Re: PlonkerPoint

2011-03-19 Thread Kee Nethery
As much as I love Livecode, I use Keynote on the Mac to make my presentations and it is really easy compared to powerpoint. Once I'm done I can export as PowerPoint or PDF and find that works quite well. It's a really nice easy to use tool for presentations. Kee Nethery

Re: PlonkerPoint

2011-03-19 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I do presentations occasionally for someone who has to give them in a variety of windows centric venues. We do them in OpenOffice, and then export them as PDFs for the venues. Never had a problem. He typically just takes along a little usb stick with them on, or sometimes emails them to the venu

PlonkerPoint

2011-03-19 Thread Richmond
Unfortunately, in this Windows-centric world [ and here, parenthetically, as it IS Saturday night, I shall have one of my 'pomposities'; so, if you cannot take either my 'heat' or my bullshit, skip this bit . . . :) What annoys me most about Windows is that it has become so all pervasive tha

Debug problem with relative paths

2011-03-19 Thread edward cawley
I have a problem that has cropped up. I can work around it but it has me puzzled. I am modifying a stack from a functioning desktop stack to an iPad stack. I made a few minor changes -to ios landscape and a few scale modifications- and suddenly a global path reference changed. The open stack sc

Live LiveCode Code Event #15 starts in 1 hour

2011-03-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi everybody, Here's a quick note to remind you that you are invited to join the Live LiveCode Code Event in approximately 1 hour (20:00h GMT). You need ChatRev to chat with other participants and to ask questions during the presentation. Please, go to http://bjoernke.com?target=chatrev to down

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 90, Issue 35

2011-03-19 Thread edward cawley
Presentation? Back in 1992 when I was still teaching I did all my presentations in Hypercard, the only problem was talking the administration into buying a projector to show them. I even taught biology students how to use Hypercard stacks for their presentations. I retired in 97. When HyperCard

[OT] chopping up PDFs into image files

2011-03-19 Thread Richmond
Unlike Mac's PREVIEW (where pages have to be saved one by one), GraphicConverter will chop a PDF up and export it as a set of numbered images. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

record sound problem on windows

2011-03-19 Thread Martin Meili
Hi, I've got a soud recording problem on Windows XP with LiveCode 4.5.3. The command works fine on Mac OSX, both in the stackfile mode and the standalone mode. On Windows it doesn't work neither in the stackfile mode nor the standalone mode. I doesn't matter whether I work on my Mac or my