Property profiles apparently broken in LiveCode 4.5

2010-10-13 Thread David Beck
Hello, Something has apparently changed from 4.0.0 to 4.5 that has badly broken some logic in one of my stacks that use property profiles. It looks like the behavior of revSetCardProfile may have changed. The stack works as expected in 4.0.0 but is broken in 4.5. Has anybody else

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, I wrote: I have recently begun to struggle again with a simple text editor project and it seems when the contents of a field are selected via script (select text of fld 1), no selectionChanged message is sent. On a related note, how do folks handle maintaining text selections? I

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Monte Goulding
Hey Scott I currently have text formatting controls in a palette There's got to be an easier way. Are you sure you are using a palette? This should work without you doing anything? Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding Software Development Bespoke application development for vertical

Re: [ANN] Data Grid Helper - What is it? - Text rewrote

2010-10-13 Thread JosepM
Nice! -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Data-Grid-Helper-What-is-it-Text-rewrote-tp2970457p2993429.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-revolution mailing

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Monte Goulding wrote: I currently have text formatting controls in a palette There's got to be an easier way. Are you sure you are using a palette? This should work without you doing anything? Um, yes, I'm pretty sure that palette stack xyz sets the stack's style to palette...

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have done set the rect of stack xyz to the screen rect. With Gnome this floats the stack above but touching the task bar, as with all apps meximized, with no overlap. With Fluxbox, the task bar is overlappng and over the stack which occupies the whole screen, and this happens with all apps.

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: I am not quite sure how to answer this: 1. I am running Ubuntu 10.10 Moronic Meerkat that has had its GUI hacked about a bit insofar as I have an AVANT WINDOW NAVIGATOR set up rather like the Mac OS X dock along the bottom of my desktop, and a DOCKY on the right-handside of my

Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread Michael Kristensen
Hi there I want to flip a graphic while key F is down and when it is released the graphic shall flip back again. if it was a mouseDown handler it would go like this: on mouseDown put the points of graphic into oldPoints DoTheFlipping wait while the mouse is down

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Monte Goulding wrote: I currently have text formatting controls in a palette There's got to be an easier way. Are you sure you are using a palette? This should work without you doing anything? Um, yes, I'm pretty sure that palette stack xyz sets the stack's

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread Richmond
On 10/13/2010 04:35 PM, Michael Kristensen wrote: Hi there I want to flip a graphic while key F is down and when it is released the graphic shall flip back again. if it was a mouseDown handler it would go like this: on mouseDown put the points of graphic into oldPoints

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Maybe you van use 'flushEvents'? Check the dictionary for this. Greetings, William 2010/10/13 Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com:  On 10/13/2010 04:35 PM, Michael Kristensen wrote: Hi there I want to flip a graphic while key F is down and when it is released the graphic

Clipboard in version 4.0

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Hello :) I have a question regarding the clipboard in version 4.0. We have a number of applications that I created that we use in my workplace. They are run using an executable file created from version 2.6.1. I recently experimented with upgrading to 4.0, but was not succesful. It turns out

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 Jonathan Lynch
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 2.6.1. Also, for the second problem I listed, the

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: Clipboard in version 4.0

2010-10-13 Thread Jonathan Lynch
This problem only occurs on some web pages, but not most. Unfortunately, I am restricted to using IE as my browser at work, and I have to access these particular web pages. I am just baffled by it working in 2.6.1 and not in 4.0. Both engines use a clipboard array. \ I might be able to kludge

[ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I've decided to share my little RPN Calculator on RevOnline. http://revonline2.runrev.com/download/stack/518/RPN-Calc It is quite simple and it has a minimalistic stack (the data structure, not the file format) implementation on the stack script. I am quite fond of this little piece. It

Re: Property profiles apparently broken in LiveCode 4.5

2010-10-13 Thread stephen barncard
I've never really understood how profiles are supposed work - On a this list a few months ago property profiles were discussed, and I got the feeling there were very few people that actually used these special properties. What would they be used for, Language changes? Skinning? what is the

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes this is right, it does it with flux on Debian also. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/WindowBoundingRect-in-Linux-tp2993052p2994115.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Richmond
On 10/13/2010 08:41 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Yes this is right, it does it with flux on Debian also. What does what with flux: I always thought 'flux' was some sort of intestinal disorder suffered by Jacobeans . . . :) a bit like 'pox' you know; or is that a Window Manager now as well?

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread Jim Lambert
Try this? on keydown pkey if pkey = f then DoTheFlipping end if pass keydown end keydown on keyUp pkey if pkey = f then DoThe_UN_Flipping end if pass keyUp end keyUp Jim Lambert ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Yay! 19 downloads in 1 hour! :-D if anyone has any feedback, please send tell me! On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Folks, I've decided to share my little RPN Calculator on RevOnline. http://revonline2.runrev.com/download/stack/518/RPN-Calc It is

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
if you guys want to go crazy with window managers check out suckless.org specifically wmii and dwm also check awesome window manager On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 10/13/2010 08:41 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Yes this is right, it does it with

List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
Hi, How can I list every word from a textarea? put any word of field - show any word, but exists some every word? Thank you, Raz. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Richmond
On 10/13/2010 09:57 PM, Razvan Pantescu wrote: Hi, How can I list every word from a textarea? put any word of field - show any word, but exists some every word? Thank you, Raz. Wow; at least one other LiveCode / RunRev programmer in the Balkans; there's hope yet! How far north of the

RE: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
I've started to study Livecode, don't know too much of it. I'm living about 250km north of Danube (Focsani, Romania) So any suggestions so I can read or list all the words from a Textarea? Thanks, Raz. Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:59:55 +0300 From: richmondmathew...@gmail.com To:

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Given the past thread about rounding errors in Revolution, do you use a method for dealing with this? That alone would make the stack invaluable for someone wanting to do accounting type functions. (like me) Bob On Oct 13, 2010, at 10:18 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Folks, I've decided to

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
Welcome to LiveCode Raz ! on mouseup repeat for each word w in fld myfield put w cr after mywordslist end repeat answer mywordslist end mouseup HTH, Best, Pierre Le 13 oct. 2010 à 21:06, Razvan Pantescu a écrit : I've started to study Livecode,

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Bob, no, I do not solve that, I just use that stack for simple calculations usually only integers and every now and then some floats. Never reached any limit. When you say rounding error, you mean the way it errors when doing math with some very fine precision such as 5 decimals? or you mean

RE: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
Merci Beaucoup Pierre!! It works fine, Raz. From: psaho...@free.fr Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:18:37 +0200 To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com CC: Subject: Re: List Words from Textarea Welcome to LiveCode Raz ! on mouseup repeat for each word w in fld myfield

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Richmond
On 10/13/2010 10:06 PM, Razvan Pantescu wrote: I've started to study Livecode, don't know too much of it. I'm living about 250km north of Danube (Focsani, Romania) So any suggestions so I can read or list all the words from a Textarea? I set up a stack with 2 fields: 1. field targetTEXT

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Richmond
On 10/13/2010 10:24 PM, Razvan Pantescu wrote: Merci Beaucoup Pierre!! It works fine, Raz. From: psaho...@free.fr Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 21:18:37 +0200 To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com CC: Subject: Re: List Words from Textarea Welcome to LiveCode Raz ! on mouseup repeat for

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well there was a thread a while back where someone doing floating point math was getting the wrong results. I don't remember what the exact circumstances were, but it gave me pause, as some were saying that this was inherent with software that did computations with floating point math, and that

RE: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
Hey Richmond, I wanted to do your version, but I had some issues with sintax. Thank you for your help anyway. Raz. Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:27:26 +0300 From: richmondmathew...@gmail.com To: use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: List Words from Textarea On 10/13/2010 10:24

Stop Rolling Loop

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
Hi again, I've made a script that starts listing every 5 seconds some URLs onclick a Start button, but I want to stop listing in any moment pushing a Stop button. There is some break or exit function for that. I've noticed that any other buttons are disabled while looping. Thank you, Raz.

Re: Stop Rolling Loop

2010-10-13 Thread wayne durden
Hello Razvan Pantescu, This is where you need to use the wait 0 milliseconds with messages item which was recently discussed on the list. Put the wait with messages inside the loop and it will detect interface events like clicks on other buttons. Then you will need a section to check some

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread DunbarX
Andre. Andre. As a reverse Polish afficionado from the days of the HP-35, I have to tell you that the following sequence fails: 1- Key in a 6 2- Enter 3- Key in a 5 4- Key in - (minus) In an RPN calculator, the enter key terminates data entry, and the next argument (or operand) is loaded for

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Craig, I debated with myself for some time today regarding the minus sign. The best solution is having two buttons one for changing the sign and other for the operation. Right now, my minus button will behave like this: (1) if there is a text that is on the entry field which is the buffer place

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread DunbarX
Andre. I see what you intended. I really think you should follow the HP standard, with a separate change sign key. Keep the faith... I still have my HP-35. Got it in 1971, I think. I use an HP-41 now. Wouldn't think of anything else. Craig ___

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 5:29 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Andre. I see what you intended. I really think you should follow the HP standard, with a separate change sign key. Keep the faith... I will, but it will break my layout.. :-) next revision I will add it along with some other tidbits.

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread DunbarX
Andre. A switch button, (that reverses the contents of the X and Y registers)? A rollDown button (like a shift register through x,y,z and t)? The RPN ease and beauty is resident in the enter key, and the four arithmetic operator keys. The switch and Roll keys help, because they do a little

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Craig, Just added a new revision to RevOnline, now there is a negate button and the minus sign behave as expected (by executing the operation) the switch and rolldown button would depend on me having registers which I don't right now. There is swp which swaps the last two entries in the stack.

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread DunbarX
Andre. The whole point of registers is that data entry is naturally terminated by either an enter or an operator. The data is loaded, and waits for the user to command it. This is unlike an algebraic (or operator prefix) system where the operator is entered between the operands, and therefore

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Craig, I see... the thing about X,Y,Z,T is that some HP calculators have only 4 stacked register with some tricks with X,Y and T always rolling. My little stack is limited only by the memory available. I am trying to shoehorn the rolling T right now... I just read http://www.hpmuseum.org/rpn.htm

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread Michael Kristensen
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 checkKey if 102 is in

RE: Stop Rolling Loop

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
Hi Wayne, Thank you for your suggestions. I've done that using in loop this line: wait 5 seconds with messages and next tested in loop if a global variable was set with 0 in Stop button. It works fine now, Thank you! Raz. Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 15:54:19 -0400 From:

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread DunbarX
Andre. All four registers, x,y, z and t are identical, and reside in a single LIFO stack: T Z Y X X is the register that is visible. The upper ones are above it, take a tiny bit of getting used to, and then unleash their power. One enters data from the keyboard into x. Enter simply says:

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Alex Tweedly
Welcome Raz. Pierre's script gives you one good answer. When I read your email, I assumed you wanted to list each word - but avoid duplicates. To do that, you would change the script slightly, to on mouseup set the wholeMatches to true repeat for each word w in fld myfield

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Monte Goulding
Um, yes, I'm pretty sure that palette stack xyz sets the stack's style to palette... :-) I thought you might know that ;-) But you got me thinking, I am trying to maintain the user's selection after the text has been styled, and it seems that even the LiveCode IDE doesn't do this

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread Vokey, John
I still have (and use) my HP-25C and my HP-48G+ . I prefer the 25C to the 48G+ for most simple programming tasks. I also have a perfect emulator of the HP-25C for OS X that I picked up a few years back. It is my main calculator on the mac. I can't find it on the internet anymore, but I will

[ANN] DGH 1.0.2 - An issue with Script Builder fixed

2010-10-13 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear LiveCode users, By working on new features in DGH, I found an issue in the DGH's Script builder. In some case the Script Builder could loose the link with its dictionary and then generate empty scripts. This issue is fixed in the 1.0.2 version. Script Builder is the way in DGH to generate

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 13/10/2010 22:33, Michael Kristensen wrote: Thanks for the reply's I m sorry to report that neither .. or ... ...did have any effect on stopping the repeated keyDown. I don't think you can stop the repeated keyDown; the OS will keep sending the keyDown events, LiveCode will keep

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: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-13 Thread stephen barncard
except '*dup*' - ha On 13 October 2010 14:44, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Andre. All four registers, x,y, z and t are identical, and reside in a single LIFO stack: T Z Y X X is the register that is visible. The upper ones are above it, take a tiny bit of getting used to, and then unleash

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: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Here's one from the LiveCode Resource Center included in the product (in the RC see Tutorials - Text -Listing all the unique words in a piece of text): function uniqueWordsOf theString repeat for each word thisWord in theString add 1 to wordsList[thisWord] -- array variable end repeat

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 Jim Lambert
Razvan wrote: How can I list every word from a textarea? First, welcome Razvan! In addition to Pierres and Richmond's suggestions, here's a few: function getWordList someText replace space with cr in someText return someText end getWordList function getUniqueWordList

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I do like wmii, but what I keep coming back to for everyday use is Fluxbox, and some of the time ion2. Mostly Fluxbox feels very intuitive and plain. I agree the suckless people are very interesting. -- View this message in context:

Re: Flipping graphic with a Key

2010-10-13 Thread James Hurley
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Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Jim Ault
Caution with this solution. The definition of a 'word' for LiveCode is not what you would normally think. Spaces are not the only white space, and punctuation that is attached to the word is included as part of a word. On Oct 13, 2010, at 4:30 PM, Jim Lambert wrote: Razvan wrote: How

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
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 to do this? VERY un-HyperTalkish! Joe

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: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
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 parsing and sorting text. If you say so, but why

Re: determining if user has shell access

2010-10-13 Thread Monte Goulding
No ideas anyone? How is it possible to determine if shell access is available? One of my apps is being run where the command line is restricted on Windows and shell calls aren't being returned. I think this is a bug in the engine in that a call to shell should return Error: no shell access

RE: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Razvan Pantescu
Thank you guys to all of you for help sugeestions. The basic idea was to enter on a Textarea some URLs, clicking on a Start Button to open in that application to every 15 seconds every URL from that list. Clicking on a Stop button, to stop that process. First part I've made it with your