Re: Problem/strange behavior with older version of Mergpop (2.0.7) and Retina screens?

2014-10-02 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Thanks for your answers. When using LC 6.6.3 everything works as aspected (the entire snapshot is saved on a retina device) with the original code below (build with an older version of LC): -- export snapshot from rectangle 20,72,1000,742 to tFoto as PNG put tFoto into img foto put

position of field scrollbar

2014-10-02 Thread larry
Hello, I have a field with a vScrollbar Does anyone know how to set the position of the scrollbar to 0 ?? I'm sorry, but the LC dictionary is of NO help in this matter - at least not that I could see. Thanks, Larry ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: position of field scrollbar

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Larry, If you search the dictionary for scroll, you'll see properties such as scroll, vScroll and hScroll. You can use the vScroll property to set the scroll of a field to 0. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 133, Issue 5

2014-10-02 Thread bernd . gottwald
Bis zum 12.10.2014 bin ich nicht verfügbar. Ich werde meine Emails nicht lesen. In dringenden Fällen erreichen Sie mich über mein Mobiltelefon. I will be out of office until 12.10.2014. I won't read me emails. In urgent matter please call me on my mobile.

Re: Problem/strange behavior with older version of Mergpop (2.0.7) and Retina screens?

2014-10-02 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 3:55 AM, William de Smet williamdes...@gmail.com wrote: -- export snapshot from rectangle 20,72,1000,742 to tFoto as PNG put tFoto into img foto put tFoto into URL (file:specialFolderPath(documents)/woordparachute.png) put

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
I take if very serious when I see a company that tries to put out a good product struggle due to problems that may have been placed there like a stumbling block to destroy them. Of course like your code below all code is written intentionally. Who do you think is sniveling and exactly how fun is

RE: position of field scrollbar

2014-10-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
Set the vscroll of control YourField to 0 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 la...@significantplanet.org Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 5:06

Re: Outrageously slow AppleScript performance

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bill Vlahos wrote: When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor it works in about 1 second. Take the same script, put in in a LiveCode field and do field “name” as AppleScript and it takes between 1 and 2 minutes to do! 1. Why? 2. How can I make it run quickly?

Re: LiveCode startup

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Doub wrote: i am trying to understand the start up sequence of livecode. Is there any documentation on the engine and it's architecture? Depends what you want to do. For most scripters, the User Guide provides sufficient description of the message sequence. But if you want to make a

Re: Outrageously slow AppleScript performance

2014-10-02 Thread Roger Eller
Unless the AS needs to be built dynamically, you could compile it, and just launch it through LC. ~Roger On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 10:24 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Bill Vlahos wrote: When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor it works in

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
The code I presented was because I thought it would be similar to what you already have. It shows there is not much code for that routine. Strip out the lines that are made for the user to enter the code to transfer and show those questions on screen and the part that will quit if the user does

RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1

2014-10-02 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear list members, We're please the announce the release of LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1. *Release Contents* 6.6.4-rc-1 brings iOS 8 support to LiveCode. As well as adding the ability to produce device builds using the iOS 8 SDK (required for app store submission) and test with the iOS 8 simulator, the

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1

2014-10-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
To everyone at RunRev - THANK YOU AND WELL DONE FOR FIXING IT! - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context:

Re: Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: The code I presented was because I thought it would be similar to what you already have. It shows there is not much code for that routine. Seems like we're on the same page then. I've missed the first several posts in this thread, so I must admit that I don't have a good

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
Well then Dr. Hawkins won’t need to take things too seriously if he is offended. He is a big boy just like me and you. As for my business it is nice you are concerned about the damage but there was a lot more than that at a lot more levels. I can assure you these people are everywhere and they

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
This is an error 6 characters I have trouble with my vision from being poisoned in my home and it collects on my eyes. The discussion concerns eight chars and two chars, John Balgenorth On Oct 2, 2014, at 9:06 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: 6 characters

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: Who do you think is sniveling and exactly how fun is if for you to say “it burns. it burns!”? And who are you saying it to me because the code does not work or LiveCode? Either way what makes it so fun for you? No, not at

RE: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1

2014-10-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
+1 THANK YOU! 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 Dave Kilroy Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 11:25 AM To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
Okay, I am sorry I misunderstood you. I do not like C or any of its form either. And I do not like all of the wasted text with curly braces. Now that Apple has released Swift it is a little easier than C but you still need to have a C background to use it. John Balgenorth On Oct 2, 2014, at

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread PystCat
LOL. What's funny is when I read that line, ...it burns. It burns! I immediately thought of Gollum when he was being tied up. Good to know it wasn't me. Maybe I read too much Tolkien On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:28 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, JB

RE: Strip a T character

2014-10-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
+1 but unfortunately for me.Never going to happen. But I truly hope to go the rest of my life without writing or even reading, another line of C. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net ___

Re: Outrageously slow AppleScript performance

2014-10-02 Thread Bill Vlahos
Thanks everyone. It turns out that RunRev knows about the issue: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11358 Richard, I will be at the meeting tonight and as my contribution topic for the meeting. See you there. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1

2014-10-02 Thread Richmond
Thrilled to report that 6.6.4 rc1 while remaining iconless installs, launches and works on my iMac G5 running Mac OS 10.5.8 PPC. Thanks loads! Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Mavericks

2014-10-02 Thread Richmond
Can anybody tell me which versions of LiveCode build standalones that run on Mac Mavericks? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Mavericks

2014-10-02 Thread Graham Samuel
I'm using Mavericks 10.9.5 with LC 6.6.3 and generating standalones every day. The previous versions (Mav 10.9.4 and LC6.6.2) also worked fine, and probably earlier ones too. HTH Graham Sent from my iPad On 2 Oct 2014, at 18:47, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Can anybody

Vector Gradients subtle regression

2014-10-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, I am away from a reliable internet connection, (wireless connections are excellent, but cost a lot) so if one of you already reported this bug in the Quality Center, mail list or the forum, please include a link in your answers to post all files uploaded with this message with your own

Dr. Lex 3D Stuff for LiveCode

2014-10-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, How many of you are interested in 3D graphics and LiveCode? Recently, Alexander Thomas invited LiveCode Developers to port his HyperCard Stacks to LiveCode: Thanks for pointing me to LiveCode. I have updated my HyperCard-related webpages to refer to it and added a link to your page.

Re: Vector Gradients subtle regression

2014-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: If there is no report about this bug, I already wrote to Richard Gaskin, our Community Manager to report this regression in the Quality Center. I believe I did get your email, but it came in during a very hectic period here, so my apologies for not getting back to you

Conversion Chart

2014-10-02 Thread JB
Hi Richard, I just posted you a message about Binary to Hex conversion. It included a chart but the message was held because it is too long so if you want it then ask the moderator. The point is your code ability is great and the text searching ln LiveCode is excellent. To write code that

Re: Mavericks

2014-10-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, LiveCode 5.5.4 - Build 1502 Mac OS Intel only - Windows (not tested - Haven’t got a PC !) On Mavericks 10.9.5 No problem for building standalones ! Strange - Seems to loop forever in : “Removing development properties and setting profile options” but

Re: Conversion Chart

2014-10-02 Thread JB
Here is another chart. Hex - Binary 0 10001 20010 30011 40100 50101 60110 70111 81000 91001 A1010 B1011 C1100 D1101 E1110 F The binary code is eight chars long. The Hex code is two chars long. To convert from Binary to

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
LiveCode has a lot of potential and is enjoyable to program with. John Balgenorth On Oct 2, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:33 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: Okay, I am sorry I misunderstood you. I do not like C or any of its form

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1

2014-10-02 Thread Mike Kerner
screen size still fails on iphone 5 and 6 On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Thrilled to report that 6.6.4 rc1 while remaining iconless installs, launches and works on my iMac G5 running Mac OS 10.5.8 PPC. Thanks loads! Richmond.

Re: Conversion Chart

2014-10-02 Thread Peter Haworth
I might be missing something but what's wrong with using the baseConvert function? It converts a number from any base to any base. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Wieder
JB sundown@... writes: It looks to me the code is good. I guess someone decided they could Trade Mark ™ Binary to Hex. In Hex it shows up as either a A or AA. You would think it would always be AA since that is the Hex value for ™. You haven't given a lot of information here, but my

Re: Conversion Chart

2014-10-02 Thread JB
That is what I was using and it works for ascii to Hex, ascii to Binary, Hex to ascii, Hex to binary, binary to ascii and then if you don’t have a lot of characters and you only call it from one line it works for binary to hex. In other words don’t use if for binary to hex unless you only are

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
I am using a Mac the text is straight from a field. The text works fine with the other conversions. John Balgenorth On Oct 2, 2014, at 4:13 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: JB sundown@... writes: It looks to me the code is good. I guess someone decided they could Trade

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Wieder
JB sundown@... writes: I am using a Mac the text is straight from a field. The text works fine with the other conversions. The question isn't what platform you're working on, but the source of the data. This is especially important if the source platform was different from the working

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread JB
I have a mac and I type the data into a field using my keyboard. It does not work right. But I also have tried with files that are on my mac and I have transferred them from binary to ascii and then to binary code and the conversions all work properly with all of the files and typing except for

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Mark Wieder
JB- lots of stuff snipped I used your code. On a mac. I put the following into a field: 10011011 10111001 10011011 10111001 10011011 10111001 I ended up with 9BB99BB99BB9 -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC1

2014-10-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
Running Mavericks and using 6.6.4 and Xcode 6.0.1 I can't get anything to run on the iOS 8 simulator (simulated device of any size) - even a 'hello world' stack made purely in 6.6.4 fails However my 'hello world' and my current app-in-development seem to run fine on an iPad4 running iOS 8.0.2

[ANN] mergExt New Releases

2014-10-02 Thread Monte Goulding
Dear LiveCoders Today I'm releasing updates for all the mergExt iOS externals to support iOS 8. In addition there are a number of new features released today. - mergCL now includes geocoding and reverse geocoding commands and a distance between coordinates function. - mergMK now has commands