Re: can you read this

2018-10-12 Thread François Chaplais via use-livecode
I can see you > Le 11 oct. 2018 à 18:23, JJS via use-livecode > a écrit : > > wow, that's the first time i can see it myself too. > > All other replies were rejected somehow. > > > Ciao! Sphere. > > > Op 11-10-2018 om 18:21 schreef JJS via use-livecode: >> can you read this? >> >> >> ___

Re: Test

2018-09-18 Thread François Chaplais via use-livecode
gotcha :) > Le 18 sept. 2018 à 21:18, Clarence Martin via use-livecode > a écrit : > > This is a test because I can’t seem to send anything to the list. > > Sent from Mail for Windows 10 > > ___ > use-l

Re: Feature Race: Pick Your Project

2017-07-06 Thread François Chaplais via use-livecode
It seems to be fixed now. I was able to pay an hour ago (or so) François > Le 6 juil. 2017 à 21:41, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode > a écrit : > > Same here. > Matthias Rebbe > +49 5741 31 > ‌matthiasrebbe.eu <http://matthiasrebbe.eu/>‌ > >> Am

Re: Feature Race: Pick Your Project

2017-07-06 Thread François Chaplais via use-livecode
I get « certificate has expired. please use a valid certificate » (translated from french) François > Le 6 juil. 2017 à 21:33, Mike Bonner via use-livecode > a écrit : > > Can't pay, get this message... > Error Detected > Error Message > > The certificate has expired. Please use a valid certi

Re: Unpaid Pledges on Infinite LiveCode Campaign

2016-06-09 Thread François Chaplais
my invoice was indeed buried is a ton of spam messages, that fortunately I scan more or less regularly. François > Le 9 juin 2016 à 16:56, Heather Laine a écrit : > > Dear List Folks, > > We are somewhat concerned that quite a few pledges for the Infinite LiveCode > campaign remain unpaid. It

Re: Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread François Chaplais
wrong. LC does not have a multicore optimized solver for linear equations, the basis of numerical analysis. I want it. François Le 24 oct. 2015 à 20:37, hh a écrit : > Probably you don't need an external because LC has everything available. > I made a simple stack in 2014 that is kind of an inte

Re: Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread François Chaplais
+1 Le 24 oct. 2015 à 18:07, JB a écrit : > That would be a good book. Put in some really > good code from simple to advanced samples > that would cover different methods of using the > data in the C code in a stack. > > I would buy it! > > John Balgenorth > > >> On Oct 24, 2015, at 8:10 AM,

Re: Feature Exchange Process

2015-09-25 Thread François Chaplais
+1 Le 25 sept. 2015 à 17:28, Rick Harrison a écrit : > Hi Kay, > > These campaigns were pre-announced to me as a survey, > without the details of how long the campaigns were to run, > and the other details about funding. I’m shocked to learn > that they are only 5 days long. I was expecting i

Re: Running Apache Under Yosemite

2014-11-19 Thread François Chaplais
in addition, if you add virtualhost to MAMP ( http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/ , currently on saleand well worth the price) you can deploy your site/web app/etc.. on your LAN and test various configuration (PC/Mac/Linux/iPhone/iPad/various androids etc …) I use it to test my site on mobile

Re: externals for mac

2014-11-12 Thread François Chaplais
Thanks Monte. I cross my fingers. Le 13 nov. 2014 à 05:58, Monte Goulding a écrit : > > On 13 Nov 2014, at 3:50 pm, François Chaplais > wrote: > >> I repost this forum post which has no answer at this time: >> >> I am interested in building externals for

externals for mac

2014-11-12 Thread François Chaplais
I repost this forum post which has no answer at this time: I am interested in building externals for the mac. Since the switch to a more cocoa friendly version of livecode, has the externals SDK been updated (I mean desktop, not iOS)? I specifically need 64 bit support for scientific computatio

Re: Mavericks

2014-09-25 Thread François Chaplais
Richmond, maybe it is time for the person who built the standalone to upgrade to a more recent version of Livecode. I have been told this is how livecode makes money. Not to mention the community edition. Best, François Le 25 sept. 2014 à 22:36, Richmond a écrit : > On 25/09/14 23:31, M

Re: New Visual Editor ?

2014-04-18 Thread François Chaplais
The path of one's life maximizes the trouble that happens. This remains true even if you try to use the rule to your advantage. Une vie est régie par la loi de l'emmerdement maximal. Cette loi reste valable même si on cherche à l'utiliser pour la contourner. Shit happens. François Le 18 avr. 2

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread François Chaplais
If you are on the mac, I advice you to try virtualHost http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/ in conjunction with MAMP http://www.mamp.info/en/ this allows deployment of your website on your LAN. Excellent for testing your site on mobile devices. For a small fee, you can deploy it on the internet,

Re: Cocoa

2014-03-08 Thread François Chaplais
I will add: will it be possible to use the Cocoa APIs is Livecode externals? I have been waiting for this for years. François Le 8 mars 2014 à 23:18, Terence Heaford a écrit : > Can someone point me to a full definition of what RunRev consider "Port > LiveCode to use Cocoa throughout". > > Wha

Re: Support for Windows XP

2014-02-26 Thread François Chaplais
Le 26 févr. 2014 à 18:31, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > 11 Percent of Windows XP Users Will Switch to Linux, Survey Claims > > > This article notes that as of October there were about 500 million PCs > running XP: >

Re: Any super-simple way to texture a sphere?

2014-01-29 Thread François Chaplais
Nope. You cannot texture a sphere globally because you will have singularities somewhere (typically at the poles). This is the same problem as for maps of the earth. You have to patch together local maps, "à la Google maps". François Le 29 janv. 2014 à 20:20, Geoff Canyon a écrit : > I have 3D

Re: 652 release

2014-01-29 Thread François Chaplais
Thanks. The externals SDK links seem to be broken Francois Le 29 janv. 2014 à 18:01, Benjamin Beaumont a écrit : > Hi All, > > We've restructured the 'all downloads' section of the website to make it > easier to find the release you want and ensure that untested releases are > not made available

Re: Call for Scientists using LiveCode

2013-04-21 Thread François Chaplais
Le 21 avr. 2013 à 17:22, David Bovill a écrit : > Looking into this a bit further I am wandering how many other core open > source scientific libraries are out there that would create real scientific > value if we could fund porting them to LiveCode - either as externals or > integrated directly

Re: SciTopia: LiveCode in Science

2013-04-21 Thread François Chaplais
e commercial companies that are seeking to build commercial > apps that utilise open content in some way. > > > On 18 April 2013 21:54, François Chaplais < > francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr> wrote: > >> I would like very much to be able to do applied maths

Re: SciTopia: LiveCode in Science

2013-04-18 Thread François Chaplais
would be useful. Also, support for 64bit and Cocoa on the mac would be welcome, this a well needed update on the writing and building of externals, notably with decent support of multicore processors. Until then... Best regards François François Chaplais MINES ParisTech Centre Automatique

Re: [OT] Clarify on Macheist

2013-04-18 Thread François Chaplais
Before letting some software delete files in your place, I highly recommend (on the mac) the usage of Whatsize ( http://whatsizemac.com/ ) which will compute the size of every file and folder on any disk and give you a finder like view of the result. Language resources, like PPC code take little

Re: Livecode Commercial Download?

2013-04-10 Thread François Chaplais
I just checked the store and version 6 appears in "my products". I do not have a dev license. Best, François Le 10 avr. 2013 à 17:46, Mike Bonner a écrit : > Oh. DOH. Then contacting support would be the way. > > > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 9:24 AM, Roger Eller > wrote: > >> 6.0.0-gm1 w

[OT] programming video courses bundle

2013-03-20 Thread François Chaplais
If you are interested in programming for the web, iOS, android or promoting your business, there is currently a "pick a bundle" promotion at https://www.pickabundle.com/courses/ You can pick 6 video courses in a choice of 19 for $59.99 (yes, that's 60 dollars). I have picked courses on HTML, CSS,

Re: docs.runrev.com (and structured docs, and BvG docu)

2013-03-07 Thread François Chaplais
make sure you have the latest version of the docu stack, especially if you are on the mac. François Le 7 mars 2013 à 20:43, Ben Rubinstein a écrit : > On 07/03/2013 18:39, Björnke von Gierke wrote: >> >> On 07.03.2013, at 19:22, Ben Rubinstein wrote: >> >>> (I tried to launch BvG docu recently,

Re: Trouble developing external

2013-02-13 Thread François Chaplais
Yes, all the links to the external resources in the user's manual are dead links :-( François Le 13 févr. 2013 à 23:18, Monte Goulding a écrit : > Lol... nothing has changed in the externals sdk for a looong time. ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-13 Thread François Chaplais
The cocoa thing is the way to access advanced features like Grand Central Dispatch (introduced in snow leopard) that allows an more effective use of nowadays multicore processors by using queues instead of threads. This is of tremendous help for CPU intensive tasks, like scientific computing, si

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-13 Thread François Chaplais
Of course, my post was about my wishes. I am not enough of a programmer to implement that by myself. Pardon me, Monte, if I did not adequately reply to your post. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-13 Thread François Chaplais
ENGINE - bug fix/request (bug 2783) I wish typed variables, arrays of variables could be declared and manipulated as such. - update the externals toolkit and switch to 64 bit, modern frameworks for each platform. Please switch to cocoa and objective-C as far as the Mac is concerned - implement

Re: Developer SDK Version Number

2013-02-09 Thread François Chaplais
The links to the externals resources in the PDF manual are are broken §12.3.1, p.361 François ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lis

Re: Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

2013-02-02 Thread François Chaplais
Thanks for the kind answer, Richard. Le 2 févr. 2013 à 02:11, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > François Chaplais wrote: > > OK, open source is the cure for cancer... > > So I spend months, which become years implementing, say, a decent > > math library for Livecode

Re: LC MISTAKES

2013-02-01 Thread François Chaplais
> So, I don't think Apple would go for the idea of having a killer development > tool included with each Mac anymore. Again, with the Kickstarter initiative > it won't matter, everyone on Mac, Windows , or Linux, will be able to use > LiveCode for free. In this world of today, nothing is free, e

Re: Trying to make economic sense of open sourcing livecode

2013-02-01 Thread François Chaplais
OK, open source is the cure for cancer... So I spend months, which become years implementing, say, a decent math library for Livecode Who pays the rent? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscrib

Re: [Half-OT] Free intro eBook about SQL

2012-10-19 Thread François Chaplais
Thanks a lot Andre! That is the kind of complement to the livecode documentation that makes it so much more usable. Very best François Le 19 oct. 2012 à 15:48, Andre Garzia a écrit : > Hi Folks, > > I was browsing reddit when I found this little eBook about SQL aimed at new > users. > >

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread François Chaplais
If you have external drives, you may check their power adapter. One of mine got a too old one day; I checked it was responsible by swapping it with another adapter. So I ordered another power adapter and my data remained on the disk. Best François Le 13 sept. 2012 à 11:09, stephen barncar

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread François Chaplais
t; On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:12 AM, François Chaplais wrote: > >> there is also this one: >> "There are two kinds of lawyers: those who know the law, and those who know >> the judge." > > > ___ > use-liveco

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread François Chaplais
there is also this one: "There are two kinds of lawyers: those who know the law, and those who know the judge." ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pref

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread François Chaplais
t : > Bit harsh, eh? > > On Sep 12, 2012, at 6:16 AM, François Chaplais wrote: > >> Pay yourself a lawyer, Peter, instead of trolling this list. > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread François Chaplais
There is another point which is is maybe overlooked by people whose official language is English. It seems to me that EULAs suffer from a "vice de forme" in the sense that they are often written in a language that is not an official language of the country where it is supposed to apply. Specific

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread François Chaplais
as far as I understand, and for France only, laws are voted by the legislative branch, and decrees are issued by the executive branch. Decrees specify (or attempt to) how the law should be applied in practice. A law which does not have an applicative decrees will never be applied and is consider

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread François Chaplais
Pay yourself a lawyer, Peter, instead of trolling this list. It's not a judge's opinion on the law, but it is better than your mixture of ill supported arguments. Le 12 sept. 2012 à 14:59, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : > The question isn't whether EULAs are contractually enforceable. As a class, >

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 sept. 2012 à 21:47, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : > I also believe that its impossible to enforce post sale restrictions on use > in the EU. You cannot sell someone a chisel, and then when he opens it, > have him discover the enforceable condition that if he uses it with a > mallet, it must b

Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash

2012-09-11 Thread François Chaplais
For keepers, before Adobe "killed mobile Flash", Adobe a) killed PageMaker and attempted to kill Freehand by buying Aldus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldus They developed their own inDesign software and buried PageMaker six feet in the ground. Freehand was the main competitor to Illustrator. It

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 sept. 2012 à 15:56, Peter Alcibiades a écrit : > Lynn, the problem is that (I believe) in the EU the EULA so called license is > actually going to be held, should it ever come to court, as a sale. And > that all the post sale restrictions on use will be thrown out. > > I know of no case,

Re: The inmates have been let loose!

2012-08-22 Thread François Chaplais
There is a discussion on the original post http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120820003211714 It seems the terminal commands does not disable the iCloud saving, while using the system prefs does. Best, François Le 22 août 2012 à 18:58, J. Landman Gay a écrit : > On 8/22/12 11:5

Re: The inmates have been let loose!

2012-08-22 Thread François Chaplais
Le 21 août 2012 à 08:42, Richmond a écrit : > > Documents being saved by default in the 'Cloud' . . . > To have your default save location on your mac, type in terminal defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false To revert to the iCloud default, type defaults wri

Re: ANN: Stars

2012-06-23 Thread François Chaplais
Thanks Alejandro. The actual link is http://www.jamesphurley.com/RunRev/BezierLine.rev I will have a deep look at the stack and how it relates to interpolation. Best regards François Le 23 juin 2012 à 15:42, Alejandro Tejada a écrit : > Hi Francois, > > > François Chap

Re: ANN: Stars

2012-06-22 Thread François Chaplais
, if you have a miracle solution for drawing Bezier curves in LiveCode, I am convinced (based on previous posts) that many (including me) will be happy to use it, as it is something that LC *cannot* do easily. Best regards François Chaplais Le 22 juin 2012 à 18:30, Jim Hurley a écrit

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (Features)

2012-06-21 Thread François Chaplais
Last but not the least, do you have a planned price for those who prefer to wait for this to get real? In other words, how much can one *expect* to gain by buying in advance? It can be a very good selling point. cheers, François Le 21 juin 2012 à 21:57, Björnke von Gierke a écrit : > I g

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

2012-05-31 Thread François Chaplais
You had to pay Apple for the development version (v.s. player) of Hypercard. I think this started with version 2. Le 31 mai 2012 à 21:08, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > TANSTAAFL. There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch. Even Hypercard was not > free. We paid for it when we paid for the Mac it was in

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread François Chaplais
My two cents: about the scrolling: first time I got a mac (in '88) I found the way scroll arrows worked totally counter intuitive about time machine: yes, it can be a plague. I recently thought of excluding ~/Library/Caches in the Time machine options and things are definitively better now. IMHO,

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-11 Thread François Chaplais
Le 11 mai 2012 à 22:00, stephen barncard a écrit : > thanks Ken. Internal drives don't have lights these days. Wish they did - > it would save time to know when something clearly isn't happening. The > powers that be decided that wasn't needed anymore. > The tip at your link looks promising, as I

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-11 Thread François Chaplais
as far as "cleaners" are concerned I use CleanMyMac http://macpaw.com/ that I haven't used much but seems to work OK. Actively maintained. It searches for all kind of related files to delete when you put an app to the trash. There is also MacCleanse (I have it but never used it) http://www.koingos

Re: Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread François Chaplais
It also plays on the iPhone (I just checked) F. Le 23 avr. 2012 à 22:13, Paolo Mazza a écrit : > Hi Mark, > Unfortunately most of win-pc have not Quick Time. Any other solution? > All the best > Paolo ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Streaming video in a multi platform application

2012-04-23 Thread François Chaplais
my son is a student in 3D and video effects, and his teachers advise the students to export their video to .mp4 format for best compatibility, which is I think MPEG 4 without the quicktime embedding. The following movie has been finalized on windows and plays fine in Safari on my mac. Give it a

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-03-28 Thread François Chaplais
just to say it seems to have been fixed in livecode 5.5: function revDebuggerValidGlobalNames local tGlobalsRaw put the globals into tGlobalsRaw replace comma with return in tGlobalsRaw # For now we just filter out the Vista 64 bit ones. Really we should remove anything that i

Re: IphoneDeviceScale

2012-03-19 Thread François Chaplais
Try using a fish. Fish! Fish! my favorite dish! François Le 19 mars 2012 à 18:14, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > Dang!! Doesn't work on my iPad either! > > Bob > > >> I don't think you can use an iPhone as a scale. I just stood on mine and now >> it doesn't work anymore. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Mar

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread François Chaplais
Do you have the latest version of firefox? I have, it says version 11. On this version (mine), on the left of the search toolbar, there should be the icon for your current search engine (it should look like a with b on an orange background if you have Bing) Click on this very icon and you shou

Re: Externals

2012-03-12 Thread François Chaplais
try http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue13/newsletter5.php and http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue14/newsletter3.php Best regards, François Le 12 mars 2012 à 22:53, Pete a écrit : > The Reference Manual includes a link to get the externals developer kit and > also a

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread François Chaplais
please consider voting for report #2783 in quality center which calls for typed variables (an example being for passing parameters to externals) http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 Best regards François Le 8 mars 2012 à 19:48, Paul D. DeRocco a écrit : >> From: Pete >> >> I guess the

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread François Chaplais
Much of my work consists in reading PDF research articles. The retina display is a killer feature for that. And, mind you, PDF is resolution independent. Le 7 mars 2012 à 22:43, Tim Jones a écrit : > So, it's not the iPad 3, it's the "New iPad". > > Seems to me that the only thing that has happe

Re: Windows 8

2012-03-06 Thread François Chaplais
Look Metro, Look Mountain Lion, look Mobile... I think the motto "code once, deploy everywhere..." should be severely reevaluated. This is not the 90s anymore. The future (if any) for livecode looks more, to me, like "faceless code once, easily build a GUI for every platform". The times, they are

Re: FYI: Mac trojan horse

2012-02-27 Thread François Chaplais
Right point. Le 28 févr. 2012 à 00:16, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > François, > > I believe you are a little confused. It is not necessary to change directory > in this particular case and if it were necessary then it would definitely not > be /Applications/Utilities. > > -- > Best regards, >

Re: FYI: Mac trojan horse

2012-02-27 Thread François Chaplais
do not forget "cd /Applications/Utilities" & return before ls best François Le 27 févr. 2012 à 23:44, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Hi, > > Always when I read such articles, I can't help thinking that the antivirus > software publishers have the most interest in the creation of such viruses. > F

Re: Saving a font as a custom property

2012-02-17 Thread François Chaplais
does it work if you save the font as a file first (using the URL scheme, for instance?) François Le 17 févr. 2012 à 18:33, Lars Brehmer a écrit : > I have been fooling around with revFontLoad in Windows for quite a while now > with varying degrees of succes, nostly very little. I found an old po

Re: [OT] OS X's Gatekeeper

2012-02-16 Thread François Chaplais
Richard, Gatekeeper can be configured to download anything you like, if you like. Le 16 févr. 2012 à 21:53, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > Looks like I may rival Punxsutawney Phil in the prognostication department - > consider the screen shot in this article: > >

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-12 Thread François Chaplais
this list proves to be invaluable. Very best François Le 12 févr. 2012 à 20:00, Ken Ray a écrit : > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 10:14 AM, François Chaplais wrote: > >> Ken, thank you very much for your help. I have NOT installed the DAZ3D >> software yet (I hav

Re: Warning Re: 'DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free'

2012-02-12 Thread François Chaplais
Ken, thank you very much for your help. I have NOT installed the DAZ3D software yet (I have the old DAZ studio whose environment variables do not include "-"), so I would like to use your indications *before* installing the DAZ soft. FYI, I have all versions of revstudio then livecode installed

Re: How alive is LiveCode?

2012-02-10 Thread François Chaplais
A request consistent with Alejandro's own is the ability to force typing of variable, arrays, etc, anything that can be transmitted to an external. see http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 Please vote if you support it, TIA!! Best, François Le 9 févr. 2012 à 20:10, Alejandro Teja

Re: Launcher strategies

2012-01-23 Thread François Chaplais
On the mac, I use for my kid on the mac the simplified finder (on 10.3.9) with access to a limited number of apps (which I have chose). No access to hard drives, folders, etc.. Very foolproof. Le 23 janv. 2012 à 18:03, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > At the SoCal Linux Expo yesterday I ran into fell

Re: "do not back up" attribute iOS

2011-12-09 Thread François Chaplais
ww.chrisboyd.net/2011/11/icloud-and-the-new-ios-data-storage-guidelines/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=icloud-and-the-new-ios-data-storage-guidelines > > If you follow old rules. You will be rejected. > > > On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:33 PM, François Chaplais wrote: >

Re: "do not back up" attribute iOS

2011-12-09 Thread François Chaplais
You CAN store persistent data. GoodReader does it, many others do it. What has change is that you must do it into the proper application directory and not in 'tmp' or 'cache' folders, which are obviously not right places for storing persistent data. François Le 9 déc. 2011 à 15:22, ddas a écrit

Re: Livecode as a command-line application

2011-11-29 Thread François Chaplais
Those who have suffered on a VT100 will understand the difference ;) Le 29 nov. 2011 à 21:38, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Alejandro, > > Apparently you are not looking for a command line app but for a terminal-like > GUI. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille _

Re: Comma-Delimited Files on Macs

2011-09-18 Thread François Chaplais
The itemdelimiter could be set (and got) in Hypercard. Very best, François Le 18 sept. 2011 à 21:34, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > Roger Eller wrote: > >> Why is LiveCode's default delimiter a comma, such as in the dateItems? >> Is it simply because it is visible, whereas a TAB is not? > >

Re: audio guide app in livecode?

2011-09-08 Thread François Chaplais
Le 8 sept. 2011 à 04:03, stephen barncard a écrit : > THe programming is the fun part. Getting the right recording to trigger is > the hard part. Something that uses the sensory stuff in the phone, can't > depend on users to sort it out. > Why? Is the user that stupid? I have seen some of these

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

2011-08-26 Thread François Chaplais
maybe i has more to do with cats... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9NP-AeKX40 François Le 26 août 2011 à 21:27, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > I don't think it has anything to do with monkeys. The monkey brain is also > wired to fling poo. Monkeys will want to touch and feel an iPhone, but the > monke

Re: [ANN] BvG Docu 2

2011-08-03 Thread François Chaplais
Le 4 août 2011 à 00:39, Björnke von Gierke a écrit : > No, because dosclib was part of the old docu stack, and this is a complete > rewrite. The GUI parts and the "library" parts are a lot less divided in this > version, so I did not make a division like that this time around. > > That said,

Re: [ANN] BvG Docu 2

2011-08-03 Thread François Chaplais
Fine! Is there also an upgrade for Docslib? Best François Le 3 août 2011 à 19:18, Björnke von Gierke a écrit : > As mentioned in the last livecode.tv event, BvG Docu 2 is now available. It > works with Rev / LC versions 4.0 to 4.6.3, and accompanying Metacard IDE's. > > Get it at my site

Re: [OT] BBC: Apple holding more cash than USA

2011-07-29 Thread François Chaplais
wrong metrics. You'd better look at China's reserves in dollars. Le 29 juil. 2011 à 21:08, stephen barncard a écrit : > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14340470 > > In light of this, imagine Steve Jobs as your benevolent dictator! > Maybe he could buy the USA and save us all. yeah, right.

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread François Chaplais
If I understand well, you will not need iTunes (or even a computer) on your iOS devices when IOS 5 will be (soon) released. After that, your mac (I am not sure about other platforms) will be at the same level as the IOS devices as far as data storage, synchronization is concerned. It was announ

Rejoice: I have received the DVD from the san jose conference

2011-07-22 Thread François Chaplais
Shipped from Edimburgh to my Paris suburb home. The bindings inside the DVD box were broken, but the disks seems to be OK. Thanks, RunRev! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and man

Re: Lion: 10 Things that Bug Me

2011-07-22 Thread François Chaplais
from the same blog http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/21/the-perils-of-bashing-an-os-youve-never-used/ Le 22 juil. 2011 à 22:55, FlexibleLearning a écrit : > I read this and thought of all the posts here... > > http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-ten-things-that-bug-me/ > > > Hugh Senior > FLCo > > _

Re: OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

2011-07-21 Thread François Chaplais
Le 21 juil. 2011 à 23:52, Andre Garzia a écrit : > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 6:36 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > >> On 7/21/11 4:13 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> This is a question for those of you who have sallied forth into the >>> world of Android development (or, who hav

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread François Chaplais
Le 20 juil. 2011 à 23:45, Andre Garzia a écrit : > Apple would not discontinue snow leopard, they support OSes for a long > time... > when I learned that Lion requires snow leopard (which I do not have on all of my machines) I cautiously ordered a copy of snow. Hardest to find is System 7.x f

Re: LiveCode and R

2011-06-28 Thread François Chaplais
I've worked with my son to transcode some algorithm of mine from Matlab to R, on his MBP. He is is bio-engineering and, according to him, R is used in biology to do statistics. >From what I have seen, R has a very standard syntax, much more "straight" than >Livecode's. Best, François Le 28 juin

Re: Why I love Appleworks

2011-06-05 Thread François Chaplais
You can try suitable variants of EMACS (but I doubt it will have a LC mode). On the Mac, I use Alpha (especially for TeX) it is available at http://bdesgraupes.pagesperso-orange.fr/alphabinaries.html The versions at the bottom are PPC and require Rosetta on intel machines (it works really fine)

Re: Memory issue for iPad Livecode apps?

2011-03-10 Thread François Chaplais
Doesn't the graphics part of the chip helps? A far as I know, there is hardware acceleration for H264 since the first iPhone, also for AAC audio... And the accelerate framework (at least for the mac) uses fast vectorization for image processing. Best François Le 10 mars 2011 à 22:07, Malt

Re: Following up on shell(locale) problem

2011-03-01 Thread François Chaplais
the LC shell command launches a shell which not the same as the one in Terminal. I am unfortunately not a Unix guru, but I know this has consequences on some "default" options, even if you use the same variant of the shell (BASH, I believe). Le 1 mars 2011 à 22:00, Peter Haworth a écrit : > Hop

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-25 Thread François Chaplais
No! I will run in the streets with my iPad facing the crowd! Ha Ha! Le 25 févr. 2011 à 22:08, Colin Holgate a écrit : > > On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:55 PM, François Chaplais wrote: > >>> oh, and the new camera on the iPad 2 will see through people's clothes. > > Ye

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-02-25 Thread François Chaplais
oh, and the new camera on the iPad 2 will see through people's clothes. Le 25 févr. 2011 à 21:16, Howard Bornstein a écrit : ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your sub

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

2011-01-28 Thread François Chaplais
Have you tried Dropbox on local/cloud storage and syncing? They have a free 2 gig account and it is very, very convenient. It has Windows, Mac, Iphone, IPad (and Linux I believe), and it can also be used from an internet browser. It syncs local dropbox folders on your PC/device; you can also sen

Re: $PATH

2011-01-26 Thread François Chaplais
from what I understand, the shell command creates a new shell session which not that of the terminal. As a result, you may have to rebuild $path correctly. Here is what I do to put the TeX executables in the shell's path: on checkTeXPATH -- for MacTeX put $PATH into t

OT Second Humble Indie Bundle

2010-12-15 Thread François Chaplais
This a game bundle. You pay what you want, and get away with five games. Games play on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux. http://www.humblebundle.com/ Best François ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Opening documents with Quick Look on iPad?

2010-12-10 Thread François Chaplais
As I have no DSL connexion currently, I use my 3G ipad for internet connexions. I highly recommend GoodReader for iPad. It is a must have. As far as your problem is concerned, I would suggest tranferring your documents to GoodReader, much like what you can do in the mail app. Best François.

Re: Finding local minima and maxima of a graph

2010-12-05 Thread François Chaplais
I have had a similar request from my son who wanted to isolate "significant" peaks in data (coming from biological experiments). I gave him a helping hand in doing the preprocessing that removes the variations that are "not significant". It did, however, some time to explain this, but he got it,