Actually Lingua Franca was a pidgin developed by slavers and pirates to
communicate.
English is not a pidgin, as it is the end result of a creolisation between
Anglo-Saxon and Norman French.
On Tue, 21 Nov 2023, 16:45 Craig Newman via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> “...
, and just beat GB.
>
> England was #1 until 1916, when guess who took over.
>
> Craig
>
> > On Nov 17, 2023, at 2:21 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > The English think so. After all: Wales, Scotland, N Ireland,
The English think so. After all: Wales, Scotland, N Ireland, do appear to
constitute an Empire if you look at them from isolationist, Brexitland.
Ask Boris Johnson: if you stand behind him at waist height you'll recieve
an answer in suitably rumbling Churchillian terms.
On Fri, 17 Nov 2023,
I think that matchText is what you are looking for.
I have a proof stack which I shall upload to the forums, as obviously
this is not possible here:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=38698
Best, Richmond Mathewson.
On 30.10.23 19:17, David Glasgow via use-livecode wrote:
Hi
Oddly enough a matchChunk expression with "with you$" pulls out all the
'with you' stuff and excludes this sort of thing: 'with youthful
naivety' . . . which is marvellous
But a matchChunk expression with "with u$" catches nothing!
On 30.10.23 20:11, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
Have
OK: well I had a bash with a set like this:
with unlimited cheese
with you
with u
with udders clagged with glaur
with youthful naivety
and your filter grabbed all of them. :(
I tried this:
with"with [you, u,]*"
and got the same.
On reading in the dictionary I found this:
filtertVar
:36 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
wrote:
I should be grateful if you could explain the licensing on your work.
Best, Richmond.
On 25.10.23 3:44, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
Well, it sure took me a while to get around to this. I guess better late
than never though. Not sure
I should be grateful if you could explain the licensing on your work.
Best, Richmond.
On 25.10.23 3:44, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote:
Well, it sure took me a while to get around to this. I guess better late
than never though. Not sure where the best place to put it, so I just
added it
I have successfully run a build of my 'Devawriter Pro' built with LC 9.6.3
Open Source on an early beta of MacOS 14.
My DWPro builds contain NONE of the inclusions.
Your mileage may vary.
Best, Richmond.
On Fri, 29 Sept 2023, 15:13 Geoff Canyon via use-livecode, <
Not as far as I can tell: currently upgrading to the 14.1 beta release,
and if that fails I have to spend "a dirty weekend" 'degrading' to MacOS
13 Ventura and then, on the basis of my Time Machine backup, 'putting
all the pieces together again'.
Best [or, in the light of Apple's
As I use computers running Linux and MacOS, my Macs are set up so the
roles of the CMD and CTRL keys are reversed.
It will be interesting to see if it affects these alternate key commands
with the IDE.
On Tue, 19 Sept 2023, 23:42 Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode, <
As far as I know image data cannot be pasted into LC.
I just tried pasting a banal image of a cat from an Ecosia search into a
stack directly, and into an image, to no avail.
Best, Richmond.
On 30.08.23 19:35, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote:
From a web browser, or from programs like
Humph . . . importing documents at images and then knitting them
together . . . be aware that you will lose one the most valuable things
about a PDF document: the embedded text layer.
Richmond.
On 25.08.23 16:39, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote:
Hmmm.
Rereading, did you want to be able
Well, I am a keysDown 'fan', so why not just explain what your problem
is . . .
Richmond Mathewson
On 19.08.23 21:32, FRED MOYER via use-livecode wrote:
It’s been a long time since I’ve used this list. I’m puzzled -- it says I can
search the archives for this list at
http
This has recently been explored across on the forums where I managed to
expose my full level of ignorance on the subject.
Best, Richmond.
On Tue, 15 Aug 2023, 07:59 Tore Nilsen via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> JsonImport will make an array of your JSON data, whereas
When I download an app onto my Mac Mini, on opening it for the first time
it often asks me for permission to access the desktop/document/whatever
folder.
I assume that code to make an app ask for permissions to be granted has to
be entered somewhere ['preOpenStack' ???] by the developer.
On Fri,
an produce English like that, or certainly
since the death of Samuel Johnson.
Yours, aye, Richmond Mathewson.
On Thu, 11 May 2023, 21:52 Craig Newman via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thank you all.
>
> I will stick with the Mac client.
>
> The reason I l
I use Betterbird, an improved split off from Thunderbird.
On Thu, 11 May 2023, 20:37 Phil Davis via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thunderbird for me as well, for all the reasons Jacque stated.
>
> Phil Davis
>
>
> On 5/11/23 10:27 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Being all Christmassy, will prob have a bash with your latest build on the
27th.
Best, Richmond.
On Sat, 24 Dec 2022, 13:24 Simon Knight via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi Matthias,
>
> Thank you for your offer.
>
> I've conducted some more testing and it seems that
Try 'without messages'.
On Tue, 20 Dec 2022, 13:26 jbv via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi list,
> I have a script that modifies line by line the color
> and textstyle of some words in a field that can be up
> to 500 lines long.
> I am using "lock screen" to speed up
You will have your own reasons for wanting to move to Big Sur and not up to
MacOS 13.
But, from my own experience after Catalina my experience with MacOS was
distinctly off-colour unti I hit MacOS 13, which, once you overlook the way
they mucked up the System Settings thing, does feel a whole lot
I have been using 9.6.3 and 8.1.10 through all the beta versions of Mac OS
13, and there was a minor blip 3 betas back, and I sent a report about it
to Apple.
Since then, as far as I can tell, both of those versions work like a charm.
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022, 21:03 Roger Guay via use-livecode, <
Well, in Scots it's "alumeenium", which just sounds like a Scot suffered
from bad spelling.
On Tue, 6 Sept 2022, 23:54 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Excerpt from WordOrigins.org:
>
> In 1808, British chemist Humphry Davy postulated the existence of a
>
For what it's worth, ever since my Master's thesis with LiveCode/RunRev, I
have always set up buttons with fonts the way I want them on whatever
platform, imported snapshots of those buttons, and used those images as
buttons.
No stress, No mess!
On Fri, 2 Sept 2022, 18:00 Bob Sneidar via
Personally, My 'take' on LiveCode is that, generally, it is ideal for
boutique programming, for specific free-standing applications.
It is also excellent for teaching children programming concepts in a
relatively digestable way without dumbing programming down in the way
block-coding efforts such
It would be good were there full documentation for LCB, and, preferably
with some sort of thematic search so, unlike the LiveCode dictionary one
did not have to flounder around so much working out what to search for.
On Sun, 28 Aug 2022, 18:00 Mike Kerner via use-livecode, <
Well there go my plans for early adoption.
I do feel that the 'new OS a year' model means that ALL the versions are
unfinished.
I could say the same about LiveCode versions.
Running RevMedia 4 on Xubuntu 22.04 serves as a reminder of some of the
niggles relating to the elevator theory of human
Indeed, but 'both' results in an app package containing 2 'slices', rather
than 2 distinct apps.
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022, 21:56 Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
> > In the standalone builder you have always separated
> > Linux 32-bit and
revising "settled" science, and well we should,
> but
> > what I object to is being told that what academia is now telling us is
> the
> > new absolute, and I am expected to just accept that.
> >
> > Bob S
> >
> >
> >> On Jun 17, 2022, a
From what I know (my wife is a senior academic at a university) references
to Wikipedia pages are academic suicide, fail, go straight to jail, do not
pass GO, do not collect 200 smackers, and you get the picture.
On Fri, 17 Jun 2022, 11:47 David V Glasgow via use-livecode, <
Well, obviously not.
I hope LC will release a public beta shortly.
Listen to feedback.
Allow the new IDE not to be 'the' IDE, but one of 2 possible choices.
On Thu, 2 Jun 2022, 00:12 Mike Kerner via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Then my bad, I presumed that the DP4
A better bet is LibreOffice as cheap jacks like me can see no obvious
reason for paying for something when a functional equivalent exists for
free.
On Wed, 25 May 2022, 20:53 Hakan--- via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Yes, you need to use something to create the PDF
Seem sensible, after all end-users should be able ti change their minds.
On Mon, 23 May 2022, 21:23 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I found one thing I think is a bug, and I'd like to report it, but I want
> to see if anyone else thinks this may be the
If that is over your head, use my method, which you can find over on the
forums.
All 'pure' LiveCode.
Best, Richmond.
On Wed, 18 May 2022, 18:26 William de Smet via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Incredible to see what HH did.
> That is way over my head.
>
an
>
>
> > On 12 Apr 2022, at 19:24, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > he wrote:
> > Cannot say anything to this issue, but must confuse the list or I will
> > lose my good reputation otherwise.
> >
>
Ah cud spak , an, aiblins it micht be mensefu, anent ither leids, but Ah
jalouse that fowk widnae thole war jalouse qhat Ah wis ettlin an speiran
eftir.
On Mon, 11 Apr 2022, 20:52 Klaus major-k via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> some time ago I "feature
Aha. Thick types like me need things to be made explicit.
Richmond.
On Thu, 10 Mar 2022, 20:51 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I believe he means that utilities he creates will still function when used
> with 6.7, but wouldn't if he employs new features
I, also have no objection to copyright laws: indeed, they are there to
protect us from people pinching our work.
The things I object to are as follows:
1. The concept behind copyright is to make sure the copyright holder
profits from their work.
1.1. If the copyright holder is not making
Thank you, Richsrd Gaskin.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2022, 03:26 Richard Gaskin via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thank you for the mention, Jeff. Without your adding that here I would
> have missed Richmond's reference; he's among a small number of members I
> generally don't
Aye, well, I stand corrected.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, 23:07 Klaus major-k via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi Richmond,
>
> > Am 12.01.2022 um 20:11 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
> >
&g
Everyone has misunderstood my Q over here on the use-list.
Luckily Bernd, over in the Fora understood my Q perfectly, and because of
his help I was able to do what I wanted.
Best, Richmond.
On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, 21:06 Klaus major-k via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi
remember to 'toplevel' you substack.
On Wed, 15 Dec 2021, 12:29 jbv via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi Klaus,
>
> Yes it works, thank you for the tip.
> Oddly I forgot about the "movestack" message, probably because it
> doesn't appear in the list of available
Surely the script depends on what you want those buttons to do.
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 03:41 Roger Guay via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Alex. Sorry I didn’t make myself clear. I’m building a calculator
> stack with forward and back arrow buttons and a Delete
Surely the best way to see whether the slow down is LC 9.6.4 or MacOS Big
Sur is to install LC 9.6.3 alongside 9.6.4
However, I should say that as soon as the Monterey (MacOS 12) betas became
available I dropped Big Sur (MacOS 11) like a hot potato,
and have found MacOS 12 beta far, far better.
Just as a way of showing off my goofiness: how do I compile LiveCode
from your github downloadables?
On Thu, Sep 9, 2021 at 12:55 AM Paul McClernan via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Well I've wanted to contribute more, and have as time allowed. I first had
> to learn how
LibreOffice is alive and kicking.
On Wed, 1 Sep 2021 09:48 David Wood via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > LiveCode is magical. (From a beta HyperCard user!)
>
>
> Gosh! I was also a Hypercard user. But a beta Hypercard user! WOW!
>
> Dave
>
>
>
> >
> > On Wed, 1 Sept
Has the Forum gone bottom up?
Certainly seems quiescent just now.
Richmond.
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> So many roads
> So many roads
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> So many roads to ride
> So many roads
> So many roads
>
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>
> Cheers
>
> David G
>
> > On 10 Jun 2021, at 9:10 am, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@list
Well, at the rsik of getting things wrong, here's my attempt:
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=35951
Richmond.
On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:05 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work! My guess is that
The problem is that the borders of a polygon are integral parts of that
polygon and not somehow detachable; even if their width is set to 0 they
are still there. Were it possible to set the widths of sides individually
things would be quite different, but to achieve this one would probably
have to
intestines is hilarious . . .
On Wed, Sep 23, 2020 at 9:19 AM Richmond Mathewson <
richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Personally I think deleting everything that is not inwith the ASCII range
> is potentially a bit dangerous [suppose ALL the letters
> in the title are not inwith the
Personally I think deleting everything that is not inwith the ASCII range
is potentially a bit dangerous [suppose ALL the letters
in the title are not inwith the ASCII range], so I would favour using some
sort of lookup table/substitution list. Certainly letters such
as accented 'e' can just be
That is a good point.
The same could be said for the Apple store, the Windows store and the
Ubuntu thing.
On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 9:54 pm Mark Wieder via use-livecode, <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> On 9/14/20 10:47 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote:
>
> > Also: why is the installer app
Just do it externally in GIMP. I do it all the time. Whoops, I'm drunk,
but it's my wife's birthday.
On Fri, May 29, 2020, 5:13 PM Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> there was a trick to reduce the size of a scaled-down image.
> Was that: set
I posted something I found to get round this on the Forums
On Fri, May 15, 2020, 9:26 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I've ditched LC for mobile development but
>
> This may help you its not great for the simulator, but for making
> builds,
http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-Import-Tiff-td3432308.html
On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 10:43 AM Phil Davis via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Thank you Mark!
> Phil
>
>
> On 1/24/20 12:14 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
> > I think the
My experience of dual boot machines has been distinctly negative: probably
because of the way my mind works . . .
I'll be merrily working along on one Operating system when some "clever"
idea will occur to me about something
on another operating system: but to try out that idea I have to shutdown
I have a radical disagreement with Scratch and its ilk as, while it does
allow one to run up simple computer games, it does not let users see the
"guts" of a program, and seems not to give children transferrable skill for
non-block programming languages. I have successfully started kids from 9
Congratulations.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2019, 5:08 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I'm a bit confused about the booleans. This seems to indicate that true <>
> "true". I've been sloppy in my code, so I may have to go through and find
> every instance of a
Well, that'd involve some sort of OCR . . . So you've either got to wrap
some code up from elsewhere, or roll your own OCR routine in LiveCode.
Tough call.
On Mon, Oct 28, 2019, 9:45 AM Phil Davis via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I want to [programmatically] take a
Not entirely.
I can put for what I regard as a positive suggestion. Whether it is doable
and makes any business sense is a big question.
Stop all continuing development for a fixed period of time (6 months, say)
and attempt to sort out as many of the outstanding bugs as possible.
Have a
That is obviously the last hurrah of the Macintosh as a computer qua
computer rather than a bijou entertainment and communication device.
Sinking, sinking, sinking.
I'll stick with Mojave as have nothing entertaining to produce: unless you
find typing in dead Indian languages fun; at which point
Looks fine on ASUS.
Richmond.
On Fri, Jun 14, 2019, 5:14 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> All is fine on both my Pixel and Huawei MediaPad m5.
>
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software |
Thank you; that did the trick.
Richmond.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 12:55 AM hh via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > Richmond wrote:
> > because LiveCode seems unable to "see" my User/library folder.
>
> A simple way that you (and LiveCode) can see the Library Folder:
>
>
What is your "objection" to the forum?
I find it better than the Use-List as one can attach stuff.
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 1:41 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I don't use that forum so I cannot.
>
> Bob S
>
>
> > On Jan 14, 2019, at 10:44 , Richmond via
Yesterday I woke my Mac mini running 10.14.2 from sleep and got nothing but
'snow' on the monitor. Turning off all 'sleep' settings solved the problem.
Richmond.
On Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 5:53 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Curious. I woke up my Mac with
I found 7.1.4 crashes on macOS 10.14
Not good.
Richmond.
On Sat, Dec 22, 2018, 12:41 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Good to see you here, Jim.
>
> James Hurley wrote:
> > I have found the url for downloading commercial versions of LIveCode.
>
Here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=31565
Richmond.
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On my silly phone now as in bed. Wonder if you couldn't use a splash screen
substack with a spinner? Will try this tomorrow, although am uncertain re
substacks in the HTML5 standalone.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:44 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
It is, and INTERSECT with them is just a distraction. Probably time (shock,
horror) to do some Mathematics.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 11:36 PM Jerry Jensen via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I think he mentioned curved “lines”. That is a whole other kettle of fish.
> .Jerry
>
One could have a line consisting of a graphic object (rectangle) with a
width of one. ?
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018, 10:17 PM hh via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> @Richmond.
>
> You (and the author) overlooked that we have, since 1.0,
> is within .
>
>
I found THIS in the User contributed notes in the 7.1.4 documentation
from 2009:
"The intersect() command takes two objects as inputs. In some
situations, it may be useful to find the intersect of a point and a
rectangle. The custom function below may be used in those cases:
function
When I went to study in America I had to set up a phone line: and when I
went to the
phone office I asked the guy there, "Do you have STD?"
[ 'STD' Standard Trunk Dialling ]
Luckily he was an English teacher so merely corrected my grammar.
Richmond.
On 13/9/2018 10:08 pm, Martin Koob via
Certainly feels like that from time to time.
Richmond.
On 9/9/2018 11:56 pm, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote:
Richmond, you’re not stupid, just ‘clude’-less. ;)
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ut that when the
IDE throws an error code supposedly about something the fault is
actually somewhere else.
This needs sorting out.
Richmond.
On 9/9/2018 8:36 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Yes, Let's: after all it is the anniversary of the "triumph" of
Communism in Bulgaria.
Um .
Yes, Let's: after all it is the anniversary of the "triumph" of
Communism in Bulgaria.
Um . . .
So, there I am, as usual, on a Sunday, popping together a well simple
stack with LiveCode 7.1.4 for the
tinies (5-7 years old) to practice writing "The monster has one eye",
because, as one knows,
If one belives Apple's propaganda that they take up 10% of the personal
computer market that still excludes 90%:
"more than half" might qualify as an understatement.
Richmond.
On 9/9/2018 2:53 pm, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote:
Nice to know, but this seems to leave more than half the
Thanks, Klaus, and Mark,
I've had a long week and am feeling fairly Cluded to be honest.
Richmond.
On 8/9/2018 8:00 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Richmond
Am 08.09.2018 um 18:54 schrieb richmond via use-livecode
:
Erm . . .
What's wrong with this?
*if char 1 of POYNTS is
"bite a new programmer in the butt" . . . well, as a person who was a
new programmer in 1975 and found
things very difficult to understand at first (FORTRAN IV) I certainly
don't remember having a sore bottom!
I do know, that is numerical calculations empty spaces are exactly that:
empty
I wonder is the reason "6" and "6." are treated as the same is because
"6." is read as "6.0"?
Late to the party, I know . . .
Richmond.
On 6/9/2018 10:34 pm, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote:
Did anyone know that "6. " is equal to "6."???
It’s somewhat similar to
value(“h “) is
How fantastically useful. Thanks.
Richmond.
On 2/9/2018 9:21 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
Posted a utility stack to livecodeshare:
When first launched, the LiveCode IDE will build a documentation cache
for the current version. When you upgrade to a new version, a new
cache folder
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On September 1, 2018 5:49:30 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
wrote:
I can see that the "problem", which my stack does not address, is with 2
or 3 part place names:
The Rochester/Chester problem is easily dealt wi
We're all in a state at the moment with this one.
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 7:24 pm, Stephen MacLean via use-livecode wrote:
Thankfully, in my case, I do know what at least the state is:)
On Sep 1, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
wrote:
On 09/01/2018 08:39 AM, J. Landman Gay
Is West, Texas in West Texas?
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 6:55 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
On 09/01/2018 08:39 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
There is a town in Texas called West, made infamous a few years ago
by a giant explosion. I don't think you can make assumptions
If you get there bfore the University year starts one of the *best, and
relatively inexpensive, places
to stay is the Pollok Halls student residences:
https://www.edinburghfirst.co.uk/for-accommodation/pollock-halls/
I stayed there last when I attended a LiveCode conference a few years back.
I suspect that is EXACTLY what I am looking for.
Thank you very much indeed.
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 6:54 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
On 09/01/2018 06:22 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I've got a text, in a field ("xText"), that contains the phras
e safe.
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On September 1, 2018 5:49:30 AM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
wrote:
I can see that the "problem", which my stack does not address, is with 2
or 3 part place names:
Yup: a lot.
I've got a text, in a field ("xText"), that contains the phrase "Ruyton
of the Eleven Towns."
[ Don't worry why it is "Ruyton of the Eleven Towns.": just part of an
ongoing, slightly kinky relationship with someone at LC central. ]
Now . . .
I can do this sort of thing:
on
On 1/9/2018 2:50 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2018-09-01 13:15, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I've already shovelled Ruyton of the Eleven Towns quite effectively:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7r7u0c2m9ny3eb/Text%20analyzer%20X.livecode.zip?dl=0
No tokenising
empty into CHUNNK of fld "zText"
end if
*end mouseDown**
**
**Richmond.*
On 1/9/2018 2:25 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2018-09-01 13:15, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I've already shovelled Ruyton of the Eleven Towns quite effectively:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n
On 1/9/2018 2:25 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2018-09-01 13:15, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I've already shovelled Ruyton of the Eleven Towns quite effectively:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/n7r7u0c2m9ny3eb/Text%20analyzer%20X.livecode.zip?dl=0
No tokenising
and Me to get out and get some fresh air
before we ruin our weekends.
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 2:05 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2018-09-01 12:50, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
Yup: indeed: fairly coarse.
However, see my next posting re "Ruyton of the Eleven
On 2018-09-01 12:35, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
That's because you lot tend to use a silver teaspoon while I tend to
use a great big shovel:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/00t8oftb1ydm8ni/Text%20analyzer%20X.livecode.zip?dl=0
Heh, great big shovels are great for coarse work - e
ink of things . . .
Unless anyone's code can cope with "Ruyton of the Eleven Towns" it won't
stand up: we could even go further and call
this the "Ruyton of the Eleven Towns Test".
More muffled background noises.
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 1:29 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-liv
That's because you lot tend to use a silver teaspoon while I tend to use
a great big shovel:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/00t8oftb1ydm8ni/Text%20analyzer%20X.livecode.zip?dl=0
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 1:29 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2018-09-01 12:05, Richmond Mathewson via use
Obviously, when considering names of places such as Colchester,
Rochester and Chester one has
to search for the longer names first and exclude them from later searches.
Richmond.
On 1/9/2018 12:59 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:
On 2018-09-01 06:48, Stephen MacLean via
Not much help forthcoming around these parts: so: Diddit masen:
*on mouseUp**
** put the selectedChunk into CHK**
** put word 4 of CHK into NUMERO**
** delete char NUMERO of fld "ff"**
**end mouseUp*
muffled rude noises.
Richmond.
___
unk function.,
On 8/31/2018 1:57 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
Digging further . . .
I found out that the problem appearas:
1. NOT to be with LiveCode.
2. NOT to be with MacOS.
Because using a font other than my one works well.
So?
What hidden aspects of my Devawriter.
ary for the exact
expressions returned by the selectedChunk function.,
Richmond.
On 8/31/2018 1:57 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
Digging further . . .
I found out that the problem appearas:
1. NOT to be with LiveCode.
2. NOT to be with MacOS.
Because using a font other than my one wo
Digging further . . .
I found out that the problem appearas:
1. NOT to be with LiveCode.
2. NOT to be with MacOS.
Because using a font other than my one works well.
So?
What hidden aspects of my Devawriter.ttf font are gumming up the works?
Richmond.
On 31/8/2018 6:44 pm, Richmond
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