I think pseudo-natural language is as goofy as any other.
What you expect when you type into the msg box:
put me into it; put it
How about:
get me; put it
At least that one is a bit reassuring...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 3:44:39 AM, you wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> I often have thought about signing my program to avoid this "do you want to
> continue?"
> What kept me from doing this up to now, is that I don't know what happens
> with update setups, new versions of the same program, etc
Mark-
Thursday, February 23, 2012, 8:50:07 PM, you wrote:
> Mark, very cool application. The videos really show it off well. BTW, is it
> coded in LC?
It was indeed. Chipp's a talented guy.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012, 7:20:40 PM, you wrote:
>> set foreColor of fld "myField" to blue
I'll double down on your rant.
Since when is "fld" easier to read than "field"? You save typing two
vowels and end up with a thing that's not a word in any language I
know of. Same thing with "
In late 70s, Alan Kay, the spiritual father of the Mac os, Smalltalk, was
wrestling with a very powerful and important and yet simple question, "How to
make a programming language simple enough a child could use but grow in power
as the child's intellectual powers grew too?" Simula, Smalltalk an
Hi:
Thanks. I was trying the below in my stack script, which I got from a
Jacquie message on the list:
global gFP
on appleEvent pClass, pID
if pClass is "aevt" and pID is "odoc" then
-- the file path is in the appleEvent data
request appleEvent data
put it into gFP
-- open
Mark Wieder wrote
>
>
> ButtonGadget has its own website now.
>
> http://www.buttongadget.com/buttongadget2/default.htm
>
>
Mark, very cool application. The videos really show it off well. BTW, is it
coded in LC?
Also, I had the same problem Bob did in that from one location/button the
vide
I always enjoyed the ambiguity of the title of one of James Watson's books:
"Avoid Boring People" as to why "natural" languages should be avoided in
programming, not because they are inherently bad, but because they require
setting too large of a context to render most statements clear. OTH, I
ilsa wrote:
> I've searched the list but haven't found out how to do a very simple
> thing: drop an image file, or a bunch of image files, onto a
> standalone and have it process them all and then quit. So I could have
> the app in the Dock and drop files on it. I have the image processing
> part d
Hi:
I've searched the list but haven't found out how to do a very simple
thing: drop an image file, or a bunch of image files, onto a
standalone and have it process them all and then quit. So I could have
the app in the Dock and drop files on it. I have the image processing
part down, but getting
Hello All,
I have a standalone that spits out some tab-delimited Japanese text
into a field. If I copy-paste that text into Microsoft Wordpad, no
problems. But if I copy-paste into Notepad, the Japanese text will
appear as expected but the tabs are replaced by an underscore char.
What might be th
Hi Bob,
slylabs13 wrote
>
> Well the goal of Hypertext based programming was and is to make the
> programming language as like a normal dialect as possible, so code would
> be easier to read and write. This by nature causes a certain degree of
> verbosity.
>
> [snip]
>
> is not all that tediou
Well tickle me pink and call me Porky! Whoda thunk it? I like the part: "SQLite
does use the declared type of a column as a hint that you prefer values in that
format." That as good as saying that apart from the unique key nothing is typed
because nothing is enforced! I think I am going down to
On 2/23/12 6:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
set foreColor of fld "myField" to blue
I'm hijacking this thread to complain about my pet peeve. The above
syntax makes me crazy. Lots and lots and lots (and maybe more) well
established developers use it, it works, there's nothing wrong with it,
it's
I don't think you need to do a lock screen for this - try
visual effect push right
go previous card
Gerry
On 24/02/2012, at 5:38 AM, Devin Asay wrote:
> Has anyone else seen this? Is there a better way to respond to swipe gestures?
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Box's storage offer is great, but being able to access it only via a browser
is a bit limited compared to something like DropBox.
I saw the announcement in my Android feeds today and had the same
reservations. No desktop synch, limited uploads. I suppose
Thanks for pointing that out Mark.
SQLite allows any type of data in any column, it doesn't have strong
typing. But if you want strong typing, you can use a CHECK constraint on
any column to limit what type of data is acceptable.
I'll take a leaf out of Ken Ray's book here and start the next se
This bit in the latest Rev Newsletter about where Fields are headed looks
extremely promising.
http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/february/issue129/newsletter1.php?a=NWS129
I'm mangling/butchering/faking/ignoring two or three similar features for
quite a while now, so I look forward to a simpler an
Well this may change the situation:
http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/february/issue129/newsletter1.php?a=NWS129
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On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Michael Chean wrote:
> His first argument re: ambiguity doesn't hold water for me. Anyone who has
> tried to decipher another
> persons code can attest to how ambiguous programming languages can be.
>
But wasn't that the point.
No matter how many compatible com
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 3:48 AM, Sumner, Walt wrote:
> Here's a small speed increment, still no repeat loops except for 3 or 4
> hidden within Livecode. Counts "pp" as 3 "pp", not 5.
>
> I've had a look at this and generally don't agree that there are only 3
"pp" in "pp". I accept that in
Right. Once you're used to Dropbox, you don't want to use Box anymore.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012, 4:59:47 PM, you wrote:
> Box's storage offer is great, but being able to access it only via a browser
> is a bit limited compared to something like DropBox.
Luckily it's not an either/or thing.
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slylabs13 wrote
>
> For the sake of satisfying my own curiosity, I just used the Firefox
> sqLite manager to open an sqLite db file. I added a column to a table for
> testing purposes, called bobnum integer default NULL. When browsing, the
> column indicates it's value is Null. But when I update
Another thing, AFAICT, is there's no desktop integration with Box. You can
connect using WebDAV but all transfers from the desktop fail (at least last
time I checked). They offer a SimpleShare application, but it is only that:
drag a file onto the icon and it gets transferred to one designated
di
> John,
>
> The 'import snapShot' command works OK if I pass parameters such as 'import
> snapshot from rect 250,250,450,450', but not if I use it without parameters
> to allow the user to snap an area from screen using the crosshair cursor, so
> a button with?
>
> on mouseUp
> import s
Well the goal of Hypertext based programming was and is to make the programming
language as like a normal dialect as possible, so code would be easier to read
and write. This by nature causes a certain degree of verbosity. Obviously:
theTruth = iif(true,true,iif(true,true,false))
is quite a bi
What do you do with 50 (or 100?) GB if the files can't be larger than 25MB?
Also, before the files are uploaded, they are duplicated on your computer. To
me Box is really useless compared to Dropbox, but if you can think of a way to
make it useful please let me know.
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His first argument re: ambiguity doesn't hold water for me. Anyone who has
tried to decipher another
persons code can attest to how ambiguous programming languages can be.
The second argument though, due to my recent exposure to LiveCode, I find
true. LiveCode is verbose.
As I've mentioned in ano
Hi Kevin,
Why would the process end? That's really weird. Are you running this app on a
desktop machine? If so, then the app should run normally in the background.
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I guess I jumped the gun. I blame my Viking ancestry. :-)
Bob
On Feb 23, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Dave Cragg wrote:
> I may have misunderstood him too. But I interpreted the second video in the
> context of a teacher having run through the students' first programming
> lesson (in this case Python),
I have an app that processes some data and updates a scrollbar. When the app
loses focus, the process ends. Is it possible to get it to continue in the
background when the user clicks off of the app?
Thanks
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Bob Sneidar writes:
>
> I may have misunderstood him then. I am not sure what the distinction between
English-like and natural
> English programming languages is however.
English-like:
filter tData with "From:*"
natural English:
keep only those lines in tData that start with "From:"
English
I may have misunderstood him too. But I interpreted the second video in the
context of a teacher having run through the students' first programming lesson
(in this case Python), and then asking generally, "so why do we have to learn a
computer language rather than use a language we already know
I may have misunderstood him then. I am not sure what the distinction between
English-like and natural English programming languages is however. Give me an
example of a natural english programming language if you please. I have not
ever heard of anything except hypertext based languages, because
On 23 Feb 2012, at 22:01, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I find his arguments ludicrous. Let me see some examples of english like
> programming languages where a command could mean two different things without
> any arguments supplied. What a preposterous thing to say! I can only think he
> came right o
I could have accepted the behavior if it was the last line that passed the
filter results, and because it did not contain a cr, the result did not end in
a cr. But for the filtered results to not have the cr in ANY results regardless
of whether or not the last line was included in the results wo
For the sake of satisfying my own curiosity, I just used the Firefox sqLite
manager to open an sqLite db file. I added a column to a table for testing
purposes, called bobnum integer default NULL. When browsing, the column
indicates it's value is Null. But when I update a row using update activi
I find his arguments ludicrous. Let me see some examples of english like
programming languages where a command could mean two different things without
any arguments supplied. What a preposterous thing to say! I can only think he
came right out of college into whatever teaching position he now ho
Wow, I must really need a nap! After messing with this for hours I finally
realized that I was adjusting the height of my field but not repositioning it
in the locked group. So naturally the whole thing wasn't scrolling correctly.
All good now. :-)
Chris
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Bob,
I think this may indeed be a matter of perception, and therefore not one with
a right or wrong answer!
But I think there absolutely _is_ a difference between terminate and delimit.
And I've found from experience that some LC developers think of line formatted
lists as a series of lines
Here's an illustration of how null works in sqlite, using sqlite3, the
"official" command line tool for sqlite admin and therefore most likely to
work correctly. You can also go to http://www.sqlite.org/nulls.html for a
write up on how null is treated in various sqlite expressions.
First create a
I need some help with this before I start ripping my hair out!
I'm trying to create a scroller to scroll a list of words in a field. I have a
grouped field, with the group's lockLoc property set to true and the group
resized to conceal part of the field. I can get the scroller created just fine,
And as a bonus (sorry, in my excitement I forgot to mention this)... you
don't have to escape anything either, since this is using the substitution
form of the revExecuteSQL command.
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Ohhh... sexier!
Bob
On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Ken Ray wrote:
>
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>> only works for single characters.
>>
>> function substringCount pString, pChunk
>> replace pString with cr & pString & cr in pChunk
>> filter pChunk with pString
>> retu
Here's a small speed increment, still no repeat loops except for 3 or 4 hidden
within Livecode. Counts "pp" as 3 "pp", not 5.
on mouseUp
local timer1, timer2,pChunk, tCount1, tCount2
put
"asdfewoaevewppaafaeppaeafpntsrnpspsppsrhbsbppsbsargaregppsbrahargagbafpp" into
pChunk
put the
Peter Haworth-2 wrote
>
> You could try changing the line in my sample code "put field
> myField into myArray[x]" to "put the text of field myField into
> myArray[x]".
> Pete
>
Yipppeee! That worked. The following code copies all of a forms values into
an sql database... no manual coding requir
Using numToChar(0) from within LC puts NULL into the column. I hope that clears
it up a bit more.
Bob
On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:08 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Bob Sneidar writes:
>
>>
>> I just tested this with a numeric column in mySQL. The column has NOT NULL
> unchecked and the default value
Thanks Ken... I suppose one of those would work but I'd have to think about
it :) The goal was the construction of a parameter list for revExecuteSQL
that would look something like:
revExecuteSQL gConnectID, tCmd, "tvar1", "tvar2", "tvar3", "tvar4", "tvar5",
"tvar6", "tvar7", "tvar8", "tvar9"
Ac
On 23/02/2012 18:31, Mark Smith wrote:
What if you want to put fld fieldname into myvar as in the original that Bob
suggested:
"put fld myfield into tvar"& x
Myfield holds the name of a field that is being copied to a temp variable
that is incrementing inside a loop. I tried various things but
Peter Haworth-2 wrote
>
>
> If you look at the array in debug, you should see its keys being 1,2, etc
> and the value of each key being the value of the field, not the name of
> the
> field. You could try changing the line in my sample code "put field
> myField into myArray[x]" to "put the tex
Hi,
In SQL land, empty doesn't exist. Whenever you want a value to be empty, you
must set the value to null. Be careful: in SQLite null is not NULL (I can never
remember which one I need; you'll have to try). Note that if you're doing a
query on fields that contain null values, those records wo
Hi Mark,
I didn't get a chance to test this code so sorry, yes, the array name
should be quoted. I'm not sure why the rest of it isn't working though.
If you look at the array in debug, you should see its keys being 1,2, etc
and the value of each key being the value of the field, not the name of
I should have added many of the ideas are things others on the list have
suggested in response to my "looping over all buttons" post so thanks to all
who made suggestions including Jacqueline, who's comment about not doing
do is something I am still working on. I really appreciate all of the he
Hi all,
Coming up for air here. :)
I'm experimenting with using swipe gestures to move between cards on both iOS
and Android. I set acceleratedRendering to true on preOpenStack. I am using a
fairly simple script in a background group that is on every card. Here is the
group script:
on mouseDo
Hi all,
Coming up for air here. :)
I'm experimenting with using swipe gestures to move between cards on both iOS
and Android. I set acceleratedRendering to true on preOpenStack. I am using a
fairly simple script in a background group that is on every card. Here is the
group script:
on mouseDo
Peter Haworth-2 wrote
>
> put 1 into x
> put "UPDATE test SET " into mySQL
> repeat for each item myField in "One,Two,Three"
>if field myField is not empty then
> put myField & "=:" & x & comma after mySQL
> put field myField into myArray[x]
> add 1 to x
>end if
> end re
Ken Ray wrote
>
>
> repeat with x = 1 to 12
> put "Hello" into field ("MyField" & x)
> end repeat
>
>
What if you want to put fld fieldname into myvar as in the original that Bob
suggested:
"put fld myfield into tvar" & x
Myfield holds the name of a field that is being copied to a temp var
Hi Colin,
wrong list ... you have to write on the 'developer list' ... LC 5.5 is
just in DP1 and NOT released, so ... :-)
Guglielmo
On 23.02.2012 16:40, Colin Holgate wrote:
I have a stack that shows multiple v5.5 issues. Rather than break it down into
tiny example stacks for each problem,
On Feb 22, 2012, at 9:46 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> only works for single characters.
>
> function substringCount pString, pChunk
> replace pString with cr & pString & cr in pChunk
> filter pChunk with pString
> return the number of lines of pChunk
> end substringCount
Here's one that works i
Must have been a typo, though it's currently mentioned in the store, so perhaps
it exists!
On Feb 23, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> Erm do you mean LC 5.5? I am not sure this is the correct forum for that.
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Bob Sneidar writes:
>
> I just tested this with a numeric column in mySQL. The column has NOT NULL
unchecked and the default value set
> to NULL. When I updated from LC setting the column to NULL that is the value
that the column was set to.
> HOWEVER if I updated the column with an empty string
On Feb 22, 2012, at 11:51 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I am constantly doing do! Don't you?
I used to use "do" a lot more than I do now… for example, if you have 12 fields
named "MyField1" through "MyField12", instead of using:
repeat with x = 1 to 12
do "put" && quote & "Hello" & quote && "into
Everyone, please take notice:
About two years ago, I was virtually blind. Overnight I had been rendered
sightless. Being in touch with a lady friend with whom I had attended High
School, some 50 years earlier, I let her know of my plight. She wrote back that
she had been suffering from Glaucoma
slylabs13 wrote
>
> It seems that if you use an empty string "" on a numeric column, SQL
> interprets that as zero 0.
>
Hi Bob, that basically is the problem right there.
slylabs13 wrote
>
> It begs the question however, why in the world you would pass a string
> value to a numeric column?
Hmmm, SunOS and X11R4?
Tim
On Feb 23, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> You know what would be great? If someone wrote a graphics engine based
> entirely upon PDF! Yeah that would be the ticket! And then, you could print
> directly to PDF because everything would already be in the correc
You will, Warren. You will. Its like policemen and nurses getting younger
and younger. Print gets smaller and smaller, and one day you just can't
read it any more. Everyone around you says they can read it fine. And they
can. For now.
>Hmm. Peter, I am using a 24 inch monitor and don't h
Erm do you mean LC 5.5? I am not sure this is the correct forum for that.
Bob
On Feb 23, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
> I have a stack that shows multiple v5.5 issues. Rather than break it down
> into tiny example stacks for each problem, which may not even work anyway,
> would it
I'd guess problem, the links just error for me, they ask for a username and
password, but it seems like they point to non-existent directories.
Just checked again and the links have disappeared now!
Paul
On 23 Feb 2012, at 15:05, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote:
> well... problem or feature?
>
>
>
You know what would be great? If someone wrote a graphics engine based entirely
upon PDF! Yeah that would be the ticket! And then, you could print directly to
PDF because everything would already be in the correct format! Yeah! ;-)
Bob
On Feb 23, 2012, at 5:37 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
> On 0
If the same problem exists with all applications, or many other applications, I
would say it's a problem with Linux, if they do not give you a systematic way
of improving the readability of things in the GUI. Windows has the same
problem, but there is a place you can change the size of fonts and
I know I repeat myself, but I did the same think Mark was doing only with mySQL
and I used MySQLWorkbench and avoided LC. I got the same results. It seems that
if you use an empty string "" on a numeric column, SQL interprets that as zero
0. It begs the question however, why in the world you wou
I have a stack that shows multiple v5.5 issues. Rather than break it down into
tiny example stacks for each problem, which may not even work anyway, would it
be possible to send someone the stack? I can do screen recordings to show the
stack when it is behaving itself (even if I have to edit sev
well... problem or feature?
On 23.02.2012, at 15:58, Paul Hibbert wrote:
> Just logged in and seen the same problem. Sent an email to support.
>
> Paul
>
> On 23 Feb 2012, at 13:45, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote:
>
>> Anyone else seen this?
>>
>> http://imgur.com/LiqxL (some parts removed)
>>
>
Just logged in and seen the same problem. Sent an email to support.
Paul
On 23 Feb 2012, at 13:45, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote:
> Anyone else seen this?
>
> http://imgur.com/LiqxL (some parts removed)
>
>
> It seems the server ones are broken tho...
>
>
Malte Brill wrote:
Thanks for the feedback so far guys.
...
I miss Richard a little. He became some sort of a power Linux LC user recently,
didn't he? Richard?
I'm here. I was busy yesterday but flagged your post as one I
definitely want to respond to, so here goes:
The state of the Liv
Here's what I've been using for years, same idea, but more general:
function howmany tg,ctr
if ctr = empty then return 0
repeat for each item i in "8,7,6,5,4"
put numtochar(i) into divChar
if divChar is not in ctr then exit repeat
if i = 4 then return "error in howmany()"
Anyone else seen this?
http://imgur.com/LiqxL (some parts removed)
It seems the server ones are broken tho...
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On 02/23/2012 01:50 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I've more or less stopped using Rev because I only use Linux, and having got
a 22 inch monitor, I simply can't read most of the IDE unless I reset screen
resolution to much lower resolution. Or put on reading glasses which brings
its own problems.
On 02/23/2012 03:20 AM, Malte Brill wrote:
I figured out so much that this is a GNOME (working) versus KDE (not working)
thing. What really scares me is the exit on signal 11 issue. How does one debug
that???
Not that this is of any practical value, but this is an issue with
compositing. If
Have a look at this thread. I'd never heard of ThinApp but after a
quick read of the wikipedia article, it looks like it might allow you
to by-pass this problem.
http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Running-LiveCode-and-Quicktime-as-virtual-applications-tp4411011p4411011.html
Bernard
Thanks for the feedback so far guys.
Andre: I also have that impression. Now, what can we do to get it up to speed?
With Linux I am always unsure if I just forgot to install something that LC
depends on. A simple example: Under UBUNTU an app of mine just looks like it
should. No problem with th
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