Re: 6.6.1 no bueno

2014-04-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/15/2014 09:58 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Seems only a few people seeing this. Might be a corrupted prefs issue. Also, if you are running any add-on that does properties, that may be getting around it. Bob Renamed the Plugins and preferences folders and this issue persists. (Linux) Warren

Re: 7.0 dp 2 still not much cop on Linux

2014-04-10 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/10/2014 12:18 PM, Richmond wrote: The problem I pointed out in DP1 is still there with the dictionary: Not possible to type into the search field of the Dictionary. UbuntuStudio 14.04 Richmond. Not that it helps solve the problem you're having, but I don't have this issue here on my

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6

2014-03-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/21/2014 04:26 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: No, its broke. ... Maybe there is something else dependency? Since it's worked for others, it might not be correct to say it's broke. There must be some definable reason it's not working on your system and a dependency issue sounds like the

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6

2014-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2014 01:45 PM, Richmond wrote: I am sorry to say that the middle button: You Only does not work as it stops with a windows that states this: The installer will automatically continue when these conflicting applications are closed: Running openSUSE with KDE. I just installed by

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6

2014-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2014 03:27 PM, Richmond wrote: I got that message having downloaded the installer, and attempting to install from that rather than via the upgrade system from inside an earlier version. Well, that's not good! I hadn't realized you were using the straight installer and was

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6

2014-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2014 03:27 PM, Richmond wrote: I got that message having downloaded the installer, and attempting to install from that rather than via the upgrade system from inside an earlier version. Richmond. Richmond, I just tried it using the downloaded installer (both community and

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2014 10:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: It is quite simply correct, and not doing it is wrong. Thank you very much for your response. No, I'm not out of my mind and your statement is your opinion and nothing more and I heartily disagree. The reasoning I gave - maintaining readability

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/19/2014 03:13 AM, Richmond wrote: I'm sorry, but I am not going to take responsibility for your decision to read the Use-List using a mobile device. LOL. Richmond. everything from here on down has been removed to save mobile users 'pain' and to decontextualise the posting I don't

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/19/2014 12:39 PM, Richmond wrote: to do this I have had to nest responses so that each response-let connects to each of your points. For whose benefit? That was not in any sense necessary. It was your preference. You could have just as easily constructed a coherent response addressing

Re: OT: Robyn Miller talks about Hypercard on Macworld podcast

2014-02-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/19/2014 07:02 AM, Richmond wrote: Now, let me see how to do THAT on Linux :) From the Macworld podcast page, http://www.macworld.com/article/2094400/robyn-miller-from-myst-to-the-immortal-augustus-gladstone.html: You can subscribe to the Macworld Podcast by clicking here. Or you can

Re: 652 release

2014-01-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/29/2014 11:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: Thanks. The externals SDK links seem to be broken All links starting with 'LiveCode 5.5.5' lead back to the download page. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

2014-01-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/23/2014 05:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I believe the spirit of this goes back to Steve Jobs' observation that most people's desktops are a complete mess of file icons. Obsessed with getting rid of clutter, his answer was to remove the file system from the things users need to worry

Re: Where to download Community Server?

2014-01-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/17/2014 12:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Where at livecode.com is the link to download the Community Version of LiveCode Server? I imagine some of you have special URLs you've collected for that, but at the moment I'm less interested in specialized knowledge than simple usability - that

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/09/2014 03:03 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, is there a way to figure out how wide / heigh a scrollbar needs to be under Linux to draw all of the scrollbar, but not leaving you with empty space around it? Can this be figured out by script? It appears that under UBUNTU this would be 14

Re: Play mp3 on linux ?

2013-10-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: Hello, I work on an multi platform open source stack that need to play wma or mp3 (voices memos from an dictaphone). Even with dontuseQT true, nothing happen under linux (ubuntu 12). What i missed ? Thanks Are you using the player object?

Re: Play mp3 on linux ?

2013-10-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: linux (ubuntu 12). What i missed ? Thanks One additional note; you may find that you have to take special precautions to terminate your app and the mplayer process. Closing the app window may not actually end one or both of the processes.

Re: New install video for using Valentina Studio and Valentina server

2013-10-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/06/2013 02:36 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Interesting enough, there is no similar video for Windows and Linux. It would be very interesting to see instructions for installing Valentina products under Linux which are current and work reliably. The documentation provided with the

Re: revOnline

2013-10-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/01/2013 05:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: revOnline appears to be completely dead - searching doesn't work and clicking a keyword does nothing either. Anyone having the same experience? Pete All these functions seem to be working normally here in LC 6.1.1 and 6.5dp1. Warren

Re: MySql vs Valentina

2013-08-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/29/2013 07:12 AM, Michael Mays wrote: Pet peeve of mine people posting messages with links to their product or whatever and not actually clicking them to see it they work. This is almost always a result of an email client reformatting messages to fit within a certain column width, and

Re: Mac/WIndows ASCII characters

2013-08-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/17/2013 03:01 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Do you happen to know if all the entities mentioned there are supported within htmltext? Per my other post, they're not all mentioned in the dictionary entry for htmltext LiveCode seems to render all the html entities, in both forms where

Re: Mac/WIndows ASCII characters

2013-08-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/17/2013 12:34 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: hopefully there's an html equivalent of that. http://www.html-entities.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Genymotion Android emulator

2013-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/20/2013 12:59 PM, Richmond wrote: On 07/20/2013 08:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, July 20, 2013, 10:02:38 AM, you wrote: Setting the thing up was, inevitably, slightly difficult as, inevitably, the setup instructions were slightly wrong (but that is normal for Linux).

Re: Genymotion Android emulator

2013-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/20/2013 03:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: That can easily depend on linux distros, especially where init.d comes into play. Well, yes. That could be a part of why YMMV :) I was just saying that my experience was completely without strangeness or difficulty, hoping to lend encouragement to

Re: Genymotion Android emulator

2013-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/20/2013 04:55 PM, Richmond wrote: Richmond's experience has been greatly exaggerated by Thee! Thee or thou? Your post makes it sound like a universal Linux problem, using the term inevitably. I don't know what to say about the instructions being wrong (but that is normal for Linux). I

Re: Genymotion Android emulator

2013-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/20/2013 05:48 PM, Warren Samples wrote: and an inevitably hostile beast after all, to install for testing during development should, of course, read: ... and NOT an inevitably hostile beast... :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: positioning stacks off screen in Linux

2013-07-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/13/2013 02:28 AM, Richmond wrote: and I have a funny feeling that is what you want to happen. Richmond. No, hiding the stack is completely different from moving it to a location outside the visible display area. For most purposes they serve the same practical effect, but not

Re: positioning stacks off screen in Linux

2013-07-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/13/2013 10:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But in the meantime, to keep your project moving forward, it can be helpful to explore other options to get the same result. What's happening in your setup that makes hiding the stack impractical? I am curious about the possibility of scrolling

positioning stacks off screen in Linux

2013-07-12 Thread Warren Samples
One of the commonly suggested methods of hiding stacks is setting their location to something that places them out of the view window. This is not working correctly here under openSUSE/KDE/KWin. A stack's location is constrained to the available viewport unless it has been previously dragged

Re: positioning stacks off screen in Linux

2013-07-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/12/2013 12:00 PM, Warren Samples wrote: One of the commonly suggested methods of hiding stacks is setting their location to something that places them out of the view window. This is not working correctly here under openSUSE/KDE/KWin. A stack's location is constrained to the available

Re: positioning stacks off screen in Linux

2013-07-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/12/2013 07:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Warren- Friday, July 12, 2013, 5:18:12 PM, you wrote: Trying this is Mint 9 in VirtualBox is even worse. Stacks cannot be moved completely out of view no matter what I try. Anyone else? Yep. Verified here on linux mint 14. Thanks, Mark. I've

Re: 6.1 Installer Ubuntu

2013-07-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/07/2013 08:03 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: That didn't work either. On the desktop...it still won't open. Have you successfully installed other LiveCode versions in this particular Ubuntu installation? ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Fonts look awful in standalones built in v5.5+ -vs- v4.0

2013-07-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/25/2013 09:52 AM, Roger Eller wrote: I tried setting the textfont of this stack to the textfont of stack home. Still it returned empty when I put the textFont of any field in my stack. I have users on XP and 7, so I think I will just loop through all the fields in preOpenStack and set the

Re: Global variable for user name

2013-07-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/02/2013 11:46 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: OSX = $USER Windows=$USERNAME Linux=??? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com $USER ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Global variable for user name

2013-07-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/02/2013 01:48 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: Once again, in a world increasingly dominated by POSIX systems, Microsoft continues to marginalize itself with non-standard ways of doing things. ;) ...and drags their partners down with them...

Re: User's language

2013-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2013 01:43 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: You're welcome to try the language stack on my site. In your message box: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/language_specs.livecode; Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design Scott, I see this

Re: One Year Free

2013-06-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/20/2013 03:34 PM, william humphrey wrote: It clearly says one year of updates. It also says this: Please note this is a subscription license, which will automatically renew annually. You may cancel it at any time. If you cancel your access to LiveCode will revert to the Open Source

Re: 6.1

2013-06-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/14/2013 04:12 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: do the forums have RSS feeds? There is also a subscribe by email feature including digest options. You can subscribe to individual forums at the bottom of each forum page or choose digest options at

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/05/2013 09:40 PM, Devin Asay wrote: For Linux: No idea! In general in Linux, user specific data will go into an invisible directory with the application name, in the user's home directory. So, you can do something like put tData into URL file:~/.myapp/the_data_file remembering that

Re: dealing with these *huge* pdf files generated

2013-06-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/31/2013 06:33 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I am ending up with *huge* pdf files. I'm seeing Acrobat 10 pro mac reduce files by over 90%, and preview reduce them by about 80%. These insanely large files bog up the printer, and are bigger than the court allows. Is there some sane way to

Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?

2013-05-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/30/2013 02:36 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: I know this is available with QuickTime using the CurrentTime and TimeScale properties but if the user doesn't have QuickTime installed I'd hate to be stuck. Are there any other ways to get the duration of an audio file?

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode itslef are over-ridden by Windows; something that

Re: LC 6.0.1 OSS Documentation

2013-05-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/19/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Is totally cacked on Linux (at least): See thread titled Dictionary Server Error ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Unicode display on Linux.

2013-05-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/19/2013 06:28 AM, Richmond wrote: On ALL the Linux systems I have tried that yields an - apparently - empty textField. --- The Solution. The textField isn't empty, just setting the chars to transparent, or the same as

Re: Unicode display on Linux.

2013-05-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/19/2013 09:23 AM, Richmond wrote: Bug report or no bug report, I have to work with LC 4.5. A sorted out bug would appear in a later version; one for which I, currently (and many others, I suspect) do not have the money to buy. Therefore, from my point of view, at least, these sorts of

Re: [OT] Playing silly bu**ers with FileZilla.

2013-05-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/17/2013 11:54 AM, Richmond wrote: Hey-Ho You Happy Linux Mages, I have been merrily connecting to my FTP/Web-page site (a subset of Andre Garzia's site, God Bless him) using a Macintosh FTP client for about 3-4 years (Cyberduck) which set things up licketty-split [for those of you who

Re: [OT] Playing silly bu**ers with FileZilla.

2013-05-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/17/2013 12:48 PM, Richmond wrote: Chucked out FileZilla and went for gFTP: lovely and simple :) Richmond. I used gFTP when I used Mint and it worked well and had all the features I needed. I like FileZilla a little better, but it's clearly causing you only grief. My needs are very

Re: link to 6.0.1 build 1513

2013-05-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/09/2013 04:23 PM, John Dixon wrote: I should have been a little clearer... I meant the community edition... There was a green banner in the top left when I logged into my products and I downloaded the community edition 6.0.1 build 1513 from there the other day... the green banner has

Re: link to 6.0.1 build 1513

2013-05-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/09/2013 05:49 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: The point is: there is no big red Download button on the main page. There is only a green Learn More button. Apparently, this is sufficient for people to lose interest. I told him clearly, I might be wrong and he should contact support while also

Re: Beginners questions subject headers

2013-05-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/07/2013 10:53 AM, Martin Koob wrote: I wonder how the patent office could sort out who invented or registered the time warp It was probably a drummer. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/02/2013 10:04 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Sort and sort container as examples. And dang it. I wrote those. Craig Running Linux here. Just tried this in 5.5.4 and initially the user notes did not appear under these entries, just as you find. However, clicking on the area they should

Re: fontSizes bust in 6.0

2013-04-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/18/2013 10:36 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I ran into this this morning. I had set some font sizes on some fields, running LC 6.0, but the font sizes did not save. They showed on the screen, but when I would build my app and run in the simulator (iOS), the changes were not in effect. And

Re: put URL destroys my file

2013-04-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/16/2013 08:58 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, Working with LC 4.5.4 I have a dmg file uploaded on my webserver. When downloading it on a mac with a browser via ftp, the dmg keeps in good order. But when doing put URL pUrl into URL (binfile: tFile) the format of the file seems to be

Re: setting up Linux for LiveCode and other dev questions

2013-04-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/12/2013 02:41 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I had already set the permissions to be read write for everyone, moved it out of the downloads folder, and set the executable box. None of those helped. Here's one clue, if I do this: ldd LiveCodeCommunityInstaller-6_0_0-Linux.x86 I get: not a

Re: WOOT!

2013-04-10 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/10/2013 08:12 AM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: Can anybody help us? supp...@runrev.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Yet Another Kickstarter stack

2013-02-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/18/2013 01:37 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: 2013/2/18 Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.us Hi Warren, But as I said previously, I did worked on it only a couple of hours, and had no time to make a universal tool, or test it broadly. This stack is free, open and bound to be modified

Re: Yet Another Kickstarter stack

2013-02-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/18/2013 09:37 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: Hi Warren, You're talking of the bottom field, but what about the other labels, and the Finfos field where you get some datas in when moving the mouse over the graph? Are they all Ok? Well, personaly, I prefer changing the font (type or

Re: Yet Another Kickstarter stack

2013-02-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/17/2013 11:58 PM, Thierry Douez wrote: Sorry, but haven't any linux LC. I'm glad you find a workaround. Have a nice day, THierry I also downloaded the stack for Linux and also see the truncated text in that field. One possible solution would be to let the field set its own height

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 11:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/19/13 9:16 PM, Warren Samples wrote: For all practical purposes, the market is closed and developers really do, as a practical observation, have to distribute through Apple in order to reach the platform. I think there will be third-party

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/20/2013 04:10 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: They are saying, can you make more utilitarian and useful to the general market? Why is that pissing so many people off in the name of freedom? I don't get it. It seems some, not you I think, have a bone to pick with apple, and this seems an easy

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/20/2013 06:45 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: All your arguments rest inexorably on the precept that Apple owes you something. Show me in any contract you and Apple have entered into where Apple is obligated to accept any app you submit! I'm sorry, Bob, but this is just BS. It's not about what

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 07:35 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: They are willing to put up your app absolutely freely, if you like, so long as you don't charge for it. That's pretty generous. What they actually owe anyone in terms of what they allow is precisely jack diddly squat. It's their basketball hoop,

Re: [OT] How to apply for jobs

2013-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 08:04 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: erm... pardon me... HTML, mySQL and C are not, you know of course, assembly language... and assembly language is, of course, you know... not plural. It's very possible that this is a warning that you don't want the job, but it may be that your

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 09:01 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't like it either, but to be fair, developers don't *have* to sell through the Apple stores. That's probably what keeps their system legit. I'm not a lawyer, but... (My father was, hehe) For all practical purposes, the market is closed and

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/17/2013 06:50 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: At least people on Android can enjoy easy access to the traffic conditions. Cheers andre It seems perverse to me that a developer might be forced to add gratuitous features to a useful uni-purpose utility in order to appeal to the gadget lust of

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/18/2013 12:46 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Next morning you discover to your dismay that your HR department has been overwhelmed with calls and emails in the hundreds of thousands, because people ignored your prerequisites, and everyone from housewives with no degree to gardeners and

Re: Animated gif editor

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/18/2013 12:57 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Only thing is, it shows up in the dock! It would be nice if there were some kind of option to prevent a standalone from appearing in the dock. Does this work?

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/18/2013 11:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help-User Guide.

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 12:47 AM, Warren Samples wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help-User Guide

Re: AW: Quicktime problems on windows

2012-10-10 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/10/2012 12:15 PM, Richmond wrote: start considering some sort of internal media player (that's truly cross-platform) that is part of Livecode itself. This was mentioned as part of the road map, along with a cross-platform (including Linux) browser and unicode just works a few moons

Re: AW: Quicktime problems on windows

2012-10-10 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/10/2012 08:23 PM, stephen barncard wrote: NDA alert On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.uswrote: On 10/10/2012 12:15 PM, Richmond wrote: start considering some sort of internal media player (that's truly cross-platform) that is part of Livecode itself

Re: Storing location for a preferences file in a standalone stack?

2012-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2012 10:35 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Unless the person on the keyboard has an administrator level access or password at hand, then you will not be able to write anywhere outside that persons folder.Your unpriviledged user can't write to /Library or /System, only the super user can.

Re: 5.5.2 Linux display bug?

2012-09-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/18/2012 11:13 PM, ha...@exformedia.se wrote: When running under iOS the cursor is actually there but is white and thus not showing in most fields. Is that the case under Linux too or is this a separate iOS bug? :-Håkan Yes, this does seem to be the case under Linux. It's revealed

Re: 5.5.2 Linux display bug?

2012-09-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/16/2012 10:21 PM, Warren Samples wrote: Hello, I find that the the blinking insertion cursor is not displayed in Livecode 5.5.2 in the IDE, and carrying over through a standalone. This happens running openSUSE 12.1, KDE and Mint 9, Gnome. Toggling desktop effects in SUSE makes

5.5.2 Linux display bug?

2012-09-16 Thread Warren Samples
Hello, I find that the the blinking insertion cursor is not displayed in Livecode 5.5.2 in the IDE, and carrying over through a standalone. This happens running openSUSE 12.1, KDE and Mint 9, Gnome. Toggling desktop effects in SUSE makes no difference, Mint is running in VirtualBox without

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/14/2012 08:13 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: I'm beginning to think Matthias' idea of putting the environment data on the clipboard and asking the user to paste it into the email client of his/her choice may be the easiest and safest way to do this. Maybe I'm

Re: Sending an email with a file attachment

2012-09-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/13/2012 04:21 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The purpose for this is for a user of my software to send an email to support and to automatically attach a file to the email that contains information about the user's environment. Sarah's stack requires the name of the SMTP server and since that

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/12/2012 08:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: There are other questions we can answer for ourselves, like: Do we want to enter into a relationship with a vendor who has already clearly expressed in writing that they don't want us? Forcing someone into a relationship just makes for an unhealthy

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/11/2012 12:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I already do use the RSS feed. But if you want to participate, it's pretty useless. You have to open a web browser, find the post, log in, and reply. Really? Your news reader doesn't display the forum and allow you to post, or it won't properly

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/11/2012 04:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Yes, it will open a browser if I ask it to. That's an extra step which I need to wait for. Then I have to wait for the forum servers. Then I have to log in and deal with that horrible little text box with all the silly html buttons and gadgets. I

Re: LC Forum reading (was Re: OT: Adobe kills mobile Flash)

2012-09-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/11/2012 05:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Using an RSS reader on a desktop machine isn't any easier than just going to the forums in a browser, it's just another layer. You complained about waiting while using your browser and background tabs would certainly help you there in many

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/09/2012 12:45 PM, Richmond wrote: I'm sure there are many factors involved, but I think one of the primary reasons Apple doesn't want the OS used on other hardware is to avoid the mess that Microsoft got themselves into by licensing to any PC distributor. By retaining control of both

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/08/2012 09:34 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: It's unclear to me why the fact that I buy a license to use software versus owning the actual software itself has any effect on what I choose to do with it. Why is it unclear? Because you don't understand it or because you don't like it? You are

Re: Newbie SQLite and LC learing problems

2012-08-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/24/2012 11:43 AM, Blair Lewis wrote: I'm new to LC and am I am looking for help with using DB's with LC. I am coming from Filemaker and I am unable to find a decent tutorial on how to use SQLite that is either complete or useful. Does anyone have a sample stack and DB that I can pull

Re: Newbie SQLite and LC learing problems

2012-08-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/24/2012 11:53 AM, Warren Samples wrote: On 08/24/2012 11:43 AM, Blair Lewis wrote: I'm new to LC and am I am looking for help with using DB's with LC. I am coming from Filemaker and I am unable to find a decent tutorial on how to use SQLite that is either complete or useful. Does anyone

Re: Another OS X Lion Weirdness

2012-08-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/23/2012 11:53 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: I just opened a document in the iWork/Numbers spreadsheet program that I hadn't opened for perhaps a couple of weeks. It opened just fine but when I tried to make a change to it I got the message: The file Costs is locked because you haven't made

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/22/2012 02:29 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Yes, I had misunderstood. It seems that the situation is that Linux is in fact on a par with Mac+Windows. You buy either Android or IOS, and then you pick one included desktop, which can either be Linux or Mac+Windows, and the price seems to be

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/21/2012 05:02 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Kevin- Tuesday, August 21, 2012, 1:00:29 PM, you wrote: As far as the store front is concerned, we are showing the most popular products there. You can select a license and customize it, for example to get a desktop only product for a single

Re: changes to the runrev store

2012-08-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/18/2012 01:12 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: Does that state that for $999 per license does not include any updates??? That's how I read it. It doesn't run out and my guess is this price is to handle the people that buy lc and still expect support 20 versions later. does that state that for

Re: changes to the runrev store

2012-08-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/18/2012 01:39 AM, Warren Samples wrote: On 08/18/2012 01:12 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: Does that state that for $999 per license does not include any updates??? That's how I read it. It doesn't run out and my guess is this price is to handle the people that buy lc and still expect support

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

2012-08-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/03/2012 07:55 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Friday, August 3, 2012, 8:38:03 AM, you wrote: No no problem, it's just that it's fairly typical to only be able to undo back to the last save. I can see myself in a fit of undo's after making some horrible coding error that made everything go

Re: [OT] Between the lines of the previous post.

2012-07-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/15/2012 10:59 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: I would routinely quote the relevant part of the message and then add my comment afterwards, but my colleagues using mobile devices would complain because they would have to fully open the email to see what I had added. So, now I say my comment

Re: [OT] Between the lines of the previous post.

2012-07-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/15/2012 12:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: And in all cases, bar none, all the nested signature lines should be removed. I try to do that and note with some chagrin that I failed in my previous reply to this thread :D Warren ___ use-livecode

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:11 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I got around the difficulty of sharing files by putting the test files onto a server that I could log onto with Linux. What should the name be for a Linux LiveCode standalone? It came out named as untitled 1 with no extension, an dLinux thought that

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:22 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: How in Linux would I do that? One way, right-click the file and select the permissions pane in the dialog and check the box. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:22 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: How in Linux would I do that? Oh, I skipped something... select Properties and then permissions... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: It says the owner is root. If you change it to your user, does it ask for authentication or tell you it won't allow that? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: All the options in Permissions are grayed out. It says the owner is root. Open a terminal and type: sudo chown your user path to file Replace your user with your user's name. Type the root password at the prompt. Should do it. Good luck,

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:42 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I got further by copying the files from the server to the desktop, then I could check the box that says allow this file to run as a program. But double clicking it leads to a failed to execute file test - Failed to execute child process

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:58 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I installed 64 bit. Are LiveCode apps only 32 bit? ldd tells me that it's not a dynamic executable. Yes, that's your current problem. You'll have to install the ia32 libs. Do an update first. Installing these libs was a pain for me in Maya,

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 11:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It seems that LiveCode's answer file command on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) always shows hidden files, regardless of whether I have that setting turned on in the file manager. Is there some secret param I can use to turn that off? If not, I'll file a bug

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