Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-23 Thread John
John, The 'import snapShot' command works OK if I pass parameters such as 'import snapshot from rect 250,250,450,450', but not if I use it without parameters to allow the user to snap an area from screen using the crosshair cursor, so a button with? on mouseUp import snapshot

[ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Folks, Is it safe to upgrade to Lion yet? I'd rather stay with snow leopard but with mountain lion around the corner, snow leopard becomes outdated in the sense of not being allowed into iCloud and things like that. If I don't migrate to Lion or Mountain Lion, I will not be able to move to

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Andre, Only recently I created an iCloud account. I don't use it, but I wanted to reserve my e-mail address and experiment a little. I have no problems accessing iCloud from Apple Mail and Safari on Snow Leopard and from my iPhone, but I think there are quite a few features I don't use,

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Richard MacLemale
I'm running 10.7.3 and LiveCode has been running flawlessly for me. The big issue with 10.7 is that, out of the box, it won't run the older PPC apps like AppleWorks 5. I think you can still install Rosetta on it? Not sure, because I don't own any of those old programs any more. ---

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Paul Hibbert
Hey Andre, I have reported 2 bugs (#6430 #9980) and posted the issues on here that I've had with LC5.0.2 on Lion, they are 'mouseColor' and 'import snapShot', they both return total garbage. The worst issue is that if mouseColor is active, LC or a standalone will crash if the cursor is moved

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Paul, thanks for the comments. Wow, someone has seen LocoSnap, I thought now one ever looked into it. It is a fun toy, I use it every now and then when I need to take shots from stacks. Skitch is loosing its appeal since it was acquired by Evernote. I think I will migrate directly to Mountain

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 2:37:50 PM, you wrote: I think I will migrate directly to Mountain Lion because I am felling adventurous. You might try installing it into a vm to try it out first. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Andre- Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 2:37:50 PM, you wrote: I think I will migrate directly to Mountain Lion because I am felling adventurous. You might try installing it into a vm to try it out first. oh I

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Careful! Adventurous is a tall tree to fell! Bob On Feb 22, 2012, at 2:37 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I think I will migrate directly to Mountain Lion because I am felling adventurous. Cheers andre ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
If they had put a nice video card into it, they would have then had to put it in a nice metal case and call it a Macbook Pro. :-) Bob On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Andre- Wednesday, February

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Bob, yep... I had to buy a macbook pro because of the better video card. I was doing some video stuff and the white macbook couldn't run the software. I wish I could keep on Linux forever but Mac OS X still a very good system... I am just afraid of Apple. On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Bob

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Tim Jones
I installed SuSE's PPC version on my White G4 and got 1280 x 1024, so it's not the video card, it's the lock that Apple put on it to make you buy a PowerBook (or Mac Book Pro). Tim On Feb 22, 2012, at 4:35 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Bob, yep... I had to buy a macbook pro because of the

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Still installed on an external flash drive. Seems to work mainly well in its 10.7.2 version but still don't feel confident enough to use it as main OS... -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.spimsco.net : la première solution saas open source et commerciale de développement sémantique

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I am not afraid of Apple. I am afraid of Apple scattering in different directions now that Steve is gone. You will remember years ago they almost sunk the corporate yacht because they were trying to go in many directions at once. Bob On Feb 22, 2012, at 3:35 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Bob,

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I am not aware that Apple locks their hardware so that you cannot run other systems. They do however go to great lengths to make sure their system cannot be installed on other hardware (which they are not entirely successful at btw). I think the problem is that the Linux drivers have to work

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Roger Eller
They sure do lock their hardware (the new stuff anyway)! We tried to boot from at least 10 Live-CDs from a variety of popular and unknown distros. This was on the absolute latest MacBook Pro! You could only run Linux in a VM. No native boot except for OS X. ~Roger On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I would be curious to know what errors you encountered. Did the CD simply refuse to boot? Anything mentioned about the chipset? Reading up on Google, it looks like Linux is using something called UEFI but Apple only supports EFI booting. I read this from one article: Caution for Mac owners

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread John
I have reported 2 bugs (#6430 #9980) and posted the issues on here that I've had with LC5.0.2 on Lion, they are 'mouseColor' and 'import snapShot', they both return total garbage. The worst issue is that if mouseColor is active, LC or a standalone will crash if the cursor is moved to

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
I've upgraded all my Macs to Lion and am very happy with it. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On Feb 22, 2012, at 1:02 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hey Folks, Is it safe to

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Kay C Lan
Andre, I'm with you. I've been waiting for Lion to be become glitch free before taking the plunge, and it would seem just skipping it and going straight with MoLi is the way to go. As far as I can see there is actually nothing new in MoLl, just slight tweaks to things that already exist. I'm

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread Paul Hibbert
John, The 'import snapShot' command works OK if I pass parameters such as 'import snapshot from rect 250,250,450,450', but not if I use it without parameters to allow the user to snap an area from screen using the crosshair cursor, so a button with… on mouseUp import snapshot end

Re: [ot] is it safe to upgrade to lion?

2012-02-22 Thread stephen barncard
Yes - most of my gripes about Lion are about UI Improvements in their own apps. The actual performance and reliability seem to be better. I was getting used to using Preview as my go-to Photoshop replacement, then Lion took away the Save As.. menu item and function so now I have to do this make