Re: Compiling with XCode 10.4.2, LC 5.0.2 on OSX 10.6.8

2012-03-24 Thread Dar Scott
Hi, Mark! I recently moved to ExternalsEnvironmentV3 after have gone in my own direction before ExternalsEnvironmentV1 came out. My situation was not the same as yours, I was using XCode 3.2.6 and building a universal. However, my solutions might give you a hint: In the project settings on t

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: you can find downloadable, ready to go virtual machine disk images of almost any Linux distro, in current and older versions. Here are some links to preconfigured virtual disk images. http://virtualboxes.org/images/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtu

Re: Source of corruption

2012-03-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/24/12 8:11 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I am aware of the ease in which one can accidentally change the name of a stack in the inspector when you think you are typing somewhere else. This is a bit insidious. But this was the pulldown to set the mainstack. Though this property is settable by c

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 09:44 PM, Roger Eller wrote: The easiest way for a beginner is a WUBI installation. You don't need an emulator or virtual box or parallels, etc. Just a PC that is already running Windows. When you install Ubuntu via WUBI, it is just a series of folders on the hard-drive (no dedic

Re: Specify file download path with irev/revignitor

2012-03-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/24/12 7:00 PM, Tim Selander wrote: Thanks for your reply, Stephen. Sorry for not being clear. I'm wanting to do this from a web page hosted on the on-rev.com site, using the scripting language with the revignitor framework. The "clients" have no LC client installed other than a web browser

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Pete wrote: > > I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps > I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like > Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their > computers. Can I in

Re: Specify file download path with irev/revignitor

2012-03-24 Thread stephen barncard
Ah - well that's the thing - the security features of web browsers strictly don't allow control of the user's machine from the server side - that's what those warnings for the user for plug-ins like flash and the livecode plug-in are about. Changing stuff on a remote machine by a server is forbidde

Compiling with XCode 10.4.2, LC 5.0.2 on OSX 10.6.8

2012-03-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi (again), I asked this some time ago and haven't solved this problem yet. Does that mean that absolutely no one on this list has any clue whatsoever? I'm trying to build an external for Mac OS X (not iOS) using ExternalsEnvironmentV3, XCode 10.4.2 and LiveCode 5.0.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. I'm g

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Colin, forgot about that. I'll give that a try. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I don't remember that part. My suggestion was to read the PDF in a player > object, by setting its filename property. > > > On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Pete wrot

Re: Collisions

2012-03-24 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Richard MacLemale wrote: > I'm working on a very simple iPad app where 4 large shapes randomly float > around on the screen. What I'd like to do is have them be able to bounce > off each other if they happen to touch. Are there any tutorial pages or > sample stac

Re: Source of corruption

2012-03-24 Thread dunbarx
Richard. Since I was keeping a string of backups in reseerve, I would dump the stack that became unusable and bring up the next one. After digging in various places while still trying to use the stack itself, I noticed the errant mainstack reference. I am aware of the ease in which one can a

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I don't remember that part. My suggestion was to read the PDF in a player object, by setting its filename property. On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:11 PM, Pete wrote: > In another thread, I've been soliciting advice about tools to use for Help > Text preparation and display. One of the options was to go

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 102, Issue 49

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I didn't take either comment as overly argumentative but more like a challenge (which we tend to do on this list from time to time). For me, coming up with two criteria is intriguing and caught my interest. I would love to see more on the validity of those two criteria, but what really intereste

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for FWIW: http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/poll/1202084/ http://enigmacommunity.org/forums/topic/1099-whats-your-favorite-linux-desktop-environment/ http://www.muktware.com/survey/3444/poll

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: the VM approach solves the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete Since you can test them so easily, I would suggest firstly not to be too anxious about making the "best" decision. You don't have to dec

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 102, Issue 49

2012-03-24 Thread Roger Guay
Tim, I don't pretend to know anything! As for my thesis, I am merely making assumptions based on statistics and the vast size of our galaxy and the number of stars it contains. No one has decided anything about the nature of our species except the religious. BTW, did you look at the simulation?

RE: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Ralph DiMola
I've been looking for a way to display PDFs in LC in a mobile app. The browser window is not even an option for Android because the Android browser will not render PDFs natively. I have not tried iOS yet but I am told that Safari can render a PDF. Then there's the java support. That's another can o

Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
In another thread, I've been soliciting advice about tools to use for Help Text preparation and display. One of the options was to go with a pdf file and display it using revBrowser. Been having some issues getting that to work but even if it did work, I don't think it will satisfy my needs. I w

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for all the info Richard. I'm already feeling SO superior to all those morons who don't run Ubuntu! I will probably try out VirtualBox since it's free and probably also a dual boot on my Windows 7 box since the only thing I ever do on Windows is test out LC apps developed on my Mac, althou

Re: Specify file download path with irev/revignitor

2012-03-24 Thread Tim Selander
Thanks for your reply, Stephen. Sorry for not being clear. I'm wanting to do this from a web page hosted on the on-rev.com site, using the scripting language with the revignitor framework. The "clients" have no LC client installed other than a web browser. One of my frustrations of using on

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks Warren. As you and Jacque both pointed out the VM approach solves the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I already have a Windows la

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Jacque. I had some not-so-grat experiences a few years back running emulators on a Mac so that's coloring my opinion, but they've probably improved a lot since then. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/24/12 5:48 PM, Pete wrote: > > I alrea

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: > Hi Richard, > This thread has been very interesting to me as I'm considering > getting a computer to run Linux. ... > But where do I buy a computer that runs Linux and what version of > Linux (if that's the right term) I need? Every distro has its fans, some quite passionate. Ther

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote: I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their computers. Can I install Linux on my

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/24/12 5:48 PM, Pete wrote: I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their computers. Can I install Linux on my Wi

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Hi Richard, This thread has been very interesting to me as I'm considering getting a computer to run Linux. The problem I'm having is illustrated by the snippet from your post below. I'm a computer savvy person and worked with them most of my working life but I know nothing about Linux and really

Re: What Livecode work with what xCode for iOS?

2012-03-24 Thread Dar Scott
I think I can get most of what I need by looking at the iOS Release notes, the mobile preferences tab, and the iOS standalone settings for each LiveCode version. Also, I'm looking at the requirements for some versions of the external SDK, but only the description for the latest SDK release seem

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: What did I saw in Linux, that according to my opinion would make it a success? That all Developers were colaborating toward a common goal, instead of competing against each other... As simple like that. I used to feel the same way, quite passionately so. I think my ear

Re: Problems downloading files from iDisk pages

2012-03-24 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Alejandro, .Mac was discontinued 3 years ago and taken off-line 1.5 years ago. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plug

Problems downloading files from iDisk pages

2012-03-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Please visit these iDisk webpages from Tom McCarthy and Glenn Fisher: http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSharing.woa/wa/default?user=speakup&templatefn=FileSharing17.html&xmlfn=TKDocument.17.xml&sitefn=TKSite.9.xml&aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en http://homepage.mac.com/WebObjects/FileSh

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Hi Bjornke, Does the below mean your Docu plugin won't work with 5.5? I'd be sorry if that was the case - it's sooo much better than the built in dictionary interface! Pete 2012/3/24 Björnke von Gierke > Furthermore, there's no way to find out the possible settings out that > way, again this ca

Collisions

2012-03-24 Thread Richard MacLemale
I'm working on a very simple iPad app where 4 large shapes randomly float around on the screen. What I'd like to do is have them be able to bounce off each other if they happen to touch. Are there any tutorial pages or sample stacks out there that anyone knows of that I could use as a starting

Heavy Crit. was Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-24 Thread Richmond
On 03/24/2012 08:31 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: There is no way to get all the properties of an object, because "the properties" and "the propertynames" both are incomplete. There are been several enhancement requests in the "quality" center, but no action or even reply at all from LC, as usu

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, How sad is this recent turn in Linux development! :-(( Many, many years ago, when a group of friends (software developers) show me the Linux OS, I told them that, in a future, most computer users would be using it. Of course, they laugh a lot of my comment and proceed to show me why this

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-24 Thread Tim Jones
Ready to defend your thesis? Let me toss out two great Sci-Fi antithesis to your points below - How have we determined how long the "relatively short duration" of the radio stage of any societies is? How have we decided, even taking asynchronous development into account, that humans aren't th

ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-24 Thread Roger Guay
Hi all, The SETI project has been in existence for about 50 years, and Enrico Fermi's question asked in the 1940's, "Where is everybody?" is still germane today. I think I have finally succeded in building a simulation of two criteria relevant to this SETI "problem": 1)

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-24 Thread Björnke von Gierke
There is no way to get all the properties of an object, because "the properties" and "the propertynames" both are incomplete. There are been several enhancement requests in the "quality" center, but no action or even reply at all from LC, as usual. The only way to get all the props is to get th

Re: iOS Crash

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi Tim, You are right that Apple claims it needs 4.3 but I had the same thing when iOS 5.0 was released. One of my apps was not built for 5.0 (but 4.2) and kept crashing on other iPads with 5.0 but not on my own with 5.0. I loaded the app on my iPad with Xcode 4.2 and all was fine. When I downl

Re: LC 5.5 GM2 and trouble with standalone settings

2012-03-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/24/12 11:21 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Yeah, Obleo mentioned that since it is the weekend we have to wait till Monday for RR to pick up on the problem. Still it is nice to be able to test using the team profile in the iOS 5.1 simulator and to test on the iPad 3. It looks like you might

Re: iOS Crash

2012-03-24 Thread Tim Jones
On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:00 AM, William de Smet wrote: > Hi Dan, > > iOS 5.1 needs Xcode 4.3. One issue with that, William - why do apps built with earlier Xcode versions work on my Gen 3 iPad running iOS 5.1? It may be Apple's claim for running the emulator and to access the new SDK API's, but

Re: iOS Crash

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi Dan, iOS 5.1 needs Xcode 4.3. Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 24 mrt. 2012 om 18:42 heeft Dan Friedman het volgende geschreven: > I have an iOS app for iPad that runs great in the simulator and on my iPad1 > running iOS 5.0.1. However, on a new iPad3 running iO

iOS Crash

2012-03-24 Thread Dan Friedman
I have an iOS app for iPad that runs great in the simulator and on my iPad1 running iOS 5.0.1. However, on a new iPad3 running iOS 5.1, the app crashes upon launch (we see the splash screen and then crash). I built the app on a Mac running: Mac OSX 10.6.8 Xcode 4.2 LiveCode 5.5 (GM 2) Am I d

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Hi Klaus, Tried that and still no luck. When I look at the url it starts with "file:///" (3 slashes). Is that OK? I'm not sure what's going on here. I'm using the revBrowser sample stack provided by runrev and it won;t access any web sites, never mind pdf files. For instance, I tried www.googl

What Livecode work with what xCode for iOS?

2012-03-24 Thread Dar Scott
What versions of Livecode work with what versions of xCode for iOS? And if it depends and anybody knows... In using the test button? In creating standalones? In using externals made from that xCode? A pointer to web pages or emails to extract that will be OK. (And I'd also like to know what vers

Re: Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Klaus wrote: ... lock screen import snapshot from rect(the rect of grp "DRAW fake") of grp "DRAW fake" put the id of last img into tNewIcon hide last img set the icon of btn "your button here..." to tNewIcon unlock screen ... You can also reuse an existing image by replacing its contents with a

Re: Specify file download path with irev/revignitor

2012-03-24 Thread stephen barncard
not clear about your methodology on the download.. you might need to set the defaultFolder are use using RevBrowser in some way or is this a LC client app on the client and RevIgniter on the host? anyway for detection of a folder on the client machine (from the docs) if there is a folder [filepa

Re: Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
@Klaus: Thanks, this works great! greetings, William 2012/3/24 Klaus on-rev : > Dag Willem, > > Am 24.03.2012 um 17:05 schrieb William de Smet: > >> Hi Richmond, >> >> I should read my own question better :-) >> I meant button icon. >> >> I know you can set an image as a button icon and that i

Re: LC 5.5 GM2 and trouble with standalone settings

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Yeah, Obleo mentioned that since it is the weekend we have to wait till Monday for RR to pick up on the problem. Still it is nice to be able to test using the team profile in the iOS 5.1 simulator and to test on the iPad 3. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On

Re: Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread Klaus on-rev
Dag Willem, Am 24.03.2012 um 17:05 schrieb William de Smet: > Hi Richmond, > > I should read my own question better :-) > I meant button icon. > > I know you can set an image as a button icon and that is what I do all > the time. I use a card for all my images and call them with their ID > in b

Re: LC 5.5 GM2 and trouble with standalone settings

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
@Thomas: Thanks for your reply! Now I can stop pulling my hear out. RR was to fast with their 'Stop Press Announcement'! greetings, William 2012/3/24 Thomas McGrath III : > William, > > All except the saving of settings is happening here. When I make a change in > the standalone settings it

Re: Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I think there needs to be a profile like the Master Profiles but for graphics for buttons and font sizes for fields and buttons so that if my geometry changes like for a retina screen then LC can change the image used for each button to the hi-res version. I am doing this manually now but is a p

Re: Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi Richmond, I should read my own question better :-) I meant button icon. I know you can set an image as a button icon and that is what I do all the time. I use a card for all my images and call them with their ID in buttons. But with the resolution change for the new iPad and different screen s

Re: LC 5.5 GM2 and trouble with standalone settings

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
William, All except the saving of settings is happening here. When I make a change in the standalone settings it stays between closing and opening of my stack. But the window not being sized correctly to handle the contents of the iOS settings and the missing Profiles is a problem. -- Tom McGr

Re: Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread Richmond
On 03/24/2012 05:50 PM, William de Smet wrote: Hi there, In LC I grouped several objects to make an image. I used the line and rectangle tools for this. Is it possible to use this 'image' (or grouped objects) as an icon button? I'm not quite sure what you mean by "an icon button". You can us

Re: Bug in custom fonts on iOS?

2012-03-24 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Ken, Very nice explanation and solution for dealing with the fontStyles and textFont. Thanks -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:00 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> >> Doing a 'Get Info' for those fonts, they all come up with names like this: >> >>

Can I use grouped objects as an icon button?

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, In LC I grouped several objects to make an image. I used the line and rectangle tools for this. Is it possible to use this 'image' (or grouped objects) as an icon button? greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-24 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Pete, Am 24.03.2012 um 01:36 schrieb Pete: > Hi Klaus, > Haven't used revBrowser before but I got the example from runrev's web site > at > http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/15963-how-do-i-display-a-pdf-in-rev > > However, nothing displays in the browser image no matter what pdf fi

Re: Translation s'il vous plait/por favor :-)

2012-03-24 Thread jacques CLAVEL
Francis, There are a lot of french in the list! Y am not fluent in English, and if I need to translate a sentence from French to English, I'll ask to the list. And Ill very happy if you help me. Jacques Clavel 2012/3/23 Bob Sneidar > In the words of Google, "Telle est la langue." > > Bob > >

LC 5.5 GM2 and trouble with standalone settings

2012-03-24 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, I was very happy RR announced support for LC 5.1 so I bought my upgrade last night. I installed it, pointed the new Xcode 4.3.1 app to the developer root and so far so good. I opened a stack and checked the standalone settings for iOS and noticed the new layout. But I think there is som

Specify file download path with irev/revignitor

2012-03-24 Thread Tim Selander
Hi, Have wasted enough hours -- time to ask the pros on the list! We are passing out free, promotional MP3 players to our customers. Weekly, they will be allowed to download from our web site (hosted at on-rev.com) new free mp3 files not available to the general public. Want customers/users o