Crashing V7.01(rc2)

2014-11-26 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I’m getting an application crash in V7.0.1(rc2) that doesn’t occur in V7.0. This is OSX, 10.9.5. I’m copying symbol images onto a map image. Runs fine on V7.0. The symbols copy fine for most of the application, but one type causes the crash. Anybody else seeing crashes like this? I’ll in

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Scott Rossi
I believe that portion of the dictionary entry refers to the onscreen keyboard, which doesn't exist on desktop. But either way, it seems that "effective" cannot be used on desktop without "working". Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Nov 26, 2014, at 6:08 P

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 11/26/2014 7:14 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) wrote: > Ok, So use the 'effective ScreenRect' which will give you the location of > the selected window. > > Is that an undocumented feature? The Dictionary (in 6.7 or 7.0) states "Adding the effective adjective to either form returns the area of the screen t

Re: External files in Standalones

2014-11-26 Thread William Prothero
I think I’ve got it. I check whether the app is a standalone using the “environment” property, then adjusting file paths accordingly. Bill On Nov 26, 2014, at 3:03 PM, William Prothero wrote: > Folks: > I’m building an app that reads a number of external data files. I’ve been > trying to creat

Re: Camera authorisation on iOS7.1.2

2014-11-26 Thread Gerry
mergAVRequestMediaAccess isn't in the documentation on the mergext site yet... Gerry > On 27 Nov 2014, at 10:33 am, Sean Cole (Pi) wrote: > > Hi, > > It's okay. Monte had updated the plugin but not made it clear what had > changed and that it had done so radically. There's new commands and >

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Sean Cole (Pi)
Ok, So use the 'effective ScreenRect' which will give you the location of the selected window. Sean Cole On 26 November 2014 at 23:40, Paul Dupuis wrote: > On 11/26/2014 6:11 PM, Pi Digital wrote: > > Paul > > > > It's the difference between the screenRect and the 'working screenRect'. > The d

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 11/26/2014 6:11 PM, Pi Digital wrote: > Paul > > It's the difference between the screenRect and the 'working screenRect'. The > dictionary describes these well under screenRect. > > Sean Cole > Pi Digital I assume you are referring to checking the differences in the rects returned by 'the scre

Re: Camera authorisation on iOS7.1.2

2014-11-26 Thread Sean Cole (Pi)
Hi, It's okay. Monte had updated the plugin but not made it clear what had changed and that it had done so radically. There's new commands and messages for authorisation now. mergAVRequestMediaAccess. Cheers to anyone who started to research it for me. Sean Cole *Pi Digital Productions Ltd* www.p

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Pi Digital
Paul It's the difference between the screenRect and the 'working screenRect'. The dictionary describes these well under screenRect. Sean Cole Pi Digital -- This message was sent from an iPhone, probably because I'm out and about. Always contactable. Well, most of the time :/ > On 25 Nov 201

External files in Standalones

2014-11-26 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I’m building an app that reads a number of external data files. I’ve been trying to create a standalone and have a number of problems with the external files. In my development area, I have a folder: App folder which contains the .livecode app and data files. It looks like this: myApp

Camera authorisation on iOS7.1.2

2014-11-26 Thread Sean Cole (Pi)
Hi all, I've been using Monte's mergAV extension to create a camera in an app. However, when I produce the standalone and install and run it on a device the 'result' from mergAVCamCreate returns "Access not authorised". In my standalone settings I've set the requirements for Stills Camera and Fron

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Finding a recipe was my problem too. It hasn't happened for a while but I think it might have had something to do with nested groups. While we're talking about groups, I feel they're unnecessarily difficult to edit in LC. I find myself constantly clicking on the Select Grouped icon when I'm form

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 11/26/2014 12:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Paul- > > Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 1:35:12 PM, you wrote: > >> so on and so on, I was hoping someone on the list had already done this >> and definitively knew the answer :-) > I can confirm that the screenrects returns the same thing no matter > whic

Re: Detecting the active monitor under Mavericks and Yosemite...

2014-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Paul- Tuesday, November 25, 2014, 1:35:12 PM, you wrote: > so on and so on, I was hoping someone on the list had already done this > and definitively knew the answer :-) I can confirm that the screenrects returns the same thing no matter which monitor is forward, and no matter where the menubar

Re: (OT) Yosemite and the immediate future ....

2014-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Francis- Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 4:53:15 AM, you wrote: > I know where Apple is trying to lead us, AND I DON’T WANNA GO ! Make the switch to linux. You'll thank me later. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Sec

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Wednesday, November 26, 2014, 8:00:21 AM, you wrote: > I've occasionally seen this and been content setting the visible property > as a workaround. Should have submitted a qcc report but didn't. I've also seen this occasionally, but nothing I could narrow down to an actual recipe. Show/hid

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Alex, I've occasionally seen this and been content setting the visible property as a workaround. Should have submitted a qcc report but didn't. Pete lcSQL Software On Nov 26, 2014 3:46 AM, "Alex Tweedly" wrote: > > This feels so unlikely that I wonder if I'm simply doing something wrong - > b

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Interesting… When I reported my own stack anomalies with version 7, this sounds remarkably like what I was seeing, but I was showing and hiding stacks, primarily the main stack from which all other stacks were launching. You may have uncovered the bug which bit me. Bob S On Nov 26, 2014, at 0

Re: (OT) Yosemite and the immediate future ....

2014-11-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
> > I don’t like being pushed or shoved. I don’t care if Apple want > to merge OSX and iOS. I want my OS X I don’t think it’s going to go that far. Apple may be many things these days but they aren’t stupid. What they *are* doing is adopting some of the sandboxing technology that was

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
I have a large project running under 6.6.x (all versions over the years) which uses hide/show all the time and it's always worked okay. I can't think of anything that would cause your symptoms though, it's pretty odd. On November 26, 2014 5:46:25 AM CST, Alex Tweedly wrote: > >This feels so

Re: (OT) Yosemite and the immediate future ....

2014-11-26 Thread tbodine
I feel your pain. It's hard to live in the past in a connected world, said the man who is finally preparing to permanently shutdown his 1998-era Mac still running MacOS 9 with legacy apps, proprietary data formats, LocalTalk network and floppy disk drive. In hindsight, it would have been easier to

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread dunbarx
Alex. I feel your pain, and you have described a surreal situation very nicely. I cannot duplicate what you see. What happens if you start from scratch, or is the project too far along? Craig -Original Message- From: Alex Tweedly To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, Nov 26, 2014 6

(OT) Yosemite and the immediate future ....

2014-11-26 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful (but wet) Brittany, I know where Apple is trying to lead us, AND I DON’T WANNA GO ! I have 4 Macs, with 3 versions of OSX. 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 I like my Macs as they are, although 10.9 seems to be squeezing me, just a tad. Now, on all my OS-X versions, I get encouragements to u

hide / show oddities ?

2014-11-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
This feels so unlikely that I wonder if I'm simply doing something wrong - but thought I'd ask first. I had a script which is supposed to (amongst other things) hide one particular group. Although it usually worked OK, in some cases, sometimes, the group would remain visible when it is not s

LC7 rc2 ate my sloppy code

2014-11-26 Thread Graham Samuel
Just a warning. Something in a script that has worked forever stopped working when I switched to LC 7. In fact I did two things which were at some past time unofficially OK, but really aren't now: show this card this doesn't work (silently fails). Should be show this stack And set t