Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Thierry Douez
Thierry Douez wrote: Check capture group naming and branch reset. Thanks Thierry, completely unaware of those. A quick play and I couldn't get capture group naming to work with LC Kay, Here is a simple one: put (?Ptag[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^]*.*?/(?P=tag) into RX if matchText(

Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hi Thierry, OK, well, cool But can you help me understand? Do you mean if I put this in the message box, making the replacements you suggest: put replaceText(abcd,(ab)(cd),\2\1) I should get: cdab Because I get: \2\1 What am I missing? Cheers, - Charles On 12 Aug 2014, at

Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Thierry Douez
2014-08-13 10:45 GMT+02:00 Charles E Buchwald char...@buchwald.ca: Hi Thierry, Do you mean if I put this in the message box, making the replacements you suggest: put replaceText(abcd,(ab)(cd),\2\1) I should get: cdab Because I get: \2\1 What am I missing? Umm, well, I

Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Thierry Douez
You can use back references in the *pattern matching text*, but not in the replacement text. Here is one working: put replaceText( IILLoovveeRReeggeexx, (.)(?!\1), empty ) Not sure everybody will agree with the result :) Regards, Thierry

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread Richmond
Well; retro fans [i.e. Me, Myself and I . . . LOL], The G3 tray-loading iMac obviously could not be bothered to wait for my annual visit and expired sometime between August last year and 4 days ago: unbeknownst to my Mum and Dad; so, after removing VRAM, RAM, HD and CD-Drive + the odd rather

Re: ChatRev

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright, I'm back, got a brand new router, and everything should be working again. http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=chatrev On 10 Aug 2014, at 00:39, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi guys, Björnke just told me that a thunder storm took out his internet

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2014-08-13 Thread Jim Hurley
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2014-08-13 Thread Colin Holgate
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2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
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Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Peter Haworth
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:21 AM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: put replaceText( IILLoovveeRReeggeexx, (.)(?!\1), empty ) Very clever Thierry! These back references are very useful. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser

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2014-08-13 Thread dunbarx
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Re: Selling a ticket for RevCon '14

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I still have this ticket and am offering it for a discount of more then 30% less then on the shop. I can't believe that everyone who is thinking about going already has their ticket? On 09 Aug 2014, at 18:33, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Hmm, so everyone already has their ticket?

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2014-08-13 Thread Charles Szasz
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Re: Multiple versions of apps

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Rodney Green wrote: How feasible is it to write an app and customize it with many users data. Like a few hundred users. Are there any tools for this? Would this be a nightmare to manage? Can you describe what you're looking for in a bit more detail? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems

Re: ChatRev

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke wrote: Alright, I'm back, got a brand new router, and everything should be working again. http://bjoernke.com/index.irev?target=chatrev Congrats on the new router. I don't log into ChatRev often, but it's comforting to know that just about anytime I do there are always several

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: If the externals property is pointing to the property external file on disk, you can make sure the destroyWindow property of the stack is set to true, close the stack, and then open it again. This will attempt to reload the external. That's a helpful tip and I appreciate

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
Hi Richard, Since you come from a SuperCard background could you answer a question for me? I am a registered owner of SuperCard 4.6 and SuperEdit 4.6. The Xtend section allows you to export externals. I contacted SuperCard Support and they said I could use the SuperCard externals in other

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: Since you come from a SuperCard background could you answer a question for me? I am a registered owner of SuperCard 4.6 and SuperEdit 4.6. The Xtend section allows you to export externals. I contacted SuperCard Support and they said I could use the SuperCard externals in other

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
Thanks for the info. I don’t really need any of them I was just trying to use them if it was possible. Your information shows it is not possible and therefore I won’t waste my time on it. I am surprised that as long as LiveCode has been around there are not more externals available. If you

Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
In today's episode, our hero has uploaded new copies of revised stacks to Amazon Web Services. We have verified that no older copies exist there anywhere, including on all edge servers. Back at home, a LC splash app retrieves these stacks from the server. Much of the time an older version of

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: I am surprised that as long as LiveCode has been around there are not more externals available. If you have developed externals for LiveCode why not sell them like was done for HyperCard? I don't need 'em. As I wrote earlier: ...aside from the database externals included with

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
I see your point. Changing the subject a little bit you mentioned LiveCode is going to improve things so you can actually do more external type code from within LiveCode. Are they going to be using Apples new programming language Swift at all? John Balgenorth On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:10 PM,

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2014-08-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
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unlock screen with visual effect ...

2014-08-13 Thread Fred Moyer
Hi: It’s been a long time since I’ve been on the mailing list — great to see it’s still going strong! Some things seem not to work as they used to in the old Revolution. One of them is unlock screen with visual dissolve.” How do you lock the screen, make a bunch of changes to the look of a

Re: unlock screen with visual effect ...

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Fred, At some point in time, the syntax changed. The new syntax is lock screen for visual effect // do a bunch of stuff here unlock screen with visual effect dissolve Dissolve should work on any platform. Some effects only work on a specific platform. It is also possible that a combination

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Try clearing the browser cache on those machines using browser-specific instructions, each one different. My guess is the browser has cached the old version and is helpfully saving the user from having to download again. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread Shawn Blc
Tried to post on the nabble revolution list, but so far it hasn't been accepted (ok, but odd). So I'll post here. --- I'm sure you've tried the following, but if you haven't: osx mavericks dscacheutil -flushcache sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder or windows 7

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2014-08-13 Thread Shawn Blc
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2014-08-13 Thread Colin Holgate
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Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: Changing the subject a little bit you mentioned LiveCode is going to improve things so you can actually do more external type code from within LiveCode. Are they going to be using Apples new programming language Swift at all? I don't think so. Swift is a very interesting

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. However, there'll be a meta-LC like language, that is not quite LC, but similar-ish, which will allow to write externals too. The Idea is that it's similar enough for more

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/2014, 5:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Try clearing the browser cache on those machines using browser-specific instructions, each one different. My guess is the browser has cached the old version and is helpfully saving the user from having to download again. There are no browser

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is currently written in C++ and much of the code is

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 14 Aug 2014, at 01:12, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thanks for leaving Nabble to get this info here Shawn. I can have my client try that. We did discuss DNS issues and decided it probably wouldn't apply, because the DNS always resolves to Amazon and that doesn't change (though AWS does redirect to lots of different servers.) I'm still not sure

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 14 Aug 2014, at 01:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is

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2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
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Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Thanks for leaving Nabble to get this info here Shawn. I can have my client try that. We did discuss DNS issues and decided it probably wouldn't apply, because the DNS always resolves to Amazon and that doesn't change (though AWS does redirect to lots of different servers.) I'm

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2014-08-13 Thread Colin Holgate
It's worth zero points. On Aug 13, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Blank. Scrabble. This trumps all. Hold the line, folks... I think we have a winner. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Talluto
On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:01 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Anyone know where the old stacks are being stored? We want only the latest versions to load as soon as they are made available. Is is possible the client is behind a proxy server? Sometime adding this to your url

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi Jacque, Are you using “load URL” to call those stacks to download? It will cache the what was called and I had problems getting it to release and get fresh data, etc. hth, Steve MacLean On Aug 13, 2014, at 5:01 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: In today's episode, our

Re: Where are these stacks being cached?

2014-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Lumping some answers together: Is is possible the client is behind a proxy server? It will be possible eventually but right now nobody is. Sometime adding this to your url links: [linkHere] ?x= the seconds into tURLtoFile Will help you force the file to skip the cached version on the

Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: Here is a simple one: put (?Ptag[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^]*.*?/(?P=tag) into RX if matchText( anyHtmlText, RX) then put Get it! Unfortunately not. At first I thought it was because I was using the msg box which was

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2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 5:12:04 PM, you wrote: It's worth zero points. Sure, but that's zero points anywhere. Cross-platform. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The

Re: Selling a ticket for RevCon '14

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Björnke- Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 10:38:07 AM, you wrote: I still have this ticket and am offering it for a discount of more then 30% less then on the shop. I can't believe that everyone who is thinking about going already has their ticket? Given that the conference is less than three

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 6:27 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: The G3 tray-loading iMac obviously could not be bothered to wait for my annual visit and expired Dear Richmond, May I pass on my sincerest condolences on hearing the news of the passing of one of this Lists most

Re: unlock screen with visual effect ...

2014-08-13 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: At some point in time, the syntax changed. The new syntax is lock screen for visual effect // do a bunch of stuff here The Dictionary is in need of a thorough update, but thankfully this is not one of

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2014-08-13 Thread Kay C Lan
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Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
I just watched the widget video and it sounds really great. The video like all of their videos was well done too. It sounds like Kevin wants more people developing externals and that is good. Balgenorth On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: JB wrote:

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Kay- Wednesday, August 13, 2014, 8:53:08 PM, you wrote: May I pass on my sincerest condolences on hearing the news of the passing of one of this Lists most famous inanimate objects; second I think only to cheese, but of course that's never going to die, just grow old and blue mouldy. LOL

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
This will be a fantastic improvement. John Balgenorth On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. However, there'll be a meta-LC like

Re: unlock screen with visual effect ...

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: The Dictionary is in need of a thorough update... The team's been doing pretty quick work on Dictionary entries whenever reported. If you find one that contains erroneous info, please file a report on it. Thanks - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/13/2014, 10:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: May I pass on my sincerest condolences on hearing the news of the passing of one of this Lists most famous inanimate objects; A grave event indeed. Rest in peace, Son of SIMM. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: Standard Library

2014-08-13 Thread Thierry Douez
Kay, put (?Ptag[A-Z][A-Z0-9]*)\b[^]*.*?/(?P=tag) into RX if matchText( anyHtmlText, RX) then put Get it! Unfortunately not. Just tried it right now and it works! What system and LC version do you have? Are you sure the copy/paste didn't spoil the original regex or what else could