iPad directory format

2011-07-26 Thread gwendalwood
On July 26, Gerry wrote: "We don't (yet) have the ability to access music files that are synced via iTunes on computers to the iPad/iPhone iTunes app on iOS devices. However we can access music files that we copy to one of the folders owned by our apps on those devices. For example, my app c

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Marty Knapp
I've not tinkered with shell commands - what is the shell command for installing fonts on Mac? Marty K It's been an assumption of mine that if planning for standalone application cross platform support, there are three approaches: 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy w

Re: Getting a list of non-Rev main stacks

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Haworth
Oops, spoke too soon. That gets all stacks, not just main stacks, but from there I can go through and weed out the substacks so still OK. Pete On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > if you want to get stacks that are not ide, you can use > revloadedstacks(application) > > put

Re: Getting a list of non-Rev main stacks

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Haworth
Perfect! Thank you. Pete On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > if you want to get stacks that are not ide, you can use > revloadedstacks(application) > > put revloadedstacks(application) into tStackList > > > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Pete Haworth >wrote: > > > I have

Re: iPad file format

2011-07-26 Thread Scott Rossi
I don't believe the engine provides access to the device music library yet, though this feature has been (strongly) requested: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9339 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Terry Judd wrote: > Did you import the songs

Re: iPad file format

2011-07-26 Thread Gerry Orkin
We don't (yet) have the ability to access music files that are synced via iTunes on computers to the iPad/iPhone iTunes app on iOS devices. However we can access music files that we copy to one of the folders owned by our apps on those devices. For example, my app comes with 3 mp3s already insta

Re: iPad file format

2011-07-26 Thread Terry Judd
Did you import the songs into iTunes as well? Once you've added your folder of songs to your 'iTunes music' folder you need to fire up iTunes and import them (Select 'Add to Library...' from the file menu). From there you should be able to sync them to your iPad. Not sure how you go about accessing

Re: on-rev client

2011-07-26 Thread Bruce Pokras
I had the same problem this past weekend. I ended up doing my edits with a text editor. Then on Sunday (after a reboot, but that might have been a coincidence) the client started uploading again. It was weird. On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Erik Schwartz wrote: > I'll take a look around. I have

iPad file format

2011-07-26 Thread gwendalwood
I have an app that on the Mac, opens, read the files in a folder called "Songs" and put the names of the files into a field. When the user clicks on the name in the listfield, the player plays that song. Works great! However, ..when I compile and run on the iPad, nothing I can find allows me

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
I should have prefaced it with, "In the spirit of rapid application development...". :-) On Jul 26, 2011, at 4:09 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:37:14 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: > > >> 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows >> and Apple,

Re: Getting a list of non-Rev main stacks

2011-07-26 Thread Mike Bonner
if you want to get stacks that are not ide, you can use revloadedstacks(application) put revloadedstacks(application) into tStackList On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Pete Haworth wrote: > I have a need to get a list of all open application stacks. The mainstacks > property includes all the ID

Getting a list of non-Rev main stacks

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Haworth
I have a need to get a list of all open application stacks. The mainstacks property includes all the IDE stacks so I filter them out by looking for the ones that begin with "rev". That gets most of them but still leaves a few that don't start with "rev", e.g "Home", "Answer Dialog", "AskDialog",

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:37:14 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: > 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows > and Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors. 2. Create an > installer that includes the truetype fonts you use, and install them via a > shell. This of

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's been an assumption of mine that if planning for standalone application cross platform support, there are three approaches: 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows and Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors. 2. Create an installer that includes

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/26/11 4:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: I personally have been fighting a lot with cross platform font issues and find it a chore. When using stacks' non-default fonts/sizes, I've found no other solution than to brute-force set these upon opening stacks. Maybe someone else knows the secrets for

The proper place to put things

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
NVM I remember now that I had to make libSQLYoga a substack of my main application. I will do that. But if there is a place to "put it" that is proper so that Start Using can find it, I'd like to put it there. Bob > Hi all. > > In 4.6.2 I had some 3rd party stuff in the /Applications/Revolu

The proper place to put things

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. In 4.6.2 I had some 3rd party stuff in the /Applications/Revolution Studio/Third Party/ folder. sqlYoga was one of them. 4.6.3 does not seem to see them anymore. My User Extensions is set to /Users/Shared/Livecode/ so that all user logins gain access to all my LiveCode plugins. So wher

[OT] PHP scripter

2011-07-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
The daughter of a friend has a PHP script that is throwing errors, and she needs someone to take a look and fix it. Since I know some of you know more than one language, I said I'd ask here to see if anyone wants an afternoon's work. Drop me a note off-list if you're interested, she has a modes

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Scott Rossi
I personally have been fighting a lot with cross platform font issues and find it a chore. When using stacks' non-default fonts/sizes, I've found no other solution than to brute-force set these upon opening stacks. Maybe someone else knows the secrets for handling this better. Have you made cert

Re: [ANN] LiveCode.tv event #33

2011-07-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Everyone had a great time, you should join in as soon as you have time. Mario showed a tool he has in development, that allows him to create custom buttons with blending and 3d effect very easily. We do have a recording for you. http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16197148 David showed his almost fin

Re: previous page button of browser opening on-rev server page

2011-07-26 Thread Dave Cragg
On 26 Jul 2011, at 14:54, paolo mazza wrote: > Actually the script suggested by Jan works, and I get a page with 2 > new headers. However, for some reasons, the browser do not reload the > page. > > Dave, you are right, I was unfair with PHP... still, at least "put > the long date" is pretty e

Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Camm
Tahoma font will not work in standalone unless its run in Windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode? I am using Windows XP.. Any ideas ? Best Regards Camm ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

Re: How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, thanks for all your suggestions. I never used "Edit Group" so far. I even was not sure for what it was. Now i know Regards, Matthias Am 26.07.2011 um 21:18 schrieb Pete Haworth: > Thanks Geoff. Yes I remember seeing your note about that. Sorry its' no > longer maintained, I've always

Re: How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Haworth
Thanks Geoff. Yes I remember seeing your note about that. Sorry its' no longer maintained, I've always found the maintenance of groups to be awkward in LC, especially when you get into nested group situations. Pete On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote: > There are several

Re: Where does survive the inventive user?

2011-07-26 Thread Andre Garzia
mobile computing is consumer computing. Developers and inventive users will keep on platforms that allow them to develop stuff. It means that slowly, those users will move towards freedom so even though mobile computing will be ubiquitous, you will find the developers and inventive users using some

Where does survive the inventive user?

2011-07-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Today, I read again this article by Dan Shafer: http://www.danshaferblog.com/inventive-users-need-help-on-the-ithings Many obvious questions arise from this article: Does latest versions of Livecode fill this niche? Is programming for mobile so easy (using Livecode) that anyone that wan

Re: How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Geoff Canyon Rev
There are several; Navigator (mine) is one, but it is ancient, unmaintained and somewhat buggy at this point. I believe I already said this, but anyone who still wants to use it can do so for free at this point. An even more ancient version of navigator comes with your standard installation; you ca

Re: Writing to and from a binary file?

2011-07-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Many Thanks to Bernd for sending an example stack! I will start experimenting using this code as starting point. :-D Have a great good day! Al On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Great work! Now, just out of curiosity > How could I modify your code, so it cuts > an image ba

Re: How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Haworth
Another way is: - Place the button where you want it. - Select the group - Click Ungroup - Shift click the new button so it's selected along with all the original members of the group - Click Group LC remembers all the properties of the group and reinstates them (as long as you don't close the ca

Re: Importing an image

2011-07-26 Thread Pete Haworth
Thanks everyone - so many properties, so little time. Pete On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:32:09 PM, you wrote: > > > I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the dictionary but all is well > now. > > > The reason I was doing this i

Re: Importing an image

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hmmm... that may modify what I posted. I will have to compare Livecode resizing with pre-resizing before import again. Bob On Jul 25, 2011, at 10:52 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > One thing that might help is to set the resizeQuality property of the image > to "best" before resizing (default is "n

Re: Importing an image

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
I will say this about resizing images in Livecode: Don't. The Preview app that comes with Apple OS X does a much better job of resizing an image than Livecode does "on the fly" by which I mean setting the size of the image using the height and width properties. This is not a criticism, but an ob

Re: How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Graphically: 1. Click group to be edited 2. Click Edit Group on your button bar, or select it in the Object menu 3. Add your button (or paste it if you cut it previously) 4. (very important) Click the Edit Group button (or menu) again or everything else you do from here on out will be done to t

RE: What is the fastest database?

2011-07-26 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> For a desktop application, what database would you recommend > for the job? I can use a flat file database, but the problem > is that all 25 MB of data must be loaded into memory... What > about SQLite? Valencia? Speed is of the essence. Ill try to avoid a tag team with Ruslan on this ;-) In

Re: Importing an image

2011-07-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Monday, July 25, 2011, 10:32:09 PM, you wrote: > I totally missed the "paint" keyword in the dictionary but all is well now. > The reason I was doing this is because took a PNG snapshot of a group > control into an image control, then tried to resize the image control, but I > found that t

Re: previous page button of browser opening on-rev server page

2011-07-26 Thread paolo mazza
Thank you all. So, there is a property ( header ) only for the on-rev server environment? In fact I can not use this property in the IDE (I get a compilation error) and it does not exists in the LC documentation (version 4.6.0). Are there other undocumented properties suitable only to the se

Re: previous page button of browser opening on-rev server page

2011-07-26 Thread Dave Cragg
On 26 Jul 2011, at 07:40, paolo mazza wrote: > Thank you all. Trying to get rid of the browser cache setting the > proper headings (as Shao Sean suggested) , I came up with these 2 > solutions: > > PHP: > > header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate"); > header("Expires: Fri, 30 oct 1998

Re: How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Matthias, Am 26.07.2011 um 12:23 schrieb Matthias Rebbe: > Hi, > > maybe a dumb question, but how do i add for example a button to an already > existing group? manually: "edit background", add objects via script: copy btn x to grp Y or create button in group Y > Matthias Best Klaus --

How to add something to a group

2011-07-26 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, maybe a dumb question, but how do i add for example a button to an already existing group? Matthias ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferen

Re: previous page button of browser opening on-rev server page

2011-07-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
I don't think setting the 'httpHeaders' will do what you want - that's meant for getting a URL or posting to a it from within your LC script. Try this instead (untested, but should do the trick, I think): HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports & PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com =