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 millions of people who bought Software 
Assurance contracts. But what if the last version was as good as it ever was or 
could ever be? Why, then you are going to get a downgrade. Period. I liked 
Office XP better than anything they have since produced. Why did we need 
ribbons again? And where in the HELL is my damned page setup???

Bob S

On May 28, 2014, at 24:43 , stephen barncard 
stephenrevoluti...@barncard.commailto:stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote:

unnecessary annoyance. But I have to admit, that after watching new users
play with these features, they ARE easier to learn - all the confusion
about when to use ‘Save/Save as…’ is gone, and they find using Duplicate
and Revert quite intuitive, requiring a lot less explanation.


Sorry, I don't buy that.  The changes just require more stupid clicking
than needed to do what was easy before.  I can take care of my own file
management, thank you, and I hate this intrusion into my workflow and an OS
that anticipates how I work. This dumbing down crap should be optional, not
forced on us.

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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 
interesting for me, so I read Dan's post, then Jakob's article, then 
subscribed to the RSS feed for the MS Office design blog.  Learned a lot 
from all that.


One of the things I've come to respect most about MS' design team is 
their very disciplined data-driven approach.  Sure, we rarely see their 
best work because between the usability lab and the product box 
marketers step in and muck it up.  But the core design team does some 
good work, at times very good IMO.


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

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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 . . .


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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 probably my favorite UX talk. It simultaneously shows how
innovative the team was, the different variables they were juggling,
and how out of touch with reality Microsoft is. Mindbending and
fascinating and worth every minute.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29 May 2014, at 12:38 pm, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:

 I find Mavericks auto-save pretty useless actually. When you go back into 
 their time machine interface you can only see the first page of the document 
 (and nothing at all for many types of files.) […]

If you do a “Revert to…” from a Pages document, for instance, you ARE able to 
scroll through every page in your document, and see the individual changes made 
to every page. It seems Apple has built that ability into the system for 
developers to take advantage of, if they want to - but it’s up to the 
individual developers to decide just how much/little of it they will implement 
in their apps. 

Now, how useful would that be if we were able to do the same from, let’s say, 
inside a stack window (viewing previous versions of an interface), or directly 
from the script editor?…

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth

 That said, there's an auto-save plugin (RevSmartSave) that ships with LC
for those who want it.

LcStackBrowser does this too, either at timed intervals or on request,
along with an optional user supplied comment. Versions can be restored from
a list showing the creation date and time along withe comment.  Versions
are retained based on a count or age or can be manually deleted.
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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
On May 29, 2014 7:49 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.com
wrote:

 Now, how useful would that be if we were able to do the same from, let’s
say, inside a stack window (viewing previous versions of an interface), or
directly from the script editor?…

LcStackDiff provides a way to view all the changes between two versions of
a stack including scripts, objects, and properties. Not as seamless as the
Apple feature since the stack has to be loaded into a database.
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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:55 AM, J. Landman Gay
jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
 Except for Preview, which is document based but auto-closes.

On my Mavericks 10.9 3 and Preview 7.0 (826.4), Preview is in a league
of it's own. With all the other mentioned auto-close apps, when the
last window is closed then the app closes, it's name no longer appear
at top left and whatever the 2nd to last app you were using now comes
to the foreground. With Preview, when I close the last window Preview
is still listed as the current running app at top left, but if I
select any other app it then Auto Closes Preview.

As I said, Mavericks is more temperamental than other OS X versions
and it appears to me that everyone seems to get vastly different
mileage out of apparently the same beast.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 28 May 2014, at 1:54 pm, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote:

 On my 10.9.3 a slew of Apple and non-Apple apps all remain open after
 I've closed the last window. The one's that do auto-close seem to be
 sensible ones: System Preferences for many versions of OS X has
 auto-closed when the window was closed, now Contacts and Reminders
 does the same - I can live with that. On my Mac the vast majority of
 apps remain open when the last window is closed. […]

It seems that document-based applications stay open, while utilities auto-quit 
when their window is closed. So System Prefs quits when closed, and both Disk 
and Network Utility quit when closed.

The problem is, that some apps are not quite 'doc-based', nor ‘utilities’. For 
instance: Terminal app, or Keychain. The approach that Apple seems to take with 
these, is to let them behave as doc-based apps, and NOT auto-quit on close. 

 […] *Mavericks is the most temperamental OS X I've used. I've had Finder
 windows that will not come to the front, drag and drop that will not
 work, when I start my Mac sometimes the Finder windows that were open
 when I shutdown are there, sometimes only one, and sometimes none -
 and it makes no difference if I check the box about 'Reopen windows
 when logging back in' or not. Plus a few other things that seem to
 suggest that Mavericks has a personality all of it's own.


I have read quite a few negative reports about Mavericks on the web, and it 
seems that some people really do have many issues with it. I have quite a few 
systems that I look after, including servers that are remotely located and 
which I have to maintain via long-distance ssh or vnc sessions. *Knock-on-wook* 
my experience has been the opposite: Mavericks seems to be the most stable 
system I’ve had in a *long* time - including the Servers.

Kindest regards to all,

—
Igor Couto
Sydney, Australia
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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread stephen barncard
On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 8:26 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto
i...@semperuna.comwrote:

 unnecessary annoyance. But I have to admit, that after watching new users
 play with these features, they ARE easier to learn - all the confusion
 about when to use ‘Save/Save as…’ is gone, and they find using Duplicate
 and Revert quite intuitive, requiring a lot less explanation.


Sorry, I don't buy that.  The changes just require more stupid clicking
than needed to do what was easy before.  I can take care of my own file
management, thank you, and I hate this intrusion into my workflow and an OS
that anticipates how I work. This dumbing down crap should be optional, not
forced on us.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I understand how you feel:

On 28 May 2014, at 5:43 pm, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com 
wrote:

 Sorry, I don't buy that.  The changes just require more stupid clicking
 than needed to do what was easy before.  I can take care of my own file
 management, thank you, and I hate this intrusion into my workflow and an OS
 that anticipates how I work. This dumbing down crap should be optional, not
 forced on us.

But to a new user, who has just learned how to use it, the ‘new’ way of doing 
things does not seem ‘dumb down’ nor stupid, nor more difficult than the old. 
Much the opposite: they think the new way is ’smarter’… ;-)

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread divya navaneeth
Respected Sirs,

I am new in livecode .Could you plz tell me hoe can we search for  certain
words or chars inside a textile and deleting unwanted words

Thank you in Advance





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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread divya navaneeth
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Date: Wed, May 28, 2014 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac
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Respected Sirs,

I am new in livecode .Could you plz tell me how can we search for  certain
words or chars inside a paragraph and deleting unwanted words

Thank you in Advance





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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
Except for Preview, which is document based but auto-closes. It seems there is 
no firm rule about this but in general Apple is following the established 
behavior.  I guess I'll do the same, partly for consistency and partly because 
I prefer it.  

On May 28, 2014 2:37:36 AM CDT, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.com 
wrote:

It seems that document-based applications stay open, while utilities
auto-quit when their window is closed. So System Prefs quits when
closed, and both Disk and Network Utility quit when closed.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin

stephen barncard wrote:

This dumbing down crap should be optional, not forced on us.


Björnke version: Options can get expensive over time, introducing a form 
of technical debt.


TL/DR version:
http://livecodejournal.com/blog/2014-05-28-design-options.html

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay

On 5/28/2014, 4:35 AM, divya navaneeth wrote:

Respected Sirs,

I am new in livecode .Could you plz tell me hoe can we search for  certain
words or chars inside a textile and deleting unwanted words


The easiest way is to use the replace function to replace the words 
you don't want with empty:


replace cat with empty in tText

This will remove all instances of the word cat from the text in the 
variable tText.


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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
My Version? Excuse me? What?

A minor annoyance on Mavericks is that Text Edit does indeed close 
automatically when the last text file is closed, slightly less annoying, so 
does preview. Sadly, I do expect more apps to follow in the next version of OS 
X.

I do like the new saving behaviour tho, It was broken in the last version 
(mountain lion?) But now it works as expected. Yes, it's different from the 
'save/save as...' approach, and in the beginning I was fearing loss of control, 
or non-standard files (again for plain files in text edit). But it works 
hidden, database-style, reliably, and doesn't introduce large storage demands, 
at least as fas as I could tell. It took me about an hour to understand, it 
simplifies workflow, and there is no need to remember if i've made a backup, or 
if i need to save vs. save as vs. export. It's certainly easier to understand 
for beginners, and if there'd be a Björnke doctrine, then 'make it easier for 
beginners' would probably be among the first rules, if not the primary doctrine.

In a sense, the recent discussion about an automatic backup for stacks... 
Mavericks automatic save system and complete version history is actually THE 
solution for that. Just imagine, never hitting save, but always having a save 
of every change you ever made within the stack itself, without cluttering your 
disk and filesystem with dozens of saves, it's amazing if it works properly... 
until the whole file is corrupted ;-)

On 28 May 2014, at 19:19, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:

 stephen barncard wrote:
 This dumbing down crap should be optional, not forced on us.
 
 Björnke version: Options can get expensive over time, introducing a form of 
 technical debt.
 
 TL/DR version:
 http://livecodejournal.com/blog/2014-05-28-design-options.html
 
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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin

Björnke von Gierke wrote:

 On 28 May 2014, at 19:19, Richard Gaskin wrote:

 stephen barncard wrote:
 This dumbing down crap should be optional, not forced on us.

 Björnke version: Options can get expensive over time, introducing a
 form of technical debt.

 TL/DR version:
 http://livecodejournal.com/blog/2014-05-28-design-options.html

 My Version? Excuse me? What?

Consider it a customized summary. :)

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Ah! Well, I thought you where quite rambly there, and the point was actually a 
simple one. So that's why I did that. I regret nothing. 

On 29 May 2014, at 02:01, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:

  My Version? Excuse me? What?
 
 Consider it a customized summary. :)
 
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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin

Björnke von Gierke wrote:

 Ah! Well, I thought you where quite rambly there, and the point was
 actually a simple one. So that's why I did that. I regret nothing. 

There's nothing to regret.  On the contrary, many of my posts do tend to 
get longer than needed.  You have a good editorial eye.


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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread J. Landman Gay

On 5/28/2014, 6:51 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote:

Just imagine, never hitting save, but always having a save of every
change you ever made within the stack itself, without cluttering your
disk and filesystem with dozens of saves


Like HyperCard did. I was never so glad to get rid of auto-save as when 
I started with the MC/LC engine. I always tinker and make mistakes and 
mess around until I get something working and then I save it. HC saved 
every little thing, which made it impossible to revert to your last 
stable version if you've made a mess of things. I don't want all my 
experimental fluff saved.


That said, there's an auto-save plugin (RevSmartSave) that ships with LC 
for those who want it.


I find Mavericks auto-save pretty useless actually. When you go back 
into their time machine interface you can only see the first page of the 
document (and nothing at all for many types of files.) If your changes 
aren't visible on that first page, there is no way to tell which one of 
those dozens of copies is the one you're looking for. Looking through 
them in Finder is a little easier, at least for some file types you can 
page through the document in QuickLook.


I wouldn't mind having a QuickLook for stacks.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On May 27, 2014, at 5:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

 It used to be that a Mac app should never quit when its last window was 
 closed, except in the case of single-window utilites. The menubar remained 
 and the app kept running.
 
 Now that Mavericks quits apps for you when the last window closes…

Another reason for me to delay running Mavericks as long as I possibly can. Is 
this true for apps like Word and TextEdit, too??? If so, my motivation is 
further reinforced. What the hell is Apple thinking of, changing its 
longstanding GUI conventions???

 ... (whether you want it to or not) should a Mac LC app do the same? The 
 problem with a LC app that uses the splash screen approach is that all 
 visible windows may be closed but the main app is still running, and the OS 
 will never quit it. Should the app be doing that itself now?

In my admittedly few (and amateur) standalones, all built with the splashstack 
model, when I quit the primary working stack, it quits the application. I have 
to script it, but my assumption has been that this is what users expect from a 
standalone. But my apps have all been utility apps, and I don't want the OS 
making assumptions for me. An app that creates documents of any kind, each of 
which is in its own window, should most definitely NOT close when you close the 
last document. That's crazy.

My attachment to Apple is being eroded step by step. It used to be a 
user-friendly, intuitive system.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 28 May 2014, at 12:39 pm, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Another reason for me to delay running Mavericks as long as I possibly can. 
 Is this true for apps like Word and TextEdit, too??? 

I have been using Mavericks exclusively in all my Macs since it came out, and 
have now upgraded several server machines to use it as well. My experience is 
that it is a highly likeable and reliable system, with a workflow that is easy 
to learn and adopt for new users - more so than previous ones.

The current iWork apps - Pages, Numbers and Keynote - do not quit when you 
close all documents. They stay open, like before. This does not mean that there 
haven’t been some radical changes in the latest versions of OS X - indeed, 
there have been many.

For instance: because of pervasive auto-saving - all Apple apps now auto-save 
your work in incremental steps as you go, whether it’s work that is being 
stored in your local HD or in iCloud - the usual Save/Save as.., etc. File menu 
items have been reworked, and follow a different workflow philosophy. You are 
no longer expected to open a document  and ‘Save As…’ before you start making 
changes, in fear of overwriting the old file.

If you accidentally save changes to a document that you shouldn’t have, you can 
Revert to previous versions, so there is no need to always work on a ‘safe 
copy’. If you want to work like before, and make a copy of the document before 
making any alterations, you can use the “Duplicate” command first, and then 
save that duplicate as you wish. If you simply want to change the name of the 
document, you can use the ‘Rename” command. Save as”, therefore, in now 
unnecessary.

For those of us who have been following the ‘old way’ of working with 
documents, this new way of working, and these new commands, seem like an 
unnecessary annoyance. But I have to admit, that after watching new users play 
with these features, they ARE easier to learn - all the confusion about when to 
use ‘Save/Save as…’ is gone, and they find using Duplicate and Revert quite 
intuitive, requiring a lot less explanation.

AFAIK, Apple does not make changes to long-standing GUI conventions very 
lightly. They are, however, constantly conducting research on usability, and 
sometimes this research shows that in order to keep improving, they have to 
break their own convention, and rewrite the rules.

I hope this information helps.

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Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Another reason for me to delay running Mavericks as long as I possibly can. 
 Is this true for apps like Word and TextEdit, too??? If so, my motivation is 
 further reinforced. What the hell is Apple thinking of, changing its 
 longstanding GUI conventions???


There may be other reasons* not to upgrade to Mavericks, but this may
not be one of them.

On my 10.9.3 a slew of Apple and non-Apple apps all remain open after
I've closed the last window. The one's that do auto-close seem to be
sensible ones: System Preferences for many versions of OS X has
auto-closed when the window was closed, now Contacts and Reminders
does the same - I can live with that. On my Mac the vast majority of
apps remain open when the last window is closed.

I should point out that my Mavericks set-up isn't 'typical', so maybe
that also has something to do with whether an app closes when the last
window is closed. I believe most people are now slaves to the
auto-save feature and the old black dot in the red traffic light icon
that use to indicate that your working file had unsaved changes has
been deprecated and now is only seen on 'old' apps. On my Mac I still
have the black dot in red traffic light icon for all Apple and
non-Apple apps as I do not have the auto-save feature turned On. To
turn Off Auto-Save you check the cryptically named 'Ask to keep
changes when closing documents' preference in the General pane of the
System Preferences.

*Mavericks is the most temperamental OS X I've used. I've had Finder
windows that will not come to the front, drag and drop that will not
work, when I start my Mac sometimes the Finder windows that were open
when I shutdown are there, sometimes only one, and sometimes none -
and it makes no difference if I check the box about 'Reopen windows
when logging back in' or not. Plus a few other things that seem to
suggest that Mavericks has a personality all of it's own.

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