Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/14/11 1:04 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: On a separate note, I'm wondering if there's some device that can be used as a reference for an Android phone, without having to be a phone (I can't afford a separate cell plan just for testing purposes). My thought was maybe a 7" tablet device could be cl

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 11:04:47 PM, you wrote: > On a separate note, I'm wondering if there's some device that can be used as > a reference for an Android phone, without having to be a phone (I can't > afford a separate cell plan just for testing purposes). My thought was > maybe a

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Rossi
So, by my tally (which could be off) we've had recommendations for these: Acer Iconia 500A (10 in) ViewSonic g (10 in) Asus Transformer (10 in) Nook Color (7 in, need to root) Archos 70 (7 in) Any others? FWIW, the pundits I listen to think the tablet market might be soured (sweetened?) by the r

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Pete
Good sleuthing! Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:53 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Thanks for the suggestion. > > In testing it carefully, so I could report the problem with exact details, > I found that six columns of one row of Excel will drag and dr

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks for the suggestion. In testing it carefully, so I could report the problem with exact details, I found that six columns of one row of Excel will drag and drop, or copy and paste, ok. But seven columns of one row of Excel fails. That ought to be enough of a clue to them! On Sep 13, 2011

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Pete
Maybe this should be reported to the RQCC, at least as a "known issue". If something pastes OK into another app but not LC, seems like LC has some role in the problem. Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Thanks for the t

revFontLoad: font size issues?

2011-09-13 Thread Curt Ford
I'm using 4.0 on a Mac and need to load a font for both Mac & Windows versions of the standalone. There are fields which need to use a mix of generic 18 pt Times New Roman, and an IPA (international phonetic alphabet) font, also at 18pt. I'm able to get the font to load without issues but the I

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Judy Perry
Funny, we were just talking about the passwords thing in class the other day and I asked one of the two CS majors in the class to explain to their classmates some of the basic rules about setting passwords. They couldn't come up with any :-( Judy On 09/13/2011 10:43 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: C

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread Dar Scott
Did that do any good? On Sep 13, 2011, at 7:15 PM, william humphrey wrote: > Turns out I can't figure out a way to distinguish between close stack and > the application quitting so I just got rid of the dialogue instead. > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:56 PM, william humphrey < > b...@bluewaterm

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks for the tip. Dragging onto the LiveCode field shows the + cursor, but nothing gets dropped there. On Sep 13, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Start dragging on the edge of the selection when the cursor turns into a > hand. ___ use-live

Re: ANN: changes of the Economy-x-Talk website and a new external

2011-09-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dar, Thanks for your comments. If you download everything right-away and keep the files on your hard disk or on a DVD, they'll be available forever ;-) Because this is completely new, I still need to figure out a few things. I'll post changes on the website or on my blog in a while. -- Best

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread william humphrey
Turns out I can't figure out a way to distinguish between close stack and the application quitting so I just got rid of the dialogue instead. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:56 PM, william humphrey < b...@bluewatermaritime.com> wrote: > That's something I hadn't considered. I'll change it so the dialo

Re: ANN: changes of the Economy-x-Talk website and a new external

2011-09-13 Thread Dar Scott
Hi, Mark, I missed the gnashing of teeth on this and am distressed that you went through that. It is great that you decided to do something about it. This looks pretty cool to me. I'd be more comfortable with a more definite commitment to how long they are available, though. I wish you w

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Pete wrote: > There sem to be a bewildering number of them out there, most from China. > Right now the Viewpad 7 looks pretty good - I think someone mentioned a > viewpad 10" model as being good somewhere in this thread. > > Problem is, this market won't stand sti

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread william humphrey
That's something I hadn't considered. I'll change it so the dialogue doesn't come up on quit (only when that stack is closed). Thanks. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > I have seen a hang in the IDE when there is an answer/ask during quitting. > >

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Pete
There sem to be a bewildering number of them out there, most from China. Right now the Viewpad 7 looks pretty good - I think someone mentioned a viewpad 10" model as being good somewhere in this thread. Problem is, this market won't stand still for a few days! Pete Molly's Revenge

ANN: changes of the Economy-x-Talk website and a new external

2011-09-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear all, Some time ago, I released an app for iPhone and got a lot of negative feedback, because the app wasn't free. Fortunately, I also received positive feedback from people who understood that I can't give everything away if making it costs me money. Still, the noise caused by people who b

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Start dragging on the edge of the selection when the cursor turns into a hand. Bob On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I can't figure out a way to drag and drop away from Excel. > > > On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> I wonder if drag and drop works? I hav

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I can't figure out a way to drag and drop away from Excel. On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:34 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I wonder if drag and drop works? I have seen it behave differently when > working with Office clipboards. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Also, if the email appeared to be coming from Richmond, there is a pretty > good chance it didn't. Most spammers are smarter than that these days. Only > way to tell is to look at the headers (if possible). What worries me is that > Jacque als

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/13/11 5:21 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Also, if the email appeared to be coming from Richmond, there is a pretty good chance it didn't. Most spammers are smarter than that these days. Only way to tell is to look at the headers (if possible). What worries me is that Jacque also got emails from of

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/14/2011 01:22 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I'm a little offended. What, am I too old even for Viagra spam?? LOL! About a week ago I went to buy some Voltaren Retard tablets for my "happy" recurrent back condition. I was served by a woman who was on the sunny side of 65, moustached, grossly ov

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread Dar Scott
I have seen a hang in the IDE when there is an answer/ask during quitting. On OS X you can use the Console for looking at both error messages (even your own written to stdout) and crash logs. Dar On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:25 PM, william humphrey wrote: > I'm trying to track an occasional freeze

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/14/2011 01:21 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Do AOL and Yahoo have lockout policies? Pretty sure they do. If so, then I am a grave doubter of the guess theory. It would take forever to run a dictionary attack. It's more likely malware, or (pretty remote chance of this) intercepted wireless or eth

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder if drag and drop works? I have seen it behave differently when working with Office clipboards. Bob On Sep 13, 2011, at 3:04 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I suspect the clipboard is a circle... > > I have a new issue on this same challenge. If data in a cell has a rogue > return charac

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
There is an issue with copying something in an office app, then opening the destination app, and not seeing the clipboard data. This happens because of Microsoft's clipboard conversion mechanism, which is apparently only triggered when switching between apps, and not launching an app. Not all

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread william humphrey
Thanks Bob. I'm using a clean copy of LiveCode with no helpers (although there is one helper which I really like which I don't use as much as I'd like because it causes crashes in conflict with List Magic). On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Are you using alternative debuggers

Re: LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Are you using alternative debuggers? I have discovered that the one I use will sometimes lock if I generate an error on quit. It may be something I am doing wrong so I will not name it here, but it was pretty pervasive. Make sure you don't have breakpoints in your closestack handler. It may be n

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'm a little offended. What, am I too old even for Viagra spam?? LOL! Bob On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:04 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 9/13/11 7:28 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: >> Not at all funny; just got an e-mail ostensibly from the Livecode >> Use-List and myself (!) containing NO title a

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Do AOL and Yahoo have lockout policies? Pretty sure they do. If so, then I am a grave doubter of the guess theory. It would take forever to run a dictionary attack. It's more likely malware, or (pretty remote chance of this) intercepted wireless or ethernet traffic. (Didn't you mention you were

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I suspect the clipboard is a circle... I have a new issue on this same challenge. If data in a cell has a rogue return character, Excel places quotes around the two lines. Numbers does better. I'm looking for that "don't wrap text no matter what" option in Excel. On Sep 13, 2011, at 6:01 PM, J

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Jonathan Lynch
I would not mind if there were an external that gives an LC user complete access to even the most obscure corners of the clipboard. On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > ...indeed, hence the suggestion - to test whether the problem is non-tex

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Rossi
I believe that's the right way to do it Jacque. Scott Rossi, Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design -Original Message- From: "J. Landman Gay" Sender: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:49:01 To: How to use LiveCode Reply-To: How to use LiveCode Subjec

LiveCode Hanging freeze needing force quit on shut down sometimes

2011-09-13 Thread william humphrey
I'm trying to track an occasional freeze crash of LiveCode. It happens when I shut-down the stack after closing the Valentina database connection. I have code that checks to see if the database is already shut down and my error message comes up saying: "database already closed" and then it freezes

Re: iOS Card Scrolling with Bounce

2011-09-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Chris, Make a group of all objects on the card, including the objects that are off-screen. Set the rect of the group to the card rect and use a UIScrollView to scroll the group. Look at the iOS release notes for more info. This info still isn't in the regular documentation. -- Best regards,

Re: List of handlers

2011-09-13 Thread Andre Garzia
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 5:27 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: > On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Andre Garzia > wrote: > > Hi Andre, > > > Is revavailablehandlers available on a standalone? (Just curious...) > > Not sure of the usage we could have with that, but > revavailablehandlers not working in a st

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/13/11 2:59 PM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: Yes, that would be a better option! The other issue you might run into is try your app on a real device and start it 'face up'. It will start in whatever you specify as the initial orientation, and stay that way, even if you pick up the device from b

iOS Card Scrolling with Bounce

2011-09-13 Thread Nonsanity
I've been away from my iOS projects in LC over the summer, but I'm about to jump back in again. And to start, I wanted to ask again something I was looking for long ago, and that's a way to scroll a card so that it imitates the existing scroll behaviors in typical iOS apps. For example, open up Se

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 09/13/2011 10:43 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: I've seen this numerous times in the last few months, usually from aol or yahoo accounts. So far it has apparently turned out to be guessed passwords. Change your password, Richmond. Use a good one. Certainly nothing thats in the dictionary! --Jerry

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Some are stubborn about it, and may take a while before they rotate, but I can't remember seeing one that didn't do the other landscape. On Sep 13, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > Most still rotate two ways, ie. landscape and landscape upside down, I > think thats enough. ___

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Most still rotate two ways, ie. landscape and landscape upside down, I think thats enough. On 13 Sep 2011, at 19:50, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: > >> As Randy picked up, it's iPad apps that have the rule about not locking to >> one >> landscape. All of yours are eit

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Yes, that would be a better option! The other issue you might run into is try your app on a real device and start it 'face up'. It will start in whatever you specify as the initial orientation, and stay that way, even if you pick up the device from being face up, flat on the desk direct to

Re: Scaling to device for Android

2011-09-13 Thread Andre Garzia
I am willing to trade automatic scalling for the hardware button support... On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I think we're on the same page: the "logic" in a logical view is in your > resizeStack handler. > > If I misunderstand please feel free to elaborate. > > > -- >

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Sep 13, 2011, at 5:28 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Not at all funny; just got an e-mail ostensibly from the Livecode Use-List > and myself (!) containing NO title Hey, the title could have been Cheap Androgen Tablet... ___ use-livecode ma

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Jerry Jensen
I've seen this numerous times in the last few months, usually from aol or yahoo accounts. So far it has apparently turned out to be guessed passwords. Change your password, Richmond. Use a good one. Certainly nothing thats in the dictionary! --Jerry On Sep 13, 2011, at 10:04 AM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Andre Garzia
I have no clue Pete but I think that Archos makes some... not that easy to find good tablets with 7'' On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Pete wrote: > If and when I get a tablet, I will probably go for a 7 inch model rather > than a 10 inch. Any thoughts for the best one in that size? > Pete > Mo

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: > As Randy picked up, it's iPad apps that have the rule about not locking to one > landscape. All of yours are either iPhone/iPod only, or they cost more on the > iPad than I'm willing to spend to satisfy my curiosity! There are definitely iPad apps that do not auto

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
As Randy picked up, it's iPad apps that have the rule about not locking to one landscape. All of yours are either iPhone/iPod only, or they cost more on the iPad than I'm willing to spend to satisfy my curiosity! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Randy Hengst
Jacque, Apple allows one orientation for iPod/iPhone apps… but you need at least both landscape or both portrait for iPad apps. I had an iPad app initially rejected when I forgot to allow both landscape orientations… a resubmit with both went through just fine. I have several iPod apps with on

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Rossi
I don't think you really want me to go through all my apps, but here are several: Amateur Surgeon 2 Ball Invasion Jewel Bling Mecapix Mixzle Tap DJ Tap Tap Revenge titles Surge Spotify (don't have an account, but login doesn't rotate) Wobble X-rat And before you ask, the answer is "No, the orient

Re: List of handlers

2011-09-13 Thread Geoff Canyon Rev
Interesting -- I'd forgotten about the token keyword. It still doesn't handle block comments though: on mouseUp /*this is a on aCommentedCommand comment*/ put token 1 to -1 of the script of me into tText put empty into tMenuText repeat for each line L in tText

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/13/11 12:29 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Jacque: FWIW, I have dozens of iOS apps that not only start up in a rotated orientation, but stay fixed in that orientation. I'm seeing lots of games that do this, and am surprised because I thought Apple's review police would flag this behavior as bad.

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
It's not unusual to have the splash screen choose one particular landscape, but it is unusual for it to remain locked in that one. What is an example application? On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:29 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > I get if an app is designed to be landscape > only, but it seems like they shoul

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Jacque: FWIW, I have dozens of iOS apps that not only start up in a rotated orientation, but stay fixed in that orientation. I'm seeing lots of games that do this, and am surprised because I thought Apple's review police would flag this behavior as bad. I get if an app is designed to be landsca

Re: [OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/13/11 7:28 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Not at all funny; just got an e-mail ostensibly from the Livecode Use-List and myself (!) containing NO title an the following URL: Same thing (with varying URLs) has come to me from a couple of AOL users. There's a bug going around. -- Jacqu

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...indeed, hence the suggestion - to test whether the problem is non-text elements getting into the clipboard that LC doesn't like. That way, you can at least prove whether you have the option to add LC-friendly pre-processing via a user-friendly Excel trick, such as a nice big 'Export to LC' b

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/13/11 3:23 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: I couldnt figure this one out either, so in the end I load the stack with a black opaque rectangle at the top, and have that hide itself after .2 seconds (the time varies on the app, it depends on how much it has to do in the pre open. That may work,

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
That would be more steps than what I do now, which is to just do a paste in any other program, then the next paste into LiveCode works ok. On Sep 13, 2011, at 12:36 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: > As you can control the source, is it worth (at least to test) saving the > range into a CSV format to f

Re: pasting clipboard from LibreOffice Calc

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Si, and if it was down to me I would have them use Numbers, but alas they are standardized on Excel. On Sep 13, 2011, at 12:33 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Entre nous, cette une bonne idee to avoid Microsoft products; nicht? ___ use-livecode maili

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Keith Clarke
As you can control the source, is it worth (at least to test) saving the range into a CSV format to force everything to plain text. That way non-text elements shouldn't get into the clipboard? I often wish for an Office 'Copy Special' function to mirror 'Paste Special', so I can grab just conte

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Pete
If and when I get a tablet, I will probably go for a 7 inch model rather than a 10 inch. Any thoughts for the best one in that size? Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 5:37 AM, Admin wrote: > > > The viewsonic, while good, has a very annoying design f

pasting clipboard from LibreOffice Calc

2011-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Pas de problem . . . :) Entre nous, cette une bonne idee to avoid Microsoft products; nicht? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http:

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I can select exactly the same range of cells, and one time a copy/paste will work, and another time it won't. There are no formulas in the spreadsheet I'm using, but the contents of many of the cells are derived from popup lists. I think it's just a clipboard conversion issue, that sometimes Exc

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Ault
On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:37 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Yes, the strange thing is that sometimes it cooperates. It seems to fail more often when copying cells that have a particular data type assigned to them. Jim, as Craig did too, I'm only attempting to get tab delimited text onto the clipbo

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread dunbarx
Colin. I copied some data from a spreadsheet. I made a field in LC. I pasted the data into the field. Works fine. It always did. Just for laughs, I made a button with: on mouseUp put the clipBoardData into fld "colin" end mouseUp Am I missing something in what you are asking? Craig

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Yes, the strange thing is that sometimes it cooperates. It seems to fail more often when copying cells that have a particular data type assigned to them. Jim, as Craig did too, I'm only attempting to get tab delimited text onto the clipboard. It doesn't matter in any way at all what cells the da

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Ault
On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: How would you do that? 'the clipboard' just reports having 'text'. Jonathan, the actual application is for a client to be able to convert a selected range of cells into a specific format XML. By far the easiest way to have them do that is t

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Tuesday, September 13, 2011, 7:47:56 AM, you wrote: > Good info! I'll keep a watchful eye out for when they are on sale. Sounds > like a good Christmas present. !Great! I'll send you my address. I can wait. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread dunbarx
Colin.. I have no issues with this at all. OSX 10.4.11, LC 4.5.3 Text comes over as you would expect. Tabs are there, returns, everything. Craig -Original Message- From: Colin Holgate To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tue, Sep 13, 2011 6:32 am Subject: pasting clipboard from Excel

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Jim Ault
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: I'm trying to copy some cells from Excel (Mac, 2008 Office version) and paste it into a field in LiveCode. If I do that with Numbers all is good. From Excel I get nothing. 'the clipboard' tells me that it contains 'text, but that '

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
How would you do that? 'the clipboard' just reports having 'text'. Jonathan, the actual application is for a client to be able to convert a selected range of cells into a specific format XML. By far the easiest way to have them do that is to select the cells, Copy, go to the revlet window, and

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread stephen barncard
have you looked to see if there is data in other elements in the clipboarddata besides [text] ? On 13 September 2011 07:30, Colin Holgate wrote: > I'm trying to copy some cells from Excel (Mac, 2008 Office version) and > paste it into a field in LiveCode. If I do that with Numbers all is good. >

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2011-09-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...try your spam folder - that's where I found the original (and deleted it, assuming that the 'html8' suffix was dodgy and that a mail account had been compromised somewhere). Best, Keith.. On 13 Sep 2011, at 15:39, Mark Schonewille wrote: > I never received a message with that link...??? What

Re: pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Jonathan Lynch
Hi Colin, If this were a PC, you could use vbscript to create an invisible MS Word document, paste the clipboard into the document, then save it as text or some other format. then, you could use LC to retrieve the contents of that document. It takes like 1.5 seconds. I don't know much about Macs

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Admin wrote: > > > At $300 or less, I find the Acer Iconia A500 tablet to be one of > the most affordable REAL tablets. It has the Nvidia Tegra dual core, > 32gb ram, mini and regular usb slots, gps, micro sd slot, tactile feel > and more. I've actually seen it go

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Admin
At $300 or less, I find the Acer Iconia A500 tablet to be one of the most affordable REAL tablets. It has the Nvidia Tegra dual core, 32gb ram, mini and regular usb slots, gps, micro sd slot, tactile feel and more. I've actually seen it go on sale for $275, and that is so cheap for a tablet of

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2011-09-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
I never received a message with that link...??? What's going on? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Send me a friend request on Facebook if you like h

pasting clipboard from Excel

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I'm trying to copy some cells from Excel (Mac, 2008 Office version) and paste it into a field in LiveCode. If I do that with Numbers all is good. From Excel I get nothing. 'the clipboard' tells me that it contains 'text, but that 'the clipboarddata' is apparently empty. If I take a moment to p

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2011-09-13 Thread stephen barncard
THE LINK BELOW IS SPAM (sorry Richmond) On 13 September 2011 05:10, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > http://kellibramble.com/wp-content/uploads/blog.php?html8 > ___ > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:37 AM, Admin wrote: > > > The viewsonic, while good, has a very annoying design flaw and must > be rooted to work properly. you are far better off with a Acer Iconia > A500 - IMO, the best tablet out there because of features and build > quality. > > Mike > > Yes Mike, it

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: I plan on getting an Android tablet at some point, hoping a market leader will emerge. It may be here: Asus Transformer Tablet: Surprising Second Best in Sales After Apple iPad

Re: Scaling to device for Android

2011-09-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
I think we're on the same page: the "logic" in a logical view is in your resizeStack handler. If I misunderstand please feel free to elaborate. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJo

Re: Scaling to device for Android

2011-09-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacque wrote: On 9/12/11 9:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: And with orientation, if an app only works in one orientation on my tablet I generally uninstall it immediately after I discover that. I like both portrait and landscape orientations for different purposes, and if an app doesn't adapt to

Re: Scaling to device for Android

2011-09-13 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Not sure I agree. If you work with a logical view you don't need to scale at all by default; you can then override it as you see fit On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Maarten Koopmans wrote: > >> Subject says it all: does anyone have a clue or a sample handler that >> they

Re:

2011-09-13 Thread Colin Holgate
Just say no to drugs Richmond. On Sep 13, 2011, at 8:10 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > http://kellibramble.com/wp-content/uploads/blog.php?html8 > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2011-09-13 Thread Admin
The viewsonic, while good, has a very annoying design flaw and must be rooted to work properly. you are far better off with a Acer Iconia A500 - IMO, the best tablet out there because of features and build quality. Mike On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:01:05 -0700, Pete wrote: > Thanks for the head

[OT] Viagra from Livecode?

2011-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Not at all funny; just got an e-mail ostensibly from the Livecode Use-List and myself (!) containing NO title an the following URL: http://kellibramble.com/wp-content/uploads/blog.php?html8 which leads to some "Orrible" website selling Viagra. Heather; take note; my Livecode coding skills

Re: New App Developed in LiveCode

2011-09-13 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Mike Felker wrote: > When will the PC version be available. This looks wonderful. > Mike (and anybody else who is interested), A Windows version of Clarify is now available as a public beta. You can download it from our website if you want to take a look. http:

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2011-09-13 Thread Richmond Mathewson
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Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I couldnt figure this one out either, so in the end I load the stack with a black opaque rectangle at the top, and have that hide itself after .2 seconds (the time varies on the app, it depends on how much it has to do in the pre open. Its not really noticeable for the user as they get the s