AW: Fighting with audio player again

2013-10-08 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Peter, yes, see also my posting quicktime and windows 8. I think the discontinuing comes from both sides, Apple and runrev. Apple doesn't support windows 8 anymore for QT (though it still runs), but it is only a matter of time until QT won't run anymore on any new windows version. I am afraid

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.1.2 RC2

2013-10-08 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Hi Ralph, Yes, the answer dialog bug was actually related to the way we were loading the simulators which is why your other bug has been resolved also. Warm regards, Ben On 7 October 2013 20:18, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: Ben, I think that answer dialog fix 11234 for

Re: PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-08 Thread Alan Stenhouse
Hi Ray You probably know these bits already - they're unfortunately also not X-platform: 1. Have you tried sipsfrom the command line on OSX? e.g. sips -s format png mypdf.pdf --out myimage.png 2. Maybe Irfanview on Windows. Apparently it has command-line options. cheers Alan --

Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Terence Heaford
Hi, Can someone advise why answer page setup as sheet open printing with dialog as sheet if the result is Cancel then exit mouseUp print cd barChart from 0,0 to tRight,tBottom + 150 close printing is slow when compared to answer page setup open printing with dialog if

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Terry, Which part is slow? The opening of the dialog, preparation of the print job, sending the data to the printer, printing itself, or your walk down the hall to pick up the paper? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Terence Heaford
Hi Mark, When using as sheet it takes an age between the page setup being dismissed and the printing dialog showing. and then if I open PDF in preview to save paper it takes an age for the preview to display. If I remove as sheet it all happens without any delay at all. I am thinking that

Re: Encrypt/decrypt availability in server / devices

2013-10-08 Thread Mike Kerner
Christer, Actually, come to think of it, encrypting/decrypting on ios requires mergAES - sorry, I was sleepy yesterday. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:10 AM, Christer Pyyhtiä chris...@mindcrea.comwrote: Encrypting both in the device and in LC server makes sense in case you have literals in

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Terence, On my even older MacBook, I need to wait about .5 second for each dialog to appear as sheet. If I print one single card, it is opened in Preview almost instantly. I'm using Mac OS X 10.6.8 today. Which version of OSX do you use? I do notice that sheets slightly slower than

set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
Well I've been wondering about this feature. I have set cursor to busy whenever something takes more than a second and I see that interesting vintage black and white beach ball. That is fine and really a feature because I'm in the LiveCode developing environment so when LiveCode crashes then I see

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
I've also noticed that my walk down the hall is decidedly slower but luckily I get all my news digitally. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:16 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Terence, On my even older MacBook, I need to wait about .5 second for each dialog to appear

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Terence Heaford
Between the print setup and the print dialog: 4 attempts 1 = 8 seconds 2 = 7 seconds 3 = 4 seconds 4 = 5 seconds Between the print dialog and preview (preview always closed before printing) 1 = 5 seconds 2 = 6 seconds 3 = 4 seconds 4 = 1 second Mountain Lion 10.8.5 Thanks Terry On 8 Oct

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread dunbarx
Hi. If you think your users are skittish that way, why not roll your own? A handful of small images that cycle around? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: william humphrey b...@bluewatermaritime.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Terence Heaford
Out of interest I get this in the console log not every time I print but most. It may or may not be relevant. 08/10/2013 16:56:46.685 com.apple.hiservices-xpcservice[3784]: Bug: 12F45: liblaunch.dylib + 24032 [2F71CAF8-6524-329E-AC56-C506658B4C0C]: 0x10 Thanks Terry

Re: focus on nothing not resulting in closefield

2013-10-08 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: On 9/21/13 10:31 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: When a user clicks on something to go to another record, closeField does not get sent to the selectedField, and any changes are lost. I've tried solving this with a focus on

Re: New install video for using Valentina Studio and Valentina server

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Lynn- Sunday, October 6, 2013, 7:04:22 PM, you wrote: Which Linux distribution would you want such a video to feature (I know what the answer would be if I were asking Richard ;-))? Doesn't much matter to me. I assume this is all from a command line anyway. -- -Mark Wieder

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
I was hoping for something that would call the system level busy and thus would work on all platforms. If I roll a pretty rainbow one which looks great on the present Mac OS it would fail on the different flavours of Windows and probably the next MacOS which very likely will feature a flat beach

Re: focus on nothing not resulting in closefield

2013-10-08 Thread dunbarx
Richard. Not exactly sure what you are looking to do, but couldn't you: on textChanged send closeField to me end textChanged -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 12:25 pm Subject:

Re: focus on nothing not resulting in closefield

2013-10-08 Thread dunbarx
Scratch that. I see you want to leave the field, not send the message. Craig -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Oct 8, 2013 12:25 pm Subject: Re: focus on nothing not resulting in closefield On

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Just a suggestion: you might consider using your own custom busy indicator. This prevents you from having to match any particular OS/version. Just so you know, the beach ball on OS X is usually associated with non-responsive, so probably not the right message to send to your users when things

Re: focus on nothing not resulting in closefield

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Eller
I'm sure this could be shorter, but it works. on textChanged put the botRight of me into tCorner put (item 1 of tCorner)+5 , (item 2 of tCorner)+5 into tOutsideThisField click at tOutsideThisField end textChanged ~Roger On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread william humphrey
Shoot - I never considered that. I will look on the LiveCode list of example stacks and see if anyone put one there that I can use. On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Just a suggestion: you might consider using your own custom busy indicator. This

relative pathnames work on mobile?

2013-10-08 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi friends, short question, do not have a real device here in the moment... Suppoesed we have a stack in the folder where a folder images resides, we can have filenames of images RELATIVE to the stack: images/subfolder/image.png Works fine, now my question, does this also work on the mobile

Re: Sending mail from on-rev server

2013-10-08 Thread Pierre Sahores
Christer, sendMail is back to normal service on the on-rev server witch hosts my LC-server apps (pancake). Regards, Pierre Le 7 oct. 2013 à 08:42, Christer Pyyhtiä a écrit : Thanks to everyone suggesting solutions to the problem. Yet the problem is there; the error message is as follows:

Re: relative pathnames work on mobile?

2013-10-08 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Freund Klaus, Here is the way it works consistently, at least for me!, on both the iOS and Android platforms : put imagename.[png|jpeg|…] into url (binfile: specialFolderPath(documents) /imagename.[png|jpeg|…] put imagename.[png|jpeg|…] into url (binfile: specialFolderPath(cache)

Re: relative pathnames work on mobile?

2013-10-08 Thread Klaus major-k
Bonsoir mon ami, Am 08.10.2013 um 20:33 schrieb Pierre Sahores s...@sahores-conseil.com: Hi Freund Klaus, Here is the way it works consistently, at least for me!, on both the iOS and Android platforms : put imagename.[png|jpeg|…] into url (binfile: specialFolderPath(documents)

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-08 Thread stephen barncard
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 10:28 AM, william humphrey b...@bluewatermaritime.com wrote: Shoot - I never considered that. I will look on the LiveCode list of example stacks and see if anyone put one there that I can use. Don't animated cursors still work in Livecode? -- Stephen Barncard San

Re: relative pathnames work on mobile?

2013-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/8/13 1:49 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: short question, do not have a real device here in the moment... Suppoesed we have a stack in the folder where a folder images resides, we can have filenames of images RELATIVE to the stack: images/subfolder/image.png Works fine, now my question, does

Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Richmond
After far too long; a few more features to muck up the Livecode GUI. The stack is contained in the lc_hacker.livecode.zip file at the RunRev Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

[OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Friends, If your clients or company deliver web training that includes videos, I would greatly appreciate any insight you can share from your experience. My largest client delivers web training to his customers. His entire content development / deployment / management system is built with

SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Eller
Having some SQL query troubles... I need to get results from a long list in a single query, BUT there are pairs of fields that must match. Every pair is a unique pair, aka no duplicates. If my list contains 50 pair that are unique, I may only get 30 returned rows, but I need all 50. This is

Re: relative pathnames work on mobile?

2013-10-08 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaqueline, Am 08.10.2013 um 22:18 schrieb J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com: On 10/8/13 1:49 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: short question, do not have a real device here in the moment... Suppoesed we have a stack in the folder where a folder images resides, we can have filenames of

Passive Shell Commands

2013-10-08 Thread Ray Horsley
I'm sending a shell command which is taking a long time. I'd like to send it in a way so scripts continue to run while the shell command runs in the background. I believe this is called 'passive mode', not sure. Anyway, any ideas? ___

Re: PDF to Image Conversion

2013-10-08 Thread Ray Horsley
The only way I know to do so is via a QuickTime Player object. This works somewhat well on a Mac and not at all on Windows when it comes to going through all the pages and capturing the image data. On 10/7/2013 8:51 PM, william humphrey wrote: Can PDF's be embedded in a Livecode card like a

Re: SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

2013-10-08 Thread John Craig
For clarity, can you post the entire query? On 08/10/2013 21:52, Roger Eller wrote: Having some SQL query troubles... I need to get results from a long list in a single query, BUT there are pairs of fields that must match. Every pair is a unique pair, aka no duplicates. If my list

adding points

2013-10-08 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Folks: The documentation says that you can add points. If I do: put 10,10 - 5,5 I get 10,5,5 This is pretty useless. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Passive Shell Commands

2013-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
Use open process for neither Cheers Monte On 09/10/2013, at 8:19 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: I'm sending a shell command which is taking a long time. I'd like to send it in a way so scripts continue to run while the shell command runs in the background. I believe this is called 'passive

Re: adding points

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, Before returning the value, the engine interpretes all items of your string. 10-5 returns 5, obviously. What exactly is it that you are trying to do? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: adding points

2013-10-08 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Do you mean you want to modify the points of a graphic? This is a return delimited list of ordered pairs, like: 100,100 150.150 200,200 As Mark pointed out, you have an expression that resolves itself before anything else happens. Did you mean: 10,10 -5,5 ??? In any case, the

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Folks: The documentation says that you can add points. If I do: put 10,10 - 5,5 I get 10,5,5 This is pretty useless. Is there a use for this? I'd like to have a quick way of adding and subtracting points without doing it item by item. I'm using version 6.1.1 Bill William Prothero

Re: Printing

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Terence, I did a test in Lion and I observe exactly the same problem. It takes up to 5 seconds to see the page setup dialog, up to 10 seconds to get to the printing dialog and another 6 seconds before LiveCode starts preparing the print job. I don't have this problem in Snow Leopard. I

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
I don't believe you can do that, I've always just added item by item - but I could easily be wrong. It may be as simple as needing parenthesis or quotes or something similar. Can you be more explicit about where in the docs it says you can ? Thanks -- Alex. On 08/10/2013 23:52,

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread Paul Looney
On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I would greatly appreciate any insight you can share from your experience. Phil, I'll let the wiser people on this list comment on the technical aspects of your question. My experience is that it is better to make a good product for a smaller

Re: SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Eller
John - Essentially, the queries are like this: If there are 13 pair of 'AND' criteria, I would expect 13 rows of data to be returned. The user can exist multiple times, but each car is unique. In fact, car could be a unique number like a VIN. My goal is to submit only 1 query, built from a

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Earthednet-wp
The docs under point, in the docs accessed through the script editor mention adding points. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Oct 8, 2013, at 4:38 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: I don't believe you can do that, I've always just added item by item - but I could

Re: SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Eller
I didn't give you a good example. I didn't mean to have Ford and Chevy listed twice. The car is unique. In hindsight, it would have been clearer to have car AND uniqueOwnerID as the example field names. ~Roger On Oct 8, 2013 8:39 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: John -

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
On 09/10/2013, at 11:51 AM, Earthednet-wp wrote: The docs under point, in the docs accessed through the script editor mention adding points. It doesn't mention doing what you are proposing. It talks about how the engine evaluates what is and isn't a point. In the example the addition in

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/8/13 6:57 PM, Paul Looney wrote: A related question: if your potential buyers will not invest in a contemporary browser (which offers them many benefits for a minimal cost), why do you believe they will spend their money on your training system? It's for a government contract. The

Re: SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

2013-10-08 Thread Roger Eller
According to this, UNION might get the results I am looking for, but will be less efficient than a single SELECT. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/542705/how-do-i-combine-2-select-statements-into-one ~Roger On Oct 8, 2013 8:39 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: John -

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/8/13 7:51 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: The docs under point, in the docs accessed through the script editor mention adding points. The docs say: The points of a graphic is a list of points (two integers separated by a comma), one per line In your example you have three integers on a

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread Phil Davis
On 10/8/13 4:57 PM, Paul Looney wrote: On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:44 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I would greatly appreciate any insight you can share from your experience. Phil, I'll let the wiser people on this list comment on the technical aspects of your question. My experience is that it is

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/8/13 9:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Maybe you meant this: 10,10 -5,5 I think my answer was condescending, I apologize. Monte's is better. The dictionary in 6.1.1 doesn't have an example of addition in the points entry. Is that in a different version's dictionary? -- Jacqueline

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
On 09/10/2013, at 1:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think my answer was condescending, I apologize. Maybe I read a different answer ;-) The dictionary in 6.1.1 doesn't have an example of addition in the points entry. Is that in a different version's dictionary? It's the point entry not

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/8/13 9:29 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 09/10/2013, at 1:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think my answer was condescending, I apologize. Maybe I read a different answer ;-) The dictionary in 6.1.1 doesn't have an example of addition in the points entry. Is that in a different

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread Phil Davis
I see you've been there, Jacque. Phil On 10/8/13 7:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/8/13 6:57 PM, Paul Looney wrote: A related question: if your potential buyers will not invest in a contemporary browser (which offers them many benefits for a minimal cost), why do you believe they will

Re: Passive Shell Commands

2013-10-08 Thread Ray Horsley
First time using open process for me. Fascinating! Thanks Monte. Not quite sure on the write and read syntax. My original shell command which works fine is: get shell(appPath srcPath trgPath) where the app is a command line utility which converts a PDF file to multiple JPEG's I can't

Re: Passive Shell Commands

2013-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
On 09/10/2013, at 1:45 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: First time using open process for me. Fascinating! Thanks Monte. Not quite sure on the write and read syntax. My original shell command which works fine is: get shell(appPath srcPath trgPath) where the app is a command line utility which

Re: Passive Shell Commands

2013-10-08 Thread Ray Horsley
Ahh! Now it's really working well. Monte, thanks. Very helpful. Ray On 10/8/2013 10:57 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 09/10/2013, at 1:45 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: First time using open process for me. Fascinating! Thanks Monte. Not quite sure on the write and read syntax. My original

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/8/13 9:37 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I see you've been there, Jacque. Well, I was asked to go there. When I found out how it worked, I didn't. :) I do not envy you. Phil On 10/8/13 7:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/8/13 6:57 PM, Paul Looney wrote: A related question: if your

Sharing iPhone internet connection

2013-10-08 Thread Tariel Gogoberidze
Well, if you are developing in iOS and have apple developer certificate, it seems to be easy to avoid extra charge for tethering and make your own App that shares your iPhone internet connection though HTTP and a SOCKS proxy.. https://github.com/tcurdt/iProxy/wiki Apple store will not accept

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-08 Thread Phil Davis
On 10/8/13 8:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/8/13 9:37 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I see you've been there, Jacque. Well, I was asked to go there. When I found out how it worked, I didn't. :) I do not envy you. Me neither. ;-) Believe it or not, I was an IT guy for about 15 years and even

Re: SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

2013-10-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Roger, Not 100% sure what you need but maybe the following might help. SELECT user IN ('Joe','John','Jim') AND car IN ('Ford','Chevy',whatever) GROUP BY car || user ORDER BY car Depending on the data, you might want to define a composite index on car and auto Pete lcSQL Software On Oct 8, 2013

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, Thanks for the comments. What I'm doing is dragging an image that is larger than the viewing area. I set the loc of the image (according to the mouseloc) inside a repeat loop. The general idea is below. On drag repeat while the mouseStillDown --set the loc of the image according

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Brahmanathaswami, Sannyasin
Why doesn't Grab me Work for u? On Oct 8, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Folks, Thanks for the comments. What I'm doing is dragging an image that is larger than the viewing area. I set the loc of the image (according to the mouseloc) inside a repeat loop.

Re: Hacking the GUI

2013-10-08 Thread Jim sims
I just spent a few hours on an iOS app where i was using Grab to move a large, 2-4mb, photo around. Was jerky, until i realized that the scroller was accounting for the jerkiness. Found a way to do preopenstack before and after that moving process (killing reviving) the scroller. Can grab photo