Re: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

On 09/17/2011 04:37 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Dar- Friday, September 16, 2011, 6:21:37 PM, you wrote: I guess I could do the same, but being lazy I thought I'd ask. What is it about 8 that makes 7 look good? ...don't get me started... let's see: the cartoony interface, the use of the ribbon in

Re: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

On 09/17/2011 04:21 AM, Dar Scott wrote: I guess I could do the same, but being lazy I thought I'd ask. What is it about 8 that makes 7 look good? Having "played around" with Windows 7 on a few 'baby-laptops' that friends of mine have bought with the crippled version pre-installed (what is

Re: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

On 09/17/2011 04:08 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- I installed the Developer Preview of Windows 8 in a VM today to make sure that my LC stacks still work (they do). Now I'm gonna take a shower to wash this stuff off. Why does Windows remind me of something sticky as well? __

Re: converting short time to seconds

> This code rather than my prose probably explains better what I'm after: > > on mouseUp >   set the twelveHourTime to false >   put the short time into tSomeClockTimeTodayInSeconds >   convert tSomeClockTimeTodayInSeconds to seconds >   put tSomeClockTimeTodayInSeconds into tSameClockTimeTomorrowI

Re: Apple vs Android in the Enterprise

On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:08:42 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: ... snip.. I predict another Mac vs Windows change in balance of power soon after Steve Jobs is no longer with the company. Yep, right, here is the first step in this direction.. Microsoft to take 30% cut of Metro apps under Windo

List Reader Stack

Hey runrev group, Since someone is asking about the mail list reader, I'll reference a URL of a version I created October last year: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cruizer/ To see screen shots of the application, select the Photos folder and click on the Photo Albums image. There's an OSX Ver

Re: video grabber example

are you talking about the original external firewire iSight? I can't get it to work in Snow even in Quicktime. On 16 September 2011 19:13, Todd Geist wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to do some video capture, but I can't even get it to work from > my iSight Camera. > > I have searched for example

Re: Apple vs Android in the Enterprise

Probably not easily, as it has a significant amount of business logic local, plus it needs to sync the display and data with the Flash website in realtime, which has a whole other set of issues. And even if I could, I wouldn't have the time to master HTML5/Javascript in the time allotted for this p

converting short time to seconds

Hi, This code rather than my prose probably explains better what I'm after: on mouseUp set the twelveHourTime to false put the short time into tSomeClockTimeTodayInSeconds convert tSomeClockTimeTodayInSeconds to seconds put tSomeClockTimeTodayInSeconds into tSameClockTimeTomorrowInSec

How do you save the state of a Option button when quitting an app?

I have an app that consists of a launcher stack and an app stack. In the app stack, the user uses an Option button to make a selection for mileage reimbursement rate. Nothing is save in the stack except the User Preferences in a substack of the app stack. How can I save the user's mileage reimbu

video grabber example

Hello, I am trying to do some video capture, but I can't even get it to work from my iSight Camera. I have searched for examples, and tried figuring it from the docs. But I am not having an luck Does anyone have an example stack capturing video from any video source that they would be willing to

Re: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

On 9/16/11 8:37 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...don't get me started... let's see: the cartoony interface, the use of the ribbon in the OS, the fact that I spent two hours figuring out that I needed to use a generic network driver instead of the correct one for my laptop's network device, the LACK OF

Re: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

Dar- Friday, September 16, 2011, 6:21:37 PM, you wrote: > I guess I could do the same, but being lazy I thought I'd ask. > What is it about 8 that makes 7 look good? ...don't get me started... let's see: the cartoony interface, the use of the ribbon in the OS, the fact that I spent two hours

Re: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

I guess I could do the same, but being lazy I thought I'd ask. What is it about 8 that makes 7 look good? Dar On Sep 16, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > All- > > I installed the Developer Preview of Windows 8 in a VM today to make > sure that my LC stacks still work (they do). Now I'm

Something that makes Windows 7 look good

All- I installed the Developer Preview of Windows 8 in a VM today to make sure that my LC stacks still work (they do). Now I'm gonna take a shower to wash this stuff off. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

Ben- Friday, September 16, 2011, 11:47:08 AM, you wrote: > It appears that the real change is just that '-ui' no longer sets the > environment to "command line". I wasn't aware that it used to set the environment variable. Was that ever documented? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: mobGUI user discussion?

There's a forum area in the LiveCode forums dedicated to MobGUI. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. On 17/09/2011, at 6:47 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > Where is the right place for mobGUI user discussion? > > Dar > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use

mobGUI user discussion?

Where is the right place for mobGUI user discussion? Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: List Reader Stack

Hi Bob, on Thu, 15 Sep 2011 Bob Earp wrote: > While searching the archives I came across Richard Gaskin's post > of earlier this year regarding a better way to read list. > Does anybody know if this got finished and published ? > If so, where can I get hold of a copy please. Some years ago, I pub

Re: LiveCode and Google Contact data

Thanks for the responses (Andre & Bill), though export of individual contacts via vCard is not what I'm trying to achieve. Looking into it, I'm not sure LiveCode would save much over reverting to the pre-Google approach of creating a Word mail-merge template that can target the manually export

Re: LiveCode and Google Contact data

Keith, I'm not familiar with Google Contacts but .csv or vCARD formats are known text formats. You can easily see what they look like but they are tedious to deal with. Is it that you now have the information in Google Contacts and want to export it into a LC app you are writing? InfoWallet ha

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

On 16/09/2011 14:27, Richard Gaskin wrote: Better yet, you can test it yourself - Debian 4.0 server: You're right - it is working! Hurrah! It appears that the real change is just that '-ui' no longer sets the environment to "command line". Unfortunately my test stacks all had the simple co

Re: LiveCode and Google Contact data

Keith, You can probably output a vCards file from Google Contacts. I built a vObject library for LiveCode in 2004, it might help you. I made it available at http://fon.nu/vobjectlib I was going to share on RevOnline but I can't find the damn login. Be Prepared, or as we say here, Sempre Alerta a

field to UTF8 and UTF8 to field : the cool way

Hi folks, In case some one would have to handle massive conversions from fields contents to UTF8 variables and reverse, RevOnline hosts "Blowfish.livecode" by Michael Kuyumcu, a very reliable and elegant coded lib. Works just perfectly well in about both Blowfish cryptography and text to UTF8 c

Re: [server] $_FILES upload limits?

Thanks Martin and Andre! Appreciate the feedback. Phil On 9/16/11 6:56 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Phil, HTTP is not the ideal transport for transferring a hundred files of 100 MB each. I am not a native english speaker so I might understand things wrong or maybe it is just morning without my matt

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Friday, September 16, 2011, 6:27:34 AM, you wrote: Better yet, you can test it yourself - Debian 4.0 server: ...and that's a debian server with no desktop or xwindows support, right? Just a headless server? I believe so; it's at Dreamhost:

Re: no joy with fonts

Richmond, Thanks for your suggestions. On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:47 PM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm sorry, I've been rather preoccupied and had intended to reply to this > yesterday. > > I have extensive experience with non-Latin scripts in Livecode. > > > On 0

LiveCode and Google Contact data

Hi folks, Has anyone experimented with extracting Google Contact data from within Livecode? As a weekend project, I intend to replace the sprawling spreadsheet that is our current local Scouts' District directory with: a) Google Contacts to manage the details of the ~150 volunteers who work in

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

Richard- Friday, September 16, 2011, 6:27:34 AM, you wrote: > Better yet, you can test it yourself - Debian 4.0 server: ...and that's a debian server with no desktop or xwindows support, right? Just a headless server? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: Apple vs Android in the Enterprise

On Sep 15, 2011, at 7:14 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Thankfully, our > customers prefer Android to iOS by a significant margin-- but the LC Android > build capabilities are still lagging behind. This is the reason we've chosen > to develop for iOS first. Could you develop this project with HTML5/

Re: [server] $_FILES upload limits?

Phil, HTTP is not the ideal transport for transferring a hundred files of 100 MB each. I am not a native english speaker so I might understand things wrong or maybe it is just morning without my matte (<-- delicious brazillian native beverage with a shot of lemonade). So let us assume two scenario

Re: Player and Alwaysbuffer = true

Hi Richard, Am 16.09.2011 um 15:33 schrieb Richard Gaskin: > Klaus wrote: > >> I recently found out that the playback of movies with the "alwaysbuffer" set >> to true >> is NOT as jerky (not jerky at all, actually!) as it used to be in "older >> days"! >> >> LC 4.6.3, QT 7.XX (whatever came w

Re: Player and Alwaysbuffer = true

Klaus wrote: I recently found out that the playback of movies with the "alwaysbuffer" set to true is NOT as jerky (not jerky at all, actually!) as it used to be in "older days"! LC 4.6.3, QT 7.XX (whatever came with Lion). OK, the controller is not usable in that case, but that is no problem.

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

Ben Rubinstein wrote: On 15/09/2011 19:09, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've been able to build standalones that behave well when run from the command line provided I launch them with the -ui flag and include a quit command after they're done processing. The quit command may not be necessary; I vaguel

Re: no joy with fonts

I'm sorry, I've been rather preoccupied and had intended to reply to this yesterday. I have extensive experience with non-Latin scripts in Livecode. On 09/16/2011 07:19 AM, Friedrich F. Grohmann wrote: There have been recent discussions about cross platform font issues. My problem is, at the m

Re: [server] $_FILES upload limits?

I haven't tried the $_FILES feature yet. I did some tests with On-rev server a while ago. I found I could upload a file of up to 10.1 MB. That is probably a set limit that comes with the hosting package. Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.c

Player and Alwaysbuffer = true

Hi all, I recently found out that the playback of movies with the "alwaysbuffer" set to true is NOT as jerky (not jerky at all, actually!) as it used to be in "older days"! LC 4.6.3, QT 7.XX (whatever came with Lion). OK, the controller is not usable in that case, but that is no problem. When

Re: LiveCode post 3.5 on Linux boxes with no display

On 15/09/2011 19:09, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: Is there still a way to build a standalone using current LiveCode, that can operate on a Linux box that can only be accessed on the command line? I've been able to build standalones that behave well when run from the command line

Re: LiveCode Server

LiveCode Server is a deployment option that you buy as an extension to your core product, (its the same for just iOS or Android deployment). You buy it as an add-on to your seat, through your account 'My Products' on the runrev.com store. Once purchased, the separate platform-specific server

[server] $_FILES upload limits?

Has anyone tested the limits of the new $_FILES upload feature? Can I upload 100 files at once? 100 MB at once? Just looking for another upload alternative. Thanks - -- Phil Davis PDS Labs Professional Software Development http://pdslabs.net ___ use

LiveCode Server

Hi, I would like information on LiveCode Server. I guess could be useful for me to publish an online project LiveCode. 1) It 'a separate program? 2) How do you buy? Best regards, Mario ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: Apple vs Android in the Enterprise

On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:51 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I totally agree Chipp but you don't want to get to the end of the process > and find out it's unworkable. For example, will they at some stage ask you > to identify the employees and contractors of your company and provide proof > they wo