Re: The New FRelease

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
failed to turn up anything I recognize. What is it? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Cloning cards

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
/saving_data_in_revolution.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: Cloning cards

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Error: the result exit to top end if put MyDocumentName.myExtension after tPath return tPath end MyDataPath The above is off-the-cuff and untested, but I've written similar handlers often so hopefully it will be at least mostly working and somewhat helpful. :) -- Richard

Re: Cloning cards

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
, either is just a single line of code. The long part of my post was a function to help with the thing either method will still need: where to save the file in a place you know will be user-writable. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Create button script won't work - why?

2010-11-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
, but not with a new control using the create command. Go figure -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

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

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
understand that opening the stack invisibly first will greatly improve performance. Monte, thanks again for your test. Most illuminating. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
will have me making an iPad app -- I hope for my client's sake that the SDK terms remain stable enough to allow a positive ROI on that investment). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
to create a public domain behavior script for field objects to provide data validation and masking. Feel free to jump in. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
of the code to hone in on where the performance is lost? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: So it seems that the overhead of resolving absolute object references (long form) is much higher than what the engine can do when you're able to hard-wire part of the reference (e.g., ...of card id tID

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
by their long name - oh joy! Hopefully we'll be able to find a different root cause than the current apparent one, maybe one that requires less work to remedy. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
to migrate that to a separate stack file anyway since the OS doesn't allow executables to modify themselves. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
it in memory was valuable may not like it, but I'll be quite happy indeed. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
by the need to resolve the path to a stack reference. How can this test be modified to show a greater difference? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
to anticipate, but very good to know. So Peter has a solution, and I learned two new things today about performance. A good day... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
got this working so I can continue. But still be warned and prepared to deal with the ID 0 problems you may encounter. What are the ID 0 problems? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
this bug is not easy to reproduce or we'd be seeing reports of DG failures. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Saving/importing custom controls to/from file

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
, for instance. I copy between Rev and MC regularly since native object persistence in the public Clipboard was implemented. But why especially useful for RevMobile? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
if sCurBusyCursor the number of items of sCustomBusyCursors then put 1 into sCurBusyCursor end if -- Do the deed: set the cursor to (item sCurBusyCursor of sCustomBusyCursors) end SetCustomBusyCursor -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Indenting Challenge

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
The firstIndent property of the field can be set to a negative number, but that would only take care of one level of indenting. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: Saving/importing custom controls to/from file

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Terry Judd wrote: On 9/11/10 11:51 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: Terry Judd wrote: Seems like it might be a bit simpler if I can suck an object straight out of a networked database onto the clipboard and paste it when and where I want it. Easier to update/maintain

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
with messages -- allow redraw end if end ShowProgress on EndProgress set the thumbpos of sb progress to the endValue of sb progress hide sb progress end EndProgress -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
:) end SetupProgress ...should be: on SetupProgress pMax set the startValue of sb progress to 0 set the endValue of sb progress to pMax set the thumbpos of sb progress to 0 show sb progress -- fixed end SetupProgress Thanks Jim! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

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

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
for Mac was inside the bundle - when did this change? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Painfully slow performance

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
this discussion reveals. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

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

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
will not be able to get at the system files. That can be done on Mac and Win, but few users bother and neither OS vendor does very much to educate their customers about why it's valuable. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

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

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
think that if such stories were true many - including the FBI - would be well motivated to corroborate. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: Escape key doesn't work with fullScreen?

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 10/31/2010 12:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: While testing a presentation stack I noticed that the escapeKey message doesn't seem to be sent while the stack is in fullscreen mode, though it works as expected otherwise. Is this a known feature/issue? Or am I doing something

Re; Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
, or is this just a case of false attribution of the root cause on my part? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
use cases for SQLite. There are some database vendors that in their EULAs state you cannot publish performance data, and also have sued some who have done so. A curious limitation. Which ones? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
unauthorized benchmarking, and most other vendors followed suit. ... http://www.sqlmag.com/article/benchmarks/the-truth-about-the-tpc.aspx -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Escape key doesn't work with fullScreen?

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
While testing a presentation stack I noticed that the escapeKey message doesn't seem to be sent while the stack is in fullscreen mode, though it works as expected otherwise. Is this a known feature/issue? Or am I doing something wrong? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
haven't come across real-world usage stories of data sets that large. Should I be confident in SQLite as a storage solution for that? Should I be scared? Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with large data sets if SQLite. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Stuart wrote: on Fri Oct 29 19:17:40 CDT 2010, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with large data sets if SQLite. Hi Richard, How many tables and how many columns per table (on average) are you talking about? Probably just a single table, with about

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Bl**dy Laptop Keyboards

2010-10-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
) to trigger the Return key code (Fn = Function). I find that too annoying to do, so I've been redesigning some apps to eliminate distinctions between the two keys. Yep, it isn't what I'd prefer but it's where we are. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond asked: This of course leads to the inevitable question: if all computer people eventually grow horns where does that leave Kevin Miller, You and Me Imps. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
robust and does a good job of automatically handling differences between OSes, but is made to appear more complicated than it needs to be by these anomalies. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Community request: Calling all screenshots!

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
to include it. Feel free to include additional screen shots of details if you feel they add substantially to an understanding of your app's story. Thanks in advance for your help. Looks like it'll be a fun conference. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
unimaginable a year or two from now: http://livecodejournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1287696062.654893 As a developer that's frightening, but as a shareholder I would expect nothing less. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

[OT] LaunchPad is a registered trademark - of Canonical Inc.

2010-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
the one RunRev uses. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution

Re:

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
/article_info.php?articles_id=9 While the System 76 office is in Colorado (where MetaCard was born) they have affiliates you can send your request to in more than a dozen countries worldwide, so you can get your Powered by Ubuntu stickers easily from anywhere in the world. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

RE: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
, Stanley Milgram, and others portray a complexity in human nature that may be too multidimensional for such rational optimism. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: On-Rev File Browser Upload Dialog

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: I think there is a simple question to ask - Do I get to own or have access to the registration data for users of my product? Is there anyone here with apps in the current iOS App Store who can answer that? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: Do I get to own or have access to the registration data for users of my product? Is there anyone here with apps in the current iOS App Store who can answer that? As far as I can tell, no, they only offer tools/Web pages that display

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
as the conduit between loyal Mac users and loyal Max developers for more than a decade, will be seen as some sort of ghetto experience. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: (no subject)

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: What in the world is this? Our first spambot. Already blocked by the ISP (t35.com -- good work). Looks like we're officially in the big time now. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ ambassa

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Is the the future of what our customers will see at our software sites? http://livecodejournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1287696062.654893 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
and safety as they can. Remember that iPhone users report that they like having that sort of stewardship, and many believe that being able to choose their own software from their own download sites is completely undesirable. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: On-Rev File Browser Upload Dialog

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
: - put $QUERY_STRING into gCGIDataInA split gCGIDataInA by and = repeat for each line tKey in the keys of gCGIDataInA put urlDecode(gCGIDataInA[tKey]) into gCGIDataInA[tKey] end repeat end if end _cgiGetInput -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Franklin Audio Intro Pricing Ends Soon; New Testable Too!

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
the warranty is gone, I'm free to mod at will. :) I was buying Dells for the Church up till I learned that little tidbit. Now it's HP's I think. I like HPs too. A couple of their models are very attractive, and apparently they offer the same OS-free option through their business sales. -- Richard

Re:

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
, order the parts, and you only bring in your machine when the parts arrive to bring your downtown as close to zero as possible. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
able to find out whether they want to pay me. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
? It's hard to imagine they could be so Draconian. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: RUG Meeting Tomorrow in Southern California

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
time. 7:00PM in Glendale, open to any locals who want to attend. Come early at 6:00PM and join us for dinner. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: on-rev remote database

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
you recap exactly what the implementation differences are? I'll bet there's a way to do what you need with good performance. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: on-rev remote database

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
? And can you recap exactly what the implementation differences are? I'll bet there's a way to do what you need with good performance. Also: How inherently relational is the data? There are so many data storage options these days -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: on-rev remote database

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
breathe easier now. Relax and enjoy your unlimited databases. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Franklin Audio Intro Pricing Ends Soon; New Testable Too!

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
and solid construction of the machine. I got that one second-hand, but now that I know how to get OS-less computers from Dell my next one will probably be from them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
challenging, at least conceptually in some cases, is working with quoted strings, which are treated as a single word no matter how many words are between the quotes. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
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? ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Once you create the constant it is accessible in all scripts. Unless Malte's request was implemented recently, I believe constants are available only to the script they're defined in: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5135 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: I almost never use constants inside a handler, but that's just personal style. Me neither. In the rare cases when I do it tends to be for relatively minor settings that I won't bother making a UI for. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
wonder how many people these days have even seen a physical carriage? g). Maybe this is why it only occurs to you to consider revising code after reading something on this list: Maybe the code actually runs just fine as it is. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
and dontSearch, dontRefresh, and all the other dont* properties that you have to set to true to get it to not do something, and the most bizzare of all, being able to use property syntax (the) for function calls, but only with some functions and not others. Ah, the mysteries -- Richard Gaskin

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
to get this to work I'd be most grateful. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
in the toolbar is set to false. When that property is true, the button gets focus when it's clicked, causing the selection to be lost. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
return the keys of wordsList -- the list of words end uniqueWordsOf -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: SHIFT, fn-KEY, Confusion on a Mac

2010-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Not all that funny really . . . But this is quite useful: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 All your keys are belong to us! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Have any of you found a way to have a Rev stack's maximize button honor the windowBoundingRect in Ubuntu or any other Linux? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Plug-ins missing

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
set my plugins directory in LiveCode Prefs, but re-launch LC it seems it doesn't find them - none appear in the Plugins menu, only the default ones. Is this a known issue, or is there something odd with my installation? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: Plug-ins missing

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: On 6 October 2010 10:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've set my plugins directory in LiveCode Prefs, but re-launch LC it seems it doesn't find them - none appear in the Plugins menu, only the default ones. Is this a known issue, or is there something odd with my

Distinguishing between ASCII and UTF8

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
values in them (like the dagger symbol). What patterns should I be looking for in the binary data of a file to distinguish UTF8 from plain text? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Distinguishing between ASCII and UTF8

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeff, Dave, Peter: thank you! Good stuff - I think I'll be able to distinguish most files using those. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http

Re: Revlets make Safari to crash on Mac OS X 10.6.4!?

2010-10-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
have to wait for OS X 10.6.5 to fix them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
this the whole time Nice! It hadn't occurred to me to put the entire array notation string into a variable. And it avoids the performance penalty of do -- good stuff. Thanks! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers

Re: Launch app from MacOSX system bar

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
do not be afraid to try it out as we need feedback to develop it further. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
the learning curve. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use

Re: Getting line endings straight.

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
scripts out there that rely on ASCII 13 when on Mac. How many Mac programs don't render ASCII 13 line endings correctly? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal

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

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Corporation of Redmond, WA as the former mark registrant, first filed November 24, 1997 and canceled March 14, 2009: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=docstate=4005:cuudsn.3.2 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

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

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
/index.jsp 2. Click the link labeled Basic Word Mark Search (New User) 3. Once on the Search page, type livecode in the field provided and that'll produce the list of results. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
of me to Howdy! end mouseUp Is there a way to make that a one-liner using array notation? I know we can do it with hard-wired propset names like this: set the gaskin[richard] of me to Howdy! But how can we do it where the propset name is a variable? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: iPad's competitor from RIM

2010-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
/440092/cut-copy-where-im-going/mp3s/ Also available for free in iTunes (see track 8): http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cut-copy-where-im-going/id377487166?i=85256575 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers

Re: Read from file not working 4.5?

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
paths relative to the application stack in both the IDE and in a standalone: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2002-September/002553.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
then DoSomethingCool end if end uMyProp It can be tempting to use getProp and setProp in places where more controllable and concise function and command calls can work well as accessors, but when you need 'em they're handy to have available. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
... In fact, nothing more than the send in time in LiveCode can do. And more elegantly. cron can also be useful for that, at least for OS X and Linux. What is the command-line equivalent of cron on Windows? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
occurred! exit monitorSlave end if end repeat send “monitorSlave” to me in 50 millisecs end monitorSlave -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

Re: Which stack called the library stack ?

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Dixon wrote: How can I find out which stack called a library stack from the script of the library stack ? The executionContexts will return a list of the calling chain. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: I feel betrayed

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
good news. A similar sentiment was posted in the forums recently, so it would be useful to have the URL to whatever info you have on the scholarship program. Thanks - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers

[OT] test

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sorry for the seeming waste of bandwidth, but I need to verify something about the format of these list archives so please ignore this email. From here to there From here to there From here to there and From here to there Back to your regularly-scheduled LiveCode discussion -- Richard

SoCal Rev User Group meeting: Thursday night

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
. Early birds can meet at 6PM at Porto's restaurant across the street to share a meal. Details and directions: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/socalrev/ Hope to see you there - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Relevant backlinks, keyword-based domains, domain longevity, appropriate keyword richness, and consistent keyword usage in backlinks help make that happen. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com

Re: Online Snippets library

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
and find yourself saying, Wow, he thought of that too! Hugh took the time to draft a brief article about it for LiveCode Journal (formerly RevJournal): http://www.livecodejournal.com/features/scripters-scrapbook.html -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
+application+development -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailing list use

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
abandoned open source and Linux altogether, and no distro ships with it as its default choice (I don't think any even include it). It's a nice work, but I'm not sure it's the best choice for testing standards. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

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