RE: Install over previous version

2014-09-24 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: J. Landman Gay I hope it's optional. I routinely keep at least 3 versions at the same time, for different purposes. I agree. You could tell it to overwrite by specifying the same location. That would require that you be able to specify the ENTIRE install path, not just the prefix

variable trouble

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Hello, I'm using 6.6.3 on Windows XP. This line of code works just fine: put the keys of wgList03 into theseKeys but the following lines of code do NOT work: (where N is 3) -- and yes, it IS a ZERO after wgList put wgList0 N into thisVar put the keys of thisVar into theseKeys To me, this

Re: variable trouble

2014-09-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Larry: Your situation is very explicable. In your script you're treating thisVar as an array, instead of accessing the array that you put into thisVar. You're trying to use one variable to refer to another. If I understand the result you want, one way would be to use the value function, to

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0 RC 2

2014-09-24 Thread Terence Heaford
I know but I could have sworn earlier releases didn’t present like this but I just tried RC1 and it did. All the best Terry On 23 Sep 2014, at 17:46, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: OS X: System SettingsSecurity PrivacyAllow apps downloaded fromAnywhere On Sep 22, 2014, at

Re: file size

2014-09-24 Thread Thierry Douez
Dick, thanks for the feedback. I forgot about this: ... urlEncode encodes the space as +, ... Regards, Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage ___

AW: If your stack uses QT...

2014-09-24 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks for the info Jacqueline. Btw. has anybody heard anything about the progress of the QT replacement in LC? It was one of the extended kickstarter contents. Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von J. Landman

Re: variable trouble

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Hi Scott, I meant to say inexplicable to me. Your solution works great. However, I cannot figure out the next part: I want to put the value of thisKey into a variable when it matches. So I tried a few iterations of: put value(thisVar[thisKey]) space after newVar but could not get anything to

Re: P.S. on searching for chars within a string

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Hi Craig, Thanks for the tip. I am using a for each loop and have run some benchmark time tests. I am able to find (match) the words I want in about 1/7 of the time that it used to take me using a different procedure - and the old way was pretty fast! To find all the smaller words (length of

Re: Is there a problem with the On-Rev email server

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
What made the biggest difference for me (using on-rev) was getting a static IP - money well spent! - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context:

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
Mark just added my name to your 9910 bug report... Dave (a different Dave - not Dave Cragg but Dave Kilroy...) - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context:

sorting question

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Hello, I have the following items in a field: AD, AE, AI, AN, AR, AS, AT, DE, DI, DO, EE, EN, ER, ES, ET, IN, IO, IS, IT, NO, NU, OE, OP, OR, OS, OU, PA, PE, PI, ST, TO, UP, UR, UT, DA, EA, ED, ID, NA, NE, OD, OI, ON, PO, RE, SI, SO, TA, TE, TI, UN, US You can see that they are not sorted

re: sorting question

2014-09-24 Thread larry
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Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Cragg
On 24 Sep 2014, at 04:21, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Dave- Tuesday, September 23, 2014, 1:59:39 PM, you wrote: sort lines of fld 1 numeric by length(each) I think numeric is needed if the lengths can be over 9 characters. Otherwise it will do a text sort on the lengths.

Re: re: sorting question

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
Sounds like you've sorted it Larry :) For others wondering what the cause was, it was likely that the spaces in each item were confusing things - so if they are removed prior to the sort it all works fine (they can be put back in after...) on mouseUp replace space with empty in fld fldTest

Re: Field retrieved from a Mongo document display wrong characters

2014-09-24 Thread Javier Miranda
Dear Jacqueline, thank you for your help. In Mongo everything is UTF-8, converting the string returned by the server to UTF-16 worked perfectly. Let me add that I see great potential using LiveCode as a front end to Mongo. Saludos, Javier Miranda V.

now a paste question

2014-09-24 Thread larry
Hello Dave, Yes, you guessed it correctly. However I have a new weird thing. I have a large amount of text - over 10,000 5-ltr words. I can copy and paste the entire text with no problem from one txt document to another via the clipboard. But when I try to paste the entire amount into a LC

Re: now a paste question

2014-09-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Larry Page 43 of the LC User Guide states the maximum line length of a line in a field is 65,536 characters storage (No more than 32,786 pixels wide for display) Is your text all in one line by any chance? I haven't heard of a max size for a field but if you are having problems using a field

Re: now a paste question

2014-09-24 Thread larry
THANKS Dave, I was going crazy trying to figure out the weird behavior. I guess I should have read the user guide! So I just put a return after every entry and, now, no problems! Thanks very much for your help. Larry - Original Message - From: Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Dave, Am 23.09.2014 um 22:59 schrieb Dave Cragg dave.cr...@lacscentre.co.uk: On 23 Sep 2014, at 20:07, Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de wrote: Hi Larry, Am 23.09.2014 um 20:53 schrieb la...@significantplanet.org la...@significantplanet.org: Hello, this line doesn't work: sort

Long en short Touch (how?)

2014-09-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, How do I code a long- and short Touch? Like you see on the iOS keyboard. greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Is there a problem with the On-Rev email server

2014-09-24 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Ah, yes. Forgot to mention that we also use a dedicated ip. It´s really well spent money! Matthias Am 24.09.2014 um 09:52 schrieb Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com: What made the biggest difference for me (using on-rev) was getting a static IP - money well spent! - Some are

Re: now a paste question

2014-09-24 Thread James Hale
Having forgotten the User Guide reference I had come across this limit myself and thought it was a bug (13058). Seems this limit will not be present in LC 7 James This is a limitation of the 6.x (and earlier!) engines - offsets for the field are limited to 16 bits. In the process

Re: Field retrieved from a Mongo document display wrong characters

2014-09-24 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I agree. The document oriented format is a nice match for livecode arrays. I have used mongodb (from mongolab.com) quite a bit (albiet over an http interface of some kind). I had good experiences with it, save for livecode's blocking url commands causing me some fuss. Regards, Andrew K On Wed,

Re: sort lines by length

2014-09-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Wednesday, September 24, 2014, 1:37:19 AM, you wrote: I have no strong opinion on this. The response to your request made some sense to me, as it would apply only to certain built-in functions that can only return a numeric value. So there would be some inconsistency, and also possible

Re: Window expanded

2014-09-24 Thread Paul Hibbert
John, If you open the Development Message Watcher you will see several 'ResizeStack' and 'MoveStack' messages are sent by the card when you click the button, maybe you can use these. Paul On Sep 23, 2014, at 10:29 PM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: Is there a way to catch when a Mac user

Re: Window expanded

2014-09-24 Thread JB
Hi Paul, Thank you! That should do it. Amazing enough I never use the message watcher and did not even think about it. John Balgenorth On Sep 24, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Paul Hibbert paulhibb...@mac.com wrote: John, If you open the Development Message Watcher you will see several

Re: P.S. on searching for chars within a string

2014-09-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/24/2014, 2:20 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I am using a for each loop and have run some benchmark time tests. I am able to find (match) the words I want in about 1/7 of the time that it used to take me using a different procedure - and the old way was pretty fast! To find all the

Re: If your stack uses QT...

2014-09-24 Thread Mark Talluto
On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:59 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: Thanks for the info Jacqueline. Btw. has anybody heard anything about the progress of the QT replacement in LC? It was one of the extended kickstarter contents. Tiemo 6.7 and 7.0 are using AVFoundation for video

Re: If your stack uses QT...

2014-09-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/24/2014, 12:10 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: 6.7 and 7.0 are using AVFoundation for video playback on Macs. We can now play video content smoothly again provide the alwaysBuffer on the player is set to false. Our stacks worked without any modifications. Do you know how it works on Windows?

Re: If your stack uses QT...

2014-09-24 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaqueline, Am 24.09.2014 um 19:30 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 9/24/2014, 12:10 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: 6.7 and 7.0 are using AVFoundation for video playback on Macs. We can now play video content smoothly again provide the alwaysBuffer on the player is set to

[OT] Grendel

2014-09-24 Thread Richmond
http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/LANGTOOLS.html Proud to announce the first release of my GRENDEL [currently a FREE version as the Anglo-Saxon interface is the only one that has been implemented]: available of Windows [XP, Vista, 7], Macintosh [PPC and Intel], and Linux. Developed

Re: [OT] Grendel

2014-09-24 Thread Paul Hibbert
Congratulations, the site looks good, but one thing you need to be aware of is that the three Buy Now buttons near the bottom of the page are missing, I'm just seeing white box outlines with question marks in them. Paul On Sep 24, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [OT] Grendel

2014-09-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/09/14 21:45, Paul Hibbert wrote: Congratulations, the site looks good, but one thing you need to be aware of is that the three Buy Now buttons near the bottom of the page are missing, I'm just seeing white box outlines with question marks in them. Thanks. The buy buttons need to be

MacUpdate doesn't like Grendel

2014-09-24 Thread Richmond
Am I right in thinking a standalone compiled with LiveCode 4.5 for MacIntel will NOT run on Mac OS 10.9? Here's what the Mac Update people sent me: 9/24/14 1:31:05.181 PM Installer[67663]: [AppInfo getTriggerVal] == download 9/24/14 1:31:06.466 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[270]:

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0 RC 2

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
It's an OS X security thing; you must of upgraded to Mavericks. Peter On Sep 23, 2014, at 11:39 PM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com wrote: I know but I could have sworn earlier releases didn’t present like this but I just tried RC1 and it did. All the best Terry On 23

Re: P.S. on searching for chars within a string

2014-09-24 Thread Michael Doub
Very creative approach. I like it. -= Mike On Sep 24, 2014, at 12:30 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Jacqueline ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: MacUpdate doesn't like Grendel

2014-09-24 Thread Paul Hibbert
I just downloaded and tried LC 4.5.3 that's as far back as I can go. I created a small test stack and compiled a standalone and it worked just fine, but then it was built using LC 4.5.3 running on OS X 10.9.5, not sure if that would make a difference. I tried downloading your Grendel app and

Re: MacUpdate doesn't like Grendel

2014-09-24 Thread Paul Hibbert
Just tested on Mac OS X 10.8.5 and Grendel works fine so it is a Mavericks issue. Paul On Sep 24, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Paul Hibbert paulhibb...@mac.com wrote: I just downloaded and tried LC 4.5.3 that's as far back as I can go. I created a small test stack and compiled a standalone and it

Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm working with lots of controls that have behaviors. The behavior buttons are all in a library stack. All works fine most of the time but every now and again, none of the behavior scripts are executed (as verified with breakpoints at the start of them). The message box shows the library stack

LiveCode to Facebook?

2014-09-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi List: Anyone know if it's possible on mobile to launch the local Facebook app from a LiveCode standalone? I'm using Monte Goulding's mergSocial external for FB posting which works fine, as long as the user is signed into Facebook via their iOS settings. If they're not signed in, posting on

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Pete: Not sure if this is true in your case, but one reason why this can sometimes happen is if, for whatever reason, a control that has a behavior assigned to it gets opened before is associated behavior is present in memory. You might check if there is any delay occurring when launching the

Re: LiveCode to Facebook?

2014-09-24 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Scott, try LAUNCH URL fb://... in LC? I just tried in Safari on iOS and it opened the app. In my case i saw the login dialog after the fb app opened. Regards, Matthias Am 25.09.2014 um 01:01 schrieb Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com: Hi List: Anyone know if it's possible on mobile

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Anyone else's applications' guilty of bad behavior like this and if so is there a way to correct their behavior? May be relevant: Behavior resolution is too strict and is confusing http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8993 The only workaround I've used is to walk

Re: LiveCode to Facebook?

2014-09-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Scott, Here is the way it goes on one of my project on the way to be published along october : on module_socialshare if url MIAS is then answer tolocalisation(Désolé. Vos réseaux sociaux ne sont accessibles qu'en mode connecté.) exit module_socialshare end if

Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Ray
Has anybody had any luck with scrollLineIntoView? I'm trying all kinds of variations in syntax of: dispatch scrollLineIntoView to group MyGroup with 20 but with no results and nothing in 'the result' Is there something else I need to to do prepare for this?

Re: LiveCode to Facebook?

2014-09-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Matthias thank you very much -- this seems to work great, and so simple. :-) Hopefully, this will provide a good workaround when direct FB posting is not possible. Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 9/24/14 4:10 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D

Re: LiveCode to Facebook?

2014-09-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Thanks Pierre. A question -- I'm not following all the code entirely below, but does your routine launch the local applications on the device or the web sites of these services in a browser? Thanks Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 9/24/14 4:20 PM,

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Scott. I've come across that situation before but this is different. The behaviors all work fine when the stack is first opened, Then, after some time using the stack and adding new controls which refer to the behaviors, the behaviors suddenly stop being resolved. I'd file a QCC report

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, Our posts crossed, thanks for the QCC reference. Your QCC report describes a situation very similar to mine - using a library stack to hold the behaviors. However, my behaviors start off behaving themselves and only start misbehaving at some point later in using the stack. I think

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Monte Goulding
On 25 Sep 2014, at 10:06 am, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: The behaviors all work fine when the stack is first opened, Then, after some time using the stack and adding new controls which refer to the behaviors, the behaviors suddenly stop being resolved. Hmm... behaviors are stored as

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Syntax looks good. Couple of things you've probably already checked - what's in the it variable after dispatch (should be handled), and are you sure 20 is a valid line number. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin

RE: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
Peter, If this only happens in the IDE it might be related to bug http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12508 I couldn't nail this one down until today. I created a recipe for support. Hanson reproduced it in the lab. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Ray
Pete, Thanks for the response. I've checked the it variable and I'm getting handled returned, which I assume is good. Regarding the line number, I've definitely got over 20 lines of data in the grid. I do only have one line of data for the first two columns with about 23 lines of data in

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Ray
Pete, One more weird thing. Even using the scroll bar I can only 'jump' to one extreme or the other. That is, when I drag the scroll bar even just a little bit down it immediately 'pops' all the data so the last line in it is at the top of the screen. Is there a way to set some sort of

Re: LiveCode to Facebook?

2014-09-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Scott, way 2 : the web sites of these services in a mobile browser with this one set in a standard manner : mobileControlCreate browser, MySocialShare mobileControlSet MySocialShare, visible, false ### created at preOpenStack time ### mobileControlSet MySocialShare, canBounce,

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Ray, So this is a datagrid form, not a table? Have to admit I'm not that familiar with dg forms so not sure what else to suggest, sorry. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Monte. Richard posted the link to the QCC report for the resolveBehaviors enhancement and Mark's subsequent thoughts on it. I don't think anything about the behaviors is being changed. That's born out by the fact that if I quit LC and re-run with the same stack, everything works again.

Re: Behaviors

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Ralph, I'll check into that. This happens in a plugin so there won't ever be a standalone to check. And of course it's in one that is about to go into beta proving yet again that those little buglets just bide their time before surfacing at a time that guarantees they cause the most

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Ray
Pete - my mistake in calling it a grid. It actually is a Table. On 9/24/2014 10:49 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Ray, So this is a datagrid form, not a table? Have to admit I'm not that familiar with dg forms so not sure what else to suggest, sorry. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Ray
Pete, Now wait a minute. I've sometimes gotten a bit confused with Livecode's terms. When l look at it in the properties palette it's a group with a style of Table which I can change to Form (but I don't). But when I created it I dragged over a Data Grid as oposed to a Basic Table Field

Re: OS X Mavericks

2014-09-24 Thread Mark Smith
Mike, thanks for mentioning that. I am about to upgrade to Mavericks myself and will make sure I check that LC is pointing to the right Xcode. What about the SDK? Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OS-X-Mavericks-tp4671455p4683735.html Sent

Re: Scroll Line Into View in a Datagrid

2014-09-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Datagrids come in 2 flavors, table and form. So you have a datagrid table not an LC basic table control. I asked about a form because of your comment about multiple lines. Normally a datagrid table has one line per row with a return character marking the end of a line. If you're trying to

Using Livecode to burn DVDs on demand?

2014-09-24 Thread Tim Selander
I work for a TV production house, and we offer past programs to our audience on DVDs. Sell maybe 100 a month. I would like to use Livecode to catalog the programs (no problem there, I can do that), and then be able to burn a DVD. All our programs are on HDD, ready to burn. I can handle

Mavericks

2014-09-24 Thread Richmond
Confirmed: Standalones built with LC 4.5 don't run on Mac OS 10.9 Sad, really Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: