Re: Windows and OSX 64-bit builds?

, Feb 13, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Something that never stops annoying me is the requirement for students who want to study programming to be good at Mathematics. Richmond. -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol C

[OT] Kid's Play

When you need to have a break from LiveCode how about popping over here: https://www.facebook.com/RichmondsCoding Of course, if that fills you will joy: then go back and do it all in LiveCode :) Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@l

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.3

Congratulations! Richmond. On 2/21/17 11:57 am, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.3 Stable. By "Stable", we mean that no reported regressions have been introduced in 8.1.3, compared to the previous Stable releas

Re: Null symbol cross platform

Frankly I would just take a look at the Unicode convention's guff: U+2205 is a sort of "O" with a slanted line through it: http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2205/index.htm http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2200.pdf If you stare at this PDF long enough you might get a free trip with

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-5

I wish I could understand the way different "levels" come out concurrently. Are we to assume that all the new things in 8.1.3 are also bound into 9.0.0 DP-5? Richmond. On 2/23/17 10:41 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of

Re: Null symbol cross platform

ansliteration from vague memory, so apologies if mangled). Best wishes, David Glasgow On 22 Feb 2017, at 2:04 pm, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Frankly I would just take a look at the Unicode convention's guff: U+2205 is a sort of "O" with a slanted line throu

Re: Remote debugger

Today I spent most of the day using a proximal debugger: a nit comb, for the simple reason that as the weather has warmed up several of the children picked up head-lice from "somewhere". When I saw postings about a "remote debugger" it cheered me up no end after an awful day. Thanks; what a

Re: Release 9.0.0 DP-5

For anyone other than myself who might possibly care about this sort of thing: 9.0.0 DP-4 runs on Mac OS 10.7.5 while 9.0.0 DP-5 does not [which means that when I want to explore its features I shall use the Linux version] Richmond. ___ use-live

Goofy Drawing question

Probably very goofy, but nevertheless stumping me, so here goes: I should like to issue this sort of command (pseudocode): draw from 250,250 to 375, 375 and a line of the thickness and colour I have cosen would appear on the card. Richmond. ___ use

Re: Goofy Drawing question

Aah: paint, as I don't really want lots of "artifacts" lying around after the exercise. Richmond. On 2/25/17 12:07 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: Assuming you wish to draw, not to paint: local gg="goofy", fc="255,0,0", ls=3 on mouseUp lock screen if there is no grc gg then create grc g

Squashed Turtles

Ouch: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28898 Richmond. ___ 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/l

Re: Dragging widgets

I found that messing around at work in my lunch hour on Linux 32-bit; just tried the same thing on Mac OS with the same results. Richmond. On 2/27/17 2:43 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: Let’s hope it’s a bug. I have not tried this yet, but I am about to embark on a development that

Re: Dragging widgets

I have mentioned several times how I would like SVG import to be as simple as PNG import, and all handling subsequently as simple as other image formats. I suspect the price of being able to rotate SVG images (set the angle) in a way which means they don't go "all fuzzy" is that they cannot be

Re: Dragging widgets

I tried grouping my SVG widget, and that allows me to drag the group: on mouseDown grab me end mouseDown HOWEVER, when I wish to move the SVG widget itself it vanishs as it moves outwith the boundaries of the group. NOW: whether I can group my "Turtle" SVG widget and then have my Turtle G

Re: Dragging widgets

Thank you for all the suggestions. I wnent for grouping the widget and the dragging the group. I have used this in the most recent version of my Turtle Graphics stack that I uploaded about 30 minutes ago: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=28898 However, the inconsistency between

Re: Dragging widgets

Indeed: On 2/28/17 11:27 pm, Quentin Long via use-livecode wrote: On Feb 28, 2017, at 07:14 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: an image is an image is an image, whether it is png, bitmap, jpg or svg, the fact that is is a "widget" is secondary to the use case. sez Bob Sneid

Re: Is it just the IDE that crashes, or are standalone at risk?

I don't know which platform you are deploying either the IDE or standalones on; but I currently use: 6.1.something and standalones on Mac OS 10.5.8 PPC 7.1.4, 8.1.3, 9.0.0 DP-4 andstandalones on Mac OS 10.7.5, 8.1.3 standalones on ReactOS 5 pre-release (!), 7.1.4, 8.1.3, 9.0.0 DP-5 andstandal

Re: Dragging widgets

Name dropping like that (HYPE from Tumult) inevitably makes me want to check the thing out. http://tumult.com/hype/ It certainly looks very impressive . . . BUT: 1. It is confined to one platform (Mac OS X 10.8 and up). 2. Its output seems to be HTML5 only. As I only stretch to Mac OS 10.7.

Re: Dragging widgets

No, HYPE is not 'serious' competition; it might be something that squishes LiveCode's HTML5 extension if LiveCode don't buck up and get on with things in that direction. On 3/1/17 11:07 pm, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: 1. mar. 2017 kl. 20.40 skrev Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livec

Re: "ouch: the beginning of the end"

I'm not sure whether it does that any more. I have just tried to import an EPS file in LC 9.0.0 DP-5 on Linux and couldn't find any menu that would let me do that. Richmond. On 3/3/17 1:24 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 3/2/17 5:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: It's 20

Re: ouch: the beginning of the end

By the way . . . I have to send various PDF forms to my sons in the USA and Germany with my signature on the original PDF. I open the PDF in GIMP, add a layer to the relevant page, and overlay a PNG of my signature (I signed my name using my Wacom tablet into GIMP and extracted the pen colou

Re: ouch: the beginning of the end

I think Dr Hawkins wants to enter data into the PDF documents rather than either view them or extract data from them. Richmond. On 3/3/17 6:55 pm, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Its likely I'm being dense here... but does the PDF viewer not meet your needs? https://livecode.com/product

Re: ouch: the beginning of the end

On 3/3/17 7:59 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Its likely I'm being dense here... but does the PDF viewer not meet your needs? No; it really isn't even in the same range. What I a

Re: [ANN] XLSX Library ready for a test - Looking for testers

Interestingly enough when I tried this out on my plastic iMac running Mac OS 10.7.5 it exported the .xlsx document, but when I attempted to open it with Excel 2011 I got this: "Excel could not open myReport.xlsx because some content is unreadable. Do you want to open and repair this workbook? "

Re: ouch: the beginning of the end

What's wrong with an SVG image? Richmond. On 3/3/17 9:27 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: As for on screen display, an eps should be far simpler than the containers for video and so forth. Also, an eps is/should be the preferred for

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-5

One of the points that might be brought up at this point is that LiveCode in presented as a complete programming language/packet in itself; there is no indication given that users of LiveCode are expected to know other, lower-level languages too. I suspect that a very high proportion of people

Download LC Community: trapped.

Until a few days ago, if you went via the OBSCURE green button right at the bottom-left of the LiveCode landing page [ www.livecode.com ] to the Open Source page [ www.livecode.org ] you could, by clicking on the "Download" text at the top of that page go to the download page [ www.downloads.liv

Re: Working browser widget/linux-flavour combinations?

Never tried it; so have just done: Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit, 8.1.3: "something" Had to KILL Livecode. As above, 9.0.0 DP-6: no obvious difference. Tut, tut, tut. sincerely, Richmond. On 3/9/17 9:55 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: I would like to test some browser interaction on linux. Please, c

Re: Working browser widget/linux-flavour combinations?

However "showcase" the browser widget may be you should remember that, as far as I can see, Linux versions come a long way down the food chain. Richmond. On 3/9/17 10:42 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Richmond. There are bug reports from Sept 2016 reporting this 'something'-answer you

Re: Download LC Community: trapped.

be honest. -- Personal blether ends And it is, indeed a gae richt scunner anent maist fowk's glisk til the free version, but I for yin amnae ma brither's keeper nor dictator forbye. Richmond. On 3/9/17 11:32 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 3/9/2017 1:02 PM, Ri

Re: [Blog] Infinite LiveCode Progress

Those stretch goals just keep on stretching: and I expect you remember Hooke's Law from school. Richmond. On 3/10/17 4:11 am, Mark Smith via use-livecode wrote: Speaking of Infinite, I have been asked to upgrade an older iPad product (which was developed in 5.0) and I thought while I am in the

Re: Download LC Community: trapped

I would hope that all first-time downloaders supply an e-mail adress, but notwithstanding that they should be given the option to opt out. Richmond. On 3/10/17 5:55 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I'm all for requiring an email address to DL the community version. After all, they are

Re: Download LC Community: trapped

Indeed; but now this is drifting OT. Richmond. On 3/10/17 7:04 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I have bad news for everyone who thinks that by not giving their email address out actually does anything to prevent it from getting on a spam list. If you mother has the address in her addr

Re: Download LC Community: trapped

d I agree that it should not be required. ~Roger On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Indeed; but now this is drifting OT. Richmond. On 3/10/17 7:04 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I have bad news for everyon

Re: Translating escape sequences

No; it won't always be 4 characters, here's an admittedly extremely obscure ancient Sinhala number; 0x111F4. Of course the chances of encountering whacky characters like that is small, but you'll have to make sure you can cope with them should they crop up. If you look at Eduardo Ba\u00f1uls

Re: Translating escape sequences

with that. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On March 15, 2017 2:28:57 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: No; it won't always be 4 characters, here's an admittedly extre

Re: Linux 32bit?

Because the LiveCode people have removed a link to the downloads page because they want to force you to submit a e-mail address. I mentioned this in an earlier posting and expressed my opinion that this was not a good idea at all. Go here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ Richmond. On

Re: Linux 32bit?

This just echos what LiveCode have been doing for a long, long time, and I get slammed every time I mention it: They talk "the talk" about FOSS, 'Community' and so on, and listen when it suits them, but don't when it doesn't. They show every sign of pushing LiveCode in a direction which wll ex

Re: Linux 32bit?

On 3/20/17 10:56 pm, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote: on Mon Mar 20 2017, William A. Prothero, Jr wrote: Something that might draw in New users who want a ready made solution I think that "a ready made solution" is a bit low down the pecking order; LiveCode is not, and has never bee

Re: rawKeyUp/Down give different keys for same char since LC 8

This might be part of the Unicode conformity now present right across LiveCode. hex E4 ( 228 ) is the Unicode address for *ä* hex 27 ( 39 ) gives a single apostrophe Testing a German keyboard layout on Mac OS 10.7.5 with LC 7.1.4 I get 39 for *ä, 59 for ö, 45 for ß, 91 for ü with both rawKeyD

Re: [ANN] tinyDictionary

That's going to go a long way to solving the Linux problem. Thanks, Bernd. On 3/22/17 4:37 pm, BNig via use-livecode wrote: I uploaded a compact version of the dictionaries for LC 8.1 and up to Livecodeshare http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/825/tinyDictionary_0_7_7_7 this is also accessi

Unicode 0x1cf6 and so on

It seems impossible to do this: put numToCodepoint(0x1cf7) into fld "fff" (LC 8.1.3) all one gets is a horrible little square (which one should not): http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-10.0/U100-1CD0.pdf if one does this sort of thing: put numToCodepoint(0x1cf7) & numToCodepoint(123) i

Re: Unicode 0x1cf6 and so on

I have a "funny feeling" this is some problem with kerning rules for the characters 1CF5, 1CF6 and 1CF7 only. On 3/25/17 4:54 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: It seems impossible to do this: put numToCodepoint(0x1cf7) into fld "fff" (LC 8.1.3) all one gets is a horrible little square (which one

Re: Unicode 0x1cf6 and so on

NOPE: this would seem to be a LiveCode-specific problem as I just entered those 3 characters (which are present in my Devawriter.ttf) font into a LibreOffice Writer document (Mac OS) without a backward glance. Bug 19471 Richmond. On 3/25/17 5:35 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I have a "funny f

A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.

Good! That caught your attention! But, something a lot more prosaic, but important nonetheless: If I have a SWITCH like this: on rawKeyDown RAWK switch RAWK case 65288 set the text of the selectedText to numToCodepoint(65288) break end switch end rawKeyDown why do I get a /space/ f

Re: A funny thing happened on the way to the forum.

Cripes . . . Now how was I to know that: onrawKeyUp KUP switchKUP case65288 iffld "Blah" is empty then --do nix--- else deletetheselectedText endif break default passrawKeyUp endswitch endrawKeyUp would work, while the same nonsense inside a rawKeyDown thing ended up with egg salad?

LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

*Mark Waddingham_wrote:_ * snip I suspect OpenOffice does its own (bespoke) font layout and rendering which is why it 'does something there'. However, whether or not what it does is 'correct', is another matter. snip Of course the "nasty" question to ask at this po

Re: just some cool stuff

Yup: me too: second time. Richmond. On 3/26/17 6:30 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: This is the the second time in a week that one of these penetrated the list, I believe . .. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: Libraries To Contribute

On 3/26/17 6:32 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 5:06 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: thanks, I was hoping it would be complete so I could just copy/paste it... I don't do windows :) You certainly need someone who know

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

Interestingly enough this FREE program for Macintosh: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/9752/unicodechecker Very successfully displays glyphs I have built into my Devawriter.ttf font in comformance with the Unicode version 10 Beta specification. This all on my supposedly outmoded system 10.7.

UnicodeChecker

I am extremely impressed by your program. I have just downloaded it onto my "New-for-you" Polycarbonate iMac running Mac OS 10.7.5 and blew my mind when I saw it could display characters from a font I have built in conformance with the Unicode 10 Beta specifications: especially when Mac OS 10.

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

I came to the Macintosh party late (even if the kilt I wear is always Hunting Macintosh, from my Grandfather Richmond McIntosh) in 1993 with an LC 475 running system 7.1. Richmond On 3/28/17 6:05 pm, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: On Tue, Mar 28, 2017 at 2:17 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-l

Re: Object Selection Handles

That's why I do 95% of my graphic design "elsewhere" (Gimp, Inkscape, and so on). Doing the "application dance" seems to take up an awful lot of time, and that along with the eternal import-export-import thing can get a wee bit tedious. If all the graphic stuff could be done on-board things wou

Re: codePointToNum

However, "(baseConvert: bad destination base)" does not help much. This mainly because your example was wrong. I tried this: put baseConvert(codePointToNum("&"), 10, 16) because your syntax was the wrong way round, BUT it go "all stuffy" about the codePointToum, so I did this: put codePoin

Unicode Reference stack

Here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29069 Richmond. ___ 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/

Re: Unicode Reference stack

Things just got better! On 3/31/17 10:11 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29069 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Cheesed off by 32xxx

What a nuisance: There I was, merrily churning through the button titles for my Unicode Reference thing [ http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29069 ] which needed at least 1600 buttons that were 23 pixels deep layered underneath each other. What happens? At the "Magic Number" of

Re: Cheesed off by 32xxx

n Apr 1, 2017, at 3:07 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: What a nuisance: There I was, merrily churning through the button titles for my Unicode Reference thing [ http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=26&t=29069 ] which needed at least 1600 buttons that were 23 pixels deep

Re: Cheesed off by 32xxx

On 4/2/17 7:01 pm, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: Howdy Richmond, Wise man do many things with few buttons. Yup: only one problem there . . . I prefer zippers! Elite master use single field. Difficult when you have to make sure the bull doesn't get in with the cows. That is th

Re: Cheesed off by 32xxx

I'm interested and will have a look at it after supper. Thanks, Richmond. On 4/2/17 8:01 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Just for fun, I did as others have said and converted the stack to use a field. Since each button used the same exact script (as far as I could tell, too many to go

Re: Gradients with transparency?

Personally I'd fake it: I'd set up a gradient with one end being transparent in my graphics weapon of choice (GIMP) and save it as a PNG image, import it and overlay it on top of your content, then make sure you group it with your content before you do an export from group "JazzyGradient" to

Re: Cheesed off by 32xxx

Thanks for such an informative posting. On 4/3/17 9:58 am, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-04-02 19:07, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: The problem, such as it is, is that the Unicode specifications have 128 * 8703 slots for glyphs (= a big number my mind cannot cope

RevMedia and back-to-the-future

I would like to install RevMedia (the free version) on my G5 iMac running Mac OS 105 but the licence seems to have expired. Any bright ideas on this? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscr

Re: Mysterious customer

Personally I don't think "Artie" "knows his arse from hit t*t" . . . . and just as soon as I get my sweaty paws on my wife's MacBook Air, running 10.12.4 I will be able to tell him the difference, tactfully, of course, you know me :P Richmond. On 4/4/17 3:06 pm, Roger Eller via use-livecode wr

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.4 RC-1

I'm Happy, and everyone should be; and, despite my foul-mouthed mumblings, the LiveCode team rock. Richmond. On 4/4/17 4:39 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.4 RC-1. Getting the Release ===

Re: Mysterious customer

OK: I'm off to "prune" my app :) Richmond. On 4/4/17 7:45 pm, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote: My application is 728 high. This covers 99% of users. I know that you’re not releasing it for Windows, but there are Windows users with 11” screens. If the OS reports screen resolution < 800

Re: Mysterious customer

"Artie" says: "I wonder if, suspect, actually, that this has something to do with my Retina screen." I have no access to a retina screen, so would be grateful if anyone who has would go to the MacUpdate website and download my "CHAR REF" standalone and see what happens. Richmond. On 4/4/17

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.4 RC-1

Hmm: the Mac OS Indy version of 8.1.4 RC-1 offered me the option to "upgrade" to 8.1.3. Needs a tweak there :) Richmond. On 4/4/17 4:39 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.4 RC-1. Getting the Release ==

Re: Mysterious customer

"Artie" just sent me this: "I wonder if this will give you a clue, Richmond... A while back I ran into a problem wherein I all of a sudden couldn't save screenshots to my Butler pasteboards until its developer explained that Retina screens have three times as many pixels as regular screens, s

Re: Using Right-Click Contextual menu in Linux

It seems alright over "here": Xubuntu 16.04, 64-bit. Best, Richmond. On 4/4/17 9:46 pm, Alejandro Tejada via use-livecode wrote: Hi All, Could you check in your own Linux setup, if Right-Click contextual menu works fine in LiveCode IDE (version 8.1.3)? Thanks in advance! Al _

HyperCard on your current Macintosh computer

https://github.com/jedahan/hypermac On the upper right-hand side of the page there is a green "Clone or download" button. Clicking this reveals an menu which has an option "Download Zip". Extract this zip, then run the app "Mini vMac". Not me, just something I found on a Yahoo Group. Richmon

Re: Suspend LiveCode UI

Development/Suspend Development Tools Richmond. On 4/5/17 1:13 pm, Mats Åström via use-livecode wrote: Hi, the dictionary reads: "The LiveCode development environment traps the copyKey message, unless "Suspend LiveCode UI" is turned on in the Development menu. This means that thecopyKey messa

Re: Mysterious customer

until they actually die (the computer, not the user;-) then a height no taller than 756 px should reduce your support calls. On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 3:51 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: "Artie" says: "I wonder if, suspect, actually, that this has something to do with my

Re: "System" font on Mac - diff between LC 8 and LC 9??

LC 8.1.3 (Mac OS 10.7.5): I get the bold but NOT the italic. LC 9.0.0 DP 4 (Mac OS 10.7.5: exactly the same. Best, Richmond. On 4/12/17 6:14 am, James Hale via use-livecode wrote: set the htmltext of fld 1 to "this is bold and this is italic" ___

mergEXT

" an Indy or Business license, will I get mergEXT automatically? Yes!" As I have an Indy licence I would be grateful if I could find out where I can download mergEXT. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit th

Re: mergEXT

Thanks for the heads up! Richmond. On 4/12/17 3:43 pm, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: you don't download it. It's built in. On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: " an Indy or Business licens

Re: mergEXT

OK: now for the goofy questions . . . . 1. How do I find my robot's pUUID on a Mac? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://

Re: mergEXT

use-livecode wrote: Robot? On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: OK: now for the goofy questions . . . . 1. How do I find my robot's pUUID on a Mac? Richmond. _

Re: mergEXT

with version 3.0/4.0+ EDR Bluetooth (e.g. iPad3 and later)" So... I would think you would use mergBLE for this. http://mergext.com/home/mergble/ ~Roger On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 9:01 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Yup: https:

Re: Downloads - Immodest Proposal

"swiftly" Dunno: tossed a baby on the barbeque just last weekend. Richmond. On 4/13/17 11:09 am, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: On 13/04/2017 02:49, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: (I was going to joke around a bit for those who are familiar with the original "Modest Proposa

Re: mergEXT

iewtopic.php?f=9&t=28007&p= 147215&hilit=mergBLE#p147215 On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 10:18 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I must be really stupid . . . but . . . How do I use mergBLE to get a simple list of BlueTooth devices in a

Re: mergEXT

I've just spend a fair time poking around the internet and cannot find an application that can give me the UUID numbers associated with a paired Bluetooth device . . . Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Downloads - Immodest Proposal

On 4/13/17 7:44 pm, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: > 'Confusion' being an understatement, it would have swiftly > caused shock and horror :) > Dave Yep. :) But there are good reasons for comparison. Swift was making an outrageous joke to draw attention to other actual proposals for

Re: mergEXT

b links will point you in the right direction? Phil Davis On 4/13/17 9:05 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I've just spend a fair time poking around the internet and cannot find an application that can give me the UUID numbers associated with a paired

Re: Downloads - Immodest Proposal

+1 On 4/14/17 11:51 am, Kevin Miller via use-livecode wrote: Of course we listen. We read what comes in here and on many other venues. We just don¹t always agree or have time to respond on every point. As far as the marketing goes, as with all these things we will test different approaches over

Re: mergEXT

rld" broadcast from LiveCode when you open his MergBLE sample stack. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.macdom.ble.blescanner ~Roger On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 2:33 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I end up with a lot of links to someth

Re: Downloads - Immodest Proposal

On 4/14/17 6:13 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: I too am not well off, but in order to "help within my means" I am paying for membership. Its not much, but far better than 0. The only thing I want to find out now is where to get nightly builds from. (a perk of membership, yet no info

Re: mergEXT

d. On 4/14/17 6:32 pm, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote: My link was directly to the app I used, made by Bluepixel Technology LLP. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.macdom.ble.blescanner ~Roger On Fri, Apr 14, 2017 at 11:18 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use

Re: type the label of me

I've just had a go with this too, and got exactly the same result ("Adlie") which would seem to suggest that type has not been "Unicodized" yet. I have found an effective workaround that goes like this: (script of a button with the label "Adélie") on mouseUp put 1 into KK repeat until KK >

Italic text within fields on Mac OS

Doesn't work. Richmond. ___ 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

Re: Italic text within fields on Mac OS

mouseUp set the textStyle of field "TextField1" of this card to italic put "Hi there" into field "TextField1" of this card end mouseUp Good luck! Rick On Apr 15, 2017, at 4:08 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode w

Re: List of available SVG icons, name AND icon?

Where is the popup (8.1.3)? Richmond. On 4/21/17 8:48 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi there, anyone knows of a way to see all available SVG icons for e.g. the SVG and "Navigation Bar" widgets in another way than the very unhandy popup with the VERY narrow scrollbar? I see myself

Re: List of available SVG icons, name AND icon?

If all the SVGs for the SVG widget are derived from a font . . . . fontawesome.ttf Livecode/Contents/Tools/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/fonts/fontawesome.ttf and one knows their Unicode glyph addresses . . . . 0xE600 - 0xE60B, 0xF000 - 0xF1E2 Richmond. On 4/21/17 8:48 pm, Klaus major-k

Re: List of available SVG icons, name AND icon?

Well, here's some sort of a start: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=29163#p153534 At least it should help those of us who find peering at "that thing" (the transparent menu) a pain-in-the-opticals. Richmond. On 4/21/17 9:44 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 4/21/1

Re: Cognitive load

I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better. Surely a better equation might be how much one gets out for what one puts in. Another consideration is how many transferrable skills one learns during any one cognitive apprenticeship. Richmond. On 4/23/17 2:29 am, Mike Kerner via use-

Stupid Q No 999: mergeBLE

So, here I am with Livecode 8.1.3 Indy (owing to the generosity of a donor) which contains mergeBLE I also own a floor-robot (Blue-Bot), know its UUID and have complete documentation of commands accepted by the robot. HOWEVER, I cannot for the life of me work out HOW one would do this sort of

Re: Cognitive load

On 4/23/17 2:59 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote: On 23 Apr 2017, at 8:55, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better. Surely a better equation might be how much one gets out for what one puts in. Well, that would be *an

Re: Cognitive load

the usual address and with a week they will recieve a doctoral diploma lovingly printed out from my laser printer :) Well, I enjoyed myself this weeked; hope you all did :) Richmond. On 4/23/17 3:36 pm, jbv via use-livecode wrote: On Sun, April 23, 2017 9:55 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-l

Re: Cognitive load

On 4/23/17 6:01 pm, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote: On 23 Apr 2017, at 15:14, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Until about 1600 is was a "well-known fact" that the world was flat Heh. Nice analogy. Except that even this fact itself isn't true! Very few f

Re: Stupid Q No 999: mergeBLE

Richmond. On 4/23/17 10:59 pm, Roger Eller via use-livecode wrote: Have you looked at the mergBLE commands in the LC dictionary? mergBLEConnectPeripheral pUUID Monte will likely have the answers you seek. ~Roger On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 6:38 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livec

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