iPhone + Arduino

2011-07-19 Thread Phil Davis
I just saw this: http://www.tuaw.com/2011/07/19/cord-from-iphone-to-arduino-now-available/ Redpark (maker of the cable) has a Serial SDK for app dev with the cable. I assume it could be made into an external for mobile dev (?), but their licensing is for private use only. Bummer. -- Phil Davi

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b - Geany!

2011-07-19 Thread Peter Alcibiades
What would be lovely would be if someone would do a plug-in for Geany. Its cross platform, so it would be usable in windows as well as the penguin. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-revIgniter-v1-4b-tp3678359p3680064.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Countdown HH:MM:SS

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Ray
On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:00 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Hi. > > > Shorter? It already can be pretty short. MUCH shorter? Where's Colin? Here's the fastest way I know: on mouseUp DisplayTime end mouseUp on DisplayTime put the long time into tTime convert tTime to dateItems split tTime

externals error under linux

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Anyone seen this: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘getXtable’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration] It is related to some macro error I think, or the linker is not linking against the correct stuff... any clue? -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code. ___

Re: Countdown HH:MM:SS

2011-07-19 Thread Jeff Massung
Lookup the "convert" function... dateAndTime and look at the format "dateItems". That probably has what you care about. HTH, Jeff M. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage y

Re: Countdown HH:MM:SS

2011-07-19 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Shorter? It already can be pretty short. MUCH shorter? Where's Colin? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Roger Eller To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tue, Jul 19, 2011 5:36 pm Subject: Countdown HH:MM:SS I know I can convert the time to seconds, do the math, split it up in

Countdown HH:MM:SS

2011-07-19 Thread Roger Eller
I know I can convert the time to seconds, do the math, split it up into HH:MM:SS, and repeat a "send myCounter in 1 sec" to update a countdown timer field, but before I begin chiseling on a new square wheel, is there a better (shorter) way? ˜Roger ___ us

LiveCode Server Release and On-Rev

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Ray
Just curious... does the recent release of LiveCode Server affect subscribers to On-Rev? If so, how and what should we be aware of? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-li

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Sure, Richard, it is clear that you won't buy that app. Others will, already did, and I'm glad I was able to provide them with something useful. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/x

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Bill Vlahos
The problem is the epoch date in Windows is 1970 and LiveCode can't deal with dates earlier than that in Windows. You will need to use a VBScript. Here is what I use in InfoWallet which handles Windows, Mac, and Linux correctly which was based on code provided by folks on this list. on calcAge

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Chipp, Weird. I would expect all pros to know about it. I'd say, give it a try. execute the following script on foo try executeNonExistingHandler catch myErr put myErr end try end foo I doubt many pros would need a lookup to figure out that a non-exi

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread SparkOut
I don't know why this is the case, because Windows can obviously calculate dates prior to the 1970 start of epoch in other applications... but something to do with the method LC uses to hook into a date function based on the epoch will fail. Try: put the date into tDate convert tDate to dateItems

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Chipp, Weird. I would expect all pros to know about it. I'd say, give it a try. execute the following script on foo try executeNonExistingHandler catch myErr put myErr end try end foo The first item in the message box will be a number. Download my app from http://qery.us/v4 an

Re: [ANN] alien camel in your LiveCode

2011-07-19 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Thierry, On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 Thierry Douez wrote: > Let me know off-list your Perl configuration ( distribution and version) > and I'll make the first one on Windows works for you. > Actually, I've started to build the external for windows with > ActivePerl 5.12.4  ( free pre-build perl and e

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Ralf Bitter
Pierre, thanks very much for the kind words. On 19.07.2011, at 23:58, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Thank you for your outstanding and major contribution to the LC-server > frameworks main tools, Ralf ! > > All the best, > ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thank you for your outstanding and major contribution to the LC-server frameworks main tools, Ralf ! All the best, Le 19 juil. 2011 à 17:05, Ralf Bitter a écrit : > > revIgniter v1.4b has been released. > > This is the first version which respects the latest > engine changes (LiveCode server

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Pete
Sounds like time for using Julian Days for the calculation. Per Ken, take a look at Sarah's date conversion routines at www.troz.net(they include Julian day conversions). Also, if you happen to be using an sql database in your application, there are SELECT statements that will do date calculations

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Ray
On Jul 19, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Ken, > > do you still use STS/MLXEditor? I haven't in a while - but it still works with the latest LC just as it did with Revolution... :D Ken > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > >> BTW, >> >> There's more modules for

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Clarke
...yes, nice concept but Flux 2 was quite unstable. It got better with V3 - but everything is relative! On 19 Jul 2011, at 20:33, Andre Garzia wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Keith Clarke < > keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > >> ...I was using Text Wrangler with CSSEdit (wh

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Ken, do you still use STS/MLXEditor? Cheers andre On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:33 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > BTW, > > There's more modules for a few other editors - originally designed to work > with the STS/MLXEditor that allows you to use a text editor for editing > instead of the IDE automatically.

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > ...I was using Text Wrangler with CSSEdit (which I like a lot) and > Transmit, but as a coding numpty, I was looking for a visual, more > declarative (point-and-click instead of type) toolset, with inbuilt

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Ray
BTW, There's more modules for a few other editors - originally designed to work with the STS/MLXEditor that allows you to use a text editor for editing instead of the IDE automatically. Here's the link: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm#Plugins Ken Ray Son

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Ken Ray
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Pete wrote: > Hi Andre, > I don't have a definitive answer for you but this sounds like it is > connected to "epoch" dates which are the number of days since Jan 1, 1970. > I'm guessing that somewhere along the line, your dates are being converted > to the epoch form

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Clarke
Doh! there I go sending when I should have been reading about Ralf's Textmate plugin. Note to self - learn to type quicker! Best, Keith.. On 19 Jul 2011, at 20:23, Keith Clarke wrote: > ...I was using Text Wrangler with CSSEdit (which I like a lot) and Transmit, > but as a coding numpty, I was

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Clarke
...I was using Text Wrangler with CSSEdit (which I like a lot) and Transmit, but as a coding numpty, I was looking for a visual, more declarative (point-and-click instead of type) toolset, with inbuilt irev language awareness, alongside HTML, Javascript and CSS. I really like Flux and would lo

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
http://revigniter.com/accessory On 19 July 2011 14:18, stephen barncard wrote: > Strictly for Textmate. > > > On 19 July 2011 14:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 7/19/11 1:20 PM, stephen barncard wrote: >> >>> Textmate and Ralf Bitter's free Livecode plugin for Textmate rocks for >>> live >>> i

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
Strictly for Textmate. On 19 July 2011 14:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/19/11 1:20 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> Textmate and Ralf Bitter's free Livecode plugin for Textmate rocks for >> live >> iRev editing. >> > > I know Trevor made one for BBEdit, is Ralf's a new one? Will it work with

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/19/11 1:20 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Textmate and Ralf Bitter's free Livecode plugin for Textmate rocks for live iRev editing. I know Trevor made one for BBEdit, is Ralf's a new one? Will it work with BBEdit (and do you have a link?) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hype

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 4:02 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > They actually had an awkward meeting with the great one, and turned > him down! > instead of great one, I read Great Old One and some weird Lovecraftian part of my mind suddenly screamed in horror :

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
yeah PANIC Software. I love those guys. Great code and a sense of humor. Did you read their story about how Audion almost became the framework for iTunes? They actually had an awkward meeting with the great one, and turned him down! On 19 July 2011 11:34, Andre Garzia wrote: > Coda is a great p

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Robert Mann
I open up a new thread on the subject of revServer stacks :: how does it work? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-revIgniter-v1-4b-tp3678359p3679017.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Coda is a great product by one of the greatest if not the greatest software house (that publishes only for the mac). Audiom was my default music player since Mac OS 9, now I've migrated to Grooveshark. To edit my own LiveCode Server stuff I use Transmit + TextMate or my own tools sometimes... FTP

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
Coda is a great editor too - and does CSS nicely. I made a SubEthaEdit editor plugin that works in Coda. It should be on their website. It works ok - (I modified a template for Director!) -- but it could use some improvement. Runtime Revolution (includes style)

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
custom props should work fine On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:22 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > maybe I'm wrong but there should be at least custom properties of the > stack. > > I am not able to test drive it yet. > > sqb > > On 19 July 2011 11:18, Andrew Kluthe wrot

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Andrew, it is binary stacks, you use stack libraries just like you do on the IDE but you can't access the graphics layer. Andre On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > Bummer. So we aren't talking about binary stacks, just a different way of > interacting between script files?

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Keith Clarke
...that makes me so pleased that I recently bought Coda ;-) On 19 Jul 2011, at 19:20, stephen barncard wrote: > Textmate and Ralf Bitter's free Livecode plugin for Textmate rocks for live > iRev editing. > > sqb > > On 19 July 2011 10:49, Andre Garzia wrote: > >> LiveCode IDE can't handle Liv

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
maybe I'm wrong but there should be at least custom properties of the stack. I am not able to test drive it yet. sqb On 19 July 2011 11:18, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > Bummer. So we aren't talking about binary stacks, just a different way of > interacting between script files? How do custom propert

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
Textmate and Ralf Bitter's free Livecode plugin for Textmate rocks for live iRev editing. sqb On 19 July 2011 10:49, Andre Garzia wrote: > LiveCode IDE can't handle LiveCode Server scripts... :-( > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > > > I don't need GUI stuff if I can se

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Bummer. So we aren't talking about binary stacks, just a different way of interacting between script files? How do custom properties work then? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-revIgniter-v1-4b-tp3678359p3678875.html Sent from the Revolution - Us

Re: Mac OS X missing controls in the LiveCode IDE

2011-07-19 Thread Shao Sean
The document talks about "window-frame" controls, which include various controls that you can place in the "toolbar" which, to the user, appears to be part of the window title bar. Is there a way to do that in LC? Nothing in Rev to allow you to do it natively and I have found some code th

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
LiveCode IDE can't handle LiveCode Server scripts... :-( On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I don't need GUI stuff if I can send messages and write my code in a > colorized code editor instead of notepad++. Very excited. > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtim

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right... and aliens from Zartha just landed in my mother's living room proclaiming to be the ancient ancestors of Elvis Presley, wondering why their whale songs haven't been answered. Bob On Jul 19, 2011, at 10:00 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Andrew, > > I just received an email from the m

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
?? there is no editor in Livecode server... On 19 July 2011 10:40, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I don't need GUI stuff if I can send messages and write my code in a > colorized code editor instead of notepad++. Very excited. > > -- > Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I don't need GUI stuff if I can send messages and write my code in a colorized code editor instead of notepad++. Very excited. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-revIgniter-v1-4b-tp3678359p3678755.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list a

Output error in standalone

2011-07-19 Thread Charles Szasz
I am using Rev 4.0 Build 950. I just finishing working on a project. It consists of a splash stack and an app stack. I set up my Standalone Applications settings to create builds for Mac OS X (Universal) and Windows. When I tried to compile my app I got the following error message: There was wa

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread stephen barncard
and CUSTOM PROPERTIES! On 19 July 2011 10:31, Andre Garzia wrote: > On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > > > Whoa. I just got the email too. > > > > > > I am excited about built in encryption feature. This makes webservice > apps > > much easier. I wonder if this means SQL Yo

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 2:15 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > Whoa. I just got the email too. > > > I am excited about built in encryption feature. This makes webservice apps > much easier. I wonder if this means SQL Yoga will work with revServer. > > I am a little confused on how the stack support wor

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Whoa. I just got the email too. I am excited about built in encryption feature. This makes webservice apps much easier. I wonder if this means SQL Yoga will work with revServer. I am a little confused on how the stack support works though. Can someone help summarize this feature for me? -- Vie

Re: Mac OS X missing controls in the LiveCode IDE

2011-07-19 Thread Pete
Ken, Thanks for that link - very interesting. A lot of the details in there are, as you say, to do with controls that we don't have available to us natively in Livecode but there's a couple of other issues. The document talks about "window-frame" controls, which include various controls that you

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread André Bisseret
Thanks a lot Pete for this information; i was not aware of these "epoch" dates format I am going to dig around that I much appreciate your prompt help André Le 19 juil. 2011 à 18:40, Pete a écrit : > Hi Andre, > I don't have a definitive answer for you but this sounds like it is > connected

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Andrew, I just received an email from the mothership, it is more serious than that, RevServer was released! \O/ LiveCode Server 4.6.3 On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > RevServer got updated? Is there a changelog? Does On-Rev use Livecode > Server > 4.6.3? > > -- > Vi

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Chipp Walters
Interesting. I have to say, in the past 10 years or so since I've been programming commercial applications for my clients and our company, I do not recall seeing such an error. In fact, this is the first time I've even heard of them. I, too, would like to know under what circumstances they are fi

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Using try/catch blocks, fiddling with the exception and throwing it again is a guaranteed form to destroy the errordialog window. 2011/7/19 Björnke von Gierke > I think one way to fuck up the error dialog is to supress messages when > closing stacks by script, and then an error happens. At least

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andrew Kluthe
RevServer got updated? Is there a changelog? Does On-Rev use Livecode Server 4.6.3? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-revIgniter-v1-4b-tp3678359p3678624.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think one way to fuck up the error dialog is to supress messages when closing stacks by script, and then an error happens. At least this was a case I had about 3 years ago. There migth have been other particular settings or behaviour that triggered it, I don't remember exactly. And Rev error

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Pete
Hi Andre, I don't have a definitive answer for you but this sounds like it is connected to "epoch" dates which are the number of days since Jan 1, 1970. I'm guessing that somewhere along the line, your dates are being converted to the epoch format on the WIndows platform that would certainly cause

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Ralf Bitter
Agreed . . . On 19.07.2011, at 17:11, Andre Garzia wrote: > Ralf, > > For now I think its better to have two links, one for 1.4 and one for > 1.3.latest because people on On-Rev will not transition to the new engine > for a while and there are a lot of guys out there using RevServer. I think >

age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour, I am a Mac user but I recently bought a PC (windows 7) in order to test my standalones for windows more quickly. I am fighting for hours now with the following problem : In an app., I have a handler that calculates the age from the short birth date (thanks to Jim Ault who gave it on

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: > Richard, > > Since you are a professional LiveCode programmer, just like me, > I know that you know that one may see an error code of the form > ###,###,###, once in a while, where # is a number and x is > a letter. Seeing this error isn't necessarily a LiveCode bug.

Re: [ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Andre Garzia
Ralf, For now I think its better to have two links, one for 1.4 and one for 1.3.latest because people on On-Rev will not transition to the new engine for a while and there are a lot of guys out there using RevServer. I think it is better to offer both branches while the engine is in pre-release.

[ANN] revIgniter v1.4b

2011-07-19 Thread Ralf Bitter
revIgniter v1.4b has been released. This is the first version which respects the latest engine changes (LiveCode server version 4.6.3). Lots of adjustments were made and the whole Encrypt library is revised. Keep in mind that this version is not compatible with revServer (engine versions before

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard, Since you are a professional LiveCode programmer, just like me, I know that you know that one may see an error code of the form ###,###,###, once in a while, where # is a number and x is a letter. Seeing this error isn't necessarily a LiveCode bug. I have no idea why you assume it

Re: Mac OS X missing controls in the LiveCode IDE

2011-07-19 Thread René Micout
Thank you Ken... I knew my list was not exhaustive, I would have to update, I expect the (imminent) Lion release to make the point ... Also, I do not lose sight of the need to update my tools to be compatible withDropTools ... Bon souvenir de Paris René Le 19 juil. 2011 à 15:50, Ken Ray a écrit

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
I appreciate your quick reply, but my questions were in earnest: Under what circumstances does this happen? What is the RQCC report for this? It would seem more useful to address these with RunRev rather than give everyone using the App Store the impression that LiveCode's error dialog doesn't

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Good for you, Richard. -- 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 LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 19 jul 2

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: > How often have you seen an inexplicable error while running your > app on your computer and wishing for a separate device to check > the meaning of that error? Here, never. Under what circumstances does this happen? What is the RQCC report for this? -- Richard Gaski

Record Sound iOS

2011-07-19 Thread John Dixon
Hi... Has anyone got 'record sound' to work under iOS. If you have done would you give me a nudge in the right direction...:-) be well ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit th