WINDOWS VERSION MENU PROBLEM - architect

2010-10-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi everyone, The Window's version of my app displays the following Menu: The File and Go Menus are the ones with black backgrounds. The Mac Version is fine. I've checked the backColors and hilite properties that might be the cause of this idiosyncrasy to no avail. Any ideas. The Windows

Re: WINDOWS VERSION MENU PROBLEM - architect

2010-10-01 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
I see that the List won't allow me to show even a very small screen shot. So, to describe the problem in words: The menu consists of four menus - File Edit Go Help. The menus all work, but you can't read the File or Go menus easily. It's as if the background is set to some very dark color. TIA,

Re: data from USB joystick

2010-10-01 Thread David Glasgow
On 28 Sep 2010, at 6:00 pm, -=JB=- wrote: On Mac I use USB Overdrive. http://www.usboverdrive.com/USBOverdrive/News.html -=JB=- Thanks for the suggestion. I downloaded this shareware, and it does the trick on Mac. You can set it up so a joystick generates rawkey messages. This

Live Code owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Medard
René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com wrote: 8th in France ! 1st here* -- but it is a trademark of codelab ;- and their start page is definitevely hideous [pity for my eyes!] the third is: http://www.abstractmachine.net/thesis/diagrams.php?name=livecode the 7th:

Re: data from USB joystick

2010-10-01 Thread -=JB=-
You are welcome. If the problem bugs you a lot maybe try contacting the developer and explain it. Possibly he will fix it for you sometime or tell you a work around solution. -=JB=- On Oct 1, 2010, at 12:29 AM, David Glasgow wrote: On 28 Sep 2010, at 6:00 pm, -=JB=- wrote: On Mac

Drag drop reordering of a DataGrid form

2010-10-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Everyone I've got a blog up for reordering DataGrid forms by drag and drop. Doesn't work for tables and you must cache controls. http://goulding.ws/consulting/blog/ Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding Software Development Bespoke application development for vertical markets

Re: Drag drop reordering of a DataGrid form

2010-10-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hold the phone. Looking at the data grid behavior script this might already be a feature but I can't find any docs about enabling it. Trevor? Hi Everyone I've got a blog up for reordering DataGrid forms by drag and drop. Doesn't work for tables and you must cache controls.

Re: Drag drop reordering of a DataGrid form

2010-10-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hold the phone. Looking at the data grid behavior script this might already be a feature but I can't find any docs about enabling it. Trevor? Talking to myself here but the blog post has been updated with a drag and drop script using the inbuilt support that seems to be undocumented. Scroll

Re: ANN: Installer Maker Plugin 1.4.1

2010-10-01 Thread RunRevPlanet
Mark, Thanks for the quick bug fix. Less than 12 hours after I reported it -- I'm impressed! -- Scott McDonald RunRevPlanet.com Components, Stacks, Tools and Resources for LiveCode www.runrevplanet.com ___ use-revolution mailing list

Getting line endings straight.

2010-10-01 Thread David Bovill
Most of the time we don;t need to worry about line endings - Rev handles them for us transparently. However, sometimes when workign with external sources you can get bitten. I thought I'd post this to make sure I've got things straight, and hopefully clarify things for others. My understanding is

HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Ray Horsley
Greetings, Anybody know where images get cached when I set the htmlText of a field to html which contains image references? Images come through fine on my machine in development mode (LiveCode 4.5) but they don't in a standalone on somebody else's running Windows Vista or 7, that is, until the

Re: Getting line endings straight.

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: Most of the time we don;t need to worry about line endings - Rev handles them for us transparently. ... Some gotcha's: - A carriage return is numtochar(13) - however LiveCode internally thinks that CR = LF = numtochar(10) - On OSX LiveCode does not write out text

Re: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Andre Garzia
Hello there Ray, How do you set the image? Is it an ID reference like: image src=1091 Or you're setting it to a file name? On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com wrote: Greetings, Anybody know where images get cached when I set the htmlText of a field to html which

Re: Live Code owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Medard wrote: 1st here* -- but it is a trademark of codelab ;- In what country? The US Patent and Trademark Office shows two entries for livecode:

Re: Live Code owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Please forgive the links in my last post. It seems the USPTO uses unnecessarily time-sensitive session IDs, so the URLs I provided won't work. In fact, I can't find a way to make a useful URL to even the search page, so here's how to get to it: 1. Go to:

Re: Live Code owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Kevin Miller
On 01/10/2010 15:44, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Please forgive the links in my last post. It seems the USPTO uses unnecessarily time-sensitive session IDs, so the URLs I provided won't work. In fact, I can't find a way to make a useful URL to even the search page, so

RE: Live Code owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Please forgive the links in my last post. It seems the USPTO uses unnecessarily time-sensitive session IDs, so the URLs I provided won't work. I hope some patent troll has a patent on their time sensitive session ID system and rolls them for it - let them have a taste ;-) Best regards,

RE: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Ray Horsley
Andre, It's a file path. Here's an example of a test's 'question' tag, url encoded, with several img attributes inside of a span element: Questionlt;span class=class1 xmlns=http://www.imsglobal.org/xsd/imsqti_v2p0gt;lt;bgt;A baby giraffe is lt;img

Re: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Jeff Massung
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Hello there Ray, How do you set the image? Is it an ID reference like: image src=1091 Holy crap does that work? I was doing it the hard way. And don't ask me what that was, cause I'll feel really stupid if I post it.

Re: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Dar Scott
This requires Internet access. Perhaps this is a matter of telling 7 that this program can access the Internet. Dar On Oct 1, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: Andre, It's a file path. Here's an example of a test's 'question' tag, url encoded, with several img attributes inside of a

Re: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Andre Garzia
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Hello there Ray, How do you set the image? Is it an ID reference like: image src=1091 Holy crap does that work? I was doing it the

Re: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Andre Garzia
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: This requires Internet access. Perhaps this is a matter of telling 7 that this program can access the Internet. Dar, I think it uses a relative path which is not an URL, are you sure it requires net access? Ray, Your span

Live Code or Livecode ;-)

2010-10-01 Thread Medard
Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: I hope some patent troll has a patent on their time sensitive session ID system and rolls them for it - let them have a taste ;-) My post had only an informative intent ;-) I just took a glance at the research engine, to see if Livecode (the

RE: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Ray Horsley
Ah - Very interesting regarding the defaultFolder. The defaultFolder when I open LiveCode on my machine is: C:/Windows/system32 I didn't realize I was doing anything with the defaultFolder when issuing the command: set the htmlText of fld 1 to myHtml Should I set this beforehand to a

Re: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Andre Garzia
On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 12:52 PM, Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com wrote: Ah - Very interesting regarding the defaultFolder. The defaultFolder when I open LiveCode on my machine is: C:/Windows/system32 I didn't realize I was doing anything with the defaultFolder when issuing the command:

Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi everyone, Page 236 of the LiveCode user guide says that arrays cannot be stored as single custom properties. Can anyone confirm this please? The reason I ask is that I thought that I had read in a past Rev newsletter that it was now possible, but I may be mistaken. I'm developing an app

Storing an Array as a Custom Property - Citation Found

2010-10-01 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello again everyone, The article Arrays Examined by Tom Healy in Issue 57 of the revUp newsletter contradicts page 236 of the LiveCode user guide. Here is a quote. An array can be stored as a custom property of an object in an equally straight forward way: set the cStoredArray of

Re: [OT] Do You Like To Play Games?

2010-10-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oddly, the movie is a black screen with some flicks of white noise running through it from time to time. Bob On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:54 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: An early trailer for the game is posted here: http://www.plexxr.com ___ use-revolution

Re: MYSQL timeout

2010-10-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
No offense, but how in the HECK did this get stuck in the middle of the IPad's competitor from RIM thread? Bob On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Terry Judd wrote: The problem of lengthy timeouts when trying to connect to a MSQL server that is down/offline is bugging me again. It seems like the

RE: HTML Text

2010-10-01 Thread Ray Horsley
Andre, This is really quite helpful. Thanks for your time on this! I'll study this further and do some experimenting and let you know how it goes. Thanks, Ray -Original Message- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf

Re: MYSQL timeout

2010-10-01 Thread stephen barncard
perhaps only in your mailer. On 1 October 2010 11:28, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: No offense, but how in the HECK did this get stuck in the middle of the IPad's competitor from RIM thread? Bob On Sep 28, 2010, at 6:20 PM, Terry Judd wrote: The problem of lengthy timeouts when

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Phil Davis
On 10/1/10 9:04 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hi everyone, Page 236 of the LiveCode user guide says that arrays cannot be stored as single custom properties. Can anyone confirm this please? The reason I ask is that I thought that I had read in a past Rev newsletter that it was now possible, but

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Phil Davis wrote: On 10/1/10 9:04 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Page 236 of the LiveCode user guide says that arrays cannot be stored as single custom properties. Can anyone confirm this please? The reason I ask is that I thought that I had read in a past Rev newsletter that it was now

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Mike Bonner
You can put multidimensional arrays into properties, at least as of what.. 3.5? If I recall correctly, the only real issue with this is that you have to pull the whole thing back out as a unit to work with it. I'm not positive, but I don't think it arrayencodes and decodes when you get and set.

stack dependencies?

2010-10-01 Thread Kee Nethery
I use the splash screen technique for an internal app I manage. Splash screen is the app, and the user runs the stack it copies to their hard drive. The stack the user uses needs all the various libraries but ... since it never gets compiled, the app builder never scans it. The splash screen

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Phil Davis
On 10/1/10 11:06 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: You can put multidimensional arrays into properties, at least as of what.. 3.5? If I recall correctly, the only real issue with this is that you have to pull the whole thing back out as a unit to work with it. I'm not positive, but I don't think it

Re: MYSQL timeout

2010-10-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
Aye. Methinks that when someone replies to an email from the list, there is some kind of identifier in the email that tells a mailer it belongs to a particular thread. So if someone replies to one thread, but substitutes the subject with an entirely new subject, some mailers might just think

[OT][FYI] Graphic Converter 7 has been released.

2010-10-01 Thread stephen barncard
I know a lot of people on this list probably use Graphic Converter as a less-expensive Photoshop and Thorsten Lemke has released his latest version, and it ROCKS. He's offereing an incredibly reasonable upgrade offer, and after 5 minutes with this version, I upgraded from the last version for

Re: [OT][FYI] Graphic Converter 7 has been released.

2010-10-01 Thread Pierre Sahores
Full confirmed ! GC7 is just incredibly easy to use and powerful. Le 1 oct. 2010 à 21:47, stephen barncard a écrit : I know a lot of people on this list probably use Graphic Converter as a less-expensive Photoshop and Thorsten Lemke has released his latest version, and it ROCKS. He's

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread DunbarX
Richard, I have to run, but would writing it as a do construction work? Craig In a message dated 10/1/10 2:00:59 PM, ambassa...@fourthworld.com writes: But how can we do it where the propset name is a variable? ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: MYSQL timeout

2010-10-01 Thread Terry Judd
That's what I did, so it makes sense. Terry... On 02/10/2010, at 4:56 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Aye. Methinks that when someone replies to an email from the list, there is some kind of identifier in the email that tells a mailer it belongs to a particular thread. So if someone

Re: MYSQL timeout

2010-10-01 Thread stephen barncard
google mail seems to keep the threads straignt. Better than any other mailer I've used. On 1 October 2010 17:19, Terry Judd t...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: That's what I did, so it makes sense. Terry... On 02/10/2010, at 4:56 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Aye. Methinks that when

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Ken Ray
Instead the simplest I've found is this: on mouseUp put gaskin into tPropSet put richard into tProp set the customPropertySet of me to tPropSet set the tProp of me to Howdy! end mouseUp Is there a way to make that a one-liner using array notation? The only