Re: Unicode

2014-05-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/11/2014 10:31 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop) None of the unicode stuff works [for me]: * set the useUnicode to true * the unicodeText of field * the unicodeFormattedText of field No error messages; just empty. Can anyone give me a clue as to what to

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:29 AM, Richmond wrote: Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. 2. Still unable to put an insertion point into the search fields in the Dictionary and RevOnline. 3. Double-clicking on a control in the toolbar does nothing. 4. Unable to switch back and forth

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: or wait for an actual release announcement. Mark, If we assume this is a mislabeled dp4, I suppose it's possible there are problems resolved in the actual dp5 that we can't experience just yet, but the issues he's talking about here have plagued

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 01:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...which was also not announced... With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. The fact that there is a public link on the LiveCode site to downloads of versions

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:31:34 PM, you wrote: With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. Ah, ok... maybe I missed something here. You're saying there was a

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That's what the dp and rc designations are for, but it would probably be more clear if there was a statement on the page explaining what those mean, along with appropriate caveats. Final releases should be clearly marked as stable. We're

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/26/2014 12:53 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: That's what I thought. This urban legend has been batted around lately. Um, what is it you thought? I didn't say I once heard somebody say their friend's uncle told them about a neighbor... urban legend style. It was my own (recent) observation. I

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2

2014-06-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/07/2014 12:58 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: I'm getting an error that the file isn't found. That error is typically what you get trying to run in a 64 bit environment without the 32 bit libs installed. Do you have other versions of LiveCode running on this particular computer? Warren

Re: Nested Repeat loops

2014-06-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/20/2014 08:18 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Wondering if anyone has an elegant way of exiting all the way out of a set of nested repeat loops., e.g: repeat for... repeat for... repeat for repeat for if . then I want to exit out of the outermost repeat

Re: LiveCodeServer - Prints shebang line

2014-07-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/15/2014 08:46 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Peter One of the contributions I made just prior to christmas was to handle the shebang and basically put the script into ?lc mode immediately if there's a shebang. I really didn't get much of a chance to experiment with it but it was merged

Re: SHELL text encoding OS X?

2014-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/26/2014 07:44 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi friends, i am currently using some shell commands, mainly mdfind, to get a list of files. But german UMLAUTS etc. are not correctly displayed. i thought the shell output would be UTF8, but unidecode(listoffiles) produces lots of glibberish 8-)

Re: SHELL text encoding OS X?

2014-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/26/2014 08:05 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: thank you, but my question was: Anyway, what can I do in LC 6.6.2? ;-) You also wrote this: This even happens with LC 7dp7, but shouldn't right? so it seemed you might be interested in how it's supposed to work there.

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2014 10:17 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Before I go ahead and submit a bug report I'd like others to test and report their findings. openSUSE, LiveCode 6.6.2 Redirected the output to files. Results are identical, except for the extra file created by running the initial 'find $PWD

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/01/2014 08:09 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: But then why is this not the case with Linux? For Linux users who have installed single user, in their HOME directory, the defaultfolder is their HOME directory.. Those who have installed for all users, in /opt, will run into these kinds of issues,

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/14/2014 04:55 AM, JB wrote: I can get a file size by listing the detailed files and I can get a list of all drives and volumes that are mounted by using the volumes function. Is there a way to get the size of a drive or volume that is returned by using the volumes function? John

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/14/2014 10:37 PM, JB wrote: The dictionary states, This function always returns empty on Unix systems. So, is Linux a Unix OS? For LiveCode purposes, yes. The dictionary does indicated, by omission of the penguin icon, that 'volumes()' is not supported under Linux. I find the

Re: Livecode Server on Dreamhost fails in Ubuntu upgrade

2014-11-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/11/2014 12:42 PM, Phil Davis wrote: One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower. I have a simple script that repeats 5000 times, adding to a counter and populating and sorting a list with seven items. It

Re: LC Server on DreamHost?

2014-11-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/21/2014 01:56 PM, Phil Davis wrote: the speed of loading is TERRIBLE with the 7.0.1 LC Linux server. It takes 4.5 seconds for LC to 'execute' a simple page every time. It's not about DNS and a PHP page on the same site loads immediately by comparison. Is this possibly related to other

Re: LC Server on DreamHost?

2014-11-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/21/2014 01:56 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I'm glad it isn't just me: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13983 Phil Davis Phil, Your desktop utility shows a difference of about 8 to 10 times using your URLs and about 4 times using mine when run under 6.6.2. Opening the URLs in a

Re: OT: Web Server-side ID3 Tagger

2014-12-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/16/2014 12:24 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: I need to set the ID3 tags for MP3 files that have already been uploaded to our web server. typically my approach is to create a thin desktop client, which can read our media database from the web server... then I need to send a POST back to my

Re: Windows?

2011-06-04 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, June 04, 2011 05:48:55 PM Colin Holgate wrote: I don't know if it's changed, but when I bought Windows to use under Fusion, I had to get Ultimate. From page 2 of the EULA for Win 7 Professional, Home Remium and Home Basic: d. Use with Virtualization Technologies. Instead of using

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-08 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 09:50:16 AM Andre Garzia wrote: I don't think I like it (just for personal reasons, nothing technical) cheers andre *GASP* Blasphemy (snicker, snicker) - ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Distinguishing CLI from GUI

2011-06-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, June 13, 2011 07:41:32 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: As Todd Geist quoted here earlier, in the Dictionary entry for $ it says: If you start up the application from the command line (on OS X, Unix or Windows systems), the command name is stored in the global variable $0

Re: Distinguishing CLI from GUI

2011-06-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, June 13, 2011 12:54:04 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: It seems to be working here although certain letters seem not to be usable. For example -s does not work. I can get an answer dialog to return -h when used as a cl flag and the app will do something

Re: Distinguishing CLI from GUI

2011-06-15 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:16:19 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: seems to work as expected with and without -ui. Using this command: ''launchTest -ui -Q some-param -h launches Opera and creates the file with this line: launchTest -Q some-param -h. Thanks for that info. I've had no such luck

Re: Thanks for DropTools.

2011-06-18 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:05:18 PM Roger Guay wrote: As usual, I'm riding the tail end of the wave, but I too want to thank Ken Ray and all of you who are contributing to his Drop Tools plugin. Just a very minor nit, Ken: LiveCode Preferences is found in the LiveCode Menu and not in the

Re: group name persisting

2011-06-22 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:09:48 PM Pete wrote: fingers crossed Nothing wrong with crossed. Just keep them where you can see them. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:11:55 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: For better or worse, it seems those scrollbars are the wave of the future: Stevie was really enthuastic about his drawers, too. For a while. Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Lion Xcode 3.2.6

2011-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:45:58 PM Terry Vogelaar wrote: I wanted to upgrade yesterday, but I couldn't, because it is 'Already installed' according to the App Store. Not to make light of the problems you personally are having, Terry, but would this be the same we provide a seamless path

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 21, 2011 01:11:17 PM Andre Garzia wrote: I vote for Mac OS X 10.8 Megalomaniac Garfield Werecat? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 01:20:05 PM Arie van der Ent wrote: Hi Tiemo, It is not necessary to wait for Lion on a USB-stick. Don McAllister from screencastsonline did the following; 1. buy Lion from App store; 2. make a copy from the installer (in your application folder); 3. open up the

Re: AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-28 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 01:41:57 AM Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I don't understand why they don't offer anymore any classic download option for backward compatibility for users who are not up to date every day like me. Tiemo They're not interested in helping you to maintain your backward

Re: AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-28 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:13:23 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: I think that may be harsh. Remember one of Microsoft's excuses for not producing a really modern OS for so long was that they had to maintain backwards compatibility for all their users. At some point this becomes a ball and chain for

Re: Installing iOS SDK and Xcode on Windows 7.

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 10:09:13 AM Roger Eller wrote: it would be prohibitively slow in a vm Roger, Have you some disappointing experience running vms? My own experience running VirtualBox is that the guest OSs run quite snappily. I cannot recommend that one rely on a virtualized OS for

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 11:44:11 AM David C. wrote: snip...from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app interface-wise on the whole planet on any OS) /snip Absolutely on the mark! To be tied at the hip with that one piece of software is absolutely awful and I'm doing just about

Re: Installing iOS SDK and Xcode on Windows 7.

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 12:04:49 PM Roger Eller wrote: running natively on brand new i7 machines with high-end video cards. The Hackintosh is not a great secret, and indeed there is no reason for OS X not to run beautifully on non- Apple hardware once the issues of booting and certain

Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year

2011-07-30 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:16:44 PM Roger Eller wrote: convert tToday to seconds convert tBorn to seconds It's been talked about before, but this calls for a reminder: attempting to convert a date prior to Jan 1, 1970 to seconds returns invalid date instead of a number in Windows.

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 10:25:18 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds. This doesn't have much or even anything to do with Censorship. This is about honoring commercial distribution agreements which will

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:30:44 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: many people, around the world, are not supposing to watch to finish your sentence... on youtube. I suppose you could write to Sony and ask them. While this is just speculation, it is a possibility that either some performer

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:45:46 PM Warren Samples wrote: On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:30:44 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: many people, around the world, are not supposing to watch to finish your sentence... on youtube. I suppose you could write to Sony and ask them. While this is just

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 06, 2011 12:48:04 AM Alejandro Tejada wrote: You'll find a discussion of this in another of these clips http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPmnho7OvT8feature=related Hmmm, There is no discussion in that page. (or anything else) Only the message: This video contains

Re: [OT] Blasted Flash

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 08:32:51 AM Richmond Mathewson wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475250 Firefox 6, Ubuntu 11.04 No probs here in Opera on openSUSE ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:53:33 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: But the very thought of having people pay royalties on what we consider to be a gift from God namely the talent and the inspiration for the music seems to be... well quenching. The moneychangers in the temple comes to mind. Bob

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:09:47 PM Roger Eller wrote: I agree. In fact, I witnessed the rise of a YouTube artist, and bought his very first CD because 1) he was that good, and 2) I wanted to be supportive of the hundreds of songs he posted on YouTube (and I enjoyed for free). THAT is an

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-12 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 12, 2011 01:44:32 PM Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello everyone, I was building a nice app with LiveCode the other day. It used PUT URL and FTP to download files from my remote Mac. Worked like a charm until yesterday when I updated the OS on the remote Mac to Lion. Now I

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:17:25 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: IIRC Apple no longer makes Xserve anyway, so who needs an OS X FTP server? -- Richard Gaskin At issue is which protocol is being used when one enables file sharing in the System Preferences on a standard OS X Desktop install.

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, August 15, 2011 12:31:25 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: This interests me, because while I could depend on the system time I suppose, to datetimestamp entries in an SQL tab But wouldn't it be simpler, and smarter, to let the db create and store store its own timestamp as the insert is made?

Re: Retrieving Date and Time From The Internet

2011-08-16 Thread Warren Samples
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:13:58 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: Okay, I contacted the USNO site via email and requested that they include the year in the returned date/time. You could try this: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_CA-QC.aspx Your time info is here in the html it

Re: Max length of value passed to shell()

2011-08-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, August 29, 2011 06:35:36 PM Dar Scott wrote: Whereas I'm lazy, I thought I'd ask rather than run a test. Is there some limit to the length of the string passed to shell() on any platform, especially OS X, whether by the engine or the shell-command program itself. Or even the

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

2011-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/06/2011 02:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, this is not the forum for pre-release versions. Did you get an email telling you where to post beta issues? Bob Final public release was announced today. Warren

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

2011-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/06/2011 02:40 PM, Roger Eller wrote: It looks like the announcement ONLY went to the DEV list though... Odd... :\ ~Roger Yes, I noticed that, too, but I checked the store and it's available for download in my account. Warren ___

Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help

2011-09-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/29/2011 12:27 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I just created a PDF with two lines of text and a 16x16 graphic and following text. A very basic test pattern. Then I opened up the document in BBEdit. Yikes! A huge amount of data is there - some binary and some plain text for such simple

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/04/2011 02:13 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: but it doesn't replace Viagra I'm sure there are some... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/05/2011 11:34 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: * It requires lots of touches to do simple things. please let me know if there is a quicker way! Android: 1. Touch the Clock in the lower right. 2. In the popup that appears there are some

Re: Export and Import SQLite data from LC Project?

2011-10-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/25/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi John, Can't you transfer the entire database file? If not, you can just do a dump and import the resulting file or do a query and save the data to a text file, which you import the usual way. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Mark is

Re: Confused again

2011-10-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/25/2011 05:44 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: She seemed to suggest that the upgrade to 5.0.1 is for developers only, but that doesn't sound right. Please advise. Tim Miller Any upgrades you are entitled to will be available from the Store at runrev.com. Select that link and sign in. 5.0

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 11:52 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: While trying to get just a bit comfortable with a command-line interface, I started Terminal on Mac OSX Lion and eventually got a command to work (after finding out how to cope with spaces in file and folder names). I put the same thing in an LC

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 11:52 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: While trying to get just a bit comfortable with a command-line interface, I started Terminal on Mac OSX Lion and eventually got a command to work (after finding out how to cope with spaces in file and folder names). I put the same thing in an LC

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 12:53 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Is this in Windows or Mac? Im Mac to get usage for a shell command you have to preface it with man. I think it's short for manual. This only works if whatever installed the command in the shell also installed a man page. Bob Technically you are

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 03:09 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Try this on your terminal: which convert This will return the path to the convert command, in my case is: /usr/local/bin/convert So change your convert command in the shell to /usr/local/bin/convert image.jpg blabla and see if you can get it to

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/29/2011 09:40 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: shell(/opt/local/bin/convert) Mike's response contains all the correct information, but it can be distilled to this: change what you what you type into the message box to: put shell(/opt/local/bin/convert) This should display in the

Re: OT: Command-line blues (ImageMagick)

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 07:33 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: [As an aside I would NOT recommend IM on a Mac to anyone who has only worked within a GUI environment. The installation of IM for Mac took longer (and appeared to use more resources) than installing Lion on my Mac, even if you take into account my

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/29/2011 12:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote: on a side note regarding shell - I just ran this from the message box: put shell(man zip) and got this text: Not an answer to your question, but that doesn't happen here running Linux. Here is something from discussion of Phil Davis' Shell

Re: Waiting for 'shell'

2011-11-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/01/2011 12:11 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I use animated GIFs which I show just before a lengthy conversion, then hide it when shell has completed the task. It' not a progress bar, but indicates a busy state quite well. ~Roger What platform(s) does this work on? When I do this, the

Re: Waiting for 'shell'

2011-11-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/01/2011 03:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I've done this on Mac and Windows, but I would expect it to work on Linux too. ~Roger Putting something like show animated.gif get shell(cp fileLocA fileLocB) in a button leaves the animated gif completely static during the copy operation.

Re: Waiting for 'shell'

2011-11-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/01/2011 06:27 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I just looked back at the original post. If I understand correctly, the problem is not seeing when shell completes, but to let the user know there is backgrounded activity while shell is still processing, and so they don't think the app has locked

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 11:03 AM, René Micout wrote: A little information : in Mac OS X Lion when you need to know what is the default (country) language of the system : put defaults read NSGlobalDomain into vxLangage get line 10 of shell (vxLangage) Before Lion it was line 9 of shell now line 10

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 12:01 PM, René Micout wrote: Yes of course, it is better, line 10 is the first language in the list (and I think it is the default system (country) language. AppleLocale is line 33... Thank you Warren Le 8 nov. 2011 à 18:39, Warren Samples a écrit : I get a very different line

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 12:39 PM, René Micout wrote: get shell (defaults read NSGlobalDomain) don't work... !!? Don't forget to wrap your shell command with ! Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 01:17 PM, René Micout wrote: YES ! But why put defaults read NSGlobalDomain into vxLangage get shell (vxLangage) works ? I don't write put quote defaults read NSGlobalDomain quote into vxLangage ... Le 8 nov. 2011 à 19:39, René Micout a écrit : Thanks to Pete, Warren and Ben

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 01:21 PM, Warren Samples wrote: vxLangauage is a variable not a string. oops! Didn't spell your variable correctly. That would never work either :D Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Re : Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/14/2011 07:25 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Top please. This is a whole other topic. I personally prefer to have the new reply at the bottom, as the quoted text prepares the context for the reply. I understand the other point of view, and I would say that it frequently doesn't make a

Re: clipboard issue in Windows?

2011-11-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/30/2011 11:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/30/11 1:00 AM, Pete wrote: I can see where the confusion comes from on this. The dictionary claims you can copy a chunk of a control to the clipboard, even has an example - copy word -3 to -1 of field Help. I was wrong, the dictionary is

Re: [ANN] Extensions for LiveCode/Linux

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/19/2011 10:12 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Im looking at the webkit extension now. Looks nice. Only other requirement is python, correct? You may need to install the python-webkitGTK bindings. Would not run initially on my system, openSUSE, but installing the bindings allows the python

Re: [ANN] Extensions for LiveCode/Linux

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/19/2011 08:16 AM, Bob Warren wrote: In case you missed Rev's announcement a few weeks back, and now that the site is complete, Linux fans might find the following extensions useful: 1. UTF-8 Stack Template 2. UTF-8 Function Demo 3. Accent-Blind International Bubble Sort 4. UTF-8 Text

Re: 5.0.2 startup woes

2011-12-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/23/2011 11:40 PM, Fred Moyer wrote: Now with this new 5.0.2 that I just purchased, various startup, openstack and preopenstack commands do not implement -- that is they don't implement when I double-click on the stack while LiveCode is not running. (Everything works fine if LiveCode is

Re: SQL Date Formatting

2012-01-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/11/2012 07:20 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi all. I am having F-I-TZ working with dates in mySQL. I WANT to store the dates as real dates, but mySQL formats them as -mm-dd. Livecode does no such thing and nothing I know how to do can get Livecode to work with dates in this format AS

Re: Application Menu (again) and RunRev attribution

2012-01-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/13/2012 11:51 AM, Pete wrote: I am about to release my first commercial product written with Livecode and I'm wondering what the etiquette is, if any, regarding mentioning Livecode and RunRev in the About dialog, maybe something like Built with Livecode from RunRev plus a web address?

Re: revBrowser sound

2012-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2012 04:20 AM, tkuyp...@telenet.be wrote: it's kinda annoying to always have their website open when surfing the internet, accidentally closing my music when closing to many windows. Can't you just open it in it's own window and hide/minimize it? Park it on another

Re: best 404 ever

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/20/2012 11:01 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I get blank screen. I am probably being blocked by a content filter.:-) Bob It's done in Flash ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Application quit on OS X

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/20/2012 11:23 AM, Pete wrote: As far as I can tell, all Mac applications work this way.. This is not correct. It depends on what kind of application it is. Most work this way but several utilities do not. I have seen some discussion of this elsewhere, although I can't recall where,

Re: Developing on Mac, standalone on Windows

2012-01-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/22/2012 11:55 PM, Pete wrote: I just compiled and ran my fist standalone on Windows and I'm finally realising the benefits of developing cross platform applications with LC. I was pretty amazed when everything I developed on my Mac just ran as expected on Windows! The on;y problem I

Re: Video on Linux (again)

2012-02-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/06/2012 09:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: How are you playing videos on Linux? Are you able to do it at all? Running openSUSE 12, KDE and KWin. I get audio but no video attempting to play videoclips. Using the player, and with window effects on, I get audio but no visible video. I get

Re: The Linux engine...

2012-02-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/23/2012 03:20 AM, Malte Brill wrote: I figured out so much that this is a GNOME (working) versus KDE (not working) thing. What really scares me is the exit on signal 11 issue. How does one debug that??? Not that this is of any practical value, but this is an issue with compositing.

Re: The Linux engine...

2012-02-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/23/2012 01:50 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I've more or less stopped using Rev because I only use Linux, and having got a 22 inch monitor, I simply can't read most of the IDE unless I reset screen resolution to much lower resolution. Or put on reading glasses which brings its own problems.

Re: The Linux engine...

2012-02-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/25/2012 12:27 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Just MHO on a Sunday morning, Joe Wilkins Architect It's Saturday. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: [OT] Free SSL certificates available

2012-03-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/11/2012 05:03 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: Hi Andre, Is StartSSL the one in Israel? I think when I looked at them it was only free for 1 month. They were also very intrusive, almost like spyware, so I didn't end up going with them. Let me know. Rick http://www.startssl.com/?app=40

Re: What is wrong with this ?

2012-03-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/12/2012 10:54 AM, Ken Corey wrote: On 12/03/2012 15:38, John Dixon wrote: on mouseUp puthttps://gg.com/racing; into raceListURL put URL raceListURL into fld 1 end mouseUp It will not work for me under Win XP from boot camp... Can anyone tell me why ? It's not a help, but as a

Re: What is wrong with this ?

2012-03-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/12/2012 12:38 PM, John Dixon wrote: It does however beg the question as to why this is undocumented ? And also the question 'why is there a problem there, but not here?' Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/14/2012 11:11 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Thanks Fellas, Even after removing Bing and restarting and Quitting/starting, Bing still showed up as the active search engine. I don't trust them at all now. VERY insidious! Guess I'll just use Safari now. Seems as if it's a little better

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/14/2012 11:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: continued frustration. Result was website cannot be found. (sigh!) Thanks anyway! Just not my day. My vision is poorer than usual today. Joe Wilkins That seems odd. You can edit the prefs files directly in a text editor. It's not difficult or

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/14/2012 12:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 03/14/2012 11:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: continued frustration. Result was website cannot be found. (sigh!) Thanks anyway! Just not my day. My vision is poorer than usual today. Joe Wilkins That seems odd. You can edit the prefs files

Re: Serious Question about the list...

2012-03-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/18/2012 08:51 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: I am automatically notified of any new message on this mailing list. I don't know of a way to do this with the forum messages (unless I'm already participating in the discussion) RSS works, although it's not quite as nice as a properly

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote: I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their computers. Can I install Linux on

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: the VM approach solves the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete Since you can test them so easily, I would suggest firstly not to be too anxious about making the best decision. You don't have to

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for FWIW: http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/poll/1202084/ http://enigmacommunity.org/forums/topic/1099-whats-your-favorite-linux-desktop-environment/

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 09:44 PM, Roger Eller wrote: The easiest way for a beginner is a WUBI installation. You don't need an emulator or virtual box or parallels, etc. Just a PC that is already running Windows. When you install Ubuntu via WUBI, it is just a series of folders on the hard-drive (no

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: you can find downloadable, ready to go virtual machine disk images of almost any Linux distro, in current and older versions. Here are some links to preconfigured virtual disk images. http://virtualboxes.org/images/

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete More ideas that might interest you :) Since you are mainly working in OS X and I assume you are happy and comfortable working in that interface, you may be interested in a linux

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