Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

/..." unless you have created a Desktop folder inside the one holding your stack. The correct path would be specialFolderPath("resources") & "/Obfuscated/May 2018/assets/img/" -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hypera

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

es") & "/Obfuscated/May 2018/assets/img/" -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On April 29, 2018 11:27:39 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I am being extr

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

I am being extremely stupid, and am getting so desperate I don't mind admitting it. I have a stack containing a series of images that are 'empty' images with their sources set to an external folder. Now in my stackScript I have this: |global route66 on preOpenStack put

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

by declaring the variabel global in all script where you will use it, or place the scripts that will use it at the same level. Regards Tore 28. apr. 2018 kl. 20:05 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: No joy. What happens then is that, on l

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

everImage” to tFilePath Tore Nilsen 28. apr. 2018 kl. 19:51 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: In theory that should work . . . But what happens is that I end with a grey square rather than the actual picture. Richmond. On 28/4/2018 8

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

p;"/myCrap/rez/" into sFolderPath end preOpenStack specialFolderPath(“resources”) will point to the folder containing the stack when you are in the IDE, and to the resources folder of your compiled application Tore Nilsen 28. apr. 2018 kl. 19:38 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <us

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

Here I go agin, replying to my own posting: I have this script in the stack: onpreOpenStack setitemDelto"/" setthedefaultFoldertoitem 1 to-2 of(theeffectivefileNameofthis stack) endpreOpenStack but it ain't working. Richmond. On 28/4/2018 8:34 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Probably both

Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

Probably both . . . So, there I am opening an on-going project I have been "somewhat remiss" about of late what with one thing and another. Now this project has a ton of images made via the Object/New Control/Image menu and for their image data in their property panels are referred to a

Re: Splitting long elements into two lines in an Option Menu

Well that chopping up doesn't have to take place between fields: it could, say, start with the string in a string-variable, and the chopped-up bits end up in a 2-dimensional array. Richmond. On 27/4/2018 5:47 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: On a mobile device?? Bob S On Apr 27,

create widget

"Create a widget control of the specified kind" sounds groovy . . . "create widget "My Navbar" as "com.livecode.widget.navbar" even groovier . . . BUT . . . where does one find a catalog of all the kinds of widget available? A catalog of all widgets available would be extremely useful.

Forums down: locally or globally?

The forums are inaccessible here in Bulgaria at the moment. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Title Case

I have just uploaded an improved stack that filters out a list of reserved words: here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=30927 Best, Richmond. On 21/4/2018 5:10 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have a stack with 2 fields: the first one "fRAW" contains my uncapitalised sentence,

Re: Title Case

I have a stack with 2 fields: the first one "fRAW" contains my uncapitalised sentence, the second one, "fCOOKED" is where the capitalised sentences ends up. I have a button called "SORT THINGS OUT" with this script: on mouseUp put empty into fld "fCOOKED" put fld "fRAW" into cRAW put

Re: Title Case

Just been playing with this and found that this causes problems: put "vanish" into rWORD put char 1 of rWORD into rC toUpper(rC) the toUpper(rC) throws a "bluey" toUpper works with a string expressed "as itself" in double quotes, but does not seem to like a stringVariable . . . which is a

Re: some thoughts on version 9.0.0

As has been pointed out in the Forums: as new LiveCode versions come out with new capabilities and new features quite a few of the features available in previous versions are removed: this may well be, as has been explained, the necessary cost of the new features. About 4 years ago I had to

LiveCode 9.0 stable Upgrade?

Very, very queer indeed. I cracked open LiveCode 9.0 stable on Xubuntu 64-bit 18.04 and was offered the chance to upgrade to 9.0 - gm . . . . . . which I am currently doing . . . [as observed elsewhere: the in-IDE update process is glacially slow] . . . . . . cripes . . . Well; that's odd:

Re: Text to Speech

- a Scottish voice, and Moira from Ireland. There are a ton of them out there now. Some are still better than others, but a few are quite convincing! Have fun! Rick On Apr 7, 2018, at 4:03 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: as far as I can work out

Re: Text to Speech

Looking up revSpeak in the 8.1.9 Dictionary I found several things of interest: NOT for Linux. Works just fine (albeit a bit slowly) on my Polycarbonate iMac running Mac OS 10.7.5 on mouseUp revSpeak fld "ff" end mouseUp HOWEVER: this seems to presuppose text-to-speech IS installed in

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

I'm sorry, I missed the point about using LiveCode's built-in upgrade download capacity when I reported that it took me about 3 minutes to download LC 9.0. The reason I missed the point was that I have used the in-built upgrade system exactly once (on a Mac) and the whole thing was such a

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

Over 'here' in "naughty" Bulgaria where I have the cheapest internet package available I found that LC 9.0 for Linux took 3 minutes to download . . . and that was absolutely fine. Ookla says that my download rate is 10.78 Mbps and my upload rate is 6.28 Mbps, which is super because I don't

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: And, what about the much vaunted 8.1.10 which is supposed to have several bug-fixes that I am hanging around for? Richmond. On 3/4/2018 6:20 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I assume with the release of LC

LiveCode code licences

I am vaguely concerned as my Indy licence is due to expire on 31 May of this year. Does this mean that: 1. On 1 June all my Indy installs will suddenly go "phut" and stop working? 2. On 1 June all the Indy installs I have currently installed will suddenly "degenerate" into Community

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

And, what about the much vaunted 8.1.10 which is supposed to have several bug-fixes that I am hanging around for? Richmond. On 3/4/2018 6:20 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I assume with the release of LC 9.0.0 that there will not be a release version of LC 8.2.0? Is this the case? It

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

Congratulations! Now let's "Heigh-Ho" over to my Linux box and see if we can . . . Love, Richmond. On 3/4/2018 4:01 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Dear list members, LiveCode 9.0.0 is out, read all about it here:

Multiple Windows

I know the idea of being able to display different cards from one stack in different windows is something that has exercised many people for a long time. I had a fantasy that ran like this: [pseudoCode] show card 6 of stack "Stack1" in stack "subStack1" How daft is that? Richmond.

Re: [OT] Web based HyperCard

Hence my posting about an online version of LiveCode. Richmond. On 27/3/2018 4:28 pm, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi Scott, Tell us about it again once it is full color and not just B Thanks, Rick On Mar 27, 2018, at 1:36 AM, scott--- via use-livecode

Re: [OT] Web based HyperCard

Undoubtedly very clever, but I do wonder what the purpose of it is. Richmond. On 27/3/2018 8:36 am, scott--- via use-livecode wrote: This may be of interest to some of you (old) HyperCard folks. "ViperCard in an open source re-creation and re-imagination of 1987’s HyperCard.” It runs in a

Keyboarding

I use 2 BBC computers (from 1986) to teach BBC BASIC to children, as well as a variety of BBC computer emulators on Macintosh and Linux computers. The BBC keyboards are unlike the "bog normal" computer keyboard "we all know and love". An onscreen keyboard [i.e. a virtual BBC keyboard] would be

Re: Online Programming Environment

server its a good idea. thanks richmond. should we file this as feature request? On Sat, Mar 24, 2018 at 11:15 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote: I was "over here" just now: https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/do

Re: Layout metrics?

https://developer.apple.com/macos/human-interface-guidelines/buttons/image-buttons/ "*Include about 10 pixels of padding between your image edges and the button edges.* Even though the edges of an image button aren’t visible, they still define the clickable area for the button. Padding ensures

Online Programming Environment

I was "over here" just now: https://www.techsupportalert.com/content/dozens-free-online-programming-environments.htm http://www.tutorialspoint.com/codingground.htm and thought that a version of LiveCode (7.1.4 perhaps) available as an online thing might be a good 'hook'. Richmond.

Re: Mouse wheel scrolling support...

At the risk of sounding both naive and stupid I have just pasted a large text into a field with a vertical scrollBar in a field in a stack in LC 7.1.4 on Mac OS 10.7.5. With the "blobby thing" that passes for a scroll wheel on my A1152 Apple mouse I am able to scroll up and down in the field

Re: Linux 32-bit?

I am. Richmond. On 14/3/2018 10:28 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: S! Richmond may be listening! Bob S On Mar 14, 2018, at 13:11 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Do we need to maintain a 32-bit build for Linux? I've noticed a lot of

Re: Linux 32-bit?

Well, I, for one, deploy my English as a Foreign Language content programs to both 32 and 64 bit machines running Linux: but as they are all made with 8.1.8 or earlier this is NOT a reason to keep 32 bit versions for LiveCode 9. Richmond. On 14/3/2018 10:11 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode

Unicode inconsistency

When I do this: put numToCodePoint(0xA8FD) [Jain Omkara] I get the symbol in the Message Box. HOWEVER when I do this: put numToCodePoint(0xA8FD) into fld "gg" I get a "silly square: in fld "gg" For those of us who are "kinky" about symbols such as the Jain OM this is "most unfortunate".

Re: Rotating PNG images

No. All fairly pedestrian stuff. On 5/3/2018 9:43 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote: On 5 Mar 2018, at 18:34, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I set the angle on PNG images and they deteriorate. For clarity, are you setting the angle to something other than 90/180/270

Re: Rotating PNG images

On 5/3/2018 6:33 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: When testing here on Ubuntu 14.04 images rotated at 90, 180, or 270 look very good. How can I reproduce what you're seeing? Also, have you tried setting the angle property instead? There's no "instead", I set the angle on PNG

Re: Rotating PNG images

Erm . . . Yes: I trace the monochrome images in Inkscape and then import them into SVG widgets using my homegrown stack. On 5/3/2018 6:30 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: Richmond M. wrote: Not much. Luckily I am building images where the part that needs rotating is monochrome so that can be

Re: Rotating PNG images

"easily". Richmond. On 5/3/2018 5:22 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: if you set the resizequality of your images to "best" prior to rotating, does it help? It should make quite a difference. On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 3:48 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-li

Rotating PNG images

I have just spent/wasted 60 minutes rotating 64 PNG images in GIMP because LiveCode is incapable of rotating anything other than SVG images without a bad case of the "jaggies". Now I will have to import those 64 images into a stack and store them somewhere unseen to present inwith graphic

Re: Size of screen diagonal?

I'm not really sure how you would go about this. For instance: I have a 2006 iMac that uses both its in-built monitor and another second one. System Info tells me that my in-built display is 20.1 inches, but nothing about my other one beyond the fact that it is a VGA display. However, my

[OT] Haiku OS

https://www.haiku-os.org/ Does anyone know if Haiku OS; 1. Shows any sign whatsoever of gaining any traction? 2. Is there any point of attempting to compile LiveCode for Haiku OS (beyond a spare time project)? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

Well . . . That puts "q" into both fields with a US English keyboard layout . . . & ит АЛСО (whoops) it ALSO puts "q" into both fields with a Bulgarian keyboard layout. So "NBG" I'm afraid. Thanks for the suggestion :-) Richmond. P.S. Had to change 'N' to 'M'. On 28/2/2018 11:19 am, hh

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

No, I don't: (Handler: can't find handler) near "rawKeyDown", char 1 Richmond. On 27/2/2018 11:16 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Do you mean: send "rawKeyDown" WITH 113? Bob S On Feb 25, 2018, at 02:09 , Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

ent, if you add pass rawkeydown in your second handler, does it solve the problem? Catching rawkeydown without passing it, should indeed keep anything from appearing in the field. On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

. On 25/2/2018 8:44 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: See the dictionary entry for the "type" command. This sends rawKeyUp|rawKeyDown messages This might let you construct a stack that "calibrates" (or whatever you want to call it) what keys on any keyboard generate what keyDow

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

tever you want to call it) what keys on any keyboard generate what keyDown number and what characters On 2/25/2018 5:09 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Erm . . . I want to set up a stack that will list an end-user's keyDowns by sending their system a set of rawKeyU

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

verflow.com/questions/21597804/determine-os-x-keyboard-layout-input-source-in-the-terminal-a-script . (goes off to napland) On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: That's great, but I'm currently working on a Macintosh. Richmond

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

ift key.." sequence to determine base layout (which again, wouldn't cover every base if the user has changed the keyboard map, so you might need to have them press every key... xkbcom might get around that if you can figure out enough to interpret the results) On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 8:22 AM,

Re: send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

Either I did not explain things very well or you got hold of the wrong end of the stick (or, most probably a bit of both: probably the latter as a consequence of the former). Imagine, if you will, I need to know what an end-user's standard keyboard layout is. Let's call our theoretical

send "keyUp" / "rawKeyUp" ?

Erm . . . I want to set up a stack that will list an end-user's keyDowns by sending their system a set of rawKeyUps . . . PseudoCode: in a button: on mouseUp send "rawKeyDown" to key 113 end mouseUp in the cardScript: on rawKeyDown XX get keyUp XX put XX somewhere useful end

Re: Am I Dreaming?

e dreaming though. ancient traditions have called this Maya..the cosmic dream. ;) On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 11:36 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On February 18, 2018 2:07:41 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev

Re: Am I Dreaming?

Who is "Richomnd"? And, if that is meant to refer to me that's odd as I haven't taken part in this posting until I wrote this. I had a 'bothersome' patch with the scriptEditor yesterday (Mac OS): I had edited about 70 similar scripts in similar objects. Now these scripts have 4 parts: on

Re: Text Styles: Expanded, condensed

That reference is all about htmlText . . . Having a look at Revolution Media Build 950 Version 4.0.0 on Mac OS 10.7.5 . . . [Not as daft as I look: always a good idea to hang onto old, licensed versions.] I found this: set the textStyle of line 1 of field "Main" to condensed So; like

Re: Livecode.com server down

Well: 1. What leaves my mouth is what leaves my mouth: it does not carry a little packet with it labelled "intentions". 2. What enters your ear is what leaves my mouth: it then has a packet attached to it labelled "interpretations". Now, we all know that Heather (and Co.) are not

Re: Livecode.com server down

that can be learned, will be learned, we never stand still on these things. Best Regards to all Heather On 15 Feb 2018, at 22:12, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On 02/15/2018 01:35 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: This IS the way the worl

Re: Livecode.com server down

its cable to your modem; the OS you are using on your machine should be your choice alone. Having said that . . . any chance of LiveCode for UNIX coming back? Richmond. On 16/2/2018 12:12 am, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 02/15/2018 01:35 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-live

Re: Livecode.com server down

I have a USB stick full of off-line activation licences all the way back to 7.1.4 as I have a variety of computers in various places in our flat, and one in our country cottage, that are not internet enabled. Richmond. On 15/2/2018 11:18 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 02/15/2018

Re: Livecode.com server down

I have problems with mu ISP about once every 4 or 5 months: It is NEVER their fault: it's because I use Linux, because I use FreeDOS, because I use Macintosh, because I am "stupid" enough not to use Windows; it's because I have 2 computers within 3 feet of each other, it's because my hair is

Re: [OT] self-expanding archives in Mac Classic

. Macintosh Garden has expanders and image mounters for just about any type of archive. They have a search engine that will show a lot of applications and I think they are your best solution. Without more info thats all I can do. JB On Feb 14, 2018, at 4:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode

Re: Unicode Stretch

Answering my own post (nothing new in this area): YES! Richmond. On 15/2/2018 12:51 am, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Does numToCodePoint "stretch" to Supplementary Private Use Area-B (plane 16) Range: 10-10FFFD Richmond. ___ use-livecode

Unicode Stretch

Does numToCodePoint "stretch" to Supplementary Private Use Area-B (plane 16) Range: 10-10FFFD Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Getting current line number of a table field.

Hey-Ho . . . I tried this script in the tableField: on mouseDown put the selectedLine of me end mouseDown and it returned the line where I clicked. Richmond. On 14/2/2018 3:06 pm, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote: Hi, Editing a table field (not datagrid) and need to track the number

[OT] self-expanding archives in Mac Classic

I have just downloaded a phonetic font I used in 1994 on Mac OS 7.1 when I was doing a Masters degree at SIUC Carbondale. It comes as a .cpt.hqx file. On my iMac PPC G5 running Mac OS 10.4.11 and Classic 9.1.2 it expands with Stuffit Expander for Mac OS 9 3.5 into a self-expanding archive, at

Re: Inspector - resizable or not?

Panos -- On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 9:32 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: If by "Inspector" you mean what I think of as the "Properties Palette" on Xubuntu 17.10 I always (8.1.9) get a fairly "normal" thing w

Re: Inspector - resizable or not?

If by "Inspector" you mean what I think of as the "Properties Palette" on Xubuntu 17.10 I always (8.1.9) get a fairly "normal" thing when I first open it. I can increase the WIDTH of the Inspector, but I cannot increase its HEIGHT. I would suppose (?) a "happy little work around" might be to

Re: discrepancy between official device metric and LC stack size

As my school Maths teacher said, many years ago: "You go into the house before going up the stairs." Although, to be fair, LiveCode is a bit warped insofar as you "go into the house, and then down into the cellar." Best, Richmond. On 14/2/2018 7:33 am, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote:

Re: LC Toolbar

I am getting this thing on Mac OS 10.7.5 and I like it as I don't have to keep fossicking around down on the Dock to find the relevant LC/RR icon (I've currently got 9 different ones on my Dock) if Im switching back and forth between GIMP and LiveCode (my 2 favourite apps regardless of

Re: OT - What linux do you recommend for older PCs?

"illegal": that's funny, I thought EULA thingies were not legally binding. Although, to be honest, spending "all that bother" installing Mac OS on a machine that isn't designed for it seems a bit pointless when Linux works on almost any machine you can throw at it. Richmond. On 23/1/2018

Re: OT - What linux do you recommend for older PCs?

That only is of value IFF you care about what the Linux version of LiveCode is missing. AND more people should be badgering LiveCode to get their Linux version up to par. Richmond. On 23/1/2018 12:39 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: Matthias, sometimes I use a nearly identical netbook (for

Re: OT - What linux do you recommend for older PCs?

I run Xubuntu 16.04 on machines with significantly lower specifications with no trouble at all. Richmond. On 23/1/2018 2:31 am, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi, so this goes to the Linux experts on this list. I have here an old Asus EeePC 1000H which currently runs with Windows XP

Re: Switcheroo

he line number end repeat On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 9:09 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I have a list field where each line may contain a number or be empty. I need a SWITCH statement that checks the state of each line . . . This is throwing

Switcheroo

I have a list field where each line may contain a number or be empty. I need a SWITCH statement that checks the state of each line . . . This is throwing a "bluey": switch line number of fld "MM" is empty Where am I going wrong? Richmond. ___

Re: Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

If you export html from Open Office Calc / Excel, then import it into a textfield, and then move it into a Basic Table Field like this: set the columnDelimiter to TAB set the htmlText of fld "fSPREAD" to the text of fld "fTEXT" where field "fSPREAD" is a table field all the styling from your

Re: Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

If you could find a way to export a tab-delimited RTF file from your spreadsheet program you might be laughing. Richmond. On 16/1/2018 10:54 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Open Office can read Excel files and successfully export them to .html preserving ALL formatting! As Open Office is open

Re: Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

Open Office can read Excel files and successfully export them to .html preserving ALL formatting! As Open Office is open source code . . . . https://www.openoffice.org/ I have just imported a styled .html file exported from an Open Office Spreadsheet into a textField in LiveCode 7.1.4

Re: Reading from xls or xlsx - with style

It is amazing how many online xls to html converters are available . . . if only one could get at their code . . . This loooks a bit "dicky" as it is either to a barebones html file and a load of connected files or to something called an .mht or .mhtml file. Here's something else:

Naive Question time again

When a new version (dp, rc, stable) of LiveCode is released how much of the change from the previous version resides in the engine and how much in the IDE (i.e. the collection of stacks starting with rev associated with the engine? Richmond. ___

Knight's Tour

It could be fun implementing this in LiveCode: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/weigm15xsi781vp/AAAJxWGLXT3hrm65fOlNh1BDa?dl=0 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Standalone Name vs Display Name

I don't think this is particularly complicated; it is rather like the fact that you can have a standalone on a desktop system called something (e.g. "XXX") but when the standalone opens it can have something else on its title bar (e.g. "Oh, you expected XXX"). Richmond. On 14/1/2018 8:24

Re: Externally reffed-off

On 10/1/2018 10:21 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 10.01.2018 um 21:14 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: Although "/" was mentioned in the post to which I replied I have come across places (not sure where:

Re: OT: Why I Probably Will Never, Ever Learn HTML%

Well, that page is like most computer manual pages: written in pompous, over-jargonised language. I am 100% sure that what that page actually covers up is fairly straight forward. I just had a look at Danny Goodman's "The Complete HyperCard 2.2" and realised that its 1144 pages could be

Re: Externally reffed-off

you, Richmond to ask the questions that the rest of us are afraid to ask thanks for being here, grumpy or not -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Presumabl

Re: Externally reffed-off

nd, Am 10.01.2018 um 13:23 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: And, IF, I were to try to port the thing to Android or iPad/iPhone would specialfolderpath "do it" over there as well? yes, as stated in the dictionary! Richmond. Best Klaus -

Re: Externally reffed-off

10/1/2018 2:01 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 10.01.2018 um 12:57 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: My "problem" Klaus is that I don't know YOUR LiveCode, that's why I wrote "Know YOUR Livecode&q

Re: Externally reffed-off

Well, YOUR LiveCode, MY LiveCode, EVERYONE'S LiveCode: YOUR recipe worked. Thanks a bucket! Richmond. On 10/1/2018 2:01 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 10.01.2018 um 12:57 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: My &q

Re: Externally reffed-off

I thought I'd "play a game", so I set up a new stack with 2 buttons: [Mac OS] Button 1 contained this script: onmouseUp setthedefaultfoldertospecialfolderpath("resources" endmouseUp and Button 2 contained this script: onmouseUp putthedefaultFolder endmouseUp I clicked on Button 1 and

Re: Externally reffed-off

bundle, not the bundle'slocation. For example, if the bundle's file path is "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/", the filename of the application's main stack might be "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp". On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <

Re: Externally reffed-off

ample, if the bundle's file path is "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/", the filename of the application's main stack might be "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp". On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wro

Re: Externally reffed-off

inside the bundle, not the bundle'slocation. For example, if the bundle's file path is "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/", the filename of the application's main stack might be "/Volumes/Disk/MyApp.app/Contents/MacOS/MyApp". On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 3:54 AM, Richmond Mathewson via u

Externally reffed-off

I am currently working on something that calls a lot of external images which are stored in a folder called "rez" in the same location as my stack, and when my stack opens it works its way through the script: onpreOpenStack setitemDelto"/" setthedefaultFoldertoitem 1 to-2

Re: Custom Combo Box

https://web.archive.org/web/20100307235836/http://revmentor.com/tag/combobox Richmond. On 9/1/2018 4:06 pm, Charles Szasz via use-livecode wrote: Does anyone have the Custom Combo Box sample stack that was created by Jerry Daniels? It was cited in an old revUp article (Issue 87, March 4,

Re: Let's rotate an SVG widget

"But you can compute the needed rectangle and resize the widget accordingly by LC Script." Indeed: but that presupposes I'm NOT a lazy slob8-) http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8=30405 Richmond. On 7/1/2018 11:58 am, hh via use-livecode wrote: Maintain aspect ratio is for resizing

Re: Let's rotate an SVG widget

I went here: https://livecode.com/livecode-widgets-svg-path/ and came across maintainAspectRatio which sounds dead groovy: setthemaintainAspectRatio ofwidget "hour" totrue settheangleofwidget "hour" toINC but it didn't maintain its aspect ratio . . . Richmond. On 7/1/2018 10:43 am, Richmond

Let's rotate an SVG widget

So, I imported an SVG from Inkscape into an SVG widget . . . Then I tried to rotate the thing; it rotated, it kept "swelling and shrinking" because its bounding box was square. This is not cutting the mustard. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: text encoding problem Mac to iOS?

Well, if it is any comfort at all, it looks OK on Mac OS 10.7.5. HOW did you paste the text into the Column header? as cannot find that in the props palette. Richmond. On 6/1/2018 7:57 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Hermann Am 06.01.2018 um 18:49 schrieb hh via use-livecode

Re: text encoding problem Mac to iOS?

A datagrid is "a funny composite", and that might be where the secret lies. Richmond. On 6/1/2018 6:19 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 06.01.2018 um 17:14 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: set the un

Re: text encoding problem Mac to iOS?

set the unicodeText of fld "blahblah" to the unicodeText /of however you refer to a column in a datagrid/ ? On 6/1/2018 5:01 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi friends, please take a look at this screenshot: left: IDE right: simulator

Re: Mac 64 bit?

Dunno: but, both the 32-bit and the 64-bit version of my Devawriter run "as they should" on my Mac OS 10.7.5 imac, for all that that may be worth. Richmond. On 4/1/2018 1:30 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: I notice using LC 8.1.8 (the latest stable release AFAIK) that in the

Print to PDF needs extending

I got a bit "Pee-Dee-Effed Off" when I realised that to print the contents of a field to PDF one had to "fool around" with the field so that it fitted the dimensions of the card on which the field resided; because Print to PDF can ONLY print a Card to PDF. WHY is this? I believe that a "Print

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