Movie problems in LiveCode

2015-03-23 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
I confirm bug 14435 reported by Devin Asay regarding the current problem with creating movies on Macintosh using LiveCode versions in the LC6-7 series. This is a significant problem since it appears impossible at this point to create standalones on the Mac that will display player movies on

Re: [OT} Why Computer Color Is Broken

2015-03-23 Thread Walt Brown
Interesting, thank you. Walt On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: http://digg.com/video/why-computer-color-is-broken?utm_source=diggutm_medium=email ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Peter W A Wood
Thanks, Peter On 23 Mar 2015, at 18:30, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: On 2015-03-22 22:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the ability to access the OS

Re: [OT} Why Computer Color Is Broken

2015-03-23 Thread jbv
I love the last sentence : shouldn't beauty just be the default ? http://digg.com/video/why-computer-color-is-broken?utm_source=diggutm_medium=email ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Toggling a Single Radio Button

2015-03-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
I’ve seen radio buttons set up to work like checkboxes before, mostly in web browser built into appliances, and thought what an odd way to use a checkbox! I agree that single on/off choices should be checkboxes, and multiple choice should be a group of radio buttons. Bob S On Mar 9, 2015,

Re: Data Grid graphics buttons

2015-03-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
It’s my understanding that if you want to do anything fancy with a data grid, forms are the way to go. A simple checkbox is one thing. Displaying different results depending on content is another. Bob S On Mar 8, 2015, at 23:06 , JB sund...@pacifier.commailto:sund...@pacifier.com wrote:

Re: xmlerr, can't parse xml, Extra content at the end of the document

2015-03-23 Thread kee nethery
Are you confusing data with labels? kee Normally you’d do something like this where the data is not part of the labels (the indents are just for readability): ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8”? myLiveCodeXml user id=2 usernameTiemo Hollmann/username

Re: Movie problems in LiveCode

2015-03-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/23/2015 6:09 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: This is because in the LC 6-7 versions for Mac (preliminary version 8, too) once a relative path is placed in the Property Inspector filename window of a movie player on Mac it immediately reverts to the absolute path on closing the Inspector.

[OT] Pixar's Renderman

2015-03-23 Thread Richmond
http://renderman.pixar.com/view/non-commercial-renderman Free. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT] Pixar's Renderman

2015-03-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Way OT, but of great interest. Thanks! On Mar 23, 2015, at 3:22 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: http://renderman.pixar.com/view/non-commercial-renderman Free. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Richmond
On 23/03/15 12:30, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-03-22 22:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the ability to access the OS API”. As I understand, LiveCode Builder will allow us

[ANN]SoCal LUG Mtg - NEW LOCATION - Apr 2, Pasadena

2015-03-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
The next meeting of the SoCal LiveCode User Group is coming up on Thursday, April 2 in Pasadena at 7PM. IMPORTANT: The meeting is being held at a new location, Du-par's Restaurant, on S. Lake Avenue near Cordova Street: Du-par's Pasadena 214 S. Lake Ave. Pasadena, CA 91101

xmlerr, can't parse xml, Extra content at the end of the document

2015-03-23 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I am using since some time successfully XML files with LC 6.5.2. Now I wanted to allow the user to enter spaces in their names like “Tiemo Hollmann”, which I am using as tag names in my xml file. Because spaces are not allowed characters in XML tag name I replace the spaces by “$” before

Re: printPaperRectangle LC7

2015-03-23 Thread Terence Heaford
On 22 Mar 2015, at 22:08, Paul Hibbert p...@livecode.org wrote: I really can't see why anybody would want the formatting printer to be different from the destination printer, but that's probably just me. What seems to happen is that when you select a printer via. the print dialogue box

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-03-22 22:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond I believe that Richard’s “providing OS API access” is a simplification, probably an over simplification, of “providing the ability to access the OS API”. As I understand, LiveCode Builder will allow us to write code which can directly call an

Re: printPaperRectangle LC7

2015-03-23 Thread Terence Heaford
Paul, I think I’ve figured out how to make the settings stick and with the correct dimensions: There is some poor dialogue box design from Apple involved so please be patient while I try to explain. Firstly open a Page Setup Dialogue Box. There is a pop up menu at the top titled Settings

Re: API

2015-03-23 Thread Michael Doub
Richmond, This maybe the blind leading the blind, but here is my take. Hopefully someone will correct me. Take a look at ~/livecode/libscript/src/foreign.mlc. Here is where foreign types are defined. Now take a look at ~/livecode/libscript/src/math.mlcNote that use

[JOB] SetupBuilder

2015-03-23 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
If anyone has experience of setupBuilder installer software or similar, please contact me off-list... I have an on-going job for you! Best regards Hugh Senior FLCo ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] Pixar's Renderman

2015-03-23 Thread Colin Holgate
Yes, Unreal is free, but you owe them 5% of your royalties if you make over $3k. Unity 5 is free if you make less than $100k. On Mar 23, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Colin, I¹m guessing you¹ve already seen this other OT news, but for those that haven¹t:

Question re large project organization

2015-03-23 Thread William Prothero
I have a bunch of stacks that make up a larger application that I’m setting up to be easily expandable. There is a splash stack that loads an index stack, which then loads various other stacks as needed. When I make the standalone, it only encrypts the splash stack. The other stacks are in raw

Re: [OT] Pixar's Renderman

2015-03-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Colin, I¹m guessing you¹ve already seen this other OT news, but for those that haven¹t: Unreal Engine 4 is now available to everyone for free https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/ue4-is-free Corona SDK is now completely free https://coronalabs.com/ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director

mergExt iOS 8.2 support, mergAV update, new free externals

2015-03-23 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders Today I have updated all my externals to support building against the iOS 8.2 SDK in Xcode 6.2. mergAV has a few new features - the ability to list and choose other audio and video inputs rather than just the front and rear camera - mergAVPick will now save the image metadata

Re: printPaperRectangle LC7

2015-03-23 Thread Paul Hibbert
Thank you for the notes, I have tried setting the defaults, but unfortunately it still can't do what I need, I have 5 different printers and all but two have very different paper margins. I realise now that it's not LC's fault when things go awry, but at least I found an odd workaround for the