Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Ken Ray
On 5/22/11 6:50 PM, "Björnke von Gierke" wrote: > wow that's f*** up. some things in this language makes me doubt that there's > intelligent life out there :( Well, I'm sure that's part of the reason why "dispatch" was added - which is easier: send "ShowName tNameA' to me or dispatch "

Access to Core Audio and Audio Units

2011-05-22 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, I am looking to hire some one to help me integrate Core Audio and Audio Unit plugins into a Live Code app. I am checking out Franklin Sound, but I really need access to Core Audio, and I don't think that will do it. If you have experience with Core Audio and or the LiveCode external sdk a

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Björnke von Gierke
wow that's fucked up. some things in this language makes me doubt that there's intelligent life out there :( On 23 May 2011, at 01:19, Ken Ray wrote: > Actually, "send" *does* accept arrays... it's just that you have to > structure the send a little differently: > > on mouseUp > put "Ken" into

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Ken Ray
> don't address a person directly, maybe someone else would have helped, but now > you scared them away :P Not all of them.. ;-) > You where right on the send part not accepting arrays, i never realised that, > funny. Actually, "send" *does* accept arrays... it's just that you have to structu

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Björnke von Gierke
new nitpicks: don't address a person directly, maybe someone else would have helped, but now you scared them away :P also, the message path is part of the whole visual app stack structure. You said you don't do that, but are creating websites. But if you are using revServer, there is no messag

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 won't run under Win7 Bootcamp on a new MacBook Pro with an SSD

2011-05-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Disable uac and try again. bob Sent from my iPad On May 22, 2011, at 9:50 AM, J Scott Saults wrote: > Newly installed LiveCode 4.6.1 starts, the menus, interface, and a dialog > flash quickly then disappears when run on a new MacBook Pro (2007) with an > SSD running 64-bit Windows 7 on Boo

Re: OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-22 Thread Mike Bonner
If you slightly change kens script to this *Set ProcessSet =GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\.\root\cimv2").ExecQuery("Select * from Win32_Process")* * * *tList = ""* *For each Process in ProcessSet* * if Process.ExecutablePath <> "" Then* * tList = tList & Process.Na

RE: LiveCode 4.6.1 won't run under Win7 Bootcamp on a new MacBook Pro with an SSD

2011-05-22 Thread Slava Paperno
I am using 4.6.1 in Windows 7 64-bit, no problems. Not on a Mac OS Bootcamp drive, though--native Windows. S. > -Original Message- > > Newly installed LiveCode 4.6.1 starts, the menus, interface, > > and a dialog flash quickly then disappears when run on a new MacBook > > Pro (2011) with

Re: OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-22 Thread Mike Bonner
Ah k, nvm. The impersonation stuff designates access level. On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > I don't understand Ken Rays script, will have to look things up. > > I don't know for sure, but I suspect a standard backslash is used to escape > chars in vb scripts so if you had a

Re: OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-22 Thread Mike Bonner
I don't understand Ken Rays script, will have to look things up. I don't know for sure, but I suspect a standard backslash is used to escape chars in vb scripts so if you had an executable named "fred schmed.exe" to make it work it would be "fred\ schmed.exe" Also, if you have a path with spaces

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Keith Clarke
Björnke, Thanks for the feedback: Libraries: I have tried to clarify the ambiguity here - between the Library Stack position in the message path and mechanisms for accessing library capabilities in stacks. Behaviors: I have clarified the wording of how behaviors sit on buttons and can be refe

Re: OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-22 Thread Ken Ray
> It would be helpful of course if I could see the process list in the PC - then > I could launch the prog from outside my LC app and just look at the list to > see what Windows calls it, but I don't know how to do that on XP since > 'tasklist' isn't recognised and I don't know how to display thi

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/21/11 5:28 PM, paul foraker wrote: Build 1392 fixed the Chrome variable problem for LC 4.6.1, but no previous version of LC works on my machine in the current user. By "not working" I mean that I cannot type in the Message Box, and I cannot check the variables in the Script Editor. The worka

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 won't run under Win7 Bootcamp on a new MacBook Pro with an SSD

2011-05-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/22/11 12:43 PM, J Scott Saults wrote: SORRY -- typed the wrong year (I suppose that's obvious but..) I MEANT: Newly installed LiveCode 4.6.1 starts, the menus, interface, and a dialog flash quickly then disappears when run on a new MacBook Pro (2011) with an SSD running 64-bit Windows 7 on B

Re: OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-22 Thread Björnke von Gierke
you need to quote or escape spaces. That was suggested and people succesfully tested it on their own setup. What exactly did you try to quote the filenames, or escape the spaces? On 22 May 2011, at 19:51, Graham Samuel wrote: > Excuse me for repeating myself, but I put the essentials of this me

OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-22 Thread Graham Samuel
Excuse me for repeating myself, but I put the essentials of this message to the list already under another subject heading - this one reflects what I'm really trying to find out. Mike Bonner has been helping me on this list with a little VB script that launches a Windows program from within a L

LiveCode 4.6.1 won't run under Win7 Bootcamp on a new MacBook Pro with an SSD

2011-05-22 Thread J Scott Saults
SORRY -- typed the wrong year (I suppose that's obvious but..) I MEANT: Newly installed LiveCode 4.6.1 starts, the menus, interface, and a dialog flash quickly then disappears when run on a new MacBook Pro (2011) with an SSD running 64-bit Windows 7 on Boot Camp ... Thanks for any feedback or su

LiveCode 4.6.1 won't run under Win7 Bootcamp on a new MacBook Pro with an SSD

2011-05-22 Thread J Scott Saults
Newly installed LiveCode 4.6.1 starts, the menus, interface, and a dialog flash quickly then disappears when run on a new MacBook Pro (2007) with an SSD running 64-bit Windows 7 on Boot Camp (Same thing happens on Parallels running the Boot Camp as a VM) . It works fine under Mac OSX on the same

Re: experience Generating e-mail

2011-05-22 Thread Ronald Zellner
While my anecdote referred to an early unsolicited survey, my applications are directed at participants in specific projects and use approved e-mail lists; I don't send out to any general lists gleaned from the Internet, etc. While my requests do not involve commercial or marketing activities,

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread Andre Garzia
That is true! They did that in Brazil, I remember it I was running NetBSD back then :-) (I started running BSD in 1998 I think... or something near that) On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > I am 100% sure that Microsoft loves the fact t

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/22/2011 06:48 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: I am 100% sure that Microsoft loves the fact that people pirate their software (especially the OS) During the "Don't Copy that Floppy" era, a company set up offices throughout South America to help local authorities crack down on piracy. Very often t

RE: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> I am 100% sure that Microsoft loves the fact that people > pirate their software (especially the OS) During the "Don't Copy that Floppy" era, a company set up offices throughout South America to help local authorities crack down on piracy. Very often they'd get called by local authorities becau

Re: Blocking returns in a locked text field

2011-05-22 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Ken and Mike, (actually the field is unlocked) Thanks, I had yet to find these two messages. LC is so complex these days; however, I see they've been around since 1.0, so my bad. (smile) You guys are great! Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect On May 22, 2011, at 5:09 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > You can

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'd say there's still lots of things wrong :) -- you say that call and send only pass strings, but they can pass aynthing, including binary and arrays, so that seems to be wrong to me. you say that you call librarystacks, but it's way easier to just let messages fall trough to them, because the

Re: Blocking returns in a locked text field

2011-05-22 Thread Ken Ray
> Earlier I thought I had a solution for this, but I'm not happy with what I've > come up with. Anyone have a simpler/better solution? You want to block returns in a *locked* text field? How is the user able to enter a return when the field is locked? Regardless, though, you can simply add this

Re: Blocking returns in a locked text field

2011-05-22 Thread Mike Bonner
You can use returninfield and enterinfield for this, if you put the following in the script for the field. *on returninfield* * exit returninfield* *end returninfield* * * *on enterinfield* * exit enterinfield* *end enterinfield* as long as you don't pass enterinfield or returninfield the ent

RE: something better than HTMLText, anyone?

2011-05-22 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- On Sat, 5/21/11, Slava Paperno wrote: > > I still don't know how to instantiate a revBrowser w/o > giving it some valid > URL. What I do now is call revBrowserOpen() with the > filename of a small > blank htm file on the disk, and then refresh the htmlText > property of the > browser with my

Re: LiveCode 4.6.1 message path and behaviors

2011-05-22 Thread Keith Clarke
Ah, thanks, Björnke - you have successfully reset my frame of reference for this now. The message flow passes through ALL the various set containers whether or not there is a handler to catch (and optionally, pass) the specific message. I had the wrong model in my head from my initial research

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/22/2011 12:00 PM, René Micout wrote: Hello Richmond, Le 22 mai 2011 à 09:17, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : 2.2. the fact that the myth of "everything that isn't Windows-based is horribly difficult to use" is only a myth. Yes> Macintosh ! ;-) Har, har, har. Linux + Gn

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread René Micout
Hello Richmond, Le 22 mai 2011 à 09:17, Richmond Mathewson a écrit : > 2.2. the fact that the myth of "everything that isn't Windows-based is > horribly > difficult to use" is only a myth. Yes > Macintosh ! ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: How to preserving XML tag string formats in variables?

2011-05-22 Thread Keith Clarke
True, Slava, but as Jim mentioned earlier in the thread, concerning LiveCode field quirks, it's probably best to stick with a platform-agnostic tool for plain text file management, rather than have the platform's or editing app's requirements or idiosyncrasies become a filter on the purity of th

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On the other hand, if people where unable to pirate Microsoft software, maybe linux on the desktop could actually happen xD cheers Björnke I am 100% sure that Microsoft loves the fact that people pirate their software (especially the OS); thereby propagating a dependency culture, and the sor

Re: [OT] Pirate software in Germany?

2011-05-22 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 05/22/2011 12:39 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I confess now, that when I was a teenager, I shoplifted. I hung out with a "friend" who's father was pretty high up in the FBI, and my friend assured me that nothing serious would ever happen to us, which of course meant, "him." We stole candy and mo

Blocking returns in a locked text field

2011-05-22 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Earlier I thought I had a solution for this, but I'm not happy with what I've come up with. Anyone have a simpler/better solution? I put the following into the field's script and it works - kind of, but not until the user leaves the field: on mouseOver global gTemp lock screen put m

RE: How to preserving XML tag string formats in variables?

2011-05-22 Thread Slava Paperno
If you ever need to open those files in Notepad, you'll really want Windows-style CRLF (0x0D + 0x0A, or decimal 13 + 10) at the end of each line. Slava > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Keith C