Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
Thanks Scott and Mark. So may ways to do things in LC, it takes a while to find them all. Pete On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > Friday, December 30, 2011, 5:24:46 PM, you wrote: > > > I'm feeling a lot better about editing groups now but there are still > some > >

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Friday, December 30, 2011, 5:24:46 PM, you wrote: > I'm feeling a lot better about editing groups now but there are still some > circumstances that I don;t see any alternative but to ungroup and group > again. Specifically, if there is an existing control that I want to place > into a grou

Re: The previous selection

2011-12-30 Thread dunbarx
Bob. I played around with this for just a minute. The main issue is that the selectionChanged message is sent after the selection has changed, so that it is easy to get the new selectedText, but not the old. Perhaps the best route is to keep track of the most recent and next-most recent selec

iOS; Android: manual sound recording level

2011-12-30 Thread Kurt Kaufman
I understand that on both iOS and Android, there is no provision for manual adjustment of sound recording levels. I assume that there must be some sort of compression scheme used to "average" the sound levels, with low level sound boosted and high level sound clipped. I also guess that there mi

Re: [OT] LIve Video Streaming

2011-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/11 8:27 PM, Tuviah Snyder wrote: For live streaming you may want to look at Wirecast http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm you can use and mix IP webcams, firewire, and some logitech webcams do HD like the c910. PS. I work on the wirecast team and could not help myself;-)

Re: [ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Roger Eller
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:48 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Friday, December 30, 2011, 3:56:58 PM, Bob wrote: > > > Nope. I get stacks using links all the time. It may be that the serving > site has blocks I dunno. > > Settle down. > > The correct syntax is "go url", not "go stack". > > -- > -Mark Wiede

Re: [ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Friday, December 30, 2011, 3:56:58 PM, Bob wrote: > Nope. I get stacks using links all the time. It may be that the serving site > has blocks I dunno. Settle down. The correct syntax is "go url", not "go stack". -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Pete, there really should be no need to go through the ungrouping hoops you're jumping through. In fact, take a look at the contextual menu you get when right clicking that includes "paste into group" -- this auto opens the group, pastes whatever object is currently on the clipboard, and stops e

Re: [OT] LIve Video Streaming

2011-12-30 Thread Tuviah Snyder
For live streaming you may want to look at Wirecast http://www.telestream.net/wire-cast/overview.htm you can use and mix IP webcams, firewire, and some logitech webcams do HD like the c910. PS. I work on the wirecast team and could not help myself;-) best, Tuviah ___

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread Gregory Lypny
Thanks again Guglielmo, That’s a relief. The Rev team needs to get its act together. There are too many such incidences. Gregory On Fri, Dec 30, 2011, at 8:19 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > No, fortunately the standalone applications seem to work normally (/... > tried

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
mmm yup it works fine. I created 4 buttons, grouped the first two, then grouped the second two, now I have two groups. I then grouped those two groups, so I have a group of two groups. Follow so far? Now I edit the top group, click one of the groups of 2 buttons and click edit group again. Now

Re: dead handler detector?

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hmmm you know GLX2 has to do something like this, because it knows about every handler in the stack you are working with, because it will turn the command into a link that will go to the handler. If there is no handler, it will not create a link. So the work has already been done for you, you ju

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
That's a great book - read a couple years back. The one example that sticks in my mind is - don;t put a pull handle on a door if you can only push it open! I'm feeling a lot better about editing groups now but there are still some circumstances that I don;t see any alternative but to ungroup and

Re: dead handler detector?

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
Hi Phil, I assume you're trying to find handlers that are not referenced by any other handlers? I started on a stack a while back to do the reverse of that - cross reference where handlers are called from but it would show you which ones are not called from anywhere. I'll have to search round for

Re: Another Sly Laboratories innovation

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Amazing! Do you have an stack to play with? My first though is "How could I use this in my own stacks?" Thanks in advance! Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Another-Sly-Laboratories-innovation-tp4247130p4247286.html Sent from the Revolution - Us

Re: dead handler detector?

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Comment them... One by One. And test... Not the ideal method but the safest. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/dead-handler-detector-tp4246729p4247277.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
This conversation brings me memories from the book "The Psychology of Everyday Things". Now renamed as "The Design of Everyday Things" http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Design_of_Everyday_Things http://www.geocities.ws/serga_

Error in mail list MBOX file format

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, The software that is storing the mail from this list, made two parsing errors in the mbox file. Download the file from: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2011-December.txt.gz The software failed to mark two instances where the word "From" appears at the beginning of a line:

Re: [ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Nope. I get stacks using links all the time. It may be that the serving site has blocks I dunno. Bob On Dec 30, 2011, at 3:36 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi All, > > > Roger Eller wrote >> >> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >>> I get "No such card". Tried .livecode ins

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
One thing, for sure, that this incident makes clears is the power of a community on the internet era... :-D -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-How-not-to-run-a-marketing-campaign-tp4238512p4247201.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: [ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Roger Eller wrote > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> I get "No such card". Tried .livecode instead of .rev on >> both links too, no joy. > > I get the same. The zip file download is fine though. > Many Thanks for reporting this. Just notice that both links wor

Another Sly Laboratories innovation

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I think I just came up with a way to get information from another stack that otherwise would be invisible to the stack I am working on. In this case I wanted a property of a card field on a card in a stack that was not the one I was working with. Further, I wanted to be able to change

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro- Friday, December 30, 2011, 9:16:41 AM, you wrote: > I found really interesting that this exchange was taken so far... The Forbes article draws entirely the wrong conclusion: "it was terrible luck to be the person whose Internet argument caught the eye of a superfan." No - that's *not*

Re: Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2011-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/11 2:28 PM, gpb01 wrote: Interesting ... ... if I enclose the Test directory (the one containing Win/OSX/Linux app) on a .rar file and I transfer the .rar file using the same shared volume ... the Test.App no longer works !!! So ... ... transferring directly the directory through the s

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
I swear I will never do it again! On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jacque- > > Friday, December 30, 2011, 11:26:48 AM, you wrote: > > > On 12/30/11 1:00 PM, Pete wrote: > > >> For a top level group, it's simple. Just select the group, ungroup, > >> shift-click the new contro

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
Thank you MIke and Jacque, that helps a lot! Pete On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 11:26 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/30/11 1:00 PM, Pete wrote: > > Maybe I'm not aware of all the IDE capabilities for editing groups in >> terms >> of adding more controls to them. For a top level group, it's simple.

dead handler detector?

2011-12-30 Thread Phil Davis
Hi folks - Does anyone have a dead handler detector they would like to share? I looked in RevOnline but didn't find anything. It seems I'm always working on old code that contains handlers that have been superseded by other handlers. I would like an easy way to find those now-unused handlers

Re: Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2011-12-30 Thread gpb01
Interesting ... ... if I enclose the Test directory (the one containing Win/OSX/Linux app) on a .rar file and I transfer the .rar file using the same shared volume ... the Test.App no longer works !!! So ... ... transferring directly the directory through the share, *work fine* ... transferring a

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Heh heh. There is a preferred method to this: Go find a stick. Sharpen the end of it. Point it at one of your eyes... You get the picture. ;-) Bob On Dec 30, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jacque- > > Friday, December 30, 2011, 11:26:48 AM, you wrote: > >> On 12/30/11 1:00 PM, Pete

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, December 30, 2011, 11:26:48 AM, you wrote: > On 12/30/11 1:00 PM, Pete wrote: >> For a top level group, it's simple. Just select the group, ungroup, >> shift-click the new controls, and group. > Don't do it that way. Disaster ensues. This bears repeating. > Don't do it that wa

Re: Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2011-12-30 Thread gpb01
Levi Kendall wrote > > Hi All, > I'm having a bit of a problem making a standalone application for OS-X > from a Windows machine. Actually making it is not the problem really, > running it is. The save to standalone works fine and I end up with what I > am assuming is the executeable in a str

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread gpb01
Gregory Lypny wrote > > Hi Guglielmo, > > Thank you for your response. I will do what you say while revising my > app, but does it mean that the standalone will not be affected? > > Gregory > No, fortunately the standalone applications seem to work normally (/... tried on OS X 10.6.8 and Win

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah, that same thread I mentioned discussed the problem being with 5.02 also. Just hadn't noticed if a temp workaround had been mentioned in this thread yet or not. Surely seems buggy to me. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Aye there are workarounds for almost everything.

The previous selection

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
I vaguely remember a discussion a long time ago about getting the last thing selected, when you selected something different. In my case, I want to detect a selectionChanged, verify some things and then go back if the verification fails. I can code it, but I was hoping there would be something e

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/11 1:00 PM, Pete wrote: Maybe I'm not aware of all the IDE capabilities for editing groups in terms of adding more controls to them. For a top level group, it's simple. Just select the group, ungroup, shift-click the new controls, and group. Trying to do the same for a nested group s

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Aye there are workarounds for almost everything. I think we were just discussing how the behavior only began with a recent release of Livecode, and it may be a bug. Bob On Dec 30, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > If this is like some of the stuff (such as the thread about choosing the

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
I do not think you need to ungroup, even nested groups. Click the fist group, select Edit Group, click the second group click Edit Group, select the third group, select Edit Group etc. Clicking Edit Group anywhere along the way when a group is not selected will untoggle Edit Group for ALL groups

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread Mike Bonner
If this is like some of the stuff (such as the thread about choosing the browse tool from within an openstack or preopenstack handler) A workaround was to move the affected code into a separate handler then from wherever you were doing the original call from, do a send in time. It doesn't take muc

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Make sure "select grouped" is not turned on. Click your toplevel group. Click "edit group" you are now in a screen that shows ONLY that groups objects. If you click on a group of that group you can again "edit group" and view only its items and again select a group in that subgroup and "edit group

Re: [ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Roger Eller
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I get "No such card". Tried .livecode instead of .rev on both links too, > no joy. > > Bob > > On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > > or type in your message box: > > go stack "http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder if his manager, or the idiot who decided to forward support emails to a guy who was not trained in that field was also terminated? There is of course, no excuse for communicating with customers of the company you work for in the manner this guy did, but something this serious should hav

Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
I've just gone though a frustrating hour or so trying to deal with editing the contents of a group nested three layers deep in other groups, culminating in the loss of the outer group and all its component groups. Thank goodness for backups! Maybe I'm not aware of all the IDE capabilities for edi

Re: [ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
I get "No such card". Tried .livecode instead of .rev on both links too, no joy. Bob On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:54 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > or type in your message box: > go stack "http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/CRC-32.rev"; > go stack "http://at.livecodejournal.com/stacks/CRC-

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ooooh good point... What if this happens with standalones? Bob On Dec 30, 2011, at 10:29 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hi Guglielmo, > > Thank you for your response. I will do what you say while revising my app, > but does it mean that the standalone will not be affected? > > Gregory > > >

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Guglielmo, Thank you for your response. I will do what you say while revising my app, but does it mean that the standalone will not be affected? Gregory On Fri, Dec 30, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Guglielmo wrote: > Yes, same behavior for me with different handlers ... > ... there must be an error

Re: Mac OS-X standalone from Windows machine

2011-12-30 Thread rh_galaxy
Hi, I had the same problem. I wanted to build a valid release package (zip) for linux and mac from windows of this game I've made and could not find any tool to set the executable flag of a file within a zip from windows, so I made my own tool to do this. I searched quite allot and could not belie

Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/30/11 12:43 AM, Pete wrote: I guess I'm not clear on just where the user types in a new value - over the top of an existing choice that's loaded into the menu? Yes. In that respect it's like any other field. If the text isn't already selected, do that and type over it. Or delete it first

RE: iOS pagingEnabled

2011-12-30 Thread John Dixon
Yes Tom... sent a stack to your email address... > Has anyone been able to get pagingEnabled for a scrolling group to work in > iOS. Any working examples? > Not getting any results here. As it makes no difference at all. > > Thanks > Tom ___

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
I found really interesting that this exchange was taken so far... http://www.forbes.com/sites/danielnyegriffiths/2011/12/29/from-control-to-ko-paul-christoforo-interviewed/ Could this be just another distraction from the real news? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.

[ANN] CRC-32 LiveCode stack

2011-12-30 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Download the stack: CRC-32.rev http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/CRC-32_LiveCode_Script.zip http://at.livecodejournal.com/stacks/CRC-32_LiveCode_Script.zip or type in your message box: go stack "http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/CRC-32.rev"; go stack "http://at.l

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
Try reading a mouthy 12 year old tell you how much smarter he is than you, and how he can kick your ass in RL in a game chat buffer. LOL! Anonymity has created a generation of monsters! Bob On Dec 30, 2011, at 5:18 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > irgh > > Folks, I am amazed how low people can

Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Sneidar
I find the combo box "wierd" too, like the Frankenstein of user interface controls. I don't use 'em. Bob On Dec 29, 2011, at 10:43 PM, Pete wrote: > I guess I'm not clear on just where the user types in a new value - over > the top of an existing choice that's loaded into the menu? > Pete >

Re: Anyone knows how to scroll native iOS controls alongside with groups?

2011-12-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Thomas, Thanks for the reply! Cheers andre On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Andre, > > That's what I do. I change the loc of the iOS control based on the LC > controls during a scroll. But can be choppy if a lot of scrolling is going > on. > > iphoneControlSet sScr

Re: Anyone knows how to scroll native iOS controls alongside with groups?

2011-12-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Andre, That's what I do. I change the loc of the iOS control based on the LC controls during a scroll. But can be choppy if a lot of scrolling is going on. iphoneControlSet sScrollerId, "rect", tRect -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Dec 30, 2011, at 8:2

iOS pagingEnabled

2011-12-30 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Has anyone been able to get pagingEnabled for a scrolling group to work in iOS. Any working examples? Not getting any results here. As it makes no difference at all. Thanks Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net __

Anyone knows how to scroll native iOS controls alongside with groups?

2011-12-30 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I have a form here that is a group. I use a native scroller to move the group and it works great but there are a couple of native fields in the form and they do not scroll alongside with the group. Anyone here has some points to scroll the controls? Should I try to compute some offset and

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Andre Garzia
irgh Folks, I am amazed how low people can get on the internet. On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Too good! Thanks for sharing... Turns out the idiot is now out a job. > > Chipp Walters > CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc > > On Dec 27, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrot

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-30 Thread gpb01
Gregory Lypny wrote > > The following two lines used to work fine in a startup script. > >libURLSetLogField the long id of fld “Connection Log" of card > "Connection" of stack “Headquarters" >libURLSetFTPListCommand “NLST” > > Today I upgraded to version 5.02 of LiveCode and I get the f

Re: OT: How *not* to run a marketing campaign

2011-12-30 Thread Chipp Walters
Too good! Thanks for sharing... Turns out the idiot is now out a job. Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Dec 27, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Quite the read: > > http://penny-arcade.com/resources/just-wow1.html > > -- > Mark Wieder > > > _