Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/18/10 9:14 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Jacqueline, So then, is the Documents folder you're saving to the same folder that Apple expects? In other words can you register that folder as a shared folder and see the contents in iTunes? I think so, but I've only tested in the simulator so

Re: Uninstaller

2010-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/18/10 10:27 AM, Kenji Kojima wrote: Hi, Where is Uninstaller.app for LiveCode? The uninstall procedure is documented on page 5 of the User Guide, which you can access from the Help menu in the IDE. If you are using Windows, the uninstall is now available in Windows Add/Remove Programs

Re: Uninstaller

2010-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/18/10 11:06 AM, Kenji Kojima wrote: Hi Jacqueline, Thanks your advise. If you are on Mac, just drag the app to the trash. I tried but It did not work. I think I need to remove somewhere hidden files on my Mac. Probably they were broken. Oh, okay. You could see if you have any

Re: Uninstaller

2010-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/18/10 12:59 PM, Kenji Kojima wrote: Thanks Jacqueline, I removed ~/Documents/My LiveCode/Plugins/revMobilePlugin.rev and LiveCode 4.5.1.app. Installed LiveCode 4.5.1.app again. And restart my computer, but it did not work. I removed all of LiveCode files I could find. But I am still

Re: Drag and Drop to Item in List Field

2010-11-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/18/10 6:41 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Getting closer now. If I put the following script in the source list field the correct text is sent in the drag. on mouseDown set the dragData[text] to the selectedText end mouseDown Target field script hilites the correct line in the list on

Re: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/17/10 3:23 AM, Joseba Aguayo wrote: Kaixo: How it's possible that RunRev delete the Revolution Player from his Web?? Update the software, but don't delete old files that your client use! This is a serious company? They are not deleted, but are no longer supported so they

Re: Windows Version problems

2010-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/17/10 11:52 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I have a main-stack and two sub-stacks. The user has to answer questions presented in the Main-stack. The information required to answer the questions is located in one of the sub-stacks If the stacks are all substacks, and you do not build your

Re: Stackrunner

2010-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/17/10 11:45 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Just started using this and very happy but have come across a problem regarding button icons. I imported a set of icons into the image library in the IDE and refer to the icon numbers within the Image Library when specifying icons for buttons. All works

Re: Stackrunner

2010-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/17/10 2:14 PM, Ken Ray wrote: The IDE and the standalones it builds know about the image library, but StackRunner does not. That's right - the list of things that are built in to StackRunner are listed under the Using StackRunner section of the web page:

Re: Why Does this Behavior Fail?

2010-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/17/10 5:51 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: goal: I would to put help info in custom props and then call these automatically into display as the user pass his mouse over controls (on a preferences card) I have a stack that does that, but it doesn't use behaviors. I just put this into the

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/17/10 4:46 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I haven't tried in the latest release but before that there was no way for iOS to save out a stack or a preferences file that I know of. Basic file read/write and file URL access works now. I'm saving a text-based prefs file to the Documents

Re: netbook crashes?

2010-11-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/16/10 1:40 AM, Thomas McCarthy wrote: Hello folks, It's been a very long time since I've posted here. I've got a fellow using one of my programs and he says it won't work on one of his computers. To rule out any fault of my scripts, I sent him a simple standalone with one button on it

Re: Bring window to front on desktop

2010-11-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/14/10 6:18 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: Anyone solved how to bring a stack window to the top on the desktop after a file dragDrop? 1. drop files 2. bring stack window to top on desktop (ie. in front of the OS source drag window) 3. show a modal answer dlog 4. carry on One approach I

Re: Getting the weekday name

2010-11-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/13/10 4:55 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The dates are coming from an SQL database, so they are in -mm-dd format - will that work or do I need to convert them to some other dat? I already have a function that converts the SQL dates to the external format mm/dd/yy if that would work better.

Re: Getting the weekday name

2010-11-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/13/10 3:44 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm using the datetimetoJulian function in Sarah's great datetime stack as part of a way to get the alpha weekday name. The words in Sarah's stack say that it's possible to get the day number of the week by taking the remainder of dividing the Julian

Re: Preference Storage on iOS

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/11/10 7:51 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: How is anybody else storing preferences with their stacks for their iOS projects? For example, I want to store usernames and passwords for websites that my project is going to access, but those will vary from user to user. If you want the preferences to

Re: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/11/10 10:11 PM, Anthony Howe wrote: Key problem? All of these implementations deliver repeatable, less than desirable responsiveness from the button that is being clicked by the user to trigger the audio. It's just initiating playback too slowly to cut it as a playable 'instrument'.

Re: LQCC - Account needed?

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 9:07 AM, zryip theSlug wrote: Dear List, I tried to visit the LQCC for the first time but it seems an account is needed to search something in it. In the home page, I have two fields to enter a login and password, a login button and a field to retrieve a forgotten password. I tried

Re: Environment variable displayed in the debugger

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 10:57 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: So is it a bug that the preferences checkbox show globals in the script editor pane does not do anything? I know I have seen this work intermittantly, and unreproducably, in both v4 and v4.5. I recall an earlier thread on this. I cannot get rid of

Re: ShaoSean externals

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/11/10 5:38 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Peter, i am sorry i cannot help. I am looking for it also. But had not yet time to ask here in the list for it. So if someone in the list could help us out with Shao´s ssmac external...? She wrote me privately and said if we need any of her files,

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 11:44 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: There's a little trepidation on my part about that because I occasionally see posts that suggest that maybe there's issues with the uniqueness of IDs but hopefully I won;t run into them! They won't change unless you change them yourself, and the only

Re: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 1:22 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I'dstill like to know why the build with 4.0 hasn't worked. The errors you got indicated that some of the files required for the build weren't in their default locations, so the standalone builder couldn't find them. The most likely reason is

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/10/10 8:42 AM, Claudi Cornaz wrote: Hi, After some more tinkering I fortunatly solved the formattedWidth problem. Apparently you have to be on the card containing the field to get the formattedWidth/Height etc, otherwise it will return 0. This is mentioned in the docs, so I could have

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/10/10 5:05 PM, Claudi Cornaz wrote: The names of the grp's I copy have names like textPiece for instance (this is the one I have trouble's with right now) I have to say, this grp belongs to a grp called textPieceTmplts. I will change this name to see if that will make a difference. Also

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/10/10 3:07 PM, edward cawley wrote: Every thing else load so it seems to be finding all the files. That doesn't seem to be the problem. Any other ideas? How do I get the text files in the bundle? You should be able to add any kind of file in the Copy Files section of the standalone

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/10/10 6:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Setting the stack ID to a number below it's current ID is a risk and you are right it's bad practice (I was just trying to work out how you end up with an id of 0 and I still couldn't replicate it) but going the other way is the only way we have to

Re: [OT] legality of DVD backup

2010-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/9/10 5:35 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: They may have dropped the name, but this Revolutionary tune was heard blasting out of one office window in Edinburgh recently: The compiler flag is deepest red To those that say Hypercard is dead But your static class can kiss my *ss We're in the iTunes

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/9/10 11:33 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: It does seem that setting a cursor to an animated GIF ought to work out of the box the way setting a button icon to an animated GIF does But if there's a workaround for cursors I'd settle for that for now. I don't think animated cursors are

Re: Saving/importing custom controls to/from file

2010-11-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/8/10 4:31 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Yep - several times to make sure - and I checked the clipboard in between. Great, I wonder how it might best be used. I'm not sure there's a massive advantage to this over saving a custom control on a stack and just copying the control from the stack.

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: 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: 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

Paging Shao Sean

2010-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
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 newish

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/6/10 12:29 PM, 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 where the

Re: LiveCode external/plugin question

2010-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/3/10 12:43 PM, William de Smet wrote: @Matthias and Mark: Thanks for your replies! I was looking for true kiosk mode so Marks advise using IE isn't the right thing for me. I need all keys to be blocked. Editing the registry seems the only way but it needs the computer to reboot. I need my

Re: LiveCode external/plugin question

2010-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/10 2:57 PM, Henk van der Velden wrote: Hi William, last year I've done a museum project where I had to put pc's into kiosk mode. Unfortunately the rawKeyDown approach didn't work since you can't capture key combinations like CTRL-ALT-DEL etc. Yes, you're right, some key combinations

Re: What is wrong with this script?

2010-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/10 7:55 PM, charles61 wrote: When I of marked card y, the script that looks like the following caused the printing to hang and I had to force quit Rev 4.0 and relaunch Rev. This, plus the recursion error you got, likely indicates that your scripts are going in circles without a way

Re: delete chunk.

2010-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/3/10 9:00 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: Actually, I think that's exactly the problem. a,b,,, has 4 items. The trailing , is ignored. a,b,,,e has 5 items. putting a space, or some type of invisible char after the trailing , makes it 5 items. It drives me nuts, if the comma is there it should

Re: seconds function giving wrong time

2010-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/3/10 11:21 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: JACQUE? Put that dang time travel stack away!!! It's just a misplaced breakpoint, the script has stopped somewhere next week. I'll get it running again in a few days when I catch up with it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: delete chunk.

2010-11-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/3/10 10:41 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: Having said all this, there is most likely a reason it is the way it is that I don't have enough knowledge to understand. As with removing trailing carriage returns, if it's a null item it isn't difficult to work around and i'm not sure I can come up

Re: delete chunk.

2010-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/2/10 7:23 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Hmmm ... what should I get from put a,b,c into temp delete item -1 of temp I think temp should now have a,b, - i.e. the last item has disappeared, but the (now) trailing item delimiter should still be there. However, I actually get that temp has a,b -

Re: delete chunk.

2010-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/2/10 10:40 PM, Jim Ault wrote: Also try put the number of items in a,b,c \ the number of items in a,b, \ the number of items in a,b Right. You can't have an empty last item, and if you try, the last delimiter is removed. There's a comment about it in the dictionary under item. --

Re: delete chunk.

2010-11-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/2/10 11:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/2/10 10:40 PM, Jim Ault wrote: Also try put the number of items in a,b,c \ the number of items in a,b, \ the number of items in a,b Right. You can't have an empty last item, and if you try, the last delimiter is removed. There's a comment

Re: Where's my keyboard shortcut for import as control?

2010-11-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/1/10 10:40 AM, tkuyp...@telenet.be wrote: Could be me, but I'm missing the keyboard shortcut for importing an image into a stack... It was still there in LiveCode 4.5.0 build 1080, but it is gone in the versions after that. (at least on my Mac, didn't try Windows...) Can someone confirm

Re: a weird thing about registration, Linux

2010-11-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/1/10 5:34 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: not sure why then. /shrug If you copy the prefs to root does it still think it needs to be registered when su'd? Either way, think its time for a bigger hammer. Prefs don't store the licensing info, it's stored separately. I'm not sure where it's

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-10-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/31/10 4:22 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Those hack fests they have every so often suggest that OSX is a dead duck almost right away, Windows not long after, and Linux holds out longest. Is that true? I'd always heard that OS X ranks about even with Linux because it's core is *nix. --

Re: Escape key doesn't work with fullScreen?

2010-10-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/31/10 3:03 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: This cognition bug is not fixable by RunRev, and has been marked as a duplicate of several related reports. ;) LOL! You're talking about some of my reports, right? :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: The siglum key explained.

2010-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/10 10:59 AM, Richmond wrote: Very funny; all the Mac keyboards I have have the siglum key in the top-left corner. I've never seen it that way. All my Mac keyboards have a tilde in that position. International differences, maybe? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: html entities

2010-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/10 11:11 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I should have been more clear. Use the ampersand and semicolon to locate the original char in the source text. Convert that char with the charToNum function. Except that the htmltext doesn't return characters you can convert in these cases, it

Re: This probably reflects my complete ignorance, but...

2010-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/10 1:54 AM, Vokey, John wrote: in the Metacard IDE, as soon as I script-select the line to allow the user to draw the line so my code can get the rect, it switches the IDE to edit mode, which means any subsequent clicks on buttons (to indicate that the line has been drawn, etc.) put

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 1:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I see that the Administrivia contains as one payload it's own spam mailer. It uses a long list of subject lines, and I think one of them is HELP. If this is the subject line you used, or if the subject line contained that word, you may have triggered a

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 2:08 PM, Bill Andersen wrote: I've used PHP to do 'shell utilities', I sure wish Rev could act similar. How nice would it be to just have one language/syntax for the bulk of your code. You can insert libURL (or any other script) into the message path so that commands to the

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 2:46 PM, Richmond wrote: Gottit, al last: 'administrivia' has to be pronounced as 'administrivia' rather than 'adminis - trivia'; which made things sound like a sort of mindless babbling game indulged in by bored administrators . . . :) :) It's a little of both I think. It's an

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 3:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: I have a question regarding this, if one were to copy the script as you explained, and instead of placing it in a stack could one paste it into an .irev file and use it as an include with revserver scripts? Yes, I think so, but I'm not sure how much of

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 3:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: HAH! You nailed it Jacque! My test email got bounced. What an odd thing to reply with though! Administrivia?? Why not just say Administrative Command? It's an ancient boilerplate error message that's been around forever, and I think was written when

Re: HELP Key ???

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 3:12 PM, Richmond wrote: So . . . What about the rawKeyDown being 0 ? I'm not exactly sure what you're after. The keycode for the key where the tilde is on my keyboard will be different from the keycode of the same place on another keyboard. Keycodes are assigned to

Re: Auto-updating apps, and splash screens.

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 6:21 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: And, what do you as app users prefer 1. The app automatically updates itself when a new version is available. 2. The app downloads the new version automatically, and then (next time?) on startup asks if you want to install the update. 3. The app lets yo

Re: Rev as Linux Shell Script

2010-10-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/28/10 5:28 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Nope doesn't work, and I don't know enough to determine if it would be worthwhile to beat it into submission or how to begin if it is worthwhile. (tried it with the 4.5 script) Mostly was just wondering, revserver throws errors such as: 183,485,43,)

Re: OT: SheepSaver

2010-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/26/10 1:04 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I have some personal experience setting up SheepShaver and documented it here with a set of instructions: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/env006.htm Granted it was several years ago, but SheepShaver hasn't had a recent upgrade AFAIK...

Re: OT: SheepSaver

2010-10-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/26/10 1:11 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Ken, There have been a few updates recently and it looks like there will be regular updates now http://qurl.tk/jh That's even newer than the one I just posted -- thanks for the link. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
Peter Alcibiades wrote: Well thanks to this thread at least I found out where the # key went on the UK Mac keyboards, which maybe might come in handly one day. Its surreal to have it be alt + 3 unmarked. How on earth are you supposed to know that? I guess you have to read the Human Interface

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 1:00 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I should also mention that I have never seen anyone wear the letters off the Apple keyboards. At least not the external ones. I have on other keyboards. Again, don't go cheap and you should be fine with anything. I did. My old one is half bald. The S

Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 12:12 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Thanks Andre, but ... I know you've figured this out now, but just wanted to add a couple things. If you click on the tab button, you shouldn't need to set the selected tab at all, it should be automatic. The only time you'd need to script the

Re: Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 6:48 AM, David Glasgow wrote: As a forensic psychologist... Uh oh. After reading this list for so long, you've probably got enough material for a book by now. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 4:02 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Yeah, but no one would believe him, even if he wrote a book. On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/22/10 6:48 AM, David Glasgow wrote: As a forensic psychologist... Uh oh. After reading this list for so long, you've probably

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 3:11 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... Until the little bumps on the J and F keys wear off, which is probably next. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: XMLRPC question

2010-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
Glad to see you here, Leland. I hope somebody will address this, since I sent you here. :) Come on guys, I bragged about you. On 10/21/10 11:29 AM, Leland Vandervort wrote: Hi All, Apologies in advance if something along these lines has already been raised on the mailing list ‹ having

Re: Tabbing out of a text field

2010-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/21/10 5:02 PM, RevList wrote: I want to have fields that have one line of entry only and when you press Tab, it moves on to the next field. I have set the field to be Tab on Return so that traps the return key, but pressing TAB, adds a tab to text. In my earlier project it just moves on.

Re: Tabbing out of a text field

2010-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/21/10 6:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well this is interesting: Even if a scrolling field has tab on return set, it inserts a cr when you hit return. On a regular field it tabs. So what property visible from the property inspector corresponds to this behavior? Obviously not the tab on return!

Re: Tabbing out of a text field

2010-10-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/21/10 7:07 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Thursday, October 21, 2010, 4:19:59 PM, you wrote: Tab on return (i.e., autoTab) only happens when you are on the last line of the field. So in a 3-line field, a return key will only tab to the next field if the cursor is on line 3, otherwise it

Re:

2010-10-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/20/10 1:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In my experiences attempting repairs through the Apple store they don't do much in the store, and send most of it out to a remote center which they tell me takes between two and four weeks. Odd. I've never had that happen. They've always done repairs

Re: Time pickers

2010-10-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/19/10 12:34 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: go url http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/timesettings.rev; Exactly perfect! Just want I wanted. Last night I was thinking about making a clock like that. You just saved me some work. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: animated gif bug?

2010-10-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/19/10 11:55 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: No, I want it to animate. On my stack it doesn't. That's fine. Thanks for the test. I'll keep trying to figure out what's wrong. Just to chime in here, I have an animated gif in a group and it's working okay too, whether editing or not. --

Re: Time pickers

2010-10-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/19/10 11:21 AM, BNig wrote: Jaque, I liked Scott's timesetting so much that I added a little functionality to it. I wanted the sliders to push each other for less clicking. See this thread: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/How-to-enter-a-time-of-day-td1562955.html#a1567339

Time pickers

2010-10-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
I've seen a lot of calendar pickers around but not a time picker. I've seen a reference to Eric Chatonet's timepicker stack but I don't see it at the web site. Has anyone rolled one of these? And in general, how do you manage time entries when you need to be sure they follow a particular

Re: dragData[files] question

2010-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/17/10 1:34 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: Hi Klaus, Duh! Getting tired, or old, or both! But even correcting the read-only as you point out, setting the dragData[files] fails to update the array. Will continue to ponder, but it appears not to be settable. I think you can only set the

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/16/10 12:28 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Hello List: Just sharing a little excitement on the release of my first mobile app: PLEXXR -- a stylish puzzle game for Apple's iPad. Scott, this is so exciting! Exciting on a couple of different levels. First, for you and your success in creating

Re: [OT] First Mobile App Released

2010-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/16/10 2:14 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Oct 16, 2010, at 2:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: And second, exciting for LiveCode. One of our apps got accepted to the Apple Store, which means very good things for all of us. I know that Scott's one is GameSalad, but as a point of interest

Re: Free Scribe Assist made in Rev

2010-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/16/10 3:00 AM, Olivier Dussutour wrote: Hello, I have update to LiveCode 4.5 under Win XP and my program with a command record sound doesn't work When I open it under revolution it works very well!?! An idea? Can you help me or explain me what I can do? I'm french and beginner so write

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 7:20 AM, André Bisseret wrote: That's confirmed by results of researches in Ergonomics Dark text on light background combination are recommanded; among these kinds of combinations the black on white one brings the best legibility (and users' judgement of pleasantness).

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 12:40 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Jacqi, forgive me for questioning/doubting you, but I really have trouble believing that, what with the literally thousands of scripts I wrote in HC over a period of nearly 20 years. I just don't remember having to strip commas from words when

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 1:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: One customer of an unnamed app has threatened to sue the company for breaking accessibility laws. I'm not sure how successful they would be, but I'm all for it. That wasn't the LiveCode installer, was it? ;) No. But as I said

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 1:29 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond. This is the second time I have done this. I need more rest. Or maybe he should just change his name. I know I've asked a few of the Marks on this list to do that. None of them took me up on it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 11:28 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: About the constant command that Phil used in his process gadget. What does it do that a variable does not? I see it cannot be altered in the same handler, and I see that it can overRide a built-in constant, which might be useful. Anyone ever come up

Re: Color contrast [was: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline]

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 12:35 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: As for light grey on dark grey, I find it much less abbrasive on the eye than black on white for a user interface but I would not want to read a book using it. My current app development uses such a color scheme and reports so far are positive.

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 2:19 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Oct 14, 2010, at 1:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/14/10 1:29 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond. This is the second time I have done this. I need more rest. Or maybe he should just change his name. I know I've asked a few of the Marks

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 3:06 PM, Phil Davis wrote: On 10/14/10 12:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I almost never use constants inside a handler, but that's just personal style. Me neither. But...but...oh, never mind. ;) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Michael Kristensen wrote: How do I avoid the repetition of the keyDown message? You'll need to set up a send structure that checks the keysdown(). Something like this: on keydown pkey if pkey = f then doTheFlipping send checkKey to me in 0 else pass keydown end if end

Re: Clipboard in version 4.0

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/13/10 9:57 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: I recently experimented with upgrading to 4.0, but was not succesful. It turns out that version 2.6.1 can access items from the clipboard that 4.0 cannot access. Two things happen - for copying from some webpages, the clipboard appears empty in 4.0 but

Re: Clipboard in version 4.0

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/13/10 10:53 AM, Jonathan Lynch wrote: Thanks J, Unfortunately, I have tried using different elements of the clipboard array already. When I copy the webpage in question (GPHIN, a restricted-access site), it returns empty on all elements of the clipboardarray in 4.0, but works fine in

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/13/10 2:27 PM, Richmond wrote: This, along with my way of doing the same thing should show you how flexible LiveCode is, and how there is almost always more than one way to do things. Yup. Only I hate to say it, but Pierre's was much faster. ;) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/13/10 4:33 PM, Michael Kristensen wrote: Hi Thanks for the reply's I m sorry to report that neither flushEvents(autoKey) flushEvents(all) or Jacquelines script: on keydown pkey if pkey = f then doTheFlipping send checkKey to me in 0 else pass keydown end if end keydown command

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/13/10 5:34 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: However, have you tried Jim Lambert's suggestion of using the keyUp event? AFAIK, LiveCode processes auto-repeating keys (at least on Mac) as repeated keyDown events; but it only sends a keyUp event when the key is released. If you're right I'll be

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/14/10 12:01 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Jim, Thanks for the info. If this be the case, LC is really screwing around with things that could break MANY applications. I think I'll stay away from LC if this is an example of what is now being done to REV. Who is the crazy loon who decided

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/11/10 6:27 AM, Len Morgan wrote: I think what Richmond was after was a message that get's sent when he presses the shift key, not detecting when it's down. The only way that comes to mind would be a front script that captured the keydown/keyup or rawkeys messages, check for the shift key

Re: SHIFTy thoughts

2010-10-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/11/10 1:56 PM, Richmond wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions, although they all seem rather abstruse for simply toggling the visibility of an image. At present I am toggling with F-12 (which puts some people's noses out of joint, hence proposal to use SHIFT): By default, OS X

Re: [ANN] slotmachine iPhone was scrolling wheel

2010-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/10 9:53 AM, roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: On 10/10/2010 at 01:53 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: How about a nice list control now, that bounces at the top and bottom? I think a lot of us could use one of those too. :) Scott Rossi made one in December of 2009: http://www.mail

Re: [ANN] slotmachine iPhone was scrolling wheel

2010-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/10 4:47 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: On 10/10/2010 19:16, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think the best repository would be the one provided by RunRev -- RevOnline. Everyone has access to that and sharing stacks and code is its main intention. That may be its main intention- but it does

Re: RevOnline (Was: Re: [ANN] slotmachine iPhone was scrolling wheel]

2010-10-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/10/10 5:30 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: It currently has 225 entries, in about 90 categories (I guess they're tags, not categories, I think). Which tag would I use to find, say, Scott's scrolling list ? (OK, I'd start with Awesome, but after that, I'm not sure :-) Mobile I guess. Or Rossi.

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