Re: PayPal IPN & LC - Scripts are posted

I wrote: I learned a lot from this exercise: 1. PayPal does not charge a fee on five-cent sales. Just to set the record straight, it isn't technically true. I just looked at my PayPal account and saw that I'd misunderstood the data that was coming into my CGI. PayPal took your whole five ce

Re: Disabling a menu item

Thanks, Peter and Peter! I guess at one time it could be anywhere. I'll put it at the front. Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: htt

Re: Casey' Solitaire

Jacque- Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8:54:38 PM, you wrote: > I could add in-app purchasing so you could buy more tissues. Brilliant. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this ur

RE: Casey' Solitaire

> Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 22:54:38 -0500 > From: jac...@hyperactivesw.com > :) Maybe I should add points depending on how fast you grab a tissue > from the box. And maybe the box should run out randomly. Hmm...and then > I could add in-app purchasing so you could buy more tissues. And...and >

Re: Casey' Solitaire

On 5/5/12 10:15 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: Jacque Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) No, that's the highest possible score you can get with all cheats turned off and no problems with Casey. Providing there is space, you may want to think about having a highest score of 208 trillion by p

Re: Casey' Solitaire

Jacque >> Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) > > No, that's the highest possible score you can get with all cheats turned off > and no problems with Casey. Providing there is space, you may want to think about having a highest score of 208 trillion by padding the real score with a random

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

Stephen, Thanks for this stack! I will look at it tomorrow. It may be helpful with trying to set the size of the font. I also tried the following to get the font size but it did not worked. set the textFont of character 1 to -1 of field "statement" to "Times New Roman,12" set the clipboardD

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

Bob, Thanks for your help! I did get it working using your suggestions below: set the textFont of character 1 to -1 of field "statement" to "Times New Roman" set the clipboardData["rtf"] to the rtfText of field "statement" I also tried the following to get the font size but it did not worked.

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

1. Continuing the discussion about the clipboard, I am offering to this thread a test stack I created to satisfy my curiosity about the clipboard contents array. This stack can be used to examine the copied data from any application. It can examine without pasting if one uses the 'show keys' button

Re: Disabling a menu item

Hi Dar, The "(" should be at the start of the line not the end. You can also use "disable menuitem of menu xyz" (and enable), rather than search for the "(" character. Pete lcSQL Software On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > The "(" at the end of the menu

Re: Disabling a menu item

On May 5, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > In Primer Primer, menu item disabling no longer works. The "(" at the end of > the menu items line shows up and the item is not disabled. Doesn't the "(" have to come at the start of the line? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://hom

Re: Disabling a menu item

Dar, FYI, I'm only using 4.5.2, but "(" works OK for me. Joe Wilkins On May 5, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > My website has not gotten attention for an embarrassingly long time and even > a few stacks have been sitting there for download for almost ten years. A > quick checked showed

Disabling a menu item

My website has not gotten attention for an embarrassingly long time and even a few stacks have been sitting there for download for almost ten years. A quick checked showed that people are still downloading them. I thought I'd look at them with a more recent LiveCode. In Primer Primer, menu it

Re: PayPal IPN & LC - Scripts are posted

I don't get to answer very often on this list, so I'm glad my contribution provided the last puzzle piece. Thanks for the write up. I bookmarked it in case I ever need it. Greetz from Belgium Dirk Cleenwerck On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:58 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I've posted an article on my web

Re: Parameter string length (was Named Parameters)

If Hugh is correct in his observation that there is some kind of limit in parameters, that might be a consequence of section 2.2.9 limits, or it might be something not listed there. It also might be a limit that existed long ago. At this point I'm willing to leave the question open. Dar On

Re: Named Parameters

On 5/5/12 2:02 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Hi, Jacque! I apologize for the ambiguous statement. I meant 64K characters per line and 32K pixels per line. And Richard suggested that the 32K pixel limit is OS X only. In some of my test stacks I type in some test data into a field or click a button that

Re: Named Parameters

Hi, Jacque! I apologize for the ambiguous statement. I meant 64K characters per line and 32K pixels per line. And Richard suggested that the 32K pixel limit is OS X only. In some of my test stacks I type in some test data into a field or click a button that fills it with some number of cha

Omegabundle for LiveCode 2012 Ending Monday; Survey Bags You Additonal DB Icon Set

Hi all, Omegabundle for LiveCode 2012 ends on Monday, end of day. There is a single sku this year at $399, which is pretty nice for a product set worth 3699. We have an end of offer survey too for buyers - which bags a db focused icon set worth $99 for free, which extends the Turner Icon set with

Re: Parameter string length (was Named Parameters)

Hugh Senior wrote: For most practical purposes LiveCode handles what is required. I suspect that any limits may depend on and be subject to the amount of on-board RAM as ChartMaker here easily handles uint2 (64Kb) but not uint4 (4Gb). In short, we need clarification from Edinburgh. I believe a

RE: paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8)

> > 3b - Alter your cost structure to cover the updating of old > versions. > > Everyone pays more. > > That's a good point. No matter which way you look at it the > user must pay for the maintenance and support of the software > for the developer to stay in buisiness. By limiting the free > u

Re: Named Parameters

On 5/5/12 12:55 PM, Dar Scott wrote: However, in the editor one is limited by the field limits--64K characters and 32K pixels per line, I believe. The latter might make a practical limit of (just guessing) 5,000 characters per line. I didn't think there were any limits to the amount of text a

Re: PayPal IPN & LC - and Beef Stew

On 5/5/12 6:39 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Jacqueline wrote : 2. At least two people prefer that their stew contain beer. Not beer, Jacqueline, Guinness (or at least "stout") I don't drink beer, and I guess it shows. To me, stout and beer and ale are all t

Re: Parameter string length (was Named Parameters)

For most practical purposes LiveCode handles what is required. I suspect that any limits may depend on and be subject to the amount of on-board RAM as ChartMaker here easily handles uint2 (64Kb) but not uint4 (4Gb). In short, we need clarification from Edinburgh. Hugh Senior FLCo www.FlexibleLea

Re: Casey' Solitaire

On 5/5/12 4:40 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) No, that's the highest possible score you can get with all cheats turned off and no problems with Casey. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http

Re: Named Parameters

Dar Scott wrote: On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It may be that the general limit on single-line handling applies to script lines, which would be uint2. But that would be a lot of typing for a single line anyway, and likely so unreadable that it would explain why no one's

Re: Named Parameters

On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > It may be that the general limit on single-line handling applies to script > lines, which would be uint2. But that would be a lot of typing for a single > line anyway, and likely so unreadable that it would explain why no one's ever > repor

Re: Named Parameters

Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Richard, sounds like somewhat of a false alarm, unless you think a variable content may exceed 4gigs. ...which would be a problem for anything in LiveCode since the engine uses 32-bit addressing, so 4GBs is the largest of anything it can know about. -- Richard G

Re: Named Parameters

Thanks Richard, sounds like somewhat of a false alarm, unless you think a variable content may exceed 4gigs. Pete lcSQL Software On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 10:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > >> I also learned something new - that there's a limit to the a

Re: Named Parameters

Peter Haworth wrote: I also learned something new - that there's a limit to the amount of data you can pass in to handlers in parameters. As far as I know I haven't run into that but sounds like it's something that should be checked if there's any danger that it could happen in any specific hand

Re: Named Parameters

Thanks Hugh, that's the idea I had in mind. However, I'm beginning to see the limitations of this approach. Unless I'm missing something, it can only work if the right operand of the pair is a literal value. In other words, I could do something like "ChartSize=tVar", where tVar is a variable in

RE: Casey' Solitaire

Stop all the whining, I've been sucked into Casey land since I beta tested it way back when. I get Hyper trying to win and Pepper the cat tries to play with Casey. And I thought Space Invaders was addicting. J, Great game with a Casey twist Congrats! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Inform

engine's limit on total parameter string length (was Re: Named Parameters)

On May 5, 2012, at 2:11 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: > The main downside of passing parameters is the engine's limits on total > parameter string length. If too much data is passed, the engine simply > truncates the data to the maximum length it can handle. > > If the amount of data does exceed t

Re: Human Factors Meeting

Michael Kann wrote: http://chi2012.acm.org/CHIcompleteLR.pdf -- Notice this is a pdf file so it might take a while to load, or not load at all. Some of you might be interested in browsing through the presentations for this meeting. The schedule of speakers starts around page 45. Thanks for

Human Factors Meeting

http://chi2012.acm.org/CHIcompleteLR.pdf -- Notice this is a pdf file so it might take a while to load, or not load at all. Some of you might be interested in browsing through the presentations for this meeting. The schedule of speakers starts around page 45. Mike __

PayPal IPN & LC - and Beef Stew

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Jacqueline wrote : 2. At least two people prefer that their stew contain beer. Not beer, Jacqueline, Guinness (or at least "stout") In the true spirit of sharing on this forum, although it may be considered not very LiveCode, I pass on a recipe for Stew made wit

Re: Mobile Apps: Battery Life Native vs LiveCode

On 30/04/2012 09:34, Roderick McCALL wrote: We are currently looking into using LiveCode for a variety of location-aware programs that we want to test on Android and IOS. One key issue is battery life with many viewing any cross-platform tools as having a negative impact. Therefore does anyone ha

Re: PayPal IPN & LC - Scripts are posted

How to thank you for this inestimable contribution without considering the human generosity behind your gesture which goes far beyond the workplace. I'm glad LiveCode is the incredible community that we know because all those human being shared values ​​that civilized creation software and drive

Re: Casey' Solitaire

Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) Début du message réexpédié : > De : Bob Cole > Date : 5 mai 2012 05:34:02 HAEC > À : use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com > Objet : Casey' Solitaire > Répondre à : How to use LiveCode > > Jacque: > I downloaded your new game from the iTunes App Store yesterda

Re: paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8)

Clearly the way to make customers as confident as possible in how they can trust in their ISV ! Le 4 mai 2012 à 21:38, Tim Jones a écrit : > On May 4, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > >> What would you hope for, look for, in bug fixes when you buy a product? In >> particular, if I put so

Fwd: paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8)

Début du message réexpédié : > De : Dar Scott > Date : 4 mai 2012 21:13:58 HAEC > À : How to use LiveCode > Objet : Rép : paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin > 1.7.8) > Répondre à : How to use LiveCode > > What would you hope for, look for, in bug fixes when you buy a p

Re: Named Parameters

ChartMaker uses the 'keyValue pairs' syntax (in the form "Key=Value"), of which any, some or all can be passed as parameters like this... get CMBarChart("ChartSize=500,300","Values=[list of values]","Categories=[list of categories]") The app first applies all the defaults in an internal array. I