Re: Delete and object from script within the object?

2014-12-03 Thread Björnke von Gierke
send deleteTheImage myImage to this stack in 0 seconds On 03 Dec 2014, at 22:57, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Folks: I’m trying to delete an image from a script within that image LC doesn’t like that because the script in the object hasn’t finished yet. —the image

Re: EU VAT changes small software businesses

2014-11-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
So basically, every one of you EU software sellers is going to be fucked. It seems that using the MOSS is only applicable if you yourself have a VAT identification number. Furthermore it seems to be opt in and not mandatory. Nontheless, it seems to me that you then will need to do the Vat stuff

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 13 Nov 2014, at 20:09, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 11/13/2014, 2:27 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Really, why wouldn't it be realistic to pay a bunch of students for a few hours of beta-testing (or should I say alpha-testing) some time in a development cycle? There's

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Menus

2014-11-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Question 1: The only works for Windows, where menus can be triggered with the keyboard. The character after the will be the one to trigger, and it'll be shown underlined. You can choose any char in a word, it doesn't need to be the first one, and the premade ones are chosen as per Windows

Re: Livecode Has Stopped Working

2014-11-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
This should not happen. Did you try uninstalling, then reinstalling LC? Note that there is no 64 bit versions of LC, but that doesn't matters, because 32 bit applications should just work on any windows version. I think you need supp...@runrev.com On 10 Nov 2014, at 18:58, Ray r...@linkit.com

Re: corrupted stack message

2014-11-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
What LC version are you using to save, and what version to open it afterwards? This message often pops up when you open a stack saved with a newer stackFileVersion in an older LC version, one that doesn't know the new version. So if you save a stack with LC 7, and then try to open it with 6,

Re: card id not valid

2014-11-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The Inspector does not show the ID of cards by default, it only pretends to do it, by using card id as default name. If you change the name, you can see the real id appear on top of the inspector window. This is done in the IDE with a script and might possibly be confused in your case

Re: need some help with baseConvert()

2014-10-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
LC is using base32Hex. That means valid chars are 0-9 and A-V. See also Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base32#base32hex On 24 Oct 2014, at 10:20, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: Hello, I am using: put baseConvert(number,32,10) into tResult QW I get an error --

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 7.0

2014-10-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
They could at least improve the fakes a bit right now, because 8 is far away. On 24 Oct 2014, at 16:13, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de wrote: This has been in Quality Center for more than three years now and

Re: Secure Sockets

2014-10-20 Thread Björnke von Gierke
So can I safely assume that no one ever has tried to use secure sockets in LC? On 15 Oct 2014, at 18:59, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hi all I'm rather uneducated with encryption stuff, so I wanted to try out secure sockets. However, most likely due to my incapability

Re: Regex wildcard in XML Query

2014-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'll just leave this here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/2149933 On 09 Oct 2014, at 18:41, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: q xsi:type=xsd:patternIGD.NetDevice.\d{2}\.NetCommonInterfaceConfig./q Hi Glen,

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
There is no way to search the dictionary, but I have made a replacement for it, which can do full searches: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ As a side note I really wish trueWord would be named humanWord instead, it'd make the distinction to the historic word much more immediate comprehensible. On

Secure Sockets

2014-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi all I'm rather uneducated with encryption stuff, so I wanted to try out secure sockets. However, most likely due to my incapability to understand what I'm doing, I've been unable to get a simple example working. I've used my own simplest socket client/server stacks from rev online, ran

Re: unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

2014-08-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
while the screen is locked, in the repeat loop: wait 0 seconds with messages Annoying, and weird, I know. But it's been like that since a few versions now, so this feature probably will most likely stay like that. On 27 Aug 2014, at 13:25, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list I have the

Re: ChatRev

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright, I'm back, got a brand new router, and everything should be working again. http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=chatrev On 10 Aug 2014, at 00:39, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi guys, Björnke just told me that a thunder storm took out his internet

Re: Selling a ticket for RevCon '14

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I still have this ticket and am offering it for a discount of more then 30% less then on the shop. I can't believe that everyone who is thinking about going already has their ticket? On 09 Aug 2014, at 18:33, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hmm, so everyone already has their ticket

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. However, there'll be a meta-LC like language, that is not quite LC, but similar-ish, which will allow to write externals too. The Idea is that it's similar enough for more

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 14 Aug 2014, at 01:12, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is

Re: sorting

2014-08-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
sort theList by word 2 of each sort theList by word 1 of each sort order is retained in-between commands, that's why it works. On 09 Aug 2014, at 08:24, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I have a field I want to sort. Each line has 4 words. I want to sort by the first word (ascending) and

Re: Selling a ticket for RevCon '14

2014-08-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hmm, so everyone already has their ticket? Just to be clear, this is more then a 30% price reduction compared to the price from RunRev on the website. On 08 Aug 2014, at 03:37, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hi Due to Family business, I'll be unable to go to America this year

Selling a ticket for RevCon '14

2014-08-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi Due to Family business, I'll be unable to go to America this year. Therefore I have a superfluous Premium 4 Day Ticket to RunRevLive, which I am selling for 1700.- USD (or equivalent other currency). First come first serve, please email me directly. Björnke -- Use an alternative

Re: From my Spam box: A Newer, Thicker, Stronger . . .

2014-07-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
A large part of the unicode bloat comes from the dictionaries. They are a kind of language descriptor for almost every written language on earth, their dialects, and synonym ways to write a character. If you're only really interested in european languages, being able to disable 99% of those

Re: We're Funding LiveCode For the Web

2014-07-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
It's not about who'm you email, it's about what you say. I'm sure I'm part of those 85%, which is misleading. Why? Because the poll asked What technology would be nice to have? please select all that apply.. HTML5 was part of that list. Meanwhile Less bugs, and a better coding experience was

Re: [OT] M. S. Pease

2014-06-19 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I am not sure either. It could be that Mark wants to contact a person, possibly called M.S. Pease or similar. I could be wrong of course, maybe It's actually about someone else, or not a quest for contact at all? I wonder what it could be about? Maybe he wants an email, to actually be able to

Re: question about ide bug, and usage of LC

2014-05-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 30 May 2014, at 07:11, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Option-return only works on Macs and will throw an error if you move the stack to any other platform. The standard for a split line in LC is the backslash: \ That's wrong. option-return just inserts a backslash, which

Re: Documentation

2014-05-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
hmm, if only someone had done something about that... http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ On 30 May 2014, at 15:27, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: One problem with the dictionary is that, since it is apparently based on arrays and/or XML, it is not possible to search in the contents of

question about ide bug, and usage of LC

2014-05-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
When typing a very long line in the script editor, the editor does not update it's size and the scrollbar remains still, while the script editor field remains static. This problem was introduced in LC 6.5.0 or 6.5.1, and is in all versions since then, up to the current 7.0.0dp6 and 6.6.2.rc5.

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
My Version? Excuse me? What? A minor annoyance on Mavericks is that Text Edit does indeed close automatically when the last text file is closed, slightly less annoying, so does preview. Sadly, I do expect more apps to follow in the next version of OS X. I do like the new saving behaviour tho,

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Ah! Well, I thought you where quite rambly there, and the point was actually a simple one. So that's why I did that. I regret nothing.  On 29 May 2014, at 02:01, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: My Version? Excuse me? What? Consider it a customized summary. :)

Re: Forum: quota?

2014-05-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The limit is per account., and you're the weirdo who posts useless images in each post. Go to User Control Panel - Overview tab - Manage attachments and delete them all. On 18 May 2014, at 14:11, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, the board attachment quota has been

Re: Forum: quota?

2014-05-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 18 May 2014, at 15:33, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/05/14 16:20, Björnke von Gierke wrote: The limit is per account., and you're the weirdo who posts useless images in each post. And you are the person who thinks he's super qualified to decide which images

Re: repeat with messages

2014-05-17 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Just for the record, there's a lot of places where you can append more code or garbage to properly formatted commands without any error, sometimes functional, sometimes not. Basically appendixes of non-functional code. All these examples compile without problem: split x by return and tab

[ANN] Zurich LiveCode user meet

2014-05-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hello LiveCoders, This June, the first LiveCode meeting in Zurich will happen! The date and place have been settled (see below). We're not yet completely sure about what we'll actually do during that afternoon, but here's some decided things: - Mark will give away a copy of his book

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'm not sure I understand your question correctly, so here's two answers: Any livecode standalone can be a server. All you need to do is to use the accept socket command. For example, the ChatRev server runs from an IDE installed on an old ibook. But it could as well be a windows standalone

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 10 May 2014, at 05:40, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Friday, May 9, 2014, 8:15:13 PM, you wrote: If we could work out a way to share the work on this with RunRev, anyone here interested in rolling up their sleeves to help? You mean trying to work with a rev team that spent six

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright here's a first version of a category management stack, including some 'dummy' example stack interface elements, to show off how it works. It's mostly a way to avoid category clutter right now. http://bjoernke.com/temp/Category_test.rev On 10 May 2014, at 10:07, Björnke von Gierke b

Re: Zurich meeting this summer

2014-05-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright everyone People interested in a meetup in Zurich, last chance to have a say on the date! http://doodle.com/yapygihh3itgz2qr cheers Björnke On 01 May 2014, at 21:20, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hi persons who use LC Just a quick reminder that we're currently planning

Re: Zurich meeting this summer

2014-05-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 20 April 2014 00:40, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hi everyone Me and Mark are starting to prepare a meetup in Zurich (Switzerland), late June or early July. If you’re interested in joining us, it’d be great to know when you’ll be able to participate. Please take two minutes

Re: LiveCode Performance Examples

2014-05-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I looked at some of my old stack that I knew they where slow-ish... and they're all much faster now, probably due to the new graphics engine handling stuff with lots of points better. So sadly I can't send you any slow stacks *tears up* Nontheless here's what I tried, all stacks have to do with

Re: Modularising Code

2014-05-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I really would love to hear your reasoning about why start using (library) is not what you want to use (or it's brethren front script and back script). Alternatively there's of course using 'send' and 'call' (more modern 'dispatch'), instead of relying on the natural order of the message path.

Re: Modularising Code

2014-05-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Oh. Well I don't. If there's too many handler in one object, I tend to either fuse unnecessary functions or move stuff up or down the message path. Some people use fake empty handlers as folders. And there's of course the open source GLX2 editor, which has folders. On 08 May 2014, at 14:34,

Re: Big bug smackdown! - check your In Box

2014-05-05 Thread Björnke von Gierke
TL;dr: If you've submitted bug reports previously, you should have received an email from RunRev listing all your bugs. Please test each of those outstanding bug reports in the most recent version of LC. On 05 May 2014, at 17:07, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Thanks to

Re: Zurich meeting this summer

2014-05-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
2014, at 01:40, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hi everyone Me and Mark are starting to prepare a meetup in Zurich (Switzerland), late June or early July. If you’re interested in joining us, it’d be great to know when you’ll be able to participate. Please take two minutes to fill

Re: How to encode/decode PHP - LC on Win/Mac?

2014-04-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
If the php files are executed by a web-server (like apache), then you probably have an encoding header supplied with each request. To find out the encoding you can query the URL in LC, and then use the libURLLastRRHHeaders() function. Note that sometimes the headers are badly made, and do not

Re: Delivering Files with lcServer ?

2014-04-25 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think most websites set the target to a new website in the link, to avoid having stuff randomly load within iframes. so i suggest to just make the link have a target of _blank or maybe _top. Then put the .lc code into its own independent file. Also make sure to set the

Re: playing an mp3 file

2014-04-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
They'll need quicktime. On 24 Apr 2014, at 01:17, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I know I can play a .wav file without having to use a player. But I want to play a .mp3 file and for that I think I have to use a player, right? And if I do use a player to play an mp3 file, then build

Zurich meeting this summer

2014-04-19 Thread Björnke von Gierke
derzeit nach Übernachtungsmöglichkeiten für Leute von ausserhalb. Vielleicht gibts auch noch einen Stadtrundgang am Vortag oder so was? Wir haben uns noch nicht festgelegt, also schickt uns auch eure Vorschläge, Fragen, und so weiter. Wir freuen uns schon aufs Treffen! Björnke von Gierke Mark

Re: scrollbar question

2014-04-05 Thread Björnke von Gierke
on mouseUp put the thumbposition of me end mouseUp On 05.04.2014, at 09:41, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I'm using a scrollbar to allow the user to set a value, but I am writing the value to a text file for later use and don't want to constantly update the file as the user drags.

Re: Home stack

2014-04-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The home stack's name is home. But it is not your stack, it belongs to the IDE, and does IDE stuff. If you make a standalone, there won't be a home stack in it, unless you make one. There is no need to manipulate or interact with the home stack, unless you write your own IDE, where it servers a

Re: codepointProperty

2014-04-04 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 04.04.2014, at 19:30, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why 'codepointProperty' is not for general-purpose use (it is stated without any explanation) as it looks an extremely useful tool . . . Richmond, your usage and expertise of unicode is way beyond general-purpose.

Re: Multi user sqlite via shared-cache mode?

2014-03-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I do use sqlite in networked environment, by having written my own server client in LC. It's pretty trivial, and there's no parallelity, because sqlite only ever 'sees' the server, which is exactly one sql client. Here's an early example that is missing most error checking (this is an older

Fwd: New chunks

2014-03-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
sent to wrong list.. resend. I like this approach. However I think two problems still remain: Problems with libraries and substacks still remain. A stack property that is able to set a whole stack to some kind of 'word legacy mode' would therefore be very useful. Word was always unintuitive

disable mousedoubleup

2014-03-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi I wanted to disable mousedoubleup for a short time on a specific object, but it seems it's not possible to do this whit the doubleclickinterval, as that is not available on windows. The problem is of course that in this stack people will click very fast and the double events will then

Re: Grouping controls within a group

2014-02-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You can also use the start / stop editing command while locking the screen. Basic testing shows it that just messing with relayerGroupedControls doesn't help... Could be nice if that'd be possible. Until then, the following works: on mouseUp lock screen start editing group 1 group

Re: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 25.02.2014, at 18:08, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: No longer supporting OSX 10.5 will definitely be a blow in the face for the educational market! I agree with the direction of Mark's point, but maybe not with the way he assesses it's severity. Maintaining

Re: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Oh I forgot to say: I appreciate this conversation started by Ben/RunRev immensely, and think these kind of questions should be asked several times each month, ideally as often as any kind of decisions, for example syntax changes, come up. -- Use an alternative Dictionary viewer:

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 21.02.2014, at 16:36, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: So my suggestion would be to update errorDialog, maybe make a synonym for people used to other languages. And then add an assert control structure (or even just modify try to be able to use it in that way). -- Use

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright I think I've said what I wanted on assert, so my next problem is with the SQLite syntax changes. The new binary mode is in fact just the default SQLite way to use binary. Because of that, I strongly would prefer to make that the default, and deprecate the LC way of storing binary in

Re: assert

2014-02-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
on mouseUp assert 1 + blah end mouseUp on assertError dont, remember, amountOfParameters put dont remember amountOfParameters end assert see release notes of 6.6 dp here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ On 23.02.2014, at 14:31, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Right;

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-21 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright, thanks everyone for explaining this. I see now that assert does something that existing capabilities didn't do: Make your own errors up. I still think that adding an assert command (of all things) is a completely wrong way to do that tho. What i'd want is this to use existing

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-20 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 16.02.2014, at 22:13, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Seems like it's really meant to detect the infamous this should never happen situation rather than expected errors., Alright, if that is the case, why isn't it done in the engine WITHOUT adding another command? why do WE need to

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-20 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 20.02.2014, at 16:37, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: The key point there is that both only catch things the engine considers errors. Assert compliments those by providing for things which may be syntactically correct and completely executable, yet are errors within

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6 DP1

2014-02-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Can someone elaborate why assert is better then using is true/false, and what additional things it adds? I don't feel i can do the following otherwise: Please do not be afraid to try it out as we need feedback to develop it further. (page 7,

Re: Dollar Sign Variables

2014-02-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I was wondering the same thing. How in the world does one program without the debugger? Jaw dropped. I graciously insert put commands when something isn't working as expected, then fix the problem and remove the puts again. Only works with code that I've created myself though, because

Re: Send and the context

2014-02-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You might be interested in the call command. On 08.02.2014, at 07:34, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: This may bore most of you to tears so please disregard if it doesn’t interest you. What I am attempting is to be able to get values from objects on a card that is not the

Re: [OT] will amuse you Linux fans

2014-02-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
cheese On 08.02.2014, at 17:09, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: Richmond, My response was directed towards Bob. On Sat, Feb 8, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 08/02/14 17:51, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Those who choose to obey the laws are either

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-06 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I see nothing on that page which would indicate an end to the project? On 05.02.2014, at 09:07, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: It seems that Haiku (a.k.a. BeOS rediviva) has bitten the dust: http://haiku-os.org/ -- Use an alternative Dictionary viewer:

Re: 6.5.2 Doesn't Remember Script Editor Location

2014-01-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 30.01.2014, at 14:08, Ray r...@linkit.com wrote: Could you please point me to a lesson/steps or something which would help me write a backscript in a plugin and have it open automatically? Well the first stop would obviously be to read the backscript entry of the dictionary. I have a

Re: EditBackground Message?

2014-01-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
a quick look in to the dictionary says no, so unless it's undocmented, there's none. On 29.01.2014, at 02:24, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Anyone know if there's related message sent when the editBackground of a stack is enabled (or start editing group xyz)? I want to trigger

Re: Just confirming, groups themselves don't receive mouse messages, right?

2014-01-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 29.01.2014, at 15:13, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way to make it so that groups themselves can receive messages directly? No. The only way is, to have an opaque rectangle graphic or other object that fills the whole area of the group. You can send the ink of the

Re: LiveCode and HTML

2014-01-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The problem is that you need the engine for livecode to run. For example, in websites running from an apache server, it's possible to add the engine as a cgi. This is called livecode server, and it can be found here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ But that's not what you want. you

Re: Timing oddity

2014-01-25 Thread Björnke von Gierke
As far as I can see you're not doing a lot, but repeating that often. In a sense I'd thing you're actually timing repeat with var = 1 to var vs. repeat for var, instead of in what ways arrays change the math operations. Do the same test with the same math operation in the loops, does that yield

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

2014-01-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Go to System Preferences, and select the General tab. Slightly bellow the middle, there's a checkmark saying ask to keep changes when closing documents. Unselect it. Make sure to restart applications now, and then the new behaviour should immediately show up. For example in text edit,

Re: [off] Xojo Update

2014-01-17 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Ooohhh that's real basic, you had me worried that i had missed a mature dev-environment completely xD On 17.01.2014, at 15:14, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: For everybody who is married to LC, and remembers the big fat lead it has over other tools, Xojo is getting closer:

Re: Using sockets

2014-01-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 15.01.2014, at 01:14, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: The dictionary adds to the confusion when, in the write to socket entry, it says the socket id is an ip address followed by a port when it's actually followed by a socket. I agree that there's some small inconsistencies in naming

Re: Any work around for no SFTP in LC?

2014-01-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I haven't had to do this myself, but as you said it has come up her and there. As far as i know, sftp is easier to achieve then ftps, but there's several ways for both. Of course only as long as you don't ship for mobiles, where you're generally fucked (but hey, at least it's secure to download

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
there's also revcopyfile On 13.01.2014, at 01:22, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: rename? that might be it. Feature added in 1.1.1 One of the more non-intuitive commands like

Re: Best way to refresh screen

2013-10-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Most likely your examples are part of larger scripts. Always make sure that you unlock the screen as often as you lock it. 'lock screen' is symetrical additive, and not on/off switches like most other properties. So if you do two locks, and one unlock the screen is still locked. If that is not

Re: Converting Python

2013-09-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'm on Waddinghams side here. Do as other language is integrated with the alternateLanguages. If something isn't in the alternateLanguages, it does not belong into do as other language. So what you'd probably need to convince him (and me) of, is to find a reliable way to get available languages

Re: OT: Sparkleshare

2013-09-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
sounds like fun, but the advantage of dropbox is the free space, which this does not have, because you need to host it yourself. on the plus side, you'll be able to test it easily on github yourself :) On 10.09.2013, at 18:21, Mark Wieder wrote: Does anyone have any experience with

Re: Datagrid: Edit row, save to database

2013-08-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
sure, i suggest you check out the lessons, mosg dg stuff is documented there: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/datagrid for example: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/datagrid/l/7314-how-do-i-add-a-row-of-data-to-an-existing-data-grid or:

Re: How to build webcam application

2013-08-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
there's existing services for that, like twitch.tv or livestream.com On 26.08.2013, at 01:01, Mark wrote: Hi all, I was wondering how to go about building a desktop application that would allow people to watch my band play live at a gig. These people are not able to attend the gig, so I was

Re: The encoding property

2013-08-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
i think your list is overzealous. For example considering abbr, abbrev, abbreviated (from teh abbreviated docu entry): Note: The abbreviated keyword is implemented internally as a property, and appears in the propertyNames. However, it cannot be used as a property in an expression, nor with

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

2013-08-25 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Meanwhile Bjornke has come up with a way to convert the doc files into a SQLite database, and that makes it faster, more maintainable, easier to use, and more flexible. Unfortunately his converter doesn't work on linux, but the resulting database is cross-platform. I can't really test on

Re: posting binary-data to livecode-server - how to get progress information

2013-07-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
look at the dictionary :) On 18.07.2013, at 15:44, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Björnke, what is liburlexpect100? Could please explain? Matthias Am 18.07.2013 um 15:36 schrieb Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com: try fiddling with the liburlexpect100 On 18.07.2013, at 13:15, Matthias Rebbe

Re: sqlite ios pragma

2013-07-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
? On 18.07.2013, at 16:46, Mike Kerner wrote: It works fine in the IDE/Mac/Windows, so when I took it over to iOS and it didn't work, I spent a couple of hours trying to debug other things before I found out that NONE of the PRAGMAs seem to work. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 5:37 AM, Björnke von

Re: sqlite ios pragma

2013-07-17 Thread Björnke von Gierke
To be precise, the following code works for me (some parts removed): put the selectedText of me into theName put revopendatabase(sqlite,field path,,,) into theID put revDataFromQuery(comma,,theID, PRAGMA table_info = theName) into myPragma if myPragma begins with revdberr then

Re: on-rev reliability ?

2013-07-09 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I have not made any sophisticated solutions on on-rev. However, The servers where seldomly down for me. I was on Loki, and during the server move was transferred to tio. I don't think i've had many major downs, altho I am mostly judging it by the availability of email service (am not checking

Re: preparing a stack for printing

2013-06-30 Thread Björnke von Gierke
to maybe shift this around.. haven't tested that tho. On 10.06.2013, at 21:51, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/10/13 10:24 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Hi I'm trying to print a kind of report, and am weirded out by all the different rectangles and widths that are available (printRectangle

preparing a stack for printing

2013-06-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi I'm trying to print a kind of report, and am weirded out by all the different rectangles and widths that are available (printRectangle, printPaperRectangle, printPaperSize, printMargins, etc.) All I want is the printable area, so I can set the width and height of my stack to that amount,

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

2013-06-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Of large importance to this list is the third last paragraph, (last link on the first page of two): ... Milekic had never written a line of code or taken a programming class; he told a Philly tech publication that his touchscreen software was built with a program called RunTime Revolution,

Re: bundling multiple database queries and getting a result

2013-06-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
You can't do multi line sql with livecode, you have to issue them separately. So for example in SQLite this works to reduce latency: revexecuteSQL theConnID, BEGIN TRANSACTION repeat 20 times revexecuteSQL theConnID, INSERT INTO table (column) VALUES 'blah' end repeat revexecuteSQL theConnID,

Re: LC Users - in the Bristol, Southhampton,Taunton triangle

2013-05-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
They're not on mailing lists or forums, instead they're slaving away on their code :) On 31.05.2013, at 17:44, Peter Haworth wrote: So where are all the users? -- Use an alternative Dictionary viewer: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ Chat with other RunRev developers:

Re: Dictionary woes

2013-05-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
weee... I'm not xD On 25.05.2013, at 21:45, Richmond wrote: Everybody should be really glad that the dictionary problem that occurred with 6.0.1 seems to have been sorted out. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: randomly order a list

2013-05-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Seems someone beat us to entering this feature request: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10919 On 24.05.2013, at 12:04, Dave Cragg wrote: Nice one, Alex. I spent an hour convincing myself that the sA array could contain duplicate elements after the loop, until the penny dropped.

Re: [ON-REV] by the way what happened to on-rev ftp editor?

2013-05-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
i suggest you contact supp...@runrev.com On 23.05.2013, at 17:04, Robert Mann wrote: • Last week, on opening on-rev editor version 2 (latest?!) i got a msg kind of a new version is on the way.. just.. go and get a pint of beer! set of! (actually there was new download link but did not work)

Re: randomly order a list

2013-05-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
So much misinformation in this thread :( The random function works! it uses the same code as many other programs to do random stuff. Of course it's using a semi random list, but the technicalities about when random is not random enough does not come into place for sorting lines. sort the

Re: Continuing a script after cloning a stack

2013-05-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think you could do something like this: clone this stack set the name of this stack to my new stack go stack my previously only stack use lock screen and/or go hidden respectively hide stack to reduce screen flickering. On 23.05.2013, at 21:12, Peter Haworth wrote: I have a script that

Re: [ON-REV] by the way what happened to on-rev ftp editor?

2013-05-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 23.05.2013, at 21:21, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Support email address for on-rev related things is on-...@runrev.com i suggest you contact supp...@runrev.com Ah right, email both ;-) -- Use an alternative Dictionary viewer: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ Chat with other RunRev developers:

Re: randomly order a list

2013-05-23 Thread Björnke von Gierke
with an super large number than that might be better. Dar On May 23, 2013, at 12:54 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: So much misinformation in this thread :( The random function works! it uses the same code as many other programs to do random stuff. Of course it's using a semi

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