Beginners questions

2010-12-30 Thread John Allijn
Hi, I'm new to livecode, but have some experience in supercard (and even hypercard). First of all: I am very impressed that it is now possible to create iOS apps with livecode! However, I have a few questions about building for iOS. 1) I want to create an iPad app. So I created a stack in t

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/10 5:58 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Everyone is being very helpful. 1- I made a folder named "Plugins". Put it into the "documents" folder. No, make a folder called "LiveCode" or "My LC Stuff" or "Craig's stuff" and put *that* into Documents. The LiveCode folder will also contain two

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread David Bovill
On 30 December 2010 23:22, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/30/10 4:44 PM, David Bovill wrote: > > Yes - those use cases are fine. I want to make sure I am not exporting >> identical information about objects twice, so I want to know which groups >> in >> a stack are backgrounds in the shared id s

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread DunbarX
Everyone is being very helpful. 1- I made a folder named "Plugins". Put it into the "documents" folder. 2- I placed my plugin stack inside. (the stack works if I open a new session with it; it does its thing) 3- I set the path in the preferences. Once to to the "plugins" folder itself, and then

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Thursday, December 30, 2010, 3:38:44 PM, you wrote: > Don't tell anybody I'm doing this. I'm sure it's naughty. Not really, you're just making extra work for yourself. You'll have to do this for 4.5.3, 4.6... Much easier to create a folder somewhere else and just set your preferences to po

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread James Hurley
Message: 33 Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2010 17:14:38 -0600 From: "J. Landman Gay" To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Missing plug-in. Again Message-ID: <4d1d125e.3080...@hyperactivesw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 12/30/10 4:25 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: My inst

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Wieder
DunbarX- Thursday, December 30, 2010, 2:25:24 PM, you wrote: > placed it in the "4.5.0-dp-2" folder, which was created by the installer. Don't do that. > My installer did not create a folder > "Documents/LiveCode/Plugins", if that > matters. I can certain navigate, via that preferences dialog,

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/10 4:44 PM, David Bovill wrote: Yes - those use cases are fine. I want to make sure I am not exporting identical information about objects twice, so I want to know which groups in a stack are backgrounds in the shared id sense - there is no function for this, so I've had to take a diff

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/10 4:25 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: My installer did not create a folder "Documents/LiveCode/Plugins", if that matters. I can certain navigate, via that preferences dialog, to the folder in question. Or anywhere around it. I know, they'd avoid some confusion if they created those folde

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread David Bovill
On 30 December 2010 21:24, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > You can place any group on a card, regardless of its backgroundBehavior. > All of the background* functions return only those groups with > backgroundBehavior set, whether or not the group is placed on the current > card. It is unusual to assig

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yves, It wasn't clear to me that you don't open Dialogues immediately when Accueil opens. I had the impression Dialogues has to open automatically when Accueil opens. You can do exactly the same trick in Accueil as in Dialogues. on preOpenStack hide this stack send "initialiseStack" to me

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread DunbarX
Jacques. I knew it would be you. And this all sounds familiar. And last time it all worked. Richard Gaskin was helpful as well. But this time no. I created a folder called "User PlugIns Folder" and placed it in the "4.5.0-dp-2" folder, which was created by the installer. The plugin stack is l

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 30 déc. 2010 à 23:00, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Yves, > > What do you have in the script of your mainstack *now*? What is the name of > the mainstack and what is the name of the substack? > > -- > Best regards, > re Mark, the main stack : "accueil' the substack "dialogues" the main

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yves, What do you have in the script of your mainstack *now*? What is the name of the mainstack and what is the name of the substack? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogr

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 30 déc. 2010 à 22:41, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Hi Yves, > > Do it in the script of the substack, not in the script of the mainstack. Use > my script. > your script was in the substack and works great but the script of the mainstack that launch the substack stops and doesn't run furt

Re: Someone Stole my Apply Button

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks, got it, not sure how the the circle/triangle thing got clikced but that's it. Pete Haworth On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Peter, There should be a circle with a triangle in it in the upper-right of the script editor window. If you click in it, you can show

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Yves, Do it in the script of the substack, not in the script of the mainstack. Use my script. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 30 déc. 2010 à 22:16, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Yves, > > I'm not sure what is going on. Your modal substack should be able to send > messages to itself. What's the problem? Have you got any additional info? > i have tried this : in the script of the mainstack : hide stack

Re: Join many PDF into one

2010-12-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
The shell command using Python still works fine in Snow Leopard. The error for "CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox" does not cause a problem. On Dec 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > > I found a page that explains how Automator actually joins PDFs and it > explains how to use the same method. >

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 30 déc. 2010 à 22:16, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Yves, > > I'm not sure what is going on. Your modal substack should be able to send > messages to itself. What's the problem? Have you got any additional info? > i have tried this : in the script of the mainstack : hide stack "

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/10 5:13 AM, David Bovill wrote: What i did not get is that what is happening here is such a hack, that is there are two important concepts / behaviors of backgrounds: 1. It is shared across many cards and changing a property of one changes the property of all ie they are the sam

Re: Someone Stole my Apply Button

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Peter, There should be a circle with a triangle in it in the upper-right of the script editor window. If you click in it, you can show and hide the part of the window that contains the Compile button. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Hom

Re: datagrid: add rows in CloseFieldEditor

2010-12-30 Thread JosepM
> To reference to next row from the actual is better use > > SetDataOfIndex the dgindex of me+1, "COL1", "Text of the Col" > > or can be a problem with datagrid index? > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/datagrid-add-rows-in-CloseFieldEditor-tp3167836p3168784.html Sent from the

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yves, I'm not sure what is going on. Your modal substack should be able to send messages to itself. What's the problem? Have you got any additional info? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twi

Re: Someone Stole my Apply Button

2010-12-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 30, 2010, at 4:08 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > The Apply button in the script edit window has disappeared (LC 4.5.1). I'll > swear I'm up to date with all my license fees, honest. Please can I have my > Apply button back? I promise not to make so many script errors in future! Is there

Re: export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Haworth
not in response to this issue but I get the feeling that not many people use the Image Library feature of LC. I've imported several sets of icons that are generically useful to me across applications and it seems to work great. I did have an issue that the StackRunner program didn't displ

Someone Stole my Apply Button

2010-12-30 Thread Peter Haworth
The Apply button in the script edit window has disappeared (LC 4.5.1). I'll swear I'm up to date with all my license fees, honest. Please can I have my Apply button back? I promise not to make so many script errors in future! Pete Haworth

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 30 déc. 2010 à 21:56, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Yves, > > Do you mean openStack or preOpenStack? > > Put the scripts into the (modal) substack. > re, in the preopenstack script of the substack (modal stack) Greetings. Yves COPPE yvesco...@skynet.be _

Re: Midi programming

2010-12-30 Thread Kenji Kojima
Hi, Download makeSMF library by UDI http://homepage.mac.com/udi/stack/makeSMF133.hqx -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://kenjikojima.com/newsmusic/ On Dec 30, 2010, at 03:06 PM, Olivier Auverlot wrote: > Hi, > > How to communicate with MIDI musical instruments ? > > I need to send and receive MI

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yves, Do you mean openStack or preOpenStack? Put the scripts into the (modal) substack. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Install

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Le 30 déc. 2010 à 21:03, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > On preOpenstack > Hide this stack > Send "initialiseStack" to me in 0 millisecs > End preOpenstack > > On initialiseStack > Set the loc of this stack to the screenLoc > Show this stack > End initialiseStack > > -- > Kind regards, r

Midi programming

2010-12-30 Thread Olivier Auverlot
Hi, How to communicate with MIDI musical instruments ? I need to send and receive MIDI messages. Thank you for your advice or ideas :) Best regards Olivier www.auverlot.fr ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
On preOpenstack Hide this stack Send "initialiseStack" to me in 0 millisecs End preOpenstack On initialiseStack Set the loc of this stack to the screenLoc Show this stack End initialiseStack -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard o

messages question

2010-12-30 Thread Yves COPPE
Hello list, this is a piece of a very large and complex main stack with many substacks I have a script with a strange behavior on preopenStack set the loc of this stack to the screenloc end preopenStack the stack is not at the screenloc now I write this : on preopenStack lock mes

Re: datagrid: add rows in CloseFieldEditor

2010-12-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 2:25 PM, JosepM wrote: > > Nop. I'm seeing that is a problem of refresh the datagrid, so after > dispatch > "addLine" and add manually a row all the data appear. > > ResetList doesn't work but with RefreshList now seems that work. Why > ResetList don't work? > ResetList i

Re: datagrid: add rows in CloseFieldEditor

2010-12-30 Thread JosepM
Nop. I'm seeing that is a problem of refresh the datagrid, so after dispatch "addLine" and add manually a row all the data appear. ResetList doesn't work but with RefreshList now seems that work. Why ResetList don't work? To reference to next row from the actual is better use SetDataOfIndex t

Messing around.

2010-12-30 Thread Richmond
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Re: export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/10 10:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: baccheschi wrote: > may tell me, please, if and how is it possible to export from > a stack to another the icons..?I am trying to rewrite an old > stack of HyperCard and i would use its icons..Thanksmario HC icons are stored as resources in the leg

Re: datagrid: add rows in CloseFieldEditor

2010-12-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:47 PM, JosepM wrote: > > I get the actual row without any value and other added row without any > value. > > I use "dispatch "addline". > Maybe try using "send" in 0 milliseconds? -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems ScreenSteps: http://www.screensteps.co

RE: export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> baccheschi wrote: > > > may tell me, please, if and how is it possible to export > from > a stack to another the icons..?I am trying to rewrite > an old > stack of HyperCard and i would use its icons..Thanksmario It isn't free, but there is this: http://miryestore.com/product.php?productid

Re: Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/10 10:26 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: This happened to me once before, and I cannot remember how it was fixed. In reverting to 4.5.0 from 4.5.2 I have lost a plug-in I wrote. It runs a few simple startup scripts. I placed it in the plugins folder of the 4.5.0 folder, but it will not appe

Re: datagrid: add rows in CloseFieldEditor

2010-12-30 Thread JosepM
Hi Trevor, I get the actual row without any value and other added row without any value. I use "dispatch "addline". Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/datagrid-add-rows-in-CloseFieldEditor-tp3167836p3168568.html Sent from the Revoluti

Re: extract by delimiter

2010-12-30 Thread Ken Ray
Sorry to be late to the show, but if you haven't already come up with a solution, my LiveCode-only XML Library with associated RSS plugin should make this a lot easier: XML Library: http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm RSS Plugin: http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xml

Missing plug-in. Again

2010-12-30 Thread DunbarX
This happened to me once before, and I cannot remember how it was fixed. In reverting to 4.5.0 from 4.5.2 I have lost a plug-in I wrote. It runs a few simple startup scripts. I placed it in the plugins folder of the 4.5.0 folder, but it will not appear in the "Development/plugins" menu in the I

Re: datagrid: add rows in CloseFieldEditor

2010-12-30 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 7:58 PM, JosepM wrote: > > I need add X rows depending of the values entered by the user into a cell. > I check the values in "on CloseFieldEditor", but I can't add additional > rows... > These additional rows must be filled with data from the "on > CloseFieldEditor" > > E

Re: export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
baccheschi wrote: > may tell me, please, if and how is it possible to export from > a stack to another the icons..?I am trying to rewrite an old > stack of HyperCard and i would use its icons..Thanksmario HC icons are stored as resources in the legacy Mac OS resource fork. Good news: You can u

R: Re: export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread bacches...@tin.it
Messaggio originale Da: williamdes...@gmail.com Data: 30-dic-2010 15.37 A: "How to use LiveCode" Ogg: Re: export icons.. Mario, The fastest way would be to take a screenshot of your icon and then import them as image. Then you could use them as icons again! greetings, William 201

Re: export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread William de Smet
Mario, The fastest way would be to take a screenshot of your icon and then import them as image. Then you could use them as icons again! greetings, William 2010/12/30 bacches...@tin.it : >  Best wishes to all You > may tell me, please, if and how is it possible to export from a stack to > an

export icons..

2010-12-30 Thread bacches...@tin.it
Best wishes to all You may tell me, please, if and how is it possible to export from a stack to another the icons..?I am trying to rewrite an old stack of HyperCard and i would use its icons..Thanksmario ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: URL(tUrl) inconsistencies in iOS Simulator

2010-12-30 Thread David Bovill
I've also used a few of these Google Maps / Yahoo geo api's - with regard to iOS was wandering if anyone has embedded a Google map and trapped the url calls for local processing in Livecode? On 30 December 2010 13:40, Colin Holgate wrote: > > On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:58 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wro

Re: PDF ?

2010-12-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- On Tue, 12/7/10, Jan Schenkel wrote: > --- On Sun, 12/5/10, Anthony Howe wrote: > > Thanks Jan, > > > > Great to hear the detail around this one. The feature > you > > mention that you're working on is actually all that we > would > > require and sounds ideal! > > > > We simply want to 'sta

Re: URL(tUrl) inconsistencies in iOS Simulator

2010-12-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 30, 2010, at 3:58 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > >And I don't see you giving that request in a call > to Googlemaps. So what answer do you get ? I wasn't the one with the original question. In the first post Stewart said this: "I am working on an application for tracking mileage. In

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for the replies Andre and Jim! On 30 December 2010 10:38, André Bisseret wrote: > > Look at "backgroundNames" in the doc: > - > Comments: > The backgroundNames is the list of all backgrounds in the stack whose > backgroundBehavior property is set to true, whether they

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour David, Look at "backgroundNames" in the doc: - Comments: The backgroundNames is the list of all backgrounds in the stack whose backgroundBehavior property is set to true, whether they appear on the current card or not. If a group in the stack contains groups, only th

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread Jim Ault
I don't have a specific answer for this set of questions, but durning a holiday week few may be available to answer.. so here goes. I rarely use groups as backgrounds for my projects. You may be in the land of synonyms backward compatible to HCard oddities of groups message path pri

Re: Some things about backgrounds i never knew

2010-12-30 Thread David Bovill
OK - it's morning and I still don't get it. In my simple test stack, I have 3 groups and 3 cards. One of the groups (group "Inner") is inside another, and both top level groups (group "First background" and group "Second Nested Background") are on the first card and the last card, all though they

URL(tUrl) inconsistencies in iOS Simulator

2010-12-30 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi Colin, On Dec 29, 2010, at 4:36 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Why use GoogleMaps ? Convert your Long and Lat coordinates to radians And use a simple Haversine formula in Livecode to calculate the distance. Would that give you the driving distance? My mechanism was designed for pla