Merry Christmas (or Happy Holidays) with LiveCode fun!

2010-12-24 Thread Jeffrey Massung
I decided to put together a little fun stack for everyone here to play with. It's something I do in my spare time (yeah, what's that?!) for fun: genetic algorithms. I've done all sorts for random experiments, but today on Reddit I saw that someone had made a decent tutorial of them, and I though

Looking for advice and references...

2010-12-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Recently, I have been contacted by some friends (who are school teachers from 6th to 12th grades) to help them to create an Introductory Course about Software programming for their students. That means, a course adapted (as much as possible) to students knowledge level using exercises an

Re: LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-24 Thread Randy Hengst
Tom, The process went well... when I messed up a step... like leaving spaces in the name of the zipped file during the upload process... the explanation of the problem was clear. I do suggest getting all the contract stuff out of the way if you've not done so already... and banking info if you

Re: LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-24 Thread tbodine
Randy Hengst wrote: > > I just had my first iOS iPod/iPhone app accepted today... Just the > Facts... practice for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division > facts to 10. > Congrats! How was the Apple app approval process? Any advice for others heading this route? Thanks, Tom Bod

Re: LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-24 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Scott, Thanks... and without a doubt, the logo is the best graphic included in the whole project! An FYI for the list... Scott did the classroom focused software logo art. take care, randy - On Dec 24, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Looks good Randy. And a pretty cool logo you'

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks. I'll try 4.5.2 first to see if the problem remains. Should I submit a bug report if the problem remains in 4.5.2? Actually I think I will leave the horizontal scrollbars on the group as well as the vertical ones so the user can resize in either dimension in addition to whatever I

Re: Planning/design/estimating checklists

2010-12-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Keith Clarke wrote: I want to get smarter at solving issues earlier in the design stage, as my coding skills (or lack thereof) makes the repeated, radical reworking of code - each time I realise I've forgotten something basic - both unproductive and a real bore. Are there any basic 'Do/Don't/Con

Re: LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Looks good Randy. And a pretty cool logo you've got there too :-) Happy Holidays, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Dec 24, 2010, at 6:12 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: > Andre, > > With my rookie status I wasn't able to figure out how to add more than the > one screen sh

Re: Planning/design/estimating checklists

2010-12-24 Thread Kee Nethery
I include a script in every card I ever create: on sanitize -- reset everything to the state I want it to be when it gets distributed end sanitize I've heard of another doing the same thing with on stripandship Then on the very first card I have two scripts that are on sanitize sanitizeFirst

Re: Planning/design/estimating checklists

2010-12-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Keith, Look like you are looking for the holy Grail but I think it is the wrong season for that :) I don't have any generally applicable advice except that experience will eventually tell you what is sensible and what isn't. Over the years I have come to the conclusion that one should never

Re: LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-24 Thread Randy Hengst
Andre, With my rookie status I wasn't able to figure out how to add more than the one screen shot... I have several ready... I'm still not sure how I messed that up. Anyway, take a look here http://www.classroomfocusedsoftware.com/ take care, randy - On Dec 24, 2010, at 7:12 AM, Andre

Re: LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-24 Thread Andre Garzia
I want to see screenshots! :-D On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Randy Hengst wrote: > Hi All, > > I just had my first iOS iPod/iPhone app accepted today... Just the Facts... > practice for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts to > 10. > > I set it for 99 cents, but have abou

Planning/design/estimating checklists

2010-12-24 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, I want to get smarter at solving issues earlier in the design stage, as my coding skills (or lack thereof) makes the repeated, radical reworking of code - each time I realise I've forgotten something basic - both unproductive and a real bore. Are there any basic 'Do/Don't/Consider' che

Re: What with all it's features and platforms I sometimes forget

2010-12-24 Thread Richmond
On 12/23/2010 11:27 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond: I don't know, it is much more the process, not the results. It has to be seen as accessable, fun, intuitive, easy, startling. Yes; but to me that sounds like all the cheap crap they rabbit on about everywhere; everything has to be 'fun