Software Freedom Day

2015-09-19 Thread Mark Wieder
No matter what you think of the Free Software Foundation, happy Software Freedom Day. http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack > > model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about setting a > customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes? > My mainstack stays hidden, and launches

LiveCode 8 Global Jam

2015-09-19 Thread Peter W A Wood
After reading the announcements, I am looking forward to the LiveCode 8 Global Jam and helping to prepare LiveCode 8 for release through reporting bugs. As I’ve already reported a handful of bugs relating to LiveCode 8, I thought I’d take a look and see how many LiveCode 8 bugs there are in

Re: LiveCode for the rest of us

2015-09-19 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
> On 9/19/15, 1:59, R.H. wrote: > > Why not there is a field that can easily be set to display > > international date and time formats and automatically would default to > > local standards without having to script a lot and redoing the same > > work over and over again? Why not a field can be

Re: ANN MasterLibrary Version 45 now available.

2015-09-19 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
As always, thank you Michael! SKIP KIMPEL On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > I made some adjustments to take into account the new reserved words of 7.1 > and 8.0. You can find the current version here: > >

Re: LiveCode for the rest of us

2015-09-19 Thread tfabacher
Thanks Roland for the email. What you have described was exactly what Visual Basic programmers were saying in the early 90s. The solution to the VB problem was the ability to create COM objects. What you described as your primary frustrations will evaporate with LC8. You will be able to

Re: names of other machines on local netwrok.

2015-09-19 Thread william humphrey
No one answered your question. I have noticed there are differences in the way you ping an address when on windows or when on mac or unix. Livencode has a nice hostAddressToName("127.0.0.1") and hostNameToAddress(*domainName, [callback]*) Write something to ping it first before connecting too.

Re: tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Assuming you follow the splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about setting a customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes? Then you just track repeat for with z = 1 ot the number of substacks # do stuff here with the # the

tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Is there a practical way to automatically track the change dates for substacks? I'm about to end up with something like 100 of them (one for each judicial district) At the moment, I have routines that step through all of my cards every time I bump the revision, but it would be nice to be able to