Windows RT

2014-11-07 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
A customer asked me, if my desktop product would also run on tablets. I told him yes, if it is a tablet with Microsoft Windows system. He bought a surface 2 exclusively for my product (with Windows 8.1 RT) and now complains me, that he wasted his money for the tablet because my product isn't

Re: Windows RT

2014-11-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Please define compatible. Does your customer say it doesn't even start up? Or does he say he it starts up but he can't work with it? What happens if he attaches a mouse and a keyboard to his device? AFAIK the MS Surface Pro 2 and Pro 3 have standard, yet slow, Intel processors, which

AW: Windows RT

2014-11-07 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Mark, confusingly the surface 2 has an ARM processor (with Windows 8.1 RT) and the surface 3 has an intel processor (with Windows 8.1) So my LC App doesn't even start on the surface 2. I will think about the spec Intel, though I am not sure if the standard dummy customer knows or cares

Re: AW: Windows RT

2014-11-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tiemo, I can buy this MS Surface Pro 2 in a store in my city http://www.mycom.nl/tablets-e-readers/windows-tablet/433918/microsoft-surface-pro-2-i5-256gb#specificaties and it has an Intel processor. Perhaps there are a Surface 2 with ARM and a Surface Pro 2 with Intel, bit I haven't seen

AW: AW: Windows RT

2014-11-07 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks for the info Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Schonewille Gesendet: Freitag, 7. November 2014 10:45 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re: AW: Windows RT Hi Tiemo, I can buy this MS

AW: AW: Windows RT

2014-11-07 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
To confuse mostly all customers there are obviosly two Surface 2, the standard 2 with ARM: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/de-de/products/surface-2 And the pro 2 with intel. I think of my dummy customers, who often even can't answer me if they have Windows or anything else, not to mention which

LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” I don’t know whether Company Policy would prohibit divulging such delicate information, but I would love to know the impact of LiveCode on the computer

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Pierre Sahores
Please, add my vote to this ! Le 7 nov. 2014 à 13:20, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr a écrit : Hi from Beautiful Brittany, As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” I don’t know whether Company Policy

Transparent welcome overlay

2014-11-07 Thread Ethan Lish
Anyone have a LiveCode example of a iOS transparent overlay welcome screen.   These first run welcome screens have become the de facto standard in iOS showing users how to get started. A sample / example or control or plugin would be great Thanks in advance, Ethan — Ethan@Lish.net240.876.1389

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Francis I think this is a great idea - just a few days ago I was answering a concern of a potential client, who as part of wanting to know that LiveCode was a valid choice as a platform, wanted to know how many people (especially professional programmers) were using it Kind regards Dave

RE: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread John Dixon
I think this is a great idea - just a few days ago I was answering a concern of a potential client, who as part of wanting to know that LiveCode was a valid choice as a platform, wanted to know how many people (especially professional programmers) were using it So, Dave ... how did you

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Jacques Hausser
Hi Francis A first indication is the number of people credited for supporting the open source version in the about box: 868. (= number of items of the last line of fld “Credit” of cd 1 of stack “revAbout”) Jacques Le 7 nov. 2014 à 13:20, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr a écrit :

iTunes Apps Crashing in IOS 8

2014-11-07 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi All There are many apps that started to crash in iTunes due to the release of IOS 8. https://devforums.apple.com/message/1046451#1046451 The link above is the IOS developer forum link where one of the discussions is ongoing about app crashes. I had a customer contact me today because one of

Scaling an app for iPhone 6

2014-11-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
With the latest updates, I have gone through an app and stripped it out to just the single @1x resolution and let Livecode do the work to scale it up for the iPhone 5. This works perfectly, with all the images etc all appearing in the right places. However when I test the same on an iPhone

Menu question

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Let's say you have a list of stacks and their substacks in a menu. For example: StackA -- StackA1 StackA2 StackB -- StackB1 StackB2 I'm trying to find a menu type that will items in the above format and allow me to choose either a main stack or a substack

working screenrect

2014-11-07 Thread John Dixon
If I make a stack at 320 x 480 Choose 'Device iPhone 4s' from the 'Hardware' menu then :- put the item 3 to 4 of the effective working screenRect into fld 1 returns 0,0,320,480... this is expected. I change the Device to 'iPhone 5s' from the 'Hardware' menu and 0,0,320,568 is returned...

Re: Menu question

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/2014, 11:46 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Let's say you have a list of stacks and their substacks in a menu. For example: StackA -- StackA1 StackA2 StackB -- StackB1 StackB2 I'm trying to find a menu type that will items in the above format and allow me

[OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Trying to get hold of a copy of OSX 10.9 but all I can find now is 10.10. Anyone know of a place I can get 10.9? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread Roger Eller
Look in your Applications folder. Do you see Install OS X Mavericks.app? Is this the machine that downloaded it from the App store? ~Roger On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Trying to get hold of a copy of OSX 10.9 but all I can find now is 10.10. Anyone

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread Chris Sheffield
Peter, If possible, simply log in to the Mac app store and go to Purchases. It should be listed there. If not, it may be possible to download it directly from the Mac Dev Center. Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com On Nov 7, 2014, at 12:03 PM, Peter Haworth

Re: Menu question

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Jacque, That's what I've been doing up to now but if there is a large number of stacks open and/or they have lots of substacks, the option menu choices get really long and hard to locate what you want. What I was hoping to do is simply list the main stacks when the menu is clicked so it will

Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi, from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t believe it - I must be Psychic !. Today, at 12:00 I sent my mail, “Where, How, and with Who ?” and at 16:04, I got an officicial LiveCode mail, saying “Who Are You” ?, obviously under preparation for some time. Well, Heather, I am gabberflasted ……… ….. and

Re: Scaling an app for iPhone 6

2014-11-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Found the issue (I think). Everything scales correctly for the iPhone 6, until you add a splash screen image. After that it shows the better splash, then flashes and shows the iPhone 5 splash and proceeds to load the app at iPhone 5 screen resolution. Ive posted a report on the bug system

How safe and feasable is it ?

2014-11-07 Thread jbv
Hi list Here's something I've had in mind for quite some time. Let's say you have an app built with LC that you send to various users as standalones with regular updates. What if all the most important functions of that app were gathered as handlers in the main stack script for instance, and at

Re: Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Heather Laine
:) I will, I promise. I can see I hit a resonant note with this article, I've never had so many replies! Keep them coming folks, and I'll have some interesting stats for the next newsletter! Regards, Heather On 7 Nov 2014, at 20:10, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi, from Beautiful Brittany,

Re: How safe and feasable is it ?

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Don't think you can set the script of a running app. Maybe put all the handlers into a separate library stack, password protected, and when your main app detects an update it stops using the library stack, installs the update, then starts using it again. Pete lcSQL Software On Nov 7, 2014 12:33

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Roger and Chris. I should explain, I'm still on 10.7.4 and looking to upgrade to 10.9, never got the update for 10.8 or 10.9. Now that 10.10 is out, I don;t see anything except that on the App Store but I may not be looking hard enough. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of

Re: How safe and feasable is it ?

2014-11-07 Thread Mike Doub
Here is what I use all of the time. The concept is much simpler that what you were proposing. There is a single app, which is the engine and all of the livecode libraries linked to it. This is deployed once, unless there is a new engine with features you want to use. ie livecode 6.0 to

Re: working screenrect

2014-11-07 Thread Gerry
I asked this a few weeks ago. No answer. Gerry On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 at 5:17 am, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: If I make a stack at 320 x 480 Choose 'Device iPhone 4s' from the 'Hardware' menu then :- put the item 3 to 4 of the effective working screenRect into fld 1 returns

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread Chris Sheffield
Hmm, if that’s the case, I’m not really sure. When I log into the Mac Dev Center, I see a button to download 10.9, which jumps me to the Mac App Store, but that may only be because I already have in the past. It used to be that you could go to the Other Downloads section and find disk images

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
According to MacWorld, If you do not have a copy of Mavericks in your download history then you need to ask another person to lend you a copy (by asking them to sign in to the App Store on your computer).

RE: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi John In my reply didn't use any numbers (didn't think of Jacque's idea of citing the number of coders who supported the open source project). I relied on the visible Runrev community; pointing my potential client to the forum and this mailing list, asking him to note how active both are and

Re: How safe and feasable is it ?

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/2014, 2:33 PM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list Here's something I've had in mind for quite some time. Let's say you have an app built with LC that you send to various users as standalones with regular updates. What if all the most important functions of that app were gathered as

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/2014, 4:24 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: In my reply didn't use any numbers (didn't think of Jacque's idea of citing the number of coders who supported the open source project). While I'd love to take credit for all good ideas, this was the other Jacque* -- the one with the s after his name.

Re: working screenrect

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
John you're doing better than me - for iPhone I can't get the simulator to display anything except 4s (Yosemite using LC 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0) - and the simulator keyboard never fires either - but on a device things (so far) appear as they are supposed to... Dave John Dixon wrote However the same

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Dave Kilroy
Yes sorry about that both of you 'J' people - once I posted I realised the inverted comma was in the wrong place :( J. Landman Gay wrote On 11/7/2014, 4:24 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: In my reply didn't use any numbers (didn't think of Jacque's idea of citing the number of coders who supported

Re: LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Nov 7, 2014, at 8:49 AM, John Dixon wrote: I think this is a great idea - just a few days ago I was answering a concern of a potential client, who as part of wanting to know that LiveCode was a valid choice as a platform, wanted to know how many people (especially professional programmers)

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying open card in script?

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Brigham
On Nov 6, 2014, at 4:58 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I spent an hour yesterday trying to track down a bug that turned out to be caused by a misspelled variable name. I don't use explicit variables, so I avoid misspelling variable names by using Jaques' scriptPaint handler. Put this into a

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying open card in script?

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Yeah, well, it all breaks in LiveCode 6.7. Which is a huge bummer because I've relied on that handler for years and it's second nature now. Not only did the name of the editor field change, which is easily fixed, but the control key, among others, no longer triggers. On November 7, 2014

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying open card in script?

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
I tried that. I just prefer declaring all variables and not have to bother with extra key modifiers while typing. I guess there'll never be a group agreement on the use of explicit variables, i's just a matter of personal preference. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
My son would probably be a good candidate :-) 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 Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: According

Re: iOS stand alone settings

2014-11-07 Thread Simon
Hi Jacque, The standalone builder does keep a record of the versions and other app settings as part of the stack properties... So, is there a way to record keyCFBundleVersion/key string7.5.7/string during the save as standalone for iOS mobile? Sure, I get save it as a custom property, just how

Re: [OT] OSX 10.9

2014-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Aha. I knew sons had to be good for something. On November 7, 2014 9:11:54 PM CST, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: My son would probably be a good candidate :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin