Re: Widget structure questions

Thanks Mark. Do you happen to know if there are any handlers which return these paths or even the information about each widget from its manifest.xml file? It's easy enough to go through all the files myself and parse the xml myself but probably safer to use official handlers if they exist.

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

On 10/09/2015 12:35 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: There are two separate issues here: 1) Our out-of-the-box palettes should be as useful as possible for someone with no plugins. Hence the soliciting of opinion. Disagree? I'm happy for a million application browsers to exist, I just don't want to

Re: Learning Materials

William Prothero wrote: I said we need a dictionary focussed on tasks, not on commands, but obviously we need both. I know Richard has been leading a group taking this on. Richard, is this happening? The focus of an API reference like the LiveCode Dictionary will always have the language

customProperties or similar for words in a field?

Most of what I generate is forms, so keeping track of fields is easy and natural. I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like mail-merge in a word processor. So I might use something like Debtor ##dname## filed this petition on ##petdate## to generate Debtor John Doe filed

Re: LC8

Pete, I think I've tracked down the 2 bugs causing this issue in the IDE, it’s an easy fix as far as I can see, so I posted a bug report with my findings and the recipe for fixing it, that way the LC team can check my findings and hopefully fix the problem quickly. Bug Report:

Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

> On 6 Oct 2015, at 2:52 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > when the culprit was simply a defaultFolder assignment that didn't take. Thanks. Helpful scripts both. I think it *is* simply a folder assignment that doesn’t take. Not the default folder, but the path to

Re: Learning Materials

Steven, Thank you. That seems quite fair. Regards, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 10, 2015, at 4:23 AM, "Steven Crighton" > wrote: > > Thanks for your messages on the new learning course. > > We are constantly working on improving our

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

On October 10, 2015 9:58:13 AM CDT, "Dr. Hawkins" wrote: > >I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like mail-merge >in a >word processor. So I might use something like > >Debtor ##dname## filed this petition on ##petdate## > > >to generate > > >Debtor John

Re: LC8

Same here on El Capitan, do you have a bug report number? I can add to it, or I can create one if you wish? Paul > On 10 Oct 2015, at 09:10, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I'm still seeing an issue with plugins in LC8 DP7, specifically the options > as to when a plugin should load.

Re: Widget structure questions

Great, thanks Mark, that's very useful. Like you, I'm parsing the manifest.xml files myself right now but will check into the revIDEExtensionProperty and revIDEExtensionsFetchMetadata() handlers. I'm getting the path to the user extensions folder the same way as you. Strange that they'd advise

Re: Widget structure questions

On 10/10/2015 12:36 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: put revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() into tPath I should also point out that the 'revEnvironment...' functions aren't in the dictionary but are listed in the Rev V5 release notes. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > This sounds like a job for the merge command. > > thanks,but that's a one-way trip. If the user changes something, I need to know which piece, as it shows up elsewhere. (And, potentially the user could change

Re: LC8

Hi Paul, Didn't create a bug report since there was a not from Ali a few days ago that this was a known issue and should be fixed in DP6. If I could find it, I'd update it :-) Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and

Re: Widget structure questions

On 10/10/2015 10:52 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: It appears that the files that define the widgets supplied with LC are kept in Contents/Tools/Extensions folder of the application bundle (on a Mac), with each widget having its own folder named com.livecode.extensions.livecode.. Are widgets created

Re: LC8

Great, thanks Paul. Pete Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > Pete, > > I think I've

Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

David V Glasgow wrote: > On 6 Oct 2015, at 2:52 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> when the culprit was simply a defaultFolder assignment that didn't >> take. > > Thanks. Helpful scripts both. I think it *is* simply a folder > assignment that doesn’t take. Not the default folder, but the > path

Re: Mouse events outside stack bounds on mobile

I've been trying to figure out some option for this, but only thing that comes to mind is: allowing the stack to fill the display normally, and manually adjusting the card's content to stay centered within the stack. The easiest way to do this would be to have all your controls in a group, if

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

It has also occurred to me to wrap in an html tag or some such to do this. On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Most of what I generate is forms, so keeping track of fields is easy and > natural. > > I am now getting to motions, which will use data much like

Widget structure questions

It appears that the files that define the widgets supplied with LC are kept in Contents/Tools/Extensions folder of the application bundle (on a Mac), with each widget having its own folder named com.livecode.extensions.livecode.. Are widgets created by users kept in the same place? There's a

help changing the From address when sending email

I'm creating an app that needs to send an email to the user. I've gone through the lesson about sending email through LiveCode Server here http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4070/l/8184-sending-emails-from-livecode-server-scripts and I get the email to send but no matter what I seem to do, I can't get

Re: Widget structure questions

On 10/10/2015 11:49 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Mark. Do you happen to know if there are any handlers which return these paths or even the information about each widget from its manifest.xml file? It's easy enough to go through all the files myself and parse the xml myself but probably

Re: Mouse events outside stack bounds on mobile

showAll doesn’t just center things and reveal extra content, it also scales the stack to fill the screen, no matter what size it is. You would have thought that if the background image is an object with a script in it, the touches would register. Maybe you’re using a non-control background

Re: LC8

I'm still seeing an issue with plugins in LC8 DP7, specifically the options as to when a plugin should load. If I change the setting from "Livecode starts up" to "Chosen from plugins menu", quit and restart, the plugin still loads at startup. -- View this message in context:

Re: Widget structure questions

Yes, I've been using them for a long time now and also wonder why they aren't in the dictionary. I think I might have filed a bug report about that a long while ago but don;t remember for sure. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

On 10/10/2015 10:28 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 8:21 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: This sounds like a job for the merge command. thanks,but that's a one-way trip. If the user changes something, I need to know which piece, as it shows up elsewhere.

Re: Widget Properties

> On 11 Oct 2015, at 11:06 am, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I assume widgets can have standard LC built-in properties as well as their > own specific properties? > > For example if I set the disabled of a widget, it no longer reacts to mouse > clicks, but if I get its properties,

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

I probably don't understand the scope of the problem, but barring the use of wordOffset (am guessing some of your strings are multiple words), perhaps you could use htmlText with custom tags, i.e. Sept 10, 2015 and render the text as htmlText. In theory, the tags won't be shown to the user, but

Re: Widget structure questions

On 10/10/2015 12:44 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm getting the path to the user extensions folder the same way as you. Strange that they'd advise you not to use the official way to get those paths, especially the system extensions since it will be different on each platform. Ah. No, sorry, I

Re: Mouse events outside stack bounds on mobile

Thanks guys, I guess I need to explain the layout better. This is Swami's stack, which I think Colin has looked at. I'm pretty sure this is a bug, but it just barely borders on understandable behavior so I'm not sure. I've run into multiple issues with visual effects, mouse messages, and other

Re: Mouse events outside stack bounds on mobile

On 10/10/2015 8:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: the original 141px stack width My brain turned inside out. That should be 414 pixels. It doesn't change the problem though. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Widget Properties

Thanks Monte. Maybe I should file a QCC report or have you already done so? Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Monte Goulding

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Hello World That gets back to parsing backwards from the point of insertion, I think . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing

Widget Properties

I assume widgets can have standard LC built-in properties as well as their own specific properties? For example if I set the disabled of a widget, it no longer reacts to mouse clicks, but if I get its properties, they are empty. I know widgets have their own property definitions but I would have

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

Scott Rossi wrote: I probably don't understand the scope of the problem, but barring the use of wordOffset (am guessing some of your strings are multiple words), perhaps you could use htmlText with custom tags, i.e. Sept 10, 2015 and render the text as htmlText. In theory, the tags won't be

Re: customProperties or similar for words in a field?

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:34 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I can't think of anything elegant offhand. What popped into my head was a > "madlibs" approach where you put up a dialog requesting the various data > items and save the responses. Not pretty. > I'm partway

Re: Mouse events outside stack bounds on mobile

On 10/10/2015 8:36 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I don’t remember that stack. What is its name? Or, can you post or email the current version? "Gurudeva". I thought he posted a link to a very early version and you took a look. You suggested using showAll, actually. I'll see if I can send you a

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Mark Wieder wrote: > ...we have reached the point where LC8 is no longer "LC7 with > widgets"... there's a serious divide here. So while I can play > around with LC8 and try to figure out the new gadgety things > that are being thrown our way, in order to get any work done > I'm using tools that

Re: Widget structure questions

I don't think I expressed myself very well in the bug report you filed... The examples for syntax shouldn't use undocumented / ide functions - as it is misleading. The ide functions as yet aren't documented but at some point will be as a 'how to write ide components' reference. However, that

Re: Mouse events outside stack bounds on mobile

I don’t remember that stack. What is its name? Or, can you post or email the current version? > On Oct 10, 2015, at 9:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Thanks guys, I guess I need to explain the layout better. This is Swami's > stack, which I think Colin has looked

Re: Forking Versions

git will throw an error if you try to push and your commits aren't ancestors of the head of the branch you are pushing. You can get around this by force pushing but don't do that... Nasty... I don't even know why git allows it. Sent from my iPhone > On 10 Oct 2015, at 4:57 pm, Mark Wieder

Re: Learning Materials

Thanks for your messages on the new learning course. We are constantly working on improving our learning materials. Create it V1 was a good start but as you pointed out it did come with some issues. With this version we have decided to focus our efforts by creating a course with less apps but