Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond On 28 Jun 2015, at 18:05, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/06/15 12:41, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 28 Jun 2015, at 17:26, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: So, there I am, merrily making a stack using LiveCode 7.0.5 with 3 cards

Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richmond
So, there I am, merrily making a stack using LiveCode 7.0.5 with 3 cards (sophisticated stuff), and I wish to have each of the cards with a different backgroundColor. Setting the colour of card 1 via the prefs palette was easy, as was setting the colour of card 2 via the prefs palette, HOWEVER

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richmond
On 28/06/15 12:41, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 28 Jun 2015, at 17:26, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: So, there I am, merrily making a stack using LiveCode 7.0.5 with 3 cards (sophisticated stuff), and I wish to have each of the cards with a different backgroundColor.

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richmond
On 28/06/15 14:04, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 28 Jun 2015, at 18:05, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/06/15 12:41, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 28 Jun 2015, at 17:26, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: So, there I am, merrily making a stack using

Re: Changing the width of a stack

2015-06-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah, it works ok, and requires no moving of controls, no hiding either. Heres a script I've tested with. local sWidth,sToggle on mouseUp if sToggle is empty then put false into sToggle put not sToggle into sToggle switch sToggle case true lock screen put the

Re: Is this a bug or expected behavior?

2015-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Bonner wrote: Make a stack, put a button on it. In the script of the button put set the width of group 1 of me to random(the width of this card) Apply, and click the button. The button width changes despite being directed at a group that doesn't exist. Is this expected behavior, or

FIND command in LC7 does not work as in LC5

2015-06-28 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
I've noticed the following problem in using the FIND command in LC7, as opposed to LC5: Say I have a stack with 200 cards, in which the last 198 cards contain a group within which is a field named CODE. Say on one of the cards field CODE contains the code word PPH. In LC 5.5.3, if I'm on the

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richmond
On 28/06/15 17:55, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: So, there I am, merrily making a stack using LiveCode 7.0.5 with 3 cards (sophisticated stuff), and I wish to have each of the cards with a different backgroundColor. Setting the colour of card 1 via the prefs palette was easy, as was

Re: Changing the width of a stack

2015-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: The problem with globalloc and width and other stack related properties is they don't change the position of the left edge of the stack relative to the left edge of the centered control abc. The coordinate systems for windows and their content regions in LiveCode reflect

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: So, there I am, merrily making a stack using LiveCode 7.0.5 with 3 cards (sophisticated stuff), and I wish to have each of the cards with a different backgroundColor. Setting the colour of card 1 via the prefs palette was easy, as was setting the colour of card 2 via the prefs

Is this a bug or expected behavior?

2015-06-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Make a stack, put a button on it. In the script of the button put set the width of group 1 of me to random(the width of this card) Apply, and click the button. The button width changes despite being directed at a group that doesn't exist. Is this expected behavior, or should I report it as a

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 06/28/2015 07:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Are you sure you were setting that property for the card and not the stack? Remember that by default the Inspector is dynamic, and will change its display as the user context changes. So if you open it for card properties but then select an object

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: On 06/28/2015 07:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Are you sure you were setting that property for the card and not the stack? Remember that by default the Inspector is dynamic, and will change its display as the user context changes. So if you open it for card properties

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond On 28 Jun 2015, at 17:26, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: So, there I am, merrily making a stack using LiveCode 7.0.5 with 3 cards (sophisticated stuff), and I wish to have each of the cards with a different backgroundColor. Setting the colour of card 1 via the

Re: FIND command in LC7 does not work as in LC5

2015-06-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
The change may be a fix for something else, but I think it should work if you use the full reference: FIND PPH in field CODE of bg groupname On June 28, 2015 10:55:23 AM CDT, stgoldb...@aol.com stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: However, in LC 7.0.4, if I issue the same command from the first card,

Re: Changing the width of a stack

2015-06-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Mike. Good to have more than one way to do this. On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 10:59 PM Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, it works ok, and requires no moving of controls, no hiding either. Heres a script I've tested with. local sWidth,sToggle on mouseUp if sToggle is empty

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richard On 28 Jun 2015, at 22:55, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: I'm unable to reproduce this. Whether through the Inspector or via script, when I set the backgroundColor of a card no others are affected I can reproduce it in the IDE in LiveCode 8.0 DP2 Regards Peter

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter W A Wood wrote: On 28 Jun 2015, at 22:55, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm unable to reproduce this. Whether through the Inspector or via script, when I set the backgroundColor of a card no others are affected I can reproduce it in the IDE in LiveCode 8.0 DP2 If they're taking bug reports

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
On 29 Jun 2015, at 07:27, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: If they're taking bug reports on that early build it may be worth reporting. LiveCode are accepting and actioning bug reports on LiveCode 8.0 DP 2 Can you reproduce it in the current version? Yes If so, how? 1.

Livecode server timeout

2015-06-28 Thread Ralph DiMola
I'm on diesel.  My web service works great except for sendmail. The message gets sent but the session  either crashes or times out.  If I send to my on-rev email account the session does not fail and I get my response back to the client. If I send to any other email domain it fails. The email

Re: Card colo(u)rs

2015-06-28 Thread Richmond
On 06/29/2015 06:22 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: On 29 Jun 2015, at 07:27, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: If they're taking bug reports on that early build it may be worth reporting. LiveCode are accepting and actioning bug reports on LiveCode 8.0 DP 2 Can you reproduce it