Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 09:27 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-08-28 08:20, Richmond wrote: On 08/27/2015 11:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/27/2015 2:33 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Since it's so desperately in need of improvement, and you have such a good idea of how it can be made better, perhaps

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-28 08:20, Richmond wrote: On 08/27/2015 11:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/27/2015 2:33 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Since it's so desperately in need of improvement, and you have such a good idea of how it can be made better, perhaps you could help out? I love UK understatement.

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
On 28 Aug 2015, at 15:15, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Well: as an almost complete newcomer to Github, I would be grateful if you could outline a way to edit the documents at https://github.com/runrev/livecode-ide/tree/develop/Documentation/guides

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/27/2015 11:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/27/2015 2:33 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Since it's so desperately in need of improvement, and you have such a good idea of how it can be made better, perhaps you could help out? I love UK understatement. As one of those rude Americans I would

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/27/2015 10:41 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: You did the obvious, and restarted LC after placing the plugin right? If you didn't restart lc, and you don't want to, an easy way to force a re-read of the plugins folder is to go into the plugin settings. You don't have to do anything, just going to

A question about differences in performance between Mac and Windows

2015-08-28 Thread jbv
Hi list I have a standalone used as a frontal for requests to a DB. The results are compressed and base64encoded by a LC script on the server, and the standalone displays them in a table field after base64decode and decompress. On Mac, the process takes 0.25 second to 1 second (when the amount of

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: I was bored one evening (in my spare time) and decided to explore adding new syntax highlighting rules to Atom. Now wonder the story isn't more exciting. You really need to get out more ;-)

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 12:28 PM, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by

iOS scrolling groups problem?

2015-08-28 Thread Alan Stenhouse
I have a problem with an iOS scroller on a group. It seems to somehow make the app non-reactive (locked up) after some resizeStack messages where I change the layout from portrait to landscape. I *suspect* that it may be when setting the vScroll of the group - but not totally sure and so far

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 28/08/2015 09:17, Kay C Lan wrote: I don't use Atom but from some recent posting it appears that some kind of LC/Atom connection has been made. I wonder if that may have been driven by the amount of time the LC Team spend at Github and Atom is the Github team developed Text Editor? Guess I

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by following this

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:49 PM, RunRevPlanet f...@smpcsupport.com wrote: One of the promoted strengths of LiveCode is that it is live coding. In other words I can make a change in my script and immediately see the effect. Now while I understand the virtues of using the external text editor

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I would be most interested to see a *coherent and numbered list* of these issues rather than a chorus of people saying how awful the scriptEditor is. Off the top of my head: 1) copy paste via keyboard How many

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by following this https://help.github.com/categories/bootcamp/

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 01:30 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I would be most interested to see a *coherent and numbered list* of these issues rather than a chorus of people saying how awful the scriptEditor is. Off the top of my

RE: iOS scrolling groups problem?

2015-08-28 Thread John Dixon
Would you post your resizeStack script From: alanstenho...@hotmail.com Subject: iOS scrolling groups problem? Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:06:08 +0200 To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com I have a problem with an iOS scroller on a group. It seems to somehow make the app non-reactive (locked

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: On 28 Aug 2015, at 15:15, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Well: as an almost complete newcomer to Github, I would be grateful if you could outline a way to edit the documents at

Re: A question about differences in performance between Mac and Windows

2015-08-28 Thread Roger Eller
Are the machines equal in CPU, network card, connection speed, etc.? Is the PC real or virtual on the Mac? What is the database type? On Aug 28, 2015 5:34 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list I have a standalone used as a frontal for requests to a DB. The results are compressed and

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-28 Thread Ali Lloyd
Hi James, The format is indeed not straight markdown but more like YAML. The Description element is the only part of it which is straight markdown. You can find a complete description of the format in the Extending Livecode guide in the dictionary, in the Specifications section. On Fri, Aug 28,

Re: A question about differences in performance between Mac and Windows

2015-08-28 Thread jbv
Are the machines equal in CPU, network card, connection speed, etc.? Is the PC real or virtual on the Mac? What is the database type? On Aug 28, 2015 5:34 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: yes, the machines are pretty similar in terms of hardware, and in my tests both the iMac and the PC

Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Is anyone else having a problem sending email from Sage..? I can suddenly receive mail but I can't send it... I keep getting the standard Mail Delivery Failed - Will Try Again message. This happens with ALL email I send from Sage. Does anyone know the support email address for On-Rev..? I

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have not commercially distributed anything I have written. I have however written apps for the work I do for my company. They recently decided to adopt my Forms Generator in their workflow, which makes me somewhat of a needed commodity for them. I'm not sure how to put a price on that. I

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: The problem though, was that stsMLXEditor was a bit of a patch job which needed a better mechanism to track the changes and transfer those back and forth - that improvement can only be done from the mothership. What's needed? Let's make it so. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: SFTP support [was: Re: Distribute beta versions of iOS app]

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
It is also , unfortunately, the abbreviation for Simple File Transfer Protocol: Simple File Transfer Protocol Simple File Transfer Protocol (the second protocol abbreviated SFTP), as defined by RFC 913, was proposed as an (unsecured) file transfer protocol with a level of complexity

Re: Quick Challenge

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Stop showing off Richmond! ;-P Bob S On Aug 27, 2015, at 08:39 , Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Lots of clever answers . . . Now try with this text: Քրիստոնէութեան սկիզբը Հայոց համար եղաւ նաեւ մտքի լուսաւորութեան սկիզբնաւորութիւնը. Մեր մէջ առաջին դպրոցները Լուսաւորչի

Re: screen readers

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have a bin like that. Mine is more like those tiny little circular cans under most people's desk. Yours is probably the size of New York. Bob S On Aug 26, 2015, at 13:14 , Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.commailto:li...@mangomultimedia.com wrote: For me it is one of those things that I

Re: LC8 IDE publish-and-subscribe

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 08/28/2015 02:31 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: Oops, didn't see the Q part of the message! Yes, your assumption is correct. Great! That's exciting! (and that's the first time I've said that about LC8) -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 08/28/2015 07:47 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: constant embedCRInConstant = aCRb throws an error. Suggestions? I first logged this as a bug in 2004. (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241) The current bug number is 12802, and the other reports (1241, 3680, 8737, 13955) have been

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
Oh, and just a slight tangent. I've seen it mentioned before but it hadn't really registered until I was playing with LC8 yesterday, but the new 'Script only Stack' would seem to be the perfect beast to offer up as a guinea pig for Text Editor integration. If my assumptions* are correct

ATTN: Mario Noto

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
My PowerDebug update email announcement to you bounced. Please send me updated contact info to be notified of releases. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

ATTN: Ed Gore

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
My PowerDebug update email announcement to you bounced. Please send me updated contact info to be notified of releases. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 08/28/2015 09:31 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: on MouseUp get A CR B constant embedCRInConstant = it end mouseUp No. You can't do that. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: a better mechanism to track the changes and transfer those back and forth - that improvement can only be done from the mothership. What's needed? Let's make it so. Love the positive

Re: Button Names on top of their icon?

2015-08-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Bramanatha: iconGravity is documented -- the property isn't part of the inspector, but you can look it up in the Dictionary (I see it was introduced in 6.7). Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/28/15, 8:17 PM, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org

Re: Button Names on top of their icon?

2015-08-28 Thread Brahmanathaswami
@ Scott: iconGravity: wow... undocumented feature and this really should be exposed in the button inspector.. it works. @ Paul: setting the pattern works. So far so good, but but the issue is also the vertical alignment of the button name: Solution: Set the pattern to the image... set the

ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.17

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
I have released a new version of PowerDebug. It's been two years since it's needed an update, but it's revision time, due to some minor incompatibilities with LiveCode 7.x and 8.x. This release fixes a problem when quitting on OSX after a debugging session. Apparently frontscripts are now

LC8 IDE publish-and-subscribe

2015-08-28 Thread Mark
The new LC8 IDE implements the publish-and-subscribe pattern, but it looks like it isn't designed to be extensible. It's extensible right now because revIDEMessageIsValid() always returns true. Q: assuming that the validity check was an interim test to make sure the IDE didn't fall on its face,

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
LOL... I understand. I have sent a few emails over the past few days... Usually I get a ticket in my email within 10 minutes of submitting problems in the past... This time..? Nothing. I just sent one through the the link that Matthias sent and I received a trouble ticket so all is well

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Thanks Matthias. I know the Mother Ship is usually up on things so I never like to bother them with stuff I don't consider THAT urgent. I do use the email address for more business issues but since I am receiving email I am (somewhat) fine with just letting them know... I think I will use

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-28 22:47, PystCat wrote: Thanks Matthias. I know the Mother Ship is usually up on things so I never like to bother them with stuff I don't consider THAT urgent. I do use the email address for more business issues but since I am receiving email I am (somewhat) fine with just letting

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Thanks Andy. I've sent a few tickets and one to Heather.. I don't like sending to her about On-Rev stuff but I figured she would forward on. My problem is I haven't heard back from anyone... And I'm still out on the water without a paddle. On Aug 28, 2015, at 3:54 PM, AndyP

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Thanks Howard. I'll try resending to the support at on-rev again. On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Howard Bornstein bornst...@designeq.com wrote: I've seen that and supp...@on-rev.com. I'm on Sage but I don't use their SMTP server so I can't help you out there. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at