Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Scott Morrow
Hello Joe, I use this approach for "fake sheet" implementations, too. One thing to watch for: enabling the group once you have dismissed the "fake sheet" will enable *ALL* the controls in the group... including controls that might have been disabled before the sheet appeared. One way to ha

Receive eHome infrared signals

2011-01-03 Thread Derek Bump - Dreamscape Software
Has anyone had any luck working with eHome Infrared Signals on Windows 7, Vista or XP MCE? I would like to be able to build a app that can be navigated and controlled via a Windows Media Center Remote. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Derek Bump Dreamscape Software http://www.dreamscape

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Richard, I made that adjustment sometime back. It still is smaller than what I prefer. Maybe that's because I'm running XP under Fusion. My preference is Black on white. The gray on gray that is fairly prevalent is maybe the worse. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development f

RE: Quicktime VR Replacement in LiveCode?

2011-01-03 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> > Just thinking, it might > > be possible to do a sort of skydome thing in Franklin 3D > but I wonder > > if just for working with photos there wouldn't be an easier way. > > Even with Franklin you would want to do a sky box and not a > dome. For doing it elsewhere (certainly in Flash or Dire

Re: Quicktime VR Replacement in LiveCode?

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: I find the state of Quicktime VR to be saddening. It seems like there are oodles of solutions for dealing with panoramas and various VR formats (cubes, etc) with Flash, but I was wondering if someone has come up with a solution for LiveCode. Anyone know? Anyone care? :-) Ju

Re: Quicktime VR Replacement in LiveCode?

2011-01-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jan 3, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: > Just thinking, it might > be possible to do a sort of skydome thing in Franklin 3D but I wonder if > just for working with photos there wouldn't be an easier way. Even with Franklin you would want to do a sky box and not a dome. For doing it e

Quicktime VR Replacement in LiveCode?

2011-01-03 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi all, I find the state of Quicktime VR to be saddening. It seems like there are oodles of solutions for dealing with panoramas and various VR formats (cubes, etc) with Flash, but I was wondering if someone has come up with a solution for LiveCode. Anyone know? Anyone care? :-) Just thinking, it

RE: [OT] A GREAT Mac Cocoa MYSQL tool - Donationware

2011-01-03 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> ...can anyone recommend anything similar for Postgresql admin? I don't have a timetable yet, but Postgre is probably the next foreign db that will get supported with Valentina Studio. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server:

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Thanks for chiming in. The size and case of the text. More and more > senior citizens use computers and many have vision problems as acute > or worse than my own. Good news: Windows provides a built-in means for users to adjust their font sizes system

Re: [OT] A GREAT Mac Cocoa MYSQL tool - Donationware

2011-01-03 Thread Keith Clarke
...can anyone recommend anything similar for Postgresql admin? On 3 Jan 2011, at 20:19, JosepM wrote: > > Hi, > > I know Sequel and I use every day, it's really good. I also recommend it. > > Salut, > Josep > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Richard, Thanks for chiming in. The size and case of the text. More and more senior citizens use computers and many have vision problems as acute or worse than my own. For instance, the LC splash screen cannot be read by me due to the colors that are used, which is even worse than the often,

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I appreciate ALL of your comments. The problem is that I want my application to be as Mac-Like as possible, since the standard Window's implementations are really bad. It's more important that the user be able to SEE and READ what I'm presenting than to conform to other

Re: [OT] A GREAT Mac Cocoa MYSQL tool - Donationware

2011-01-03 Thread JosepM
Hi, I know Sequel and I use every day, it's really good. I also recommend it. Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-A-GREAT-Mac-Cocoa-MYSQL-tool-Donationware-tp3171341p3172564.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Jan Schenkel
I would go for this approach as well - for the simple reason that it avoids 'traversalOn' issues where the user could still 'tab' to a control and then press the 'space' or 'return' key to activate a button. Plus, disabled controls look slightly different, and combined with an opaque 'overlay' g

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jacqui, I appreciate ALL of your comments. The problem is that I want my application to be as Mac-Like as possible, since the standard Window's implementations are really bad. It's more important that the user be able to SEE and READ what I'm presenting than to conform to other Window's applica

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some Dialogs such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this, but with others it's not really much of a problem; however, I would like

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Marty, Your concept has a lot of potential if it works fast enough, which normally shouldn't be a problem. Should be much better than polling other activities. Not sure how it might impact other stack activity such as arrow and command keys. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Dev

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Marty Knapp
What about placing everything that will be behind your dialog into a group, then disable the group when showing the dialog and enabling it when it closes? Marty Knapp Please, anyone... In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that appear in the Windows' version

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks, Chris I'm rethinking my entire approach to this. Probably going back to a modal stack for some, leaving the others as fields that I move up under the Title Bar so they appear as sheets. Maybe use some visual effect to emulate how sheets appear. Yes, we did do some interesting things wit

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Interesting thoughts, Klaus. Thanks, Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Jan 3, 2011, at 9:08 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi Joe, > >> Please, anyone... >> In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs >> that appear in the

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Joe, > Please, anyone... > In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that > appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some > Dialogs such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this, > but with others it's not really mu

Re: As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Nonsanity
Modal as in not being able to interact with any of the other controls on the stack? Making a stack-sized invisible button (or lightly tinted and transparent, even) just behind your psudo-dialog would prevent that. For menus and other stacks, you'd have to add additional code - swap the full menus f

As Sheet Dialog

2011-01-03 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Please, anyone... In my current app I'm attempting to mitigate the very small text dialogs that appear in the Windows' version of applications by rolling my own. Some Dialogs such as the page setup present some major challenges to doing this, but with others it's not really much of a problem; ho

Re: Editing locked or List fields

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Brigham MD
A problem, though -- see below On Jan 3, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Aloha Peter: Now this what i call a Prime New Year gift! Sweet. And, yes, I do work a lot with list fields and to make lists editable I had to add this to your script set the listBehavior of the target

Re: Editing locked or List fields

2011-01-03 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jan 3, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Sivakatirswami wrote: Aloha Peter: Now this what i call a Prime New Year gift! Sweet. And, yes, I do work a lot with list fields and to make lists editable I had to add this to your script set the listBehavior of the target to not tf but then this toggl

Re: On-Rev Server Access

2011-01-03 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I used Filezilla, (now I use CyberDuck) to load my HTML pages to my on-Rev server. Sometimes, when I uploaded .php files, I had "perms" problems, that is, when I entered my .php files (for password control), my .php file was displayed on screen, and then froze. I sol

Re: Editing locked or List fields

2011-01-03 Thread Sivakatirswami
Aloha Peter: Now this what i call a Prime New Year gift! Sweet. And, yes, I do work a lot with list fields and to make lists editable I had to add this to your script set the listBehavior of the target to not tf but then this toggles all fields to listbehavior when locked... . so it