Re: lock screen gotcha revisited

On 08/18/2017 07:41 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Except when it doesn't. There seems to be an override in the lock count if any unlock uses a visual effect. I'm not sure if that's on purpose or not. Thanks. Good to know. I've just been using the barebones lock. -- Mark Wieder

Re: Parent of Target

On 08/21/2017 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: # do different things based on calling context. That's exactly the opposite of what behaviors are for. I'm not sure I follow the underlying reasoning here Thank you. That was my reaction as well. B- what problem are you t

Re: lock screen gotcha revisited

On 08/21/2017 10:28 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-08-19 04:41, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Except when it doesn't. There seems to be an override in the lock count if any unlock uses a visual effect. I'm not sure if that's on purpose or not. Internally there is

Re: Completely OT - flat earth

On 08/22/2017 06:25 AM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: I was in the southwest of England that day. It was very dense cloud, so we didn’t see the sun at all. Here’s a time-lapse of what we saw: https://www.facebook.com/colin.holgate.5/videos/10159330354275694/ That's pretty annoying. Di

Re: Completely OT - flat earth

On 08/22/2017 08:21 AM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: It’s time-lapse. Can’t remember how many minutes it was over, but it wasn’t many pictures. Ah, OK. I think it's probably just Facebook that's annoying. The video is only one second long, and FB keeps looping it. -- Mark Wieder ah

Re: Parent of Target

On 08/22/2017 12:53 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Mark Wieder via use-livecode" wrote: >># do different things based on calling context. That's exactly the opposite of what behaviors are for. BR: ?? but a behavior may contain a scrip

Re: Parent of Target

On 08/23/2017 07:59 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Wh??? So send would but dispatch won't? Bob S On Aug 23, 2017, at 06:21 , Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: I'm in the habit of using "dispatch" as it mimics how the engine works and won't throw an error if a message isn't

Re: Parent of Target

On 08/23/2017 08:50 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: This is actually useful. Let's say you have some fields which do some basic validations against database table constraints and some that do not require them. You could simpy dispatch a command to validate to all fields and only the on

Re: Parent of Target

On 08/23/2017 08:23 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: That is correct, as long as you aren’t using `in time` with `send`. The following script won’t cause an error until the last `send`: Good to know. Yeah, that's weird. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

On 08/26/2017 02:43 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 27 Aug 2017, at 7:40 am, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: Another one I would like: filter lines of tList WHERE item 1 of each >= 10 Yes I like that too… a tad more than `by`. It seems to read more naturally. Since w

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

On 08/26/2017 04:11 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 27 Aug 2017, at 9:04 am, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I assume that syntax would do what the filter command normally does in terms of modifying the contents of tList. I'd also like to see the form that return

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On 08/27/2017 01:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: CantSelect is false by default, and since it isn't in the project browser, new users are unlikely to know about it. They're also unlikely to dig into the Plugins menu to show the app browser, so mistakes would probably be rare. I

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On 08/27/2017 01:42 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode wrote: I use this feature extensively in an app where there is card that has objects that users can select to change properties (line width, color, font, etc) and at the top of the window is a toolbar with font menu, etc. I don't want the use

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On 08/27/2017 01:36 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: I have used cantSelect before to stop selection of a background image that has lots of objects on top. It means you can drag select them and won’t accidentally click-drag and move your background. It’s better than lockLocation bec

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On 08/27/2017 04:49 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: On 08/27/2017 01:42 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode wrote: I use this feature extensively in an app where there is card that has objects that users can select to change properties (line width, color, font, etc) a

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On 08/27/2017 06:21 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: The pointer tool, like any of the tools, is just an interaction mode. Any capabilities beyond manipulating layout are defined by your scripts. OK - so we're talking about outside the IDE. So the cantSelect property comes into pl

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On 08/28/2017 07:53 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: But since the property that more accurately behaves as AlwaysBrowseMode is currently called "cantSelection", what might we name a property that was limited to non-selection without invoking a tool mode different than the current ot

OT: error messages

LiveCode is getting way too easy to use. I suggest implementing some of these error messages. https://boingboing.net/2017/08/28/unnervingly-vague-error-messag.html Or these: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jasonh/personal/humor/compile.html Or at least "Underfull hbox (badness 1)" -- Mark Wieder

Re: OT: error messages

On 08/28/2017 12:15 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 8/28/17 11:18 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: LiveCode is getting way too easy to use. I suggest implementing some of these error messages. https://boingboing.net/2017/08/28/unnervingly-vague-error-messag.html Or these

slow listserv

It currently is taking forty minutes for my posts to appear after I send them. That's enough time to send my email to Mars and back. Runrev's servers must be pretty far away. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: slow listserv

On 08/28/2017 04:22 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Someone fact check that plz... Bob S On Aug 28, 2017, at 14:13 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: It currently is taking forty minutes for my posts to appear after I send them. That's enough time to send my email to Mar

Re: slow listserv

On 08/28/2017 05:34 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: This doesn't seem to be affecting the dev list. Is that on a different mail-list server? Working better now - seemed to be a temporary thing. I blame sunspots. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: OT: error messages

On 08/29/2017 06:56 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: HyperCard had an error: Script too silly to parse ...TFW... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

OT: Texas flooding

It has been pointed out to me that if you have Rewards points on Southwest Airlines, you can log onto your account on their website and donate them to one of several charity groups for Hurricane Harvey flood relief. I just donated my points to United Hands. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.co

Re: Does exporting a snapshot from a rect work on mobile?

On 08/31/2017 07:33 AM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode wrote: Just a random comment - having the CTO of LC directly answer our questions is an incredible benefit to LC developers. ...and not just answering questions, but expounding on the reasoning behind existing features/bugs and brainstor

Re: Does exporting a snapshot from a rect work on mobile?

On 08/31/2017 07:33 AM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode wrote: Just a random comment - having the CTO of LC directly answer our questions is an incredible benefit to LC developers. I also want to give a shout out to the supportive community here. This is by far the best online community I've

Re: Subject: Re: LC and OneSignal

On 09/01/2017 09:55 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: This is pretty much what the User Examples area was created for. I don't know what that is. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: Subject: Re: LC and OneSignal

On 09/01/2017 12:25 AM, Todd Fabacher via use-livecode wrote: There needs to be a better way for all of us to share projects and code snippets. There are already many sites for this, and that's the problem. I've got stuff on bitbucket and github, in revOnline, on my own site... I think there

Re: Subject: Re: LC and OneSignal

On 09/01/2017 04:14 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: On 01/09/2017 22:44, AndyP via use-livecode wrote: Enhancement Requests added to the Quality Center for Sample Stacks Good ideas ! But I think there are a few more things that need to be done to make this more useful. If I was s

Re: Bu**ered by Bug reporter

On 09/05/2017 10:33 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Just found that clicking the button 'Dictionary' on the revMenuBar stack in LC 9 dp 8 on Xubuntu 16.04 LTS freezes the whole IDE, and the only way to sort this out is by sending a KILL signal to Livecode; far from satisfactory

Re: private command gotcha

On 09/07/2017 03:06 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: FWIW I would dearly love send in time to remember the caller and if the target is the caller then allow private handlers. That. Very that. Also private callbacks for socket messages. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: Getting saucy

On 09/10/2017 07:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I did that sort of thing about 3-4 years ago in a rather feeble attempt to build a Livecode version to run on Linux PPC . . . Most open source efforts supply a folder with the build files inside it rather than forcing people d

Re: LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 Dropping Keystrokes in IDE

On 09/17/2017 05:46 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I'd guess it's the 7000 lines. The autocomplete lookups may not be able to deal with that much text fast enough. Does it work for you with a tiny little script? How about if you type one letter at a time and count to five in betwee

Re: LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 Dropping Keystrokes in IDE

On 09/18/2017 08:07 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: you're editing. Might be worth refactoring the SE if it's actually doing a lookup for every keystroke. sorry... I meant moomin... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ us

Re: [OT] Alan Kay is angry

On 09/18/2017 09:07 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: One of the most interesting ideas I’ve heard recently, in education, is the idea that it’s very important to emphasize the “struggle” to learn. If students can learn that the “struggle" to acquire knowledge and understanding is v

Re: LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 Dropping Keystrokes in IDE

On 09/20/2017 04:15 AM, RunRevPlanet via use-livecode wrote: Getting back to part of my original gripe, in effect what I am hearing is that it seems to be that part of the LiveCode Philosophy can be paraphrased as: "Well, if there a simple procedure that we at LiveCode can do that will catch re

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

On 09/20/2017 01:09 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: I understand it's not a problem to install several different version and I have just downloaded both 8.2 DP1 and 9.0.0DP 8 Um... see below. but before diving in… would like to hear from anyone here… o

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

On 09/24/2017 08:26 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Very tall groups have to be arranged by script, the way Mike Bonner described. It's sometimes easier to use relative locations rather than hard coded numbers: set the top of control 4 to the bottom of control 3 That's what I do

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

On 09/26/2017 01:46 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: Now solve this simple example: Make a circular arc showing 70% of a pie and then tell us when clicking into the oval which part is hit, the 70% or the transparent 30%. That's the point where I stopped trying to do pie charts in LiveCode. Wors

OT: OMGwebsites

I gotta say I feel better about the LC website after reading this: https://hackernoon.com/for-the-love-of-god-please-tell-me-what-your-company-does-c2f0b835ab92 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

On 09/26/2017 06:02 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> Worse: try to set a tooltip showing the percentage under the cursor. > > Multiple graphic objects? > Been there. When they're stacked on top of each other the transparent part of the rect is still the object under the cursor, and

not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

Long read, but worth the effort: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subsc

Re: not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

On 09/30/2017 11:58 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Good read.Thanks! Oops. I forgot to post a link to Bret Victor's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWM4t68cR4 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode m

60 years of the Space Age

On 10/04/2017 04:30 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Actually, since we weren't able to get there, we had to give them to the aliens who were running the CIA at the time, and they dropped them off. That way we can maintain the deception pretty convincingly. I am really sorry to have st

Re: 60 years of the Space Age

On 10/04/2017 06:22 PM, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: I am really sorry to have started this thread ah... I had a smiley thing after that but I must have used some old recycled electrons and they fell off the page. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

On 10/05/2017 09:26 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi Roger, They failed to mention LiveCode though, which was disappointing. If anyone writes a software package with LiveCode so that we can duplicate the laser reflector experiment, let me know! ;-) Yeah. That would be bitchin'. ...

Re: not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

On 10/05/2017 09:32 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: I think probably the time has come to end this admittedly entertaining thread. Thanks, Heather. Time to put this one to bed. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailin

Re: Creeping IDE Script Editor window position

On 10/09/2017 10:46 AM, Ronny Metzker via use-livecode wrote: Hi Panos, I quit using 8.1.7 (RC3) because if it. The top of my editor goes behind the menu bar, so you can’t move it. I used to have that problem with the dictionary. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 169, Issue 18

On 10/12/2017 09:38 AM, Peter Reid via use-livecode wrote: I can't find the reference that first highlighted to me the lack of guaranteed sequence of chunks, but I've assumed this was a restriction for some time. It would be great if this is incorrect as I've got some heavyweight looping in s

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

On 10/13/2017 12:40 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Seconded. It isn't easy to change the visual settings of controls while selected any more. I think I understand why they did it though. It maches the dotted selection in the project browser. Yeah. One of the reasons I find the

Re: 'manual' Copy and paste of multiple objects to new card ungroups grouped objects

On 10/13/2017 10:45 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: That confused me a lot too when I was new until I got used to it. Maybe it should be relabeled "Select Groups". That would make a bit more sense to me. And then the label could change to "Select Controls". That way at least there'd on

Re: Rotating widgets

On 10/14/2017 11:30 AM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: You would probably be better off using a transparent png-image that is square for the clock hand, and where the rotation point of the clock hand was at the center of the square. You could then put the clock hand on top of the clock fa

Re: is a date

On 10/15/2017 11:44 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 10/15/17 5:10 AM, Yves COPPE via use-livecode wrote: I hope this works for any date format ... if matchtext(textToSearch,"(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{2,4})",theDay,TheMonth,TheYear) is true then Yes, it seems to work with any n

Re: Word recognition

Peter, Hermann, Frans: Does anyone know of an implementation of an FFT function written in LiveCode? I've tried joneslib but this doesn't include FFT. I'm hoping to use FFTs as part of my attempt to compare 2 short sound clips of people speaking a single word. I'm trying to judge whether a

Re: Call for Speakers 2018

On 10/24/2017 08:36 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Dear List Folks, It may or may not yet have come to your attention that due to the great success and popularity of LiveCode Global, we are running it again next year. So I'm once again sending out the call for speakers. Got somethin

Re: Call for Speakers 2018

On 10/27/2017 04:36 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: The main question is how do we make all of us more comfortable with the code so we all feel more comfortable diving in, doing things, and therefore expanding the IDE developer group. The main problem I see with working on the IDE compo

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

On 10/30/2017 12:45 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: One of the cases where it would be nice is the location of the plugins folder ("User Extensions"), which is why I mentioned ~ to begin with. A better way to get that would be revEnvironmentUserExtensionsPath() -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

On 10/30/2017 01:51 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I've got my extensionos folder in Dropbox. All my machines have Dropbox installed and it syncs to all of them. On 10/30/17 3:20 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: All I'm trying to "Get" is a simpler way to store the extensions

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

On 10/30/2017 07:55 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: So what do you have for your paths? Are your usernames the same? For me, I run into the issue because my usernames aren't the same on every box, so the absolute path varies. Are you referring to the *dropbox* usernames being differen

OT: ...and everybody hates Perl...

https://boingboing.net/2017/10/31/perl-is-the-most-hated-program.html https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/10/31/disliked-programming-languages/?cb=1 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Fwd: why app version info is useful

more on the topic of dangerous interfaces: "Which version of SharePoint am I using?" https://support.office.com/client/Which-version-of-SharePoint-am-I-using-3575ff57-037f-48cf-9398-99080c34b25f -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode

Re: JSON import error

On 11/02/2017 11:57 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 11/2/17 6:52 AM, Dave Kilroy via use-livecode wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging Yeah. Story of my life. I've since hit another error in the JSON impo

Re: JSON import error

On 11/03/2017 05:03 AM, Phil Jimmieson via use-livecode wrote: Or when you’re preparing an example stack for the bug report and realise that it’s not a bug, you’ve been doing it wrong... Normally I find that right *after* filing the bug report. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Android Studio 3.0

Android Studio 3.0 is now a stable release, and *finally* fully supports Kotlin. https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/10/android-studio-30.html -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: Control properties not included in the Property Inspector

On 11/06/2017 02:12 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: Not all properties are in the properties array. The properties array is only read/write properties and not that duplicate info from other properties. For example it only includes htmlText not rtfText, text & styledText. You may wa

Re: Control properties not included in the Property Inspector

On 11/06/2017 05:20 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: The properties function was designed to allow one-step transformations of objects. Without it, the old-school way is "set the of something to " over and over for every property value being changed. OK. Point taken. But the OP's

Re: using LC as an emulator

On 11/06/2017 07:00 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: It's a LOT of code, all of which was originally written 30+ years ago, but we've been maintaining it ever since. Many of the other systems that we have written interface with this core, and extend it, since there are much better tools a

Re: OT : need help understanding why my web page isn't behaving right :-)

On 11/07/2017 03:37 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: Hi Alex – those links work fine for me on Chrome on a Mac. Ditto here Chrome on linux mint. No worries. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: OT : need help understanding why my web page isn't behaving right :-)

On 11/07/2017 03:37 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: Hi Alex – those links work fine for me on Chrome on a Mac. ...although I should also say that the SourceCode Pro fonts are already installed on my computers. If I look in Chrome developer tools under Sources, I see that css?family t

Re: Tooltips in the Datagrid

On 11/10/2017 01:54 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. A while back I had a go at setting the tooltip when pointing at a datagrid element, but ran into some difficulties when scrolling. With Trevor Devore's assistance, I came up with a reliable way to do this. Enjoy. Hmm... that

Black Friday mac app bundle

This looks like a very good deal. I'm springing for it even though I don't have a need for all the apps. I've been working with Bootstrap lately and had my eye on Flux 7 anyway. Oh... and 15% off even that with code GIFTSHOP15 https://store.boingboing.net/sales/the-legendary-black-friday-mac-b

Re: Black Friday mac app bundle

On 11/21/2017 02:09 PM, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode wrote: If you are just looking for Flux, this may be a better deal… Thanks - that looks interesting too, but the combination of Flux and Stylizer and PDF Expert meets my current needs quite nicely. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: Anyone can confirm laggy IDE on Windows 10?

On 11/23/2017 02:08 PM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode wrote: Hey Friends, Recently I switched to a Surface 4 Pro running Windows 10. My condolences. Did you install LC for all users or just for yourself? Do you have Process Lasso installed? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

LC8 release structure

I'm confused now by the number of unstable releases in flight. I'm seeing LC8.2.0-dp2 dated 11 October 2017 LC8.1.8-rc2 dated 23 November 2017 and of course LC9.0.0-dp10 dated 23 October 2017 I'm fine with the slow progress on LC9, although I keep waiting for the CEF business to be fixed, but I

Re: IDE breaks down over time

On 11/28/2017 12:19 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: things start happening like: Yep - seen all those. Also, if I have to use the PB (and I'm starting to try to make my peace with it) I end up closing and reopening it a lot because 1. there's no refresh button 2. it doe

Re: LC8 release structure

On 11/28/2017 04:32 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: The 8.2 release cycle is mainly for IDE features like autocomplete that could potentially be disruptive and need a bit of iteration. Well, yes, I got that from the release notes. But I see that one of my bug reports (#9505) is now

Re: Livecode Content Management System

On 11/30/2017 05:56 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: Here are the requests for input 1.  has anyone tried this before ? and did you succeed ?  or why did you stop ? any foreseeable problems to contend with ? I finally gave up on LiveCode and am now working with the combination o

Re: IDE breaks down over time

On 11/28/2017 12:19 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: 4) suddenly no longer able to save or open the message box… Just got this situation again. The IDE completely unresponsive, all other open apps working properly. Top shows LC using 98% of the CPU, and a kill -9 got thi

Re: LC V8.1.8 IDE has brought new problems

On 12/10/2017 12:09 PM, Pyyhtiä Christer via use-livecode wrote: 1. When starting, the different windows still get placed somewhat in random places 2. The tools window disappears; you have to switch it off, and switch it on to see it again 3. The IDE just dies, doesn't quit from menu, you ha

Re: The Detailed and Long files

On 12/11/2017 06:47 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I added a second optional parameter to files/folders this morning:   get files(pFolder) -- the files   get files(pFolder, "detailed") -- the detailed files It *is* a step away from natural-language xtalk syntax though. I take i

Re: The Detailed and Long files

On 12/11/2017 08:59 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: No - see http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3210 Awesome. My general feeling is that the english-like syntax *should* be:   the [detailed] files of folder i.e. 'the files' is a property of a pseudo-folder object P

Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

On 11/29/2017 12:30 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I downloaded 8.1.2 and performed the same test as above and the difference was substantial. I’m on a different machine, but the times appear consistent with the test I did on 7.x on the other one. https://github.com/livecode/livecode/p

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

On 12/11/2017 12:59 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: A very good point. I block sites on facebook all the time because while trying to read an article, there are more ads than content, and I get so frustrated because the ads are designed so that if I try to scroll, and the page shifts (

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

On 12/11/2017 03:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: > I don't know, I'm one of the six people on earth who doesn't have or want a Facebook account. But Ghostery blocks any unwanted junk that comes in via a web page, and since you're viewing Facebook inside a web page then it's worth

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

On 12/11/2017 04:36 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: I guess I make it three. I signed up, and didn't log in, the day they announced their own email, just to stop someone else from being labeled dochawk. One thing I found while helping a neighbor get untangled from fb is that you can n

Re: Script Editor problem

On 12/12/2017 01:18 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: Sorry, I thought my tongue-in-cheek was obvious. I've heard of Home. I might even have modified mine heavily back in the HC 1/HC 2 days. I did catch the tongue-in-cheekness, so I stayed out of this. Fun watching it take shape, thoug

Re: Tab alignment in fields

On 12/12/2017 05:14 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: Fraser?!? Are you back? Back to make libbrowser run on Raspi? :---))) https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6182 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@l

Re: Tab alignment in fields

On 12/12/2017 08:37 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 13 Dec 2017, at 12:43 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 12/12/2017 05:14 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: Fraser?!? Are you back? Back to make libbrowser run on Raspi? :---))) https://github.com/livecode/livecode

Re: Tab alignment in fields

On 12/12/2017 08:04 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: I have to cancel all my dates for the rest of the year. Um... you *are* aware that that's a matter of about two weeks, right? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: rename folder not working?

On 12/13/2017 04:35 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I am trying to rename a folder using this command: rename folder "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/Childrens Law Center/201/" to "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/bobtest/201/" and it fails with no errors in a try catch statem

Re: rename folder not working?

On 12/13/2017 04:57 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Mark. "201" WAS the endpoint. Your suggestion worked! But I didn't want to copy the whole folder just one of it's subfolders. I even added other folders and tried to move that, but it failed. It is acting like it will only move

Re: Screen Resolution for Desktop Apps

On 12/16/2017 12:06 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Richard, can you outline some of the issues you have seen with the GM (or point to a thread where it was discussed). On the surface it looks like a good way to handle many types of positioning needs. There were a couple of oddities in th

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

On 12/20/2017 12:22 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mike, Am 20.12.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Mike Kerner via use-livecode : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps yep, just read about this, will be a nightma

Re: Datagrid Column Click

On 12/21/2017 10:50 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. I have a need to right-click on a datagrid column and get the name of the column, whether or not there is any data in it. While you're waiting for the enhancement, how about placing a (I don't know what you're populating th

Re: Editing library script with TSNet "running"

On 12/21/2017 07:10 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: If I try to edit handlers in a global backscript that has some TSNet callback handlers… I always get stack "lib_SivaSiva": execution error at line 1547 (Object: can't set scxript while it is executing), char 1 There i

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-11

On 12/22/2017 04:51 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: !!! I dunno about the rest of you, but *I* am not going near any teleport that isn't even beta yet! If I need to be in another region, I'll go the old fashioned way, not jut try to set my properties . . .. ...all right, but you'll

Re: Using open process instead of shell

On 12/24/2017 02:05 PM, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: ​ Does someone out there have a clear example of what I am looking for, using a UNIX executable through *open process​ *? 1.call the function with parameters 2. allow livecode scripts to continue 3. continuously mon

Re: Mapping Field Text Ranges (was Re: Interprocess Communication (IPC) under OSX)

On 12/28/2017 09:45 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: 3) The char chunks are old-style (pre-5.5) byte indicies not codeunit indicies The crux of the problem Paul is having comes down to (3) which has some background to explain. OMG! This is what Mr. Waddingham comes up with while

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

On 01/01/2018 07:48 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Mark recommends using "go in window" on Mobile, saying this closes stack A while going to open stack B This works on desktop put ("stack " & quote & gems & quote) into tDestination go tDestination # but stack A remains

Re: Free SVG icons

On 01/02/2018 01:24 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Looks like a nice set: I like these a little better than the Font Awesome icons because they're slimmer. Thanks. Those seem rather nice. And MIT-licensed. The dollar-sign but no euro seems a bit restr

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