Re: Software Order Processing Service?

Andre, Will license and learn your way to go as soon as you will have pack it :D Kind Regards, Pierre Le 10 janv. 2011 à 01:41, Andre Garzia a écrit : > Scott, > > I did this with on-rev. let me have some days to package it, I was turning > it into a paid product. > > andre > > > > On Sat

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

Stephen, These are great news, indeed! :-D Could we merge many imported audioclips in a single audio file? This would make a lot easier to recreate apps like "Mozart's Musical Game" in this platform These messages reads like the continuation of this thread from last May: http://runtime-revoluti

Re: Major Problems with Find/Replace

Pete- Friday, January 7, 2011, 2:43:35 PM, you wrote: > I just got done using the FInd and Replace dialog (from the Edit > menu) to make some wholesale changes to custom property names Actually I wasn't aware that you could do this with that dialog... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: When is a Word not a Word?

On 1/9/11 6:05 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: So is the dictionary wrong or am I just misunderstanding it? It says a word is something enclosed in quotes. Is it implying that the quotes are part of the word, not delimited by it? It's confusing, but it's sort of both. Counting everything within doub

Re: Humor: xkcd- How To Write Good Code

Andre- Sunday, January 9, 2011, 4:43:52 PM, you wrote: > check the tooltip on the cartoon... makes things even funnier Hah! I hadn't noticed that before. Thanks. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: Humor: xkcd- How To Write Good Code

check the tooltip on the cartoon... makes things even funnier On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:06 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Kurt- > > Friday, January 7, 2011, 5:18:06 PM, you wrote: > > > http://xkcd.com/844/ > > LOL. But all seriousness aside, I think the "Throw it all out and > start over" step is the

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

Scott, I did this with on-rev. let me have some days to package it, I was turning it into a paid product. andre On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 10:17 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Mark Schonewille wrote: > > > PayPal provides a library, into which you can hook your own registration > > system. Y

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

Recently, Peter Haworth wrote: > Here's another thought. I currently generate a reply to emails I get from > PayPal re purchases by using a Rule in the Mac Mail client. It's just a > simple courtesy to let them know I got the order soon but he Mac Mail rules > have an option to run an Applescrip

Re: When is a Word not a Word?

I guess my previous email should have said what I'm trying to do. I'm searching through an LC script to find all occurrences of a string and then replacing it with another string. The quote thing causes a problem with expressions such as if "xyz" is among the lines of the customkeys of

Re: When is a Word not a Word?

So is the dictionary wrong or am I just misunderstanding it? It says a word is something enclosed in quotes. Is it implying that the quotes are part of the word, not delimited by it? Pete Haworth On Jan 9, 2011, at 3:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/9/11 4:48 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: >> G

Custom Print Dialog

Has anyone rolled their own print dialog for Mac? I'm working on an app that I hope to get into the Mac App Store and am concerned about violating the HIG. Currently my users have a choice of how many cards to print per page, along with a few other options that need to be set before I call for

Re: When is a Word not a Word?

On 1/9/11 4:48 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Got weird things going on with the wordoffset function. The code is: put wordoffset(field "Selection",myLine) into mywordoffset if field Selection contains xyz and myline contains abc def xyz, then wordoffset returns 3. if field Selection contains xyz a

Re: Trying to adhere to interface standards Mac OS X

Richmond - I tried your suggestion. You know there is quit a bit of functionality built into that menu bar. And then there is the problem of when you compile for Windows also. Do you know why LiveCode doesn't offer a few more common interface standards?

Re: iOS App Accepted

Yay team! On Jan 9, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: > Hi All, > > I just had my second app accepted by Apple this one for iPad only... > Baseball Math hey it sold six copies on the first day! > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

When is a Word not a Word?

Got weird things going on with the wordoffset function. The code is: put wordoffset(field "Selection",myLine) into mywordoffset if field Selection contains xyz and myline contains abc def xyz, then wordoffset returns 3. if field Selection contains xyz and myline contains abc def "xyz" (xyz in

Re: Quit

On 1/9/11 6:40 AM, Richmond wrote: I want to disable the ability of Mac users to QUIT by pressing Command-Q; tis is to force them to use localised QUIT buttons (each with slightly different characteristics) on cards within a stack. Try trapping the shutdownrequest message. -- Jacqueline Landma

Re: iOS App Accepted

Well, Scott, they caught me anyway, it wasn't a big deal to fix. I set it up to rotate all four orientations and rearranged the screen on rotation a bit to accommodate. Good to hear about the landscape only, however. take care, randy -- On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >

Re: iOS App Accepted

Well, that's odd... I went back and checked 4.5.2 and the same process works with it, too. On Jan 9, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Randy Hengst wrote: > >> >> I'm using LC 4.5.3 (rc3 and rc4) Under the Development Menu --> >> Simulator Version -

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

Here's another thought. I currently generate a reply to emails I get from PayPal re purchases by using a Rule in the Mac Mail client. It's just a simple courtesy to let them know I got the order soon but he Mac Mail rules have an option to run an Applescript on the selected incoming emails so

Re: How To "Get" Properties in iOS?

Hi Scott, I am using a list field that is within a group (the group is being scrolled). BUT I set the listbehavior to false when starting. On mouseDown I set the listbehavior to true, but the listbehavior is not immediately (within the mouseDown handler) availabel. Also in the mouseDown handler

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Le 9 janv. 2011 à 20:16, Colin Holgate a écrit : > > On Jan 9, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Thierry wrote: > >> sips -s format png -z 32 32 x.icns -... >> >> You should be happy :) > > > I'm generally a happy person, but if I wasn't, that would have done it! To be really happy... ( there is no limit

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

the full approach would be similar to this: choose app parse package.app/contents/info.plist for icn file name convert icn file to png get image into rev set icon of button to image therefore in a LC button, the following works (watch for linewraps). Note: xml parsing is super simplified, and wo

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

On Jan 9, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Thierry wrote: > sips -s format png -z 32 32 x.icns -... > > You should be happy :) I'm generally a happy person, but if I wasn't, that would have done it! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Le 9 janv. 2011 à 19:17, Colin Holgate a écrit : > > On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> >> sips -s format png Dictionary.icns --out ~/Desktop/Dictionary_icon.png > > That just extracts the 512x512 image. How would you get the 32x32 one? sips -s format png -z 32 32 x.icns -..

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

In my search for order processing services, I came across a php script for use with PayPal. I didn't look too deep (don't know php), but for those interested you might take a peak: They have a free "lite" version and "Pro" version for

Re: iOS App Accepted

On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:54 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Sure -- in your hands. It's manual rotation. I just lean. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pre

Re: iOS App Accepted

Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: >> ve seen plenty lately that only rotate in >> one -- somehow they get through. > > So, technically speaking, do they rotate at all? Sure -- in your hands. It's manual rotation. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design

Re: How To "Get" Properties in iOS?

> on doGetProp pProp >iphoneControlGet sScrollerId, pProp >return the result > end doGetProp Thanks Bernd. I'll try again (need to do exactly what you are doing) but I wasn't getting any result. Also, do you have any suggestions for handling the clicking of items in a scroller group? I'

Re: iOS App Accepted

On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:38 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > ve seen plenty lately that only rotate in > one -- somehow they get through. So, technically speaking, do they rotate at all? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Yeah, its not documented, but sips will convert. And on the direct grab of data from the icns file, if one were to do as suggested and break the file down into it's integral chunks (as defined by the internal header structures) at that point the image data is just that right? Image data that can

Re: List Field Problem

John, Thanks for your help. Your solution worked perfectly! ...much appreciated Warren On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 1:54 AM, John Dixon wrote: > > > > 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

Re: iOS App Accepted

That's great Randy, you're on a roll. Rotating iPad in 2 directions is fine, people two that all the time (I have -- landscape only), and FWIW, I've seen plenty lately that only rotate in one -- somehow they get through. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: >> That just extracts the 512x512 image. How would you get the 32x32 one? > > Hm, what about scaling in LiveCode? ;-) Of course that would work, though you might have to create a bitmap for it to map to an icon. The real 32x32 would just be bette

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Hi Mike and Colin, Am 09.01.2011 um 19:17 schrieb Colin Holgate: > On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: >> sips -s format png Dictionary.icns --out ~/Desktop/Dictionary_icon.png great, I was not sure if SIPS supports ICNS as input format, thanks! > That just extracts the 512x512 image

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

On Jan 9, 2011, at 1:03 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > > sips -s format png Dictionary.icns --out ~/Desktop/Dictionary_icon.png That just extracts the 512x512 image. How would you get the 32x32 one? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

If only a conversion to png is needed, apparently sips will do that. sips -s format png Dictionary.icns --out ~/Desktop/Dictionary_icon.png ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and ma

Re: iOS App Accepted

On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:37 PM, Randy Hengst wrote: > > I'm using LC 4.5.3 (rc3 and rc4) Under the Development Menu --> Simulator > Version --> then select the Device before you go to the simulator... > > Also make sure iPad is selected in the Applications Settings. That doesn't seem to hel

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

On 08.01.11 at 17:26 -0800 Bill Vlahos apparently wrote: I use Kagi. They were very helpful with the entire process. Bill Vlahos I used Kagi on a couple ocassions. Their tech support crew is quite good and helpful. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about accounting people. Robert

Re: How To "Get" Properties in iOS?

Hi Scott, I made a command in the card script, where my scroller is initialized and the sScrollerId is a script local variable: -- on doGetProp pProp iphoneControlGet sScrollerId, pProp return the result end doGetProp -- which I call from a field on that ca

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Hmm. Even after cleanup, am getting messages that my emails are too big. What gives? Shortened so that maybe i won't get a bounce. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Icon_Image_format is the source. This is beyond me(and I no longer own a mac), but am I correct in assuming, > the first 8 bytes (h

Re: iOS App Accepted

Hi Colin, I'm using LC 4.5.3 (rc3 and rc4) Under the Development Menu --> Simulator Version --> then select the Device before you go to the simulator... Also make sure iPad is selected in the Applications Settings. Glad to hear about the landscape only being approved. take care, randy

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Mike Bonner wrote: To get the icon is a 2 stage process. Do a shell call, designate a temporary folder to put the extracted icons. Step 2 import them. How does one translate the icns data to a format LC understands? Maybe this would make a good library, with functions to extract the image dat

Re: iOS App Accepted

On Jan 9, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Randy Hengst wrote: > FYI This app was initially rejected because I neglected to have it > rotate that was my fault... as has been noted previously on our lists > (and in Apple docs), Apple wants iPad apps to rotate all four directions. > They'll accept jus

iOS App Accepted

Hi All, I just had my second app accepted by Apple this one for iPad only... Baseball Math hey it sold six copies on the first day! http://itunes.apple.com/app/baseballmath/id412763742?mt=8 FYI This app was initially rejected because I neglected to have it rotate that was my f

Re: Bad text...

David- Sunday, January 9, 2011, 1:51:15 AM, you wrote: > On the first card try "put the good_Text of fld 1 of cd 2", which works as > expected, but "put the bad_Text of fld 1 of cd 2" returns empty! It gets > even more complicated if you try to get "the properties of fld 1 of cd 2" - > where the

Re: cREVGeneral

David- Sunday, January 9, 2011, 6:32:50 AM, you wrote: > Does anyone with further info about the innards of the Rev IDE know which > properties are safe to strip? The aim is to store everything you need to > safely recreate an exact copy of the stack, but not things that may change > from day to

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

To get the icon is a 2 stage process. Do a shell call, designate a temporary folder to put the extracted icons. Step 2 import them. It puts all extracted icons into a designated folder. On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 9:22 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I think I see the problem now. There are lots of ways t

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

I think I see the problem now. There are lots of ways to get the icon manually, or with utilities, but suppose you're making a Dock utility for the user, and want them to pick any application to assign to a button, you would want LC to get the icon on the fly. Photo Booth's icons are stored in

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Hi Mike, > maybe I should actually put the link it. > http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html Yeah, thats better. yep, excellent idea! :-D But how do you get the resulting ICO file into LiveCode? Or did I overlook something? Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-r

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

maybe I should actually put the link it. http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html Yeah, thats better. On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > For windows, I haven't tried it, but this little utility supports command > line functionality, so you could shell it out and have it grab

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

For windows, I haven't tried it, but this little utility supports command line functionality, so you could shell it out and have it grab all the icons in the .exe Again, haven't tried it, so do your due diligence, but might be an ok solution. Of course if this is for distribution/sale, would have

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

On os x, since the .app is a package folder, why not open it up and look for the .icns files? Then import them directly, or if theres more than 1, pop up a dialog to choose. Should be inside the package in contents/resources On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I didn't see a

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

I didn't see an answer from William yet, but hopefully Jim read my steps, which give a much better looking icon. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Thanks Jim, please read my answer I just gave to Colin. Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 9 jan. 2011 om 16:38 heeft Jim Ault het volgende geschreven: > For Mac it is easy. > > In the Finder, navigate to the folder containing "PhotoBooth" > or do a spotlight for "Phot

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Thanks Colin but that's not what I meant. I know you can do this but I want LC to do it :-). PhotoBooth is just my example but it needs to be any app. Anyone else? Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 9 jan. 2011 om 16:30 heeft Colin Holgate het volgende geschreven: >

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

For Mac it is easy. In the Finder, navigate to the folder containing "PhotoBooth" or do a spotlight for "PhotoBooth" then click once on the app file, the do QuickLook to get a very large icon then do the good ol' cmd-cntrl-sh-4 to drag a rectangle and put a copy of the screen on the clipboard.

Re: How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

On Jan 9, 2011, at 10:11 AM, William de Smet wrote: > How do I get the icon from PhotoBooth into my Button? > Any idea's are welcome. I don't know about Windows, but on OSX you can do this: Get Info on Photo Booth, click on the icon, and do a Copy. Open Preview, and do New from Clipboard. Th

How do I set the icon from an OSX app to a button?

Hi there all, I am experimenting a little with lauch on my Mac: on mouseup launch "/Applications/Photo Booth.app" end mouseup How do I get the icon from PhotoBooth into my Button? Any idea's are welcome. P.S. I am looking for the same thing on Windows greetings, William __

Re: cREVGeneral

2011/1/9 Björnke von Gierke > I doubt that you can intercept messages for these properties... unless the > internal handling is happening in the backscript, then you could catch em in > the frontscript? > Yes - that's what I would do - use a front script to redirect calls to cRevGeneral to the s

Re: cREVGeneral

As far as I know, most of these are for the script editor to be faster. Instead of parsing the script directly, it get's the handlerlist and prevhandler (for example) when you open a script the first time. I didn't know breakpoints are saved between quitting, but then i never use debuging anyway

Re: Connecting to a MySQL database at a hosting provider

Hi Bjornke, Thanks for your reply: Last few day i've been trying to get this work, but it's more of a web-development problem than a runrev one. I still can't get it to work, because I don't know how to setup my server-side. Still working on that one :( Is there an example template for this t

Re: cREVGeneral

For instance what if I get rid of "revUniqueID" - would this be recreated - what is it used for? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://

cREVGeneral

I'm stripping a few things out of the automagically created custom properties before exporting stacks as text files. This is the handler I'm using to strip: command objectArray_CleanGeneral @customArray >delete local customArray ["cREVGeneral"]["bookmarks"] >delete local customArray ["cREV

Re: RTF export

The font is inherited from the stack or field (or group), and bot htmltext as well as rtftext ignore that. I would use a temporary field, set the text font to the effective text font, then get the rtftext of that field. you'll run into complications if the textfont is already set to different on

Re: Bad text...

i can replicate this even when using normal handlers, but only as long as "sharedtext" is false (for example it does work correctly with the 'default' label fields of the ide). I filed a bug report: http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=9286 --stacks script on bText return the te

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

Yes, you can do it with on-rev instead of php, its pretty simple stuff. We have systems set up with Kagi, Plimus and Paypal.All do the same thing, which is on completion of the order they post the order info to a url you choose, it can be a php or irev file, it doesnt matter. You then

Quit

I want to disable the ability of Mac users to QUIT by pressing Command-Q; tis is to force them to use localised QUIT buttons (each with slightly different characteristics) on cards within a stack. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.c

RTF export

Funnily enough when I export RTF documents the don't seem to retain a reference to the font they were originally written in (inside Livecode). Help? Ideas? Richmond is being thick and missing something? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Menu Question

On 9 Jan 2011, at 04:44, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > I've tried to use the Dictionary a number of times, but the text is too damn > small and there is no preference that I've found to make it any larger. Try BvG Docu then. Unless you're just randomly ranting, then please stay away from my stuff

Plugin messages: revSaveStackRequest

Has anyone successfully used the "revSaveStackRequest" message? I can't work out which stack is getting saved, there is no param sent, and none of the following work: on revSaveStackRequest saveObject >put the topstack into saveObject >put the long id of the target into saveObject > end re

Re: Bad text...

On 9 January 2011 01:08, Mark Wieder 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 result

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

Hello Scott, As Robert Mann noted, you can do this with on-rev and PayPal's ipn (Instant Payment Notification) mechanism. If you decide to use this route, the script below gives the basics of how I scripted a beginning. https://www.

Re: size of window decorations

... and this stack script is what i came up with (i only needed a windows XP solution) (beware of email line breaks): -- shrink to min revChangeWindowSize the minWidth of me, the minHeight of me,"slide",,500 revUpdateGeometry -- get dimensions from screen and stack

How To "Get" Properties in iOS?

Using the iOS scroller setup, I understand how to use the following to set the scroll value: iphoneControlSet sScrollerId, "vscroll", 0 Now what's the script to "get" the scroll value? I tried: iphoneControlGet sScrollerId, "vscroll" answer it iphoneControlGet sScrollerId, "vscroll" answer