[OT] standalone image problem

2010-11-07 Thread Richmond
I don't have a standalone image problem; mainly because when I attempt to stand alone I generally fall over. That is what is so wonderful about this Use-List; one always has someone to lean on . . . :) ___ use-revolution mailing list

[req] old external sdk with the game of life code

2010-11-07 Thread Shao Sean
does anyone have the old external sdk with the game of life code? either post a link here or email me directly.. thanks :-) ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/6/10 12:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: For many years the engine used the folder where the executable resides as the defaultFolder, which for Mac was inside the bundle - when did this change? I can't find a reference to the change in any of the change docs I

serial port problems

2010-11-07 Thread Larry Walker
I am trying to read data from a serial port (using a USB-serial adaptor). I am on a MacBook Pro running 10.5.8, using LiveCode 4.5, and Prolific model 2303 USB-serial adaptor. The following code does not work: on mouseUp put modem: into usbSerial put empty into field Field open

RE: Refreshing a card

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Smith
Thanks Terry, the following worked beautifully.. set the showDateStamp of this stack to not the showDateStamp of this stack if there is a fld dateStampField then set the visible of field datestampfield to the showdatestamp of this stack end if

Re: serial port problems

2010-11-07 Thread Erik Schwartz
I have had problems with 4.5 and serial comms. I have not had time to diagnose it properly. I just regressed back to use 4.0 until the bugs in 4.5 get dealt with (kind of annoyed that I paid for the upgrade I can't use yet though). I hope you get it figured out. Erik On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at

Re: Paging Shao Sean

2010-11-07 Thread Ken Ray
I'm looking for the latest version of your libSMTP library. Could you post it somewhere for us? Uploading to (the new) RevOnline would be a community service and even better if you're willing. BTW, your stuff is so useful, I wish you had links on your web site. Ken Ray has a link to a

Hello World iOS Sample App

2010-11-07 Thread Mike Kerner
I have finally started to tinker around with the pre-alpha. I built the Hello World app. It runs fine in the simulator, but after transferring it to my Touch I can get it to start, but it immediately quits. Anybody else run into this? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth

Stack scroll bars to fit small screen

2010-11-07 Thread Bill Vlahos
InfoWallet now requires 1024 x 768 which is fine for all monitors these days except for NetBooks which typically have a resolution of 1024 x 600 and sometimes smaller. It would be difficult to squeeze everything to fit in that size window. How can I make the application window scroll (i.e. add

Re: Paging Shao Sean

2010-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/10 9:18 AM, Ken Ray wrote: I'm looking for the latest version of your libSMTP library. Could you post it somewhere for us? Uploading to (the new) RevOnline would be a community service and even better if you're willing. BTW, your stuff is so useful, I wish you had links on your web

Re: Stack scroll bars to fit small screen

2010-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
You need to put everything in a group, and resize the grp with the window. On Sunday, November 7, 2010, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: InfoWallet now requires 1024 x 768 which is fine for all monitors these days except for NetBooks which typically have a resolution of 1024 x 600 and

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Not sure if this helps, but I usually set the filename to empty, THEN set it to the specific file when swapping out files with the sane name. On Sunday, November 7, 2010, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/6/10 12:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: For many

Re: serial port problems

2010-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/10 9:18 AM, Larry Walker wrote: I am trying to read data from a serial port (using a USB-serial adaptor). Glad to see this here Larry. Just to fill everyone in, Larry and I have been going around with this issue for about a week in the tech queue without success (and I really

Re: Hello World iOS Sample App

2010-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/10 10:20 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: I have finally started to tinker around with the pre-alpha. I built the Hello World app. It runs fine in the simulator, but after transferring it to my Touch I can get it to start, but it immediately quits. Anybody else run into this? Did you go

Re: Hello World iOS Sample App

2010-11-07 Thread BNig
Mike, I dont know what is going on in your special case. But I did have problems with code I pasted into the script editor in 4.5 and above.When you copy formatted text the script editor at times inserts spurious ascii 202 in front of the code. This is with formatted text only. If you first

Re: Painfully slow performance (Trevor DeVore)

2010-11-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for all the input. I've pretty much ruled out SQLite as the cause of the problem because I'm using the same database in the IDE and the standalone so unless the standalone is using a different SQLite library than the IDE, there shouldn't be any difference in performance between the

Re: Paging Shao Sean

2010-11-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i have here version 2.5.3. As i think it´s ok for Shao Sean, i´ve uploaded it to my dropbox and publish the link to this list. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11969084/LiveCode/smtpLibraries/libSmtp253.livecode Btw.: Did you have a look also at Sarah´s library? Her library supports HTML and

Re: serial port problems

2010-11-07 Thread stephen barncard
I think that the no-name adaptor might be a problem. I've successfully used the KEYSPAN adaptor with Rev recently with version 4. I have not tested the KEYSPAN with 4.5. search google for

alerts

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Smith
How do you do a dialog like the Save dialog (Command-S) in rev? (ie. it goes away without user interaction when the action is complete) Thanks -- Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/alerts-tp3031113p3031113.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-07 Thread Devin Asay
On Nov 6, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Devin Asay wrote: The tricky thing about standalone apps on OS X is that, if you do not set the defaultFolder in the stack, the defaultFolder will be the folder where the .app bundle resides. For many years the engine used the folder

Re: alerts

2010-11-07 Thread DunbarX
Not sure what you mean. The save dialog has its own life: It does its thing, and dismisses itself. If there is no user interaction, you can just hide the dialog after a certain amount of time has passed from when it appeared. Is that what you needed advice about? How to arrange that it

Re: alerts

2010-11-07 Thread DunbarX
I reread your post. I might still be confused by without user interaction when the action is complete. Is the action just the showing of the dialog? But if all you want is to show some sort of dialog, and then dismiss it, just: showYourDialog wait 120--or whatever hideYourDialog Is your

How do you program a save dialog when no changes in the file has been made?

2010-11-07 Thread charles61
I have code in my save menu that brings up a dialog for saving a file with Don't Save, Cancel and Save. After the user saves the file the first time, the code will automatically insert the name of the file into the dialog above when the user wants to save it again or get ready to open a new file.

Re: How do you program a save dialog when no changes in the file has been made?

2010-11-07 Thread Björnke von Gierke
you need to set a flag, for example, if this would be in a text editor, i'd set a dirty flag on rawkeydown of the main text entry field, and then when the stack (window) is closed i'd check for that flag: --in the field on rawkeydown theKey set the dirty of me to true pass rawkeydown end

Re: [req] old external sdk with the game of life code

2010-11-07 Thread Shao Sean
Thanks to Mark W (no, the other Mark W ;-) for sending it to me off- list.. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: serial port problems

2010-11-07 Thread Sarah Reichelt
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 1:18 AM, Larry Walker la...@walkerenergysystems.com wrote: I am trying to read data from a serial port (using a USB-serial adaptor). I am on a MacBook Pro running 10.5.8, using LiveCode 4.5, and Prolific model 2303 USB-serial adaptor. The following code does not work:

Re: Paging Shao Sean

2010-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/10 12:57 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Hi, i have here version 2.5.3. As i think it´s ok for Shao Sean, i´ve uploaded it to my dropbox and publish the link to this list. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11969084/LiveCode/smtpLibraries/libSmtp253.livecode Btw.: Did you have a look also at

Re: Refreshing a card

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Monte, sorry if I missed replying. The problem was that on any specific card when I selected the toggle date stamp menu option, visibly nothing happened. In reality the property showdatestamp was changing from true to false on each menu selection based on the statement: set the showDateStamp

Re: alerts

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Craig, I looked up dialogs and what not in the dictionary and user guide and all I found where ones driven by ask and answer (nothing like a 1 way conversation like tell). In this case we don't need the user to dismiss the dialog, or answer anything, we just want to inform them that

Re: alerts

2010-11-07 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Craig, Forget the part about not knowing when a save is done... I'm a little tired at the moment but did figure it out. I have code that says: on mouseUp save this stack end mouseUp Pretty simple. But there is no visible indication to the user in my stack that anything happened. So what

Re: alerts

2010-11-07 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Mark, Why don't you create an image, paste it wherever you want into your stack; then when you want it to appear, just show it; when you're through with it, then hide it. I've done this a number of times. I usually create such images using MacDraft, but I'm sure you can do the same with