Re: [OT} Re: New post detailing the technology and decisions behind my new website

2011-07-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey, I am here. That is my primary account that I use everyday. Strange. If you can't email me at that account, please send it to soapdog at mac dot com. Cheers Andre Sent from my iPad On Jul 14, 2011, at 8:42 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > Sorry for using the list for this > > Andre - I tr

[ANN] LiveCode.tv event #32

2011-07-14 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Join us once again, when we show LiveCode at it's best. This Saturday, Pete Haworth will update us on his qd[SQL] development. qd[SQL] is a currently in development, and will allow you to easily create databases without using any SQL at all, by linking LiveCodes object/group/card metaphor to a

Re: Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Forget what I said earlier. No good results at all. For now I give up. :( ___ 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/mail

[OT} Re: New post detailing the technology and decisions behind my new website

2011-07-14 Thread Alex Tweedly
Sorry for using the list for this Andre - I tried to email you some feedback, initially to an...@andregarzia.com which gave me a "mail delivery failure" of "no such person at this address". I then tried cont...@andregarzia.com (as specified in the Contact page of the site),and that too

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Jerry J
Works in the message box. On Jul 14, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Pete wrote: > No problem. I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the > docs saying things that weren't quite true! > Pete > Molly's Revenge > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerr

Re: Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
The function mentioned by Ron Barber here: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode//2011-June/157016.html helps. At least if it is either or... No good results for mixed languages though. local tUni,tAsUTF16 put the selectedText of btn "combo" into tUni put RawDataToUTF16(tUni) into

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Pete
No problem. I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the docs saying things that weren't quite true! Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerry J wrote: > Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today. > > Thanks Pete, > Je

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Jerry J
Aha! The docs say so! Learned something new today. Thanks Pete, Jerry On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:51 PM, Pete wrote: > Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this? > Pete > Molly's Revenge > > > > > On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J wrote: > >> O

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Pete
Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this? Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > > > ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not > the s

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Jerry J
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not the > same as 'delete item *called* y' ! > > So, would itemoffset help...? > > put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers > repeat until theNumbers is empty > put any item the

RE: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Slava Paperno
Mark--where can that List Search Field be seen? Slava > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 5:25 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Unicod

RE: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Slava Paperno
I tried to use Unicode in comboboxes and gave up because it is a hybrid between a button and a field. Perhaps someone else knows how to get around the problems, but I ended up simulating a combobox by using a one-line, no-wrap text input field and below it a list field that becomes visible when the

Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Malte, As you might know, I made my own combobox (List Search Field). Perhaps you can look at how I did it and adjust it for unicode. That might be easier than trying to make the combobox work with unicode. (garlic) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mark, not in a combobox I am afraid, as there is free text entry for that control... *sigh* ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://

Re: Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Malte, Can't you use the menuhistory and avoid using text? -- 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 Live

Unicode again, this time comboboxes

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, please bear with me, while I ask more (seemingly stupid) unicode questions. This time it is about comboboxes. The only way to get the choice of this is to ask for the selectedtext of btn "myCombobox). This will either return an UTF16 or an Ansii string. Now, is there a way to put that

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 2:40 PM, John Craig wrote: > Bummer! - I get the same as Roger - an angry looking droid with big > eyebrows, and a missing head! (And the odd looking radius ends) > I'm set at platform 2.2 API level 8 - is this still the current setup? > > Just to rub salt in the wound,

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/14/11 2:35 PM, John Craig wrote: I've discovered that the head ( an oval graphic with startAngle = 0 and arcAngle = 180 ) gets displayed upside down on my android simulator, so the head is merging in with the body. If I change the startAngle to 180 then the effect is reversed: no head in the

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread Andre Garzia
paraphrasing his Steveness: "you are holding it wrong!" try holding the phone upside down... (joking) On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 4:35 PM, John Craig wrote: > I've discovered that the head ( an oval graphic with startAngle = 0 and > arcAngle = 180 ) gets displayed upside down on my android simulato

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread John Craig
I've discovered that the head ( an oval graphic with startAngle = 0 and arcAngle = 180 ) gets displayed upside down on my android simulator, so the head is merging in with the body. If I change the startAngle to 180 then the effect is reversed: no head in the IDE, but I can see it in the simul

Poll for LiveCode.tv event #32

2011-07-14 Thread Björnke von Gierke
please vote about which add ons you'd like to see covered next saturday: http://blog.livecode.tv/2011/07/poll-for-event-32/ -- official ChatRev page: http://bjoernke.com/chatrev Chat with other RunRev developers: go stack URL "http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/chatrev1.3b3.rev"; ___

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread John Craig
Bummer! - I get the same as Roger - an angry looking droid with big eyebrows, and a missing head! (And the odd looking radius ends) I'm set at platform 2.2 API level 8 - is this still the current setup? Just to rub salt in the wound, it renders perfectly on iOS!! On 14/07/2011 18:19, J. Lan

Re: Hotel Management Software

2011-07-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks you. Looks interesting, no accounting though. Bob On Jul 14, 2011, at 1:33 AM, SparkOut wrote: > Also have a look at http://rapla.org/ perhaps. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Hotel-Management-Software-tp3666333p3666911.html > Se

Re: Hotel Management Software

2011-07-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks I will look at that. Bob On Jul 13, 2011, at 6:01 PM, planix wrote: > Hi, > > have you had a look at the Open Conference System > (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ocs)? > > I have used the Open Journal System (http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs) and found it > to be excellent. > > cheers > > Alistair > T

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread James Hurley
I haven't been following this thread so my apologies if I'm missing the point, but a while back I had to deal with the task of selecting m random people for a voter pole from a list N registered voters, where N was over 100,000. Check out "Random pick" in Rev Online. I found using an array 3 tim

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/14/11 7:52 AM, John Craig wrote: I've just had a first attempt at creating a custom control with the rather nicely engineered DropTools palette from Sons of Thunder. It's a scalable android logo constructed from LC graphic objects - just a bit of fun! Works great here. I'm not having any t

RE: [Android] Why so quiet? Who's developing Android apps?

2011-07-14 Thread Ralph DiMola
OK then let's get noisy I purchased LC almost exclusively for IOS and Android. LC seems like a marvelous development platform so far. My first Android app progressing. After I have it fully functional I will fire up the MAC Book to generate the iOS app and load it onto the iPad for testing and flu

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/14/11 10:06 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Jim's seems to be the most efficient and accurate, I agree. Sorting the list before the loop and then peeling off the items one by one is the most efficient way to do it. I mentioned "any" because it's such a nice addition to the language, but I didn

Re: Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread Roger Eller
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 8:52 AM, John Craig wrote: > I've just had a first attempt at creating a custom control with the rather > nicely engineered DropTools palette from Sons of Thunder. It's a scalable > android logo constructed from LC graphic objects - just a bit of fun! > > > You can get it

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Ron, Am 14.07.2011 um 17:06 schrieb Ronald Zellner: > Jim's seems to be the most efficient and accurate, > but I needed this change to make it work. ' of ' changed to 'in' > > I like to add something to create quick feedback- like the field "chosen". > Easier to see the result. > Then switch

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Keith Clarke
Ronald, Sorry, don't use my first attempt - it had an error. You'd need the updated version that used itemoffset to delete the the specific number in the list, rather than it's position. To see what was used in each loop in real time, you can either put y or answer y To see the choices made retr

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Ronald Zellner
Jim's seems to be the most efficient and accurate, but I needed this change to make it work. ' of ' changed to 'in' I like to add something to create quick feedback- like the field "chosen". Easier to see the result. Then switch to the complete function when the code is working. on mouseUp lo

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not the same as 'delete item *called* y' ! So, would itemoffset help...? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers repeat until theNumbers is empty put any item theNumbers in

Re: unicode (again) This time: Tooltips

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Kenji! thanks so much! This saves my day. Once you know how to tackle all this stuff, it gets a little less complicated. So as a short recap: tooltips -> UTF8 fields -> UTF16 Button Text -> UTF16 and need to set the appropriate font Button labels -> UTF16 and need to set the appropriate font

Fun DropTool

2011-07-14 Thread John Craig
I've just had a first attempt at creating a custom control with the rather nicely engineered DropTools palette from Sons of Thunder. It's a scalable android logo constructed from LC graphic objects - just a bit of fun! You can get it here if you're interested; http://mobgui.com/downloads/An

Re: Hotel Management Software

2011-07-14 Thread Curry Kenworthy
> We need a kind of Hotel Scheduling solution Howdy, I couldn't resist posting on this subject! I worked hotel reservations office for many years and used several industry products in my work, tested others to review for management, and of course over time built up my own ideas of "a better

Re: unicode (again) This time: Tooltips

2011-07-14 Thread Kenji Kojima
Hi Malte, This Japanese Tooltips. go to url "http://kenjikojima.com/runrev/handbook/download/jpTooltip.rev"; You can change it to Russian. Best, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ On Jul 14, 2011, at 3:37 AM, Malte Brill wrote: > Hi all, > > if I wanted to display russian To

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread paolo mazza
Tha's interesting. I think you have to use delete.. of instead delete from . To me this is correct. put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers repeat until theNumbers is empty put any item theNumbers into n put n after theNumberList delete item (itemOffset(n, theNumbers)) of t

Re: Set image/data/source via an image on web?

2011-07-14 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi John, Am 14.07.2011 um 07:08 schrieb J. Landman Gay: > On 7/13/11 11:53 PM, John Patten wrote: >> Hi All... >> >> I have a script where I'm creating a number of image objects on the >> fly and then attempting to set them to jpg on a web server. >> Something like: >> put URL "http://webserver

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Keith Clarke
...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that 'delete item y' is not the same as 'delete item *called* y' ! So, would itemoffset help...? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into theNumbers repeat until theNumbers is empty put any item theNumbers into n do something delete (itemOffset(n

Re: Hotel Management Software

2011-07-14 Thread SparkOut
Also have a look at http://rapla.org/ perhaps. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Hotel-Management-Software-tp3666333p3666911.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-

unicode (again) This time: Tooltips

2011-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, if I wanted to display russian Tooltips, how would I go about that? Is it possible at all? Thanks in advance, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your sub

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 14, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: ...so for a random selection, enforcing the use of all 6 items, would this work? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x repeat until x is empty put any item of x into y do something delete item y from x end repeat No, since the

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Keith Clarke
...so for a random selection, enforcing the use of all 6 items, would this work? put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x repeat until x is empty put any item of x into y do something delete item y from x end repeat Best, Keith.. On 14 Jul 2011, at 05:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/1