Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's not Bodega's choice, that's an Apple restriction. ... I've seen a few developers offer a light version in the Mac app store, with a Pro version at their web site. Hi Richard, Yes I realise it's Apple's

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
-software-gnome-and-semantic-desktop/ Among other uses, Zeitgeist plays a role in supporting the new HUD in Ubuntu, which is sort of like a mix between Spotlight and Quicksilver but taken to a deeper level of interoperability: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_WW-DHqR3c -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: Export display of Livecode app doesn't work

2012-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Glen, were you able to turn up any answers on this? Have you been able to find any other app which exhibits similar behavior? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: How to put icon to the right of the menu bar?

2012-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
/Conceptual/AppleHIGuidelines/Menus/Menus.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3356-SW1 The Dock is the way to go for launching. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal

Re: Android: custom prop vs. .txt?

2012-06-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
can be done easily and robustly using custom props in stack files. If the nature of the data requires relationality, then a relational database like SQLite will be essential. But for simple name-value pairs it's hard to beat the simplicity and efficiency of custom props. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Android: custom prop vs. .txt?

2012-06-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/1/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: My tip on the value of using stack files for data storage assumes that the stack file has had its filename property set to an appropriate location for writes. I just thought of an interesting possibility: if the stack

Another 5-out-5 review for LC!

2012-06-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
the accolades - congrats, RunRev. -- 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: Hypercard: the missing link to the web

2012-06-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
factors continue to diversify, with Google goggles leading the way on the small end and touch monitors like Asus' leading the way on the large end. The tablet is not the end of the evolutionary road. Every form factor in current use is best recognized as a transitional technology. -- Richard

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

2012-06-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: Congratulations, RunRev! On 02/06/2012, at 4:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review: http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/?reviewid=3361007 Well deserved! And, talking about reviews, I came across a rather scathing

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

2012-06-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
environment. This MacUpdate restriction just seems prone to competitor abuse. Has anyone here written MacUpdate about lifting this counterproductive limitation? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers

Re: How to increase the textsize of HTMLtext proportional?

2013-07-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
a few years back, and there were many good solutions presented, with Malte's being the fastest IIRC: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2005-July/061750.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Using the or operator with filter

2013-07-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
run a filter against the left-most column, a repeat for each on the remainder would likely be about as fast as you can get. Sometimes repeat for each on the whole thing is faster than filter. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: Chained Behaviors

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
) makes the case for behaviors clear. Nested behaviors simply extend the value of such a mechanism, at long last giving xTalk one of the most valuable aspects of OOP: subclasses. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Chained Behaviors

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
playing the role of arbiter of such decisions, I feel we can relax with the confidence that we're in good hands. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Chained Behaviors

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 07/12/2013 08:58 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: Has anyone got any real world examples of the benefits of the new chained behaviors feature? I just read the latest newsletter article about them and while I understand the concept, I didn't see benefit

Re: Chained Behaviors

2013-07-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
believe RunRev plans on having someone to handle that soon. But in the meantime, when it comes to stewarding the code base, right now Mark is effectively serving that role. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: positioning stacks off screen in Linux

2013-07-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
the windowBoundingRect). But in the meantime, to keep your project moving forward, it can be helpful to explore other options to get the same result. What's happening in your setup that makes hiding the stack impractical? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Is there any issue with a file and directory set up that includes a space?

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
. One habit many admins have adopted to help is to just always use lower-case wherever practical. It's easier to type, and if done consistently requires no memorizing of how you capitalized. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
the same substacks that this stack does does not jack up the CPU usage. Any other ideas on how to figure out what is going on? I'd guess you're running on a Mac and at least one of the stacks has a pulsing default button, yes? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting

Re: LC 20% CPU When Idle?

2013-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
much CPU time. I can reproduce that with a default button, but not with a standard push button. -- 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: Managing Long IDs?

2013-07-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
a tab, both Win XP and OS X complain and won't let me do 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://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys

Re: QT playback of remote files

2013-07-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Not sure if this will help, but I've had cases in which setting the player's filename to empty in between loading actual remote videos has helped. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Anyone have an OPEN SOURCE project as a FTP app?

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
support makes any file transfer tool in LiveCode a non-starter. Thankfully, for general FTP/SFTP needs there's FileZilla, free, open, and ad-free: https://filezilla-project.org/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Reliable script to handle selection/drag-and-drop in a list field?

2013-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
to use before mouseDown or after mouseDown to allow instances to handle the primary forms of those messages without interference? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow

Re: Getting data out of Excel

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
an alternative that's both free and written by sane people: https://www.libreoffice.org/ -- 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

Re: [semi OT] setting a subdomain in cPanel / on-rev

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
site that let's you track DNS propagation globally in real time: http://www.whatsmydns.net/ Mildly useful, and definitely fun. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
section of RevNet - in the IDE see Development-Plugins-GoRevNet I also added an article to LiveCode Journal that goes into benchmarking in a little more detail: Benchmarking Performance in LiveCode http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/benchmarking-revtalk.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Bogdanoff wrote: I see from the Apache website that .htaccess files are not ideal; better to change the server main configuration file. Do you recall what their complaints were? URL? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
sense for other reasons. I haven't used a dedicated server at DH myself, but I've used the instructions provided in the LiveCode package to set up my own servers here and they've worked out well. What issues did you run into modding the Apache config file? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Problems with Padding and the Properties

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
this is resolved you may need to specify a text chunk to apply the padding to, or use the margins property. -- 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

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Now... How could we collect a battery of benchmarks for stress testing the most commonly used functions, commands, properties and messages used in the LiveCode platform? I thought Mark Weider and Jacque were going to write a framework for that? ;) -- Richard Gaskin

Re: relative performance of two dimensional array and in-memory sqlite database

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
dozen columns). -- 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

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
contribution seem a good start for what you had in mind? -- 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

SoCal LC User Group meeting Thurs., August 1, Pasadena

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
The next SoCal LiveCode User Group meeting is happening Thursday, August 1, at 7PM in Pasadena - details in the LUG section of the LiveCode forums: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=50t=16062 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Awesome!

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
release of a test version for this project is the end of August. http://newsletters.livecode.com/july/issue153/newsletter1.php -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow

Re: keeping track of the open cards for update

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: Using ID is always the quickest way to access anything. Why is that? Mark, Monte - have you guys stumbled across how object references are resolved in the code base? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: keeping track of the open cards for update

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 27/07/2013, at 6:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Using ID is always the quickest way to access anything. Why is that? Mark, Monte - have you guys stumbled across how object references are resolved in the code base? I haven't really looked into it but it makes

Re: keeping track of the open cards for update

2013-07-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 27/07/2013, at 6:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Yes, I've always believed that name was the slowest option, but it's the iteration that made me thinking that ordinal references would be at least as fast, and possibly faster since the lookup is ordinal by nature anyway

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
inherit GPL rights and responsibilities. Yet even within those communities there are some who sell proprietary add-ons, to the best of my knowledge without legal intervention. Where exactly is the line drawn with LC libraries when distributed as separate stack files? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
code is sharing code, but it helps to define the terms under which it's shared. Otherwise we have no way to know if the intention was GPL, CC, MIT, public domain, or something else. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
-lawyer nose into this) if something isn't explicitly GPL then it's not GPL, right? Yes, that's true of any terms: if you don't declare them, no one can know what they are. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
implications for GPL, MIT, public domain, etc., and I like each for different projects. I fear it would greatly limit the range of goodies there if we were required to limit our uploads to those serving one license's goals. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting

Persistent LC server?

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
how to do this with the faceless LC Server. Have any of you done anything like this? -- 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

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:31 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Dr. Hawkins wrote: FWIW, the inventor of the GPL prefers inherit rather than infect, since the GPL is a choice authors can make and infect has negative connotations that make that choice sound like an accident

Re: Persistent LC server?

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
to launch it and have it sit in a loop waiting for communications over a given port. Probably doable, but would be nice if someone had already worked out the gotchas. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 01/08/2013, at 12:31 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: GPL3 distinguishes dynamic linking as not affected, while static linking explicitly inherits GPL freedoms. I thought it was LGPL that made that distinction. On further review, I believe

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
vote. -- 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

Re: Persistent LC server?

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter W A Wood wrote: Richard On 1 Aug 2013, at 11:34, Richard Gaskin wrote: The trick here is that LC Server is designed to run as a CGI; that is, the process is born, lives, and dies in the time it takes to satisfy a request. It is your choice whether to run LC Server as a CGI

Re: exit repeat and nested repeats

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
you want to exit. At once of the RevCons a few years ago Robert Cailliau proposed adding an option to name repeats so we can exit any of them from any level. Might be nice to see that one day. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
? Something else? Each type of sharing comes with its own rights and responsibilities. I like Kevin's suggestion of having a default of CC0 unless the author specifies their license, as it leaves everyone's options as open as anyone might want them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: Persistent LC server?

2013-08-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
access elements within from a cold start at about 0.02ms per access, fast enough for CGI use. -- 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

Re: this me?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
message path, might we consider extending this further to include: the effective scriptObjects of objDescriptor ...which would return a return-delimited list of all objects in the message path of objDescriptor? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

LiveCode on LinkedIn

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
the one for Portland and another for SoCal. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
, but others are too pervasive, and the benefits of change less clear. No programming language is without its gotchas. In cases where the benefit of change is at best debatable, we just have to chalk it up on the list of things we have to learn and move on. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: My favorite annoyance with xTalks is the decision by the HyperTalk team to allow some functions to be called as though they're properties - but not all. You can say get the abs of -10 or abs(-10), and you can say get

Re: this me?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
to scriptObject myVar -- 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

Re: this me?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 09/08/2013, at 12:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: the effective scriptObjects of objDescriptor I like the idea although it's arguably not complicated to parse the chain if you need to. Can you elaborate on the difference the effective adjective makes

Re: this me?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 09/08/2013, at 6:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: To my eye it distinguishes scriptObject from scriptObjects in a useful way, and makes use of the existing effective keyword to note that it's dealing with a broader scope, often used to denote inheritance. Hmm

Re: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
, like the rest of the imperfect world in which it was born. But like any language, it's the community that makes a language great - and I'm glad you're in this one. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: this me?

2013-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: On 09/08/2013, at 8:28 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'm not married to effective; as long as the functionality is there I'll be good with whatever Mark Waddingham thinks is best. Careful now... you might end up with: the effective this mes ;-) I should ammend

Re: Corrupted Stack

2013-08-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
opening it in LC on other OSes? -- 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: Corrupted Stack

2013-08-10 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-livecode

Re: SQLite/LiveCode Issues

2013-08-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
source, what would it take to update the SQLite version and expose these newer optional features? -- 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

Turning off rendering VT as a return?

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
here know how to turn off the rendering of VTs as returns so I can see only true ASCII 10s as the line breaks, like I've enjoyed for the last 25 years? TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web

Re: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
had both very few scripters would be motivated to pursue this further. :) -- 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: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
, but in that case I'd suggest that the new terms lineTerminator and itemTerminator do the right thing and just leave the *delimiter terms to atrophy away. Exactly. I was just being kind to the ol' timers. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Turning off rendering VT as a return?

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
with dontWrap set to true and put any data you need to review there instead. -- 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: Turning off rendering VT as a return?

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/11/13 7:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: So in short: Anyone here know how to turn off the rendering of VTs as returns so I can see only true ASCII 10s as the line breaks, like I've enjoyed for the last 25 years? I don't think there's a way to do it outside of a bulk

Re: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
but that's a story for another thread. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

2013-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
we should expect the same rules to apply. The position of the cursor is not data, merely a function of UI conventions for the placeholder where you can begin to add data if you choose. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Issues with minimizing under OS X?

2013-08-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
details). Any of you ever seen anything like that? -- 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: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
will accept those values. -- 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

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
sequences of values trip up that scripted translation, causing the errant behavior noted. -- 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

Re: Field Tabstops oddity (was IDE vs MSG...)

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
--expands to expected values end mouseUp Feature or bug? I'd say feature, because it's doing exactly what you asked it to do. If you want to set tab widths use the tabWidths property. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: The tabstops property requires absolute metrics from the left edge of the control; that is, each item is the complete measure from that edge, e.g.: 100,150,225 I've never found this to be the case. I just opened up LC

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-14 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 On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassador

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... If you wrote code expecting the engine to treat incoming values consistently, you risk having unexpected column widths. So we have to ask ourselves: now that the engine explicitly supports relative values via

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
this thread will die a natural death. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 5:46 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If that weren't the case it would mean that Mark Waddingham wasted his time adding the tabWidth property, and I don't think I've ever seen Mark willfully waste his time. Before you worry too much about how Mark spends

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 1:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: ... The tabStops issue is distinguished from those by one key principle: Whether we prefer the behavior those examples exhibit or not, the behavior is consistently applied, regardless of the values in the data being

Re: Tabstops (was IDE Vs MSG box)

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
it on the roadmap so I have no idea where that falls in their priorities at this time. -- 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: Control From Outside

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike, these tips for implementing CLI support in a standalone may help: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2013-April/186750.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
what a great job Ubuntu's default firewall does with rejecting the many spambot attacks every server gets all day long. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me

Re: How on-rev is about to ruin our business

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
and offer additional information about both the infrastructure and plans for providing more customary uptime. -- 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: Unicode in variables

2013-08-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
be a restriction on having NULL bytes in a key name. -- 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: Windows standalone puzzle

2013-08-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
nothing we can't solve. :) -- 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

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
everything at once. But like learning LiveCode itself, the more you learn about servers the more you can do, and the more confident you feel doing it. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

2013-08-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
/watch?v=CDeG4S-mJts :) -- 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

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
instances it would seem the impact is minimal. Anyone have any good metrics on CGI RAM usage at scale? -- 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: Control From Outside

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
in Windows? -- 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

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
, Hitler find out about... video, cat pictures, and everything else. :) -- 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 On Tue

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: Richard, $# causes the script editor to mark the rest of the line as a comment. $# still works? The token works well, so that would be a bug - reported: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11122 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Implications of DOJ vs Apple for developers?

2013-08-24 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: Implications of DOJ vs Apple for developers?

2013-08-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
to that of any content provider - I suspect we'll see similar rules across the board as others start wondering why ebook publishers can bypass the store but they can't. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers

Re: Problem with importing snapshot

2013-08-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
wonder if you could copy the group to an offscreen stack, set the backroundBehavior to false, and then run the export on that copy? Please let me know if that works, and if not some other workaround is likely possible. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Problem with importing snapshot

2013-08-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles Szasz wrote: Richard, Many thanks for trying to help me! I checked and found that the backgroundBehavior is not checked at all. Thanks for checking that. This bug may be murkier than I'd thought. Is the field's sharedText property set to true? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: The encoding property

2013-08-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter - Not all properties are available for all object types; indeed, many are global properties. What is your goal, and is the properties the best way to reach it? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: The encoding property

2013-08-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
question. -- 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

Re: The encoding property

2013-08-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
be required. -- 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

Re: Strange behavior of files()

2013-08-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
the recipe to pin down what at that point would be a bug. -- 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

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