Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

I'm wondering if anyone tested the iOS player object in a pre-GM release of 7.0? As far as I can see it's totally broken? g > On 24 Oct 2014, at 5:44 pm, Terence Heaford wrote: > > It’s really beyond my comprehension. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Confused

Why does the about box for LC 6.7 say LC7? All the best Terry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/li

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

How can 7.0 be considered suitable for a release and having been updated for Yosemite when?: 1. Buttons do not display correctly. 2. Tabs do not display correctly. It’s really beyond my comprehension. All the best Terry > On 23 Oct 2014, at 20:36, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > > Dear list mem

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.7

How can 6.7 be considered suitable for a release and having been updated for Yosemite when?: 1. Buttons do not display correctly. 2. Tabs do not display correctly. 3. There are slow downs in the display of scrolling data grids because graphic display improvements have been turned off because o

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

On this topic I just uploaded lcVCS 1.0.0 RC 1 to mergExt.com I will need to do a bit of work to make lcVCS fully LiveCode 7 compatible. My understanding is that for a time RunRev were using lcVCS to help find bugs in 7 (it's really good at finding engine bugs) so hopefully it will work reasona

Re: Variable parameter synonym functions

How about: on a send ("aardvark" && (word 2 to -1 of the params)) to me end a on aardvark put the params end aardvark — on mouseUp a "one","two","three" end mouseUp —> aardvark "one","two","three" ?? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http:

RE: The Bearer Of Bad News

Hello, Sorry Ben, but you’re wrong. Take a look at bug #13554 (stack corruption). It has been marked as a duplicate of bug #13593 (gradient disappearing - don’t know why a stack corruption is a duplicate of this one). And what’s really funny: neither the first or the second one has been fixed fo

how can exportImageToAlbum be broken on android for so long...

I've never, ever gotten it to work. There are two outstanding bug reports that are nearly a year old. Such a fundamental feature that has, as far as I can tell, never worked on android. It certainly does not work from 6.x.x and on My image is a png and I'm doing the following: put the long

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

On 24 Oct 2014, at 11:58 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Thanks for the info, Monte: > > Behaviors are saved as an id and a stack name and no matter how > > you set them that's what the internal reference is. lcVCS handles > > behaviors fine (and image ids etc) as long as the stackFile > > import/ex

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

Thanks for the info, Monte: > Behaviors are saved as an id and a stack name and no matter how > you set them that's what the internal reference is. lcVCS handles > behaviors fine (and image ids etc) as long as the stackFile > import/export order is right. It also has a plugin system to > support l

Re: Has anyone won the fight with postgres on OSC Server update to 3.2

Oh, and to top it off, it seems that when I log into Apple Support Communities to ask a question in the threads about this, I get The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly. for all threads . . . ___

Has anyone won the fight with postgres on OSC Server update to 3.2

I'm nearly ready to pull my hair out. Shen OSX server updated to 3.2.1, it broke postgres, badly. This doesn't seem to have been solved on on 3.2.2, either. "unix_socket_directory" became "unix_socket_directories" in org.postgresql.postgres.plist --but this has to be done manually, resulting in

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

On 24 Oct 2014, at 10:34 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I wasn't aware that Monte had released a final version of that. It's been in beta since January but with very few reports. Probably because nobody is using it... Trevor, Martin, Myself and Todd could be it... I made a couple of tweaks the

Re: The Bearer Of Bad News

Hi Bob I would like to recommend to you using Dropbox and putting your stacks into its folders. This has saved me no end of times as it holds many previous versions of your files as backups. I now have a premium subscription and get infinite version backups and remembers even if I change file n

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

Congratulations and well done to all at RunRev, thank you to each of you for your hard work Have a great weekend :) Dave Benjamin Beaumont wrote > Dear list members, > > We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0. This is a stable > release. - "Some are born coders, some achie

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

Hi john, Thanks for your question. We were made aware of this earlier in the week and after reading the information available it seems we'll need to provide a package with both a 32 and 64 bit version of the app. Compiling our engine for 64 arm will be relatively straightforward so adding support

Re: The Bearer Of Bad News

Hi Bob. I'm sorry you experienced in issue. We've not had any reports of stack corruptions in 7 for some months. We'd be very keen to get a copy of the corrupted stack and the working format to see if we can work out what happened. If you'd be happy to share the stack, please sent it privately to

Re: The Bearer Of Bad News

Bob Sneidar wrote: > Well I upgraded to version 7.0.0. I opened a stack I have been > working on, but it started misbehaving. I just had it open and > running in version 6.6.4. In the process of trying to see where > things were going wrong, version 7.0.0 unexpectedly quit. How did this behavior

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

Todd Geist wrote: > On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> If you're seeing ID numbers change when a stack is reconstructed >> in lcVCS it's either a bug in LiveCode or lcVCS and should be >> reported so it can be addressed. > > Monte's lcVCS still recommends using Name base

Re: The Bearer Of Bad News

NVM I discovered there is a file of the same name ending in a tilde (~) which is a backup of the corrupted file. I was able to open it in 7.0 and save in the last legacy format. Unsure what happened initially, but I will be keeping a copy of the old stack intact for a while before migrating to 7

Re: The Bearer Of Bad News

I don’t suppose you use a Mac with Time Machine running do you? If you are you can retrieve a copy from an hour ago. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

The Bearer Of Bad News

Hi all. Well I upgraded to version 7.0.0. I opened a stack I have been working on, but it started misbehaving. I just had it open and running in version 6.6.4. In the process of trying to see where things were going wrong, version 7.0.0 unexpectedly quit. Now the stack is corrupted and UNUSABL

Re: Extended ASCII Characters Showing Up Where Not Wanted...

John. Your code will not throw an error, but the engine will not know what field you are referencing. put word one of the selectedText of fld "yourFieldHere" into tFirstName There should be no issue with this, unless the names were imported from somewhere that already contained the extra c

Re: Extended ASCII Characters Showing Up Where Not Wanted...

Never mind…. I just downloaded LiveCode 7 and reopened project. The upside down questions marks are gone now. Coincidence, the weather, spirits…? :) Thank you! On Oct 23, 2014, at 2:50 PM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: > Hi All… > > I have a list of names in a field. > > John Doe > Mary Jane > etc. e

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

Purely amazing ! Thanks Mother Ship ;D Warm Regards, Pierre > On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:36 , Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > > Dear list members, > > We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0. This is a stable release. > > WARNING: LiveCode 7.0 contains breaking changes particularly when rea

Extended ASCII Characters Showing Up Where Not Wanted...

Hi All… I have a list of names in a field. John Doe Mary Jane etc. etc. When I do: put word one of the selectedText into tFirstname put word two of the selectedText into tLastname …and then try using the variables in an INSERT to SQL Lite it fails. It seems the put script above is inserting

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

Brilliant! And right before my 5 year unlimited deal is up! Thanks RunRev! I might just buy another year of commercial license for the hell of it! Bob S > On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:36 , Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > > Dear list members, > > We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0. This i

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.7

Thanks Klaus. Done and bookmarked! Jerry On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:56 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: > Hi Jerry, > >> Am 23.10.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Jerry Jensen : >> >> Ben, I can't figure out how to download 6.7 community. Check for updates in >> 6.6.5 only offers 7.0 and I'm not ready for that yet.

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

Monte's lcVCS still recommends using Name based references. https://github.com/montegoulding/lcVCS Todd On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Todd Geist wrote: > > Now why do I avoid IDs? The answer is version control. If you > > use lcCVS that ID is probably not going to

RE: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

Ben, Well done... I Applaud the entire RR team! Really , take a bow. The way you were on top of this iOS 8 thing and still got these releases out... Makes my head hurt just thinking about it. Does this mean we can once again use the “R” word in general conversation once again? Ralph

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.7

Hi Jerry, > Am 23.10.2014 um 21:52 schrieb Jerry Jensen : > > Ben, I can't figure out how to download 6.7 community. Check for updates in > 6.6.5 only offers 7.0 and I'm not ready for that yet. In the store, the only > Community download I see is for 6.6.2 (!). > ?? get it here and bookmark th

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.7

Ben, I can't figure out how to download 6.7 community. Check for updates in 6.6.5 only offers 7.0 and I'm not ready for that yet. In the store, the only Community download I see is for 6.6.2 (!). ?? Jerry Jensen On Oct 23, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > Dear all, > > My "import

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > > We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0. This is a stable > release. > I would like to congratulate the whole RunRev team on this release. Being able to push a project out the door after almost 2 years has to be very gratif

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.7

Dear all, My "important changes" section is our 7.0 changes. My apologies. For a full breakdown of the changes in LiveCode 6.7 please see the release notes here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_7_0/LiveCodeNotes-6_7_0.pdf Warm regards, Ben On 23 October 2014 20:26, Benjamin Beaumont

RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

Dear list members, We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 7.0. This is a stable release. WARNING: LiveCode 7.0 contains breaking changes particularly when reading and writing data out of LiveCode or working with the char chunk type. Details can be found in the release notes which are linke

RELEASE LiveCode 6.7

Dear list members, We're pleased to announce release of LiveCode 6.7. This is a stable release. Important Changes 1. We’ve update the platform component of the engine on Linux substantially. Think of it as the equivalent of the cocoa port for MacOS X. As a result, windowing related acti

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

Todd Geist wrote: > Now why do I avoid IDs? The answer is version control. If you > use lcCVS that ID is probably not going to be the same when you > reconstitute the file. The LiveCode engine was enhanced several versions ago to allow IDs to be set, specifically to support the creation of suc

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

Hi Richard, I can and do use dynamic assignments. But it's more boiler plate then I would like. An object, once configured should just work. "Setup" steps are too easy to forget in another context. Now why do I avoid IDs? The answer is version control. If you use lcCVS that ID is probably not

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

Used to could. There are some today that would challenge that premise. ;-) Bob S On Oct 23, 2014, at 08:28 , Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: The harder question is the UI, but if anyone can do that well it's Apple. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

Bob Sneidar wrote: > That would suck if OS X goes on the chopping block. What is better > than UNIX running on a PC chipset? I would imagine they'd stick with Unix. As we've seen with its cousin Linux, Unix foundations can be scaled well to handle everything from phones to supercomputers. T

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

That would suck if OS X goes on the chopping block. What is better than UNIX running on a PC chipset? Bob S On Oct 23, 2014, at 06:45 , Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: I'll go out on a limb to put a date on it: I believe the big announcement at WWDC 2016 will be th

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

The dictionary gives no clue. Try the long name instead and see if it works. Then you can tell us. :-) Bob S > On Oct 22, 2014, at 19:31 , Todd Geist wrote: > > Hello, > > I don’t like to use IDs to reference Objects. But it seems that the only way > you can reference a Behavior is with it

Valentina for LiveCode 5.6 Introduces Hash Indexes

Paradigma Software Releases Valentina 5.6 Paradigma Software announces the immediate availability of version 5.6 of Valentina Server, Valentina DB ADK and Valentina Studio. Valentina Core Database technology adds Hash Indexes as a new feature and related commands in its SQL support and high level

RE: 64-bit App Store requirement

> I'll go out on a limb to put a date on it: I believe the big > announcement at WWDC 2016 will be the end of both iOS and OS > X, and the start of a new OS to replace them both. > > So right now they're quietly laying the ground work Richard, A few years ago you and I talking about this,

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

Trevor DeVore wrote: > I was thinking the requirement was going to be for the MAS. You may just be ahead of your time. After all, it seem unlikely Apple will be shipping an iOS device that has more than 4 GB RAM, and even if they did, with PAE it would only be logically "necessary" if they ex

Re: Variable parameter synonym functions

Yes, I understand how to do it, I'm just wondering if there's a more elegant way. On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 8:29 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Mikey, > > Here's a way: > > on mouseUp > put fun1("a","b") > end mouseUp > > function fun1 > repeat with x

Re: setting a behavior with out using an ID

Good to see you here, Todd - > I don’t like to use IDs to reference Objects. But it seems that > the only way you can reference a Behavior is with it’s ID. Is > that true? Is there another way? While long IDs are normally problematic since they include the file path to the object (which will

Re: Variable parameter synonym functions

Hi Mikey, Here's a way: on mouseUp put fun1("a","b") end mouseUp function fun1 repeat with x = 1 to the paramcount put param(x) & comma after myList end repeat put "fun2(" & char 1 to -2 of myList & ")" into myFun return value(myFun) end fun1 function fun2

Variable parameter synonym functions

Has anybody come up with an easy way to write functions or handlers that are synonyms for other functions/handlers where both take a variable number of parameters? If I want to have a handler "a" and synonym "aardvark", I would normally write on a name aardvark name end a on aardvark name

Re: [ANN] mergExt Updates for iOS 8.1 and mergNotify 2

Wow, that was fast! You are the man!!! Nakia Brewer | Technology & Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions t: (02) 49645051 m: 0458 713 547 i: www.westrac.com.au ACN 009 342 572 On 23 Oct 2014, at 6:13 pm, Monte Goulding mailto:mo...@sweattechnologies.com>

Re: [ANN] mergExt Updates for iOS 8.1 and mergNotify 2

That was quick. Thanks very much Monte! Ralf > On 23.10.2014, at 09:12, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Hi LiveCoders > > Today I am releasing updates for all the mergExt externals to add iOS 8.1 > support. This will bean you can build with LiveCode 6.6.5 against Xcode 6.1. > > I am also realisi

Re: [ANN] mergExt Updates for iOS 8.1 and mergNotify 2

Thanks Monte. I was just searching my TimeMachine Backup for an XCode 6.0.1. So no need to search any longer... Regards, Matthias > Am 23.10.2014 um 09:12 schrieb Monte Goulding : > > Hi LiveCoders > > Today I am releasing updates for all the mergExt externals to add iOS 8.1 > support. This

[ANN] mergExt Updates for iOS 8.1 and mergNotify 2

Hi LiveCoders Today I am releasing updates for all the mergExt externals to add iOS 8.1 support. This will bean you can build with LiveCode 6.6.5 against Xcode 6.1. I am also realising a major update to mergNotify to support OS X. The external not supports posting NSNotifications (note these a