Re: The Revenge of Buffer Overflows

2014-04-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
/metacard@lists.runrev.com/msg02659.html :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys

Re: Possible to escape openStack?

2014-04-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
again? Run this in the Message Box: lock messages; answer file Select the problem stack:; open stack it -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http

Re: [OT] Xojo

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
was one of those, and it's only been in the last few years that I've come to appreciate how open source can be a good option for many projects. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: [OT] Xojo

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: On Apr 10, 2014, at 10:05 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It's only the subset of developers making proprietary works who need a Commercial license, and most are doing so under a business plan that brings in far more revenue than is needed to cover the cost of renewal

Re: [OT] Xojo

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
for the app the join the majority in the app store that are distributed at zero cost to the user. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http

Re: [OT] Xojo

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sri wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote Let's find out - RunRev delivered almost exactly what you're looking for, at least as far as providing iOS deployment more affordably for non-revenue-producing apps: http://livecode.com/membership/ Richard, Thanks for the link. I look at LiveCode website once

Re: [OT] Xojo

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
. I think it's only confusing for old-timers who were used to having the company and product name be the same thing. As it is now it's not that different from Mozilla and Firefox, or Canonical and Ubuntu, or Trimble and Sketchup, or many others. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: [OT] Xojo

2014-04-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
- this search: https://www.google.com/search?q=livecode+source+code ...yields the GitHub repository in the third hit. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http

Re: The Revenge of Buffer Overflows

2014-04-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
it in their spare time. However, if everybody just keeps using it and thinks somebody else will eventually take care of it, it won’t work. The more people look at it, the less likely errors like this occur. That applies equally well to testing LiveCode. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: New Visual Editor ?

2014-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
that version, so I don't imagine they're at a stage where we can expect nifty screen shots and such quite yet. But I'll see what info I can find and either the team or myself with provide you some info on where they are with that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting

Re: New Visual Editor ?

2014-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
is a key component to community engagement, so a Community Manager can help keep the flow of information moving in both directions. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me

Re: Limits of the Option and ComboBox menuMode

2014-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
everyone in your audience to switch. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys

Re: The Missing Link between LiveCode and Teachers

2014-04-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
so everyone on the planet can help enhance and proliferate them. Maybe you'd like to help with that effort? If so drop me a note - we have the forums, many servers, and a free and open LiveCode Community Edition at our disposal. Everything is possible. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Problem naming groups with integers

2014-04-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
name, you could simply prepend the name with anything else, removing the extra stuff when you to obtain the number, e.g.: set the name of field 1 to f1 -- get the short name of field 1 delete char 1 of it DoSomethingWithTheNumber it -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: Problem naming groups with integers

2014-04-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
near everything but NULL in prop names without issue ( the docs politely err on the side of safety). The only circumstance I've seen that was like yours was when I attempted to use keys whose length exceeded the documented maximum of 255 bytes. Was that a possibility? -- Richard Gaskin

file checksums

2014-04-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
to update the checksums displayed there to reflect those in his modified package? I like the idea of providing checksums, but I'm having a hard time seeing the practical benefit. What am I missing? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: [Enhancement Request] Open and BackUp in LiveCode DP and RC

2014-04-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
ways a stack file can be altered. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys

Re: file checksums

2014-04-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
in. However, if the key that you originally installed and more or less blindly trusted was actually a fraud, then you are in trouble. Very helpful, Martin. Thanks for that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: [Enhancement Request] Open and BackUp in LiveCode DP and RC

2014-04-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ben Rubinstein wrote: I'd love to know: what do other people do to customise their environment? http://fourthworld.net/channels/lc/lc-tools.png -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: [Enhancement Request] Open and BackUp in LiveCode DP and RC

2014-04-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/24/14, 5:15 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: http://fourthworld.net/channels/lc/lc-tools.png Where do you put the stacks you're working on? :) You and I have exactly opposite work habits. Maybe not so much. Most of those stacks aren't open all the time, some seldom

SoCal LUG meeting: Thursday, May 1

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Just a quick reminder about the upcoming meeting of the LiveCode User Group in Pasadena on Thursday at 7PM. Details in the forum: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=50t=19934 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: The parlous state of Rounded Rectangular buttons

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 29/04/14 22:35, Richard Gaskin wrote: The URL to submit a bug report is: http://quality.runrev.com/ Indeed it is. And the last 3 times I tried to submit enhancement requests I got stuck on a 'Desktop OS thing where there was no thing to check. If you have a reproducible

Re: The parlous state of Rounded Rectangular buttons

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: By the way, Richard, Which is your email as LiveCode Community Manager? We're going to set me up with an address at livecode.org, but it's not in place yet so until we get that pinned down you're always welcome to write me at the address I use here. -- Richard

Re: [OT] On RegExp

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: The parlous state of Rounded Rectangular buttons

2014-04-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
!! in the subject line. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: wait with messages

2014-05-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
feedback from the community to inform their efforts. How much of the existing User Guide have you read, and did you find anything in it that was inaccurate or incomplete? -- Richard Gaskin LiveCode Community Manager rich...@livecode.org ___ use

Re: How do you programmatically create an empty database?

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
hasn't really changed the license terms or even the fees very much, it's just that with the acquisition many folks are finally looking into the details for the first time. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: How to declare a license for a LiveCode Stacks

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
a license, but if they just want to look at the binary object records as raw data that option remains available to them. ;) And should we add RunRev company to the closing indemnity clause? IANAL, I believe RR's own license with you indemnifies them against anything you make. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: MySQL and open source

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
nature of a dual license, and to some degree the GPL itself, than anything Oracle has done since they acquired the DBMS. This is why I prefer the clarity of the Creative Commons licenses for some projects; too bad they're not recommended for software. :( -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Need fast way to obtain vertical coordinates of text run

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
an inherently slow action (relatively speaking). Anyone here know of such magic? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Need fast way to obtain vertical coordinates of text run

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
have no idea what was happening before, but this seems to work quite well. Perfectly, actually. Man, hardly a day goes by when I don't marvel at how easy things are in LiveCode -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: Nine digit zip codes

2010-11-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
=caurbanization=zip5=90031submit.x=48submit.y=8submit=Find+ZIP+Code Field 2 will contain the HTML once the request is returned. Now for the tedious parsing to get the parts you want -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

SoCal RUG meeting: Thursday, Dec 2

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
: http://stykz.net/ The meeting begins at 7PM, Ken will arrive around 7:30PM, and those wishing to share a meal before the meeting can meet at Porto's Bakery across the street at 6PM. Details here: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/socalrev/ Hope to see you there. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: Making a tool palette

2010-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
find the subject line. Sorry, Mr. Wieder, I know that bugs you too. I'd do something else if that something else was as useful. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: Still having problems with rev as CGI

2010-12-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
engines, but I did find that stack files saved under v4.5 were not able to be used by the v3.5 CGI engine. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

[OT] Custom computers

2010-12-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
ever bought an off-the-shelf PC. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Unicode file names

2010-12-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 12/05/2010 12:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Seems LC chokes on file paths containing Unicode. Is there a workaround for this? Could you lob us an example? From the comments from the others in this thread, it would seem self-evident to anyone with a filename containing

drag and drop to desktop: destination unknown

2010-12-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
imagine I'm the only one who needs this. What do you folks do to find the destination path? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: 4wLCListSearch.rev

2010-12-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
or two I've been sketching out and post it to RevNet (with full credit for your contribution of course; much appreciated). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: Valentina db under Linux ???

2010-12-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
if we could have the chance to meet you in person. Your uncommon knowledge of databases has been very helpful on this list. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: Windows error 32

2010-12-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
somewhere). In the meantime, if you have a way to allow uninstall to be run directly from the app's folder that would be great. Even if I tell them to use the control panel, changes are someone will find the uninstaller and try to run it directly from Program Files... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: Stack window/screen sizes

2010-12-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
market available to you by just taking a little time to make sure your windows can be reduced another 168 pixels down. And that provides you with an excuse to get another toy so you can test. At $300 for many good models, I found it too hard to resist. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media

Re: Dispatch and send

2010-12-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
in the docs clarifying that. But if the intention was that it could be used for built-in commands too then there appears to be a bug in the engine. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: AW: any known LC bugs with handwriting pen input?

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
, the Duo seems a hand-in-glove fit for the new OS - video and notes on uTouch here: http://unity.ubuntu.com/projects/utouch/ I hope your LiveCode experience on the Duo turns out to be a great one. I look forward to hearing more about how it works for you. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
their own selectGroupedControls property. While it defaults to true so it honors the global property of the same name, you can set it to false so you can deliver custom controls whose contents can't be modified with the pointer tool. VERY handy stuff. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
provide scrolling -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
an open report against it and I just checked in v4.0, 4.5, and 4.5.1 and the scrollbars on both fields and groups adapt to the current setting in System Prefs. Which version are you using? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

RE: ResizeControl

2010-12-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
hasn't been updated. Anyone here got time to either add a user comment to that entry and/or file a documentation bug report at the RQCC? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: Date bug?

2011-01-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
of that value. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Basic libURL bug?

2011-01-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
log with 4558 lines of text. When I run this I get different results. libURL seems to download different amounts of the logfile. Is there something I'm doing wrong, or is this a libURL bug? (I've tried this from two different servers). Ran it 10 times here - always returns 4558. -- Richard

Re: Basic libURL bug?

2011-01-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: I'm also seeing strange results on Windows. FWIW I just ran some additional tests on Ubuntu, and there I'm getting the same good result as on OS X. Since the libURL code in question isn't branching by OS, what could make this issue OS-specific? -- Richard Gaskin

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
cool, since an ever-increasing variety of sites, UIs, and even printed materials use that motif, while our ocular physiology hasn't evolved at the same rate to make it any less of a bad idea. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Quicktime VR Replacement in LiveCode?

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
where this discussion leads. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
be helpful if others here who've dealt with it can tell us what's needed to support that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: Mac App Store compliance

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
this is to simply not allow an app sold through the App Store to be sold elsewhere. But again, I would be very happy to be wrong on this. Anyone here know whether the App Store agreement is an exclusive one? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: launch URL in Linux

2011-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
? I just tested here on a 32-bit system running Ubuntu 10.10 and launch url works fine. Anyone else here running a 64-bit Debian-based build who can verify this? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: ControlKeyDown problem - still not working w/Windows

2011-01-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
with a dual boot and put Ubuntu on it for even more deployment options at your disposal. With the recent enhancements RunRev made for the Linux engine, it's quite nice these days. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: AW: Windows error 32

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
attempting to delete the folder in question. It may be necessary to change that directory before launching the copy in tmp - that's what I did here, and while I don't know if it would also work if I changed after launching the copy, so far doing it as I have seems to solve the problem. -- Richard

Re: AW: AW: Windows error 32

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
so many people spoke so many languages so well. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: size of window decorations

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
) into g4WWinMargin end if Note that the reg key used differs by OS version. An unnecessary drag, IMO, and cost me a bit of time turning it up when Vista came out, but good to know when you need it. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: size of window decorations

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
\desktop\WindowMetrics\CaptionHeight At least it changes from -375/15 (XP Style) to -270/15 (Classic Style) ... Yep, those are the values you should use. In my haste to paste that code I didn't clean out the rest of the irrelevant stuff. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: AW: AW: Windows error 32

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
, 2011, at 5:25 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: ... Btw. I didn't found the expression to chime in in my dictionary ;) beside for sounds what bells or clocks do -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Bonner wrote: Is there a manpath? Yes, Robert Bly wrote about it in Iron John. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: Front Scripts

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
to look at the contents of the standalone. set the password of stack MyStack to MyPassword To access the scripts in the IDE use: set the passkey of stack MyStack to MyPassword -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: Control Keys still not working

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
keys on Win work, and work well (in Linux too). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
. :) There are scenarios for meaningful sharing that aren't addressed by GLP-compatible licenses, so while it would be desirable if there were fewer licenses in the world, the diversity of needs seems to require equally diverse terms to describe them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: On 8 January 2011 00:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: There are scenarios for meaningful sharing that aren't addressed by GLP-compatible licenses, so while it would be desirable if there were fewer licenses in the world, the diversity of needs seems to require equally diverse

Re: Preferences on first start-up

2011-01-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
blood. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

2011-01-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
data from icns and ico files (on Linux not needed since they wisely use PNGs) for use in LC image objects. What is the format for an individual image in an icns file, and how are the boundaries defined? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Update screen during lengthy process

2011-01-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
this solution based around wait 0 with messages has shown itself to require the least overhead of the options I've tried. HTH - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: Some thoughts on duck typing

2011-01-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: ID's are settable???

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
cycle of the project we will need to do the copy-and-paste to reset the IDs. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: ID's are settable???

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
that there isn't), if you could set the stack ID lower you would risk creating a new object whose ID would conflict with an existing one. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: LiveCode Newbie questions

2011-01-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
, but in the literal sense: of or pertaining to the supernatural. :) It can be a mind-bender to get used to, but once you do I suspect you'll find a lot of things surprisingly easy. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers

Re: Newbie Q: LiveCode Forum

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
seeing slightly greater productivity than in my formerly-favorite tool I'd used for years. Six months: I love this thing. One year: I love this thing like no other. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
having to give up 30% of your annual income to the OS vendor in perpetuity. ;) I wish that was an option for OS X as well. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.comwrote: Security is a real issue on all OSes, and this provide one way to certify that an app is what it says it is for just a one-time fee, without having to give up 30% of your annual income

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
the option of using signed apps as we can on Windows, but iOS customers have spoken, loudly and clearly, so we can expect that part of the iOS experience to come back to the Mac in due time. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
away; its role will only become more central. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Is this doable at a newbie level?

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
other apps, in OS X, Windows, and Linux (at least on Ubuntu; haven't tested it elsewhere). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacque wrote: HyperCard had an error message that said, Script too silly to execute. No, really. It did. What would trigger that? I want to submit a feature request to add that. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
- in the IDE see: Development-Plugins-GoRevNet HTH - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Got you covered there: 4W Props is a simple property sheet tool for LiveCode, available through the Stacks section in RevNet - in the IDE see: Development-Plugins-GoRevNet Hi Richard. Hey that's nice! What would

Re: Radio Buttons

2011-01-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
the box next to that menu. That can be a good solution. Or if you need to have the options visible as radio buttons, you could consider a third labeled None. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

2011-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
facelessly. Sure, it's a bit of a kludge, but would be dirt-simple to implement, and wouldn't expose the treachery of race conditions to the masses. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: File Suffix

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
commonwealth people) and then finally a three character suffix.? Don't you think that this git should be taken out and tarred and feathered? You can change lines 903 and 1028 in the revBackScript script to use any extension you like. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: The best way to embed a lot of pictures in an ios application

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
we learn the details? I have a client who's hoping to deliver something much larger than 20MB. Wasn't the Wired app much larger? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: The best way to embed a lot of pictures in an ios application

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: the on-device shop limits the size of apps available trough it. the itunes shop does not. Is this noted on the ATT site? I need a URL to an authoritative source so I can discuss the implications with my client. TIA - On 19 Jan 2011, at 19:18, Richard Gaskin

Re: The best way to embed a lot of pictures in an ios application

2011-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: the on-device shop limits the size of apps available trough it. the itunes shop does not. Is this noted on the ATT site? I need a URL to an authoritative source so I can discuss the implications with my client. I've come across

Re: Plugins

2011-01-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
illustrates how to use those mirrored messages and properties effectively. For many types of plugins you can just ignore the mirrored stuff and just drop any stack file into Plugins and have it accessible and working in just a few seconds. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: LC-list vs. LC-forum

2011-01-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
of professional devs here, but the difference is really very slight. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Htmltext: storing data in markup

2011-01-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
in this request for a linkData chunk property, which would allow us to use any number of attributes in a tags, returned in an array as with clipboardData and dragData: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=9347 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
. But as it is, I find myself not using graphic effect nearly as often as I'd like to, instead making such treatments in other programs and then importing the masked PNGs -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event looking for presenters

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
for several minutes at the start of each session - I just boot and enjoy. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: O/S Statistics and a SERIOUS Steak Dinner

2011-01-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
you should still have that dinner, just go Dutch. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

[OT] convert CWK to PowerPoint or OpenOffice

2011-01-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
). Any other alternatives you know of to get AppleWorks slide shows into either PowerPoint of OpenOffice? Thanks - - Richard Gaskin Fourth World ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Linux standalone

2011-01-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
differently for Linux? Where do I get revBrowser for Linux? I've been wanting this for some time, but I haven't seen notice that one was made and I don't see it in my LC 3.5.3/Contents/Runtime/Linux/x86-32/Externals/ folder. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting

Re: Weird defaultStack behavior

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
setting the default stack can help, in my case esp. after a modal is dismissed. It shouldn't be necessary, and if you can pin down a recipe please submit a bug report. But as a workaround, setting the default stack after modal seems to cover the issues I've run into here. HTH - -- Richard

Re: Update on defaultStack problem

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
want to do on each of those actions? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Currently the LiveCode engine uses the Windows hiliteColor when selecting text, ignoring whatever highlight color may be in use by the current theme. Is there a shell query I can run to determine the current text highlight color? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

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