Hello folks,
I am trying to get an image to slide from the middle of the screen either to
the top or the bottom. However, the screen has a perspective, as if you were
looking down a bowling alley, with a vanishing point somewhere above the screen.
To maintain the sense of depth, images
On 06/02/2012 03:30, Howard Bornstein wrote:
I need to find the smallest rectangle that will enclose a line of text of
arbitrary text size in a field. I thought I could use formattedheight and
formattedwidth to do this but it doesn't seem to be working.
I'm very perplexed too.
Instead of
Kudos for getting it published! Any timescale for the iOS version? I
think my old android phone has died :(
On 08/02/2012 17:23, J. Landman Gay wrote:
My first Android release:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.hyperactivesw.casey
The Market accepted the upload without any
On 09/02/2012 08:40, David Glasgow wrote:
I am trying to get an image to slide from the middle of the screen either to
the top or the bottom. However, the screen has a perspective, as if you were
looking down a bowling alley, with a vanishing point somewhere above the screen.
To maintain the
Hi Ken:
The following function does what you propose using a transitional image and
gets pretty close. It requires the long id of the target field, and only
works on transparent fields. You'd have to add additional code to convert
the non-text portion of the field to alphaData, or temporarily
Michael,
What do you want to use LiveCode for?
Michael
--- On Wed, 2/8/12, Michael Chean mp.ch...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Michael Chean mp.ch...@gmail.com
Subject: How alive is LiveCode?
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Date: Wednesday, February 8, 2012, 8:54 PM
When I'm considering a tool I
Hi, Thomas. I've been writing PNGs directly from LiveCode - can you
send an example of one of the misbehaving ones? I'm curious if I can
identify the rogue data and maybe strip it out.
John.
On 09/02/2012 14:57, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Jac,
Congratulations, Looks great. I hope it does
On 2/9/12 4:37 AM, John Craig wrote:
Kudos for getting it published! Any timescale for the iOS version? I
think my old android phone has died :(
Thanks John. The only thing that's holding up the iOS release is the
glitchy rotation bug in the engine. RR has reproduced the problem and I
On 2/9/12 8:57 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote:
As far as the artifacts, Were these PNGs under the fields? From
Photoshop? If so there is a very weird instance where transparencies
produce this kind of visual effect. I have been able to solve that
problem on a Mac. The problem is there is something
Jacque... What problems are you experiencing with rotation. I have been playing
with it quite a lot and have not found it to misbehave... Or in other words,
'What am I doing wrong ?... Where's my glitch ?'... :-)
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2012 11:09:31 -0600
From: jac...@hyperactivesw.com
Thanks
On 02/09/2012 04:54 AM, Michael Chean wrote:
When I'm considering a tool I look at the community resources to see
whether they are
being kept up. For instance the RunRev forum, why is it that the last
announcement
of a new release was 4.6? Do the RunRev staff answer questions? Why are
there
On 2/9/12 11:44 AM, John Dixon wrote:
Jacque... What problems are you experiencing with rotation. I have
been playing with it quite a lot and have not found it to
misbehave... Or in other words, 'What am I doing wrong ?... Where's
my glitch ?'... :-)
This one:
On 9 Feb 2012, at 2:57 pm, Ken Corey wrote:
From: Ken Corey k...@kencorey.com
Date: 9 February 2012 10:54:06 am GMT
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: moving and scaling an image
Reply-To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
On 09/02/2012 08:40, David Glasgow
David Glasgow wrote:
I just want to give the most basic impression of pulling towards and pushing
away of images. The maths isn't the problem, its the moving and scaling at the
same time.
You and me both.
The moment I can make anything close to News360 in LiveCode, ah, the UI
On 02/09/2012 10:40 AM, David Glasgow wrote:
Hello folks,
I am trying to get an image to slide from the middle of the screen either to
the top or the bottom. However, the screen has a perspective, as if you were
looking down a bowling alley, with a vanishing point somewhere above the screen.
Hi friends,
there is this handy savingStandalone message which does not come with any
parameter.
Is there a way to get to know for what platform the current standalone is being
build?
I would take different actions for Mac resp. Windows standalone, but probably
I'm out of luck...
Any hints
John,
I have examples at work so it will have to wait until next week. I will post
them then.
-- Tom McGrath III
http://lazyriver.on-rev.com
3mcgr...@comcast.net
On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:44 AM, John Craig wrote:
Hi, Thomas. I've been writing PNGs directly from LiveCode - can you send an
I am experiencing some very strange behavior of a standard Livecode option
menu on Windows 7 - the same menu works perfectly on OS X. The only
perhaps slightly unusual situation is that the option menu is in a
customised datagrid column.
The option menu contains various comparison operators,
Richmond, this gave me the horrible case of the jitters. The image would shift
positions as I dragged it. I tried locking and unlocking the screen before and
after the sizing and positioning of the image, but apparently when the user is
interacting with the IDE, the screen is going to unlock
Hi Klaus,
Depending on what it is you need to do, you might be able to use the
standAloneSaved message. It comes with a parameter containing the path to
the folder than the standalone was saved in so you can tweak the contents
of the individual platform folders within that folder.
Pete
On Thu,
Bernd Niggeman posted this a a solution to scaling and moving images
http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=27t=8042#p37952
You might get some ideas from the stack...
On 09/02/2012 08:40, David Glasgow wrote:
I am trying to get an image to slide from the middle of the screen either
Hi Pete,
Am 09.02.2012 um 19:31 schrieb Pete:
Hi Klaus,
Depending on what it is you need to do, you might be able to use the
standAloneSaved message. It comes with a parameter containing the path to
the folder than the standalone was saved in so you can tweak the contents
of the individual
There is a way to escape special characters like that in a menu. I believe you
are using characters that have a special function in a menu, and this is
confusing the menu. I do not know why it is not happening on OS X tho'. Read up
in the dictionary on menus and see what you can find.
Bob
Hi,
if you want to move and scale at the same time, changing the rectangle property
is your friend. You will want to do this in a send in time structure and
calculate where the the corner points of your control need to be at the given
time. You will want to lock screen before you set the
On 2/9/12 12:16 PM, Richmond wrote:
I made a stack 1024x768 pixels and popped an image right in the middle
of it, and
put this in the script of the image:
on mouseDown
grab me
end mouseDown
on mouseStillDown
set the idleRate to 1
put the item 2 of the loc of me into LOK
if LOK 0 then
set the
Hi Michael,
On 02/09/2012 04:54 AM, Michael Chean wrote:
When I'm considering a tool I look at the community resources to see
whether they are being kept up.
If I understand well your question, you want to know if LiveCode
is the right tool for your project.
Well, RunRev has the definite
No, different message Klaus - you were using saveStandalone which has no
parameters, but there's another message standaloneSaved that has the
parameter I mentioned. But you don;t get that message until after the
standalone has been saved so it may not be useful to you.
Pete
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012
On 02/09/2012 08:30 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Richmond, this gave me the horrible case of the jitters. The image would shift
positions as I dragged it. I tried locking and unlocking the screen before and
after the sizing and positioning of the image, but apparently when the user is
interacting
I'm not using any characters that have special meaning in a menu. Even if
I was, the problem would appear on OS X as well as Windows.
Pete
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
There is a way to escape special characters like that in a menu. I believe
you are using
Hi Pete,
Am 09.02.2012 um 20:15 schrieb Pete:
No, different message Klaus - you were using saveStandalone which has no
parameters, but there's another message standaloneSaved that has the
parameter I mentioned.
Ah, yes, I see, my fault.
But you don;t get that message until after the
On 02/09/2012 09:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 2/9/12 12:16 PM, Richmond wrote:
I made a stack 1024x768 pixels and popped an image right in the middle
of it, and
put this in the script of the image:
on mouseDown
grab me
end mouseDown
on mouseStillDown
set the idleRate to 1
put the item 2
On 09/02/2012 00:40, Bob Sneidar wrote:
You should be aware that currently only a few SQL databases are supported:
sqLite, mySQL, Valentina, and one other I cannot remember. Microsoft SQL is NOT
supported to my knowledge, and some corporations require MS SQL compliance.
I think that's a bit
Hi friends,
in my current project I need to deal with VERY small XML files
with maybe up to 20 entries.
So using the XML external seems to be a bit overkill.
Some time ago I found a little reg ex here on the list which I turned
into a function and will return me everything inside of a given
Well, I must be missing something. Take a look at:
http://its.ec/static/faux3d.livecode.zip
Is that the kind of thing you're after? Seems smooth enough for me (and
works in the iOS simulator, though the Motif-themed scrollbar looks
decidedly odd).
-Ken
On 09/02/2012 17:53, David Glasgow
Klaus,
I used to work like that, doing little XML files with RegEx and matchText.
After working like that for a long time, I came to realize that there was
no advantage at all in my case. It was simpler to work with RevXML. The
problem with RegEx is all the little cases where it fails. I think
On 09/02/2012 20:24, Klaus on-rev wrote:
in my current project I need to deal with VERY small XML files
with maybe up to 20 entries.
Wait, didn't we just hear that you can't parse html (or XML) with
regexps? *grin*
function mk_getXMLdata tText, tTag
get matchText(tText,(?s) tTag
Klaus,
What Andre said. Nonetheless, if you want to continue down the regex path, try
something like
get matchText(tText,(?s) tTag (.*?)/ tTag ,tValue)
replace tTagtValue / tTag with
tTagtNewValue / tTag
in tText
--
Mark Wieder
Hi Andre,
Am 09.02.2012 um 21:38 schrieb Andre Garzia:
Klaus,
I used to work like that, doing little XML files with RegEx and matchText.
After working like that for a long time, I came to realize that there was
no advantage at all in my case. It was simpler to work with RevXML. The
Hi guys,
Am 09.02.2012 um 21:52 schrieb Mark Wieder:
Klaus,
What Andre said.
Sigh... :-)
Nonetheless, if you want to continue down the regex path, try
something like
get matchText(tText,(?s) tTag (.*?)/ tTag ,tValue)
replace tTagtValue / tTag with
tTagtNewValue /
Klaus,
Since you have control, then instead of RegEx, you can go like
mynode
nodecontent
/mynode
All in different lines, then, you can just use lineOffset to find the start
node and the end node and copy or replace the data between those lines. It
is easier than RegEx.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at
Hi Andre,
Am 09.02.2012 um 22:05 schrieb Andre Garzia:
Klaus,
Since you have control, then instead of RegEx, you can go like
mynode
nodecontent
/mynode
All in different lines, then, you can just use lineOffset to find the start
node and the end node and copy or replace the data
On 09/02/2012 21:00, Klaus on-rev wrote:
get matchText(tText,(?s) tTag (.*?)/ tTag ,tValue)
replace tTagtValue/ tTag with
tTagtNewValue/ tTag
in tText
well, I did not want to pass the text that I want to overwrite in the XML,
which I do not now in that moment!
But
Nonetheless, if you want to continue down the regex path, try
something like
get matchText(tText,(?s) tTag (.*?)/ tTag ,tValue)
replace tTagtValue / tTag with
tTagtNewValue / tTag
in tText
well, I did not want to pass the text that I want to overwrite in the XML,
I followed the instructions. On the 12th loop I get an error that essentially
says there is no such control as control 12.
Bob
On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
Hi David,
Please, read this message from last year about
my stack named Infinite zoom:
Hi All,
On 09/02/2012 22:30, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I followed the instructions. On the 12th loop I get an error that essentially
says there is no such control as control 12.
Do you have 12 images in the image directory?
The first time I didn't...so I added some more.
Then, I double-clicked on the card
I changed the loop max count to 11. The script finished but it appears all
objects are off the screen. Nothing is showing.
Bob
On Feb 9, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
Hi David,
Please, read this message from last year about
my stack named Infinite zoom:
Hi All,
Hi friends,
thank you all for your help, i got it to work now!
Again thanks a lot!
Best
Klaus
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I stand corrected. I forgot about ODBC because I tried that some time ago (back
in Revolution 2.7 or something like that) on my Mac and could not for the life
of me get it to work reliably, but it wasn't Rev/LC's fault at the time.
Bob
On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:03 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote:
On
Hi Andrew,
I don;t pretend to understand a fraction of what your program does but I've
passed input and grabbed output from standard command line programs from LC
by
- building a file with the commnds to be executed
- executing a shell command for the program that redirects stdin to my
command
Your training is almost complete. Destroy Darth Vader and take his place at my
side! Mooo haah haah haha hahah ahah!
Bob
On Feb 9, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
So with this text above in tText and tag2 int tTag:
function mk_getXMLdata tText, tTag
get matchText(tText,(?s)
I had 13.
Bob
On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Ken Corey wrote:
On 09/02/2012 22:30, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I followed the instructions. On the 12th loop I get an error that
essentially says there is no such control as control 12.
Do you have 12 images in the image directory?
The first time
Also, the images are all white. I used Preview to convert from png to jpg.
Could that be a problem?
Bob
On Feb 9, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Ken Corey wrote:
On 09/02/2012 22:30, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I followed the instructions. On the 12th loop I get an error that
essentially says there is no such
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On 2/8/12 4:54 PM, Michael Chean wrote:
When I'm considering a tool I look at the community resources to see
whether they are
being kept up. For instance the RunRev forum, why is it that the last
announcement
of a new release was 4.6? Do the RunRev
Really frustratingly, ive had this problem before, and I dont have it now so
I know its fixable but not how.
Ill try to dig round in the time machine backups to see if I can go back to a
flashing version, then compare the code to see whats changed, but its
definitely fixable and im sure it
On 2/9/12 5:43 PM, Andrew Henshaw wrote:
The only things I changed were changes to lock screen etc, and all
my rotations now call any resizing code in a separate sub to avoid problems
I had with mobgui undoing changes I wanted, eg
on resizestack
send doresize to me in 1
end
On 2/9/12 5:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
My scripts do the same, calling out to another handler for resizing. But
I did make some changes to lock screen so I bet that's it. I took most
of them out. I'll try bracketing the handler with lock/unlock. Thanks
for the idea.
Didn't help. :(
--
Hi all. I use locked fields with multiple lines and listBehavior set to true as
a kind of menu. Now I am trying to allow the user to rearrange the items in the
list. I read in the Dictionary that LC handles drag and drop between *unlocked*
fields automatically. Crud. So I tried unlocking the
On Feb 9, 2012, at 6:35 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Hi all. I use locked fields with multiple lines and listBehavior set to true
as a kind of menu. Now I am trying to allow the user to rearrange the items
in the list. I read in the Dictionary that LC handles drag and drop between
*unlocked*
I'm familiar with how this is done on linux but anyone have any idea how to
do it on windows?
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Nvm, I just found it. I didnt think you could do this on windows. Using the
:) thanks.
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Will open process work for this? Open the process for update, set up a
read loop, parse the incoming data, write back to the process.
On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Andrew Kluthe and...@rjdfarm.com wrote:
I'm familiar with how this is done on linux but anyone have any idea how to
do it on
Thanks I will give it a go. I have it partially working, but I found if I drag
too fast the engine selects another line before dragStart is triggered. Also I
had to send dragEnter from the dragStart handler otherwise the process never
kicked off. I tried sending dragStart in a mouseDown
I want to write databased applications to take care of some of the
pain-points at my current employment. And if this works
out I'd like to extend it to the full application - which is your normal
professional billing program.
I'm using VFP right now and would have no reluctance to continue
I agree about the blinders that many have concerning languages outside what
they know.
By security I was thinking application security, User login; group
membership; controlling access to various parts of the application. I
guess I would
have to roll my own.
I'm used to purchasing
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