Re: Thanks to Scott Rossi

2011-12-24 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 5:34 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi Roger, > > > Roger Guay wrote > > > > A special thanks to Scott Rossi who again gives us an elegant gift in the > > latest revUP. > > And a wish for a Happy Holiday to all of you on this great list! > > Thanks and cheers, > > > > Many T

Re: OT: Tracking Santa

2011-12-24 Thread John Brozycki
Lynn, Very cool! My 8 yr old son has been closely following this all night. He was really impressed how it even had Rudolf, and Rudolf's nose was red. Well done! Happy Holidays, all! -John On Dec 24, 2011, at 3:21 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > NORAD TRACKS SANTA is live tod

Re: Thanks to Scott Rossi

2011-12-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Roger, Roger Guay wrote > > A special thanks to Scott Rossi who again gives us an elegant gift in the > latest revUP. > And a wish for a Happy Holiday to all of you on this great list! > Thanks and cheers, > Many Thanks and wish the same for every one of you. Just for curiosity, Which revU

OT: Tracking Santa

2011-12-24 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Everyone, NORAD TRACKS SANTA is live today with Santa being tracked "live" and using Google Earth. Totally off-topic, but if you watch those videos, you'll see a Santa and sleigh. These come from Meshbox Design, which is a part of Proactive International (and based partially on my original des

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread Pete
Great, thanks. On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/24/11 11:56 AM, Pete wrote: > >> Thanks Jacque. When I use the library, I use the Place Reference button >> to >> put a button on whatever card I'm working on, preconfigured to refer to >> the >> image as its icon. A

Re: [OT] Sectarian Joy

2011-12-24 Thread James Little
I too want to wish you all a happy Holiday Season and New Year. I also want to thank the many advanced users on this Use-List and on the Forum that have been so generous with instructing us less experienced throughout the year. Perhaps I can adapt a quote from W.C. Fields: "If at first yo

Re: [OT] iPhone is for games, Android is for apps.

2011-12-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
This article asserts that there are 16 million activations of Android a month. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/2011-the-year-of-the-android-os/17021 "Then there are the 10 billion app downloads. That’s a staggering number, and at the equivalent point in the Apple App Store’s life cycle, it had

Re: [OT] iPhone is for games, Android is for apps.

2011-12-24 Thread Jim Lambert
If you read the original xyologic article that was quoted by Good Morning Silicon Valley they write, "91,500,00" as the number of Android apps downloaded in Nov. 2011. They use that 'number' twice in the article. I wonder if they meant 9 million or 91 million. A missing trailing zero or mispla

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/24/11 11:56 AM, Pete wrote: Thanks Jacque. When I use the library, I use the Place Reference button to put a button on whatever card I'm working on, preconfigured to refer to the image as its icon. Are you saying that those images won't show up when I build a standalone? No, they'll sho

Re: How do you do it??

2011-12-24 Thread dunbarx
Richard. This returns: AA BB I am sure you meant: put line y of it into temp[y] I thought an array would be a more compact way to do what I originally wanted to. It is a long story, but the processing needed to form the array was the same as I had to do to in ordinary variables. I am

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread Pete
Thanks Jacque. When I use the library, I use the Place Reference button to put a button on whatever card I'm working on, preconfigured to refer to the image as its icon. Are you saying that those images won't show up when I build a standalone? Thanks, Pete On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM, J. Lan

Re: How do you do it??

2011-12-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
dunbarx wrote: Why do LC (and HC for that matter) fail to process multi-line variables when using "do"? on mouseUp --get "AA" & return & "BB" get "AA" repeat with y = 1 to 2 do "put" && it && "into temp" & y end repeat answer temp2 end mouseUp If the variable "it" contain

Re: Optional keywords?

2011-12-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
I've come across it, but to be honest, I really like the verbose real-language nature of Livecode. I am a touch typist, so for me it really is a question of programming as talking to myself. One of the main things I wish LC had was named parameters, like in Python, where one can call a function w

Re: Optional keywords?

2011-12-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/23/11 9:21 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Is this well known? on mouseUp put "ABCDE" into foo answer char 2 foo end mouseUp This works for all chunk types. But where is the keyword "of" (or "in") at line 3? It seems to be optional. Has this always been so? Are there other keywords

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/24/11 10:45 AM, Pete wrote: Hi Mark, Changing the ID fixes the problem, thanks. What might be the cause of this? ID conflicts. Each stack can have its own ID numbering, so another control somewhere may have had the same ID. If the image with the conflicting ID is large or has transpare

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread Pete
Hi Mark, Changing the ID fixes the problem, thanks. What might be the cause of this? On a related topic, I'm wondering what are the advantages/disadvantages of using the Image Library versus putting the application's images in a substack. I used to import my images into the Image Library and ref

Re: IDE windows and screenrect

2011-12-24 Thread Mike Bonner
Ah k yep. Thats the one thanks very much! On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > I believe a desktopChanged (if that's the correct name) message is sent > when a monitor disappears or the resolution changes. > > -- > Kind regard

Re: IDE windows and screenrect

2011-12-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, I believe a desktopChanged (if that's the correct name) message is sent when a monitor disappears or the resolution changes. -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http:/

Re: IDE windows and screenrect

2011-12-24 Thread Mike Bonner
Saw a discussion about this somewhere. Think a plugin came out of the talk, but can't remember for sure. If I find it i'll link. (there was also a nifty multi-montor graphic representation thingy that was really cool) Should be pretty easy to put a plugin together to check for valid locations agai

Re: IDE windows and screenrect

2011-12-24 Thread Richmond
On 12/24/2011 04:57 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Anyone else who think it is annoying that windows like the message box and the dictionary don't check whether they are inside one of the available screen rects? Every time when I disconnects second monitor, the dictionary becomes inaccessible!

IDE windows and screenrect

2011-12-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Anyone else who think it is annoying that windows like the message box and the dictionary don't check whether they are inside one of the available screen rects? Every time when I disconnects second monitor, the dictionary becomes inaccessible! -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk H

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, What happens if you change the id of the image? -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 23 dec. 2011 om 20:30 heeft Pete het v

[OT] Sectarian Joy

2011-12-24 Thread Richmond
I would like to wish all people on the Use-List a Happy Festival in the hope that whatever your faith, or lack thereof, we can all work together, rather than push in separate directions, to a shared attitude of greater kindness and forbearing towards one another. Love, Richmond. _

Re: 5.0.2 startup woes

2011-12-24 Thread Mike Bonner
There seems to be a timing problem going on in this case. The same question was in the forums and a workaround is to set up a separate handler to pick the browse tool and then do a send in time to call it so taht the browse tool choice ends up at the end of the queue. There were problems whether t

Re: 5.0.2 startup woes

2011-12-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Try : set the tool to "browse" HTH, Le 24 déc. 2011 à 07:30, Warren Samples a écrit : > On 12/23/2011 11:40 PM, Fred Moyer wrote: >> Now with this new 5.0.2 that I just purchased, various startup, openstack >> and preopenstack commands do not implement -- that is they don't implement >> when