Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-25 Thread Andre Garzia
I am not a genius, Mark Waddingham is a genius... I am Brazilian though, and since all Brazilians are Evil... I can qualify for evil now and try to reach my genius degree later... On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 1:29 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: And he has yet to succumb to evil, the way most

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Sneidar
hmmm... that is EXACTLY what an Evil Brazilian Genius might say to put us off his trail... Bob On Jul 25, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: I am not a genius, Mark Waddingham is a genius... I am Brazilian though, and since all Brazilians are Evil... I can qualify for evil now and try to

Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/24/11 1:23 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: I guess this isn't quite the same thing but why is it that when I create a field by script, the size of the field is different than when I just drag one to my stack from the Tools palette. I thought the templates were supposed to ensure consistency but

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Pete Haworth
Cool, thanks Jacque - I need to look at the references more carefully! Still think it would be nice if the templates obeyed the preference settings though, or at least have a preference setting to achieve that. Pete On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Monday, July 25, 2011, 12:32:31 PM, you wrote: just out of curiosity, what does MC IDE do, any clue? With the MC IDE you draw the object onto the stack rather than dragging it, rather like the RR tool palette of old, so the default size doesn't really come into play. -- -Mark Wieder

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Andre, Am 25.07.2011 um 21:32 schrieb Andre Garzia: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:14 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 7/24/11 1:23 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: I guess this isn't quite the same thing but why is it that when I create a field by script, the size of the

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Andre Garzia
no predefined sizes, just select a tool and drag/create an object. Oh I see!!! Thanks guys! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Bob Sneidar
One of the things I was working on was a dropField stack, in which you set up some minimum and maximum sizes, the font and size you want, and then you can pick a column in an SQL table, and the dropfield stack will drop the field onto your main stack card, no smaller than x, no larger than y,

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Ken Ray
On Jul 25, 2011, at 2:32 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 4:14 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 7/24/11 1:23 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: I guess this isn't quite the same thing but why is it that when I create a field by script, the size of the field is

Re: Field Sizes [was: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps]

2011-07-25 Thread Ken Ray
On Jul 25, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: One of the things I was working on was a dropField stack, in which you set up some minimum and maximum sizes, the font and size you want, and then you can pick a column in an SQL table, and the dropfield stack will drop the field onto your

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder: Richard Gaskin wrote: Like my t-shirt sez: Know the engine. Trust the engine. Use the engine. My engine, right or wrong? That'll be my new t-shirt if LiveCode goes open source and we can actually tailor the engine. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-24 Thread Pete Haworth
I guess this isn't quite the same thing but why is it that when I create a field by script, the size of the field is different than when I just drag one to my stack from the Tools palette. I thought the templates were supposed to ensure consistency but maybe I'm misunderstanding their purpose

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/22/11 10:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:49:28 PM, you wrote: On 7/22/11 7:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote: You can set the destroystack property for newly-created stacks in the Files and Memory section of

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, July 23, 2011, 11:46:53 AM, you wrote: On 7/22/11 10:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:49:28 PM, you wrote: On 7/22/11 7:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote: You can set the destroystack property for

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: You can also set the destroyStack of the templateStack before creating a script and get the same result. Still, I do wish stack creation would respect the IDE preferences setting so that we wouldn't end up with little surprises like this. If your own scripts contain stacks

[ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, It is with immense happiness that I announce a new plugin called AAG|LayerComps. For those that know Adobe Photoshop, this is a recreation of its Layer Comps palette for LiveCode. It allows you to record the visibility and rects of controls in a given card and switch between those recorded

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I've just made a little update to this... v0.4 :-) On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 6:11 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Folks, It is with immense happiness that I announce a new plugin called AAG|LayerComps. For those that know Adobe Photoshop, this is a recreation of its

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/22/11 4:04 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: That sounds great! If I'm understanding it correctly, it will get round one of my pet peeves about changing card layouts in the IDE - many of the changes cannot be undone and even if you close the card and say you don't want to save, the changes are

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote: You can set the destroystack property for newly-created stacks in the Files and Memory section of prefs. Unless you create stacks by script, in which case the destroyStack preference is ignored... sad but true... -- -Mark Wieder

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/22/11 7:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote: You can set the destroystack property for newly-created stacks in the Files and Memory section of prefs. Unless you create stacks by script, in which case the destroyStack preference is ignored...

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/22/11 5:45 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: OK, thanks for that info, that will definitely help. I tend to be wary of setting anything with destroy in its name to true! You aren't the only one. It was an unfortunate choice of terminology, and it's scared most everyone at some point. It should be

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:49:28 PM, you wrote: On 7/22/11 7:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 2:26:00 PM, you wrote: You can set the destroystack property for newly-created stacks in the Files and Memory section of prefs. Unless you create stacks by script,

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:51:51 PM, you wrote: On 7/22/11 5:45 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: OK, thanks for that info, that will definitely help. I tend to be wary of setting anything with destroy in its name to true! You aren't the only one. It was an unfortunate choice of terminology,

Re: [ANN] New plugin AAG|LayerComps

2011-07-22 Thread Pete Haworth
I just noticed on Andre's video, it's called something like Purge this stack in his inspector - maybe that's a 4.6.3 change. I guess Purge is marginally better than destroy! Pete On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:51 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 7/22/11 5:45 PM, Pete Haworth