RE: What icon editor do you use?

for Mac icons. That's good and I have it, but I need PC icons too. http://icofx.ro/ works very nicely, but it's cheap not free. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

RE: What icon editor do you use?

. I bought mine a few years ago, and it still works. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Your installer is broken

Community 6.6.3. At this point, I decided to stick with the 6.6.3 installation I've already got. Please let us know when you have a stable release of the installer, because this one barely qualifies as a beta. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: LiveCode and learning C++

wrap any OS API. Does that mean that callbacks are seamlessly integrated into the LC messaging architecture? That's always been the sticking point for me when writing externals. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: Install over previous version

it applies to the LiveCode Community x.x.x that it now insists upon creating. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Install over previous version

updates to be notified of do not persist after LiveCode is closed and reopened. That's a bug. And I expect someone's already mentioned it, but in case they haven't, I just installed 6.6.3 but Help-About and the title bar say 6.6.2. This is a stable release, isn't it? -- Ciao, Paul D

RE: [OT] A Modern Typeface For Programmers

, it has a bare minimum of leading between the lines, so for a given font size and window size you can see more lines. Every other mono font I've tried wastes lots of space between lines. And the sample image of Input Mono looks like no exception. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Should dispatch be extended for timers?

with a time limit. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Asynchronous externals interface

/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-August/176675.html It was said at the time that there was a more generalized asynchronous external interface in the iOS SDK, which would hopefully find its way into LiveCode on other platforms. So has anything happened with this? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco

Two quick questions:

the .app file. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

RE: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

en dashes for minus signs in documents, because hyphens are too short in many proportional fonts, especially compared to plus signs. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing

RE: What are the best programming fonts?

padding, so even with fairly large characters, you get more lines of text in a particular window size than with the others. If I knew how to edit that parameter in fonts, I might consider Source Code Pro. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

newcomers. I pointed that out about fifty messages back. ;-) I wonder if anyone actually relies on that ability. If not, perhaps THAT should be changed, since it appears to be the one glaring inconsistency that can't be resolved by looking at things differently. -- Ciao, Paul D

RE: Handling of final delimter (was Re: this me?)

when the delimiter is a return (some parsers ignore an unterminated last line in a text file). -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

RE: this me?

into i is pretty tedious. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: odd and even numbers

consistent results with all the different options, even with the mod and trunc functions thrown in the mix. I hope the engine is smart enough that repeat 1 times doesn't convert the count back and forth between a string and a number ten thousand times. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

Alternative cursor shapes

environment terminates as soon as I load the .rev file. Has anyone had problems with embedding .png files? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

RE: odd and even numbers

take one down convert it to a number subtract 1 from it convert it to a string put it back on the wall end repeat Exactly! -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing

RE: Alternative cursor shapes

From: Paul D. DeRocco I created some alternative cursor shapes as .png files, with transparency, and added them to my main stack. They work fine on my Win7 machines, both in the LC environment or when exported as standalones. I tried them on an old WinXP laptop, and they instantly

RE: odd and even numbers

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RE: odd and even numbers

asking for the last character of a number might very well cause the representation to be generated, which would be significantly costlier than doing arithmetic on it. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: odd and even numbers

in BCD? Does anyone know how the engine works? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

RE: odd and even numbers

and a string, one of which may be missing and only generated whenever something asks for it. A missing number could be represented as a NaN, and a missing string by a null pointer. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: How can I edit a built-in cursors

LiveCode elements in lists, and then double-clicking on the stack, brought it up. Then, the inspector on the individual icon includes a button with a pencil that opens it in a user-chosen image editor. With that I was able to create new versions in Photoshop. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco

How can I edit a built-in cursors

that doesn't capture the cursor. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

the shutdown handler so that if it's called twice, nothing bad will happen, so that should be safe no matter how it works under OS X or Linux. Now, if only someone knew the answer to my hilitedLine question. (Nudge, nudge.) -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero

RE: Can't set hilitedLine inside openStack

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Can't set hilitedLine inside openStack

trigger the break), I can see that n contains the correct value. When I step across the above statement, nothing happens. If I then type exactly the same statement into the Message Box, the proper line is highlighted. What the heck is going on? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

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RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

where I did start, and it didn't work either. Or 'closeStackRequest' like Terry suggested - it would work in the IDE or the standalone. That might be a better approach. I'll try that this evening. But I wish I understood why what should obviously work, doesn't. -- Ciao, Paul D

RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

shutdown, no matter how it is invoked, but I guess I can live with it. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

always the last window the user is closing, so we need two messages. Oh bugger, I hope this doesn't mean that it will work differently on a Mac. I don't have a Mac to test it on. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: Feature request: semaphores for externals

as a result of a timer message, which sucks CPU time and imparts a random delay of zero to x milliseconds. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

RE: Feature request: semaphores for externals

commented. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

RE: Feature request: semaphores for externals

Don't Write Comments thing. I guess that makes me a quiche-eater. ;-) -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Feature request: semaphores for externals

, to each line. Either the time or the semaphore could be empty. Comments are welcome. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

RE: Weighted Random Number

you'd get a range that covers only a small portion of the screen, then the third-order should be sufficient to cover the full width of the screen. You can fiddle the first- and third-order coefficients to adjust the weighting. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

LiveCode on ARM Linux?

I've been playing with a Gumstix board, which runs Linux on an OMAP processor, and which uses XFCE for a desktop environment. Is it likely that the Linux desktop version of LiveCode can be compiled to work in this environment, or would that be a major job? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco

RE: $0!

From: Colin Holgate Don't know how they did it, but someone just pledged $0. Every bit helps. Except that bit, it didn't help too much. I wonder if anyone's tried pledging a negative amount. You never know how the software was written. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Coding challenge

. And then six coins. Yes, and the examples so far would render 6 as 4+1+1, not 3+3, which is the wrong answer. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

RE: Coding challenge

+10+5, instead of 20+20. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: Coding challenge

Now how would you do it if the available coin values were: 40,30,10,4,3,1 That's a more interesting problem, but probably a less interesting coding test, because I think it would involve a more brute force approach, less elegance. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Coding challenge

something. Why would that be different? How would you represent 6? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

RE: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

gilding the lily. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

a choice of how it flows with the text, so you ought to be able to treat it like a big character. But the first solution should be a lot easier. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use

RE: opening txt files

the display routine itself? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Socket question

at the other end and then find out that my idea won't work at all. So I'm hoping someone here has already played with UDP datagram sockets in Rev or LC, and already knows the answer. Thanks in advance. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

Async input from externals, or MIDI input?

hasn't dealt with this issue yet. If it has, I'd like to know about it, and if it solves my problem, upgrade to the latest version. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing

Using two mouse buttons

concurrently? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: Help with C externals

advanced beyond that, I'd be interested to hear.) But like I said, it's just busywork, and on modern machines it's not so slow as to be a problem. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode

Strange Rev 3.5 problem

. The dictionary doesn't show anything built-in called s. What's the big deal about s all of a sudden? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

RE: Help with C externals

that occur during the time when a function called by your code is in progress, since you're not handling timer messages during that time. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing

RE: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

, the early versions of NT before Win2K. I skipped from XP, which I like, to Win7, which I also like. We'll see if my next OS is Win9. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing

RE: signed 8 bit to sign and magnitude handler needed [PART ONE]

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RE: Window Positioning

of the screen. I never found a bullet-proof solution to this that properly adapted to variations in menu bar height. Can anyone say if this issue has been resolved? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com