Check for first run

2011-04-16 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi, Is there a best practice for checking if the application is on a first run for a standalone(especially one that will go to an App store eventually)? I simply need to ask the user a few questions on first run (and set up a sqlite db). Best, Maarten __

Re: text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-16 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Thanks, I will test. The advantage of livecode being that you can redesign your UI flow so fast, i came up witha flow without modals tha people seems to like more (modals can be a bit intrusive). But I'll test anyway See if this trick helps for future ference :-) --Maarten On Saturday, April

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-16 Thread Peter W A Wood
On 17 Apr 2011, at 00:41, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Margarine, not butter on that muffin? Oh dear, Craig. Have you never stepped foot in Scotland? It is clearly a scone. Cheers Peter ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Data-Entry in a LiveCode form using the tab key

2011-04-16 Thread Mike Bonner
If you select a field and go to the size and position tab in the inspector, near the bottom it shows the layer of that object. To get the effect you want, re-layer them so that they're in numerical order. On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM, EDWARD DENES wrote: >I have constructed a form in

Data-Entry in a LiveCode form using the tab key

2011-04-16 Thread EDWARD DENES
I have constructed a form in LiveCode; I want to complete the data entry in each field by using the tab key. Is there a way to reconfigure the "tab sequence" of fields so that as one tabs and then types in the data, one progresses through each field sequentially throughout the form?

Re: text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-16 Thread Mike Bonner
No longer have a mac, but I seem to remember this same thing happening in non-lc applications also, and intermittently in the lc dictionary(I think there were several threads about the dictionary annoyance here). The fix being to click outside the field then refocus the field. As a workaround, if

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
doh! hand slap to forehead. I was pretty sure I checked those images previously but obviously not because ... they are there. Thanks! Kee On Apr 16, 2011, at 11:51 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/16/11 12:17 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: >> How do I do a barber pole progress bar? > > Look in the imag

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread stephen barncard
"set the cursor to busy" still works but is not the colorful and dreaded "spinning pizza" you mentioned. It is the ancient monochrome one, and it still is useful if not ugly. On 16 April 2011 10:17, Kee Nethery wrote: > How do I do a barber pole progress bar? > > I know that I should not use the

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/16/11 12:17 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: How do I do a barber pole progress bar? Look in the image library that ships with LiveCode (Development->Image Library.) There are several barber poles in there. They are just animated gif images, and when you need one you just show it. -- Jacqueline

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: > Don't forget that buying a LiveCode license, which is necessay > to compile any open-source LC stack, might be much more expensive > than paying for compiled open-source software. True, and along those lines it may cost less to simply write the author of a component yo

Re: Question about position of cloned group

2011-04-16 Thread William de Smet
@ Dubarx aand René: Thanks for your answers and I will try them out later next week. greetings, William 2011/4/16 René Micout : > (re) hello > > >  clone grp "dummy" >  set the name of it to Naam > > René > > Le 16 avr. 2011 à 16:14, William de Smet a écrit : > >>   clone grp "dummy" >>   glob

Re: text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-16 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Mac bug. Same stack on windows work fine with text input on a modal in a dragDrop. I'll see if I can file a bug. If you know of a work around (except redesigning the UI.), I'd be very thankful. --Maarten On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Maarten Koopmans < maarten.koopm...@gmail.com> wrote:

barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
How do I do a barber pole progress bar? I know that I should not use the "set cursor to busy" command in a Mac OS X app because that now signifies that the system is hung (thanks everyone for teaching me the proper way). I know instead I should use a progress bar. All well and good but ... I h

Re: Live LiveCode code event #19

2011-04-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
One hour to go (well 45 minutes actually, but then, you are already in chatrev, anticipating the big show, aren't you?) On 15 Apr 2011, at 16:35, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > damn! Funny thing is that my times _are_ from that site... Probably some > summertime problem. > > Corrected times: > >

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-16 Thread Colin Holgate
On Apr 16, 2011, at 12:41 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > > Margarine, not butter on that muffin? > > > Glass half full, not half empty? The water bottle did seem out of place. I would expect it to be butter not margarine, and there to be a coffee, or Mountain Dew, instead of water. ___

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-16 Thread Colin Holgate
On Apr 16, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > OMG I am a collector of Rev versions but that collection is > impressive... so many icons I have Rev from 2.1 and up saved somewhere > here but I don't keep them at my dock... Those are just LiveCode. The latest version is open, and the

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-16 Thread dunbarx
Colin. Margarine, not butter on that muffin? Glass half full, not half empty? A dozen or so open LC icons in the dock? Not sure. Craig -Original Message- From: Colin Holgate To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sat, Apr 16, 2011 12:20 pm Subject: take by a LiveCode developer I sus

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-16 Thread Andre Garzia
OMG I am a collector of Rev versions but that collection is impressive... so many icons I have Rev from 2.1 and up saved somewhere here but I don't keep them at my dock... :-D now, what I've won? On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I was looking over some of the tut

take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I was looking over some of the tutorials online, and saw this picture: http://tinyurl.com/3gytlko My guess is that it was taken at the desk of one of the developers. Can you see what in the picture gives me that clue? ___ use-livecode mailing list us

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, Don't forget that buying a LiveCode license, which is necessay to compile any open-source LC stack, might be much more expensive than paying for compiled open-source software. Im not entirely sure how you define 'free', but your statement regarding free software seems flawed, since

Re: Question about position of cloned group

2011-04-16 Thread René Micout
(re) hello > clone grp "dummy" set the name of it to Naam René Le 16 avr. 2011 à 16:14, William de Smet a écrit : > clone grp "dummy" > global Naam > add 1 to Naam > set the name of the last grp to Naam ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: Question about position of cloned group

2011-04-16 Thread René Micout
Hello > put item 1 of the loc of grp A into vX -- A = the name of the last group put item 2 of the loc of grp A into vY set the loc of grp Naam to vX+20,vY+20 -- 20 or other value... Bon souvenir de Paris René set the loc of grp Naam to vxParentX+250,vxParentY+25 -- décalé par rapport au nœud p

Re: Question about position of cloned group

2011-04-16 Thread dunbarx
There is an issue with the "last group". Unlike all other objects, it doesn't work. The dictionary has this: The "last" keyword is not stable when referring to groups. So if one creates several groups, referencing the "last" group may not return the group actual ly created last. Using the "te

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: > On 15 apr 2011, at 16:14, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Scott McDonald wrote: >>> >>> Where I was getting it mixed up, was that I was equating selling >>> commercially with not making the source code available. >>> >>> But of course, they are not the same thing. >> >> Not e

text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-16 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi I have a main stack that accepts a drag-drop for files like this on a hidden field the size of the card: *on* dragDrop *if* the dragData["files"] is not empty *then* *modal* stack "AddMetaData" addFiles(dragData["files"]) *end* *if* *set* the dragAction to link *

Question about position of cloned group

2011-04-16 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, I use a little script to clone a grp and rename the name and label of the btn in the group. So far so good but each cloned grp is put on top of the other one. Not so nice! How do I get the cloned grp to be show next to the previous cloned grp? Set the left of grp Naam to (the left of the

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-16 Thread Richmond
On 04/16/2011 01:27 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Richard, You'd be surprised how many don't know how to milk a cow Having milked a cow by hand, and had the beast kick me in the stomach, I would advise one and all to avoid the experience at all costs. or wouldn't bother doing so because it i

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, You'd be surprised how many don't know how to milk a cow or wouldn't bother doing so because it is so much easier to buy the milk in the supermarket. I, for one, could get a cow for free, but I have no place for it on my balcony. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consu

Videograbber Audio settings on Mac - Desktop LC 4.6

2011-04-16 Thread stephen barncard
Hi gang, I don't know if this is old turkey meat here, but I'm still having problems with saving AUDIO settings with the videograbber library. The video settings now can be restored, but the audio settings just don't seem to 'stick'. The syntax and usage on this videograbber stuff is just plain we

Re: Free LiveCode eBook

2011-04-16 Thread René Micout
Merci (from Paris) !! René Le 16 avr. 2011 à 09:12, Scott McDonald a écrit : > Hi, > > I choose the A5 sized pages for the PDF to make it easier when viewing on > smaller screens. > > Thanks all for the encouraging feedback. > > > - > -- > Scott McDonald > "Components, Controls, Tools and

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-16 Thread Scott McDonald
The last time I looked at the fine print was when Version 3 of the GPL was being debated/coming out, and I was then an avid "Linux Format" reader, but that was a while ago now. Assuming what you say is correct, then that's good to know. >The ramifications of this are that if the GPL license allow

Re: Free LiveCode eBook

2011-04-16 Thread Scott McDonald
Hi, I choose the A5 sized pages for the PDF to make it easier when viewing on smaller screens. Thanks all for the encouraging feedback. - -- Scott McDonald "Components, Controls, Tools and Resources for LiveCode" www.runrevplanet.com -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revoluti