Re: (somewhat) OT: Bill Atkinson on HC - but rather Vannevar Bush in July 1945

2018-06-20 Thread sanke--- via use-livecode
tive of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. — THE EDITOR/ Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke

USA TODAY: Check out this photo from August political cartoons from the USA TODAY Network

2017-08-29 Thread sanke via use-livecode
>From USA TODAY August political cartoons from the USA TODAY Network https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9c3a4b42e9ab7aeae81e79b50e6eff1cf291b0a3/c=32-0-2969-2208/local/-/media/2017/08/29/USATODAY/USATODAY/636395658646117843-082917indyWebOnly-texas-flooding.jpg The cartoonist's homepage,

Re: Refer to new group?

2016-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Bug 8275 about "Groups: Bugs and features ("last group" broken)?" submitted in 2009 is still pending. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke *Bug 8275* <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8275> -Groups: Bugs and features ("last group" broken)? *Status*:

Re: OT: Need better hardware vs need better software./ Sub-subject "HyperPad"

2016-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
come back to the subject of this message: I support those that suggest approaches to broaden the basis of Metacard. The 10th anniversary of Metacard (is that correct?) would be one more reason for taking steps in that direction. Regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Anti

Performance speed of widgets (was: how to create a Custom Control)

2016-05-04 Thread sanke
ontrol, but would a widget *execute* much faster than a group as a custom control? Would, for example, a matrix-convolve widget for image processing make up for the serious speed loss we are experiencing especially with LC versions 7.x and 8.x? Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-03-30 Thread sanke
whose labels can be dynamically changed by script during runtime. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Licensing questions again (was: Glen Bojsza "LC 8 hard question...")

2016-03-02 Thread sanke
discussions, which is a standard usually employed in academic or scientific discourses, but useful everywhere. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ use-l

Licensing questions again (was: Glen Bojsza "LC 8 hard question...")

2016-03-01 Thread sanke
icted to all versions lower than LC 7.1.2 (seven-one-two) for downloads and offline activation files. We are discussing these issues at the moment. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _

Re: Licensing Problems

2016-02-14 Thread sanke
After the expiration of my original Commercial license valid until August 15, 2016, I will be using the Community versions. I do not exclude the possibility that I would be interested to purchase a new Indy license somewhere in the future, provided the quality and stability of the Livecode versions

Re: Licensing issues [was: Re: LC 8 DP 11]

2015-12-18 Thread sanke
private interests. I think the focus of any new marketing strategy should first be to produce and deliver a stable product and only then think about increasing profits, but thereby avoiding to impose severe restrictions on longtime and loyal supporters. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke

Re: LC 8 DP 11

2015-12-13 Thread sanke
ch I described in detail in various posts this year) apparently occurred totally unnoticed from the side of the Livecode team. So I think there is still some room and the necessity for improving the organisation of testing new and old features (that might be affected by new changes). Kind regards

LC 8 DP 11

2015-12-11 Thread sanke
organized development process (following established rules and practices of professional software development) including with proper testing of old and new features before releasing new versions. Kind regards (almost still believing in Livecode), Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-16 Thread sanke
Monte Goulding monte at appisle.net Sun Nov 15 21:05:46 CET 2015 wrote: > On 15 Nov 2015, at 11:12 pm, sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote: > The URL <http://livecode.com/lock-in-your-price>> led to the Cleverbridge website <https://www.cleverbridge.com <https://www.cleve

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-15 Thread sanke
- valid up to August 2016 - cannot be found. I hope that until August 2016 Livecode will come up with a usable and stable version that allows me to work in my special fields of interest, a version without regressions and bugs that I then can use *forever* under the terms of my present comme

Re: Release 8.0 DP 5

2015-09-24 Thread sanke
ode image processing and the ability to use Photoshop-compatible filters. Thierry Douez has experimented with Lua externals (for Windows and Mac) as far back as 2010. Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www

Re: last control

2015-08-24 Thread sanke
for development, meaning that at that time such test stacks were not used - and I am really unsure if such development procedures are the state of the art implemented now in Livecode. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-31 Thread sanke
is with 576434 milliseconds 1902 times slower than with the same script under MC 4,6,1, which needs only 303 milliseconds. I know that there are alternatives for instance using arrays, and I haved tested them, but they are not necessarily faster in all cases. Best regards, Wilöhelm Sanke

Re: Is there a way to find a lighter and darker shade of a RGB color programmatically?

2012-02-16 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
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Seamless Tiles 2 stack updated

2011-11-25 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
earlier post (to the Metacard- and Improve-lists) concerning this special problem: Strange change of file associations with Rev 3-gm-3 engine Wilhelm Sanke Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:59:50 -0700 Rev engine 3-gm-2 displays both *.rev and *.mc-files in the open stack dialog as Revolution stacks

[ANN] More about masks (+ sample stack)

2011-11-25 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
preliminary level, this serves only to indicate one of further possibilities of using masked images.-- Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke http://www.sanke.org/MetaMedia ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Location of dialog box

2011-11-18 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
, with an answer dialog embedded as a substack you might run into troubles, because the Livecode IDE is very special with double stacks and might throw an error (Did not test this with the last version). Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-livecode

Re: Location of dialog box

2011-11-18 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Addendum to my last post in this thread: I have used this approach for dialog stacks with the added newloc property in many of my stacks, e.g. look at the scripts of buttons Store image 1 and Store image 2 in my stack seamless tiles. http://www.sanke.org/Software/SeamlessTiles2.zip This

Re: color histogram?

2011-07-08 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
not new to you, but if you could be a bit more specific about what you intend to achieve I could possibly also come up with an idea or two. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: group name persisting

2011-06-22 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
- as is for instance necessary in my Kaleidoscope Tools. Groups are a very special case in Livecode. I am waiting for a number of group bugs to be fixed since some time. It would be nice when the Livecode team could finally address and fix such basic features. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke

Discussing image filters for Livecode (was: Blurred vision ...)

2011-05-14 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
to produce various effects, and possibly, too, to modify the scripts of the filter buttons to create new ones. Enjoy, in case you are interested. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Blurred vision of Rev newsletter, Apr 21

2011-04-26 Thread Wilhelm Sanke
Walters/Sanke/Waddingham version of the scripted 3x3-matrix filter in contained in button matrix blur 3x3. Execution speed is presently 2281 milliseconds, based on a test I just made. This raises the question why Hanson's scripts are so much slower - 12 times - than matrix blur 3x3? I did not yet