RE: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread John Dixon
There are no problems scanning QRCodes when using LC 6.6.2 RC3, not here anyway, in fact they are the easiest and most forgiving of them all... From: mikeker...@roadrunner.com Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 18:47:16 -0400 Subject: Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3 To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: [OT] free personality portraits

2014-05-04 Thread Richmond
I would just like to say how extremely impressed I was by my personality portrait. Thank you, Robert Brenstein. It blew me away. Richmond ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Am 04.05.2014 um 09:17 schrieb John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk: There are no problems scanning QRCodes when using LC 6.6.2 RC3, not here anyway, in fact they are the easiest and most forgiving of them all… May i asked what you do mean with scanning QRCodes? Under iOS or Mac OS X? I am

RE: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread John Dixon
Matthias... I was refering to scaaning QRCodes on iOS mobile using monte goulding's mergXzing external . John Craig may well have an answer for you through the use of his 'sQRirt' library about getting the information from a QRimage... Am 04.05.2014 um 09:17 schrieb John Dixon

[OT] Tooling around

2014-05-04 Thread Richmond
And, so, to download the 30 day version of the latest version of Toolbook Instructor when I hit on their examples of stuff made with our thang page led me to this: http://tb.sumtotalsystems.com/showcase/sonata/firefox3/index.html?dhtmlActivation=inplace Awful; both in terms of GUI design and

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Mike Kerner
not scanning - creating - sorry. They're a challenge to scan because they aren't clear on the screen. Scanning works as fine as mergZX can (there are issues with mergZX that Monte knows about). When you create the codes with sQuiRt, the image on-screen in the graphic area is antialiased. That

Re: [ANN] Looking for Proof Reader

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Re: Run a command line app from memory

2014-05-04 Thread Andrew Kluthe
It is but outside of my current skill set. Someone else wrote this. ;) I might have to explore that as well. Thanks! On May 3, 2014 10:45 PM, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew Is it not possible for you to include the C code as a LiveCode external rather than write a separate

Re: [OT] Tooling around

2014-05-04 Thread Richmond
Toolbook is, most definitely, less of a programming environment than Livecode, but more of a LEGO kit. Which makes me wonder . . . It provides a vast number of premade objects, 74 types of text object, but, an extremely limited number of buttons, which, obviously, both take a lot of donkey

Re: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Stephen MacLean
I am noticing a huge slow down in responsiveness with the IDE with RC3 when it's been running for awhile and after I've been displaying a card that has a large number of controls or is displaying multiple images or both. The cards also have acceleratedRendering for the stack set to true. I've

Re: LiveCode Books

2014-05-04 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi all My BIG news is that I've got LC server running on Mavericks! Yea! What I was doing wrong was thinking that in the lesson that Richard mentioned (which I have gone through umpteen times in the last few months) that livecode-cgi was a literal that I should use - eventually with some help

Re: LiveCode Books

2014-05-04 Thread Dave Kilroy
Richard your 'LiveCode Server Center' sounds brilliant :) Congratulations on nearly getting it together and thank you for the long hours you must have put in. I'll be happy to contribute what I can as a server newbie (I can drive Ralf's revIgniter in 'first and second gear', and have just

RE: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Ralph DiMola
I don't see it on Windows. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Stephen MacLean Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2014 2:14 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc:

Re: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Earthednet-wp
I'm having troubles with making snapshots on this release. I have numerous images and the snapshot (previously fine on 6.6) is not reliably working, even tho I have is wrapped in wait 0.1 seconds with messages. A test stack worked, so it may be the other images on my card. I'll try some other

Re: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/4/14, 3:25 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: I'm having troubles with making snapshots on this release. I have numerous images and the snapshot (previously fine on 6.6) is not reliably working, even tho I have is wrapped in wait 0.1 seconds with messages. A test stack worked, so it may be the other

Re: [OT] Tooling around

2014-05-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richmond, If I understand well your message, you want that Livecode exports stacks as websites or webpages. In this mail list there experts in both areas. Could you ask them to post a tutorial for converting a simple stack to run as a client-side webpage? (that is, no cgi-server scripts

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Mike Kerner wrote [snip] When you create the codes with sQuiRt, the image on-screen in the graphic area is antialiased. That does not appear to be a sQuiRt problem. That is an image area problem. Maybe. Just maybe. This problem is related to image quality:

Determining which/how many rows of a datagrid form are currently displayed

2014-05-04 Thread Terry Judd
I'm using a series of datagrid form to display a some data that runs over several pages and will be output as a pdf. My problem is that the 'lines' in the form are of variable height and so I can't just assume that each page will display a set number of lines and populate successive datagrids

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread Mike Kerner
Well, best is nowhere near good enough for images with strong edges because of the antialiasing. On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 9:00 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.comwrote: Mike Kerner wrote [snip] When you create the codes with sQuiRt, the image on-screen in the graphic area is

RE: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread John Dixon
Mike is quite correct... creating QRCodes with 5.5.5 6.5.2 is not a problem... but after that the QRCodes produced are not able to be scanned... so, it's not a sQuiRt problem but LC's problem... Hope they fix it quickly..:-) From: mikeker...@roadrunner.com Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 21:39:09

Re: wait with messages

2014-05-04 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: I would imagine that after that much time there would be an error or two in it, but I haven't come across specific inaccuracies, and I've been asking for months and haven't been able to find anyone else who can

Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?

2014-05-04 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hi All… I am attempting to get the total number of times specific words in a text passage are selected by students. The way I’m doing this is by recording the word numbers selected by each student and storing them in a database. I end up with list of numbers representing the selected words,

Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?

2014-05-04 Thread Kay C Lan
This might get you started, in the msg box: put 3,5,6,6,24,24,24,33,130,109 into tData --if the data comes from the db as seperate lines, then --repeat for each line tRecord in tData --if data comes in from db as a list repeat for each item tRecord in tData add 1 to aCount[tRecord] end repeat

Re: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread prothero
Jacqueline: Thanks for responding. I can’t reproduce the problem with my test stack, which works fine. My actual application is more complicated, and has a fairly large map image. So, I’m wondering if that might be the cause and I’ll have to make some tests. RC3 worked initially, but

Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?

2014-05-04 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Thanks Kay! That’s what I needed. I knew it was pretty simple, but my unfamiliarity with arrays prevented me from seeing the solution. Cheers! John Patten SUSD On May 4, 2014, at 8:14 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: This might get you started, in the msg box: put

Re: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

2014-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
Bill, I don't see anything in the handler that should require a wait, if that's all that is going on. Is the map still loading while you're trying to get the snapshot? Any pending messages? Even so it doesn't make sense, because once a handler triggers it should run to completion. Normally

Re: wait with messages

2014-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
This is a very good point; you should paste it into a bug report. I've noticed the same discrepancies in the dictionary and had to think twice about what some of those entries meant. On 5/4/14, 9:39 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Maybe it's not an inaccuracy as such, but I think there is a gotcha for

Re: wait with messages

2014-05-04 Thread Kay C Lan
Sorry, I should have mentioned: Bug 11838. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 12:40 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: This is a very good point; you should paste it into a bug report. I've noticed the same discrepancies in the dictionary and had to think twice about what some of those

Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?

2014-05-04 Thread Peter Haworth
If you're using an sql db: SELECT thewordnumber, count(*) AS C FROM table GROUP BY thewordnumber ORDER BY C DESCENDING Returns the word numbers and count sorted by count high to low. Pete lcSQL Software On May 4, 2014 8:47 PM, JOHN PATTEN johnpat...@me.com wrote: Thanks Kay! That’s what