Re: Simple Game Server -- request for help

2011-05-31 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Shao Sean wrote: > Won't apache kill it after some time >> > > the server i was testing with it seem to run fine, but did not run it for > days though.. oh cool! I learn something everyday... thanks for this! > > >

Re: eBooks and LiveCode

2011-05-31 Thread Andre Garzia
eBooks these days basically mean one of the following file formats: * PDF * mobi * nook * ePub * amz These formats can be generated from any tool that can process text data and binary files. ePub for example is nothing but some xml and html inside a zip file. LiveCode can't generate those in the

Re: Simple Game Server -- request for help

2011-05-31 Thread Shao Sean
Won't apache kill it after some time the server i was testing with it seem to run fine, but did not run it for days though.. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Unicode and revDatabase Library, SQLite

2011-05-31 Thread Slava Paperno
Hello Listers! It's that teacher of Russian again, with another Unicode hurdle. I knew it wouldn't be long... I am building a front end to a Russian dictionary database (SQLite). I've now gotten to the point where my scripts are ready to retrieve the data: put "SELECT RecNum FROM RDTKeys WHERE

eBooks and LiveCode

2011-05-31 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
Like many publishers, we are considering developing a number of our titles as eBooks. I've used LiveCode (RunRev) for many of our projects, including CDs in our books, free downloads of built applications from our website, and even in the construction of our invoice system. Does anyone have

Re: Simple Game Server -- request for help

2011-05-31 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Shao Sean wrote: > How do you launch the Rev CGI engine in a way that keeps it alive after >> it's done processing the startup handler? >> > > don't let it finish the startup handler ;-) Won't apache kill it after some time... > > > __

Re: Simple Game Server -- request for help

2011-05-31 Thread Shao Sean
How do you launch the Rev CGI engine in a way that keeps it alive after it's done processing the startup handler? don't let it finish the startup handler ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

Re: Simple Game Server -- request for help

2011-05-31 Thread Andre Garzia
try using something along these lines: 1) go with ssh to a shell on your server. 2) use screen 3) launch your cgi script 4) detach. Your script should stay running... you might need a secondary script or tool to monitor the first one to see if it fails and then relaunch it. On Tue, May 31, 20

Re: Datagrid, can't delete a line

2011-05-31 Thread Bob Sneidar
You may have option clicked it. I used to do that all the time. Bob On May 30, 2011, at 9:41 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > solved... > > for a strange weird reason, I ended up with a duplicate datagrid with the > same name (in the same position) so deleting lines, deleted from one grid > that was

Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: group a tList

2011-05-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
just for your information, i would like to help, but your mail is unreadable. please make more efforts do distinguish between quoted text and your own addition to the conversation, or refrain from quoting altogether, otherwise you will get much less help then possible. On 31 May 2011, at 14:45,

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I tried this a bit, and it looks like the engine does resize the screen, but does not update the contents of the windows at the same time, but only a cycle later. that produces a very choppy resize visual :( Maybe a bug report could help? After all, the runrev guys are supposedly changing aroun

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-31 Thread Todd Geist
lock and unlock do not help either but thanks Todd 2011/5/31 Björnke von Gierke > Did you try to experiment with lock and unlock screen too? because you can > salvage a lot of things with arcane divinations (aka. randomly adding lock > screen at improbable locations and look what it does, whic

Re: Simple Game Server -- request for help

2011-05-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Shao Sean wrote: if you can run revCGI on your web host you can actually use it to run servers (the cgi process does not "die") but make sure to check with your host that you are within their ToS as they most limit the amount of CPU cycles, ram, time, etc... How do you launch the Rev CGI engin

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Did you try to experiment with lock and unlock screen too? because you can salvage a lot of things with arcane divinations (aka. randomly adding lock screen at improbable locations and look what it does, which will be somewhat random, sometimes slowing stuff down to a crawl, sometimes solving al

Re: Custom Control Property

2011-05-31 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Todd Geist wrote: > > how does one get an account on  RQCC? > I think it is the same account you use to download/update your LiveCode software. ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

RE: Cyrillic input

2011-05-31 Thread Slava Paperno
Also, you may want to examine the first two bytes of the data you get from the UTF-8 file. Some Windows applications (like Notepad or Dreamweaver) put a BOM (byte-order marker) at the beginning of the file. This is a two-byte sequence, decimal 255 followed by 254, or decimal 254 followed by 255. Yo

Re: Custom Control Property

2011-05-31 Thread Todd Geist
how does one get an account on RQCC? On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Scott Rossi >wrote: > > > the AB doesn't always respect child groups contained within the group. > The > > parent > > group may display with some of its child groups v

Re: Custom Control Property

2011-05-31 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > the AB doesn't always respect child groups contained within the group. The > parent > group may display with some of its child groups visible (appears to be a > minor bug in the AB). > I recently posted a fix for this to RQCC. It is a simple

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-31 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah avoiding the geo manager is a good idea. Had a thought, though I don't know how to implement it.. Would it be possible to use snapshots during the resize as an overlay? Not sure how one would go about implementing this, but maybe someone will yay or nay it as an idea. On Tue, May 31, 2011 at

Application Browser

2011-05-31 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, I was wondering if there was a way to filter what shows in the Application Browser. I find it to be very very noisy. I really do not need to see any stacks that have been opened as a plugin. Can I get rid of them? Is there anything else I can do to trim that list down? Is there an alter

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-31 Thread Todd Geist
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 5:39 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Just curious, if you use the widget from the object library, and modify its > script so that you call revupdategeometry does it smooth it out for you? > Sorry for any weird line breaks here. Have marked where I added > revupdategeometry Hel

R: Re: R: Re: R: Re: group a tList

2011-05-31 Thread bacches...@tin.it
Messaggio originale Da: kl...@major.on-rev.com Data: 30-mag- 2011 20.10 A: "How to use LiveCode" Ogg: Re: R: Re: R: Re: group a tList Buonasera Marion, Am 30.05.2011 um 19: 42 schrieb bacches...@tin.it: > > > Messaggio originale > Da: kl...@major.on-rev.com > Data: 30-mag-

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-31 Thread Mike Bonner
Just curious, if you use the widget from the object library, and modify its script so that you call revupdategeometry does it smooth it out for you? Sorry for any weird line breaks here. Have marked where I added revupdategeometry *on mouseMove* * if lMoving then* *put item 1 to 2 of the rect

Re: Cyrillic input

2011-05-31 Thread Mark Schonewille
Malte, First: put uniEncode(someDataFromFile,"UTF8") into myData set the unicodeText of fld x to myData Then a few possibilities: set the textfont of fld x to "SomeFont,Unicode" (may have some unexpected side-effects) or set the textFont of char 1 to -1 of fld x to "SomeFont,Unicode" (may ca

Cyrillic input

2011-05-31 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, for the first time I need to deal with cyrillic input (and reading from text files) in liveCode. Now I am a bit stumped. When I switch my keyboard to russian, the text field does seem to automagically recognize that I am typing in cyrillic. The glyphs show up. So far so good. If I now

Re: Hash function

2011-05-31 Thread paolo mazza
Thank you Warren. It is really helpful. All the best. Paolo ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/us