Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
For the first time, on OS X, I ran out of memory. Whilst Activity Monitor is good, it doesn’t really give you a way to log memory usage and trace areas that may be causing concern. So I googled the problem and discovered a LOT of answers involving php,ruby,awk,grep,pipes and a bunch of other stuff

AW: OT: Is there a kind of F5 on Mac?

2014-06-06 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Simon, thanks for the trick Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von As_Simon Gesendet: Freitag, 6. Juni 2014 06:32 An: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: OT: Is there a kind of F5 on Mac? On OSX

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Kay, Thanks for that. It may come in handy some time. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Jun 6, 2014, at 4:38 AM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: For the first time, on OS X, I ran out of memory. Whilst Activity Monitor is good, it doesn’t really give you a way to

Re: OT: Is there a kind of F5 on Mac?

2014-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
That’s different. Relaunching Finder would be the same as relaunching the Windows explorer window. What’s being asked is how to you get a Finder window to reconsider the list of files it’s showing. That should never be needed, but sometimes it does seem slow to react to changes of files on a

Re: field losing formatting on copying

2014-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 5:58 PM, Paul Hibbert paulhibb...@mac.com wrote: I know this doesn't answer why the problem occurs, but it does workaround it. I tried setting the textHeight textSize of the stack mcp, card r_controls, the templateField and the templateGroup, all had no effect on the

Re: OT: Is there a kind of F5 on Mac?

2014-06-06 Thread Michael Gruenthal
Shouldn¹t the keyboard sequence command-UpArrow, command-[ do it? On 6/6/14, 10:06 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: That¹s different. Relaunching Finder would be the same as relaunching the Windows explorer window. What¹s being asked is how to you get a Finder window to reconsider the

RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2

2014-06-06 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear LiveCode users. LiveCode 6.6.2 is now available. This is a stable release. This is a maintenance release which contains fixes to the 6.6.x series only. *Release Contents* fixes: - 12443 - import snapshot crashes LiveCode - 12434 - iOS device builds rejected from app store due to

Re: field losing formatting on copying

2014-06-06 Thread Paul Hibbert
Just tried that on a fresh download and you are right, although doing that also changed the appearance of the Do it button, so on a fresh copy again, I just [ set the textSize of group J_1 of card 1 of stack rawForms to 9 ] and that works, now I see where the problem lies… …In the stack

Re: OT: Is there a kind of F5 on Mac?

2014-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
Take a look at this link: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009091413423819 If you create an Automator Service as shown in this article, you can then assign it to F5. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and

Re: OT: Is there a kind of F5 on Mac?

2014-06-06 Thread Colin Holgate
I think that’s exactly what the app is that I linked to earlier. On Jun 6, 2014, at 1:23 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Take a look at this link: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2009091413423819 If you create an Automator Service as shown in this article, you can

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail@... writes: at the bottom you’ll find a script that will output* some nice tab formatted memory and CPU info: Nice, but top didn't give you what you were looking for? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: field losing formatting on copying

2014-06-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:04 AM, Paul Hibbert paulhibb...@mac.com wrote: Changing the original fields by removing the size applied to the raw text (i.e. use owners size) and applying the correct textSize to the fields also resolves the problem. Ooohhh! I'll try that on offending fields

revDataFromQuery : size limit of mySQL query ?

2014-06-06 Thread jbv
Hi list, Does anyone know if there is a limit in the length of the sql query when using revDataFromQuery ? According to what I found on the web, there doesn't seem to be any problem on mySQL side (default value is apparently 1 Mb), but I was more concerned by a possible buffer between LC and

Re: Running an LC app from the command line

2014-06-06 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jun 5, 2014, at 4:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Dar Scott dsc@... writes: Is -ui an official feature? For some definitions of official. Sure, after all, 2 + 2 = 5 for sufficiently large values of 2 -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Re: field losing formatting on copying

2014-06-06 Thread Paul Hibbert
The textStyle isn't a problem, it's the size that's causing the problem, so you could try this it works in the test stack… (Do it Button script) on mouseUp if exists(grp J_1 of this cd) then delete grp J_1 of this cd end if copy grp J_1 of cd 1 of stack rawForms to this cd set

Re: LiveCode 7.0.0-DP-5 Linux

2014-06-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Frankly, in all the time I’ve been installing software, I have not encountered a need for doing a user only install. Bob S On May 28, 2014, at 11:20 , Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.commailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/05/14 18:22, Fraser Gordon wrote: On 28 May 2014, at

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
I agree Stephen. Sometimes software companies make changes because they, “have to do something!” I don’t think that is a good reason for changing anything. Look at Microsoft! Every three years on EVERY SOFTWARE PRODUCT THEY SELL, they HAVE to produce a major upgrade, or risk pissing off

Re: LiveCode 7.0.0-DP-5 Linux

2014-06-06 Thread Dar Scott
Do you mean “you only”? This is handy for per-person license compliance. Dar Scott On Jun 6, 2014, at 3:26 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: Frankly, in all the time I’ve been installing software, I have not encountered a need for doing a user only install. Bob S

Re: revDataFromQuery : size limit of mySQL query ?

2014-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
I haven't come across a limit and I've certainly created some very large SELECT results but I guess there must be one at some point. If you run into one, you can probably get round it by using revQueryDatabase to create a cursor although that would probably mean rewriting a lot of your code. One

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Why did we need ribbons again? I first learned of the Ribbon through a post Dan Shafer made here on this list back in 2005: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2005-October/067709.html I might have been more skeptical, but citing Jakob Nielsen made it

Re: revDataFromQuery : size limit of mySQL query ?

2014-06-06 Thread jbv
Thanks fr the reply. Actually I'm pretty confident about the results of the query, as I have created very large results myself. My concern was more with the query itself... jbv I haven't come across a limit and I've certainly created some very large SELECT results but I guess there must be one

Re: revDataFromQuery : size limit of mySQL query ?

2014-06-06 Thread Peter Haworth
Ah OK, sorry should have read more closely. Don't know the answer to that one but if there is a limit the NOT IN thing I suggested would cut down on the length of the SELECT statement since there are no AND operators in it. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Nice, but top didn't give you what you were looking for? I noticed in my search that people reported top as being quite CPU intensive and in my own tests it went to No2, just below LC when I was running my stacks; so a

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: I wanted to know what was using my memory and CPU and using top was always going to place itself in the list. This is understandable as top is active whilst the id, ps, and vm_stat are all static, but I notice that even Activity Monitor with all it's bells and whistles

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: liked Office XP better than anything they have since produced. Word 5.1/Excel 4 for the Mac. It's been downhill since then . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks Richard, I strangely feel chuffed about the fact that I'm reinventing a wheel already built by the legendary Man himself. I might have to look into a few more of the top options: -bn1 didn't work on my 10.9.3 but clearly there must be an OS X equivalent. On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 8:33 AM,

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: Thanks Richard, I strangely feel chuffed about the fact that I'm reinventing a wheel already built by the legendary Man himself. Au contraire: I consider it one of those great GMTA moments - at least you're in good company. :) Besides, your layout bested top's - not bad.

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Friday, June 6, 2014, 8:25:19 PM, you wrote: OS X ships with some surprisingly old stuff homebrew -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do not

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Friday, June 6, 2014, 2:46:57 PM, you wrote: Long after it shipped one of the Ribbon team leaders, Jensen Harris, gave this talk at a UX conference - long, but IMO well worth the time: UX Week 2008: Jensen Harris, The Story of the Ribbon http://vimeo.com/3305642 Yes,that's

Re: revDataFromQuery : size limit of mySQL query ?

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Friday, June 6, 2014, 4:35:11 PM, you wrote: Ah OK, sorry should have read more closely. Don't know the answer to that one but if there is a limit the NOT IN thing I suggested would cut down on the length of the SELECT statement since there are no AND operators in it. Well, the NOT

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Kay- Friday, June 6, 2014, 5:19:10 PM, you wrote: I noticed in my search that people reported top as being quite CPU intensive and in my own tests it went to No2, just below LC when I was running my stacks; so a bit chicken and egg, I wanted to know what was using my memory and CPU and using

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2

2014-06-06 Thread Mike Kerner
Anyone else having issues installing 6.6.2 for Linux? On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Benjamin Beaumont b...@runrev.com wrote: Dear LiveCode users. LiveCode 6.6.2 is now available. This is a stable release. This is a maintenance release which contains fixes to the 6.6.x series only.

Re: Memory and CPU Usage Script

2014-06-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Friday, June 6, 2014, 8:25:19 PM, you wrote: OS X ships with some surprisingly old stuff homebrew Homebrew is a great solution for people like you and me, but for most Mac customers Apple hasn't been forthcoming about how outdated and vulnerable many system

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2

2014-06-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Friday, June 6, 2014, 9:05:45 PM, you wrote: Anyone else having issues installing 6.6.2 for Linux? What kind of issues? Community installed fine here. Linux mint 14 64-bit. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National

Issue with 6.6.2 - Fields Left Justified

2014-06-06 Thread Kay C Lan
Just running 6.6.2 and noticed the following. I have some fields (happen to be Label fields) which are Left Justified and I place various lengths of data into them which sometimes exceeds the length of the field. Up until 6.6.2 the data, no matter the length, remains left justified, but under

Re: revDataFromQuery : size limit of mySQL query ?

2014-06-06 Thread jbv
Mark Pete I'll try to be more specific although I'll symplify the problem to keep my explanations below as simple as possible : - step 1 : various client apps update a DB via cgi requests by telling the server what references they have at a specific time - step 2 : the server checks what's in