Re: Windows?

Yes, Microsoft relaxed the restrictions when they went to Windows 7. Vista was the only OS version with ... unpleasant ... virtualization restrictions. On 06/04/2011 8:32 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: That is a change then. Here's the same passage from the Vista one: -- David Glass - Gray Matter

the hilitedLine of list field isn't highlighted

I have a list field ("MyListField") with a rawKeyDown handler that tells me which line is the hilitedLine after every key press. on rawKeyDown parKey put return & the hilitedLine of me after msg pass rawKeyDown parKey end of rawKeyDown When I press the Up Arrow and Down Arrow keys, I see in t

Re: HTTP Response Headers

2011/6/4 Björnke von Gierke > do you mean this? > > libURLLastRHHeaders() > Yes this one looks like it. Thanks Todd Todd Geist -- geist interactive 805-419-9382 ___ use-livecode mail

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 10:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:45:39 AM, you wrote: Work?! I will keep it in mind during one of my periods of copious free time. Or you could do it... in fact, what a good idea. :) Hey! You're the one who said "It isn't difficult to write a quick sc

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 10:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 8:12:23 PM, you wrote: I only have: Externals Plugins Resources I'm an ascestic I guess. Look inside your Resources folder. Oh right. Icon Libraries Object Libraries Tutorials Video Tutorials I know the tutoria

Re: Windows?

That is a change then. Here's the same passage from the Vista one: 4. USE WITH VIRTUALIZATION TECHNOLOGIES. You may not use the software installed on the licensed device within a virtual (or otherwise emulated) hardware system. Only the Ultimate version has similar wording to the Windows

Re: Naive question 666

Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:45:39 AM, you wrote: > Work?! I will keep it in mind during one of my periods of copious free > time. Or you could do it... in fact, what a good idea. :) Hey! You're the one who said "It isn't difficult to write a quick script..." I'm not sure that's true, give

Re: Naive question 666

Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 8:12:23 PM, you wrote: > I only have: > Externals > Plugins > Resources > I'm an ascestic I guess. Look inside your Resources folder. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 1:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Here's what I've got in my Resources folder. Of course, mine's been accumulating stuff for a while, so who knows where these things came from... Documentation Icon Libraries Image Libraries (empty) Object Libraries Script Colour Editor Schemes (empty) Script

Re: Windows?

On 6/4/11 5:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...obviously I didn't test that, because M$ says I can't, so I just... er... assume it will work. Yeah, that's it... I assume it will work. Not knowing about the restriction, I can verify that Windows 7 Home Edition works fine in Parallels, assuming I've

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 2:50 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: (I hope it's OK to mention here that the very useful) Summer Academy project demonstrates storing all of a project's images centrally within a substack - an approach very familiar to those of us from a web background. A sound approach but these images are t

Re: Windows?

On Saturday, June 04, 2011 05:48:55 PM Colin Holgate wrote: > I don't know if it's changed, but when I bought Windows to use under > Fusion, I had to get Ultimate. >From page 2 of the EULA for Win 7 Professional, Home Remium and Home Basic: d. Use with Virtualization Technologies. Instead of usi

Re: HTTP Response Headers

do you mean this? libURLLastRHHeaders() or this? libURLLastHTTPHeaders() or something else? On 5 Jun 2011, at 04:16, Todd Geist wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a way to get the response headers after making an http request > using any of methods for making http request. I have been digging aro

HTTP Response Headers

Hello, Is there a way to get the response headers after making an http request using any of methods for making http request. I have been digging around the docs, but I can't seem to find anything Thanks Todd Todd Geist -- geist interactive

Re: Using Arrays - math precision

On Jun 4, 2011, at 4:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jerry- > > Saturday, June 4, 2011, 3:52:03 PM, you wrote: > >> LC uses IEEE double-precision binary floating point numbers for >> calculations. These are 64 bits: 52 for mantissa, 11 for exponent >> and 1 for sign. So exponent range won't be a pro

Re: Windows?

What if forgot to mention. If there are new microsoft products they are added to your subscription. The standard version even contains now Office 2011 for Mac. But please keep in mind: You have to renew the subscription every year for about $140. If you do not renew, you are not allowed to use

Re: Using Arrays - math precision

Jerry- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 3:52:03 PM, you wrote: > LC uses IEEE double-precision binary floating point numbers for > calculations. These are 64 bits: 52 for mantissa, 11 for exponent > and 1 for sign. So exponent range won't be a problem, neither will 6 > decimal places, as long as the numbe

Re: Windows?

Hi Scott, do you need that windows version for testing or for production? If the first, then are you aware of "Microsoft TechNet Subscription". http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/subscriptions/bb892756.aspx It´s an subscription service for one year for it professionals to evaluate, test and tro

Re: Windows?

Colin- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 3:48:55 PM, you wrote: > I don't know if it's changed, but when I bought Windows to use > under Fusion, I had to get Ultimate. Microsoft's rules were that you > could only use Ultimate under virtual machines. So, it cost quite a > bit to buy it, probably more money

Re: Windows?

> Aside from torrents, does anyone have a suggestion for the least expensive > place to get a copy of Windows? > > I know there are OEM versions that are generally cheaper, but was wondering > if anyone could recommend an online (or retail) supplier.  Not sure at this > point whether I'll need XP o

Re: Using Arrays - math precision

On Jun 3, 2011, at 11:35 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Van- > > Friday, June 3, 2011, 9:38:47 PM, you wrote: > >> Many thanks to Mike and Mark for helping me get my array and >> datagrid issues resolved to date. > >> The latest issue is in calculations. I need to have calculations >> done in floati

Re: Windows?

I don't know if it's changed, but when I bought Windows to use under Fusion, I had to get Ultimate. Microsoft's rules were that you could only use Ultimate under virtual machines. So, it cost quite a bit to buy it, probably more money than buying a PC with a lesser version on it. That probably

Windows?

Aside from torrents, does anyone have a suggestion for the least expensive place to get a copy of Windows? I know there are OEM versions that are generally cheaper, but was wondering if anyone could recommend an online (or retail) supplier. Not sure at this point whether I'll need XP or Win7 or b

Re: Naive question 666

OK, now I get it. All the images in my Image Library are ones that I want to use across any LC applications I write so that's an appropriate place for them. Images that are specific to one application should be put in a stack that is part of that application. As I said, I don't do a lot of graph

Re: Naive question 666

Thanks Jim, I see that 'image library' is yet another term that requires disambiguation! Yes LiveCode has the 'Development Tool>Image Library for cross project re-use, and thanks for the tips on this. I'm looking more at the centralisation of a project's images into a single image library. Di

Re: Naive question 666

Thanks Jaque & Mark, So, no inheritance in the Image Library - that explains why I see the images in this (main) stack but not 'the images available within this stack (project)'. It's the same problem with the icon inspector - again 'this stack' excludes any substacks. Is it me or is that a fa

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 10:15 PM, Pete wrote: I guess I'm still not sure why a user stack/card with images on it is better than using the image library (I've asked before and never got a response). Importing image files into the library assigns a unique image ID to them so no conflicts. Once the images a

Re: Naive question 666

I guess I'm still not sure why a user stack/card with images on it is better than using the image library (I've asked before and never got a response). Importing image files into the library assigns a unique image ID to them so no conflicts. Once the images are in the library, they are available t

Re: Naive Response 666

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Pete wrote: > Glad the licenses are in there now but, like a previous poster, I can't > open > any of the stacks. LC starts up when I click on them but the Application > Browser shows no open stacks. This is with LC 4.6, OSX 10.6.7. Since the stacks are pref

Re: Naive question 666

Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 11:06:58 AM, you wrote: > You will not have an 'Image Libraries' folder until, either, you have > created one personal imahe library, > or you create a folder there yourself. OK - I'll dump that one. I'm reasonably sure I didn't create it myself, and if nobody e

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 09:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 11:00:36 AM, you wrote: Hey, it isn't the first time I've been used as the whipping boy; I'm kinda used to it . . . :) Good to know. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm looking for a likely victim. Hey; just ima

Re: Naive Response 666

Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 11:00:36 AM, you wrote: > Hey, it isn't the first time I've been used as the whipping boy; I'm > kinda used to it . . . :) Good to know. I'll keep that in mind next time I'm looking for a likely victim. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: Naive question 666

sorry about the caps. I 'm not angry.:> sqb On 4 June 2011 11:14, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 06/04/2011 09:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> Right, Richmond. Unfortunately some of the image IDs that got assigned to >> YOUR system conflicted with the image IDs in my system, and a few o

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 09:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Right, Richmond. Unfortunately some of the image IDs that got assigned to YOUR system conflicted with the image IDs in my system, and a few of my iconds got wiped out. Sorry. On 4 June 2011 11:04, Richmond Mathewsonwrote: On 06/04/2011 08:50

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 09:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Pete wrote: Glad the licenses are in there now but, like a previous poster, I can't open any of the stacks. LC starts up when I click on them but the Application Browser shows no open stacks. This is with LC 4.6, OSX 10.6.7. Pete Molly's Revenge

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 09:04 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I agree. And after finally cleaning up my icon mess just now I'd advise people to NOT MAKE YOUR OWN LIB STACKS, *use the IDE* to import and export icons to a library. Thanks to Time Machine. I don't think image ID conflicts get resolved if you

Re: Naive question 666

Right, Richmond. Unfortunately some of the image IDs that got assigned to YOUR system conflicted with the image IDs in my system, and a few of my iconds got wiped out. On 4 June 2011 11:04, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 06/04/2011 08:50 PM, Pete wrote: > >> You don;t need a script to do this. J

Re: Naive Response 666

Pete wrote: Glad the licenses are in there now but, like a previous poster, I can't open any of the stacks. LC starts up when I click on them but the Application Browser shows no open stacks. This is with LC 4.6, OSX 10.6.7. Pete Molly's Revenge Same here. Read

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 09:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:45:39 AM, you wrote: I don't have an "Image Libraries" folders. Might it be something you put there ages ago yourself? On the other hand, I've pointed my prefs to the old "My Revolution" folder just for convenience,

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 08:56 PM, Pete wrote: Glad the licenses are in there now but, like a previous poster, I can't open any of the stacks. LC starts up when I click on them but the Application Browser shows no open stacks. This is with LC 4.6, OSX 10.6.7. Pete Molly's Revenge

Re: Naive question 666

I agree. And after finally cleaning up my icon mess just now I'd advise people to NOT MAKE YOUR OWN LIB STACKS, *use the IDE* to import and export icons to a library. Thanks to Time Machine. I don't think image ID conflicts get resolved if you just import a bunch of image files to a card, name

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 08:50 PM, Pete wrote: You don;t need a script to do this. Just go to Development | Image Library, then click on the New Library button and give it whatever name you want. Then click Import File and in the resulting File Open dialog, you can multi-select all the image files you need

Re: Naive question 666

Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:45:39 AM, you wrote: > I don't have an "Image Libraries" folders. Might it be something you put > there ages ago yourself? On the other hand, I've pointed my prefs to the > old "My Revolution" folder just for convenience, so maybe that's why I > don't have it.

Re: Naive Response 666

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > Hi Roger, > > You are correct that I could (and should) have more carefully chosen my > words. In my ten years on this list, I've hardly ever taken up a flamethrower > to burn someone to a crisp. And I certainly don't want to make it a habit. >

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 08:44 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- On Sat, 6/4/11, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: The fact that it is 'some sort of GNU license' doesn't mean that you're free to do as you please and 'steal' them for your own collections. I find it appa

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 08:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Roger- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:04:34 AM, you wrote: Public flogging always helps matters. An off-list FYI might me more appropriate and considerate. Yes, but... it's a good point for all of us to keep in mind. If this were just a private email to

Re: Naive Response 666

Glad the licenses are in there now but, like a previous poster, I can't open any of the stacks. LC starts up when I click on them but the Application Browser shows no open stacks. This is with LC 4.6, OSX 10.6.7. Pete Molly's Revenge On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 10:20

Re: Naive question 666

You don;t need a script to do this. Just go to Development | Image Library, then click on the New Library button and give it whatever name you want. Then click Import File and in the resulting File Open dialog, you can multi-select all the image files you need to import, click OK and the images wil

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 12:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:10:35 AM, you wrote: You've already figured this out, but for the record: icon libraries are just one-card stacks with a bunch of images on the first card. If the name begins with "rev" and the stack is placed in your Li

Re: Naive Response 666

--- On Sat, 6/4/11, Roger Eller wrote: > On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jan > Schenkel wrote: > > The fact that it is 'some sort of GNU license' doesn't > mean that you're free > > to do as you please and 'steal' them for your own > collections. > > > > I find it appalling ... flame ... flame ..

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 8:01 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Rather, I want to understand why the images I import into an 'images' card in a 'resources' substack in my app's MainStack don't appear in the Image Library automagically - and what I can do to rectify this. LiveCode does not assume that you want to share

Re: Naive question 666

Jacque- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:10:35 AM, you wrote: > You've already figured this out, but for the record: icon libraries are > just one-card stacks with a bunch of images on the first card. If the > name begins with "rev" and the stack is placed in your LiveCode library > folder, then the Ic

Re: Naive Response 666

Roger- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:04:34 AM, you wrote: > Public flogging always helps matters. An off-list FYI might me more > appropriate and considerate. Yes, but... it's a good point for all of us to keep in mind. If this were just a private email to Richmond then we'd have to go through thi

auto-save stacks

Hello, I know this has been answered a hundred million times already, but for what ever reason I can find the answer. How does one ensure that a stack always auto-saves itself every time you close it? I tried this in the card script *on* closeStackRequest *save* this stack *end* closeStack

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 08:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:02:40 AM, you wrote: Right! I stand corrected and will put the licenses from the original files into the zip file. Do post when you've got the new one uploaded. That's quite a nice collection. Thanks for making it

Re: Naive question 666

On 6/4/11 12:55 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am gently assembling a fairly large collection of image libraries by "stealing" icons and so on from Open Source Apps and Icon collections. But don't know how to export those image libraries so they are portable. You've already figured this out,

Re: Naive Response 666

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Right! I stand corrected and will put the licenses from the original files > into the zip file. > > This was something I completely overlooked. Thank you for putting me right. Good job dude! I look forward to downloading the volume with

Re: Live LiveCode code event #26

One hour to go! One hour to go! *Swings the Bell* On 3 Jun 2011, at 20:57, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > Hi guys > > We're back for another Saturday event: > > Mark Schonewille will introduce you to way to extend LiveCode when LiveCode > can't do it alone. He will explore the possibilities of "s

Re: Naive Response 666

Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 10:02:40 AM, you wrote: > Right! I stand corrected and will put the licenses from the original > files into the zip file. Do post when you've got the new one uploaded. That's quite a nice collection. Thanks for making it available in a usable form. -- -Mark Wi

Re: Naive Response 666

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > The fact that it is 'some sort of GNU license' doesn't mean that you're free > to do as you please and 'steal' them for your own collections. > > I find it appalling ... flame ... flame ... > > Shame on you, Richmond! > > Jan Schenkel. > [Adver

Re: Naive Response 666

On 06/04/2011 07:50 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: --- On Sat, 6/4/11, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I've just uploaded a 7.1 MB zip file filled with various Open-Source stuff including 3 Gnome colour sets as Livecode Libraries: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/revLibs/imageLibs.zip all of these a

Re: Naive question 666

Keith- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 6:01:47 AM, you wrote: > Thanks Richmond, but I'm not looking for an example of this working > successfully! ;-) > Rather, I want to understand why the images I import into an > 'images' card in a 'resources' substack in my app's MainStack don't > appear in the Im

Re: Naive Response 666

--- On Sat, 6/4/11, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > I've just uploaded a 7.1 MB zip file > filled with various Open-Source stuff including 3 Gnome > colour > sets as Livecode Libraries: > > http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/revLibs/imageLibs.zip > > all of these are covered by some sort of GNU

Re: Naive Response 666

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > > I've just uploaded a 7.1 MB zip file filled with various Open-Source stuff > including 3 Gnome colour > sets as Livecode Libraries: > > http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/revLibs/imageLibs.zip > > all of these are covered by some s

Re: Naive question 666

Richmond- Saturday, June 4, 2011, 1:28:47 AM, you wrote: >> I have found it to be very useful and hopefully, it will shorten your >> life of pilfering and plunder. ;-) >> > Shorten my life (umm) . . . :) > Thank you very much indeed! rotfl -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _

Naive Response 666

I've just uploaded a 7.1 MB zip file filled with various Open-Source stuff including 3 Gnome colour sets as Livecode Libraries: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/revLibs/imageLibs.zip all of these are covered by some sort of GNU licence so you can sprinkle them all over your projects wit

Re: Naive question 666

On Jun 4, 2011, at 6:01 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Thanks Richmond, but I'm not looking for an example of this working successfully! ;-) Rather, I want to understand why the images I import into an 'images' card in a 'resources' substack in my app's MainStack don't appear in the Image Librar

Re: Naive question 666

Thanks Richmond, but I'm not looking for an example of this working successfully! ;-) Rather, I want to understand why the images I import into an 'images' card in a 'resources' substack in my app's MainStack don't appear in the Image Library automagically - and what I can do to rectify this. B

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 02:40 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: Now this has been answered, can I ask the 'reverse' question - how to make the Image Library recognise an existing 'Resources' substack within its 'This Stack' view? Best, Keith.. Go here: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/revLibs/revLibFlags

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 02:50 PM, David C. wrote: Shorten my life (umm) . . . :) Thank you very much indeed! A rather poor choice of words at almost 2:00 am... sorry 'bout that! Just wanted to make sure you had the open source icon library for your collection. It is great, and I am just digging into t

Re: SubStacks and message path

Hi Jim, Thanks for the response, clarification and tips. This app has one MainStack (so far!) and it's script contains a handler on preOpenStack, to start using stack "SOAP". So, thanks for confirming that this should place the SOAP substack into the message path library 'slot' for the MainSta

Re: Naive question 666

> Shorten my life (umm) . . .  :) > > Thank you very much indeed! A rather poor choice of words at almost 2:00 am... sorry 'bout that! Just wanted to make sure you had the open source icon library for your collection. Best regards, David C. ___ use-liv

Re: Naive question 666

Now this has been answered, can I ask the 'reverse' question - how to make the Image Library recognise an existing 'Resources' substack within its 'This Stack' view? Best, Keith.. On 4 Jun 2011, at 12:01, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 06/04/2011 01:57 PM, Jim Ault wrote: >> On Jun 3, 2011, at

Re: SubStacks and message path

On 4 Jun 2011, at 09:07, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, I'm using a substack 'Credentials' as a dialogue box to capture login credentials for a web service (tUsername, tPassword). A second 'SOAP' substack acts as a library managing the various POST messages for the web service, including a

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 01:57 PM, Jim Ault wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am gently assembling a fairly large collection of image libraries by "stealing" icons and so on from Open Source Apps and Icon collections. But don't know how to export those image libraries so th

Re: Naive question 666

On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:55 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I am gently assembling a fairly large collection of image libraries by "stealing" icons and so on from Open Source Apps and Icon collections. But don't know how to export those image libraries so they are portable. The Documentation s

Re: SubStacks and message path

Hi folks, Problem solved - I dropped the Login substack in favour of the simpler solution of a card in the MainStack. Now the SOAP substack is in its message path - and I can put off learning send and dispatch for another day! Best, Keith.. On 4 Jun 2011, at 09:07, Keith Clarke wrote: > Hi fol

Re: Naive question 666

On 06/04/2011 09:49 AM, David C. wrote: I am gently assembling a fairly large collection of image libraries by "stealing" icons and so on from Open Source Apps and Icon collections. But don't know how to export those image libraries so they are portable. The Documentation says "see the section

SubStacks and message path

Hi folks, I'm using a substack 'Credentials' as a dialogue box to capture login credentials for a web service (tUsername, tPassword). A second 'SOAP' substack acts as a library managing the various POST messages for the web service, including a function login pUsername pPassword If I attempt t