Re: Happy International Geek Pride Day!!!

2011-05-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/25/2011 07:20 PM, Nonsanity wrote: Slide RULES! 2 of those: 1 English and 1 Russian, on the table in my school; lovely for working out the kids' test results and befuddling them. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:01 PM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Importing Unicode text to a field .. How?

2011-05-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry; overlooked this thread until now. - on mouseUp answer file Choose an RTF file to import if the result = cancel then exit mouseUp else set the useUnicode to true set the RTFText of fld fRESULT to URL (file:

Re: download and save a file

2011-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/27/2011 06:02 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond, Have you actually made a request to the Cyberduck people for a Linux version ? No, I haven't, because there are several perfectly good Linux FTP clients around. I was actually picking holes in your 'cross platform' claim, rather

Re: Question about Object Names

2011-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/27/2011 08:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well we can all at least be thankful that it is not how a woman would design a language either. Can you imagine having to hint at something and then the computer has to figure out what you really meant? ;-) Nothing like a bit of sexual stereotyping.

Re: Importing Unicode text to a field .. How?

2011-05-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/27/2011 10:34 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: replace uniencode(numtochar(13)) with uniencode(numtochar(10)) That doesn't work either, it does nothing Richmond... these are pure unicode text files. not RTF or HTML... They open fine in Pages or text edit, I get Tamil as expected and

Re: Importing Unicode text to a field .. How?

2011-05-28 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/28/2011 08:16 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/27/11 9:55 PM, Web Admin Himalayan Academy wrote: nope... that replacement does nothing... BTW, I think Richmond doesn't have any trouble with unicode lines because he's working on a Linux machine, so his line endings are already ascii 10.

Unicode textFields in Linux vanishing text

2011-06-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I have found that if I set up a textFld called, say txtfld and do this: set the useUnicode to true set the unicodetext of fld txtfld to (numToChar(2340) numToChar(2341)) the required chars are entered but cannot be seen; if I then do a RETURN key press at the start of the string followed by a

Re: Naive question 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 02:50 PM, David C. wrote: Shorten my life (umm) . . . :) Thank you very much indeed! A rather poor choice of words at almost 2:00 am... sorry 'bout that! Just wanted to make sure you had the open source icon library for your collection. It is great, and I am just digging into

Re: Naive question 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 02:40 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: Now this has been answered, can I ask the 'reverse' question - how to make the Image Library recognise an existing 'Resources' substack within its 'This Stack' view? Best, Keith.. Go here:

Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I've just uploaded a 7.1 MB zip file filled with various Open-Source stuff including 3 Gnome colour sets as Livecode Libraries: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/revLibs/imageLibs.zip all of these are covered by some sort of GNU licence so you can sprinkle them all over your projects

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 07:50 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- On Sat, 6/4/11, Richmond Mathewsonrichmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I've just uploaded a 7.1 MB zip file filled with various Open-Source stuff including 3 Gnome colour sets as Livecode Libraries:

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 08:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:02:40 AM, you wrote: Right! I stand corrected and will put the licenses from the original files into the zip file. Do post when you've got the new one uploaded. That's quite a nice collection. Thanks for making

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 08:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Roger- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:04:34 AM, you wrote: Public flogging always helps matters. An off-list FYI might me more appropriate and considerate. Yes, but... it's a good point for all of us to keep in mind. If this were just a private email

Re: Naive question 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
again. On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:10 AM, J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 6/4/11 12:55 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am gently assembling a fairly large collection of image libraries by stealing icons and so on from Open Source Apps and Icon collections. But don't know how

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 08:56 PM, Pete wrote: Glad the licenses are in there now but, like a previous poster, I can't open any of the stacks. LC starts up when I click on them but the Application Browser shows no open stacks. This is with LC 4.6, OSX 10.6.7. Pete Molly's

Re: Naive question 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 09:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:45:39 AM, you wrote: I don't have an Image Libraries folders. Might it be something you put there ages ago yourself? On the other hand, I've pointed my prefs to the old My Revolution folder just for convenience, so

Re: Naive question 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am gently assembling a fairly large collection of image libraries by stealing icons and so on from Open Source Apps and Icon collections. But don't know how to export those image libraries so they are portable. You've already figured this out, but for the record

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 09:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 11:00:36 AM, you wrote: Hey, it isn't the first time I've been used as the whipping boy; I'm kinda used to it . . . :) Good to know. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm looking for a likely victim. Hey; just

Re: Naive question 666

2011-06-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/04/2011 10:15 PM, Pete wrote: I guess I'm still not sure why a user stack/card with images on it is better than using the image library (I've asked before and never got a response). Importing image files into the library assigns a unique image ID to them so no conflicts. Once the images

Why I love Appleworks

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Ever since I bought my first Mac I have used Clarisworks / Appleworks as my primary word-processor ( I even use the Windows version along with WINE on my Linux rig). I use it for writing long stretches of code . . . The NICEST thing about it is that I can use the 4 key that have funny arrows

Why I love Appleworks

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
WOULDN'T IT BE LOVELY if there were a way to implement those 4 keys so that they worked for the script-editor! OR, put another way: Is it possible to hack the Script-Editor? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

5000 lines of code

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
If anybody really cares here is a PDF of the code in ONE object in my Devawriter Pro: read it and weep . . . :) http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/PRO/KODE/5000.pdf you never know; you might learn something, get a headache, or both! ___

Windows? [OT]

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Has anybody, ever, managed to get ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html to boot successfully, and install the thing? I have wasted more time than I could, possibly, have spent earning the money for a Windows licence, trying to get ReactOS to work.

Re: 5000 lines of code

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/05/2011 10:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, June 5, 2011, 8:13:27 AM, you wrote: If anybody really cares here is a PDF of the code in ONE object in my Devawriter Pro: read it and weep . . . :) That may be the longest mouseUp handler / switch statement I've ever seeng A few

Re: 5000 lines of code

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/05/2011 10:33 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, June 5, 2011, 12:07:00 PM, you wrote: Also, you spend a lot of effort making sure that DDROP has the correct value, but then you never use it. The switch code is generic, and the DDROP value is used in other objects. Took me a

Re: Windows? [OT]

2011-06-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/05/2011 11:37 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Has anybody, ever, managed to get ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/en/index.html to boot successfully, and install the thing? I have wasted

Windows? [OT]

2011-06-07 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Running Livecode on ReactOS [Why? Because its there!] 1. Running ReactOS in Oracle VM VirtualBox on Ubuntu-Linux 11.04 (Host has 1 GB RAM, VBox 512). 2. The pre-configured VBox image on the ReactOS site froze fairly quickly. 3. Downloaded an SVN 0.4 build and installed from the ISO image.

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 09:52 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: Rule of Thumb: Never buy anything with a zero on the end. :) In the light of recent experiences I have been having with Ubuntu one may wish to expand that: Never do anything with a zero on the end. Hugh Senior FLCo Colin Holgate wrote My

Re: 5000 lines of code

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Mark Took me a couple of times through that to get what you meant. Ah... you mean that same switch code is duplicated in other objects as well. What I'd do in that case is move it out of the objects and make a handler farther along the message path (the stack script, for instance) as command

[OT] A quiet read about Ubuntu

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Takes about 10-15 minutes and is really very thought provoking: http://www.osnews.com/story/24803/The_Sins_of_Ubuntu Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: [OT] A quiet read about Ubuntu

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 03:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Takes about 10-15 minutes and is really very thought provoking: http://www.osnews.com/story/24803/The_Sins_of_Ubuntu It's an odd choice of a title for an article that largely says that Ubuntu is doing well in nearly

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 04:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Forgive the thread necromancy, but it seems Chipp was right again - back in February he wrote: Surprise, Apple changed their license terms-- again. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209580/Apple_s_new_App_Store_rules_affect_Amazon_s_Kindle

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 07:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions of MS Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) Yeah, well, my experience is that if a product says Microsoft I don't even bother to check for zeros or not . . . I

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 08:36 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Conspiracy upon conspiracy, wheels within wheels eh? Sounds like a Hollywood movie. Oooh; can I have the role of the slightly daft Scotsman who manages to make off-colour remarks and put people's hackles up at critical moments? Hey; and if I land

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 11:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Thursday, June 9, 2011, 9:28:39 AM, you wrote: So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions of MS Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) I did. About six months ago I switched to Open Office and have never

[OT] Want to waste some more time?

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Playing, Learning, Farting Around: AURA in VM Box: http://finncomputers.com/aura/overview ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 11:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I wish I could do that in a corporate environment. I would have people bleating to the powers that be that Bob is trying to ruin everything and destroy all the data faster than you could say two whiskers. Even if I've achieved nothing else here in

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 11:47 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If

Building Metacard

2011-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Somewhere down the line I mislaid my Metacard constructed with the aid of Jacque's excellent stack and MC 2.5 on my macMini G4. So I tired to do that again with LC 4.5-dp-4 and ended up with something called Metacard but in fact really being almost completely LC; so, obviously not really

Re: Building Metacard

2011-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/11/2011 08:06 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: See the instruction pdf file (MC Insall Guide for LC) that I uploaded to the MetaCard group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/. It is still valid, despite referring to v4.5! Hugh Senior FLCo Thank you very much for the help.

Re: double byte chars?

2011-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/11/2011 09:14 PM, Lars Brehmer wrote: My project has Russian text fields (Arial,Russian). With one exception, everything works fine. Problem: a filter-as-you-type script. field t1: зо field t2: меня зовут Виктор --underscoring shows the matches-- field t3: зовут курить

[OT] is the Lion really just a donkey sewn inside an old lion skin?

2011-06-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
The thing that makes me wonder is Apple's appropriation of the term launchpad from somewhere else: https://launchpad.net/ they may have even nicked the logo: http://www.volaciousmedia.com/portfolio/launchpad apart from the fact that Lion looks like a load of eye-candy . . .

Re: Exporting previously imported audioclips

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/13/2011 12:40 PM, Christian Langers wrote: Hello, is someone able to tell me how to export/save imported sound files (in .aif, .wav., .au -format) back to disk ? This is an old chestnut that comes up every so often. Unfortunately, LiveCode cannot export/save imported sound files.

[OT] Ubuntu: Something wicked happened

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Why do I think the Ubuntu repositories have been hacked? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Exporting previously imported audioclips

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
RunRev has to expand to make all of their (basic) tasks/projects happen… ;) Christian Le 13 juin 2011 à 11:51, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : On 06/13/2011 12:40 PM, Christian Langers wrote: Hello, is someone able to tell me how to export/save imported sound files (in .aif, .wav., .au -format

Conkers

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2008-April/109662.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: [OT] is the Lion really just a donkey sewn inside an old lion skin?

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/13/2011 09:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: A reference to C.S. Lewis! I like it! Very, very well spotted . . . :) Bob On Jun 12, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: The thing that makes me wonder is Apple's appropriation of the term launchpad from somewhere else: https

[OT] dialect divergence?

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
While Supercard and Livecode share a common heritage, is it wise to assume that their dialects of HyperTalk have diverged to the point where it is extremely difficult to modify the code in one to work adequately in the other? ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: [OT] is the Lion really just a donkey sewn inside an old lion skin?

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/13/2011 11:35 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Ok, so here's a bit of trivia. Promise you won't look it up on the internet or go get one of his books! What does the C.S. stand for? Clive Staples Bob On Jun 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 06/13/2011 09:24 PM, Bob Sneidar

Re: [OT] is the Lion really just a donkey sewn inside an old lion skin?

2011-06-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/14/2011 12:38 AM, Tim Selander wrote: Clive Staples, of course. Any more trivia challenges, or is that your last battle? Where did Lewis get the name 'Aslan' ? From one fan to another. Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: [OT] is the Lion really just a donkey sewn inside an old lion skin?

2011-06-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/14/2011 08:32 AM, Judy Perry wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Where did Lewis get the name 'Aslan' ? It's the name of a fingerspelling font. Oh, wait... that's Amslan. Judy I'll be here, goofed out, for the rest of the week. Turkish for lion

Re: nuther new newbie nuisance

2011-06-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
? Maybe there's more than one way to do what I want... probably so... Thanks in advance. Tim Sorry; I have a feeling all this will do is make you reach for the aspirin. Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: nuther new newbie nuisance

2011-06-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
So; I wrote this to Timothy Miller:- on mouseUp clone card TWEETY set the name of card TWEETY to TWEETY2 --obviously this is a bit daft, you could have a field that counts the cards and assigns them numbers as they are cloned--- {this is where you can have your import routine} select all

Re: horizontal and vertical scrolling

2011-06-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/16/2011 09:03 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: But when we finally make contact with another intelligent species, will we discover that all their cards are right-handed? (It goes with out saying that such a species will necessarily be using LiveCode.) If so, then importing any of their cards

Re: horizontal and vertical scrolling

2011-06-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/16/2011 09:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: You all realize how completely odd this line of humor would seem to someone who was not a nerd erm excuse me, a Professional Software Developer? Umm; well, nobody around these parts would admit to being a nerd would they? I have yet to become a

Re: the mouseText and Unicode

2011-06-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/18/2011 09:07 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: Aha! The idea of using the number of words is brilliant. Unfortunately, the word boundaries don't quite work, and I think it's for the same reason: I think the mouseCharChunk reports bytes, not characters. It is Unicode-smart in some ways: when you

Re: the mouseText and Unicode

2011-06-18 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Is there an equivalent to the mouseText, or the mouseChunk, or the mouseCharChunk that is Unicode-aware? Or some ingenious way to retrieve the word that the user clicked? doing THIS: on mouseDown set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld fEND to the unicodeText of the

Re: image load problem

2011-06-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/20/2011 12:09 AM, Glenn E Fisher wrote: All, When I try to use Import as Control a PNG image file named Stop, I get the following error: An error occured when trying to import the image file: /Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 263,3088,1,/Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 253,3082,1

[OT ??] OpenXION

2011-06-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://code.google.com/p/openxion/ XION is an xTalk language similar to the ones used by HyperCard, SuperCard, and Runtime Revolution. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: [OT ??] OpenXION

2011-06-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/21/2011 12:25 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: On 6/20/2011 3:25 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: http://code.google.com/p/openxion/ XION is an xTalk language similar to the ones used by HyperCard, SuperCard, and Runtime Revolution. I'd like to know if RunRev has any involvement with this Open

Re: [OT ??] OpenXION

2011-06-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.openxion.org/faq.html What? No GUI, no IDE. Are you serious? You are correct. There is no IDE or GUI, and yes, we are very serious! Many of us think that the command line and any simple text editor are the most productive and trouble-free environments for programming. Well, one

Re: Checkbox label

2011-06-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/23/2011 10:15 PM, Pete wrote: Is it possible to have the label of a checkbox appear to the left of the checkbox instead of the right? I guess same question for radio buttons as well. Pete Just spent 30 minutes fiddling around; sorry, no joy.

Re: [OT] Amiga OS in 2011

2011-06-29 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/29/2011 05:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Brigham MD wrote: I have a sundial in my back yard. Sure, it's not quite as convenient as a watch, but it don't need no stinkin' batteries My favorite car is a bicycle, which gives me about 25 MPB* * Miles per burrito:

[OT] botnet

2011-06-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
another reason to avoid Windows: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13973805 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Inserting text into a field

2011-07-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/01/2011 09:25 AM, Pete wrote: Thanks. Pete Molly's Revengehttp://www.mollysrevenge.com On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:29 PM, J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 6/30/11 11:05 PM, Pete wrote: - combobox with text choices - field with text in it and the cursor somewhere in the

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-01 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/01/2011 10:27 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I do think its possible, and has actually been done successfully. The Bible is a difficult case since we don't have value free assessments of authorship. Consequently it is reasonable to argue that what the programs do is successfully implement

Re: PNGs and screenGamma

2011-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Interestingly enough . . . my Pentium 4 running Ubuntu 11.04 has a screen gamma of 2.2 . . . So, I can only conclude, that while Apple's bye-line may be Think Different, as Lion begins to look like something halfway between GNOME 3 and UNITY, and Snow Leopard sets a screen gamma to 2.2, the

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/02/2011 04:17 PM, David C. wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Bob Sneidarb...@twft.com wrote: Since the subject was broached using textual analysis of Biblical passages as an example, I will respond in like kind. If anyone will be offended at this, please, stop reading, close the

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Analysis of texts by machines is fairly suspect because it rests on a bogus premise: Humans are like machines. They are not, and machines will never be like humans. The mechanistic view of the human brain that has developed over the last 100 or so years has served to block our understanding of

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/03/2011 11:27 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: My own purpose is not to do with religious texts, but it seems like the example is getting in the way of the subject. There's no reason why statistical analysis shouldn't work on textual analysis. Whether it does, and which method is best, and

Re: object beneath mouseLoc?

2011-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/04/2011 01:45 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Try the mouseControl - that should work. Phil Thanks, Phil. Didn't know about that function. But, still a no-go. My script relies on mouseMove and mouseStillDown to let the user select grouped objects by dragging the mouse. I'd also now like the

Re: object beneath mouseLoc?

2011-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/04/2011 02:25 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: I have a feeling that on mouseLeave works whether the mouse button is up or down. About mouseLeave from the docs: If the mouse button is down when the mouse pointer leaves the control, the mouseLeave message is not sent until the mouse button is

Adventures in Unicode

2011-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
possibly subtitled Wading through treacle. My 'eternal' Devawriter didn't display glyphs properly once they were entered via a slightly mephistophelian process into the OUTPUT field, and at least one of my beta-testers was getting quite crochety about it (mainly as I had had no epiphanies of

Re: object beneath mouseLoc?

2011-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/04/2011 09:51 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Personally I'd like to kick that concept to the curb and have all mouseXXX function relate to where the actual mouse *is*, regardless of whether it's state is up or down... That would break scripts that need to act on mouseRelease, wouldn't it? OK, you're

Re: Adventures in Unicode

2011-07-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson
of having to recode 2 years' work to use revBrowser might prove counter productive; може би аз съм малко глупов, but Ahm nae that gyte! Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Mathewson

Re: chasing the focus

2011-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/05/2011 09:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/4/11 10:49 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: I'm trying to figure out why a field is losing focus and I don't know which tools to use for the hunt. At the very end of a mouseUp handler of a button I have this: on mouseUp . focus on field

select after the selectedText

2011-07-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
a.k.a. Richmond's longest-lasting headache imagine this sort of script: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(2340) select after the selectedText end mouseUp all looks straightforward (nicht?), but 'tis not to be . . . :( because

Re: select after the selectedText

2011-07-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/06/2011 10:10 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: The selectedText doesn't work with Unicode. I have a very similar thing working fine: I use select after char -1 of field X. Slava set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(2340) works 100% and THAT is not my problem. My problem is

Re: select after the selectedText

2011-07-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/06/2011 10:38 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Wednesday, July 6, 2011, 12:19:41 AM, you wrote: I have just tried this: on mouseUp set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of the selectedText to numToChar(2340) select after char -1 of field X end mouseUp Untested,

Gottit!

2011-07-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
that it goaded me into cracking the thing at least . . . :) Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Re: Gottit!

2011-07-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson
-- a.k.a Richmond finally finds the paracetemol put the selectedChunk into CHUNGK select after CHUNGK Yippee-Doo, Caloo-Caleh, and other foolish noises demonstrating that after a year I have finally found the cure to a besetting

[OT] Floods in Edinburgh

2011-07-08 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I do hope all the people and equipment at the RunRev offices have weathered the floods with nothing more than wet feet. with all my best wishes, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Rev Customer Databased Hacked?

2011-07-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/11/2011 05:44 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: So that doesn't strike you as curious, Mike? Think about it. It doesn't make you wonder what the structure is if some customers have their records compromised but others do not? I wonder if RunRev don't have 2 databases (say, an older one with

Re: Rev Customer Databased Hacked?

2011-07-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I feel deprived, unloved and generally rejected because I didn't receive the Hacked e-mail. Har, har, har. Bl**dy glad I didn't get it; but reading this thread it does have a feling of bruised egos who weere not included. Now I remember a lecture on that psychological phemenon at Durham

Re: Rev Customer Databased Hacked?

2011-07-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
the hackers could want with the information? Maybe just pure malice. On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I feel deprived, unloved and generally rejected because I didn't receive the Hacked e-mail. Har, har, har. Bl**dy glad I didn't get it; but reading this thread it does

[OT] HyperNext Android Creator

2011-07-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://tigabyte.com/ interesting. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

[OT] calling non-numbered Unicode glyphs

2011-07-15 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Normally if one wants to put a unicode char into a field one does something like this: set the unicodeText of fld MyBigFatUnicodeTextFld to numToChat(2327) numToChar(9745) or set the unicodeText of fld MyBigFatUnicodeTextFld to the unicodeText of fld MyBigFatUnicodeTextFld

Re: [OT] calling non-numbered Unicode glyphs

2011-07-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
That tip about the Mac OS character viewer is worth buckets: Thanks a lot! Oh darn, that first sentence let me rewrite that. I think that Fontographer will show you the UTF8 values of the glyphs. You can take those values and convert them to binary using the binaryEncode function. Convert

Latest Unicode smile

2011-07-16 Thread Richmond Mathewson
So there I am merrily entering vowel signs into my textFld with scripts rather like this; set the unicodeText of the selectedText to (numToChar(105) numToChar(772)) and you can see the result at: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/INPROGRESS/jumpy.jpg as you will see; simple vowels seem

Re: spam

2011-07-17 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/17/2011 06:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Have you people noticed an excessive number of spam emails from gMail accounts in the pass couple of weeks? Others too. I flag them as spam with my ISP (cox), but it does no good. I'm using Apple's Mail application. Any help with this would be

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Not wishing to appear catty or anything . . . But, surely, from the point of view of the average RunRev/Livecode developer unless one has a desperate urge to leverage any new capabilities in 'Lion' it is just business as usual? ___ use-livecode

Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/ well; I don't know what to say, but on the basis of that webpage there seems to be nothing much more than eye-candy. The only thing that seems vaguely new is the set of finger-twiddles one can perform on one's trackpad: just thinking about them makes me

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
that will certainly break (I ran the first gold RC) and upgrading Lion also means, for some upgrading their software too. Bob On Jul 20, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: http://www.apple.com/macosx/whats-new/ well; I don't know what to say, but on the basis of that webpage

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/20/2011 10:57 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: It's Drawer Implementation and Maintenance that always had me stumped. Where should I install them? Should they always be implemented? There are different schools of thought on the subject. I believe in European circles, That is because drawers are

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Marsupial sabre-tooth? How about Tabby, code named Felix? Bob On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Apple still selling Snow Leopard on their web store. It was EOL only on physical stores. Current macbook pros still come with Snow Leopard. Now that they shipped lion, which cat

[OT] SVG graphics

2011-07-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
I remember a while back some questions about how to get at SVG graphics; this seems to be the best bet at the present: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/ Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Lion: 10 Things that Bug Me

2011-07-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/22/2011 11:55 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: I read this and thought of all the posts here... http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/20/lion-ten-things-that-bug-me/ Hugh Senior FLCo Well that does confirm my suspicions that as Software giants get bigger they get more arrogant and care less about

Re: Lion: 10 Things that Bug Me

2011-07-23 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/23/2011 12:21 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: That is a big leap, from I don't like the way they changed things or There seems to be a disconnect between the developers and the end users to the purely moral judgement, They are arrogant and don't care about end users. While I share some of your

Creative Inventors

2011-07-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Well, I'm one, and I have been being desperately creative over many years; both for my in-house software for my language school and for my Devawriter. My in-house stuff works, insofar as kids seem to learn both

30 day trial

2011-07-27 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Oddly enough when I enter my email and password into a Livcode 4.6.3 install it does not allow me a 30 day trial: it prompts me to set up an account, which I already have. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

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