Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 05/15/2012 12:08 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: On May 14, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Richmond wrote: On 05/14/2012 09:52 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Something bad happened to one of my stacks. I wasn't doing anything unusual. (Nor was the stack, or LiveCode. My wife might have been doing something unus

Re: CSV again.

2012-05-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Alex, Just toi clat=rify, this was two double quotes with a comma right before and right after them, not an escaped double quote in the middle of string. I've made a fix to this which works, subject to your approval I changed the line: *replace* quote"e with tEscapedQuotePlaceholder in pData

Re: Problem with QT player

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
On May 14, 2012, at 4:38 PM, David C. wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> This has probably been asked, but did you try the url with the system >> browser? Probably should eliminate a content filter issue. You may be >> running on a profile that allows something tha

Re: Problem with QT player

2012-05-14 Thread David C.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > This has probably been asked, but did you try the url with the system > browser? Probably should eliminate a content filter issue. You may be running > on a profile that allows something that is blocked for other users. shot in the dark> > >

Re: Windows Metro

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
just as I was getting used to Win 7! You know, the reason that Microsoft HAS to come out with a new OS every couple years, is that they have Software Assurance agreements that last 3 years, and people pay good money for this. If MS fails to deliver a major release in that time, the agreements a

Re: Windows Metro

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, I tested Installer Maker with Windows 8 and didn't find a reason to make any changes whatsoever, although wonder if there's a way to display a different type of icon in the colorized brick wall. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Home

Windows Metro

2012-05-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Haven't seen much discussion of Windows vis-a-vis LC yet. Anyone in the loop on what we might expect to have to change in our apps? I've seen discussions on the sqlite list that the current version of the sqlite library won't run on metro. They have another version of the library in full test an

Re: When is the CONTROL key not a control key?

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I would have done... don't even try put if (not exists pathToFile(theTrash)) is not true then else put the label of MattressOfRichmond into theTrash catch theError put "Whut??!?" end don't even try On May 14, 2012, at 3:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Richmond writes: > >> If, like me, you li

Re: Problem with QT player

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
This has probably been asked, but did you try the url with the system browser? Probably should eliminate a content filter issue. You may be running on a profile that allows something that is blocked for other users. Bob On May 14, 2012, at 3:11 PM, David C. wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4

Re: When is the CONTROL key not a control key?

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond writes: > If, like me, you lived in the parallel universe of second-hand goods you > would realise that I have never owned a mattress > that has had a label! try put the label of MattressOfRichmond into theTrash catch error put "oh... never mind" end try _

Re: Problem with QT player

2012-05-14 Thread David C.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:30 PM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: > I had the same problem of the white window showing up when changing > computers.  It had to do with the file path.  The User Manual discusses > absolute versus relative paths (section 12.1.2).  When the absolute path is > used (in you

Problem with QT player

2012-05-14 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
I had the same problem of the white window showing up when changing computers. It had to do with the file path. The User Manual discusses absolute versus relative paths (section 12.1.2). When the absolute path is used (in your Quicktime player inspector), everything works fine on your own com

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread David C.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi David, > > There is nothing special that you need to make QT work, except for QT itself > (which you re-installed). For now, I bet it is the file path. Mac file paths > are different from Windows file paths. For example: > > Mac: Volu

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread David C.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > What drive letter do you have your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive set to? What > letter is his drive set to? > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 14, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 05/14/2012 09:52 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> Something bad happened to one of my stacks. I wasn't doing anything unusual. >> (Nor was the stack, or LiveCode. My wife might have been doing something >> unusual in the next room.) >> >> I did ha

Re: CSV again.

2012-05-14 Thread Alex Tweedly
Yeah, the "training empty item" problem has been much discussed, and there are good reasons for keeping it as it is (even apart from the need to not break existing code). In similar circumstances, I've done replace (comma & CR) with (comma & space & CR) in tVariable but in your case, even

Re: CSV again.

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
This has been discussed before. The last delimiter is not considered when parsing lines, items and words. The contents of the "object" are the only thing that is considered, so if nothing comes after the last delimiter, LC says, "Nothing to see here. Moving along..." That being said, "item1,,it

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread Colin Holgate
What drive letter do you have your CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive set to? What letter is his drive set to? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: ht

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi David, There is nothing special that you need to make QT work, except for QT itself (which you re-installed). For now, I bet it is the file path. Mac file paths are different from Windows file paths. For example: Mac: Volumes/CD-Label/folder/file.mp3 Win: D:/folder/file.mp3 -- Best regards,

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread David C.
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:10 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > David, > > This is a tricky question, because there are too many factors playing a role > here. Think of the URL of the MP3 file, the Windows firewall, the visibility > of the stack window, the rect of the player, the moment when the fil

Re: CSV again.

2012-05-14 Thread Peter Haworth
I've just been checking out Alex's new csv parser and it is indeed much faster than the original, closer to 50% than 40% in my test case. However, I've also run into a Livecode issue while doing all this. This has come up before in the context of what LC thinks is a line, there's a similar issue/

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 05/14/2012 09:52 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Something bad happened to one of my stacks. I wasn't doing anything unusual. (Nor was the stack, or LiveCode. My wife might have been doing something unusual in the next room.) I did have a number of applications running at the same time, and I onl

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread stephen barncard
I use MA because I want all settings and authorizations that are in the LIB to go with it. It's kind of *all or nothing* with MA. I'd rather keep all the system crap on a smaller SSD, but apple insists a lot of stuff including apps live on the boot drive. I have over 100 raw drives for big data th

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Colin Holgate
This long discussion may be of interest: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3707538?start=0&tstart=0 (short version, as it were, is that this relates to a Lion 'versions' feature) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread Tim Jones
I actually stopped using migration back around Tiger because of how painfully slow it was. I've found it quicker to reinstall my apps and just copy my documents over. All of my film and music stuff are on a SAS array, so they don't come into the process. Tim On May 14, 2012, at 11:49 AM, ste

tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Timothy Miller
Something bad happened to one of my stacks. I wasn't doing anything unusual. (Nor was the stack, or LiveCode. My wife might have been doing something unusual in the next room.) I did have a number of applications running at the same time, and I only have 2 GB of physical RAM. It might have been

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread stephen barncard
No, I would never do that. I know USB was made for keyboards and dongles and useless for big data movement. This was done on a new Mac Pro copying between internal drives. (there are 4 possible on a Pro). The installers and migrators appear to be much slower than 'regular' file copy. I have a lo

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Are you using USB? Is it on a USB bus with other drives that may be in use? That would suck up the already limited bandwidth on a USB chain. Firewire 800 seems to take a couple hours or less for most of my migrations. Bob On May 14, 2012, at 11:29 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > my statements

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread stephen barncard
my statements may have appeared contradictory in the previous message. 1. I did a apple store* Lion 10.7.4* "on top of" a previous installation on Saturday. 9 hours 2. I did a fresh 10.7.4 re-install on Sunday. 18 hours re-written: summary of my 'lost weekend': 1. Installing apple store* Lion

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
David, This is a tricky question, because there are too many factors playing a role here. Think of the URL of the MP3 file, the Windows firewall, the visibility of the stack window, the rect of the player, the moment when the filename property of the player is set, the moment when the stack win

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread stephen barncard
summary of my 'lost weekend': 1. I finally did a complete 10.7.4 re-install on Sunday. Installing apple store* Lion 10.7.4* "on top of" a previous installation worked better, but still took over 4 minutes to completely boot up. Some applications will still seem sluggish when starting up. No beach

Re: [OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
What is often overlooked as well is that many Christians were persecuted and slaughtered as well, especially those who helped Jews (and anyone else) escape Germany. Bob On May 14, 2012, at 10:21 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 05/14/2012 07:00 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> That is because they had guns

Re: Problem with QT Player

2012-05-14 Thread David C.
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:11 AM, David C. wrote: > Hey folks, > I have a very simple application in which one aspect of the app uses > the QT player, always pointing to the same named MP3 file on my > server. > > Yesterday, I went to visit a friend and gave him  a copy of the app to > try out and

Re: When is the CONTROL key not a control key?

2012-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 05/14/2012 07:21 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I think you just violated Microsoft's Keyboard End Use policy. Expect to be contacted by their Icon Integrity Enforcement department soon. You should have just pulled the sticker off your mattress for heaven's sake! If, like me, you lived in the para

Re: [OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

2012-05-14 Thread Richmond
On 05/14/2012 07:00 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: That is because they had guns pointed at their back. Not in all cases. Like everything else, this was not quite as simplistic as some would have it be. Of course this in no way lessens the horror of what happened; I, at least, am not one of those f

Re: Auto-opening folders

2012-05-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Whenever faced with options like this, I'd rather have a preference that I could set. You will have both kinds of users, so why not give them the choice? On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Works on Mac too, but the path to folder needs to begin with / as in > "/Volumes/BOOTCA

Re: Auto-opening folders

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Works for relative pathing too. For example if the defaultfolder is still set to the location of livecode you can launch document "Runtime" (or any of the other folders from the current default location) and it works fine for me on win. Even works with bizzarro pathing "../.." will open the direct

Re: Auto-opening folders

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Works on Mac too, but the path to folder needs to begin with / as in "/Volumes/BOOTCAMP/". Bob On May 14, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Can only test on windows but you can do launch document "path/to/folder" on > windows and it opens right up. > > On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:15 AM,

Re: Adjusting Edit Menu items

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually, I was not aware you could disable system menu items. It may be that LC is greying out the items, but still handling the hot keys. I suppose there ought to be a way to prevent copying content in LC as a security precaution, say for copyrighted material as an example. Bob On May 14,

Re: Auto-opening folders

2012-05-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Can only test on windows but you can do launch document "path/to/folder" on windows and it opens right up. On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 10:15 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Not sure I like auto opening the folder, but I would like a way to open > the folder from the app if I want to, sort of like Firefox d

Re: Adjusting Edit Menu items

2012-05-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Jacque. Yes, there was no perceptible performance hit by processing all menus so all OK there. I agree that the shortcut keys should be enabled/disabled in parallel with their associated Edit menu items but I'm not seeing that behavior. Here's what I did on a card with just one editable f

Re: Sort of a problem

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Can I come live there? It may be the only Conservative county left pretty soon! Bob On May 12, 2012, at 8:17 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: > Thanks Peter. But I live in a very conservative county. None of yer fancy > diagonals here. NW indeed! > > Actually it is the County election database, and a s

Re: When is the CONTROL key not a control key?

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think you just violated Microsoft's Keyboard End Use policy. Expect to be contacted by their Icon Integrity Enforcement department soon. You should have just pulled the sticker off your mattress for heaven's sake! Bob On May 13, 2012, at 10:46 AM, Richmond wrote: >> PPS: Yes, fanboy that I

Re: Auto-opening folders

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not sure I like auto opening the folder, but I would like a way to open the folder from the app if I want to, sort of like Firefox does with downloads. Some kind of "Open containing folder..." thing. Bob On May 12, 2012, at 11:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > A quick poll: > > If an app creat

Re: [OT] Blowing my mind about Linux

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
That is because they had guns pointed at their back. Bob On May 12, 2012, at 4:56 AM, Richmond wrote: > You are quite right, and I apologise. I am well > aware what happened; the people were slaughtered. > > However, an awful lot of the people who were slaughtered did not stop to > question

Re: Text Scroll Field - Livecode & iOS

2012-05-14 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Mark & Ralph, Thanks that worked fine! Cheers, Rick On May 14, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Rick, > > You're almost done. Handle the scrollerDidScroll message and use it to adjust > the vScroll and hScroll of your field. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille >

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
BINGO! Wipe and reinstall time. Sorry. Dev previews are notorious for this. A bunch of guys here used the RC1 of Tiger to upgrade their production machines, against my vehement objections. They all paid the terrible price. Well, the price is not so terrible, just a nuisance. Bob On May 11, 2

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I respectfully disagree. Spotlight is designed to give up processor usage if something else needs it. If you get the beachball while spotlight is indexing, there is something wrong, and that is not normal. Bob On May 11, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Actually missed a big one off the

Re: array mystery

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yup that is pretty much what Trevor did. Bob On May 12, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > On May 10, 2012, at 5:49 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> I just forwarded an email Trevor sent to the list some time ago with the >> code in it. >> >> Bob >> >> >> On May 10, 2012, at 2:34

Re: Getting a single column of a datagrid

2012-05-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
It came from Trevor that way. I had to clean it up as well. It works though. I used this technique to create my own kind of printKeys function. Instead of breaking out each key as a line in the text, and then the value as key:value, I create a single line for each key with a value, and then I br

Re: Standalone problem

2012-05-14 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Craig, please check my new answer in the forum! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your su

RE: Text Scroll Field - Livecode & iOS

2012-05-14 Thread Ralph DiMola
Rick, Scroll your field in the scrollerDidScroll handler Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Rick Harrison Sent: Monday

Re: Text Scroll Field - Livecode & iOS

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Rick, You're almost done. Handle the scrollerDidScroll message and use it to adjust the vScroll and hScroll of your field. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK

Re: Standalone problem

2012-05-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/12 11:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You can only load externals in a preOpenStack handler, I had a thinko. It's "startup" I believe. They may both work, it's been a while so I'd need to check. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Text Scroll Field - Livecode & iOS

2012-05-14 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi there, Has anyone gotten a text field to scroll properly on the iPad with a swiping gesture? I worked through the example provided below. Things work fine in Livecode, but not correctly in the simulator or on the iPad directly. I can see the scroll control moving but the text field itself won

Re: Serial Comms in 4.6.4

2012-05-14 Thread Camm
Dar, It is the same as this I found below , If complied on 4.0.0 it works , If complied on later versions if fails to read. Regards Camm On Nov 7, 2010, at 10:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/7/10 9:18 AM, Larry Walker wrote: >> I am trying to read data from a "serial port" (using a USB-se

[ANN] Launcher X 0b02 - The Classic Replacement for the OSX Dock

2012-05-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I have always been thinking that the Dock is a very limited piece of software and that the old Launcher control panel, which was available in Mac OS 9, was actually more useful. The Launcher application could store as many links as you wanted and you could organise the links in whatever way