Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

Thanks Richard for taking on this selfless service. It is a much needed role and will no doubt take Livecode forward big time Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:21 AM, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote:

Distribute beta versions of iOS app

Assuming the UDID's of the devices are in your provisioning profile is there an easy way the distribute the app to remote beta testers outside of apple's ecosystem? Some download URL from our web server? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: restore selection from selectedChunk expression

Set the backgroundcolor of gCurrentSelection to yellow Works as is Swasti Astu, Be Well Brahmanathaswami www.himalayanacademy.com On Jul 31, 2015, at 8:05 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 7/31/2015 5:52 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: If we make a text selection and store

Re: restore selection from selectedChunk expression

But I want to re-select the text later, not set the background color BR On Jul 31, 2015, at 8:05 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 7/31/2015 5:52 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: If we make a text selection and store it as a selectedChunk string e.g gCurrentSelection

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

We're using Linode now. SSD's very fast. Great support. Great price. Your server comes lean so you need to know a little Linux sys admin but Ubuntu is turning out to be easy. Install virtualMin and you can do most everything from your control panel. It is IMHO the best of them (and I have used

Re: iCalendar [.ics file] Open Source Lib for LiveCode

Where is your library I missed the Link Swasti Astu, Be Well Brahmanathaswami www.himalayanacademy.com On Aug 14, 2015, at 9:56 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: However, vObjectLib has very little to help with correctly interpreting .ics files - so if you need to deal with -

Re: Keep Selection Focus When Switching to Substack

7.1 I am definitely losing my selection on touching the palette stack BR ( from my mobile ) On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:14 AM -0700, "Paul Hibbert" <p...@livecode.org<mailto:p...@livecode.org>> wrote: On Oct 23, 2015, at 19:51, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra..

Re: glx2

wow… I didn’t fully realize that glx2 was still alive. I bought a license from Jerry for that years ago… loved it, just downloaded, thanks Mark But: ha! forgot how it works… where is the documentation? I see the sub bar gray notification underneath LC ide toolbar (7.1GM for me right now)

Re: glx2

forget this… I found everything… marvelous1 tks Swasti Astu! Be Well Brahmanathaswami Kauai’s Hindu Monastery www.himalayanacademy.com On 10/25/15, 5:01 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of bra

Keep Selection Focus When Switching to Substack

I think I asked this before, but… is there a way to keep the selection when switching to a substack that is set to palette? The goal is to have buttons that operate on selected text, but in a separate stack. Brahmanathaswami ___ use-livecode

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

I will try, just to check on my own understanding With the community license which I think we can assume your old copy of 5.5 falls under ( you could upgrade to the latest at no cost) you can create and give away apps freely to any one. If you want to sell it, want to password protect your

Re: App Browser versus Project Browser

Hmmm, I had to bail on LC8… just not ready do deal with too many broken issues right now. I stuck in 7.1 for now… I like the project browser for several reasons (stopped using the application browser 3 months ago) 1) visual representation of objects is very helpful I 2) having the groups

Re: Movie file in use prevents deletion of folder on external volume Mac OS X

Through the years I have learned to “untether” LC before such operations. There are several scenarios: Set the defaultFolder to empty (if you are logged into files on a volume over the LAN) set the filename of image to empty (if you are showing and image on a remote volume) set the filename

Search and Replace in Script Editor: Cannot invoke "Replace All"

Mac OS X - LC 7.1RC3 Open stack script Find “Varuna” Click “more”; dialog for find and replace opens in a small top substack/card Enter “replace” with “Chola” Click “Find" ——— Expected behavior “Replace All” button should be enabled after the find runs What happened: it remains dimmed

Re: Apple Color Picker is Screwed Up in El Capitan!!

Roger: even on Yosemite, the apple color wheel invoked by LC does not give you the correct RGB value when you use it’s eye dropper… it appears to work, but the hue is 2-3 “degrees" down on the gray scale from the actual color… this is not LC’s fault (at least I don’t think so…) : tested in

IS AMONG anamolies

If I put this in a button: on mouseup put ("ha" is among the items of "ha,ht,hhe,taka") end mouseUp We get “true” If I put this in the msg box "ha" is among the items of "ha,ht,hhe,taka” Returns “false” If we use put "ha" is among the items of

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2015 edition)

I’m working on (in collaboration with Andre, Jacqueline and David) 1) an app called “Gurudeva.app” which is simple thing to honor the founder of our spiritual and religion organization. This is meant to be a “gift” for everyone on the annual event which remembers his passing. I finished the

Re: How to set inside margin of check box and radio buttons

Cool solution… thanks… no need even to set margins.. Just drag the group edges to get what you want. Now if we could only set the roundRadius of a group.. I’ve asked for that for buttons… so we may get it for all objects? On 9/25/15, 5:04 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of David Bovill"

Setting Props of Multiple objects with behavior?

When in the design process… I frequently want to sync all the buttons on the UI (or fields) to a new size, color, look and feel etc. Is there a way to do this with behaviors, such that the parent button’s props are automatically passed to all buttons on the UI? How are you doing this,

Re: Setting Props of Multiple objects with behavior?

Yep… I think I did too… ask before… we migrated from Google Mail to Micrsoft365/Outlook and I “lost” my list archives (still in PostBox folders… I have yet to migrate) which I usually search in. "The nice thing about using a behavior is that once you establish the theme in the behavior script,

How to set inside margin of check box and radio buttons

1) make check box button 2) set to opaque 3) select background color 4) the rect on the left if flush with the check box How can I add some “padding” to the left inside so that the background colored rect is not “smack up against” the check box? BR

Animation in LiveCode

I’m “back at it” trying to discover all possible means for animation in Livecode. All the high end tools seem to export to video: create your frame based “thing” whatever it is.. then you save as h.264. I don’t find much that will export to animated GIF — which seems to be the only “native”

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

HA @ colin: “Almost all of the things I’ve done have been ‘showAll’ " and here I was thinking you were recommending “noBorder” as the optimum development strategy. But the whole exercise is still very useful. I think it is still the case that if you want to have someone (and need to provide

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Bill: Yes. I plan to draft something put it on Google Docs an invite a few others.. it’s pretty mission critical, especially if you are about to hire ($) animators. I worked late last night using “showAll” and I think in the end this is the simplest way to go. Landscape, showAll — 16 X 9

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Seems better to let Livecode do the job… which means working in iPad size even though your main target is phones. Odd, but that would work for controls that are meant to stay top and bottom. OTHO I don’t understand how it is that “tricky”… doesn’t the screen rect solve this for any device? on

Re: Animation in LiveCode

Richmond: Yes of course that would work, but moving the animated GIF around on top of a video? Player FYI: your tiger has this white rectangular border that flashes on each cycle through the frames. I turned off the border width and the 3D etc in the inspector, but it did not go away. Perhaps

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

@Colin: Update on this thread: I have tried this exactly as you have defined it using the numbers you gave. It awesome on preopenstack set the fullscreenmode of this stack to “noBorder” end preopenstack works perfectly! Caveat: if developing on iPhone 16X9 at 14X 9 canvas (card rect) the

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Scott: I’m not actually interested in working in hi-res. ON our last project I worked in native size (iphone 6+ …..736H X 414w) it was enough to learn/know to make all images 1472 X 828 (then we get quality), import those and simple resie them to fit. By on my new LG monitor (huge!) using 14

Problem with Player on Windows

I am mentoring a very smart older man who is a complete LiveCode newbie who is on Windows He was trying to get a player "PlayMySounds" to work with pretty "bad" results. I advised him to set up his project like this MyLiveCode Project (folder) myFirstLCSTack.livecode /audio

Re: Infinite LiveCode -- What Happened Exactly?

OK, I'm in… I pledged (nothing spectacular) we need this: on our first ever app, that whole manually building a field for mobile was a major pain. having a single field object that works as expected in all environments will be important. BR On 5/24/16, 6:16 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of

How to select behavior on another card in LC8

LC 8 GM scenario: create card "Selections" --> card 1 create card "behaviors" --> card 2 on card 1 create several buttons on card 2 create one button which will server as the behavior for the buttons on card one go to card 1 select a button, click on the behaviors icon in its property

Re: Custom URL - urlWakeUp

found it http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/58672-using-custom-url-schemes need to get into the user guide! On 5/24/16, 12:06 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of bra...@hindu.org> wrote: >Th

Adding widgets to non-standalone stacks

Scenario: build stack 1 as splash screen/launcher inclusions: check all widgets in use by other stacks that the launcher will open (see below) Stack 1 has only 1 button go stack url "http://www.mydomain.com/new-stuff/new-stuff-previews-index.livecode Stack 2:

Re: How to select behavior on another card in LC8

Paul… great! that works. tks is that documented somewhere? Semi-unintuitive.. but I guess is also makes sense… UX decision… build some horrible long cascading menu with all buttons on all cards (as behavior options) or … leave the inspector of open and *then* navigate to your behaviors

Check to see if another app is install on the device

I got the custom URL scheme samples and it's very straight forward. Has a lot of potential on our space. But, one would need to know if the "launchee" app was installed on the device or not, otherwise the attempt to launch will fail silently. Is there an "AliensAreAmongUs.app exists"

Re: Problem with Player on Windows

ows in 8.1 otherwise will submit a bug report BR Swasti Astu! Be Well ( from my mobile ) On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 4:22 PM -1000, "J. Landman Gay" <jac...@hyperactivesw.com<mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote: On 6/12/2016 7:59 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: &

Re: LC8 - Stumbling into JSON

Not to trivialize the opacity of these things, but I used to resist JSON, but actually you can learn it in 10 minutes http://json.org/ It's actually much easier to grok in some ways than XML and now I prefer it to XML Sure there are deeper, more complex levels, but at a very simple level:

Re: Exiting Browser Widget

Hmmm… I don’t have control over the JS attached to a youtube page… makes for an interesting challenge On 5/26/16, 7:43 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of David Bovill" wrote: >You would need to get javascript to call a

RevErrorDisplay Window 1 pixel wide

I get this quite regularly in 8 or 8.1 dp 1 there may be an error in my script.. and the revErrorDisplay script opens, but it is 1 px wide and perhaps only 100 x tall… If I'm not careful I don't see it as it may blend in with my desktop background (stars) Anyone else seeing this? I have no

Re: Exiting Browser Widget

eate a web page with this code in it, the youTube video will be >displayed. You can put other html or javascript into that web page text, so >you can get whatever elements you want to show up and/or execute. I assume I >can load the web page code from a file in my local app or create it

Re: Exiting Browser Widget

@ mike: great ideas: Testing for what messages get thru: this doesn't work Card script # widget is on this card with YouTube URL global fBrowserClicked on opencard put 0 into fBrowserClicked checkBrowserState end opencard on mouseup put 1 into fBrowserClicked end mouseup Stack

Re: Adding widgets to non-standalone stacks

tried and it did not work. but running the same call from the IDE go stack url "http://myDomain.com/stack-with-svg-and-header-widgets.livecode; and the stack comes down with all widget appearing as expected. so obviously the widget extensions are some how not getting into the standalone?

Re: Adding widgets to non-standalone stacks

hmm yes, will try.. Do we understand you that, even though the splash screen/engine/standalone is already "at the top of the hierarchy" that icon id's will not be found unless you do this trick? interesting… On 5/25/16, 11:26 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Klaus major-k"

Re: How to select behavior on another card in LC8

Ali, here's a proposal for one possible UX scenario for setting behaviors in a "WSIWIG" way Adobe solved this already in a similar use case for setting book marks in Acrobat. create book mark (button or control on card 1 in our LC way…) If action is to go to another page, then a "hanging"

Exiting Browser Widget

Use Case: Video Viewer (YouTube) "full screen" on mobile devices 1) set up a landscape card 736w X 414h (16X9) 2) place a browser widget there that takes the entire screen 3) when navigating to this card, we dynamically set a YouTube URL to fill the widget/card So far, so good, tested and it

Apply an SVG Widget as a single object in a stack to multiple buttons as icon?

With images we can import a raster "object" and then set the icon of a button to that image. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to do the same with a SVG file? Theoretically then the different buttons calling that same (0ne and one only in the stack) SVG image as their icon could have varying

Re: [OT-ish] WWDC things of interest

I would vote this up +10… I am mentoring a very intelligent "newbie" older man with a super brain who just started using LC on Windows. The IDE and various functions are very broken. That's a horrible generalization.. I know… but many things do not work as expected. If it were not for my

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

ld test it. According to the help it returns the > screenrect after removing things like the keyboard overlay. But that may > still be in virtual pixels, based on the card rect. > > >> On Jan 4, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> >> w

Re: Release: 8.0 DP 13 -- Image Library?

On January 13, 2016 at 8:05:44 AM, Ali Lloyd (ali.ll...@livecode.com) wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 13. Can we get the image library back? I frequently dev using standard icons and then change those out later with custom

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

I have decided, for now, just to go with a stack that has a documentation substack. I made a good start today… couple of hours into it. For now it only expose the specs required if you use “fullScreenMode” ShowAll. For collaboration we can use the old “pass the baton” method… I make V 1.0.0…

Re: Browser Widget Fails to Re position

@ colin: Not sure I understand the action you suggest Are you saying, because the browser widget's location is set in the inspector to 0,0,736,414 and loclocation is set to true.. that we should try not trying to re-located it again by script? From: use-livecode

Copying a button drops iconGravity

LC 8.1 create button set icon to ID of imported image from msg box " set the icongravity of btn "Vedas" to center" selection and option-copy-drag the button result: newly created button has iconGravity set to empty. Can anyone verify? BR

Clear Background Pattern

LC 8.1 dp1 on Mac 1) set a backgroundpattern to the ID of an imported image 2) come back later and try to remove the background ID and set it to empty result 1) clicking on the pattern button in the inspector triggers the inspector drop down the available icons/sheet and to suddenly fill my

Re: Copying a button drops iconGravity

Klause wrote: yes, I already reported this some time ago! :-) Maybe you want to add a comment. BR: OK I did… ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Browser Widget Fails to Re position

I am struggling with a bug that was reported in February, and confirmed by the team, but remains unsolved. it's been so long that I posted a new bug report here, not remembering that I had one already in that related but is five months old http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17906

Re: Browser Widget Fails to Re position

t the app in the orientation and stay lock there.. which is obviously untenable. BR On Jun 26, 2016, at 6:01 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>> wrote: I am struggling with a bug that was reported in February, and confirmed by the

Re: When is a GIF Finished Playing?

  I have a similar need. Seems we can set the repeatCount, but I don’t see a way to test for “currentLoop” Theoretically we need something like — where I am making up an unknown prop called “currentLoop": if (the currentFrame of img "myGif" = the frameCount of img “myGif”) AND \ (the

Re: When is a GIF Finished Playing?

These methods work, of course, but surprisely “horsey” for something that should be easy. Assuming that the engineers are not following this thread, or at least not jumping in with solutions. I added this enhancement request.

Can't Get LC Server to fire

A bit OT because this seems to be something to do with the web server config for CGI that runs livecode-community-server (Linux 64 on Ubuntu 14) we typically use a full path to the engine like this if the script is inside the cgi-bin #!/home/htoday/cgi-bin/livecode-community-server put the

Re: Grab Me Fails on snapshot Images of fields which are transparent (opaque false)

Scott… you are a jewel.. thanks. this worked great! I used white that way I can do anything in the background Confirmed on desktop (mouse) mobile (drag with finger) SCOTT ROSSI WROTE: > 1) Export your tile images from a group that includes a graphic behind the > field set to 1% opacity of the

Players in HTML5 - ETA for Full Functionality?

  Are players expected to work in HTML5? I created a really simple stack with a button to fetch a remobe URL to an MP3 file, set the filename of a player on the card to that URL and start playing. really simple… works on desktop like a charm. Fails in HTML5 standalone made with LC 8dp14 I

HTML5 "Features" Library Substacks and "send ### in time"

  Yikes… ! I just read this today… after seeing the newsletter and then looking in the guide in LC 8 dp 14 "The HTML5 engine in this release of LiveCode has a limited range of features. You can: deploy single-stack applications with embedded resources" BR: Does this mean you cannot include a

Accelerator Key for Card Inspector

I’m getting a repetitive shoulder/ wrist cramp from going to the Object menu over and over again for Card Inspector….(7.1.1) is there a way to lock in the inspect to cards? so that as you move from card to card the inspector changes, but sticks on cards and does not revert to stack? or can

Re: Can't Get LC Server to fire

livecode-community-server *is* in the /cgi-bin the echo.lc file iin the cgi-bin is a bit different than the one in the public_html directory. it does not begin with “mailto:char...@techstrategies.com.au>) wrote: inside the public_html folder you use the .htaccess method fo setting the

Timing Hide/Show - Lock/Unlock Screen - w Visual Effects.

This animation business is all new and I’m missing some key knowledge base here. Can any clarify LC’ underlying algorithm for running something like this? Goal: to have “narration” text show in a field, smoothly disappear, then a second narration text appear in the field without abruptly just

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

On February 5, 2016 at 6:52:26 AM, Richard Gaskin (ambassa...@fourthworld.com) wrote: If groups don't currently adjust to allow for changes in the graphic effects of contained objects IMO this would be a bug worth submitting. yes, that is the problem Can

Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

Am I the only one who frequently wishes that groups could be made as a kind of class or abstraction? By this I mean, I want to establish a group that would, by default, take the rect of the card (dynamically if it were resized) have no border or any graphical properties of any kind as an

Re: Timing Hide/Show - Lock/Unlock Screen - w Visual Effects.

Nandri! (Thank you) Yes, this works now, I may let the second action be user/triggered… but it works. put the uNarrationText[1] of this card into fld "narrationPanel" show fld "narrationPanel" with visual effect dissolve very fast wait 1 second lock screen for visual effect put empty

Re: Make a Group Bereft of All Layout Properties

OK… I add my two cents on the bug report. Agreed, it *is* a bug and not an enhancement request. It gets worse if the “child” field is dynamically re-sized based on the text being applied. Locking the group size/location does not work. BR On February 5, 2016 at 9:01:39 AM, Devin Asay

Visual Effect and Initial Commands "disappear" on card transition

  For LC mystery forensics experts. I will attempt to send sweet dreams from Hawaii to anyone who can solve this problem. go stack url "http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/stacks/SivasHawaiiRevels/SivasHawaiiRevels.livecode” Disclaimer: if you are appalled by my architecture, its’ because I

Grab Me Fails on snapshot Images of fields which are transparent (opaque false)

  I have a puzzle widget that is made by importing a snapshot of a field with words in it, then we make a copy of that images and repeatedly crop to each word. Now we have small image tiles.  Works great BUT Problem: The original field has a transparent background. which I am hoping to keep.

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

FYI: My function was using the device ratio based on the screen rect….but your math uses the device *pixels* either way, the ratio is the same 16:9 | 736:414 | 1080:1920 and this does not affect your math: ( 1024 - (768/414*736) ) /2 = -171 (170.5) So thanks for that… I will try it… for the

Changing position/dimensions of a control that is part of a group

These lines are causing my scripts to silently fail… set the width of graphic "BaseControlsBkgnd" to item 3 of tCardRect set the left of graphic id 1026 to 0 either one will break the script whether referred to by name or ID… I thought I recalled some internal global to allow controls in

Re: Changing position/dimensions of a control that is part of a group

deva On January 27, 2016 at 6:08:03 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami (bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>) wrote: These lines are causing my scripts to silently fail… set the width of graphic "BaseControlsBkgnd" to item 3 of tCardRect set the left of graphic id 1026 to

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

On January 26, 2016 at 9:39:15 AM, Colin Holgate (colinholg...@gmail.com) wrote: In showAll to position controls in the corners you need to know the ratio of the device screen. You then multiply that by the width or height, to work out the position. @ colin: I

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

ter height… I don’t have to do anything, and it stays where it is.” The screen rect *could* help us… but it’s seems to have some bugs around it. TBD… This makes it “bad” for landscape design on 16 X 9 rendered on a 4 x 3… as your controls will "float in” off edge. BR On January 25,

Re: Fade In and Out Using Blend Level: Performance Issues

Wow, very helpful. What it the issue with scripted repeat loops that touch the pixel map of Tablet sized screens? I do notice this slowdown in iPad Mini… but it’s only 1024 X 768… so why is it slower? BR On February 1, 2016 at 7:27:12 PM, Scott Rossi

Re: Using [ Control "SomeImageName" ] VS [image "SomeImageName"]

OH… duh…. no! ha (red in the face) This does work… fabulous! local tHALogo, tCompanyTitle on preOpenCard setStage end preOpenCard on opencard scene1 end opencard command setStage # be sure to declare all objects in local outside all handlers put the long id of fld

Fw: RE: Ken Burn's Effect Library for Livecode

Puzzle is working now. go stack url "http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/stacks/SivasHawaiiRev/SivasHawaiiRev.livecode” getting back to Ken Burns. On January 31, 2016 at 5:57:21 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami (bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>) wrote: see current iteration her

Ken Burn's Effect Library for Livecode

Before I launch into this from ground zero.. has anyone developed a library for Ken Burns effects for still imagery in LiveCode? Scott sent me a cool thing for zooming in and out… so then we just need to move the image along a path at the same time. typical use case is the subtle and slow

Import Vector to Graphic object

if we want to use Animation Engine’s Morph or morphGradient, we have to target a grc object. I presume because AE can extract points from a graphic object. But if we want to use this on a PNG… it’s obviously won’t work. What image format can we use that, upon import, becomes a native LC

Re: Ken Burn's Effect Library for Livecode

On January 31, 2016 at 1:09:32 PM, Scott Rossi (sc...@tactilemedia.com) wrote: My *untested* opinion is that getting an actual Ken Burns effect natively in LC is going to be difficult, if not impossible. It would be great to see someone pull this off. But to

Re: Ken Burn's Effect Library for Livecode

On January 31, 2016 at 12:51:18 PM, BNig (bernd.niggem...@uni-wh.de) wrote: I like it! Have you thought about, for some of this, using those whiteboard animations? They seem to draw attention. And I’ve seen another type where a hand brings in symbols, one by

inserting Data into CustomProp array

What is the best practice for progressively adding data to a customProperty that you want to be an array? both inserting new keys into that property as well as changing values in the existing keys. In this case i want an image(s) in a stack to have a custom property containing the necessary

Re: inserting Data into CustomProp array

cts put the keys of tEffects end CheckEffects OK… I’m good to good, but any advice in this area is appreciated. http://www.himalayanacademy.com/apps/gurudeva On January 29, 2016 at 7:01:14 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami (bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>) wrote: What is the best

Re: inserting Data into CustomProp array

Property sets appear easer to get and set across “sessions” (different times during dev) than putting an array into a property. I don’t see you could set just one element of tArray if it was contained in a property without taking it out and putting it back in. Am I wrong? On January 29,

Caveat: Use Any 16x9 Stack That Makes You Happy

Maybe not…. @ colin: Hmmm my strategy to work in a 16:9 1200px x 675px tall stack was working great ….. until using animation engine where all values get translated into rects like aeChangeRect the long ID of img "HALogo", 58,32,259,233,1500, “overshoot" and these numbers are “hard

Graphic effects - Feather Edges of Rects

Does anyone have any method to “feather” the edges of a fld, rect or grc? Any inner glow or outer glow leaves a sharp edge on the object no matter what we do. Any options there? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Fade In and Out Using Blend Level: Performance Issues

I am trying to overcome the limitations we face with Mobile where our transitions are Limited to for example on IOS only flip there is no dissolve or anything like that. So I am using the blend level of the object or an image in setting this up or down to try and emulate fade in and fadeout

Using [ Control "SomeImageName" ] VS [image "SomeImageName"]

I using some scripts lately where it seems convenient to do something like this: global gCurrentHiddenControl, gCurrentShowingControl # then: command fadeOutCurrentControl pSpeed put (the blendlevel of control gCurrentShowingControl) +1 into tLevel set the blendlevel of control

Re: Fade In and Out Using Blend Level: Performance Issues

FYI Jacque says dissolve is working on Android. So I will just, for now, leave scripted blendLevel repeat loops out of the mix entirely. On February 2, 2016 at 10:34:42 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami (bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>) wrote: Wow, very helpful. What it the

Re: Using [ Control "SomeImageName" ] VS [image "SomeImageName"]

On February 2, 2016 at 12:07:34 PM, Ali Lloyd (ali.ll...@livecode.com) wrote: > By the way... did I mention that I *really* appreciate the team's > presence on this list? > So do I! Can you look at my earlier post? perhaps I should open up a new thread “Best

Re: Questions: Setting the borderWidth (lineSize) of a graphic through script

On January 29, 2016 at 8:21:41 AM, Mark Waddingham (m...@livecode.com) wrote: BorderWidth works fine on graphics here - you set the showBorder to true, and set the borderWidth. You'll get the original shape inset by the borderWidth with the border drawn around it. An

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Colin wrote: In showAll to position controls in the corners you need to know the ratio of the device screen. You then multiply that by the width or height, to work out the position. OK I tried this and failed. FYI you need all splash screens installed in standAlone config to get iOS screen

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

of background image/pattern BR On January 27, 2016 at 12:39:21 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami (bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>) wrote: I came up with a solution that works for 16:9 run on an iPad but I’m afraid it is not a general algorithm so I have no idea how this woul

Re: LC 8 dp 14 Browser Widget not "obeying" position instructions

On February 21, 2016 at 1:46:35 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami (bra...@hindu.org<mailto:bra...@hindu.org>) wrote: on opencard choose pointer tool choose browser tool end opencard Well this worked yesterday, but it is not working today! "Go figure" So I'm stuck here for dy

Open Process, Interactive Shell on OS X

  Has anyone run an interactive shell session of any kind on Mac OS X? If so can you share some code? in the dictionary it says you cannot use the open process command on OS X to run a unix process. but you should use "shell" instead. OK that works... but once you get the result back from

Request for Bids on Site Upgrade

Aloha, LiveCoders: Anyone here who has experience with Boot Strap LC Server/RevIgniter Responsive Mobile Design Word Press. Please contact me off list to discuss working for us/your fees/time/ availability to help get www.himalayanacademy.com over to a mobile/responsive state. The HTML

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

Just to throw in two mangoes from Hawaii Matt.. there is also the unspoken "Apple Policy" problem. The "Hobbyist" using the community version cannot deploy on the App Store. This kind of throws an rusty wrench into what would otherwise be "all good" overall picture. But we cannot put that on

Re: leap to future

  @ stephen: "I don't think the OSS folks get HTML5. If they did, then I would have it in my 'Indy' license... ( I really don't like that term ) "  Right, that would be the obvious conclusion but You can look back in the list.. I had a "tough round" of discussion (me complaining; HQ

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