Re: DoMenu

2014-12-08 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello Richard,I disagree with your conclusion that DoMenu was necessary in HyperCard because that language wasn't rich enough to build an entire IDE in.DoMenu was an integral part of HyperCard's ease-of learning-to-program.One command (doMenu) versus many commands to learn/use/remember.Part of

Re: reading a file

2014-09-21 Thread Alain Farmer
replace: put quote it quote into thisFile with put it into thisFile On Sunday, September 21, 2014 6:03 PM, la...@significantplanet.org la...@significantplanet.org wrote: Hello, Could anyone please explain why the following script does not work? (It puts into the field the name of the

Re: reading a file

2014-09-21 Thread Alain Farmer
not need the quotes? Thank you again, Larry - Original Message - From: Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 4:09 PM Subject: Re: reading a file replace: put quote it quote into thisFile with put

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-) On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 8:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting enough, LiveCode had more power than all XTalk software created before... but there are just a few of us who actually knows how to use

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alain Farmer
-interest in this; not enough to warrant a recode. Nice chatting with you, Al. On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:26 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Alain Farmer wrote Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-) Actually, I have show LiveCode to many people

Re: Newly created alias is not an alias

2014-09-02 Thread Alain Farmer
the aliasReference of targetFolder -- answers targetFolder -- instead of empty -- end testAliases On Monday, September 1, 2014 7:29:56 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Alain Farmer alain_farmer@... writes: setDirectoryTo someFolder create alias myAlias to folder

Re: Newly created alias is not an alias

2014-09-02 Thread Alain Farmer
testAliases On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 2:18:04 PM, Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you, Mark, but the aliasReference is NEVER empty. Therefore cannot use: if the aliasReference of it is empty to test if something is an alias.: on testAliases currentFolder -- put

Re: Newly created alias is not an alias

2014-09-02 Thread Alain Farmer
On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:33:14 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote: Thank you, Mark, but the aliasReference is NEVER empty. The Dictionary says: Comments: If the aliasPath does not exist

Re: how to stop mouse clicks from executing?

2014-09-01 Thread Alain Farmer
on showToUser set the cursor to none -- show end showToUser On Monday, September 1, 2014 1:24:32 PM, la...@significantplanet.org la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I have a situation in my program where I'm showing the user some stuff. I do not want the user to be able to click

Re: [OT] Spies under the bed.

2014-08-31 Thread Alain Farmer
LOL! Goes-to-show how accurate and relevant their information is. ;-) On Sunday, August 31, 2014 5:56:36 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: There's a way to check who Google thinks you are and what

Newly created alias is not an alias

2014-08-31 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello, I am using version 6.6.2 I am perplexed by the following: setDirectoryTo someFolder create alias myAlias to folder existingFolder if the result is not empty then die the result answer there is an alias myAlias -- returns false !?! answer there is an alias (someFolder

Re: join columns

2014-08-28 Thread Alain Farmer
    get line x of dataToInsert         put it tab before item colNumber of line x of intoThisTable     end repeat     return intoThisTable     -- end insertAsColumn on die dyingMessage     answer dyingMessage     exit to top end die On , Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote

Re: join columns

2014-08-28 Thread Alain Farmer
...@pacifier.com wrote: Thank you, Alain!  This example will help me out. John Balgenoth On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote: Correction: function insertAsColumn colNumber, dataToInsert, intoThisTable     --     if the number of lines of dataToInsert

Re: join columns

2014-08-28 Thread Alain Farmer
the paranoid version :) SKIP On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote: Here is the paranoid version : function insertAsColumn colNumber, dataToInsert, intoThisTable     --     if dataToInsert is empty then         answer insert empty column ? with cancel or insert

Re: Strange mailing list email.

2014-08-27 Thread Alain Farmer
Yes, Peter, this is happening to me regularly (2-3 times per week). Exactly as you described. On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:30:36 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I received an email last night that my membership in this list had been suspended due to excessive bounces and the

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-18 Thread Alain Farmer
that it is a unicode issue. Then I got lucky as I persevered. How gratifying! :-)) On Monday, August 18, 2014 12:16:57 AM, Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote: Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark. On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Mark

Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello y'all, I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. put getCurrentFolder() Acériculture into myFolder1 put getCurrentFolder() Acericulture into

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
To Richmond: YES, LiveCode runs on UNIX machines. Btw, MetaCard was first developed for UNIX, then Windows, then Mac. To Richard: Thanks for the nudge to use/test version 7, but I am swamped with work right-now, I do not have time, and I cannot risk using something beta at this time. To

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark. On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode

Re: Helping newcomers anticipate that standalones can't save to themselves

2014-08-15 Thread Alain Farmer
Paul Hibbert wrote: My biggest frustration at the time was the disjointed documentation and lack of structured tutorials, many people have also made the same comments over the years. I feel the tutorials especially have improved and the documentation is improving slowly. Thinking back to when

Re: Helping newcomers anticipate that standalones can't save to themselves

2014-08-15 Thread Alain Farmer
In reply to : Taking a broader view, for most apps it's not desirable to save UI elements at all, populating the UI with data stored externally instead, so when you deploy upgrades the new UI can display older data without having to worry about the old UI.  And for separate data storage there

Re: Helping newcomers anticipate that standalones can't save to themselves

2014-08-15 Thread Alain Farmer
, polished, and documented. Meanwhile, if you discover such a lib (for CouchDB), please notify me. So much to do, so little time!  ;-) On Friday, August 15, 2014 3:38:48 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Alain Farmer wrote: I am also interested in JSON, because

Re: What is LiveCloud?

2014-08-15 Thread Alain Farmer
I browsed their entire site. Their information [about what it is] is extremely scant. OTOH, there are currently LOTS of Cloud-hosted servers available. DigitalOcean, the one I'm using, only costs $5 per month, for the equivalent of my own server. They are a BIG operation,and therefore I am

Re: Standard Library

2014-08-11 Thread Alain Farmer
Regex is GREAT! I use it a LOT. Anyone need any help to grasp how it works ? On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:14:28 PM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: That is nice to know! I was thinking I would speed up the longer text processing.  You just did me a favor and save me a lot of time plus

Bug report about revXMLib

2014-07-29 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello, I am using LC-6.6.2 on Debian. I have been experimenting with revXMLib lately. One of my objectives is to process 15000 xml-files, 3 different kinds. Btw I am migrating a huge Drupal-site (exported to XML) to LiveCode. First the encoding challenge had to be vaulted: a) xml-lib won't load

revXMLib bugs

2014-07-29 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello, I am using LC-6.6.2 on Debian. I have been experimenting with revXMLib lately. One of my objectives is to process 15000 xml-files, 3 different kinds. Btw I am migrating a huge Drupal-site (exported to XML) to LiveCode. First the encoding challenge had to be vaulted: a) xml-lib won't

Re: Maiden speech from an old man

2014-07-27 Thread Alain Farmer
My two cents worth, I love y'all and want to continue to communicate with you, but, let's face it, this is a VERY-busy mailing-list. So busy it is hard to keep-up, or even read most messages anymore. My webmail-client often puts our mail-list messages in my spam folder. For actively working on

Re: Naive question 5978

2014-07-23 Thread Alain Farmer
To Skip Kimpel, About: if you intend on digging deep into datagrid, make sure you get the Datagrid Helper. Question: what is Datagrid Helper ? what is its URL ? Thanks, On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:11:08 AM, Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de wrote: Hi Skip, Am 23.07.2014 um 12:55 schrieb

Diacritics in folder names

2014-07-22 Thread Alain Farmer
I am using LiveCode 6.6.2 on Debian. I wanted to use folders with diacritics in their name: é, è, à, etc. Alas, LiveCode apparently does not allow this. 1. answer there is a folder écologie -- answers false 2. answer there is a folder ecologie -- answers true 3. answer there is a folder

Re: Diacritics in folder names

2014-07-22 Thread Alain Farmer
. On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:44:17 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/07/14 17:35, Alain Farmer wrote: I am using LiveCode 6.6.2 on Debian. I wanted to use folders with diacritics in their name: é, è, à, etc. Alas, LiveCode apparently does not allow this. 1. answer

Re: Diacritics in folder names

2014-07-22 Thread Alain Farmer
Merci pour l'appui. mon cher Richmond. Very important to me, because many of my projects are for francophones. Message-in-a-bottle has been set to sea; let's see what happens. Thanks On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:34:30 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/07/14 20:11, Alain

Re: Diacritics in folder names

2014-07-22 Thread Alain Farmer
Thanks Richard, Btw, I have only just recently upgraded to 6.6.2. Now I have to upgrade already. Arr! I will have to get used to it, I guess. Is version-7 stable ? Will it fix my problem ? Stay tuned for the next episode! Thanks, On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 9:27:20 PM, Richard Gaskin

Re: We're Funding LiveCode For the Web

2014-07-01 Thread Alain Farmer
Bravo on bringing HTML5+Javascript Web Delivery to LiveCode. Awesome! Btw, I crafted a MetaCard WYSIWYG-editor of dHTML .. back in the day. Of-course it will be far-better coded natively; more maintained that's for sure! Thanks for this GREAT project. I will try to help [financially] when I become

Re: Put a stack into a variable?

2014-06-13 Thread Alain Farmer
This may seem off-topic, sort-of, but it might be simpler to transmit an exhaustive DESCRIPTION of the stack, and have their LiveCode create it all from scratch. Then it gets filled with content that is gotten by URL. Kind-of like how web-pages work. It's all text, no binaries. On Friday,

Re: Be, OpenDoc, P S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Alain Farmer
I rermember OpenDoc. It would have been revolutionary. And it was READY to go. I knew the guy at Apple Canada that was in charge of promoting it. He was profoundly disappointed when Apple dropped-the-ball; just as we were when HyperCard was steved. And so it was with many other promising RD

Re: Be, OpenDoc, P S and...

2014-06-11 Thread Alain Farmer
Yes, there was Publish--Subscribe in it, but the really-amazing thing about OpenDoc is that everything would have been document-centric, versus application-centric like it is now and has been forever. In any document/application you would systematically use the components of your choice: your

Re: Removing all NON numbers from a data element

2014-06-11 Thread Alain Farmer
Use replaceText: put replaceText ( yourData, ^[0-9]*, empty) into yourData On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:25:11 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: Hello LC'ers I have data element that I need to scan for all NON numbers and remove them.  For instance this data

Re: Unicode

2014-05-12 Thread Alain Farmer
of preferences. Bob On May 11, 2014, at 17:31 , Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello, I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop) None of the unicode stuff works [for me]: * set the useUnicode to true * the unicodeText of field * the unicodeFormattedText of field No error messages; just

Re: Unicode

2014-05-12 Thread Alain Farmer
Thanks Warren, Yup, this is the version I am using. I don't change often because it is not a trivial matter for me. I have only ever used this version; no other versions used so-far. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Unicode

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

Re: Newbie question

2014-04-30 Thread Alain Farmer
. On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:50:10 AM, Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de wrote: Hi Alain, Am 30.04.2014 um 06:28 schrieb Alain Farmer alain_far...@yahoo.com: I am stumped. Why the contradiction below ? on mouseUp     answer the cantDelete of part 1 -- answers true or false     repeat with x

Re: Newbie question

2014-04-30 Thread Alain Farmer
Exactly, Jacque. Thank you kindly for responding. Btw I am creating some experimentation stacks, that I will share with y'all soon. Kind regards, Alain On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:17:44 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 4/29/14, 11:28 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: I am

Re: [OT] On RegExp

2014-04-29 Thread Alain Farmer
Which browser are you referring to ?? Where does browser come into play ?? My question is whether the site ( http://www.regexr.com/ )  uses the same regex syntax as livecode users do ? Thanks, On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:10:43 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Alain- Tuesday,

Re: [OT] On RegExp

2014-04-29 Thread Alain Farmer
Perhaps I have not been clear. Here is my attempt to be clearer. Can I use the regex expressions in site http://www.regexr.com/ in a LiveCode stack on my local computer ? Thank you, On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:06:40 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: mwieder wrote It uses

Newbie question

2014-04-29 Thread Alain Farmer
I am stumped. Why the contradiction below ? on mouseUp    answer the cantDelete of part 1 -- answers true or false    repeat with x = 1 to the number of parts   get the cantDelete of part x -- error! object does not have this property    end repeat end mouseUp

Re: Home stack

2014-04-04 Thread Alain Farmer
for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 4/4/2014 06:24, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/3/14, 7:51 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, Is there still a Home stack in LiveCode ? Are following expressions still supported ? * go home * edit

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

2014-04-04 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello y'all, Congratulations Richard. Good move, Kevin. :-) I would like to share hundreds of handlers I have developed over time (years). I will also want to share stacks I'm crafting to master certain features; revXML at this time. What is the best way to do this ? Btw, I may be asking some

Home stack

2014-04-03 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello, Is there still a Home stack in LiveCode ? Are following expressions still supported ? * go home * edit the script of home Anyone using revXML ? Any gotchas that I should be aware-of ? Are you still working with Jabber/XMPP, David Bovill ? Thanks, Alain Farmer

Re: Home stack

2014-04-03 Thread Alain Farmer
Thanks Jacque. :-) On Friday, April 4, 2014 12:24:52 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 4/3/14, 7:51 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, Is there still a Home stack in LiveCode ? Are following expressions still supported ? * go home * edit the script of home There's