Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 6:31 PM, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to have been three major deliverables promised in the main campaign: Re-engineer the whole platform A new technology: “Open Language” A new visual editor I thought THE objective of the KickStarter

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: It’s a nice easy format that would be simple for LC community members to contribute changes. Indeed you could easily do it all on line via GitHub’s document editor. Perhaps that was one of the design goals

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: I am surprised that anyone would expect a lot of coding help to rise out of the LC community. Sure there are a few who have experience in the lower level languages, but my sole reason in choosing LC was for the

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:46 PM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@icloud.com wrote: Can you give us your opinion as to why LC was made Open Source? The OP was a Score Card on the KickStarter Objectives not a list of opinions. Now I admit that English is NOT my strong suit as I barely passed - 49.5%

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: We definitely need tagging in the Dictionary, something I'll be pushing for as we finally get the ball rolling with the Community Documentation Team soon. With searchable tags anyone can add terms that will

Re: Archaeology

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: 3. How come after 15 years with LiveCode I have NEVER heard of 'try/catch/throw' ? is this because they are pointless, or am I missing something extremely important? Because you're human and you don't sit down late

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 8:12 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: Not contributing time and code does not necessarily make one a leech! Many of us contributed monetarily to the kickstarter, and I believe that earns us just as many beech points as anybody. Absolutely.

Re: Get Modification Date of a Single File

2015-08-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: can we check the modification date of a single file? use case: mobile; get date of local file resource; ping LC server check on mod date of the same resource, if latter is younger, then fetch it Sorry, can't help

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-14 Thread Kay C Lan
illustrates to me that the community is very concerned about the possibility of a two-tiered livecode environment where we need to pay extra to get added premium features that we all will want. I wasn't going to post but this is such and oxymoron, and so prevalent here I just can't constrain

Re: Describing LiveCode

2015-08-11 Thread Kay C Lan
Richmond, My advise is similar to Peter, William and Jacque's, but more blunt! First ask how many of these parents know how to set up a Facebook page, send a Tweet, interact with Instagram, send a message on SnapChat, change the ringtone on their phone on a per individual basis and even block

Re: Thousands Separators

2015-07-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:59 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: But stepping back to look at the big picture, I find myself wondering: Why is that even necessary? Why isn't that just a field property, e.g. the displayFormat? But stepping back further, why would you want

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 1:03 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Yes, I also use Time Machine, but relying on any single backup isn't enough; TimeMachine can easily be set up to use multiple HDs so that you are not relying on a single backup. Even so I fully agree with

Re: revBrowserSet

2015-07-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@icloud.com wrote: I thought put revBrowserSet gBrowserID,”htmlText”,theContentsOfgFile might work, but it doesn’t. Well it works perfectly for me so I can't figure out why it's not working for you. As far as I know as long as

Re: revBrowserSet

2015-07-24 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@icloud.com wrote: Is there a way to create the chart in LiveCode then pass it straight to the browser. I tried this without success using the content of one of the example files in highcharts: put the uScript of me into tScript

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-21 Thread Kay C Lan
An example of half a dozen records please. Maybe a couple of very short, a couple of the longest and a couple of average. How big is the db file size - MB not record count? On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:55 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: I need some database consulting help. I have

Re: [BUG] HTMLText H5 incorrectly converted

2015-07-21 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks Mark for the update. With the recent announcement about the progress with HTML5 I'm sure this will become more and more important. In my naive understanding of what you are saying it sounds to me like some kind of CSS for LC. On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 8:58 PM, Mark Waddingham

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-21 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Some talk about this like it's tennis shoes... Everyone needs shoes, but few have any interest at all in programming. But not every one needs Tennis shoes. When HyperCard came out I was surprised and how many

Re: Visual Studio, anyone?

2015-07-21 Thread Kay C Lan
was going on, it turns out that the code editor piece can run on non MS but the visual editor only runs on windoze. I agree with you, a web app doesn't count. Otherwise, 4D's silly claim that Wakanda lets you build mobile apps would be reasonable. On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 5:50 AM, Kay C

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-21 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: Having found that the focus is on the card, for reasons best known to the engine (certainly not to me), What does the Message Watcher say? If on clicking on a line in the fld fires a salvo of messages, somewhere -

Re: Visual Studio, anyone?

2015-07-21 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 7:21 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: Visual Studio now supports all platforms, and seems to run on all platforms??? Not sure where you're reading that. This website: https://www.visualstudio.com/products/visual-studio-community-vs Indicates that only

Re: [OT] Leaving Bulgaria?

2015-07-16 Thread Kay C Lan
What? And I was just planning to visit ;-) Flying home from Europe 3 days ago the inflight air map thingy had us flying over Sofia and down towards Istanbul. As we crossed into Bulgaria I thought I know someone who lives here and had a look outside and am pretty sure we went over Plovdiv. A nice

Re: [BUG] HTMLText H5 incorrectly converted

2015-07-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 2:10 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I suspect this was modelled on the most common browser interpretations at the time, which has changed quite a bit since then. It's been, what, 20 years? Which begs the question should LC be sticking to a 20 y/o

[BUG] HTMLText H5 incorrectly converted

2015-07-14 Thread Kay C Lan
Folks, I recently added bug 15599 which reads as: --- Create a New Stack Place a Scrolling Field (7.0.6) or Text Area (8.0 dp2) on it and enlarge it to fill the stack. In the Message Box enter: set the textFont of fld 1 to Arial --must use a font with italics set the

Re: Wiki software, anyone?

2015-07-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 5:11 AM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: They will need their agility in the lowest depths of hell where they are all heading. Bob S Hmmm, I'd like to post something but we all know cheese, cheese and cheese should never be discussed at the table.

Re: [OT] SQLite/Unicode

2015-07-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Very useful. Thanks for posting that. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: For those of you wanting to use Unicode with an SQLite database, I came across this on the SQLite list: https://bitbucket.org/alekseyt/nunicode#markdown-header-sqlite3-extension

Re: Is there a shorter way?

2015-07-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a shorter way of achieving this? The smart-alec answer would be text file or as you seem to be referring to a large amount of data, a database ;-) In the Model View Controller way of doing things the data

Re: menu buttons and showname

2015-07-02 Thread Kay C Lan
Peter, I agree with the other here that the behaviour is as I'd expect and works the way I want it to. Can you better explain what it is you are after? Is it you have a button named Make a Choice and it's dynamically filled with 0 to umpteen choices, but regardless of whats in there, OR what a

Re: menu buttons and showname

2015-07-02 Thread Kay C Lan
I still can't invisage a situation where you'd want an empty option button. If in Peter's example the first btn was a list of customers, and the second button was a list of their invoices, if a customer has no invoices their name shouldn't appear in the first button. If on the the other hand the

Re: how to check for unnecessary local declarations?

2015-07-02 Thread Kay C Lan
add code to analyze the line by replacing “(“ and “) with space, then filter for “*” variableName “*”. Words at the end of the line would not be found however, so you would have to also filter for “*” variableName. Bob S On Jul 1, 2015, at 23:09 , Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote

Re: How to Teach Coding

2015-07-01 Thread Kay C Lan
My children give me feedback on my failures all the time ;-( But I think you are right, Richmond's are very effective. Well done Richmond, my wife (a professional educator) would support you 100%; your devotion to teaching and focusing on the children, not the content, is to be commended. Those

Re: [OT] Gravatars?

2015-07-01 Thread Kay C Lan
OK, we'll try and remember Richmond's into melons, not racks. ;-) Hope your money is in a bank other than Eurobank. I understand that 28% of Bulgarian deposits are backed by the Greeks :-( On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/07/15 18:58, Bob

Re: (no subject)

2015-06-29 Thread Kay C Lan
Of course have a Subject might help spread the good news a little further. On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 4:09 AM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Yes, agreed, thanks, interesting post which I would not otherwise have seen. Peter -- View this message in context:

Re: LiveCode quits, but stays in Dock (OS X Yosemite) and shows as open

2015-06-26 Thread Kay C Lan
Sounds like a need for some disk maintenance. When was the last time you ran Disk Repair and Repair Disk Permission from Disk Utility? If it's been a while, on start-up simultaneously press the command + r keys. Once the computer has started in Repair Mode, select Disk Utility and then select

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: What I did say was that it is surprising how people who have been using LIveCode for a very long time are still unaware of some ways to do things: Hmmm, that sounds remarkably like the comment some people make isn't

Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-18 Thread Kay C Lan
As it happens I've just been doing a lot of trig plotting in LC recently. The basic answer to this problem is that the sides of the square need to be 115% the sides of your triangle, with the base of your triangle horizontal and parallel to the base of your square and the pinnacle of your

Re: Equilateral Triangles

2015-06-18 Thread Kay C Lan
What I should have said: If you already have the triangle images, and they have no margin, so a 200 pixel triangle should be a rectangular image 174 pixel tall and 200 pixels wide, then adding a 7.5% margin to the left AND right of the image (15 % total) and a 32% margin to the bottom, should

Re: [OT] What the *^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

2015-06-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 7:46 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: I have no spam worries since I flowed all my email accounts through Gmail. It's the best in the business and we can all contribute to the blacklist. I used to be so paranoid I'd create a new email

Re: [OT] What the *^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

2015-06-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:34 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I also get the Russian women, I wonder if my last name was Gay I'd get Russian men ;-) I'm getting emails about my stolen car (parked next to the front door), my stolen phone (sitting on my desk), incredibly low

Re: [OT] What the *^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

2015-06-08 Thread Kay C Lan
the list about once per week.. Sorry I seem to be the vector; maybe all mine is going your way? Craig -Original Message- From: Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Mon, Jun 8, 2015 1:12 am Subject: [OT] What the *^#$!#$ Just

Re: LiveCode 8 and a new video player?

2015-06-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Some examples of marker-based and markerless AR: http://researchguides.dartmouth.edu/c.php?g=59732p=382860 From that page: As technology advances, how we interact with and learn within our environment holds almost

Re: LiveCode 8 - Extension/Widget Developer ID

2015-06-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Peter TB Brett peter.br...@livecode.com wrote: The Contributor's Agreement is only needed if you want to submit code to be added into the LiveCode engine. I'm not sure what's going on with the other issues you describe, I'm afraid! Thanks Peter, I thought

Re: LiveCode 8 and a new video player?

2015-06-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 12:10 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: And a more specific question: in the video you linked to, how does the app know the angle of the table the book is resting on? Does the book have two RFIDs for triangulation, or does it calculate solely from what

[OT] What the *^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

2015-06-07 Thread Kay C Lan
I use this email account almost exclusively for this Use List now; so I haven't recently given it to anyone, company or whatever. Up until yesterday I usually received 1 or 2 false SPAMS a day; typically from Dunbarx's AOL account or some other legitamate Use List user with an AOL account. Up

LiveCode 8 - Extension/Widget Developer ID

2015-06-07 Thread Kay C Lan
OK, got a bit of a breather at work so thought I might sit back, relax and give LC8 a spin. So ended up at this tutorial: http://livecode.com/write-a-widget-in-8-steps/ Which mentions the need to sign up for a free Developer ID. So logged into my account, entered an ID and then clicked the

Re: LiveCode 8 and a new video player?

2015-06-05 Thread Kay C Lan
This is probably thread drift but video playback is so 20th century. I had an old acquaintance pass through town and we caught up. He's working for a start up that's doing something similar to Google Glass. He had a demo unit to show me. The googles worked with any users phone (or iPod touch) but

Re: breakpoint gets edited out of cut/paste in IDE?

2015-06-05 Thread Kay C Lan
Defintely not! I use hard breakpoints almost exclusively and copy and paste scripts from one object to another within the same stack as well as to different stacks altogether on a regular basis and I've never seen this. I'm currently on OS X 10.9.5 LC 6.6.5 and 7.0.5 but I've been copying and

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 1:36 AM, PystCat pyst...@gmail.com wrote: What the Americans have done is pinched other people's inventions and improved them immensely, to the extent that they can fool people they invented the things in the first place. Examples and/or citations, please. 

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:30 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: How about asian countries where the character set is hundreds or thousands of images? There are basically two methods, one for gweilos who don't know how to write Chinese characters but need Chinese characters and

Re: curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Kay C Lan
Maybe this will help: put the long id of fld text into fRef put word 3 of fRef into fFldID put word 7 of fRef into fCdID put word -1 of fRef into fStackName replace quote with empty in fStackName put deux into word 2 of fld id fFldID of card id fCdID of stack fStackName On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at

[OT] Market Share

2015-04-08 Thread Kay C Lan
It's normally Richard who comes out with the OS Market Share figures and I must admit I normally sort of switch off at that point because I've sorta heard it all before - OS X is an ever so small number. I mean, some of us like chocolate and others strawberry and no amount of statistics is going

[BUG] revDeleteFolder

2015-04-07 Thread Kay C Lan
The Dictionary says: On Mac OS and OS X Systems, the revDeleteFolder command places the folder in the Trash. I'm not seeing that. PPC 10.5.8 LC 6.6.5 - it's gone, the Trash is empty. Intel 10.9.5 LC 7.0.4 rc3 - as above The Dictionary says that revDeleteFolder hasn't changed since version

Re: [BUG] revDeleteFolder

2015-04-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: On a slight tangent, I thought there was a specialFolderPath(Trash), but not so. How do I move a folder to the Trash of an external HD on OS X? The late great Eric Chatonet was able to help here (from of List Post

Re: [BUG] revDeleteFolder

2015-04-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Still need to figure out how to Trash files/folders on an external HD. OK, so External Trash folders are located here: /Volumes/HD Name/.Trashes/504 So if you have the full pathname to a folder that you want to move

Re: [BUG] revDeleteFolder

2015-04-07 Thread Kay C Lan
, but not so SSDs, but still I need to buy a bigger one, but I need the free space NOW! Thankfully I've figured it out. Can you comment on revDeleteFolder, is that instantly nuking for you? On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com wrote: On 4/7/2015 6:54 AM, Kay C Lan wrote

Re: [BUG] revDeleteFolder

2015-04-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: rename folder full path name to specialFolderPath(empt) / short name Only works for Trashing folders/files on the start up disk. Still need to figure out how to Trash files/folders on an external HD. Any help

[BUG] revCopyFile

2015-04-07 Thread Kay C Lan
When using revCopyFile on OS X I keep getting the result: execution error The good news is that there is NO error, the file is copying just nicely and arrives intact. The bad news is obviously I can't programmatically check that the Copy was successful. The cause seems to be the length of the

Re: Getting in a mix-up with COMn

2015-04-05 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 2:14 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: 'end' is another unrelated keyword. try read from file COM3: until eof I appreciate that Richmond may have is answer but if you are aware of something that is in contradiction to the official

Re: Getting LC 8

2015-04-03 Thread Kay C Lan
If you really want to try LC 8 (Community) out just go here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:21 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: I keep getting offered a version of LC 8 by the automatic update process when I open LC 7.0.4 (rc 2), but the update always

Re: Getting in a mix-up with COMn

2015-04-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 4:37 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: read from file COM3: until end Did you really have that or was that mistyped? read from file COM3: until end is the Dictionary example. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Scripting Calendars tutorial stack

2015-03-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: I just uploaded a tutorial stack to RevOnline/Sample Stacks that shows how to script popular calendar applications Apple’s Calendar Thanks, will definitely have a poke around. ___

Re: focusIn

2015-03-25 Thread Kay C Lan
LC 7.0.3 New stack, two new fields with their lockText set to true. In both fields their scripts: on focusIn set the backgroundColor of me to green end focusIn on focusOut set the backgroundColor of me to red end focusOut Pressing the Tab key moves the focus from one to the other and the

[OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-25 Thread Kay C Lan
Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: http://kernelmag.dailydot

Re: 7.0 just let me paste from a PDF!

2015-03-22 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:43 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: OSX/Yosemite. I apparently selected the entire page by accident while selecting text to cut and paste. I ended up with the entire page as an image when pasting into livecode. But I can't replicate it. This would be

Re: How to disable single menu items of a pull down menu?

2015-03-20 Thread Kay C Lan
Please note Dr Hawkin's recent post that this command is stackable, so if you accidentally disable the menuitem twice if you then issue a single enable command the menuitem will remain disabled. Don't know who to link to old posts but the Subject was menuitems accujmulating extra ( in them? On

Re: LC7 Unicode

2015-03-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:38 AM, TEDennis teden...@softwaredetails.com wrote: Apparently all those references have been wrong. How did we ALL (or most of us) get to the point where we thought Unicode was the culprit? Probably because LC7 was billed as the Unicode version and it's simple

Re: [Datagrid] How to change an objects owner from a Datagrid to a Card

2015-02-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 1:49 AM, Sri sri...@gmail.com wrote: I am not sure why go to all that trouble to retrieve a misplaced object. Could we not just delete it by using the message box? You're right, if I had of known in the first place how much time I'd waste I should have done that. But

Re: [Datagrid] How to change an objects owner from a Datagrid to a Card

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
btn off to another card and once there the PB went back to operating normally, I could simply select my Next btn and drag it anywhere I wanted. On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 5:35 AM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:36 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: My first

Re: App on different systems

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:58 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: a Mac emulator There's such a thing? Why? Surely there is no Mac software that there isn't a Windows equivalent. The only Mac emulators that I am aware off are the ones to run old Classic MacOS apps on OS X. Anyone else who

Re: App on different systems

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect the question is about a virtual machine A quick Google of OS X virtual machines and the most recent posts date back to 2010 and Snow Leopard. Now IMO SnoLeo was the last great implementation of OS X, but still, I

Re: App on different systems

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: That solves my problem of trying to code and sell the app to those who do not own a Mac. But isn't that why you code in LC, so it's easy to create crossplatform apps? Actually, that's a stupid statement. I don't code in LC

Re: Rank Beginner Reference Materials

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
Why not try here: http://lessons.runrev.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Standalone flagged by AntiVirus program

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: The program opens an sqlite database chosen by the user so no hard coded file paths there. The only other file it open is its prefs file which it puts into folder specialFolderPath(26)/SQLiteAdmin. I believe

Re: [Datagrid] How to change an objects owner from a Datagrid to a Card

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:59 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: If it happens again you might try cutting it and pasting it onto the card. Yes, that would probably work too, but my biggest problem was that every time I selected my Next btn in the Project Browser it seemed to

Re: LiveCode 7.0.3: a new meme

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: But it really was very small, arguably more so than it's now big. One of the smallest apps on my Mac right now is Apple's calculator, weighing in a 9.5 MBs, ... compared to the LiveCode 7.0.3 runtime engine

Re: Standalone flagged by AntiVirus program

2015-02-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Seems like RunRev might be interested to know about this, I'm sure they would prefer programs created by Livecode not be flagged as suspicious. But unfortunately RunRev have no control over what people do with LC and LC

[Datagrid] How to change an objects owner from a Datagrid to a Card

2015-02-25 Thread Kay C Lan
My first real play with Datagrids and I have to say I'm very impressed. After sorting out the display and getting the first set of data into the DG (which all went very smoothly - much better than expected) I went to implement a Next and Previous buttons to move through chunks of data. To do this

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: I google something like 'regex extract between two single quotes' then browse the results and try out the regex statements I find on my source text. I usually find something that works and learn a little more regex syntax

Re: [RANT] Really annoying posts

2015-02-23 Thread Kay C Lan
My wife is a regular user of Let Me Google That For You: lmgtfy http://lmgtfy.com/?q=can+I+use+a+livecode+variable+to+store+an+array It helps ease some of the pain. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Scrolling List selected lines

2015-02-23 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: The purpose is to remember the selectedLines before the most recent click. Just in case you ever need this for scrolling lists fields that allow non continguous selections, the selectedLines will not give the correct answer,

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-22 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.regular-expressions.info/charclasssubtract.html -- great tutorials and lots of examples https://regex101.com -- my favorite testing engine, I love the way it explains what is actually going on

Re: More Unicode STuff

2015-02-19 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: My brain is too fried to figure out why this should be so my plan is to just always encode/decode stuff when importing/displaying. Sorry for the slow reply, but I note your other post on your tentative move to LC 7 and the

Re: Reverse a list

2015-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 3:04 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 2/12/2015 12:54 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I haven't run any of the LC scripts to do this but if that's true, then they don't achieve the original objective of reversing the list. I don't think it's true.

Re: More Unicode STuff

2015-02-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Have you looked at your data using another db management tool? My own limited experience of dealing with UTF8 with LC 7 and sqlite is that if I don't textEncode(data,utf8) into SQLite and textDecode(data,utf8) out of the db, then although all the data goes and comes back OK, if I look at the db

Re: Reverse a list

2015-02-11 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Oh yes, and doesn't matter whether you're using LC 7 or something prior to that, although that problem appears to be a bug that is already being fixed. I think that statement requires a qualifier - 'if you are not dealing

Re: [not quite OT] Serving a standalone

2015-02-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 2:30 PM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: So in between playing and practicing jazz keyboard, riding my bike, and enjoying my wife’s company, I work on these coding projects, which give me great satisfaction. Well you know what they say about 'idle

Re: Reverse a list

2015-02-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Wow. I can see why LC7 would be expected to be slower for this case - in the multi-byte Unicode world, It just doesn't appear to be characters and bytes. I tried a slightly different approach to Jacques, using brute force

Re: [not quite OT] Serving a standalone

2015-02-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 4:28 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: But when exploring desktop vs mobile, you'll need to make different layouts for each anyway, so why not do both? I think this is the most important point of all. In all the 'one code for all platforms' hype of

Re: Reverse a list

2015-02-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: can we come up with a dataset for this test? I personally find scripting a standard dataset the easiest. Here's a script that will create identical lines, each with 18 x 5 char words. I've just added 3 lines at the

Re: Reverse a list

2015-02-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that what we've lost with unicode/7 is the speed of character references. See Ali Lloyd's earlier response that the LC team have been watching this tread and it's clear that 'inefficient code' has been revealed.

Re: Question re project organization

2015-02-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Videos are important and I'm thinking more of streaming them, probably from YouTube, rather than downloading them. Of course, there's the Flash problem on iOS. youTube has announced that it's default will no longer

Re: [not quite OT] Serving a standalone

2015-02-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:59 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: With LiveCode we can do the same by merely extending the anchor window (or splash stack) setup to open stacks from URLs rather than local files: go url http://yourdomain/stacks/stackfile.livecode; And if you

Re: Question re project organization

2015-02-07 Thread Kay C Lan
time going over Apple’s documentation on this. Best, Bill On Feb 6, 2015, at 3:57 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:40 AM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: I expect the splash app model is the way to go. Only if you never

Re: Question re project organization

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 3:40 AM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: I expect the splash app model is the way to go. Only if you never ever plan on deploying to iOS or you don't believe that OS X's iOSification will get to the point that the same restrictions that prevent splash

Re:

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
pretty good, I was just trying to button up this one specific pitfall. On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: The DB is only about 250 mb, but still too much to do anything comfortably

LC, SQLite and REGEXP

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
OK, SQLite DB in Valentina Studio I test the following: SELECT something FROM aTable WHERE anotherThing REGEX '[acdehkiouBW]{4,6} Test' works fine, I get the data I'm looking for. Same SQLite DB accessed via LC, selecting and updating all sorts of tables and columns, no problem until I run the

Re: LC, SQLite and REGEXP

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
(preg_match(sprintf('%1$s%2$s%1$s%3$s', $delimiter, $pattern, $modifiers), $data) 0); } return null; }); On Fri, Feb 6, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: OK, SQLite DB in Valentina Studio I test the following: SELECT something FROM aTable WHERE

Re: Troubles with inequality

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:02 AM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: Thanks Jacque, a gold mine of information as usual. But it’s pretty obscure, isn’t it? All this started for me because I wanted to test if two numbers were equal, knowing that they probably weren’t exactly equal to the last

Re:

2015-02-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 5:18 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: The DB is only about 250 mb, but still too much to do anything comfortably in memory or stored in a custom property on the machines this is intended to run on (Older machines sitting in dealership maintenance departments).

Re: 8 ball

2015-01-28 Thread Kay C Lan
The real question is, will there be some easy to access, logically presented and categorised central store for all the GPL widgets that are currently dreams but hopefully turn into reality when LC 8 arrives? On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com wrote: Really

Re: Invisible character treated as word?

2015-01-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 9:11 AM, David Epstein dfepst...@comcast.net wrote: Are there other characters that are always or sometimes invisible that cause the same problem? And what is a remedy? Many thanks. In the multi-line msg box: put empty into msg repeat with x = 0 to 255 put x =

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