Re: how to compare 2 very large textfiles

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
Thanks Craig, I'll be interested to see how it works in real life (after he gets rid of the duplicate "after" in the last repeat)! Pete Molly's Revenge On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:27 PM, wrote: > Pete. > > > Lovely and compact. If there is one thing that LC does th

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/5/11 6:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. >> > > My whole life, ups and downs, was shaped by this man. I'm so sorry he's > gone. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:49 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: > >> How are you updating your apps? Do you users automatically receive updates >> every time they launch their app? > > Yes. I have about 45 users using a custom app that downloads updates from my > own server on startup. The mechanism took a d

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Yup. Chris had mentioned to me earlier it's a good idea to update everything now, so the iOS5 update would go more smoothly-- as skipping versions doesn't get tested as much. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > You should look forwa

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
> How are you updating your apps? Do you users automatically receive updates > every time they launch their app? Yes. I have about 45 users using a custom app that downloads updates from my own server on startup. The mechanism took a day or two to work out but it works flawlessly. > I have

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 12:36 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/5/11 6:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. >> > > My whole life, ups and downs, was shaped by this man. I'm so sorry he's > gone. > > Heck, he even shaped a large part of m

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 6:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. My whole life, ups and downs, was shaped by this man. I'm so sorry he's gone. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http:

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Holgate
You should look forward to another couple of update hours on the 12th. On Oct 5, 2011, at 11:20 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Just updated my iPad to the latest iOS and there's not any "New Album" > feature. You must be using a developer beta version. _

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Just updated my iPad to the latest iOS and there's not any "New Album" feature. You must be using a developer beta version. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Oct 5, 2011, at 4:38 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Do you mean Albums? You can touch the Album tab, Edit, New Album, then go

Re: how to compare 2 very large textfiles

2011-10-05 Thread dunbarx
Pete. Lovely and compact. If there is one thing that LC does that HC could only draem of, at least as regards raw processing power, it is arrays. Craig newman -Original Message- From: Pete To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, Oct 5, 2011 3:15 pm Subject: Re: how to compare 2 very la

Re: Steve Jobs dead

2011-10-05 Thread Tereza Snyder
I saw Steve Jobs at three WWDCs and can attest to the effectiveness of the 'reality distortion field' he projected. Wozniak was my first idol, but in the end Jobs had the most effect on my life. What I wanted once was an S-100, and settled for an Apple-II; before long I knew every inch of it and

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
How are you updating your apps? Do you users automatically receive updates every time they launch their app? I have been trying to update my iPad for 2+ hours now, and hopefully it will be done soon and I'll have the new "add folder" feature (or is it on beta software only?). And THAT is the reaso

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
I don't use enterprise distribution so I can't comment on that - it does sound a pain, and I'm not defending it - read my message again. My point was that your problems with that have NO bearing on whether the iPhone is or is not a better choice for typical users. As for my method of distribut

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Judy Perry
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Re: Steve Jobs dead

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Jobs was perhaps the greatest marketing mind in the history of the world. R.I.P. He will be missed. On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Charles Szasz wrote: > > > Whether you are an Apple fanboy or not, there is no doubt in > > my mind we have lost a true visionary in the tech

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
For you, maybe. Here's how I build for my customers: Mac, PC, and soon, Android: Here's the app. Don't worry about any sort of license. And.. don't worry about updates. We use our own self-updating architecture, refined over hundreds of apps and thousands of instances, to instantly update your ap

Re: iOS file management/distro (new iPhone 4s)

2011-10-05 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Howdy, Chipp, I'm going to share this with you and anyone else in case it may be useful. Having a firm conviction that I should ultimately control any hardware I purchase, and also interested in potential bottlenecks of Apple's distribution system, I searched some time ago and saw this: htt

Re: Steve Jobs

2011-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
sorry, didn't refresh the browser. didn't see the other posts. CBS did a special newscast just now at 530 On 5 October 2011 17:32, stephen barncard wrote: > Sorry to tell you that, Steve Jobs just died. > > the Pancreatic cancer got him. > > sqb > > > -- > > > > Stephen Barncard > San Francisco

Steve Jobs

2011-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
Sorry to tell you that, Steve Jobs just died. the Pancreatic cancer got him. sqb -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
I just read the section in the manual about operator precedence and I think perhaps I'm even more confused than I was! It details a strict order of precedence which seems to contradict the knowledge that condition evaluation proceeds from left to right and stops as soon as a false one is found. M

Re: Steve Jobs dead

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles Szasz wrote: > Whether you are an Apple fanboy or not, there is no doubt in > my mind we have lost a true visionary in the technology world. > I feel blessed to have been alive to enjoy Apple products. I > wish I had the good fortunate to see an Apple presentation > with Steve presenting.

Steve Jobs dead

2011-10-05 Thread Charles Szasz
I just heard that Steve Jobs died. Whether you are an Apple fanboy or not, there is no doubt in my mind we have lost a true visionary in the technology world. I feel blessed to have been alive to enjoy Apple products. I wish I had the good fortunate to see an Apple presentation with Steve prese

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Petrides, M.D. Marian
So, so sad, if not entirely unexpected. He'll be missed. :- On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. Anybody > else see this news? > > Sad, came across a TED talk he apparently gave several years ago: > http://www.

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yup. Apple just announced the news. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. On 06/10/2011, at 10:47 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. Anybody > else see this news? > > Sad, came across a TED talk he apparently gave several years ago: > http:

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
Very sad day indeed. Thank you Steve. Bill Vlahos ___ 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-liveco

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Glen Bojsza
It's on apple's site On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:47 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. Anybody > else see this news? > > Sad, came across a TED talk he apparently gave several years ago: > http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_befor

Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Scott Rossi
Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. Anybody else see this news? Sad, came across a TED talk he apparently gave several years ago: http://www.ted.com/talks/steve_jobs_how_to_live_before_you_die.html End of an era. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Me

Re: MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Warren Kuhl
Ben/Kee, Thanks...everyone has been very helpful. I will attempt to use LiveCode to post the threads 'simultaneously'. This really is a relief as I didn't want to get away from LiveCode which is so easy to program with vs other languages. Warren On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Ben Rubinstein

Re: Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
yeah , I don't know, sometimes stuff doesn't work exactly right so I try something else like if a is true then switch case b = true case c = true do whatever break end switch end if or try reversing and/or if a is true then if (b is true and c is true) then do whatever end if e

Re: Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
No, I mean: If a is true then if (b is true or c is true) then do whatever end if end if I'm pretty sure if a was false, the second condition wouldn't be evaluated. But you raise an interesting point - in your example, does the condition inside the parens truly get evaluated first?

Re: how to compare 2 very large textfiles

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
I've used an array to do this type of operation in the past. Haven't tried this code but it might work better. repeat for each line i in tTextA put true into myArray[i]["A"] end repeat repeat for each line i in tTextB put true into myArray[i]["B"] end repeat repeat for each line k in the keys o

Re: Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes, if by nested you mean: a is true and (b is true or c is true) The statement in parenthesis gets evaluated first. Bob On Oct 5, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Pete wrote: > Thanks, that's good to know. I'm looking at using a pretty complex > condition with some of the conditions being trivial but ot

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Set up to do that on iOS took me less than an hour, and it takes a new ad hoc user about 10 minutes to add themselves to the distribution group once I've issued an invite. Actually distributing an ad hoc build takes me...oh...5 minutes? A huge pain, I agree... Gerry On 06/10/2011, at 8:57 AM,

Re: What happened to my message box?

2011-10-05 Thread dunbarx
I had an issue, that nobody else ever seemed to be able to duplicate, where this happened. I was only able to activate the msg box by typing into the lower field and hitting return. From that point on, everything was back to normal. I also am in 4.5.3, and I think the issue was with this build.

Re: MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 05/10/2011 22:19, Kee Nethery wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Warren Kuhl wrote: I understand that LiveCode doesn't have the capability for true multi-threading. What I require is to post to multiple forms (multiple websites) and capture the results of each post. I assume this is not

Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 2:56 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Hello gang, using revCopyFile and it works great on Mac (internally a shell call)- and I noticed there is a very nice progress indicator provided but it appears behind the window/stack that launched it and is basically useless as it's always obfuscat

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 4:57 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Just wondering, how does one share a Rev app on Android? I know it's a huge pain to ad hoc share an app on iTunes-- I have done that before. You can share Android apps like any file. Email, Dropbox, internet download, cabled computer transfer, and with

Re: CBT using LiveCode - Computer Based Training

2011-10-05 Thread Bob Earp
Dear Alejandro, I've been using LiveCode for CBT/eLearning for quite some time, and before that pretty much every system that has been built to author CBT going back to CDC's Plato that could only run on custom hardware, as did some of its successors such as WICAT. With some great colleagues, I

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Chipp In what way is your refusal to keep your iOS devices (and knowledge of their capabilities) up-to-date a problem with the iPhone? By your own measure iOS is (apparently) broken, and yet you refuse to fix the problem because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it"? And it well might be a featur

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 4:39 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: At least Apple releases OS updates on a regular basis. On Android many devices are stuck on old versions of the OS, never to be updated to take advantage of the (supposed) benefits of the platform. Definitely a down side for Android. I'm stuck at 2.2, man

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Hmmm. A quick search on this issue shows: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop_uri=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xlzh856Guxg&v=Xlzh856Guxg&gl=US I'm still not sure this feature is available on non beta versions of iOS. Do you know? On Wednesday, October 5, 2011, Gerry Orkin wrote: > Chipp wrot

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Dixie, "Does it really matter?" Altuit has tried unsuccessfully for the past 60 days to purchase an enterprise license. Apple has required our company to submit a D&B rating, then they've asked for our Articles of Incorporation. We've been stuck there for quite awhile. I'm told there is also a

how to compare 2 very large textfiles

2011-10-05 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i need to compare two very large text files with about 5000 - 7000 lines each with a lines size of up to 256 chars. I need to find out if there are lines missing in either file a or file b. What is the best way to do this with good speed? I tried to check each line in file a and if the lin

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
No such feature on my iPad2 or my iPhone4. You must be using a much newer iOS than I- (perhaps beta). As I said, I tend more towards the, "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" theory when working with iOS devices as I (and some of my Windows cohorts) had a very precarious time installing new version

Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yup. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with only a small contribution. All our LiveCode downloads are listed at http://qery.us/zr O

Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
Are you saying that inside a stack inside the bundle there is a "do as applescript" in the script for this command? hard to believe - it's pretty responsive. On 5 October 2011 14:40, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > The docs are wrong. RevCopyFile uses AppleScript, not the shell, on Ma

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Holgate
In Android's defense, they did already have the over the air system updating working. That's a nice new addition to iOS 5. Also, they come out if the blue! Acer tend to be behind others in updating their systems, so it was a surprise when I got given 3.2 the other day. On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:39

RE: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread John Dixon
I suspect, after reading your earlier post, that your 'downer' on Apple's new phone seems to be that it did not carry the number '5' in its title… As Shakespeare asked, '"What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet." Don't forget, the iphone 4 has not

Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Stephen, The docs are wrong. RevCopyFile uses AppleScript, not the shell, on Mac OS X. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 See what you get with onl

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Chipp wrote: > here is the only way I know how to simply add a folder to my photos > collection: > > 1. Dock my iPad/iPhone to my desktop computer Really? This is how I do it: 1) Open Photos app on the device 2) Touch the Albums button 3) Touch the "Add" button 4) Name the album > 2. Wait for

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Holgate
Do you mean Albums? You can touch the Album tab, Edit, New Album, then go to your photos and pick ones to add to that album. On Oct 5, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > A quicker way would to use a widget, something iOS does not support. As long > as we're looking at workflow and use ca

Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
Thanks Mark. See below. On 5 October 2011 13:07, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi, > > I believe this progress indicator shouldn't be visible at all. It is > AppleScript and in my view it isn't done very well. The progress indicator > you see is part of the Finder, not LiveCode. > Mark, it's not app

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Admin
And on Android, just use a filemanager to create a folder. Takes about 5 seconds. Mike On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 16:17:27 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: > A quicker way would to use a widget, something iOS does not support. As long as we're looking at workflow and use cases, here is the only way I

Re: Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
Thanks, that's good to know. I'm looking at using a pretty complex condition with some of the conditions being trivial but others taking up significant database access so sounds like I should leave the db access conditions until last. Hmmm, now I wonder if nested if statements make any difference

Re: MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Kee Nethery
On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Warren Kuhl wrote: > I understand that LiveCode doesn't have the capability for true > multi-threading. What I require is to post to multiple forms > (multiple websites) and capture the results of each post. I assume > this is not possible with LiveCode? I think yo

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Dave McKee
What is rate of return on iPhone 4 vs competitive solution ? And same question as it applies to an iOS app vs ? Hodie Non Cras On 2011-10-05, at 4:55 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Based on the feedback here, and knowing I can't wait another 16 months for > Apple to announce a competitive phone,

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
A quicker way would to use a widget, something iOS does not support. As long as we're looking at workflow and use cases, here is the only way I know how to simply add a folder to my photos collection: 1. Dock my iPad/iPhone to my desktop computer 2. Wait for it to sync, and install an OS update

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Based on the feedback here, and knowing I can't wait another 16 months for Apple to announce a competitive phone, I visited the AT&T store today. As a side note, when Apple first introduced the iPhone 4, Android had only 9% of the smartphone market. Now, only 16 months later, it has passed Apple

Re: Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: I'm wondering how LC evaluates If statements with multiple conditions. Are all conditions evaluated before the overall result is checked for true or false, or does evaluation proceed left to right and stop as soon as a condition is found to be false? Whichever method is used, is it

Evaluation of complex conditions

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
I'm wondering how LC evaluates If statements with multiple conditions. Are all conditions evaluated before the overall result is checked for true or false, or does evaluation proceed left to right and stop as soon as a condition is found to be false? Whichever method is used, is it affected by so

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
Nice, I didn't know about the long press on the Home button. On my HTC Incredible, that does show the recent apps but there isn't a button to get to the Task Manager (unless I used it recently of course). I can also get a list of recent apps by pulling down the Notifications bar but, once again,

Re: revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I believe this progress indicator shouldn't be visible at all. It is AppleScript and in my view it isn't done very well. The progress indicator you see is part of the Finder, not LiveCode. Perhaps you could use some GUI scripting to bring that particular window of the Finder to front, but

What happened to my message box?

2011-10-05 Thread Howard Bornstein
Yikes! I've been working in LC 4.5.3 (that's the version I have an IOS license for) and things were going fine. Suddenly, the msg box stopped responding. No matter what I put into it, nothing is displayed and the stack indicator shows RevErrorDisplay. Scripts can write to the message box fine, but

revCopyFile progress window not showing in front

2011-10-05 Thread stephen barncard
Hello gang, using revCopyFile and it works great on Mac (internally a shell call)- and I noticed there is a very nice progress indicator provided but it appears behind the window/stack that launched it and is basically useless as it's always obfuscated. Is there a way to make this indicator show

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/05/2011 11:34 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: * It requires lots of touches to do simple things. please let me know if there is a quicker way! Android: 1. Touch the Clock in the lower right. 2. In the popup that appears there are some slider

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
> The cool thing is we have a choice. We can evaluate the trade-offs > inherent in the approaches offered by iOS and Android, and decide which > provides the greatest overall benefit for our own specific needs. > e > > All Hail WebOS oop

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
Sorry Jacque, I get confused with the alpha vs numeric versions of Android (as I do with Apple OS X versions!) My phone is running 2.3.3, which I THINK is Gingerbread but not sure. Also, on the Skype issue, I've read that Skype is a huge battery hog so good to get rid of it if you're not using it

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: I agree with you mostly, except being an IT guy, I know how easily people attribute any problems that arise to "the network" or to "the IT guy" and they do not need any real hard empirical data to back it up. They just "know". ... Freedom comes at a price, especially if th

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 1:01 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM, J. Landman Gaywrote: But: you shouldn't be closing processes on Android, it's counter productive. "Running" apps is a misnomer; they use zero resources, and the OS will close them automatically as necessary. Jacque, Ye

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 12:56 PM, Pete wrote: You can reduce the first 4 steps to 1 by creating a shortcut to Running Services. Can I do it with native Froyo? I spent quite a while last night trying to download a third-party launcher alternative and neither AppBrain, Market, or Amazon would allow my Arch

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > But: you shouldn't be closing processes on Android, it's counter > productive. "Running" apps is a misnomer; they use zero resources, and the > OS will close them automatically as necessary. Jacque, Yes but Skype is an offender. Drinking

Re: MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Warren Kuhl
Bjornke, Thanks for your response. I will look further into the suggestions you provided. I only plan to allow for up to 20 simutaneous connections so the livecode app via the terminal might do the trick. Appreciate your help! Warren 2011/10/5 Björnke von Gierke : > you can call a second livec

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Pete
You can reduce the first 4 steps to 1 by creating a shortcut to Running Services. Pete Molly's Revenge > You're right about most of the steps, but I can reduce the number of them a > bit. I keep the Settings app on my Home screen. > > 1. Touch Settings > 2. Touch

Re: MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Björnke von Gierke
you can call a second livecode app via the terminal (for example). no need to use a different language if all you want to use a second process. You can also call that process several time, once for each query, and therefore get closer to multiprocessing (tho this is not very efficient, and not s

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 12:18 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: That's a nice theory, but I find that apps such as Angry Birds can get very choppy, and closing everything else can help. It isn't a theory. Google "android task killer necessary". But if it works for you, that's okay. The better way to manage things i

MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Warren Kuhl
I understand that LiveCode doesn't have the capability for true multi-threading. What I require is to post to multiple forms (multiple websites) and capture the results of each post. I assume this is not possible with LiveCode? If not I was thinking of handling this with a different process. I

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Holgate
That's a nice theory, but I find that apps such as Angry Birds can get very choppy, and closing everything else can help. I also use it when testing apps, because I want to know whether any slowness is due to the app I'm testing, and not due to any background tasks that are being run. I'm sure

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Holgate
For any of you that didn't spend the time to watch the 90 minute presentation yesterday, here's an 80 second version: http://gizmodo.com/5846804/the-entire-iphone-4s-keynote-in-80-seconds ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/5/11 11:34 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Android: 1. Touch the Clock in the lower right. 2. In the popup that appears there are some sliders to the right. Touch those. 3. In the popup that appears, touch Settings at the bottom. 4. Touch Applications in the list on the left. 5. Touch Manage app

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
I agree with you mostly, except being an IT guy, I know how easily people attribute any problems that arise to "the network" or to "the IT guy" and they do not need any real hard empirical data to back it up. They just "know". So let's say Apple allows apps outside their app store to be install

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > * It requires lots of touches to do simple things. As an example if this, here's the standard built in way I've found to close a few apps (and please let me know if there is a quicker way!): iOS: double press the Home button, press and hold on

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
What the heck, I'll add to this. I have both an iPad 2 and a cheapo Archos 7" Android tablet. As a long-time computer user, I found iOS extremely frustrating. The beauty of Mac was always its consistency -- you always knew where the menus and other bits were. iOS is more like early Windows in

RE: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Ralph DiMola
I have an iPad and Droid X. The Droid is multi processing. The iPad runs only one app at a time (or so it seems). I was out in the back country snowmobiling using the droid to map and track my location over a PDF of the trail map. Listening to Pandora via 3g and mp3s to my Bluetooth speaker. Taking

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Guys, I have the following machines here: iPhone 3G, iPad 1, Palm Pre2, Google Nexus S. Take the rest of the email as personal opinion, I do not claim to speak The Truth but my own experiences. === iOS === The iOS machines are very polished and built by a company that understands usability. The

CBT using LiveCode - Computer Based Training

2011-10-05 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, How many LiveCode developers are working in Computer based training used only for Job training using LiveCode? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning#Computer-based_training I have been asked for some budget estimated: http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/budget-estimate.html by

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 97, Issue 8

2011-10-05 Thread Roger Guay
Roger that, Roger. Let me know how RooMatic works for you. BTW, I should have mentioned -be sure to click the i button in the upper left for an essential overview. Roger On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:20 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 8 > Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2011 13:37:31 -040

Re: When does recursion limit bite you?

2011-10-05 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 12:11 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, stephen barncard wrote: > > > Funny that this comes up at this moment - I've been trying to work with a > > 'Directory Walker' recursive script (thanks Scott Rossi) and really can't > > make it very useful > > Just a little clarificat

Re: When does recursion limit bite you?

2011-10-05 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Oct 4, 2011, at 12:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > If your handler calls a second one, which in turn calls the first one, > you'll you'll get get recursion recursion. ... sort of like, "Circular definition: see Definition, circular." -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://hom

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread René Micout
Hello Stephen Le 5 oct. 2011 à 08:10, stephen barncard a écrit : > > > *These are just phones*. These are NOT just phones... These are computers... and now : computers which (or who ? ... hum...) talk to us... ;-) Bon souvenir de Paris René ___ us

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 10/5/11 7:54 AM, "Bill Vlahos" wrote: > I haven't used an Android but the people at work who have personal ones say > they like them but find that they are buggy and need to be restarted > frequently. The ones that have them like them because they can tinker more > with them but even they say

new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Pete, Thanks very much for your candid and non-biased review-- just what I was looking for. I'm not i treated in mobile OS wars, but am just thinking of switching to Android as I very non-plussed with the Apple iPhone 4s, and would be giving my 4 to my wife. I already own Siri, and don't really us

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
Firstly. I'm not trying to start or fan a flame war on phones. I use LiveCode because it supports all platforms. On Oct 4, 2011, at 11:12 PM, Pete wrote: > My wife and I just upgraded our phones (with Verizon). We each had a Droid > Eris and I have to say they sucked. > > I upgraded to an HTC I