RE: List Field Problem

2011-01-08 Thread John Dixon
In the script of the list field... set the hilitedLines of me to word 2 of the clickLine and I forgot to say uncheck autohilite in the property inspector of the list field... > > I created a scrolling list field with 6 choices. The list field is larger > > then the 6 choices I have include

RE: List Field Problem

2011-01-08 Thread John Dixon
In the script of the list field... set the hilitedLines of me to word 2 of the clickLine > I created a scrolling list field with 6 choices. The list field is larger > then the 6 choices I have included as more can be added by the user. When I > click in the empty space below the 6 choices,

List Field Problem

2011-01-08 Thread Warren Kuhl
I created a scrolling list field with 6 choices. The list field is larger then the 6 choices I have included as more can be added by the user. When I click in the empty space below the 6 choices, it will either hilite the first line or my last line that I selected. This happens even after I set

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
That's one of the frustrating aspects of LC; I'm accustomed to rolling my own. I'd really prefer that LC stayed out of the way. Remember, my foundation in programming is Assembler. HC didn't have as many "hidden" characteristics as LC. It's almost impossible for someone like me who is only an oc

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
I wrote: But even if you do need arrowkey handlers, you can just check in the first line to see if the target contains the name of your menu group. Pass arrowkey if that's the case. If there are no menus on the card, the test won't be true and the handler will continue as it does now. That's

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Jim Sims
On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Thanks Mark/Peter/Marty for the responses. > > I guess I should have been more clear about handling reg codes -- I'd like > this to be part of the order processing. I currently have a PayPal account > and handle all my software purchase transact

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 8:59 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Jacqui, Unfortunately, I haven't always used menubars; If I were to start over, something I don't intend to do at this time, I would. And I DO have Arrow key handlers for card navigation. It's one of my preferred ways of moving around. Unless you nee

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Robert Mann
Hi for info I set up with not too much trouble, a payment and registration system on my on-rev account using 1) PayPal as payment platform 2) http://www.hyperactivesw.com/solutions_zygodact.html as the registration code generator CGI script. You do not need to re-write any php script, the proces

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Jacqui, Unfortunately, I haven't always used menubars; If I were to start over, something I don't intend to do at this time, I would. And I DO have Arrow key handlers for card navigation. It's one of my preferred ways of moving around. I'm pretty sure the menuHistory property is going to let me

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi John, I'm pretty sure I can make this work. Thanks. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:44 PM, John Dixon wrote: > > > > Have a look at menuHistory in the dictionary ... > >> Can anyone tell me what condition or property for

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 6:53 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Hi Jacqui, Once a menu has been clicked on or opened using Alt/F (for the File Menu) I want to be able to navigate within the menu using the Up and Down Arrow Keys, or go to the next menu with the Right Arrow key. This is a common method used by Window

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Bill Vlahos
I use Kagi. They were very helpful with the entire process. Bill Vlahos Sent from my iPhone On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Hey List Members: > > Does anyone have a recommendation for an inexpensive service that provides > automated processing of software orders -- once an o

Re: Bad text...

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Wieder
David- Saturday, January 8, 2011, 4:16:02 PM, you wrote: >> getprop bad_Text >>return the text of the target >> end bad_Text >> >> getprop good_Text >>put the long id of the target into targetObject >>return the text of targetObject >> end good_Text >> I get the same results with eit

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks John. I'll see if that provides something for me. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Jan 8, 2011, at 3:44 PM, John Dixon wrote: > > > > Have a look at menuHistory in the dictionary ... > >> Can anyone tell me what condition or property for whic

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jacqui, Once a menu has been clicked on or opened using Alt/F (for the File Menu) I want to be able to navigate within the menu using the Up and Down Arrow Keys, or go to the next menu with the Right Arrow key. This is a common method used by Window's users. I remember some time back that we

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Kee Nethery
One of the things Kagi can do is run your registration code algorithm on our servers using a livecode stack. We can provide you with a template livecode stack that has fields for all the order data that we can submit to your algorithm. You transfer your algorithm into our template stack and ha

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Scott, You could, but naturally you'd have to translate the entire PHP library as provided by PayPal to on-rev. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Ne

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Mark Schonewille wrote: > PayPal provides a library, into which you can hook your own registration > system. You still have to make the actual script PHP to generate a license, > but you can use the transaction information that's provided in real time by > PayPal to create that license.

Bad text...

2011-01-08 Thread David Bovill
> > getprop bad_Text >return the text of the target > end bad_Text > > getprop good_Text >put the long id of the target into targetObject >return the text of targetObject > end good_Text > Anyone think these two handlers are equivalent? Think again :) _

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Marty, PayPal provides a library, into which you can hook your own registration system. You still have to make the actual script PHP to generate a license, but you can use the transaction information that's provided in real time by PayPal to create that license. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewi

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Marty Knapp
FastSpring does what you're asking - they automatically issue the registration codes. They can deal with a list of your codes that you supply in bulk, or they offer a system that also generates the code, though I don't know that there is a way to implement dealing with that in LiveCode. When

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, January 8, 2011, 3:37:59 PM, you wrote: > Kagi does all that. I don't know what their current rate fees are though. About the same. http://www.kagi.com/kagisolutions/pricing.php -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-liv

RE: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread John Dixon
Have a look at menuHistory in the dictionary ... > Can anyone tell me what condition or property for which I can check to see if > a menu is "open"; it's been clicked on or (for example) an option/F has > displayed the File Menu's contents? I have no idea what to look for in the > Dictiona

Re: Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 5:27 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Can anyone tell me what condition or property for which I can check to see if a menu is "open"; it's been clicked on or (for example) an option/F has displayed the File Menu's contents? I have no idea what to look for in the Dictionary. There isn't o

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/8/11 5:30 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Thanks Mark/Peter/Marty for the responses. I guess I should have been more clear about handling reg codes -- I'd like this to be part of the order processing. I currently have a PayPal account and handle all my software purchase transactions through them, w

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Scott, Yes, I did what you want. PayPal has a PHP library for it (which is easier to use than Facebook ;-) ) -- 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:

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Thanks Mark/Peter/Marty for the responses. I guess I should have been more clear about handling reg codes -- I'd like this to be part of the order processing. I currently have a PayPal account and handle all my software purchase transactions through them, which works fine. But I'm sending out re

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Marty, Such systems with fixed registration codes are very sensitive to hacking. My registration systems are based on a name entered by the buyer or linked to the PayPal account. That makes illegal distribution of the registration code slightly less probable. I think that 8.9% is very expens

Menu Question

2011-01-08 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Can anyone tell me what condition or property for which I can check to see if a menu is "open"; it's been clicked on or (for example) an option/F has displayed the File Menu's contents? I have no idea what to look for in the Dictionary. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Developm

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Marty Knapp
Hi Scott, I just signed up with FastSpring.com. So far, so good. You can provide them with a list of registration codes that then get sent to the customer upon successful payment. Their control panel/setup is pretty straight forward. They do charge an 8.9% processing fee. In my search, I didn

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

2011-01-08 Thread Kurt Kaufman
Stephen Barncard wrote: > ...What's needed to make a usable audio file is just to provide the > appropriate > header info, which obviously missing. The binary data with no or special > headers is stored in the stack as an audioclip. Are there hidden properties > of the individual audioclip object

Re: Live LiveCode Code event #5

2011-01-08 Thread Björnke von Gierke
It's been a great show yet again, with me coughing myself trough the presentation, and David forgetting to record (for the last time, he promised). Look at my labelfield stack: http://blog.livecode.tv/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/labelfield.zip And my recorded presentation: http://www.ustream.tv

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Haworth
I've seen this implemented with PayPal. I believe you can send people to a web page of your choice after a transaction is completed and that web page gets information about the transaction sent to it. You'd have to write some sort of code to take that info and email a registration code to the

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Scott, I made one with PayPal. It has advantages and disadvantages, but of all services I looked into it is the one with the fewest disadvantages (I write it this way on purpose). I will be making two more during the next week, also with PayPal. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Ta

Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Scott Rossi
Hey List Members: Does anyone have a recommendation for an inexpensive service that provides automated processing of software orders -- once an order is completed and approved, a reg code is sent to the user's email address. I don't have high volume, but the "manual labor" process I've been using

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-08 Thread Phil Davis
On 1/8/11 10:31 AM, Medard wrote: Phil Davis wrote: put shell("man "& tCommand& " | col -b") into fld 1 You are a Command Line God! That's a name I have never been called. ;-) :-) the obtained file is perfect! NB: it is possible to write directly tman to the navigator window, but

ANN: Installer Maker Plugin 1.5.1 for LiveCode

2011-01-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi everybody, While keeping an eye on the Live LiveCode Code event, which you currently can still watch at http://blog.livecode.tv/david/ , I updated the Installer Maker Plugin for LiveCode. This new version of the Installer Maker Plugin fixes a proble, which prevented the addition of multiple

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-08 Thread Medard
Peter Brigham MD wrote: > "To get a plain text version of a man page, without backspaces and > underscores, try ># man foo | col -b > foo.mantxt" on the server: tman.txt") put "Done!!" ?> works great also, almost a one-liner ;-) tman.txt") ?> works also :-)

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-08 Thread Medard
Phil Davis wrote: > put shell("man " & tCommand & " | col -b") into fld 1 You are a Command Line God! :-) the obtained file is perfect! NB: it is possible to write directly tman to the navigator window, but as it eats spaces, the result is somewhat indigestible... ___

Re: [OT] Lest We Forget

2011-01-08 Thread Chipp Walters
Well said, Richmond. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Jan 8, 2011, at 2:49 AM, Richmond wrote: > We are all considerably poorer with his death. I so hope he is in a better > place > and is, maybe, somehow, aware of our feelings towards him. __

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-08 Thread David Bovill
Just keeping to the parts: On 8 January 2011 15:51, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Had you chosen a Creative Commons license instead of GPL, you would have > been able to share your work just as broadly to as many people as before, > but you would also have had the option of requiring that any additio

Re: Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

2011-01-08 Thread Richmond
On 1/8/11 6:47 PM, william humphrey wrote: Oh Richmond you're killing me. I wonder if that is how the people who code with c++ do it? It would not surprise me one bit. Having lived and worked for quite a few years of my life in Universities I am well aware just how much is fake and/or done wi

Re: Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

2011-01-08 Thread william humphrey
Oh Richmond you're killing me. I wonder if that is how the people who code with c++ do it? On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 01/08/2011 06:38 PM, william humphrey wrote: > >> Except that the existing gray window bar has to blend into your wider one >> because you need the litt

Re: Preferences on first start-up

2011-01-08 Thread william humphrey
The stdLib stack on that yahoo group is 1.01b and it was made back in 2007. It does not have any handlers to get and set prefs. On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > william humphrey wrote: > >> Has anyone built a preferences stack which can be used in any livecode app >> and w

Re: Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

2011-01-08 Thread Richmond
On 01/08/2011 06:38 PM, william humphrey wrote: Except that the existing gray window bar has to blend into your wider one because you need the little candy drop window controls in the corner. Fake it! Just have a group at the top that is set to backGround behavior and populate it either with G

Re: Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

2011-01-08 Thread william humphrey
Except that the existing gray window bar has to blend into your wider one because you need the little candy drop window controls in the corner. On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 01/08/2011 05:30 PM, william humphrey wrote: > >> Anyone know an easy way to make windows have a fa

Re: Preferences on first start-up

2011-01-08 Thread william humphrey
This is great. I joined the yahoo group. The files section has lots of stuff, nice. There is a database of image ID's and a database of namespace prefixes also but I don't see any easy way to add new things to those databases. On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > william humph

Re: Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

2011-01-08 Thread Richmond
On 01/08/2011 05:30 PM, william humphrey wrote: Anyone know an easy way to make windows have a fat gray bar at the top where you can put your icons for doing things in your app? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit th

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Jan 8, 2011, at 7:58 AM, Phil Davis wrote: Try this: put "ls" into tCommand put shell("man " & tCommand & " | col -b") into fld 1 That is how my Shell Command Help plugin does it. Phil Davis Interesting. This trick is documented in the man page for "man" at the bottom, though no

Re: Preferences on first start-up

2011-01-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
william humphrey wrote: Has anyone built a preferences stack which can be used in any livecode app and which checks on start-up specialfolderpath("preferences") to see if the file is there and creates it if not? I just noticed an app in Apple's new app store which views the preferences file for a

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
David Bovill wrote: On 8 January 2011 00:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: There are scenarios for meaningful sharing that aren't addressed by GLP-compatible licenses, so while it would be desirable if there were fewer licenses in the world, the diversity of needs seems to require equally diverse term

Re: Preferences on first start-up

2011-01-08 Thread Keith Clarke
...I'm rather hoping that's one of the things the GLX framework supports with it's preference handling (I'm just starting to learn about it, so can't be sure). http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/examples/manuals/GLX_Application_Framework.html On 8 Jan 2011, at 14:56, william humphrey w

Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

2011-01-08 Thread william humphrey
Anyone know an easy way to make windows have a fat gray bar at the top where you can put your icons for doing things in your app? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your s

Preferences on first start-up

2011-01-08 Thread william humphrey
Has anyone built a preferences stack which can be used in any livecode app and which checks on start-up specialfolderpath("preferences") to see if the file is there and creates it if not? I just noticed an app in Apple's new app store which views the preferences file for any application (they are a

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-08 Thread Phil Davis
Try this: put "ls" into tCommand put shell("man " & tCommand & " | col -b") into fld 1 That is how my Shell Command Help plugin does it. Phil Davis On 1/8/11 4:42 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: So, no way of decoding this easily, huh? If you do a char by char pass through the text and

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

2011-01-08 Thread Peter Brigham MD
So, no way of decoding this easily, huh? If you do a char by char pass through the text and replace every doubled letter with its single, then you'll get sily comands How do the "geek apps" manage to parse it? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-08 Thread David Bovill
Hi Richard - a few minor points / corrections: On 8 January 2011 00:17, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > As a practical example I would not be able to submit my code > > libraries or code I have form other people to the revIgnitor > > project, as the license was hand crafted. Ralf changing the > > li

Re: [OT] Lest We Forget

2011-01-08 Thread Richmond
On 01/08/2011 10:16 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Thank you for reminding us and prove that humanity prevails sometimes over ethology. Le 8 janv. 2011 à 02:51, Kay C Lan a écrit : This morning I realised that it was the anniversary of Bill Marriott's passing. I understand that Kevin lost someone

Re: [OT] Lest We Forget

2011-01-08 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thank you for reminding us and prove that humanity prevails sometimes over ethology. Le 8 janv. 2011 à 02:51, Kay C Lan a écrit : > This morning I realised that it was the anniversary of Bill Marriott's > passing. I understand that Kevin lost someone important around this time of > year as well.