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

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote: As a Mac-o-philiac I have spent some time playing around with PearOS, and can honestly say it sucks; it being neither one thing nor the other. Also, for Mac types; the initial set up does NOT have desktop icons, and it is a right cough-cough-cough

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

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/25/2012 03:13 PM, Warren Samples wrote: :D as I said heaping spoonfuls of salt Also applies to all my opinionated advice, highly biased - and definitely not representative of anyone else's experience - no matter how much I try to make it appear otherwise ;) Warren

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

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote: I have spent some time playing around with PearOS, and can honestly say it sucks; I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, especially with

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/02/2012 06:15 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/03/2012 12:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Still would be nice to have feature parity and not cost*more* than the other platforms. That's just insulting. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net :) I agree with this entirely. I haven't been running Livecode under Linux for all that long, no

Re: Browse tool. I give up.

2012-04-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/09/2012 11:18 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I have been doing this sort of thing for so many years, and still find the simplest things will not work. OK. Someone tell me why I cannot choose the browse tool under script control upon opening a stack in a new session. Wait. Maybe I should

Re: Linux application crashes

2012-04-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/13/2012 10:22 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote: The tarball can be gotten here... http://www.box.com/s/07d396287def00f59b8e If you launch the application then all you need to do is click any of the images in the scrolling field and watch the memory. This problem is very evident here, certainly a

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/16/2012 06:14 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Until the software is actually for sale, it probably does not make much sense to get worked up about their distribution system for large organizations. If one wishes to prevent a plan from becoming a problem, it may be that before it matters is

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-06-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/01/2012 10:15 AM, Paul Looney wrote: Obviously Apple is thinking ahead to the day when all of the Macs will have SSDs. This is a coin whose flip side is that they would obviously not be thinking about their current users whose computers do not. That makes this coin worth zero cents.

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: 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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.6.1 no bueno

2014-04-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/14/2014 10:57 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi all. Release 6.6.1 is no bueno. Try this: Launch 6.6.1. Open a new stack. Drag a combo box into the stack. Double click the combo box to get properties. Do you get the property inspector? I don’t. Now do the same thing, only this time, drag a

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: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/26/2014 12:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Nonetheless, backdrops are working properly in 6.7-dp2 on linux mint 14, and there are no backdrops in dp1, so it does look like the problem is fixed. Also seems to be working fine here in both 6.6.2-rc2 and 6.7.0-dp2 running openSUSE with

Re: Where does all the stuff go?

2010-12-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 18:03 -0600, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/1/10 5:32 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: That is a good idea. But now what happens when I go to run an updater? Is the installer going to put the new files where it thinks it should, or where I tell it to in the preferences? The app

Re: 4.5.2 and iOS Deployment launched

2010-12-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:31 +, Kevin Miller wrote: Hi folks, 4.5.2 is now available. And LiveCode for iOS is now available! To download them, please log into your account. If you¹re interested, you may also want to check out our new front door http://www.runrev.com/ Kind

Re: 4.5.2 and iOS Deployment launched

2010-12-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 14:11 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 19:31 +, Kevin Miller wrote: Hi folks, 4.5.2 is now available. And LiveCode for iOS is now available! To download them, please log into your account. If you¹re interested, you may also want

Re: Crash the IDE Easter Egg

2010-12-15 Thread Warren Samples
) or OS X. Warren Samples ___ 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: msg box Bug?

2010-12-15 Thread Warren Samples
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 00:05 +0200, Richmond wrote: What a depressing confession! The tangential information one can garner from this use-list is almost as valuable as the Livecode-relevant information; and usually, far more amusing. If all you do it think along ramrod straight lines

Valentina db under Linux ???

2010-12-15 Thread Warren Samples
a script error regarding the function Valentina_Init. I'm running Linux Mint, which is compatible with Ubuntu. Any help would be appreciated! Warren Samples ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Valentina db under Linux ???

2010-12-16 Thread Warren Samples
On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 09:33 +0200, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: On 12/16/10 5:26 AM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.us wrote: Hello! Does anyone have the ADK embedded version of Valentina installed and working in Linux? I have had no luck getting this to work. The new version 4.8 gives

Re: Valentina db under Linux ???

2010-12-18 Thread Warren Samples
On Sat, 2010-12-18 at 15:16 -0800, Mark Wieder wrote: OK. Has Valentina *ever* worked on linux? Is this a new build? Hi Mark, Yes, I finally got v4rev installed and working in Linux, although I have to admit I'm a little nervous about installing the new build from today (the 18th) over the one

Re: Problem with launch on OSX 10.5

2010-12-23 Thread Warren Samples
On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:40 +1100, Terry Judd wrote: I have a big problem with the launch command on OSX 10.5. I have a bunch of old Director executables that I¹m trying to launch from LiveCode that refuse to launch using the launch command while I¹m running 10.5 but work fine under 10.6.

Re: extract by delimiter

2010-12-28 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 17:58 -0500, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I am stuck. I've been trying to extract text from an RSS feed and so far I have the information I need but am stuck at extracting it into a better format. Here is what I have so far: location city=Bethel Park region=PA

launch URL in Linux

2011-01-04 Thread Warren Samples
Hi, I am finding that here, running Livecode 4.5.2 in Linux Mint, launch URL renders Livecode unresponsive until the browser window is closed. This happens in the message box and in scripts in both the IDE and standalones and with whichever browser I've set as system default. Input is still

Re: launch URL in Linux

2011-01-04 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:42 -0200, Andre Garzia wrote: just tried that here and did not experience the bug. I am not using 4.5.2 though. If you're a Developer Program member, try one of the recent 4.5.x betas or try 4.5.0 and see if it happens again. I am running (from) Ubuntu 10.10

Re: [OT] Why is Brazil like Bulgaria?

2011-01-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 11:07 -0200, Andre Garzia wrote: People outside imagine Brazil being some banana republic where carismatic leader can do any ruthless thing and get away with it but this is not the case, they can get away with robbing any amount of money, passing any kind of idiotic

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-10 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 12:46 -0800, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- On Sat, 1/8/11, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tv wrote: [snip] Thanks for taking the time to respond - my interest is in real business models built around licenses, or other legal innovations - and not the politics

Re: File naming convention

2011-01-25 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:01 -0800, Bob Sneidar wrote: To further complicate matters, in a server share environment, it is possible to copy files with bad characters to a server, and then have the server complain that it cannot find the file, or the file doesn't exist. So follow the

Re: Linux standalone

2011-01-31 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 15:20 -0500, Mike Arnold wrote: I am working on the multi-platform distribution of a simple application that uses revBrowser function. The mac standalone (development system too) is working, Windows in about 95% (still haven't figured out how to handle separators

Re: OT - GOOGLE NOT WORKING FOR ME

2011-01-31 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:12 -0800, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi All, Using a MacPro with Snow Leopard and I'm getting no action when I try to Google. Any thoughts? Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect Director of Product Development for GSI www.glsysinc.com Is this a complaint?

Re: OT - GOOGLE NOT WORKING FOR ME

2011-01-31 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:12 -0800, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi All, Using a MacPro with Snow Leopard and I'm getting no action when I try to Google. Any thoughts? Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect Director of Product Development for GSI www.glsysinc.com google is reachable here,

Re: OT - GOOGLE NOT WORKING FOR ME

2011-01-31 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:19 -0800, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I guess Warren, since I prefer FireFox to Safari by lots! Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect Director of Product Development for GSI www.glsysinc.com On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:16 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-31 at 21:12

Re: How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:53 -0800, Jim Lambert wrote: Richard wrote: Currently the LiveCode engine uses the Windows hiliteColor when selecting text, ignoring whatever highlight color may be in use by the current theme. Is there a shell query I can run to determine the current text

Re: How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:33 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:53 -0800, Jim Lambert wrote: Richard wrote: Currently the LiveCode engine uses the Windows hiliteColor when selecting text, ignoring whatever highlight color may be in use by the current theme

Re: How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:57 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:33 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:53 -0800, Jim Lambert wrote: Richard wrote: Currently the LiveCode engine uses the Windows hiliteColor when selecting text, ignoring

Re: How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 17:14 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:57 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:33 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 11:53 -0800, Jim Lambert wrote: Richard wrote: Currently the LiveCode engine uses

Re: How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-02-01 at 16:18 -0800, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: Try this in your terminal: 'gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_color_scheme' Here's what it gives me: warren at mint-i7 ~ $ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_color_scheme

Re: How to get current text hiliteColor in Linux?

2011-02-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Wed, 2011-02-02 at 05:40 -0800, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: This gives a reasonable approximation, certainly much better than the default, but it raises a question for me. Is there a way to set the foreground color of the selection? I don't find it in the dictionary

Re: revMail

2011-02-07 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:36 +0200, Richmond wrote: I wonder why: on mouseUp revMail x...@gmail.com, ,Important Information,The sun is shining end mouseUp doesn't seem to send an email to x...@gmail.com (on Linux, at least)? I have tried this for 2 e-mail addresses with no joy.

Re: revMail

2011-02-07 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 23:02 +0200, Richmond wrote: On 02/07/2011 10:58 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 22:36 +0200, Richmond wrote: I wonder why: on mouseUp revMail x...@gmail.com, ,Important Information,The sun is shining end mouseUp doesn't seem to send

Re: Following up on shell(locale) problem

2011-03-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 13:00 -0800, Peter Haworth wrote: Hoping someone might come up with some help. To recap, if I execute the command locale -k LC_NUMERIC ...from Terminal on my Mac, the output is decimal_point=. thousands_sep=, grouping=3;3 However, if I use the LC Shell

Re: Following up on shell(locale) problem

2011-03-01 Thread Warren Samples
because that makes me think it's an LC bug even more. I'm currently researching if there's a way to get this info using Applescript (without issuing a shell command I mean) as a means to work around the problem. Pete Haworth On Mar 1, 2011, at 1:42 PM, Warren Samples wrote: Hi Peter

Re: Following up on shell(locale) problem

2011-03-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 18:10 -0800, Peter Haworth wrote: That's definitely an option if I don't find a solution to getting the locale info from within LiveCode. Unfortunately, I know nothing about python. I've been sent some pretty cool LC scripts to do this formatting in response to my

Re: Following up on shell(locale) problem

2011-03-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:37 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 18:10 -0800, Peter Haworth wrote: That's definitely an option if I don't find a solution to getting the locale info from within LiveCode. Unfortunately, I know nothing about python. I've been sent some

Re: On-Rev antispam ( reCAPTCHA)

2011-03-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 16:46 +0100, Medard wrote: Bonjour ! After all, on my modest On-Rev blog, I am beginning to get some spam ;- In my blog, comments are written to separate text files -- so it's easy to delete and regenerate them when they are filled with spam ;-) But it is turning

Re: Help with mySQL

2011-03-07 Thread Warren Samples
On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 12:04 -0600, Warren Samples wrote: On Mon, 2011-03-07 at 08:53 -0800, Peter Haworth wrote: Folks, Thanks for the pointers on mySQL admin tools. I'm trying out a couple, Workbench and Sequel Pro and having a problem getting off the ground. I've been using SQLite

Re: What's wrong with this sql picture?

2011-03-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Fri, 2011-03-11 at 21:33 -0800, Bob Sneidar wrote: error : You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near '(30), Bob, Isn't trying to tell you that datetime(30) is not a valid declaration? Should it just

Re: mySQL and defaults

2011-03-17 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:18:19 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: From the MySQL reference manual on TEXT types: In most respects, you can regard a BLOB column as a VARBINARY column that can be as large as you like. Similarly, you can regard a TEXT column as a VARCHAR column. BLOB and

Re: Check for first run

2011-04-17 Thread Warren Samples
On Sunday, April 17, 2011 01:42:28 AM Maarten Koopmans wrote: Hi, Is there a best practice for checking if the application is on a first run for a standalone(especially one that will go to an App store eventually)? I simply need to ask the user a few questions on first run (and set up a

Re: Cleaning Exif Data from an image

2011-05-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, May 02, 2011 04:51:32 PM Andrew Kluthe wrote: I do not know much about image manipulation in livecode or in general. But, I am looking for a way to scrub exif data off an image easily and without loss to the picture. There are libraries in php that let me do this, but I would really

Re: Cleaning Exif Data from an image

2011-05-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, May 02, 2011 11:00:25 PM J. Landman Gay wrote: You can import the image, and then re-export it as jpeg. The engine will decompress the original and strip the exif data. When you export, you may lost some quality, but it may not be noticable. This is a really elegantly simple

Re: Hide group on click

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 09:48:07 AM Colin Holgate wrote: and visible should be removed and replaced with visibility Of course this would cause problems with backward compatibility, but I think the argument regarding correct English grammar is specious. the visible refers to a state or

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 10:10:52 AM Todd Geist wrote: Command-line argument variables Hi Todd, It looks as if you have to program your app to respond according to what values any such variable(s) contain, such as 'if $1 is true then doSomeThing' It looks af it will take some craft in order

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 03:28:14 PM Todd Geist wrote: But it does appear in my Dock, as I expected, but don't want. I believe this can be avoided by setting a key value in the .plist file inside the app bundle. I think you'll find this info with a google search. Good luck! Warren

Re: Crashing documentation on Linux

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/06/2012 02:36 PM, Richmond wrote: At the risk of being boring I am reposting part of a message that I posted under a different heading: An on-going problem is that the RR/LC Dictionary crashes the IDE on Linux (3.5, 4.0, 4.5 at least), and, at last, I have found a suitably mental

Re: Crashing documentation on Linux

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/06/2012 04:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: The problem with the dictionary crashing in linux is with user-added notes. Try opening the dictionary entry to repeat. I do this and nothing untoward happens in either Livecode 4.5.3 or 5.5. I see several user added notes, but no crashing. Is there

Re: Crashing documentation on Linux

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/06/2012 05:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: I'm sure it's a conspiracy on the part of that fiendish rev team to get us all to switch from linux to Windows. But I'm keeping my tinfoil hat right where it belongs. You can't take the sky from me. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net Well, it

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/15/2012 02:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this should be happening? I hosed my Debian installation (don't ask!). So not having done a new install for many years and several new computers, I decided the thing to do was

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/15/2012 09:57 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 06/15/2012 02:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this should be happening? I hosed my Debian installation (don't ask!). So not having done a new install for many years and several new

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/16/2012 11:51 AM, Warren Samples wrote: Adding some 32 bit libs in the software center in Mint 13 has helped. This is clearly the problem. Livecode is not working with the new multiarch system implemented in Mint 13. Ok, missing 32 bit libs was the problem. It's working now

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/16/2012 02:53 PM, Richmond wrote: Peter, you might update apt-get and try 'sudo apt-get install ia32-libs' and see if that does the trick for you. Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate Richmond, are you working with a 64 bit installation? If you are, do you find ia32-libs

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/19/2012 11:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/19/12 8:53 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: OK, I can't attach that much. Here are links for the message below: http://dochawk.org:Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.33.48 PM (2).png http://dochawk.org:Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.42.16 PM.png

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/19/2012 11:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/19/12 11:14 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 06/19/2012 11:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/19/12 8:53 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: OK, I can't attach that much. Here are links for the message below: http://dochawk.org:Screen Shot 2012-06-19

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/19/2012 11:43 PM, Warren Samples wrote: http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.33.48 PM (2).png http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.42.16 PM.png http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.43.05 PM.png http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.43.35 PM.png

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

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 02:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: If any of you are using Linux it would be helpful to know which distro and version, which desktop environment, and whether using the answer file command shows hidden files in its listing. After caffeine, I

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

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