Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?

2012-03-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > Sorry but, does anyone know the "urgent" contact address for Livecode? > I've always received fast an efficient help from Heather by emailing: supp...@runrev.com I notice with a particular on-rev problem I had, the email came from: on-.

Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?

2012-03-09 Thread Nicolas Cueto
> Anything we mere mortals can check for you, in case it helps? Colin, I wish! But, the problem is server-side, so it needs someone with access to the server. Things seem to be back to normal. But the log page still shows an error when loading the "dbmysql.so" driver. Looking thru the archives,

RE: Strange Rev 3.5 problem

2012-03-09 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: >> >> I'm recompiling an old program with a few minor mods, and now I'm >> getting the following error on a line in my first handler that merely >> says "local s": >> >> stack "main": compilation error at line 139 (local: name shadows >>

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
Another approach, may not be exactly what you're looking for but can easily be adapted, is a utility handler I've used for years: function offsets str,@cntr -- returns a comma-delimited list of all the offsets of str in cntr -- cntr is passed by reference to avoid unnecessary duplication

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Dar Scott
Hi, Mark! I don't understand the problem with select Grouped Controls. Mental block I guess. What is the issue here? Dar On Mar 9, 2012, at 6:22 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Dar, > > Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the > scroll bars in full-screen mod

Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?

2012-03-09 Thread Colin Holgate
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on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?

2012-03-09 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Sorry but, does anyone know the "urgent" contact address for Livecode? I recall having seen before some LC/On-rev contact-website with a dropdown menu listing, but can't find it now. And in case someone from LC is reading... Suddenly, despite years of having functioned perfectly, a Rev-engine bas

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
I have an update on this. If the parameter passed is simply the name of the array with no key qualifications, all is fine. LC only kicks up a fuss when you pass a qualified array like myArray[myKey]. Weird. Pete On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Oh, that would be cool! > > M

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... Pete On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Dar, > > Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the > scroll bars in full-screen mode. The only pro

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:24 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > It sounds like there is more than one DHCP server, and that the other is > rejecting the lease requests, but the way DHCP is supposed to work is, all > servers respond with a DHCP offer, and the first one the client sees it > uses. There is i

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- (correcting the typo and...) on findit pTextToFind local x, y local tText local tFoundList repeat for each line tCard in the cardnames of this stack repeat with y = 1 to number of fields of card tCard put field y of card tCard into tText

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 2:32 AM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 03/09/2012 12:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> >> Ignore all that other advice. Just give a couple of your kids to the >> neighbors. >> >> This is the answer to so many problems, although not always conducive > to good relations with th

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dar, Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the scroll bars in full-screen mode. The only problem is that turning off Select Grouped Controls can be problematic, but you can probably write a front script for that. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Tal

Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Dar Scott
I need to edit the GUI on a stack that is very wide and very tall for a full screen app on a large screen that is much larger than my development environment. I also want to do some testing (click buttons, watch images fly around) on the development system. Ideas? (I suspect there is some fea

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-09 Thread Dar Scott
Oh, that would be cool! Maybe the array could be global (or passed as a parameter) and the subscript passed. This works: add 1 to a["x"] ... it seems like a reasonable thing to do. There might be problems I don't see right off, such as access to the same array at two different levels at t

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Bill Vlahos
Funniest thing I've read in a while. Thanks for making me laugh. Bill Vlahos On Mar 7, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > I've heard that Google is dealing with that by shipping a new Android > Emulator in the SDK. This new emulator will randomize the rect of the > device upon every launch

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yup. You can do something like this: put theArray[1] into theTempArray xyz theTempArray put theTempArray into theArray[1] Bob On Mar 9, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Pete wrote: > I think I already know the answer to this so just confirming in case I'm > missing something > > Let's say I have a handler w

Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
I think I already know the answer to this so just confirming in case I'm missing something Let's say I have a handler with a parameter that is passed by reference, eg "command xyz @parm1". If I try to pass an element of an array, eg "xyz theArray[2]", I get a runtime error. If, however, I pass t

Re: change a locked group's rect without moving contained controls

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ah! Essentially a custom geometry manager. :-) Bob On Mar 9, 2012, at 2:33 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Well, I had a feeling I'd find a solution as soon as I posted my message. :-) > > Maybe there's a better way, but I finally realized I just need to temporarily > store the starting location

Re: change a locked group's rect without moving contained controls

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Sheffield
Well, I had a feeling I'd find a solution as soon as I posted my message. :-) Maybe there's a better way, but I finally realized I just need to temporarily store the starting location of each control in the group. Then I resize the group as needed, then follow that with resizing/repositioning th

Re: change a locked group's rect without moving contained controls

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think you have to get into the geometry manager for each object in the group and make sure they are not positioning themselves according to the group. Just a guess tho'. Bob On Mar 9, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Does that make sense? I've been working at this for a while now

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread dunbarx
I wrote this in HC about 1990, ported over to LC. It predated the godLike Rinaldi. Completely straightforward: function revFullFind tText,tFind,exactly --RETURNS LINE NUMBER & "," & WORD NUMBER put 0 into counter switch exactly case "true" case empty repeat for each

change a locked group's rect without moving contained controls

2012-03-09 Thread Chris Sheffield
Does that make sense? I've been working at this for a while now and can't figure it out. The answer is probably simple. I have a grouped control that I'm trying to reposition at run-time. The group's lockLocation is set to true. The controls contained in the group are positioned first. So all I

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tim, If you want to find all instances of a string, I'd use a repeat loop rather than the find command. Just loop over all fields and check whether the string is in that field. You could also use an offset or a matchChunk function. You can save all instances in a list. If you do a repeat loo

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Tim. If you don't care about finding 3 occurrences of FF in (FF__, _FF_, __FF) then try this: replace mySearch with cr & mySearch & cr in myString filter myString with mySearch put the number of lines of myString into theCount Bob On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >

a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. Not even every month. Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance of a string in field "foo" I know how to write repeat loops, but can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when t

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/09/2012 12:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/8/12 11:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Ignore all that other advice. Just give a couple of your kids to the neighbors. This is the answer to so many problems, although not always conducive to good relations with the neighbors! __

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/8/12 11:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Simply put, my home network seems to be limited to 10 devices (wired + WiFi). Ignore all that other advice. Just give a couple of your kids to the neighbors. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
It sounds like there is more than one DHCP server, and that the other is rejecting the lease requests, but the way DHCP is supposed to work is, all servers respond with a DHCP offer, and the first one the client sees it uses. There is information in the broadcast traffic to indicate which server

Re: Some questions about datagrid table under iOS

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
You will probably have to roll your own method. It works the same way in the IDE. Bob On Mar 9, 2012, at 1:58 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > Hi, > > i noticed that it is not very comfortable to edit a row in a datagrid table > under iOS. I have to double tap several times to get the field into

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Bob Sneidar
Your DHCP server is running out of leases. A lease is still current even if no one is using it presently, because the TTL has not yet expired. DHCP will typically hold a lease until it expires. The solution is to bridge your Airports to the LAN so that everyone is on the same subnet, and then

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > Which device is serving DHCP? Where does it get ITS IP#? How are the DHCP > served addresses set up? Be sure there is only ONE DHCP server on your > network. Everything else should bridge. > > Jerry, The TimeCapsule issues the LAN DHCP IPs an

Re: [Now Seriously OT] Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Colin Holgate
It works out that your two numbers were very close. With the current exchange rate, and the smaller US gallon, the UK diesel cost works out to about $8.66 per gallon. > > On 9 Mar 2012, at 14:43, Ken Corey wrote: > >> That's 1.45 x 4.54 (to convert to gallons) x 1.57 ( from xe.com, to convert

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 10:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > And what really eats at this long time mac aficionado is that soon I will > be forced to upgrade. I LIKE Leopard/Snow Leopard! I don't wanna give it up! > What bob said The only thing forcing me to upgrade is Apples silly decisions that

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Richard MacLemale
When you see a 169 number, it's not being issued by DHCP - it's being issued by the Mac itself, because DHCP would not give it a number. If you're getting DHCP from one of the AirPort Expresses, then you'd want to use Airport Utility App (free download from Apple) to go in and increase the rang

iOs and datagrids best practise?

2012-03-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, I am starting to work on an iOs project and would really really like to use a dg there. I get it work in the simulator nicely, it renders... All fine. However, I would like to scroll it by touching the cells and then touchmoving along there? Has anybody done this? Any starters to try? Cheer

Some questions about datagrid table under iOS

2012-03-09 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i noticed that it is not very comfortable to edit a row in a datagrid table under iOS. I have to double tap several times to get the field into the edit mode. And if i press return then the edit mode is left and i have to double tap more than once onto the next field to edit that field.