Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid + movie player question

Thanks to everyone for the feedback - it's still early days for the plugin! I added the iOS movie player object yesterday and it's working ok, but I notice that if I switch it to full screen then press >> fforward that the result is a black screen and it doesn't return to the card or show the n

Re: Importing Word documents

On 6/9/11 8:45 PM, James Hurley wrote: But when I get url "file:theFilePath" of that RTF file in order to import it into a LC field, I get a lot of formatting code in the field. Opening that file in TextEdit or Word give a much better result. Tell the field how to display the file content:

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

I agree, no complaint just a caution to anyone expecting to build for iPhone Retina. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:41 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: > > On 10/06/2011, at 9:11 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > >> Be careful, all of the control

Re: Reconnecting a stack's datagrid with its template in a stackrunner situation

This is a very stock datagrid. I set column names, labels and tabs on the fly. On 9 June 2011 20:12, Pete wrote: > Hi STephen, > Yes, I think we've all found that datagrids are "sensitive"! I don't have > an answer to your problem, probably only Trevor can solve it. The only > thing I can cont

Re: Reconnecting a stack's datagrid with its template in a stackrunner situation

Hi STephen, Yes, I think we've all found that datagrids are "sensitive"! I don't have an answer to your problem, probably only Trevor can solve it. The only thing I can contribute is that table style datagrids that have no customised columns will work even if their template card doesn't exist. I

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

On 10/06/2011, at 9:11 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Be careful, all of the controls in the MobGUI plugin are only iPhone3GS and > maybe they might work for iPad but not iPhone4 Retina display. Sure, but they are easy to resize. I agree that'd be great if the controls took account of the di

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

I'm not sure. ("If you can't be kind, at least have the decency to be vague.") :-) -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:36 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > What are you saying? (I speak as a patient...) > > Bob > > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:

Re: find by content with Mac OS

Hi Stephen, As far as I know, Command-F and Spotlight invokes the same functionality. In my previous message, I mentioned that find by content is not finding content in Safari Bookmarks, my saved email messages in Mail, and so on. This, I discovered by trial and error, and I assumed it was a "f

Re: Importing Word documents

> > Message: 14 > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 19:37:25 +0200 > From: Mark Schonewille > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Importing Word documents > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > James, > > If "it" is empty, in other words if the shell function doesn't return a

Re: find by content with Mac OS

You haven't used "Spotlight"? If it's set up right and you use good searching approach, it works quite well. On 9 June 2011 18:04, Timothy Miller wrote: > Thanks Jim and others. > > I have worked out ways to search my LC stacks quickly and conveniently > (more or less) for the things I need. I

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:56 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > That just sets the card size but not the control size. > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > 3mcgr...@comcast.net > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Thomas McGrath II

Re: find by content with Mac OS

Thanks Jim and others. I have worked out ways to search my LC stacks quickly and conveniently (more or less) for the things I need. I can always use the "find" function in Stickies. I can search my email messages in Mail. This is the usual procedure. I always had the vague idea that find-by-con

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

That just sets the card size but not the control size. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 9, 2011, at 8:52 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > >> Be careful, all of the controls in the MobGUI plugin are onl

Re: Live LiveCode code event #26 Wrapup

2011/6/9 Björnke von Gierke > Hi > > Here is the wrap up from the last event. I'm sorry it's a bit late, but > having no presenters stresses me out disproportionally. > I am pretty sure I saw at least two volunteers on the list earlier today. Did you not see them? ~Roger

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Be careful, all of the controls in the MobGUI plugin are only iPhone3GS and > maybe they might work for iPad but not iPhone4 Retina display. > > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > 3mcgr...@comcast.net > I thought I saw

Re: Live LiveCode code event #26 Wrapup

Such is the downside of being solely responsible for an international weekly independent television show! 2011/6/9 Björnke von Gierke > Hi > > Here is the wrap up from the last event. I'm sorry it's a bit late, but > having no presenters stresses me out disproportionally. > Stephen Barncard Sa

Reconnecting a stack's datagrid with its template in a stackrunner situation

Hi Gang I'm still grinding away at this thing. Maybe I didn't describe the situation very well. or else it's impossible. To recap I'm trying to get a Datagrid to work in a stack that works fine by itself in the IDE (with the datagrid template in a substack), but fails to work in a "Stackrunner" st

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

Be careful, all of the controls in the MobGUI plugin are only iPhone3GS and maybe they might work for iPad but not iPhone4 Retina display. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > JC, > > You made my day!!! I tried c

Re: Live LiveCode code event #26 Wrapup

Hi Here is the wrap up from the last event. I'm sorry it's a bit late, but having no presenters stresses me out disproportionally. Mark went first, and showed a lot of ways to extend liveCode scripts with external applications, shells, applescript, and so on. This should be especially interest

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

JC, You made my day!!! I tried creating a similar tool to myself but I couldn't. Your tool is greater than anything I could throw together, I just loved it Thank you very much for your dedication! Cheers andre PS: Now we just need browsers in Android On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 8:51 PM, John

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

And then we could ALL finally get some rest. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:41 PM, David C. wrote: >> truth be said: Microsoft makes great video games, the XBOX 360 is a great >> machine for both players and developers but on the other hand, their desktop >> computing business well... you know >

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

> truth be said: Microsoft makes great video games, the XBOX 360 is a great > machine for both players and developers but on the other hand, their desktop > computing business well... you know Perhaps we can convince Microsoft to start building their own proprietary hardware, just like Apple,

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

So would I. Maybe yours could replace the tab object the way Trevor's Datagrid replaced the Table Field. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > >> I've started prototyping an example, and it seems the best approach for >> this kind of thing. >> If you'd like the example stack when

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

What are you saying? (I speak as a patient...) Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> I never listen to what people say. I only listen to what they mean. ;-) >> >> Bob > > Now, what exactly do you mean by that? (I speak a

Re: How do you build the tabs like in the script editor

> I've started prototyping an example, and it seems the best approach for > this kind of thing. > If you'd like the example stack when I'm done, please let me know. LC > 4.6.1 I'd like to see it! Maybe it could turn into a DropTool... :D Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsot

Re: find by content with Mac OS

On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I righ

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Hey; and if I land the role, I promise NOT to wear my leopard-skin posing > briefs . . . > > . . . whoops, wait a minute . . . Leopard is out . . . I meant to say > "lion-skin posing briefs" . . . :) Better not... as we have been hearin

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:34 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I never listen to what people say. I only listen to what they mean. ;-) > > Bob Now, what exactly do you mean by that? (I speak as a psychiatrist...) -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

A-FREAKEN-MEN!!! On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I always loved John Vokey's sigline: > >Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. >See > >-Dr. John R. Vokey > > :)

Re: Standalones Not Working

Hi Steve, Here are 18 Reasons Why Compiling with RunRev (LiveCode) May Fail: http://qery.us/pr (or rather, the solutions). The cut-off at the bottom is connected to the menus and the destroyStack and destroyWindow properties. Try toggling those. I bet that you have assigned your .edb files as

Re: find by content with Mac OS

Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If so, is there any way to e

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

I always loved John Vokey's sigline: Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See -Dr. John R. Vokey :) I've been using OpenOffice for the last two years, and recently switched to its younger brother LibreOffi

Re: find by content with Mac OS

On 06/09/2011 11:47 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If so

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

On 06/09/2011 11:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I wish I could do that in a corporate environment. I would have people bleating to the powers that be that Bob is trying to ruin everything and destroy all the data faster than you could say two whiskers. Even if I've achieved nothing else here in Pl

find by content with Mac OS

My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If so, is there any way to enable such a feature? Of

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

I wish I could do that in a corporate environment. I would have people bleating to the powers that be that Bob is trying to ruin everything and destroy all the data faster than you could say two whiskers. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Bob- > > Thursday, June 9, 2011,

Standalones Not Working

> I’ve got an app I’ve been working with for years. I hadn’t compiled it into > a standalone for maybe a year or more. It works fine within LiveCode, but > now I can’t get the standalone to work. There are at least two symptoms: > > The standalone’s window is cropped short on the bottom. It’

[OT] Want to waste some more time?

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Re: LIVECODE running in LION

On 06/09/2011 11:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Thursday, June 9, 2011, 9:28:39 AM, you wrote: So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions of MS Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) I did. About six months ago I switched to Open Office and have never l

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

Bob- Thursday, June 9, 2011, 9:28:39 AM, you wrote: > So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions > of MS Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) I did. About six months ago I switched to Open Office and have never looked back. Just waslked away from my MSOf

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Now, if I could only do better predicting the NBA finals, I might actually make a few bucks! On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Chipp's guess was correct, less than four months later: > > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Live LiveCode code event #27

I aprechiate every presenter, and any date, but right now it's less then 48 hours until the next event and i need something quick :( On 9 Jun 2011, at 21:20, Colin Holgate wrote: > Andreas already offered I think, and I have a couple of ideas too. > > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Björnke von

Re: Live LiveCode code event #27

Andreas already offered I think, and I have a couple of ideas too. On Jun 9, 2011, at 2:22 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > Anyone? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Challenge: Faking 3D extrusion of a polygon SOLVED

Hi there Here is a very fast version, with no compromise. http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=7824&p=37483#p37483 Special thanks goes to Bernd Niggemann who worked with me offline, and was instrumental to the final solution. Michael __

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

On 06/09/2011 08:36 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Conspiracy upon conspiracy, wheels within wheels eh? Sounds like a Hollywood movie. Oooh; can I have the role of the slightly daft Scotsman who manages to make off-colour remarks and put people's hackles up at critical moments? Hey; and if I land t

Re: Local files in revBrowser

There was some definite corruption (possibly during the move from the mac to windows machine?). I cleaned things up as best I could, got the map to work, but not the route stuff. I then grabbed the example of simple direction (the one that just draws the route) and adjusted the map.html to match,

Re: Live LiveCode code event #27

Anyone? On 9 Jun 2011, at 05:16, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > Unfortunately, I was unable to motivate any presenters for this week. Please > send me a mail if you have time to present something this weekend. If I can't > find people the event will have to be canceled. > > Thank you > Björnke >

RE: Local files in revBrowser

Hi Mike & Klaus ... > John sent me a copy of the files, the revbrowserstuff is working fine, it > seems to be javascript related (the errors are javascript errors) but i'm > not much on javascript so this is over my head. What confuses me, and it doesn't take at lot, is that it all runs fine un

Re: Importing Word documents

He is saying that it will produce a file on the disk. Empty is probably what the shell returns if all goes well. The "it" variable would probably contain an error if things did not go well. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:29 AM, James Hurley wrote: >> >> Message: 10 >> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20

Re: Importing Word documents

James, If "it" is empty, in other words if the shell function doesn't return a value, it means that the textutil command didn't produce any errors. Have a look at the folder containing the original file. It should also contain the new file. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Con

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Conspiracy upon conspiracy, wheels within wheels eh? Sounds like a Hollywood movie. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Nonsanity wrote: > I rather expected this too. By setting draconian price guidelines initially, > they can control the market prices. The other requirement of > must-also-be-li

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

On 6/9/11 8:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Content providers may offer In-App subscriptions at whatever price they wish and they are not required to offer an in-app subscription simply because they sell a subscription outside the App Store as well Sounds to me like a protective action in re

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

I never listen to what people say. I only listen to what they mean. ;-) Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > But that's for another time; for now, I just have to apologize for the stupid > pre-coffee typo - obviously "They're" should be "Their": __

Re: Importing Word documents

Hi James, Am 09.06.2011 um 19:29 schrieb James Hurley: >> Message: 10 >> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200 >> From: Mark Schonewille >> To: How to use LiveCode >> Subject: Re: Importing Word documents >> Message-ID: >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >> Jim, >> >> get shell("tex

Re: Importing Word documents

> > Message: 10 > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 16:20:42 +0200 > From: Mark Schonewille > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Importing Word documents > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Jim, > > get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote) >

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 06/09/2011 07:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions of MS >> Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) >> > > Yeah, well, my experi

Re: Local files in revBrowser

Got the map itself working, but still stuck on the route generation portion. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Am 09.06.2011 um 18:53 schrieb Mike Bonner: > > > John sent me a copy of the files, the revbrowserstuff is working fine, it > > seems to be javascript r

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

I rather expected this too. By setting draconian price guidelines initially, they can control the market prices. The other requirement of must-also-be-listed makes sure those controlled prices get used. Then a few months later, before legal conflict can come to fruition, Apple revokes these limitat

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Wow, you had an easy boss! Mine would have told me to ask for 90% of the world back and settle for 80%. Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:34 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mark Talluto wrote: > > > Apple is pioneering the mobile app market and is pushin

Re: DataGrids sharing templates

Nevermind... http://lessons.runrev.com/spaces/lessons/manuals/datagrid/lessons/7319-How-Do-I-Use-A-Template-In-Multiple-Data-Grids- On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Jeff Massung wrote: > I'm sure I saw this before somewhere, but Google hasn't been kind to me. Is > there an easy way to make mul

DataGrids sharing templates

I'm sure I saw this before somewhere, but Google hasn't been kind to me. Is there an easy way to make multiple datagrids all use the same template? Jeff M. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

John Dixon wrote: lovely... :-) Yeah, I learned a lot from her. One of the best professional experiences I ever had was working in that office. Some day I'll tell the story of how buying a calculator there convinced me of the value and beauty of small business. But that's for another ti

Re: Local files in revBrowser

Hi Mike, Am 09.06.2011 um 18:53 schrieb Mike Bonner: > John sent me a copy of the files, the revbrowserstuff is working fine, it > seems to be javascript related (the errors are javascript errors) but i'm > not much on javascript so this is over my head. Yep, same here! Looks like John wanted a

Re: Local files in revBrowser

John sent me a copy of the files, the revbrowserstuff is working fine, it seems to be javascript related (the errors are javascript errors) but i'm not much on javascript so this is over my head. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > --- On Thu, 6/9/11, John Dixon wrote: > > > >

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

On 06/09/2011 07:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions of MS Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) Yeah, well, my experience is that if a product says "Microsoft" I don't even bother to check for zeros or not . . . I sta

Re: Edit field into datagrid

I may misunderstand, but it sounds a lot like asking what car should you buy to get groceries from the store. ;-) It's too vague. WHICH field? Which row? Which column? Not enough info. If you mean you want to begin editing at the first row, first column, or perhaps save the last edited cell an

RE: [OT] Apple at it again

lovely... :-) > My boss explained my job like this: > > "They're job is to ask for the world. Your job is to ask for half of it > back." > > Richard Gaskin ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Mark Talluto wrote: > Apple is pioneering the mobile app market and is pushing hard > initially for as much control as they think possible. Thanks > to competition and market pressure, they are forced to come > back in line with what is reasonable. Reminds me of my last job I had before I start

Re: FTP Problem

Thanks Jim. Just took a quick look at FTPCommander and it uses libURLftpUploadFile rather than the put URL in my script. I'll switch to libURLftpUploadFile and see what happens. Pete Molly's Revenge On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 11:29 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > > On Jun 8

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

So by that rule, we should have skipped the next three versions of MS Office and Server, since Server 2000 and Office 2000? ;-) Bob On Jun 8, 2011, at 11:52 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: > > Rule of Thumb: "Never buy anything with a zero on the end." > > :) > > Hugh Senior > FLCo > > > > C

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Hopefully that won't be soon. On Jun 9, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: > Eventually, once they stop radically innovating new concepts, this will all > settle down and it will all be business as usual. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Apple is pioneering the mobile app market and is pushing hard initially for as much control as they think possible. Thanks to competition and market pressure, they are forced to come back in line with what is reasonable. Eventually, once they stop radically innovating new concepts, this will a

using animated gif for a cursor on Windows

Hi All, I'm using an animated gif (rotating dot in a circle) with the cursor on Windows XP, but the gif doesn't animate in LC v4.6.1. the script: on openStack lock cursor set the cursor to 1019 -- do stuff unlock cursor reset cursors end openStack I guess the question here is: does

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Hi Colin, Am 09.06.2011 um 17:26 schrieb Colin Holgate: > Here is Richard Dreyfuss reading the EULA: > > http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html LOL! :-D Just wonderful, thanks for the link! My favourite: "Effective until" (with the light "Schweinhundt" accent) :-D Best Klau

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Here is Richard Dreyfuss reading the EULA: http://www.cnet.com/8301-30976_1-20068778-10348864.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: ht

Re: Local files in revBrowser

--- On Thu, 6/9/11, John Dixon wrote: > > I wonder if someone could shed some light on a problem I am > having. The script below works fine running under MacOSX, > but it does not want to work running under Windows ?.. > > If having the stack would help, I would send it to you. > > I am really

Re: Importing Word documents

Use WordLib - available in the RunREv Store under Add-ons. It works great! On 6/9/2011 10:03 AM, James Hurley wrote: If one copies a Word document from within Word and pastes that copy into a LC field, much of the formatting is retained. Not so if one just uses: get url "file:"& tFileName

Re: Importing Word documents

Jim, get shell("textutil -convert rtf" && quote & "path/to/file.docx" & quote) This will produce a file path/to/file.rtf, which you can read with LiveCode. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://t

Edit field into datagrid

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Importing Word documents

If one copies a Word document from within Word and pastes that copy into a LC field, much of the formatting is retained. Not so if one just uses: get url "file:" & tFileName Is there a way, within LC, to obtain the copy and paste formatting, perhaps with an imbedded AppleScript? Thanks, Jim

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

These changes are probably a mixture of the reaction of publishers to the first agreement, but also an effort to make the iOS 5 Newstand feature be more of a success. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: Local files in revBrowser

Hi John, Here are a few clues. If I remember correctly, IE encodes URLs by itself while it may be useful to do this explicitly for WebKit (Safari). While file:/// seems correct on WebKit, you might want to try file://C:\... on IE. Just open an html file directly in IE and see what the address s

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

On 06/09/2011 04:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Forgive the thread necromancy, but it seems Chipp was right again - back in February he wrote: Surprise, Apple changed their license terms-- again. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209580/Apple_s_new_App_Store_rules_affect_Amazon_s_Kindle

Re: [OT] A quiet read about Ubuntu

On 06/09/2011 03:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Takes about 10-15 minutes and is really very thought provoking: http://www.osnews.com/story/24803/The_Sins_of_Ubuntu It's an odd choice of a title for an article that largely says that Ubuntu is doing well in nearly eve

Re: Local files in revBrowser

As long as I make sure mapFolder and map.html are in the right place, it works for me as written, so not sure whats up. Whats it doing on your end? On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 6:03 AM, John Dixon wrote: > > I wonder if someone could shed some light on a problem I am having. The > script below works f

Re: [OT] Apple at it again

Forgive the thread necromancy, but it seems Chipp was right again - back in February he wrote: Surprise, Apple changed their license terms-- again. http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9209580/Apple_s_new_App_Store_rules_affect_Amazon_s_Kindle ... My guess is just like the last time, after

Re: Printing addresses on newsletters

> -- > > Message: 13 > Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 01:30:43 +0200 > From: Mark Schonewille > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Printing addresses on newsletters > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > Hi James, > > open printing -- with dial

Re: [OT] A quiet read about Ubuntu

Richmond Mathewson wrote: Takes about 10-15 minutes and is really very thought provoking: http://www.osnews.com/story/24803/The_Sins_of_Ubuntu It's an odd choice of a title for an article that largely says that Ubuntu is doing well in nearly every category he discusses with only a few excep

Re: 5000 lines of code

I moved the "recyclable" code into the stack script and called it from each object. BUT, the interesting thing as that, while the objects called the code successfully, it meant that the individualised segments of code in the object that came after the recyclable code stopped working proper

Local files in revBrowser

I wonder if someone could shed some light on a problem I am having. The script below works fine running under MacOSX, but it does not want to work running under Windows ?.. If having the stack would help, I would send it to you. I am really stumped... any help would be appreciated. local bro

Re: New Row into datagrid and edit field

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[OT] A quiet read about Ubuntu

Takes about 10-15 minutes and is really very thought provoking: http://www.osnews.com/story/24803/The_Sins_of_Ubuntu Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: New Row into datagrid and edit field

on mouseup put the dgNumberOfLines of group "ElencoTelefoni" + 1 into theLineNo dispatch "addLine" to group "ElencoTelefoni" with theRowData, theDataColumns, theLineNo ScrollLineIntoView theLineNo end mouseup ___ use-livecode mailing list use-live

New Row into datagrid and edit field

I have a button that creates a row in my datagrid but I would be automatically moves to the specific field in that row. how can I do? on mouseup put the dgNumberOfLines of group "ElencoTelefoni" + 1 into theLineNo dispatch "addLine" to group "ElencoTelefoni" with theRowData, theDataColumns

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

Thats excellent John, I cant help thinking its exactly the sort of toolbox Livecode should have as standard for mobile development! I hope you manage to keep developing it and make it available as a plugin thats available / affordable for all users. Andy On 9 Jun 2011, at 00:51, John Craig

Re: 5000 lines of code

Mark Took me a couple of times through that to get what you meant. Ah... you mean that same switch code is duplicated in other objects as well. What I'd do in that case is move it out of the objects and make a handler farther along the message path (the stack script, for instance) as command Par

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

On 06/09/2011 09:52 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: Rule of Thumb: "Never buy anything with a zero on the end." :) In the light of recent experiences I have been having with Ubuntu one may wish to expand that: "Never do anything with a zero on the end." Hugh Senior FLCo Colin Holgate wrote