. Pete lcSQL Software On May 23, 2014 3:36 PM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com wrote: On 23

silent fail of revDataFromQuery() in standalone; works in IDE

2014-05-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
This section of code has worked for quite some time. Now, it's failing in standalones, but works just fine in the ide. I already have an in-memory SQLite database open at cacheDb. The ck command just puts to the message box and after a log window. dcmd is shown as dcmd: CREATE TABLE

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread Dave Kilroy
Does the field by any chance have sharedtext set to true? - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context:

Re: silent fail of revDataFromQuery() in standalone; works in IDE

2014-05-23 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Is it possible that you have a SaveStackRequest handler in your card or stack script? And if so, could you check if maybe the line pass savestackrequest in that handler is missing? I ran into this some time ago. I had a savestackrequest handler without the line pass savestackrequest. This

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Robert. I already know there is a problem closing a stack which a running handler belonging to that stack (I have destroyStack on because I want to remove the module from memory when I am not using it). This has actually been discussed a while back. Someone else was having the same issue.

Launching a stack that resides on the server from an exe

2014-05-23 Thread Shawn Blc
Launching a stack that resides on the server from an exehttp://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7t=20530#p104291 I know you can launch a livecode stack that resides on a server through an executable, but can you launch another executable? Even renaming the livecode stack that resides on the

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have a similar issue with any field. The focus is lost when switching to another app. It’s not just that the text is no longer selected, the cursor is no longer at the end of the text you were typing and the focus border is off for the field you were typing in. I have to click where I was

Re: Launching a stack that resides on the server from an exe

2014-05-23 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi, i am not sure what you want trying to do? Do you want your standalone to launch an exe which is hosted on a webserver? If so, then you first have to download it from within your standalone, put it on the harddisk of the computer and then you can launch it either with get shell(start

Re: Handler is being ignored: Why?

2014-05-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
What are the values of parg1 and parg2 just before the call to the command? Also, try dispatch thatCommand with arg1, arg2 and see if that works. Bob S On May 23, 2014, at 13:09 , Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.commailto:p...@researchware.com wrote: 2) Stepping through the thisCommand script

Re: System menubar (on right) on Mac

2014-05-23 Thread Bill Vlahos
Kay, This is terrific. I forgot about services. My immediate need will probably be accommodated with this, although it will be great to have Trevor’s external as well so I have the option to do something more expansive. Thank you, Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com wrote: I have noticed when using a cd field as a list/table that when switching from the card containing the field and back again that the highlight setting of any text is lost. Is this expected/normal behaviour? It is both expected and normal. It

Re: Launching a stack that resides on the server from an exe

2014-05-23 Thread Shawn Blc
Can you rename a stack located on the server something other than .livecode and have it launch? Didn't have much success when I tried, but thought I read somewhere that you could. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 6:42 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Hi, i am not

Re: silent fail of revDataFromQuery() in standalone; works in IDE

2014-05-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 3:50 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Is it possible that you have a SaveStackRequest handler in your card or stack script? And if so, could you check if maybe the line pass savestackrequest in that handler is missing? Nope. Only

Re: Highlited text in a cd fld

2014-05-23 Thread dunbarx
You can play around with suspendStack and resumeStack if you like I think the explicit management of these sorts of properties are really the right way to make sure you get the functionality you want. Sure, sometimes the built-in behavior of the program is just what you need. But often it