Re: my conference contest entry

2011-04-30 Thread Keith Clarke
Nice Colin - though something specific to your revlet (that none of mine have) is crashing Safari for me every time. Here's hoping for an updated browser plug-in soon - and maybe even a second revServer prerelease before June (the anniversary of the previous version-drop). Best, Keith.. On 30 Ap

Re: Repost of "selectedText"

2011-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/01/2011 06:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/30/11 9:57 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Repost of my riposte. Richmond. Would changing to "select after the text" make this better? That's what I'd do too. "select after the text of fld 1", or just "select after fld 1". Thank you. Yes,

Re: Repost of "selectedText"

2011-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/01/2011 05:57 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Repost of my riposte. Richmond. Would changing to "select after the text" make this better? Craig The script editor tells me that's wrong, as it would had you tried it . . . :) ___ use-livecode

Re: Repost of "selectedText"

2011-04-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/30/11 9:57 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Repost of my riposte. Richmond. Would changing to "select after the text" make this better? That's what I'd do too. "select after the text of fld 1", or just "select after fld 1". -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com

Re: Repost of "selectedText"

2011-04-30 Thread dunbarx
Repost of my riposte. Richmond. Would changing to "select after the text" make this better? Craig -Original Message- From: Richmond Mathewson To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 4:26 pm Subject: Repost of "selectedText" Sorry chaps; just a nudge as most of you are

Re: Faceless Servers

2011-04-30 Thread Shao Sean
I have only done faceless servers using the CGI engine, so long as you include the -ui to the command to load the engine (compiled app too) it should work.. In the Windows world there are programs out there that will allow any executable to be run as a service..

Re: my conference contest entry

2011-04-30 Thread Colin Holgate
On Apr 30, 2011, at 4:33 PM, tbodine wrote: > How long would you estimate it would have taken you to do a similar program > in Director or Flash? Director doesn't do mobile, but to do what you see in the web version wouldn't have taken too long. Flash does do mobile, and multitouch, but in sli

Re: my conference contest entry

2011-04-30 Thread tbodine
Nice! How long would you estimate it would have taken you to do a similar program in Director or Flash? -- Tom Bodine-- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/my-conference-contest-entry-tp3486432p3486510.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list arc

Repost of "selectedText"

2011-04-30 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Sorry chaps; just a nudge as most of you are focussed on the Conf. So, here I am with a large textField, and as I merrily type into it new characters keep getting added to the end of the string (as one would expect): Now, this is a textField being

Re: Faceless Servers

2011-04-30 Thread Todd Geist
So the answer is yes it seems to still work, that is very cool But I am still curious... ultimately I would love to make this a faceless standalone. Is that possible? On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Todd Geist wrote: > wow, if I the timestamps on that archive are accurate then this has been >

Xmarks for Safari interferes with RevWeb installation

2011-04-30 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, I just figured out that XMarks for safari will stop the RevWeb installer cold. You get the message saying "To close all browsers" even though they are all closed. If you go into Activity monitor and find xmarks helper and kill it RevWeb will install just fine. Is there an official place I

Re: Faceless Servers

2011-04-30 Thread Todd Geist
wow, if I the timestamps on that archive are accurate then this has been around since 1999. That is impressive! So am I to understand that is this will work if I link the current Live Code engine to it? Can I build standalones with it? Thanks Todd On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Richard Gas

my conference contest entry

2011-04-30 Thread Colin Holgate
I removed the iOS specific features (taking a picture, loading from your album), as well as having no drop shadow as you drag. And of course there is no multitouch, but otherwise this gives you an idea of what it's like: http://idisk.mac.com/coiin//Public/rev/puzzle.html The reset button (in th

Re: Faceless Servers

2011-04-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Todd wrote: > I am messing around with the idea of creating a a very simple Server as a > LiveCode standalone. And I have a question. > Can standalones be made to run as a daemon or windows service? The MetaCard HTTP server should still run well in LiveCode, and is a lot of fun to play with, i

Faceless Servers

2011-04-30 Thread Todd Geist
Hello I am messing around with the idea of creating a a very simple Server as a LiveCode standalone. And I have a question. Can standalones be made to run as a daemon or windows service? Ideally I would like my app to run when no one os logged in. Is this possible? I know about iRev, but I nee

Re: iOS External Extensions?

2011-04-30 Thread stephen barncard
Yeah, I missed his talk as I was on the way to San Jose from SF. I attended the first two days of the event online myself. You might give them the weekend to return home and get a little sleep. Almost the entire staff was in San Jose for the conference and they've all worked really hard this week

Re: ANN: Live LiveCode Code Event #21

2011-04-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, The event starts in one hour from now! -- 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: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qe

Re: FORMalizer -- form printing utility

2011-04-30 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Apr 30, 2011, at 9:37 AM, william humphrey wrote: > Formalizer is very nice. I too have to do that all the time and your layout > is an improvement. The only steps still remaining are the conversion of the > PDF to a jpg or png. That is a time-consuming process in Photoshop. All the > forms ten

on-rev writing to

2011-04-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I need to know how to write to on-rev from within an iOS app. Is there a best practices around? I need to write a folder to my account and then write a text file and some images. Are there any sample stacks that show this? Is it as simple as put img 1 into url "http://etc."; or is this someth

iOS External Extensions?

2011-04-30 Thread Terry Vogelaar
In the keynote, our dearest Kevin said that iOS External Extensions are in 4.6.1, and that Mark Waddingham did a talk about it on April 27th. But unfortunately the talk is not available on the simulcast. I've been waiting on this for quite some time. So, where can I download the new ExternalsE

Re: FORMalizer -- form printing utility

2011-04-30 Thread william humphrey
Formalizer is very nice. I too have to do that all the time and your layout is an improvement. The only steps still remaining are the conversion of the PDF to a jpg or png. That is a time-consuming process in Photoshop. All the forms tend to be PDF's. It's too bad LiveCode doesn't work better with

Re: Scrolling in an iOS text-field

2011-04-30 Thread John Allijn
Great thanks! Send from my iPhone On Apr 30, 2011, at 10:39, Gerry wrote: > John > > Here's a simple iOS scrolling text example: > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67170/examples/TextScrollerExample.livecode > > It's for iPhone Retina resolution screens - you will need to change some > stuff t

Re: Scrolling in an iOS text-field

2011-04-30 Thread Gerry
John Here's a simple iOS scrolling text example: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67170/examples/TextScrollerExample.livecode It's for iPhone Retina resolution screens - you will need to change some stuff to make it work on older iPhone screens. I've commented the code but if you need further help just

Scrolling in an iOS text-field

2011-04-30 Thread John Allijn
Hello, I've been working on a tool for students and teacher that will help them to communicate better. In livecode I made a teachers-app and a Students-app for mac/win and iOS. The apps are free for all platforms, so take a look if you want: http://www.ons-prikbord.nl/Scholen/HES/Downloads.htm