Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

I agree. I think the following link opens a pretty good summary of how our world has changed as a result of Steve. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/steve_jobs_a_revolution_every_other_year/ I wish him all the best and offer a big thank you. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://

Re: Android's mobileDeviceInfo

Thanks, but tried that, no result. The "ask" was a slip of the mind while typing. Can anyone confirm that mobileDeviceInfo doesn't work (best tested on actual device) before I file a bug report? --Maarten On Thursday, August 25, 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/24/11 9:03 PM, Maarten Koopmans

OT (semi) - Panorama Image Delivery Options

We are finally getting into panoramas here. We have got our shooting (with "paralax: attachment on a tripod, that keeps the len on center during rotation) and stitching working great. But I'm clueless on delivery. Simple left to right panning, stop-at-left-right-edges, is a no brainer and coul

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

Thank you Chipp, good point and I believe the limits are still as you mentioned. Seems there are twists at every change of direction! This is another limit that does not exist in the IDE but is enforced for standalones so it's good to make sure the information is out there so it doesn't get overl

RE: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

> I agree with you about the end of an era. Steve Jobs was > truly an extraordinary visionary. We will not see another > one like him in our life time. I hope that his health > improves and that he able to enjoy life more. But I strongly > suspect that he will miss working at Apple as it's

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

So would you say that one of the reasons I'm almost 80 is because I'm so damned poor? (smile) Or do I just need to have more time to learn more lessons? (sigh!) More likely because I don't have to worry about others taking what I don't have. Not homeless (yet) but could happen any day now if thi

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

What's of interest, and disturbing it its own way, is that the head of the highest value company on earth can still die of something. At least it's good knowing that becoming enormously rich won't save you. On Aug 25, 2011, at 12:36 AM, Judy Perry wrote: > I hope that he will be able to spend

Re: [OT] Can someone help me acquire a HP TouchPad?

FWIW, I wish I could buy Epson hardware quality with HP drivers. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Aug 24, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Judy Perry wrote: > That's odd; I've almost never had a problem with the various HP printers I've > owned/used, but every single Epson made me want to sl

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

I hope that he will be able to spend some quality time with his loved ones and friends. Judy On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote: I don't think that will happen. I watched a friend die of exactly what Jobs has. Given how passionately Jobs loved Apple, I suspect he hung on as long as he

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

On 8/24/11 4:36 PM, Ken Ray wrote: Stacks in use place their stack script into the message hierarchy just before the Home stack script. (In a standalone, Home is your mainstack.) This retains compatibility with HyperCard. I don't think that's correct (unless I'm misunderstanding) - my "home" st

Re: Android's mobileDeviceInfo

On 8/24/11 9:03 PM, Maarten Koopmans wrote: Hi, If you look in the Android release notes ( p27) you'll see a function mobileDeviceInfo. I've tested it like this: on mouseUp ask mobileDeviceInfo("DISPLAY") with "OK" end mouseUp with a simple Android stack and one button. Also tried other fie

Re: [ANN] LiveCode.tv event #36

Awesome! Let me mention for the 10,000th time that I once had a student (CS major) who thought it would be really ueber cool to have, like, 7 of them on a single card. I asked him, "You DO know the function of a default button, right?" when he came to me with problems... He said he did but

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

On 8/24/11 7:26 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: I hope that his health improves and that he able to enjoy life more. I don't think that will happen. I watched a friend die of exactly what Jobs has. Given how passionately Jobs loved Apple, I suspect he hung on as long as he possibly could. If he's in

Re: [OT] Can someone help me acquire a HP TouchPad?

That's odd; I've almost never had a problem with the various HP printers I've owned/used, but every single Epson made me want to slit my throat. Judy On Wed, 24 Aug 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote: WHAT?? HP released a computing device with crappy software with the thought that they could just fix i

Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

Steve's was fired for being too nuts, and came back because the management didn't get it. Older Steve was perhaps less nuts than younger Steve, and the company became the most valuable company in the world. But that was under Tim Cook's watch. Hopefully Wall Street will pay attention to that, an

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

The other thing to keep in mind is that you are limited to many fewer backscripts than you are library stacks. Or at least that's how it used to be. I seem o remember a limit of 10 back scripts in a standalone vs 50 library stacksinuse. Perhaps that's all been changed? Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer

Android's mobileDeviceInfo

Hi, If you look in the Android release notes ( p27) you'll see a function mobileDeviceInfo. I've tested it like this: on mouseUp ask mobileDeviceInfo("DISPLAY") with "OK" end mouseUp with a simple Android stack and one button. Also tried other fields like HOST (the one I actually need) and ID.

Re: iOS external won't load

Hi again Mark, Let's see if I can confirm then. What's your LC version, OS version, XCode version and SDK version (7?). --Maarten On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi again, Maarten, > > Yesterday and today, I did a lot of testing with e

Re:

lost for words Pete Molly's Revenge On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscr

Re: Sockets Question

On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > Im afraid that assumes I can program in objective c :) Ive dabbled, but its far beyond me at the moment ! > > Thanks for the pointers though, maybe it is something I can farm out to rentacoder. You probably can't this is soecialized stuff

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Re: End of an Era: Steve Jobs

Chipp, I agree with you about the end of an era. Steve Jobs was truly an extraordinary visionary. We will not see another one like him in our life time. I hope that his health improves and that he able to enjoy life more. But I strongly suspect that he will miss working at Apple as it's CEO

End of an Era: Steve Jobs

While my concerns over the way Apple does business is well documented, it is with a sad heart I read today of Steve Jobs stepping down from Apple-- probably due to health issues. There certainly is no one who will ever replace him there, or in American history as the best visionary marketing ge

Re: Android Malware

I think you missed my point. I was saying that measuring an OS's popularity by how many people were trying to hack it was like unto my post. I was not talking about the Android OS itself, just how the allegory struck me. Bob On Aug 24, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2

Re: Android Malware

One other point-- both those articles you reference are by those who make their living selling anti-virus tools. Sort of like asking Keith Obermann's opinion of Sarah Palin (or vice versa)-- not much there one can trust. On Aug 24, 2011, at 5:20 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > On 8/24/11 3:49 P

Re: revcopyfolder problem

Give the following a try and see if this works for you. It is a lot faster and does not come with the annoying chime when it finishes the copy. on csCopyFolder tSource, tTarget if the platform is "MacOS" then csDebugOutput ("## csCopyFolder Handler Running...") --*DEBUG*

Re: Android Malware

Jacque, maybe you should try "PCmatic" ? ;-) It's clear in their wholly obnoxious TV commercials they are using FUD and scare tactics to target those who are similarly concerned, and asks them to subscribe for $60 to a truly ridiculous offering. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On

Re: Android Malware

On 8/24/11 3:49 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: I must agree. I used a win98 laptop for 10 years with no AV SW and never had a virus. That you know of. "To make matters worse, not only is much of today's malware initially undetectable by antivirus scanners, it may go unnoticed by its victims as well

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

The dictionary says that "start using" puts the scripts before any objects in the back scripts. I'm glad I learned a bit more about inserting scripts of individual objects though. My current library has about 5000 lines of code in it and navigating around it in the script editor is a pain. The h

Re: Sockets Question

Thanks, Ill give this a try in the morning! Andy On 24 Aug 2011, at 20:21, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Untested : a simple PUSH service should do the trick : > > Set the clients as servers able to listen to "HTTP POST" messages sent on the > your LAN broadcast address: your choosen port by your

Re: Sockets Question

Im afraid that assumes I can program in objective c :) Ive dabbled, but its far beyond me at the moment ! Thanks for the pointers though, maybe it is something I can farm out to rentacoder. Andy On 24 Aug 2011, at 21:21, Maarten Koopmans wrote: > Assuming you're talking iOS, use multicast

Re: iOS external won't load

Hi again, Maarten, Yesterday and today, I did a lot of testing with externals. I was able to compile the sample external rresocket and included this external in a standalone. The standalone was built from the stack included with the sample XCode project provided by RunRev. When I tested the sta

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

> Stacks in use place their stack script into the message hierarchy just before > the Home stack script. (In a standalone, Home is your mainstack.) This > retains compatibility with HyperCard. I don't think that's correct (unless I'm misunderstanding) - my "home" stack regularly calls on handle

Re: Android Malware

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > This just in! Bob gains in popularity as more and more people try to poke > him in the eye with a sharp stick! LOL > > Bob > > > On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > Charles Szasz wrote: > > > >> According to McAfee's Secon

RE: Android Malware

I must agree. I used a win98 laptop for 10 years with no AV SW and never had a virus. It's simple, I tell all my friends four things1)Go only to sears.com,staples.com,yourbank.com,major-news-orgs.com and so on. 2) If it Free(music,video,Kracks) then stay away 3) No porn. 4)Open no email or emai

Re: Android Malware

This just in! Bob gains in popularity as more and more people try to poke him in the eye with a sharp stick! LOL Bob On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Charles Szasz wrote: > >> According to McAfee's Second Quarter report Android malware has increased by >> 76%. The follow

Re: revcopyfolder problem

I have a copyfile in pure LC that's fast (nuch more than Applescript) and should be easily extensible for folders. I am traveling now, ping me in 10 days or off-list earlier if it's that urgent and we'll wirk something out. --Maarten On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I do u

Re: Android Malware

Excellent article, Richard. As a former Mac user and now mostly PC user (actually, my Chromebook is taking up most my time these days), I've always chuckled at the argument Windows was not safe and therefore should not be used. I can't remember a single time since I switched to PC's (in 1995 with

Re: Re: Re:

Pete Molly's Revenge On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > > > Good point. > > > > -- Peter > > > > Peter M. Brigham > > pmb...@gmail.com > > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > > >

Re: Sockets Question

Assuming you're talking iOS, use multicast in the mDNS group via an Objective-C external. Pick your UDP port, and you'll notice that all wifi routers support zeroconf/bonjour. This assumes the desktop sends. --Maarten On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Untested : a simple PU

Re: [ANN] LiveCode.tv event #36

To interested Parties This weekend, Tim Bobo will show us "Interactive Movie Applications in iOS" and in the process explain a few tricks about developing for iOS. After that, Mark Schonewille will talk about the glowing default button of Mac OS X, and how to create one that does not increases

Re: iOS external won't load

Essentially your saying iOS externals don't work? (not reliable is not at all for me) On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Maarten, > > I had an external names with all lower case letters and couldn't get it to work at all. I had an extern

Re: Re: Re:

On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > Good point. > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Martin Koob wrote: > > > On the other hand.. > > > > # > > > > Martin > > > > > on August 24, 2011, M

Re: [OT] Can someone help me acquire a HP TouchPad?

Hi Andre, Reminds me of a few other failed hardware/software ventures, which you were way too young, or not even born to remember... There was Philips CD-I, which by all accounts was a superb platform but they killed it because they wanted over $10K for a developer license so-- no developers sign

Re: Android Malware

Charles Szasz wrote: According to McAfee's Second Quarter report Android malware has increased by 76%. The following was reported by AppleInsider... As with nearly any issue, there are many ways to present the data. Here's another view of the same report: Malware becomes the measure of

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

On 8/24/11 2:17 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: That is interesting. It means that if you had a handler in both the library and the stack script named the same thing, the library would run first, then the stack version if the message were passed. My info is pretty old, so if you feel like testing it, po

Re: revcopyfolder problem

I do use "create folder" so that does seem to point to the problem, only in my case I don't even need to issue that command for the name-check to fail. What it looks like from an uneducated view is that somehow the Finder's database is updated to include a non-existent folder. The odd part is

Re: Sockets Question

Untested : a simple PUSH service should do the trick : Set the clients as servers able to listen to "HTTP POST" messages sent on the your LAN broadcast address: your choosen port by your real server where the posted message will contains the server's IP address the clients will then be able to

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

That is interesting. It means that if you had a handler in both the library and the stack script named the same thing, the library would run first, then the stack version if the message were passed. Of course, I can beat you all to the punch by saying, "Well don't do that!" :-) Bob On Aug 24

Re: Re: Re:

Good point. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 24, 2011, at 2:58 PM, Martin Koob wrote: > On the other hand.. > > # > > Martin > > on August 24, 2011, Mark Schonewille wrote: > >> I agree :-) >> >> Martin >> >>> On 24 aug 2011, at 20:35, Je

Re: revcopyfolder problem

I had an applescript that worked fine with Leopard then would fail in Snow Leopard. It was a script for Quicktime Player and would fail at the command 'make a new track'. As part of the troubleshooting I put the command in a try block. Once it was in the try block the command worked. Not sure

Re: revcopyfolder problem

Thanks Ken, Jacque, I know the result indicates an applescript problem, I should have clarified a bit by asking if the user could do something in his system that would cause the applescript problem? Jacque the problem sounds similar. My app creates a folder in the library/app support folder. That

Re: sqlite & mySQl hassles...

Look for a misspellings or accidental caps or something - SQL is telling you no such table exists. I have encountered this before and making sure your naming conventions are 100% will most certainly help. Mike John Dixon wrote: > >Hi...Has anyone got mySQL or sqlite databases working on iOS

Re: Android Malware

AVG already makes antivirus for android. There are several other anti-virus Lapps available, but I never heard of any of them before. Mike Chipp Walters wrote: >Interesting. I wonder which of the two platforms, iOS or Android, McAfee might >eventually develop anti-virus software for? > >(hin

Re: Re:

On the other hand.. # Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/no-subject-tp3766246p3766299.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Re: revcopyfolder problem

Thanks Ken, Jacque, I know the result indicates an applescript problem, I should have clarified a bit by asking if the user could do something in his system that would cause the applescript problem. Jacque the problem sounds similar. My app creates a folder in the library/app support folder. Th

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

On 8/24/11 1:31 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I may misunderstand then. I thought that a library stack was enabled with the start using command, and that this is why the scripts run, because the stack script of a stack in use is inserted into the backscript. Am I wrong? If so, then how are the commands

Re: iOS external won't load

Hi Maarten, I had an external names with all lower case letters and couldn't get it to work at all. I had an external with mixed capitals and lower case letters and could get it to work on my own phone but not on someone else's. If you're careful with naming, then it doesn't matter whethe

Re: iOS external won't load

Hi Mark, My external name is not all lowercase, I'll try that first. Otherwise I'll mail support. --Maarten On Wednesday, August 24, 2011, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Maarten, > > This is a known problem. Please, contact supp...@runrev.com and tell them you'r

Re:

I agree :-) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeErrors for iPhone now http://qery.us/v4 A must-have for LiveCode

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Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

I may misunderstand then. I thought that a library stack was enabled with the start using command, and that this is why the scripts run, because the stack script of a stack in use is inserted into the backscript. Am I wrong? If so, then how are the commands and functions in a library stack inser

Re: revcopyfolder problem

On 8/24/11 1:05 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:10 PM, ron barber wrote: Hi, A user is reporting a problem with my software and I have traced it back to an opening call to revcopyfolder. He is on a Mac 10.6. I sent him two other stacks that simply call revcopyfolder and they fail, re

Re: revcopyfolder problem

On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:10 PM, ron barber wrote: > Hi, > A user is reporting a problem with my software and I have traced it > back to an opening call to revcopyfolder. He is on a Mac 10.6. I sent > him two other stacks that simply call revcopyfolder and they fail, > returning execution error in t

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

On Aug 24, 2011, at 12:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Don't put the functions in the main stack. Put them in another stack called > lib_whateveryouwant.livecode. (The name doesn't matter but it's easier to > know what you are looking at in the OS that way). Then in your openstack > handler start

sqlite & mySQl hassles...

Hi...Has anyone got mySQL or sqlite databases working on iOS ?I have a mySQL database that runs well in the iphone simulator, but crashes on a real device... No problem, I thought... I'll make a sqlite database and run it from within the app...The sqlite database runs fine on the desktop, but i

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

Don't put the functions in the main stack. Put them in another stack called lib_whateveryouwant.livecode. (The name doesn't matter but it's easier to know what you are looking at in the OS that way). Then in your openstack handler start using stack lib_whateveryouwant. This will put the stack sc

Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

Hello everyone, I have a main stack with one sub-stack and a number other stacks that are stack files of the main stack. I put a bunch of custom functions in the script of the main stack. They can be accessed from the sub-stack but not the other stack files. What do I need to do to be able t

Re: iOS external won't load

Hi Maarten, This is a known problem. Please, contact supp...@runrev.com and tell them you're struggling with this problem too. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Kv

Re: Android Malware

Interesting. I wonder which of the two platforms, iOS or Android, McAfee might eventually develop anti-virus software for? (hint: it would probably be the platform with true multi-tasking) Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Aug 24, 2011, at 8:16 AM, Charles Szasz wrote: > Accordi

revcopyfolder problem

Hi, A user is reporting a problem with my software and I have traced it back to an opening call to revcopyfolder. He is on a Mac 10.6. I sent him two other stacks that simply call revcopyfolder and they fail, returning execution error in the result. The paths check out and I have never had a report

iOS external won't load

Hi, I wrote the simplest external possible for iOS, it builds in Xcode, but crashes for reasons unknown (to me….) on the iPhone. Simulator won't work either. It's so simple, that I'm wondering….. if I can't get this to work…. See below, Maarten My IDL looks like this: // The name of the externa

Re: [OT] Can someone help me acquire a HP TouchPad?

WHAT?? HP released a computing device with crappy software with the thought that they could just fix it later??? The HELL you say! Oh wait, that is the case of almost every HP printer I have EVER BOUGHT! Software drivers on the CD do not work out of the box. Their solution? Don't use the C

Sockets Question

I hope someone might have an answer as im just back from vacation and starting to pull my hair out already :) I have an app that I would like to implement a sync feature in. The first step to this would appear to be able to exchange data between the devices using the local network. I have soc

Re: Shell and Background Jobs

Hi Chris, Am 24.08.2011 um 16:32 schrieb Nonsanity: > Thanks, Klaus. > > I had tried wrapping my call in a .sh file (made outside of LC) but I then > launched it with a shell command and another "&" just to see if it was the > command itself that was somehow aborting with the backgrounding behav

RE: [OT] Can someone help me acquire a HP TouchPad?

> Seems impossible to get it online in France : no stocks > available. Will see if i can get one at Carrefour, Auchan, > etc... near home. Will let you know if both the device and > its price are OK. Here in the US, there were reports of long lines at Best Buy to get them on Sunday. It is going

Re: Shell and Background Jobs

Thanks, Klaus. I had tried wrapping my call in a .sh file (made outside of LC) but I then launched it with a shell command and another "&" just to see if it was the command itself that was somehow aborting with the backgrounding behavior. But despite and & both inside and out, the shell command wo

Android mobileDeviceInfo

Hi, Has anyone gotten mobileDeviceInfo with the HOST property working on Android? I hope to be able to get my local (NATted) IP from that on Android. Any clues highly appreciated! Cheers, Maarten ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Android Malware

According to McAfee's Second Quarter report Android malware has increased by 76%. The following was reported by AppleInsider: A new study has found that iOS remained untouched by malware during the second quarter, while Android faced 76 percent more threats than in the first quarter, making it

Re: Shell and Background Jobs

Hi Chris, Am 23.08.2011 um 22:32 schrieb Nonsanity: > Now that the earth has stopped shaking here, I can re-write this email. I > lost the first rendition by switching to the USGS web site for details on > the 5.9 earthquake we had nearby (geographically speaking). Anyway... > > I've been trying