Re: Android woes

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 8:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: LC 6.7 now accepts my Android SDK folder, so I can build with that version now (though oddly that bug report is from July, and the issue is still outstanding, several builds later). But my one-card-no-code app still won't stay up. With 6.7 at least

Re: Getting a list of object properties

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 6:32 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: I found the problem. I had something left over from a previous search in the dictionary--upper right hand corner of the Dictionary window. I wish I had a nickel for every time I've done that. Another thing I do is forget to choose "All" in the category

Re: Proper error handling in a setprop

2014-10-10 Thread dunbarx
I am missing what you are asking. A setProp control structure is similar to a command control structure. It triggers when the explicitly associated custom property is changed. Once started, it acts like any other handler, executing statements and perhaps placing a new value into the property.

Re: Android woes

2014-10-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/10/2014, 5:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Many moons ago I had a good setup with building on Android, but I've since moved my work to new computers, and can no longer set up a working install for building on Android. Two main problems: 1. All versions prior to v7: Li

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Schonewille writes: > > That's true, Mark, but my point was only that menu buttons can have > focus. Apparently, it doesn't make a difference to OP. No, that's *exactly* the point. If you look at the code in his sample stack, he's tracking the focusedObject when a menu button is clicked.

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
The OP wondered why the focusedObject didn't work for buttons on OS X. It's because buttons can't have focus there. On October 10, 2014 6:13:29 PM CDT, Mark Schonewille wrote: >That's true, Mark, but my point was only that menu buttons can have >focus. Apparently, it doesn't make a difference

Re: Getting a list of object properties + Dictionary question

2014-10-10 Thread Robert J. Earp
Thanks Paul, light bulb duly switched on !! I thought Jacque was referring to the left-hand Keyword column, duh :-P Happy Thanksgiving BTW :-) best, Bob... > Bob, > > I think you are missing the point of? > >> 1. Select the object in left-hand column. > > Look at the far left column, th

Re: Getting a list of object properties

2014-10-10 Thread Jim Hurley
> > Message: 10 > Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014 12:19:01 -0500 > From: "J. Landman Gay" > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Getting a list of object properties > Message-ID: <54381505.1020...@hyperactivesw.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > > On 10/10/2014, 7:0

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
That's true, Mark, but my point was only that menu buttons can have focus. Apparently, it doesn't make a difference to OP. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 5

Re: Android woes

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 5:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Many moons ago I had a good setup with building on Android, but I've since moved my work to new computers, and can no longer set up a working install for building on Android. Two main problems: 1. All versions prior to v7: LiveCode will not accept

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Schonewille writes: > It might be different on OSX. It's *very* different on osx, or at least different from linux, because on osx the menubar takes on a life of its own and is no longer visually on the card. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Android woes

2014-10-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Many moons ago I had a good setup with building on Android, but I've since moved my work to new computers, and can no longer set up a working install for building on Android. Two main problems: 1. All versions prior to v7: LiveCode will not accept the Android SDK folder I select, even though

Proper error handling in a setprop

2014-10-10 Thread Michael Doub
Can anyone advise me on the options that we have for dealing with errors that are encountered while executing in a setprop?I was thinking of using set prop to turn on and off the GPIOs on a raspberry pi. I have commands doing it now and it is working fine. Do you throw an error and ass

Re: Answer File (RESOLVED)

2014-10-10 Thread JB
Thank you, Bob. I have a better understanding of it now. John Balgenorth On Oct 10, 2014, at 3:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > The filter is inclusive, not exclusive. You would need to include every file > type on your computer EXCEPT the ones you want to exclude. That of course, is > not prac

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, It might be different on OSX. I'm using Windows today. Also, I've now noticed that you need to click in the card and not on the title bar to enable navigation by arrow keys --seems a small bug to me. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

Re: Answer File (RESOLVED)

2014-10-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
The filter is inclusive, not exclusive. You would need to include every file type on your computer EXCEPT the ones you want to exclude. That of course, is not practical. As I mentioned but did not likely make entirely clear, the *only* piped item that matters is the second one, or the second on

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not sure why it matters. You cannot tab to an OS X button even if traversal on is true, unless of course you set some system property that escapes me at the moment to make you stack look and act like an ugly OS 9 hypercard-ish monstrosity. I even tried scripting to focus on the button, but it di

Re: Answer File (RESOLVED)

2014-10-10 Thread JB
It kind of explains it. I previously had trouble with the answer file filtering and gave up. You mentioned you needed to list the Adobe etc, & not just .pdf. How about jpg and jpeg there are many applications that use these types. How about providing a sample script that will let me filter ever

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 4:55 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Mark Schonewille writes: Wrong again. Create a menu button, set its traversalOn to true, press tab and use the arrow keys to navigate the menu. Hmm... I did that before posting. I'm unable to have the focusedObject be a menu button on osx. I'll chec

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Schonewille writes: > Wrong again. Create a menu button, set its traversalOn to true, press > tab and use the arrow keys to navigate the menu. Hmm... I did that before posting. I'm unable to have the focusedObject be a menu button on osx. I'll check again when I get the chance - possibly I

Answer File (RESOLVED)

2014-10-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I know this has been answered but I though I would post what I have found working with the answer file command and OS X. First, the dictionary does not make it all that clear how this works. For the type, you MUST supply at least the first and second pipe delimited values eg. “Adobe A

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, Wrong again. Create a menu button, set its traversalOn to true, press tab and use the arrow keys to navigate the menu. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Kv

Re: Is this a bug or am I missing something?

2014-10-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Schonewille writes: > This isn't true. If the traversalOn of a button it true, it can have focus. Right. I stand corrected. But that doesn't apply to menu buttons. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

urlsafe_base64

2014-10-10 Thread Michael Doub
Does anyone have a livecode equivalent for the ruby urlsafe_base64 function? urlsafe_base64(n=nil, padding=false) ::urlsafe_base64 generates a random URL-safe base64 string. The argument n specifies the length of the random length. The length of the result string is about 4/3 of n. If n is no

Re: Getting a list of object properties

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 11:48 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: The dictionary is also not always a good reference point for a list of properties Ah. That would explain my last post. I do know that there are lots of synonyms and "see also"s that have been overlooked but I thought the basic properties would be

Re: Getting a list of object properties + Dictionary question

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 10:56 AM, Earp Robert J. wrote: I'm using LC 6.6.3 on Mavericks and the Dictionary doesn't work as you suggest, it just sorts the contents of the dictionary columns by Type, which does put all the type "properties" together, but not all of the properties for a given object. I'm u

Re: AW: AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 10:33 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I never got any answer, what a manifest file is. It's just a plist file that stores information about the app, like its name, version number, compatible files, icon resources, things like that. Finder uses plists to determine what documents an

Re: Getting a list of object properties + Dictionary question

2014-10-10 Thread Paul Hibbert
Bob, I think you are missing the point of… > 1. Select the object in left-hand column. Look at the far left column, the top most word in this column is "All", go down to the "Object" section and click on one object, say "Field" or "Button" then follow point 2 in Jacque's instruction. I'm sure

Re: Getting a list of object properties

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 7:02 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: Jacque, I’m missing something in your explanation of how to use the dictionary. I'm not sure what part isn't clear? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com

2014-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/2014, 1:26 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: Why do I occasionally get emails with this heading in my OSX Mail Junk folder? The email is full of technical stuff which is gibberish to me and seems to contain partial parts of the actual email and encrypted stuff. This vaguely rings a bell. It

Re: AW: AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5

2014-10-10 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 10/10/2014 11:33 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello Paul, > > I never got any answer, what a manifest file is. Either nobody here knows > it, or it is so common knowledge, that it wasn't worth to answer. As far as > I know, it is a kind of preference file, but I don't know, for what > preferen

Re: Getting a list of object properties

2014-10-10 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: > And then there is Richard’s Plugin “4Wprops” which is more complete than > “the properties” > For example it lists the Height and Width > Properties that can be derived from other properties are not included in the array returned by the proper

Re: [ANN] New Android Externals

2014-10-10 Thread Sean Cole (Pi)
Hi, I meant Android OS's :) But I suppose the same applies to that also - Anything from 2.2 up. Thanks On 10 October 2014 01:03, Monte Goulding wrote: > I haven't tried working with them on anything but OS X but I don't think > it would make any difference. > > On 10 Oct 2014, at 10:59 am, Se

Re: Getting a list of object properties + Dictionary question

2014-10-10 Thread Earp Robert J.
They say you learn something new every day Jacque, and in my case/age I think that is because I forget something also!! The list is a great place to get brain cells talking to each other again, and many thanks for your frequent contributions. I'm using LC 6.6.3 on Mavericks and the Dictionary

AW: AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5

2014-10-10 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello Paul, I never got any answer, what a manifest file is. Either nobody here knows it, or it is so common knowledge, that it wasn't worth to answer. As far as I know, it is a kind of preference file, but I don't know, for what preferences and I don't know, why a bundle can live without it, if I

Re: AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5

2014-10-10 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 10/10/2014 5:39 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hi David, > you just have to remove all manifest files from all revbundels within your > app. Then codesigning works again on 10.9.5 as expected. > See also my post: "OT: what does a manifest file?" > Tiemo I never saw the answer to your post askin

Re: Getting a list of object properties

2014-10-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 13:23:09 -0700 > From: Peter Haworth > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Getting a list of object properties > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 > > On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 1:09 PM, William Prothero > wrote: > >> If I do: >> p

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 133, Issue 18

2014-10-10 Thread bernd . gottwald
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AW: Codesigning standalones for Mac OS 10.9.5

2014-10-10 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi David, you just have to remove all manifest files from all revbundels within your app. Then codesigning works again on 10.9.5 as expected. See also my post: "OT: what does a manifest file?" Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.c