Re: windowShape

2015-07-20 Thread Terence Heaford
Thanks for your comments. This seems the ideal way to do it allowing you to store your images in a central repository. All the best Terry On 19 Jul 2015, at 22:53, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: You can reference an image in a substack for example, and in addition to setting

Re: [semi OT] htaccess file question

2015-07-20 Thread jbv
Hello Matthias I have tried your suggestion in a new test directory and it seems to work : any url ending with .irev now triggers the corresponding script ending with .lc. Thanks for your help. jbv Hi jbv, try the following in your .htaccess file: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule ^(.*).irev$

Asynchronous Server Design

2015-07-20 Thread David Bovill
I have a question for any of you out there that know a thing or two about synchronous vs asynchronous design: - Is it worth designing a Livecode server to use asynchronous calls to handlers rather than normal synchronous processing? First off - the way this is going to be done will not use

Re: windowShape

2015-07-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Todd Fabacher wrote: I find the bast way to set and show an image in a windowShape is use backgroundPattern. This way you do not need to worry about the image moving or not filling the screen. You can set it in the IDE or in code set the backgroundPattern of *object* to {your* imageID*}

Re: windowShape

2015-07-20 Thread Dave Kilroy
Another thing that can screw up windowShape is scaleFactor (or it used to, haven't checked since the early 6.7's...) - make sure you have it at 1 or else you get (or used to get) weird on-screen artefacts - The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits. - Albert

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-20 Thread Peter Haworth
It's pretty clear LC doesn't think the list field has focus not sure why that would be. Maybe a focus on me from the list field's selectionChanged handler would help? On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:48 AM Peter Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, I still get nothing with the hilitedlines

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/19/2015 10:17 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: There is a line selected. If I put the following into the field script: on arrowkey put the hilitedlines end arrowkey then click in the field to select a line, then hit up- or down-arrowkey, nothing happens. The field is apparently not

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-20 Thread Peter Brigham
Unfortunately, I still get nothing with the hilitedlines of me in the field script. The arrowkey message is not going to the field. Here's the arrowkey handler in the card script. This works fine but I don't know why it should be necessary. on arrowkey what put hilitedline of fld notesList

Re: Asynchronous Server Design

2015-07-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: - Is it worth designing a Livecode server to use asynchronous calls to handlers rather than normal synchronous processing? First off - the way this is going to be done will not use any io (file, shell or internet / socket calls) - all the data is going to be in

[off] kotican acquired by fanduel

2015-07-20 Thread Mike Kerner
i see that mobile app developer kotican was just acquired by fanduel. I also see that kotican is based in Edinburgh. Question: are they using LC? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold

Save 40% Limited Time on Valentina Updates for LiveCode

2015-07-20 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Paradigma Software makes several LiveCode compatible products including: - Valentina Database ADK for LiveCode. Embed the fastest database engine available for LiveCode - Valentina Reports ADK for LiveCode. Embed business reports generation in your application. - Valentina Server Standalone

Re: Asynchronous Server Design

2015-07-20 Thread Mike Kerner
The main reason for doing things asynchronously are 1) to improve performance in a high-transaction environment 2) keep collisions to a minimum. In your case, it does not appear that either is going to happen, so I wouldn't bother. On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Richard Gaskin

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
But did you try a mouseUp handler? I'm curious if the field is recognized in any way. On 7/20/2015 1:47 PM, Peter Brigham wrote: Unfortunately, I still get nothing with the hilitedlines of me in the field script. The arrowkey message is not going to the field. Here's the arrowkey handler in

Visual Studio, anyone?

2015-07-20 Thread Mike Kerner
Well, I see that I have been under a rock for too long. Visual Studio now supports all platforms, and seems to run on all platforms??? Has anybody tried it, recently? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put