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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: [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: 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

2012-09-12 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: 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: 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

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: 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

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: 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: 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: [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: [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

2013-01-20 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: [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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Server performance issues: Dreamhost only?

2015-01-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/26/2015 03:28 PM, Warren Samples wrote: Have any of you seen order-of-magnitude speed loss when running LiveCode Server on any host other than Dreamhost? Not at webfaction It may be relevant to note that all LC Server versions I have installed are 32bit, including LC 7. webfaction

Re: Server performance issues: Dreamhost only?

2015-01-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/26/2015 01:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: We've seen reports of serious performance issues with running LiveCode Server 7.x on Dreamhost. I'm working with Peter Brett at RunRev to try to resolve these, and there's one detail that would be very useful to know: While we see relatively minor

atom editor and livecode server files syntax package available

2015-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
For those of you who don't participate in the forums for whatever reason, but are interested in livecode server, forum user ghettocottage has converted the TextMate revigniter-livecode syntax module for the cross-platform Atom Text Editor and made it available to all. You can install it

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/23/2015 06:00 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Messages button in the toolbar Where is this? Did you mean Suppress Messages in the menubar? Craig Under the View menu are options to toggle toolbar text and toolbar icons. Enable one or both of these and you will find Messages right

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 8

2015-11-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/03/2015 12:06 PM, Richmond wrote: As soon as I clicked on one of the dropDown menus in revMenuBar everything locked up. Richmond. OpenSUSE 64bit with KDE Plasma5. I had no troubles opening this version, but get similar behavior to that which Richmond describes here except that

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

2015-10-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/20/2015 12:27 PM, Richmond wrote: P.S. I also use my computer to iron my socks. Maybe you should put another fan or two in it! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/26/2015 11:54 AM, Richmond wrote: I just knocked together a standard stack with one button containing the script: on mouseUp put HELLO end mouseUp before I tried building a standalone, that script did NOT work . . . I built a 64-bit Linux standalone, and it *opened* (the script did

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/26/2015 10:23 AM, Richmond wrote: Really excited, now I have a functioning 64-bit system, to dig into this 'puppy'. Richmond. Richmond, Please let me know if you can build a working standalone on your system. I can't get a standalone built in any version of LC8 to open and run on my

Re: HTML5 test

2015-09-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/01/2015 11:36 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: On Ubuntu Linux, works fine Firefox Chrome and Opera shows this message: Exception thrown, see JavaScript console It works here in Opera 31.0 and Chrome 44.0 (also works in Chromium) in openSUSE 13.2, 64-bit. I wonder what accounts for the

Re: HTML5 test

2015-09-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/02/2015 04:31 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: Opera works - it isn’t one that we’d particularly tried to support at this stage. Keep in mind that Opera now uses the Chrome/Blink rendering and javascript engines, as apparently does Vivaldi. Warren

Re: list etiquette

2015-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2015 02:03 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: That's exactly what you'd want isn't it? If you are not interested in the main topic why on earth would you be interested in a side issue of the main topic? You are not understanding the problem. These "side issues of the main thread" are nothing of

list etiquette

2015-09-28 Thread Warren Samples
Hello all, From time to time certain issue of list etiquette have been brought up and discussed. Cross-posting to this and the dev list, top or bottom responding, succinct message copying, and whether or not to leave a message intact while responding or slicing it and responding point by

Re: Release 6.7.7 / 7.1.0

2015-10-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/04/2015 12:50 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Many of the Linux releases seem to misbehave themselves well if one chooses the "Ayn Rand" option [ You Only ]; since the release of the first Community version I have found about 25% of them have "gone wonky" for 'You Only'. Ah, that's a really

Re: A modest proposal

2015-09-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/28/2015 03:23 PM, William Prothero wrote: Folks: I’m putting out what I think is a fantastic idea for an app. It’s much more than I’d be willing to take on, but in the US, I think it could be very big. But, then again, perhaps it exists already. I’d like to use such an app for my aging

Re: Linux software suggestions

2015-09-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/22/2015 03:02 PM, AndyP wrote: Photo / Raw editing - DarkTable - Linux only, I've been wanting to play with this for ages. There is also RawTherapee (this is cross platform but not well known to Win/Mac users because they don't "sell" it) http://www.rawtherapee.com/ LightZone is

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/25/2015 08:38 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Yes, the release notes appear to be inaccurate. We currently build against: * glibc 2.11 (released Nov 2009) or newer on x86 * glibc 2.13 (released Feb 2011) or newer on x86-64 I will make sure they are updated in time for our next releases. Out

Re: Java version

2015-11-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/28/2015 10:32 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thanks, but the link in the post there times out so I can't get to it. Could you give a brief synopsis? My main confusion is whether I have two versions installed (and can therfore uninstall 8 entirely) or whether it's version 6 that's triggering

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/24/2015 05:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 10. The release notes provided with this version of Livecode Server say it requires glibc 2.3.6 or later for 32-bit Intel. This seems not to be the case. It won't run in my environment and ldd

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 03:13 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: Hello, I am trying to write the from a text field to a file and then change the file so it is executable. put field "mytest" into URL "binfile:~/race" or put field "mytest" into URL"file:~/race" The file race is created in either case but are

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 06:06 PM, Warren Samples wrote: 'get shell("chomd +x /your/new/file")' Well, that of course won't work jaja. chmod ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 06:09 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: This only works IF the file created is associated with the terminal application. The issue is creating the proper file format so when the chmod creates it as Unix executable. Are you saying that saving a file from TextMate and chmoding it works but

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/21/2016 01:34 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Thanks to all those who replied - ‘the internet date’ was the answer I needed, since I then didn’t have to get out of my LiveCode comfort zone to do the calculation. I’m thinking of time-stamping some interactions that are going to go through a

Re: Sound, Linux, Embedding

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/17/2016 03:06 PM, RM wrote: So, after keeping quiet on this for about 5 years . . . I was digging away in some ZIP disks I have access to via a SCSI card in the back of my Linux box [neither my G3 iMac, nor my G5 iMac having SCSI ports] and I chanced upon some "LiveCode" (i.e. Runtime

Re: OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

2016-03-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/17/2016 01:06 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: I have been discussing the sale of a desktop product (developed with LC, obviously) with a colleague. We’re thinking of direct sales...He’s in the US ..sell a low volume of product purely as a download with no physical fulfilment...I am not sure

Re: Indy Licensing

2016-04-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/13/2016 12:26 PM, John Dixon wrote: I am surprised that this list has not been flooded with questions and complaints... Have you been away? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/04/2016 09:12 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0, the first stable release of LiveCode 8. I'm running openSUSE Leap 42.1 here and finding that Livecode 8 will not launch. The installer worked properly. Launching

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/05/2016 04:55 PM, Warren Samples wrote: I'm running openSUSE Leap 42.1 here and finding that Livecode 8 will not launch. The installer worked properly. Launching LiveCode displays the splashscreen followed either by a rapid crash (IDE itself never displays) or a permanent hang

Re: Running Node (or any unix cmd line program) from Shell from a LC Stack

2016-05-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/08/2016 04:07 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: It's something about LC now knowing that I have node installed when invoked via shell BR Compare what you get when you run 'echo $PATH' in a terminal to what you get when you run it in LiveCode using shell(). Make sure the directory

Re: What Newbies Expect

2016-07-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/07/2016 07:35 AM, Sri wrote: I am reading this thread on the web and I find two other threads (by Ray Horsley-2) entangled with this one. What is going on? Do others see this? Regards, Sri I see it in my current email client. There are several people on the list wose habit is to

Re: Intel QSV H.264 codec for AVFoundation and DirectShow

2016-07-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/04/2016 04:43 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: The x264 codec is a opensource codec and as far as I understand it is not preinstalled on any system and at least on my Mac a x264 video can't be played (perhaps there is a chance to manually install it, what I would like to avoid for my

Re: SVG Editors, anyone?

2016-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/05/2016 09:57 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: Having got very interested in LC widgets at the conference, I’m about to start experimenting, but I need to create some SVG graphics based on my own designs. I can’t afford Illustrator - has anyone got any recommendations for a free, or at any

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/30/2016 11:02 AM, Richmond wrote: Still waiting (64-bit, Linux) for the Dictionary. Richmond. I understand your frustration, Richmond. I can't open LiveCode on my Linux machine running the current release of openSUSE (Leap). I can, however, run it under different release versions of

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/30/2016 03:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > I can't open LiveCode on my Linux machine running the current release > of openSUSE (Leap). I can, however, run it under different release > versions of openSUSE and have it open right now in a virtual machine

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 10:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: ldd doesn't show anything missing. Getting LiveCode to run under Tumbleweed requires no head scratching or additional installation of libs, using the official installation DVD and as well the geckoLinux spin (rolling version

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 11:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > The 64 bit LiveCode IDE fails to open for me under openSUSE Leap > 42.1. ... > The shell prints a backtrace. Would this be helpful to see? Running > LiveCode through strace using some parti

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 02:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I would suggest filing the report. If anyone complains, I'll take the heat. :) It may be that this is something we'll fix as a community effort, but at least having it in the bug DB will give us a central place to share notes and logs as we work

Re: [ANN] lcb-mode v0.1.1: Emacs major mode for LCB source code

2016-08-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/16/2016 08:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: Emacs vim Whooboy! Fun time's a startin'! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

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