Re: Strange hang

2013-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
I take you Wha? and raise to Uh? I'm in the process of creating my first BIG multi x multi dimenionsal array stack and it's built exclusively on creating, modifying and deleting array elements by passing the required info to and from handlers as paramaters. It's all working brilliantly at the mome

Re: Strange hang

2013-01-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:10 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > No, and as in my earlier email when the handler that i causes the problem > is called from elsewhere in my stack, it works without a problem. I can't > hard wire the numbers because they are passed in as parameters to the > handler. Sorry

Re: Strange hang

2013-01-13 Thread Kay C Lan
Have your modified your delete handler in the last couple of days? Have you modified the handler the Debugger points to in the last couple of days? If you were to create a new button (or in the msg box) put: repeat with x = 2 to 22 delete local tArray[x] end repeat does it still hang? If not,

Re: What is wrong with this Script logic?

2013-01-11 Thread Kay C Lan
Actually I just went with the simple example from the dictionary: on closeField if (the text of me is not an integer) then answer "Please enter only whole numbers!" titled "Enter A Number" select the text of me end if end closeField Still, I do not understand why the IDE is beha

Re: What is wrong with this Script logic?

2013-01-10 Thread Kay C Lan
Jacque, Actuallly this doesn't work for me either. LC locks up, my CPUs go to 100% and I don't even get a recursion message or anything. I have to Force Quit LC. Any further suggestions? On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > on hCheckEntry pData > repeat until pData is an

Re: What is wrong with this Script logic?

2013-01-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 11:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Mostly what I wanted to say is that usually I avoid the whole issue like > this: > > on hCheckEntry pData > repeat until pData is an integer > > ask warning "Please enter only whole numbers!" with pData \ >titled "Enter A Nu

What is wrong with this Script logic?

2013-01-10 Thread Kay C Lan
What is wrong with this Script logic? I've been staring at this too long and can't figure out what's wrong. 1) New Main Stack 2) Add 1 plain field 3) Set the flds Script to: on closeField hCheckEntry me end closeField on hCheckEntry pData if (pData is not an integer) then ask warning "Pleas

Re: Backgroundcolor of a line in a scrolling list

2013-01-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:17 PM, BNig wrote: > If you set the margins of the scrolling list field to 0,8,0,8 Nice! Peter should be very happy with that. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsu

Re: Backgroundcolor of a line in a scrolling list

2013-01-07 Thread Kay C Lan
Pete, How far are you prepared to kludge this? Set the margin for the field to 0 Under Basic Properties unclick 'fixedLineHeight' and set the 'firstIndent' to 4 (or something you like). Now the part that gets ugly: For the content of your field insert in the line before your content a ` charact

Re: Trouble in Paradise... with script editor

2013-01-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Jan 6, 2013 at 9:02 AM, David C. wrote: >I sure would like to find the cause just to save my > sanity. :) Like other's, scratching at straws. To me it first sounded like you must have been opening LC by double clicking a stack, this then opens the App associated with it. If LC was bad, a

Re: File Properties

2013-01-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Todd Geist wrote: > I found Trevor's FilesAndFolders library, and he has a fileGetInfo function > in there. Thanks Trevor, but wow, thats a lot of work to get the file > Properties. Couldn't find Trevor's FilesAndFolders so not sure how complex it is, but in line

Re: REGEX and Livecode

2013-01-02 Thread Kay C Lan
[Sent again because the first one was too long - too many previous posts included I guess] Peter H, Richmond, and anyone else on Mac looking for a stepping stone into grep, regex and Unix command line tools, whilst nothing Peter A said was wrong, unless you are only doing something very minor wit

Re: Strange behaviour using the "convert" command

2013-01-01 Thread Kay C Lan
I'm not exactly sure but having 'break' statements inside IF THEN END IF seems wrong to me. When you get to the 'break' statement the code immediately jumps to the 'end switch' statement, completely bypassing the 'end if'. I would think the engine is then still looking for the 'end if' and not find

Re: REGEX and Livecode

2013-01-01 Thread Kay C Lan
Read the LC Dictionary entry for matchText. Regex IS already implemented in LC, if you care to use it. More importantly to you, as the dictionary states, it is PCRE library compatible, which to me means it is OS agnostic. All you need to do is learn the syntax (admittedly not trivial for some of t

Re: Help with Regex (was Re: Switch, Case and wild-cards?)

2013-01-01 Thread Kay C Lan
>From my own experience; if you are trying to parse ANY SQL statement that someone might enter, then NO, regex alone is not going to be your solution. If on the other hand you are dealing with a relatively small subset of SQL statements, maybe SELECT, UPDATE, DELETE, then regex would be able to ver

Re: What's On The Menu?

2012-12-31 Thread Kay C Lan
I appreciate not the answer you are looking for, but with such a small set, why not just build it dynamically and have the second option listed along with the first: AC/DC - High Voltage AC/DC - TNT Lou Reed Ry Cooder The Beatles - Abbey Road The Beatles - Hard Days Night The Beatles - Rubber Soul

Re: The Script Editor

2012-12-23 Thread Kay C Lan
I don't remember such a feature but I get something like it. I just place a heap of blank lines between Handlers, I use 7-10, you might need 20. When I click on the Handler's name in the left hand column, if it is relatively small, I can see the whole Handler but neither the one above or below. Eve

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/17/12 9:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > except it only lists one line even if there are multiple >> entries, and it doesn't have 3 words before and after. >> > > The 1-line entry is an ancient bug. Resize

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > I do see that there is much more management with the "offset", however, I > believe I can use the offset without having to actually navigate to the > other stack, and I found that going to another stack and using the "Find" > there unlocks

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Kay C Lan
Unless you have some other compelling reason to upgrade you are probably better off sticking with SnoLeo. I've just posted about my own upgrade experience - [OT] MoLi Upgrade - Long and Boring Post Which may help you decide, but because it's so long I'll just cut to the chase: Summary MoLi woul

[OT] MoLi Upgrade - Long and Boring Post

2012-12-16 Thread Kay C Lan
So finally took the plunge and took the weekend (14+ hr each day) to upgrade my MBP to MoLi. Rather than just upgrade I took the opportunity to do a clean install, so started with a virgin copy of SnoLeo, upgraded direct to MoLi, then reinstalled all my apps and data. To add a further level of diff

Re: ANN: ExplicitProperties plugin available

2012-11-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:53 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > Any or all feedback welcome. > > I notice that if I use -- as the Remarks delimiter everything is fine, but if I use /* The purpose of this handler is... ... */ These Remarks are caught by your plugin as a custom prop. _

Re: Weird string comparison problem...

2012-11-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > I find frustration is my worst enemy when trying to debug a difficult bit > of code. Taking a deep breath and going about things systematically helps > me a lot. > > Absolutely. Whether explicitVars is Off or On, typos are the least of my

Re: [OT] WWII code 'may never be cracked'

2012-11-27 Thread Kay C Lan
Ah, so that's what happened to the pigeon with the back-up written order. The first and last designators (OKAKN) simply indicate the beginning and the end of the message. It was a way of ensuring entire messages were received. The 27 is the character count, including the start and stop indicators

Re: Weird string comparison problem...

2012-11-27 Thread Kay C Lan
I know everyone has their preference, and at the moment I'm trying to ween myself onto explicitVars for a big project, but I have never understood the argument that you can't *see* these spelling errors. As soon as a script doesn't behave, in goes a breakpoint, and you stop inside the script and 'i

Re: Changing script editor font and size (Was: SOMETHING PRETTY BASSIC)

2012-11-20 Thread Kay C Lan
Although there is a Zoom feature in Universal Access, even when it's turned Off there is a Screen Zoom feature which can be used. Screen Zoom is available with any trackpad or if you have a Magic Mouse, Mighty Mouse or mouse with a scroll wheel. Press *Ctrl + Scroll UP (two finger if using a trackp

Re: [OT] LiveCode 6.0 - Upgrade, Update or Addon

2012-11-15 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I think the 6.0 "Preview" is only available to members of the Developer > Program, but I'm not sure how that could be dependent on the Linux > deployment option. > > Yes, I believe that too, and would therefore make you fall under the NDA ot

[OT] LiveCode 6.0 - Upgrade, Update or Addon

2012-11-14 Thread Kay C Lan
Richard penned the below quite some time ago, but it's still clear as mud to me. I just got an email offering me: Our offer to you*: Get any update to your LiveCode license today, and we'll give you: Access to the LiveCode Developer Program All developer preview releases of 6.0 And a

Re: Another reason I so dislike the LC IDE

2012-10-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:09 PM, FlexibleLearning.com < ad...@flexiblelearning.com> wrote: > Any pointers to how to stop this damn dialog would be most welcome! > I eventually learnt to out smart the dialog by a preemptive cmd-s. It's doing what LC wants you to do without being told. Probably n

Re: [OT] Where ill conceived copyright laws can lead

2012-10-11 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I think that's covered under fair use as derivative art. > > Which of course is one of the central tenets of copyright. Most people confuse copyright and think it's a means of preventing material from being copied, when in fact it is the bas

Re: [OT] Where ill conceived copyright laws can lead

2012-10-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I came across this article, and thought to myself that the whole notion > about "licensing to use" vs. "buying to own" can go completely sideways if > we don't apply some real common sense to the issue. > > Sideways? I'm actually surprised tha

Re: lock/unlock screen

2012-09-21 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Face it Richmond. It's you and me against the world. ;-) If you can't sleep at night because you're worried about multiple lock screen, or keeping track of pairs, why not: if the lockScreen is false then lock screen If you only ever use th

Re: SQL question

2012-09-19 Thread Kay C Lan
During development a useful couple of lines of code are, assuming you've been through your repeat for each col_name loop to create your query with it's many OR conditions: put tQuery into tTemp replace comma with cr in tTemp replace " OR " with cr & " OR " in tTemp --replace " AND " with cr & " AN

Re: Dictionary bug

2012-09-16 Thread Kay C Lan
I'll take that back. Most Functions that have multi-line entries seem to have been concatenated. On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > OK, for base64Decode I see that, but for many others, like 'switch' I see > multiple lines all nicely spaced. > > >

Re: Dictionary bug

2012-09-16 Thread Kay C Lan
Decode of *encodedData*base64Decode(*encodedData*) > > 1 line smooshed together. All the functions that list both methods of usage > (the base64decode, base64decode()) > > Anyone else seeing this? > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 7:47 PM, Kay C Lan > wrote: > > > Not see that

Re: Dictionary bug

2012-09-16 Thread Kay C Lan
Not see that here with LC 5.5.2 Build 1492 on SnoLeo. On Sun, Sep 16, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > There is a dictionary bug in 5.5.2 where the lines of the syntax section of > a page all run together. I've sent a note to runrev but was wondering if > anyone might have a quicky fix fo

Re: Getting rid of a stack password

2012-09-13 Thread Kay C Lan
What happens if you use the Stacks window of the Standalone Applications Setting window? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.ru

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions 22

2012-09-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: > But I have one more very sophisticated diagnostic test I perform. I > listen. Every so often, the HD on my Mac Mini squeaks for a few minutes. > That can't be good. > Are you sure it's the HD, that would be very very unusual. What about the fa

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > I'm also pretty sure you can install a copy of your OS on a USB memory > stick, you may need a reasonable size stick, but they are not too expensive > now and it should help you determine where the error lies, you'll also see > how fast the

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 1:10 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > Scott, I had something like this - and it turned out to be a half working > hard drive. > You could use xBench http://xbench.com/ if you don't have Drive Genius to test your HD speeds. Should be fairly o

Re: [OT] Looking For OS X Troubleshooting Suggestions

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > The one thing I found online is that the Spotlight > indexing process can sometimes go crazy and intermittently bog down the > processor -- Onyx supposedly allows you to disable this but I'm not certain > this is the problem (not a regular cul

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richmond wrote: > The other day I was pruning fruit trees in our garden in our country villa > here in Bulgaria, > using a ladder I bought (logically enough) in a B & Q store in Dundee, > Scotland. I noticed there was > a sticker attached to it that said "not reco

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:22 PM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > I think the restriction on use is fine, because its just a product feature. > Rev is perfectly entitled to have whatever features it wants. > So it would then be perfectly reasonable for Apple to leave th

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > That's one question, and it may be interesting to see how it plays out if > Apple ever enforces the "Apple branded hardware" clause in their EULA. > > Why is it assumed that Apple must be the one to go to court to enforce it's rule. If th

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > What is needed is an EU case in which either running the thing in a VM or > on > the wrong sort of hardware was ruled breach of contract and some kind of > ruling made. I don't know of one. Maybe someon

Re: Morality, Honesty and Legality

2012-09-12 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Richmond wrote: > 6. One of the real problems (and it is more philosophical than either > legal or moral) is what > constitutes possession. > > 6.1. I have a Snow Leopard install disk on the desk next to me as I type > this, and its contents >(i.e. the

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > There are car stereos that have a record button just like the cassette > recorders of the past. Is it dishonest to press record and get a > less-than-perfect mp3 recording that is perfectly acceptable to the > listener (for free)? I don't th

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-10 Thread Kay C Lan
Lets be thankful Revolution has progressed to LiveCode. I don't think I skinned any cats with 1.1. On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Let us be thankful that most of us live in a place unlike Africa, where > the cats can skin us! > > On Sep 9, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wr

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > You're right, yes I'm referring to the parts about running only on Apple > hardware. > Pete > What you are saying then is Apple can't even say there is minimum system requirement for their OS. There are many people who are very unhappy wit

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 1:40 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > By retaining control of both software and hardware, it "just works" -- at > least, most of the time. > I think this is it in a nutshell. Although Apple has definitely used the 'underdog' tag, from my reading of the 'Steve Jobs' book, if I

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
ou and the suggested 'send ... as applescript' might be a better way to go. I'm guessing the reason the suggested methods aren't working is that an OSAX is probably needed. HTH On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 8:52 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM, wrote: >

Re: Send to program

2012-09-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 12:42 AM, wrote: > Something to do with the pathname? Such a message has no issue in HC > (running OS9, of course) > > My guess is yes, that is an OS 9/HC pathname. LC uses / not : in it's pathnames. HTH ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-07 Thread Kay C Lan
Good point Mark. Looking at my Snow Leopard EULA (as it differs from current EULAs) it says: 1 General. The software... are licensed, not sold, to you... You own the media on which the Apple Software is recorded... So I guess Richmond you are free to use the DVD for lighting a fire, throwing at

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-07 Thread Kay C Lan
And people complain that Apple is a walled garden. I've never had that happen with any Apple products. As Peter said, unless you live in the State of California, then this portion of the EULA would apply: i. The laws of the State of California, excluding its conflicts of law rules, govern this li

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-07 Thread Kay C Lan
Ben, Thanks for the pointer. No I certainly didn't know about the Breakpoint tab - well for some strange reason it doesn't do anything for hard coded breakpoints, when I click on the Tab it comes up empty so I guess I've occasionally clicked on it and have come away assuming it's telling me nothin

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-05 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 9:31 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > One thing I like a lot about the red dots is that you can remove all of > them from all scripts with a single menu item selection "Clear all > breakpoints". Very handy. > If I want to test my scripts without ANY breakpoints I simply turn O

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-05 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:14 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I'm surprised by the number of problems people are reporting with the > debugger. > Since using 'breakpoint' exclusively I've not experienced any problems with the debugger; but then again I don't think I've ever used mouseLine or mouseChar

Re: hotkeys for button choices in answer

2012-09-03 Thread Kay C Lan
But this doesn't on mouseUp answer "Press cmd+e for Blue, cmd+k for Black or cmd+n for Brown or cmd+c for Cancel" with "Blue" or "Black" or "Brown" or "Cancel" as sheet put it into fld "Field4" end mouseUp It would appear that you are limited to the first letter of the button and therefore

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 3:17 AM, Timothy Miller < gand...@doctortimothymiller.com> wrote: > > My 24 year old son has a normal conscience ... His conscience is entirely > silent on these topics. He thinks I'm weird because I prefer to pay for the > music I listen to. > > Oh, then he could join the F

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Richmond wrote: > > Would anyone like to hear why somebody who doesn't know when and how > to keep his mouth shut and his opinions to himself is running a > hole-in-the-wall EFL > school in a country "at the bottom of the sack" when he could have been > something 'g

Re: an ignored breakpoint

2012-09-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 1:24 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > If I don't have the breakpoint, but instead reddot the "if isdna", the > breakpoint is ignored. > IMO the red dots are like the Geometry Manager - to be avoided because they are flaky. I've never had the debugger ignore a specifically writte

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-08-31 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I'll report it to the publisher (though I doubt they'll have the power to > do much about it) > Unfortunately they are probably the cause. My guess is the hard copies of the book were printed in China, in which case the digital copy that wa

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Kay C Lan
I wander what we would have if we took Leopard and added every feature a young freckled FaceBook late Tweeter, early thirties, head always in the iCloud impatiently expecting everything to be delivered to them on a pdf having automatically started itself, run itself, Googling them the Wiki link to

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > It's not what you're looking for (which would be great, I agree) but on > desperate occasions I have opened two stacks as text files in BBEdit and > run "find differences" on them. > Yep, when I know it's just script changes I'm looking

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I have, several times. It's on my list of bacon-saving devices. > Yes, and on my list as well, along with TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner. But my comments were more a reflection of how complex, laborious and space wasting the current si

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

2012-08-08 Thread Kay C Lan
As I've followed this thread I've thought what an absolutely marvellous concept; the ability to Undo, not just multiple times, but even past previous saves! And not just script changes, but entire Object property states. But what about an even better feature, the ability to Undo past actual instanc

Re: when sent a message, the target can't find itself!

2012-08-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > put quote & "Sum" & quote into word 8 of tSummaryFldName > -- field "Sum" of card "Sum" of stack "Sum" > > Whoops, a gotcha, if you need to refer to a substack of a mainstack then

Re: when sent a message, the target can't find itself!

2012-08-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > > The real usefulness of the long name of a control (or card, or stack) is > that it is in itself a complete object reference. So: > > put the long name of fle "xxx" into tFldRef > put "Let's put something in to field xxx" into tFldRef >

Re: when sent a message, the target can't find itself!

2012-08-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > In several places, the names of the fields are actually being > constructed by string manipulation (e.g., val_sbt comes from [ fldNam > & "_sbt" ], and then I want to add the $123.45 in val (or possibly > fld fal) to the $852.87 already in f

Re: I can't send a message with a field to another handler

2012-08-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Dr. Hawkins > Just to be clear here, it's not the mechanics of getting it there, but > rather the content format of the message. > I believe the tricks are: 1) send the parameters as long names 2) you then have to use 'the text of' to get the numbers 3) you then n

updateScreen messge - gestation period

2012-07-28 Thread Kay C Lan
I've just received my LC Academy Super Bundle DVD and popped it in and viewed a few episodes. Brilliant. I'm just wondering about the 'updateScreen' message which is mentioned in Lesson 1 of the Game Academy; this was recorded before Christmas 2011 and it's stated that it will be incorporated into

Re: [OT] Easily run PostgreSQL on a Mac

2012-07-27 Thread Kay C Lan
OK, I'll keep it until I do the skip from SL to ML. On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > > No I am on Lion. I though it would run on Snow Leopard but it appears this > is not the case. > > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@li

Re: [OT] Easily run PostgreSQL on a Mac

2012-07-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > > 1 - It makes life easier for those using versions older than Lion. Bundled > psql is 8.4 and this is 9.1 and you can't really update the bundled version > because there is no package manager. > > Thanks for posting the link Andre, but when

Re: Arriving on Newark Airport on Monday, anyone arriving at the same time

2012-06-26 Thread Kay C Lan
Man, I'm on the road a couple of days, get diverted to JFK because of some 'crisis' - it's always a crisis with my company and it always 'you're the only one available to do it' - and just now I get a chance to down tools and crack open the laptop and check some emails and I discover some of the LC

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > What's new is that your app doesn't "write" there per se. Apple is now > requiring that the OS write there on your behalf, using either the > theNSUserDefaults Cocoa class or the CFPreferences API. > > At face value this seems silly, sinc

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Kay C Lan
Sorry, this: put the number of flds of this stack into tMax should have read: put the number of flds of this CARD into tMax I have become too accustomed to using single card stacks. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > This should get you headed in the right direction >

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-17 Thread Kay C Lan
This should get you headed in the right direction In normal fields: on closeField goNextUseableField the number of me end closeField on exitField goNextUseableField the number of me end exitField In the Card Script: (watch for line wraps) on goNextUseableField pNum put the number of f

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-16 Thread Kay C Lan
William, This is very easy to achieve, in the card script, on openCard you can simply, lock screen set the height of stack "my stack" to 3456 set the width of stack "my stack" to 2345 This will override the automatic resizing that goes on. This does have it's problems though as it may push the m

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-16 Thread Kay C Lan
If you would like to test you own set up you can use the following: I created a new stack "Untitled 1" and placed a button in it with this script: (watch for line wraps) on mouseUp put "ScreenRect: " & the screenRect into tRec put item 4 of the screenRect into tScrnHt put item 3 of the s

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-16 Thread Kay C Lan
William, after some extensive testing of Lion, I conclude that Lion behaves better than Snow Leopard in regard to the available size a stack can take up. I can only surmise that when you upgraded to Lion your Dock settings changed, in particular the default size prior to any magnification effect.

Re: Drag & Drop an Image from a Webpage

2012-06-16 Thread Kay C Lan
Klaus, Thanks so much, I knew it had to be easy in LC :-)) On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > > this does work, just tested :-) > OS X 10.7.4, Safari 5.1.7, LC 5.5 > > > put the dragData["text"] into tStore3 > > ##-I get the file name ' > > ##http://www.emma-maersk.com/galle

Re: An iMac Screen Problem ?..

2012-06-14 Thread Kay C Lan
"Steve Cropper & Duck Dunn!, Steve Cropper & Duck Dunn!" "Joliet" Jake Blues, Briefcase Full of Blues, Track 9 - Soul Man Sadly, Duck Dunn passed away just a month ago. RIP. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > So my guess is that LC takes the working screenRect and reduces your stack > by 86 pixels. > > Whoops, bad math, that should read 84 pixels. ___ use-livecode mailing li

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto > I can confirm, that I do get quite a large difference - over 70. That, > however, does not seem to be a bug, but rather due to the fact that the > 'working screenRect' on MacOS X takes into consideration not only the space > taken by the m

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-13 Thread Kay C Lan
William, I see your QCC report is unconfirmed. What you need is people here to do a quick test - sorry I am not at home to test this on my wife's Lion Mac. Anyone with Lion simply needs to type in the msg box: put the working screenrect They should get something back like: 0,22,1920,1196 They t

Re: Seeking a navigation system among 200 individual / card DB for attendance at camp

2012-06-13 Thread Kay C Lan
What Bob said but his caveat is easily handled. I suggest when you create your list of data your DO NOT use comma or tab as the itemDelimiter. I tend to use | or numToChar(127) - which is invisible. If your data is going to contain remarks, or notes, as yours clearly is, then it will contain comma

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-13 Thread Kay C Lan
Tereza, Curiosity got the better of me so I gave the Security command line + LC a whirl and it was extremely easy. After manually creating a dummy 'generic' account (not Internet, also called application) in Keychain Access = dummyAcct, with Password = password, I created a new main stack with on

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Tereza, If I remember correctly you are on Mac? If so there is a command line option, cryptically called 'Security' you can use to store the password in Keychain Access, and recover it, if need be. This link (below) goes to an AppleScript site that uses this option. I send you there rather than d

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:27 AM, william humphrey wrote: > This is the working screenrect for my mac os laptop pro 0,22,1440,830 > The problem seems to be here, but not sure if it is LC or Lion. You must have a MacBook Pro that has a screen resolution of 1440x900. On SnoLeo the screenrect on my

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

2012-06-07 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I think we found a bug. If you hold down shift and use the arrow keys the > selectionChanged message is sent. If your just moving the cursor it isn't > sent but it should be. Do you want to report it or me? > > I'm not sure that I fully u

Re: on-rev hosting of vServer

2012-06-07 Thread Kay C Lan
Not yet, but I've noted your interest and Lynn's replies and whenever it does become an option with on-rev it's something I'd certainly be experimenting with. Let's hope it's not too far away. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:46 PM, william humphrey wrote: > Does anyone host a valentina server on the o

Re: Recreating complex interfaces and/or field formatting on preOpenCard

2012-06-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 10:37 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > Not sure if that's still available for download, but if not, maybe RunRev > could post it on RevOnline or on their site... > > Thanks Ken, I PM'd Heather to see if that would be possible. ___ use-livecod

Re: Recreating complex interfaces and/or field formatting on preOpenCard

2012-06-04 Thread Kay C Lan
I too would like to see if anyone has done some amazing things with the new field features. My own work with them have been nothing more than rudimentary tests. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscrib

Re: Another 5-out-5 review for LC!

2012-06-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 12:49 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Personally, I'm a big fan of separating code and data so always use > external storage for the data in my applications, be it a flat file or a > database. However, that entails learning how to access files efficiently > and/or learning SQL

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

2012-06-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > The drafting table orientation has been optimal for long work sessions for > centuries, so it seems inevitable that as computer form factors continue to > diversify we'll see an increasing number of those. > > An iMac that tilts all the way

Re: Another 5-out-5 review for LC!

2012-06-01 Thread Kay C Lan
What a great write up, congrats Runrev Team. In light of the other thread about HyperCard, the only thing that makes me wince in the write-up is the multiple references to the stack/card metaphor. Whilst a knowledge of the past is all well and good, for the rising generation of potential programm

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-06-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Richmond wrote: > > My younger son, who is at a private school in Germany informs me that all > the kids there are buying > new MacBooks with Lion installed; and, the first thing they do is blank > the hard-drive and install Snow Leopard! > > I thought Apple had

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

2012-06-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > Within each product line (Macs, iPod, iPhone, iPad) you have very clear and > very simple differentiated levels - the low end is cheapest and sports > fewer > features, > Very interesting you should write t

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

2012-06-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > > First Class! Now that brings back memories! Is there a museum somewhere > for dead software? > > What?? I still access the local Mac User Group via FirstClass 9.1 - not that I would recommend it to anyone, there is certainly better o

Re: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

2012-06-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > The dog in the manger approach was, we don't want it, we cannot use it (eat > it) and so we will not let anyone else who could use it and make good > things > out of it have it either. > > You are certainl

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