Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread Pete
That's an appalling experience. Sorry, but with or without Steve Jobs, that is ridiculous and reinforces why I will never buy an iPhone or an iPad. Pete Molly's Revenge On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Below is reprinted from elsewhere by

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Chipp Walters quoted: > Rule of thumb: If it > looks like a URL is visible from anywhere in the app, you're better off to > remove it prior to submission. I haven't been able to ascertain just what > they will let through yet, but there's a much greater likelihood that an app > with no

Re: DataGrid and my headache

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 9:16:49 AM, you wrote: > If you intend to do a lot of work with datagrids, I would get > used to using the array functions as opposed to the text functions > as soon as possible. Parsing the text with all the repeat loops and > what have you turns out to be much

Re: DataGrid and my headache

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Wednesday, September 7, 2011, 10:58:26 AM, you wrote: > Hi Mark, > I think the issue is that "Col 1", "Col 2", etc are just the default names > assigned when you create a new column, nothing special about them. When > you *set *the dgText [ firstLineContainsColumnNames ], the datagrid expe

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread Chipp Walters
Below is reprinted from elsewhere by a LC developer trying to get his app approved. Ian's expertise on the subject notwithstanding, the empirical data below may suggest no URLs of any kind, linkable or not, may not be allowed. On Tuesday, August 23, 2011, Peter Hermsen wrote: > I'm still fighting

Re: audio guide app in livecode?

2011-09-07 Thread stephen barncard
THe programming is the fun part. Getting the right recording to trigger is the hard part. Something that uses the sensory stuff in the phone, can't depend on users to sort it out. On 7 September 2011 19:00, Admin wrote: > > > That should not be very hard to program. Of course, it does depend > o

Re: audio guide app in livecode?

2011-09-07 Thread Admin
That should not be very hard to program. Of course, it does depend on the final deployment format. Mike On Thu, 8 Sep 2011 02:04:41 +0100, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > Anyone know of an audioguide app in livecode? The kind of thing you get in > some museums now. where you walk around enteri

Re: how to bitwise negate a binary file?

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Kann
repeat for each char c in negated_binary_file put charToNum(c) into x put numToChar(255-x) after fixed_binary_file end repeat --- On Wed, 9/7/11, Matthias Rebbe wrote: From: Matthias Rebbe Subject: how to bitwise negate a binary file? To: "How to use LiveCode" Date: Wednesday, September 7, 201

audio guide app in livecode?

2011-09-07 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Anyone know of an audioguide app in livecode? The kind of thing you get in some museums now. where you walk around entering a number and it plays you a more or less interesting audio clip about the exhibit you are looking at. Peter ___ use-livecode m

how to bitwise negate a binary file?

2011-09-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i have here some binary files, which were negated bitwise. How can i "convert" them back? Is there a livecode function i can use? Or do i have to convert the binary file to hex, convert each byte to decimal, convert each "decimal"byte value with "bitNot", reconvert to hex and then convert

Re: scrollerDidScroll

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thank you, Bernd. You saved me a lot of time and made me look at the docs and my code just one more time :-) It works now. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50

Re: Plug-ins for browsers

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Michael, Because RealStudio uses HTML5 and LiveCode doesn't. HyperStudio will be doing the same as RealStudio http://qery.us/zf . I really hope that LiveCode will forget about the plugin and will develop an LC2HTML5 translator. That would allow me to create (web) apps and mobile apps for man

Plug-ins for browsers

2011-09-07 Thread Michael Kann
The realbasic web edition doesn't seem to need a plug-in, but the LiveCode edition does. Why is that? http://demos.realsoftware.com/cgi-bin/orders/orders.cgi#10198 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to su

Re: scrollerDidScroll

2011-09-07 Thread BNig
Hi Mark, I got 2 scrollers to work on one card. It worked very well. One was vertically and one was a horizontally. To find out who has send the message use the iphoneControlTarget() function try something like this: on scrollerDidScroll pOffsetX, pOffsetY lock screen local tWhoCalled

Re: DataGrid and my headache

2011-09-07 Thread Pete
Hi Mark, I think the issue is that "Col 1", "Col 2", etc are just the default names assigned when you create a new column, nothing special about them. When you *set *the dgText [ firstLineContainsColumnNames ], the datagrid expects the column names to be in the first line of data, so since you did

Re: scrollerDidScroll

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi I'm doing some more tests. I might be doing something wrong, but it would be useful if someone could confirm that it is possible to create more than one scroll view at a time in iOS? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://econo

Re: full-screen compatible for lion mac os

2011-09-07 Thread william humphrey
Thanks. I guess I will just wait until the mothership finds this important. Right now they seem to be concentrating on IOS and google phones. On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > You could mimic it but t wouldn't really behave the same. > > For example, I just added floating win

scrollerDidScroll

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, When a scroll view is scrolled, it sends the message scrollerDidScroll. All scroll views send the same message scrollerDidScroll. If I have two or three scroll views on my card, how can I find out which scroll view sent the message? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consult

Re: DataGrid and my headache

2011-09-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
I made the same mistake at first. There are column LABELS and column NAMES. They can be different, and it can be a gotcha. It's the column NAMES that are important. It's actually a good thing, as I discovered I could use an array from sqlYoga by calling sqlquery_retrieveAsArray, and then set the

Re: Syllable OS and Livecode ?

2011-09-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
More like ants shaking their fists at the construction foreman as he builds a house right on top of their perfectly good anthill. Mind you, I have nothing against anthills, it's just that ants can live in houses too, and everybody wins. :-) Well maybe not so happy and ending but it's all I c

Re: DataGrid and my headache

2011-09-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Trevor- Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 9:32:33 PM, you wrote: > Odd. I just went through the lesson step-by-step for a third time and it > worked just fine. The only change I made was to the name of the data grid in > the code (as recommended by the instructions). Did you change the column > names t

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

2011-09-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes sorry. It was only a day before that someone else said it was not public yet, and then for some reason no one on the regular list got an email about it, which I usually do. Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 9:31 PM, Éric Miclo wrote: > Hello Bob, > > I wouldn't have say anything on this list if it

Re: Syllable OS and Livecode ?

2011-09-07 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Talking as the resident OS junkie here. Syllable is a fork of old AtheOS. It a great little OS but its market share is even less than Haiku. A good thing for Syllable is that they carved a little cave for them in the REBOL community. Many Syllable project members are heavy REBOL coders so t

Re: Blocking in iOS and libUrlDownloadToFile

2011-09-07 Thread debdoot das
Thanks Gerry. I avoid taking away control from the user but have to it seems. On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:10 AM, Gerry Orkin wrote: > You have to prevent the user from interrupting the download - I do that by > showing a transparent rect over the whole screen so they can't interact with > the app unti

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread Ian Wood
If you can purchase photos to view within the app then the 30% will kick in. Ian On 7 Sep 2011, at 09:36, paolo mazza wrote: > What about selling pictures ? Are they considered digital content? > Consider a photographer selling his pictures ( users will download > files of high-resolution image)

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread paolo mazza
What about selling pictures ? Are they considered digital content? Consider a photographer selling his pictures ( users will download files of high-resolution image). On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Ian Wood wrote: > As far as I'm aware there have never been any restrictions on buying > non-di

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread Ian Wood
As far as I'm aware there have never been any restrictions on buying non-digital content. In-app buying of content for the app itself (such as levels for games, books for Kindle or digital magazine issues/subscriptions etc.) is where the 30% kicks in. Ian On 7 Sep 2011, at 08:51, paolo mazza w

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

2011-09-07 Thread paolo mazza
So, according to the present rules of the AppStore, I can have an application with a list of wines and have a button opening a web page in Safari where people can buy the selected wine. (ie www.wineshop.it/store.php?name=mywine&bottles=12 ) . Right? Thanks a lot. Paolo