Re: Suffixes Rename_Anomaly - Renaming batch files in Livecode

2010-12-11 Thread Mike Bonner
Found it. In your data box, put your cursor between the . and the i in delphi (track 12). Hit delete. Twice to get rid of the i then retype the i and it'll work. Is this another example of a unicode problem or something of that nature? All the files on the right (at the start) are this way, and fi

Re: Suffixes Rename_Anomaly - Renaming batch files in Livecode

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, stephen barncard wrote: > So no one here has used *rename* lately? I have a renaming stack that I made ages ago for bulk renaming files. It still seems to work as expected. When I try your stack and follow your instructions, pressing the blue button adds a "not found" label to each it

Re: Suffixes Rename_Anomaly - Renaming batch files in Livecode

2010-12-11 Thread stephen barncard
So no one here has used *rename* lately? On 11 December 2010 16:03, stephen barncard wrote: > Hi Gang. > > This one has me baffled. Head against desk for a while. > > please load my test stack with > > go stack URL "http://fulton.barncard.com/bugz/multilineRenameBug.rev"; > > > (It only creates

Re: glx2

2010-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:42:08 PM, you wrote: Is there any documentation for glx2 anywhere? I already like some of the obvious features in it but I'm guessing there's other stuff I don;t know about. Jerry had a site on ning, but I see it's gone now. I don't know if an

Re: glx2

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:42:08 PM, you wrote: > Is there any documentation for glx2 anywhere? I already like some of > the obvious features in it but I'm guessing there's other stuff I > don;t know about. Jerry had a site on ning, but I see it's gone now. I don't know if any of it g

Re: Accessing HTTP Web Services with LiveCode

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Hey Todd- Friday, December 10, 2010, 12:24:58 PM, you wrote: > I am trying to understand if LiveCode could be used to access many of todays > plain HTTP based or RESTful web services that are out there. I like using > these services, but I am still not very efficient at building UIs in HTML > /CS

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
Haven't yet had a chance to try it out properly, but one initial response ... the home page has these annoying flashing/fading keywords - which are light grey on white background and very hard to see and read before they fade completely. OS X, Chrome 8.0.552.215, Macbook Pro. (Or supply ey

Re: How to select image object instead of group

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
OK yes, in your case, the image should reside outside the group, and the sharedText property should be disabled for the field/s. Cloning the card should work fine. Again a strong reason to use groups is because you need one instance of something across multiple cards, which will work for the fiel

Re: How to select image object instead of group

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Pepperdine
I was unaware of the group behavior that if I changed the image on one card, I would change the image on all cards containing that group. To answer your question, I am after multiple images across multiple cards. The user experience I'm after is for the user to click a button "Create New card

Suffixes Rename_Anomaly - Renaming batch files in Livecode

2010-12-11 Thread stephen barncard
Hi Gang. This one has me baffled. Head against desk for a while. please load my test stack with go stack URL "http://fulton.barncard.com/bugz/multilineRenameBug.rev"; (It only creates suffixed files in a folder that you create or point to after clicking a button.) I am renaming files like thi

Re: Something strange with On-Rev

2010-12-11 Thread Alex Tweedly
That's just the way "ls -l" works . if the modification date is a while ago, words 6 - 8 contain the date, month and year if the modification date is recent enough, words 6 - 8 contain the date, month and time e.g. drwx--+ 26 alextweedly staff 884 7 Dec 22:52 Desktop drwx-

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread David Bovill
On 11 December 2010 20:02, BNig wrote: > > If you mean to automatically capture a stream to a folder: that I don't > know > how to do. > Yes - it just makes sense to do this - say if you have a 10 minute video. Can watch streaming when you want, that is watch while it is downloading. Think this

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread pepetoo
I often use it as a item delimiter and on my MacPro keyboard it is Shift backslash, the last key to the right in the third row from the top. Joe Wilkins Colin Holgate wrote: > > On Dec 11, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: > > > ...I'd recommend PopChar for Mac - any character is ju

Re: exists

2010-12-11 Thread Richmond
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RE: exists

2010-12-11 Thread Damien Girard
Exists if for Livecode objects, to check the presence of a file use "there is". if there is "ABC.jpg" then -- do something end if Kind Regards, Damien Girard NativeSoft, France. -Message d'origine- De : use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com]

Re: exists

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Richmond wrote: > I wonder why this does NOT work: > > if exists(file: "ABC.jpg") is true then > ---do something > end if > > how do I check if a file is present or not? I use this form: if there is a file "filepath.jpg" then -- do something end if Regards, Scott Rossi C

Re: exists

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, December 11, 2010, 2:54:03 PM, you wrote: > how do I check if a file is present or not? if there is a file "ABC.jpg" then -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

exists

2010-12-11 Thread Richmond
I wonder why this does NOT work: if exists(file: "ABC.jpg") is true then ---do something end if how do I check if a file is present or not? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe a

Re: Concatenating 2 stacks.

2010-12-11 Thread Richmond
On 12/11/2010 11:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/11/10 3:04 PM, Richmond wrote: I have 2 main stacks that I want to combine into 1 stack, the 2 stacks following each other sequentially. But I don't know how to do this. There's no automatic way. Grunts! You have to copy the cards of sta

Re: Concatenating 2 stacks.

2010-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/11/10 3:04 PM, Richmond wrote: I have 2 main stacks that I want to combine into 1 stack, the 2 stacks following each other sequentially. But I don't know how to do this. There's no automatic way. You have to copy the cards of stack 2 and paste them at the end of stack 1. If you have a l

Concatenating 2 stacks.

2010-12-11 Thread Richmond
I have 2 main stacks that I want to combine into 1 stack, the 2 stacks following each other sequentially. But I don't know how to do this. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and ma

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 11, 2010, at 3:51 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...I'd recommend PopChar for Mac - any character is just a click away. Alternately you can go to Keyboard in System Preferences, and check the box that says "Show Keyboard & Character Viewer in menu bar". That's how I figured out the keys to u

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread Keith Clarke
...I'd recommend PopChar for Mac - any character is just a click away. On 11 Dec 2010, at 19:11, André Bisseret wrote: > > Le 11 déc. 2010 à 18:27, David C. a écrit : > >> On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, André Bisseret >> wrote: > ... > >>> >>> While I know how to get / or \ ;-)), I can't

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread BNig
Hi David, I don't get what you mean. The code downloads a movie file to the iPhone. You can then play it as often as you want. It is stored in a folder, in this case the "cache" folder. The cache folder is not backed up by iTunes. If you would download the movie into the "Documents" folder iTune

Re: Accessing HTTP Web Services with LiveCode

2010-12-11 Thread Martin Koob
Hi Todd Mark Smith has put some libraries for accessing Amazon web services such as S3 which from my understanding is a restful web service. I have experimented with these a bit but still am learning how this works. Perhaps you can get some ideas from these libraries. http://marksmith.on-rev.c

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread André Bisseret
Le 11 déc. 2010 à 18:27, David C. a écrit : > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, André Bisseret > wrote: ... >> >> While I know how to get / or \ ;-)), I can't find out how to write the >> vertical bar separator in the script! >> I mean, what is the keyboard touches combination (if there is on

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread André Bisseret
Le 11 déc. 2010 à 18:19, Colin Holgate a écrit : > > On Dec 11, 2010, at 12:04 PM, André Bisseret wrote: > >> While I know how to get / or \ ;-)), I can't find out how to write the >> vertical bar separator in the script! >> I mean, what is the keyboard touches combination (if there is one!) t

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:23 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > You can download ChatRev at http://bjoernke.com/chatrev . Can you tell me how to get past the register screen? Clicking OK doesn't seem to do it. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread David Bovill
Thanks again Bernd ideally you would be able to stream a movie then after you had played it, or it had all downloaded save it to a folder :) On 11 December 2010 10:18, BNig wrote: > > Hi David, > > here is a way to download a movie once and store it on the iPhone for > repeated showing from

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
The Live LiveCode Code Event is starting in 40 minutes, at 19:00 GMT. Direct links to the video presentations are available at http://livecode.tv . Ue ChatRev to chat with the attendants. You can download ChatRev at http://bjoernke.com/chatrev . I hope to see you there. -- Best regards, Mark

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread wayne durden
Hi Jeff, Works for me now, and looks nifty. One potential problem (it may be intended for privacy reasons) is that while it shows how many rooms and users online, it wasn't immediately apparent what the rooms are so you could choose one. Admittedly, this is just first impression and may be inten

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread David C.
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:04 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > Bonjour, > > In a Pulldown Menu (among others), one can have sub-Items for an item (doing > tab in the text of the menu) > but when ask for it in the message box, it is coded  as something like > "Choice 1| sub 1". > > I need to write suc

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 11, 2010, at 12:04 PM, André Bisseret wrote: > While I know how to get / or \ ;-)), I can't find out how to write the > vertical bar separator in the script! > I mean, what is the keyboard touches combination (if there is one!) to get > the vertical character? You seemed to manage it in

Something strange with On-Rev

2010-12-11 Thread Medard
I encounter a strange thing: at the footer in my web pages, I put a notice stating the last modification date. This date is calculated on the server, with a dedicated procedure (Thanks to Sarah :-)) ===script=== -- get the path to the page just loaded put $_SERVER["PATH_TRANSLATE

How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-11 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour, In a Pulldown Menu (among others), one can have sub-Items for an item (doing tab in the text of the menu) but when ask for it in the message box, it is coded as something like "Choice 1| sub 1". I need to write such an item in the script switch theItem case "Choice 1| s

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread william humphrey
Jeffery I can see it now but the login process is such a pain I gave up. It can't be more than twelve characters failed me the first time. I have no idea what went wrong the third time. On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 12:12 PM, Jeffrey Massung wrote: > Thank you everyone who's been trying. > > This is

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Massung
Andre, I use Franz CL and love it! Thanks for asking, though. Let me know if you'd like to talk web+lisp some time. Jeff M. On Dec 11, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Hey Jeff, > > So someone is using AllegroServer... is that Franz CL or other Lisp using > Portable Allegro Server? I am

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Massung
Thank you everyone who's been trying. This is now fixed and should work as intended. Humbly, I would ask you to try again. :-) Jeff M. On Dec 11, 2010, at 6:56 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Just tried to go there(firefox) empty screen as mentioned by Scott up above. > Then tried it with safari and

Re: A Datagrid question

2010-12-11 Thread william humphrey
Please ignore this datagrid question. There seems to be something else going on that changes the behavior when the stack is a sheet. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage you

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread David C.
Hello Jeff, Like some of the others, all I got was a blank page while using Firefox on Windows. I next tried Chrome browser and your app still did not work, but at least it gave me some additional info that might be helpful to you: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - This webpage is not

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Jeff, So someone is using AllegroServer... is that Franz CL or other Lisp using Portable Allegro Server? I am using hunchentoot and sbcl here, going for weblocks! congrats on the app! :-D Cheers andre On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Just tried to go there(firefox) e

Re: How to select image object instead of group

2010-12-11 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Dec 10, 2010, at 11:28 PM, Scott Pepperdine wrote: The image script is: on mouseup answer file "Select your file:" if it is empty exit to top set the filename of image "image" to it end mouseup The group script is as follows ( just to prove to me this what was happening: on mouseu

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Mike Bonner
Just tried to go there(firefox) empty screen as mentioned by Scott up above. Then tried it with safari and got: Safari can’t open the page “http://www.sqwerly.com/room?q=12027” because the server unexpectedly dropped the connection. This sometimes occurs when the server is busy. Wait for a few min

Re: How to select image object instead of group

2010-12-11 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Scott, There are good reasons to use background groups. Add the following line to your script, and it will work: on mouseup answer file "Select your file:" if it is empty exit to top set the filename of image "image" to it end mouseup The group script is as follows ( just to prove to me

Re: Datagrids and iOS Live

2010-12-11 Thread JosepM
Hi David, Not for me. Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Datagrids-and-iOS-Live-tp3083102p3083180.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mai

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread BNig
Hi David, here is a way to download a movie once and store it on the iPhone for repeated showing from the local file, also between restarts of the app. You would have to know the URL beforehand. -- on mouseUp put "LanoKurz-iPhone-cell.3gp" into tMovie put specialfolderpa

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread BNig
Hi Scott, I guess you already tried all of them in the Standalone appliction settings -> iOS -> Profile This just has got to work. In desperation I would try to remove Livecode's preferences. That sometime helped me with funny things in Rev. Again, unfortunately I am not a big help here, as much

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread BNig
Hi David, I tried this and it worked for adding a movie when building the standalone app. I added in the standalone application settings -> Copy files the movie file I wanted to include. In the button scipt I put: --- on mouseUp put "LanoKurz-iPhone-cell.3gp" into tMovie

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jeffrey Massung wrote: > In preparation, I've already created a LiveCode chat room on Sqwerly: > > http://www.sqwerly.com/room?q=12027 I'm now in room 12027 (I think) -- from what I can tell, it's empty (there's me talking and no response... But then again, that's pretty much par for

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Massung
My apologies if my original email was unclear. The "populated messages" are the history of what's been said in the chat room so far. If there were 10 people in there chatting, unregistered you could read everything being said (as it was being typed). In order to join in the discussion and post c

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
OK, tried again. This time I get some pre-populated chat messages, but there's nowhere to type a message. There are two options provided: sign in and register, so it seems that some kind of registration is indeed necessary. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Rece

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Thanks Bernd. Yes, I have created multiple provisioning files. I have half a dozen working with GameSalad, but the publishing process is slightly different there; I still am unable get even one (newly created) to work with LiveCode. I can't figure out why, but am thinking maybe there's some small

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Massung
On Dec 11, 2010, at 2:07 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> >> http://www.sqwerly.com/room?q=12027 >> > > First thought: accessing the above q=12027 URL results in a blank page > (FireFox Mac). Is it necessary to register to make the above display > anything? Scott, Thanks for trying it. No, regist

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Jeffrey Massung wrote: > I've now hit a comfortable alpha stage, where almost all features are > implemented and before going much further I'm looking for customer feedback on > the concept, site design, user interface/ease of use, etc. > > I'm posting this here because there have been

Re: How to select image object instead of group

2010-12-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Scott Pepperdine wrote: > The image script is: > on mouseup > answer file "Select your file:" > if it is empty exit to top > set the filename of image "image" to it > end mouseup > > The group script is as follows ( just to prove to me this what was > happening: > on mouseu

[Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-11 Thread Jeffrey Massung
I hope no one here minds a shameless plug and perhaps helping me out a little... Over the past few months I've been working to bring together an idea I've had for quite some time: persistent, live, online chat rooms that are quick and easy to make, use, and fun. The result is Sqwerly Chat. It is

Datagrids and iOS Live

2010-12-11 Thread David Bovill
So does anyone have data grids working with the latest 4.5.2 release of LiveCode for iOS? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.r

Re: iOS: how to play a video file from a url?

2010-12-11 Thread BNig
Hi Scott, sorry to be of no help here. You probably know a lot more about this than I do. The provisioning profiles are still a mystery to me. I can only use the team provisioning profile. And only one of them, because somehow I managed to get two. If I use the wrong one I get the same error you