I used to do this. Then I realized that it was quicker (if more complex and
less intuitive) to:
1. Drag something off the shelf at the bottom of the screen if necessary to
make room
2. Drag the item I want to move onto the shelf
3. Go to the home screen, either by swiping (easier than dragging) or
Hi Arie,
noop, that's just the annoying thing. I can't even open the MacAppStore on
Leopard, no chance. Even if Apple wants to switch to this new MacApp Store
thing for the future, I don't understand why they don't offer anymore any
"classic download" option for backward compatibility for users wh
Chipp ,
Perfect Many thanks !
Regards
Camm
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Camm,
I ran into this once with Time Machine. I restored an iPages file from a
backup and it brought it back without an extension and treated it as a unix
executable. Even more ironic that Time Machine can't restore a file from an
Apple application properly!
Pete
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Te
In some old stack libraries I would use the templateField to do my
field trickery without having to have a field object present, perhaps
that will help you as well..
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I had no intention of using CPs in stacks that way as a large db -I really
thinking about snippets - boilerplate text, etc. and using the CP hierarchy
to accomplish that. Databases are still king when it comes to large amounts
of data, but I was thinking more in terms of 'business logic' and keepi
Yeah, fields - tried adding one - and then I couldn't access the stack
unless I deleted the field in the IDE.
But granted the only reason I might want a field in an online stack is to do
some text conversion that requires a 'field'.
sqb
On 27 July 2011 15:53, Mike Bonner wrote:
> Fields work,
OK - scratch that quey. It looks like using revZip to unzip Mac apps on a PC is
ok after all. From what I can tell (following admittedly limited testing) any
file without an extension that is unzipped on a PC ends up being recognised as
a unix executable file on the Mac. Bottom line is that Mac
About 3 weeks ago I posted about an issue I had with certain Mac files (those
that are recognised by the MacOS as 'unix executable files') losing their
executable status when they are unpacked using revZip. A couple of solutions
were offered and I'm currently using 'chmod +x [filepath]' to 'rese
Hi Chipp,
When I started to use Macintosh, back in the nineties,
consistency in User interface conventions was a
real godsend.
But, after a while, Apple started looking in the mirror and
started to comparing themselves with Windows:
Magazines, Promotional Brochures, Ads...
Wherever you see Appl
There are a couple of apps that deal with these deficiencies very
intuitively:
Multi-icon mover, where you put the apps in wiggle mode and then tap which
ever apps you want to move, even if they are on different home screens. Then
just go to the page or folder where you want them moved to and hit
Craig,
You make some excellent points, most all I agree with. I was one of the few
who had a little experience in Fortran and Basic, but jumped at the HC
opportunity-- because it was there. Today, I believe there is so much more
'there' for folks. Tremendous interactive gaming consumes some. Other
An instant fix. Wow. Thank you, Chipp!
Slava
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> Subject: Re: horizontal scroll
Hi Francis,
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
>
> Question 1 - Is programming so easy . ?
> I think we should ask the question "Is programming a niche occupation ?
>
I understand programming as an exercise in Logical thinking.
Yes, I know, trust me, I know. Everyday we see so
many counterexample
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>
> I have read more Apple documentation in the last 2 months than I have in
> the last ten years. Maybe I'm just too entrenched in old habits, maybe it's
> intuitive to new users.
Yep, agreed. You should see the gymnastics I have to go th
Yep, Bill. I know. In fact, I mentioned in my first post that trying to find
an app in one of those folders is like playing a kids game. That quote you
reference was from Bruce, and said the bit about folders BEFORE iPad came
out with folders, though it really hasn't changed much as far as ease-of-
Actually you can have folders.
1. Hold your finger on an icon until they all quiver
2. Drag an icon(s) on top of another one and it will make a folder of them.
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Either work on Lion. If you only care about Lion then use the Intel build as
Lion won't run on PPC Macs anyway. This is also true for Snow Leopard.
Unless you don't care about older Macs use the Universal build and you will be
fine.
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On 7/27/11 7:51 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:
Warning: Those for which Apple can do no wrong should press delete
and move on to the next thread. You've been warned!
Well, that's pretty much me. For the desktop OS anyway. I'm getting more
broadminded in my old age though.
Fact is, there are so
Just to let you know that you're not alone -- I'm a similar LC user, started
with HC (actually bought and read through Danny Goodman's book even before I
bought my first Mac), developed a set of stacks to manage my clinical notes,
incorporated more and more features, moved it over to LC a number
You can use something like Twilio, or if you're talking low volume you
can often use the carrier's email gateways.
Erik
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mark Schonewille
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>
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html {overflow-x:hidden;}
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:54 PM, Slava Paperno wrote:
> Rather like any Web browser window, my revBrowser windows sometimes has a
> horizontal scroll bar and sometimes not. Because the display in my
> revBrowser window is wrappable text, this horizontal scroll bar is nev
Well, turns out with a little digital sleuthing, we can find out exactly
what Tog thinks, and he's pretty much thinking the same thing:
"In Part 1, I discussed the ill-effects to the Macintosh of Apple's Flatland
aesthetic, a visual simplicity that threatens to bury Apple's users with
unnecessary
Yep, and that's the rub. Google has too much money and not enough discipline
to put together any decent offering. And then there's Microsoft-- so sad. As
long as Balmer's at the helm, they are doomed to mediocrity.
And once Apple was the high priest of UIX, and now how the mighty have
fallen. I wo
Rather like any Web browser window, my revBrowser windows sometimes has a
horizontal scroll bar and sometimes not. Because the display in my
revBrowser window is wrappable text, this horizontal scroll bar is never
useful. Even when it appears, it only scrolls for about five or six pixels.
Unnecessa
Oregon physical Apple stores appear to be letting people come into the store to
do the install. Perhaps physical Apple stores in your location offer the same
service.
Kee
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I've never been a computer professional. Not even close. I taught myself to
write Basic programs for my Atari 64, mostly out of curiosity. Around 1984 I
taught myself HyperCard. I wrote a variety of applications for home and
business use. A pretty good phonics tutorial for my kids, among others.
I like the way these consecutive statements go together:
> Damn, if only there was ANY decent alternative to iOS.
>
> Fact is, there are so many interface problems with iOS, I don't even
> know where to start...
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Thanks Ken and Bill!
One more question. For Lion only, should I compile only for Intel for Lion? Or
will universal run on Lion?
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Open up your stack in Rev as Topstack and before you make a standalone, type
this in the message box:
set the textfont of the topstack to "Tahoma"
Then press enter and save your stack. Now make a standalone and see if it
doesn't work. If Tahoma is installed on a Windows users machine, it
Maybe I'm not the biggest Apple fan in the world, but my family does own three
iPhones, three iPads, three Apple TV's and a MacBook Air. So, in some sense, I
do support them, no matter how ridiculous their 1984-like Big Brother policies.
And I feel it gives the right to gripe about some stuff as
Stephen,
be aware that loading large stacks into memory will get you to the memory
protection police! If your database stack is too big, and lots of copies are
loaded for all the requests, Apache or whoever does the purging might kill
your engine to save resources. This is hardcoded into On-Rev ac
Yes apps built in 4.0 will work.
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On Jul 27, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:
> Will Mac apps made with Rev 4.0 run on Lion? Or do I need
Hello Mike,THANKS, YES! Your explanation was really useful and the scriptlet
worked first time, including all the dependent handlers.That's a project I gave
up on months ago and only recently decided to have another try due to some new
intuitions. Now I can go to bed happy! 01.30
Thanks again an
On Jul 27, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Charles Szasz wrote:
> Will Mac apps made with Rev 4.0 run on Lion? Or do I need to made my Mac
> apps with LiveCode 4.6.3? I have purchased LiveCode 4.6.3 but have yet use it
> to make any apps Mac or Windows.
4.0 apps work just fine on Lion...
Ken Ray
Sons of
Fields work, you can place pretty much every object EXCEPT a button on there
and it works.
Its too bad. It is so much easier to develop a complete app in livecode that
it would be nice to be able to place a completed working stack next to an lc
script that supplies only interface elements. Can st
*LIVECODE SERVER 4.6.3*
Wow. Haven't done any speed benchmarks, and I've just started using this
version of LCS, but it offers what was missing before, and a lot more.
Stacks are full fledged citizens now . One can 'start using stack x' -
one's tested land-based libraries can be used at sea.
T
It's hard to get people who know non-scripted languages to even look at
Livecode, because they think that something simpler than what they already know
has to suffer from an equal lack of speed, usability, features, security etc.
Even still, if you can convince them that they can produce profess
Yes it is. In fact I have done exactly that with the RC1 of Lion. I used Carbon
Copy Cloner to copy my internal drive system and all to my Time Machine drive.
If I want to run Lion, I reboot holding the option key and select the external
drive.
Bob
On Jul 27, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Warren Sample
So how do you download lion from the App store when all you have is Leopard or
even Tiger? I do not think (perhaps I am wrong) that the App Store shows up in
Leopard. Only Snow Leopard. And are you saying that Lion will install over top
of an OS that is NOT Snow Leopard? This seems to contradict
Hello CraigYes,
that's the sort of thing I was looking for and it works fine as far as
moving the clicks is concerned. However now the visible cursor remains
on the button that triggers it all and I don't get the right colours
returned, as I did from the desktop using screenMouseLoc.We shall ov
Hi,
Craig said :
who might fall in love with LC if they only were simply
exposed to it
Amen to that !
This was my point - Who IS exposed to LiveCode ?
Maybe we can get some input from the LiveCode Commercial
Department. How do you go about tickling a non-LiveCode-User ?
Certainly not on
Will Mac apps made with Rev 4.0 run on Lion? Or do I need to made my Mac apps
with LiveCode 4.6.3? I have purchased LiveCode 4.6.3 but have yet use it to
make any apps Mac or Windows.
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After a bit of trial and error - many errors, Andre Garzia helped me get my
new Livecode server running at Dreamhost*. Twice.
I hope I am not 'stealing his thunder' here because I owe him a great deal
of gratitude for getting my sites working with LCS.( I know he wants to talk
about it - when thi
yes you can have multiple cards and as many custom props as you like but no
other objects like fields or buttons. Fail for sure. It's strictly an
intelligent storage device.
On 27 July 2011 12:56, Mike Bonner wrote:
> Got it to work. If there is a button in the stack it causes a sig 11.
> remov
Got it to work. If there is a button in the stack it causes a sig 11. remove
them and things start to work dandy.
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Mike Bonner wrote:
> More information. On a different machine, *ubuntu 1, apache2,
> livecode-server 4-6-3* there is also a signal 11, but quite a b
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On 07/27/2011 10:08 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Yeah, that whole trial thing is annoying. Whenever I want to test the latest
version, I have to e-mail support. That's only additional work for support and
for me.
Wrote to support and have just got an automated response that finishes:
"Warm R
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 01:20:05 PM Arie van der Ent wrote:
> Hi Tiemo,
>
> It is not necessary to wait for Lion on a USB-stick. Don McAllister from
> screencastsonline did the following; 1. buy Lion from App store;
> 2. make a copy from the installer (in your application folder);
> 3. open up
On 07/27/2011 10:08 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Yeah, that whole trial thing is annoying. Whenever I want to test the latest
version, I have to e-mail support. That's only additional work for support and
for me.
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Oddly enough when I enter my email and password into a Livcode 4.6.3
install it does not allow me a 30 day trial: it prompts me to set up an
account, which I already have.
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As mentioned, the globalloc() function takes a relative location and turns
it into a screen relative numbers. localloc() takes a screen relative
location and converts it to card relative. So if you want to move the mouse
to a location in your stack then have it click, you can first set the
screenm
Well, I'm one, and I have been being desperately creative over many
years; both for my in-house software for my language school and for my
Devawriter.
My in-house stuff works, insofar as kids seem to learn both Engl
Hi Tiemo,
It is not necessary to wait for Lion on a USB-stick. Don McAllister from
screencastsonline did the following;
1. buy Lion from App store;
2. make a copy from the installer (in your application folder);
3. open up the copy of the installer package, then open the folder Shared
Support in
This may help:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/131943
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On Jul 27, 2011, at 10:50 AM, Camm wrote:
> Well , my issue is just with windows ?
> The Tahoma font is their during development mode but vanishes in Standalone
> on XP.
> If I set the properties of the standalone.exe in Windows to 95 or
IC. I mentioned the shell because if the end user is not an admin, and you want
the font installed universally, then the only way I know to do that is to use
sudo in a terminal for Mac (and presumably unix/linux), and Run As in a command
line for Windows.
It sure sounds like a font conflict. T
Hi Bob,
thank you for showing me that I am not the only one! That helps (at least
for my mind).
And yes I meant dual partition! Thanks for reminding me
Tiemo
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Hi Kee,
thanks for your apple friendly explanation :) I will try to see it this way
and will explain it to my customers that they will have to wait for my
support until apple is ready to ship it on CD/stick.
Thanks
Tiemo
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>Barry,
>Why exactly does it click on your desktop? If you re-calculate the locations,
>it should click on the card. There's a function globalLoc().
Damned if I know, but I saw the mouse icon do it to the left of my stack and
when it's path passed over the Rev toolpalette the relative objs on
Well , my issue is just with windows ?
The Tahoma font is their during development mode but vanishes in Standalone
on XP.
If I set the properties of the standalone.exe in Windows to 95 or 98
compatibility it returns ?
How do I force load a font on startup ?
Best Regards
Camm
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I use Tahoma on Macs and Win and have never had a problem. Tends to be the
default unless missing; failing Tahoma I use Verdana 11pt.
Hugh Senior
FLCo
Tiemo Hollmann wrote:
When I started with revolution Tahoma was the default font of all objects
and I didn't cared about it at that time. I am n
Oh, by the way I hope you mean Dual Partition. Dual boot *can* mean to install
two operating systems on one partition (you can actually do this with Windows
but no one recommends it). You will want to install Lion on a second partition
or hard drive, because Lion is going to overwrite your exist
Hi Tiemo. You are not alone. A lot of raised eyebrows are only now relaxing
after learning of Apple's method of delivery.
If you upgrade to Snow Leopard and then do all the updates, you would see in
your Apple Menu under Software Updates a new item called App Store. If you went
there and set u
The Mac App Store is kind of a Snow Leopard thing. Apple decided to distribute
Lion initially via the Mac App Store so ... if you do not have Snow Leopard
installed, you cannot buy and install it.
It is my understanding that there will be a version of Lion that comes on
physical media that you
The reason I ask is that about 1% of my customers are finding that my
app (which uses revFontLoad) does not load the font, which is tucked
inside the application bundle. The result returns a not very helpful
"unable to load font" message. When the application starts up it looks
in the fontnames
Personally I spend a whole lot of time futzing with little things in Livecode,
where I ought to be focused on creating the user interface or writing the code.
I will give you an example:
I am creating an interface with buttons that have graphic icons. In order to
use the icons I have to first
Wouldn't it be more straightforward to:
on RollEm
put "40,300" into tCllick-- first point on line
click at tClick
repeat 5 times --or 4?
add 40 to item 1 of tClick
click at tClick
end repeat
end RollEm
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Probably I should address this to the apple support, but I know here are a
lot of kind guys, willing to help also OT much faster as apple.
Today I wanted to buy lion to make a dual boot install on my mac, because I
had first customer calls telling me about trouble with my program on lion.
Because
I will take a shot at this. Behaviors are actually the script of a button,
referenced as it's long ID. The long ID (as you could see if you got the long
ID of any object) references not just the card it is on but the stack itself.
When you clone a stack with behaviors, I suspect that the behavio
I also found this. Haven't tried it though.
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
Bob
On Jul 26, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Marty Knapp wrote:
> 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
You just put the font file into /System/Library/Fonts. You have to shell it if
the user is not an admin because of permissions. The shell command is simply
the one to copy, but you may have to sudo it because it is in the System
package. Alternately you could put the font into the user's font fo
Barry,
Why exactly does it click on your desktop? If you re-calculate the locations,
it should click on the card. There's a function globalLoc().
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> Without that once in a lifetime vehicle, it is an uphill
> battle to engage people who might fall in love with LC if
> they only were simply exposed to it. Worse, these days, the
> mindset is that everything comes in small ready-to-go
> packages, complete and compact. I have three kids who ju
Wed Jul 27 09:56:21 CDT 2011
Mark Schonewille wrote
>Hi Barry,
>Have a look at the screenMouseLoc.
>You can't move the mouseLoc, but you can set the screenMouseLoc.
Hello Mark,
Thanks for another prompt reply, however I have tried everything
in the book connected with mouseloc.
Infact, screenMous
More information. On a different machine, *ubuntu 1, apache2,
livecode-server 4-6-3* there is also a signal 11, but quite a bit more info
(that I don't understand.)
livecode-server exited due to fatal signal 11
in __kernel_sigreturn @ 0
in @ 0x8158f85
in @ 0x809e596
in @ 0x809ea13
in
Hi Barry,
Have a look at the screenMouseLoc. You can't move the mouseLoc, but you can set
the screenMouseLoc.
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What
I am trying to make the mouse click at fixed intervals along a straight line.
So far, I have the following which 'compiles' without errors:
on RollEm
click at "40,300" -- first point on line
repeat 5 times
move the mouseLoc relative "40,0" without waiting
click at the mouseLoc
Klaus,
I put a JavaScript note on Safari pages until it's resolved.
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On Jul 27, 2011, at 8:41 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
> Hi Kenji,
>
> Am 27.07.2011 um 13:49 schrieb Kenji Kojima:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Safari 5.1 cannot show my revlet stac
Has anyone managed to get a stack to load using livecode-server for windows?
All I get is "livecode-server exited due to fatal signal 11"
This happens when trying to library the stack as well as using go stack
Otherwise livecode-server is working great, just can't get the stack support
to work.
This link might be of interest to those of you developing for Android:
http://www.devx.com/DailyNews/Article/47096?trk=DXRSS_WEBDEV
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Hi Andre,
Andre Garzia-3 wrote:
>
> 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 fin
Hi Kenji,
Am 27.07.2011 um 13:49 schrieb Kenji Kojima:
> Hi,
>
> Safari 5.1 cannot show my revlet stacks.
> It shows only white stack. I updated a plugin to LiveCode Player(R9), but did
> not work.
> Safari 5.0.5 and firefox can show them.
> I made the revlet stacks by LiveCode 4.5.3.
> Does
In the old days, Hypercard was. like a viral pandemic, infected the world
because it was bundled with every Macintosh. It was offered like a promotion, a
possibly valuable coupon one gets in the mail, which you will at least read
before throwing out, And it became a nerd fad, with many hundreds
Hi,
Safari 5.1 cannot show my revlet stacks.
It shows only white stack. I updated a plugin to LiveCode Player(R9), but did
not work.
Safari 5.0.5 and firefox can show them.
I made the revlet stacks by LiveCode 4.5.3.
Does anybody have same problem?
URLs:
http://kenjikojima.com/newsmusic/rgbRev
Bonjour,
On an app. I am developing on Mac, I have a main stack a substack of which is a
model used for creating new stacks which are cloned from the model and saved as
"independent" stacks (not substacks).
The scripts of the card 1 of this model and of all objects on this card are all
togethe
Thank you Dave. I found out that Safary needs an additional attribute
in the body tag : to reload the page.
So, here it is the code working for Firefox, Safari and IE, both
with PHP and LiveCode server.
PHP
Documento senza titolo
LIVECODE
Documento senza titolo
A
Alejandro asks some potent questions .
Question 1 - Is programming so easy . ?
I think we should ask the question "Is programming a niche occupation ?
During my early career, practically everybody I knew was a programmer
(birds of a feather flock together ?)
Now I am out of the industr
When I started with revolution Tahoma was the default font of all objects
and I didn't cared about it at that time. I am now using Tahoma since years
without any problems on windows and Mac, though I have learned that Tahoma
isn't a standard font on Mac and is supposed to be substituted (what never
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