Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread -=>JB<=-
If you want to find different versions of documents you have backed up with Time Machine it sounds like you might be able to do it with the program Back-in-Time 2. http://www.tri-edre.fr/download/download/backintime.html -=>JB<=- On May 29, 2012, at 8:28 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/29/12

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
My Apple ID (email) hasn't changed, just my address and associated credit card details, so unfortunately I can't revert to the previous (UK) account. I updated my details as I did with everything else, obviously the credit card was a major factor to be able to make any future purchases, this had

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread -=>JB<=-
I was able to use my current versions too. Sorry to hear about the problems and I have no answer. Are you able to access them from your old account in any way or is that closed and you have no access. Were you required to transfer your MAS account when you moved to Canada? -=>JB<=- On May 29,

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm puzzled by this reference to sqlite being slow, I think the second time you've mentioned it. It's an "in memory" database and faster than probably any other SQL implementation. It does indeed have many settings that control cache, etc. As for "industrial strenght" (whatever that means), ther

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2012-05-29, at 9:48 PM, -=>JB<=- wrote: > I learned to correct the problem so you > can download updates for software bought with your old > id is to delete the program from your disk. Then start up > MacApp and you will be able to install the software you > have purchased on the old id withou

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread -=>JB<=-
I had a problem with MAS when I changed my id which is my email address. I changed my email address and id and then I could not update programs or access them with my new id. I learned to correct the problem so you can download updates for software bought with your old id is to delete the program

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 9:03 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > I for one am pleased that some developers still sell through their own > sites as well as MAS. I recently had a bad experience with Apple when I > moved from the UK to Canada, believe it or not I lost ALL licences for apps > purchased through

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
Tim wrote: One tip - turn off Spotlight. I've found that the mdimport daemon spikes - even on my Mac Pros - every time I save a file in LC or one of the NLE apps. I mentioned this on another thread about Steven B's slow Lion (which he's since fixed), but was informed by a 'wise' user that Spotli

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/12 7:40 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Igor, I agree with you on this one. TM has saved me on more than one occasion. Maybe I've just got used to using it and don't notice whatever the problems are that others have referred to. I really like Time Machine too -- for backups. It's always

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Thanks Peter, Paul, and Mike! I forgot about the lineOffset… :) Cheers! John Patten SUSD On May 29, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > You could use this, something I saved along the way. I *think* it's from the > stdLib by Ken Ray and Richard Gaskin, but I've lost track. > > on

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
You could use this, something I saved along the way. I *think* it's from the stdLib by Ken Ray and Richard Gaskin, but I've lost track. on deleteCustomProperty tObjRef,tPropSet,tProp -- not sure where this comes from, it's not mine -- thanks to ! put the custompropertyset of tObjRef int

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Tim Jones
Ugh - these are all mine … On May 29, 2012, at 7:27 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > … a life saver if you have nothing else, but I do have something else ... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubsc

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
John, You can't edit the list of items in a custom property directly, but you can put the list of items in the custom property into a variable, delete the item from the variable then set the custom property back to the modified variable. HTH Paul On 2012-05-29, at 7:14 PM, JOHN PATTEN wrote:

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Tim Jones
On May 29, 2012, at 5:30 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > I've noticed some people complaining about Time Machine in this thread. […] > Before the days of Time Machine, we used to have Retrospect in our office, > backing up to external drives. Let me assure you: recovering your lost work >

Re: Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread Mike Bonner
Probably something like this would work. on mouseUp put the buttonList of current card into tButtons put the short name of last btn into tTargetButton put lineoffset(tTargetButton,tButtons) into tOffset -- get the matching line number in tButtons if tOffset > 0 then -- if there was a match

Tracking And Deleting Objects Via Custom Properties?

2012-05-29 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hi All… I have a script that is storing objects via their name in a custom property of the card. I'm trying to delete one of the objects by checking if the object name is 'among' the 'list' of items. This works fine. However I can delete the name of the object from the list of objects in the cu

Re: hello

2012-05-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
SIGH. Another compromised yahoo account. Change password please. On May 29, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Michael Kann wrote: > > you should check this out > http://www.bunnews.netz/biz/?page=2654216 > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livec

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
I for one am pleased that some developers still sell through their own sites as well as MAS. I recently had a bad experience with Apple when I moved from the UK to Canada, believe it or not I lost ALL licences for apps purchased through MAS just because I updated my Apple ID to reflect my new ad

hello

2012-05-29 Thread Michael Kann
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Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Paul Looney
Stephen, Jacque, You kids and your new toys! My daily driver is an 1984 MB 300D - with 514,000 miles (830,000 k). Runs fine, a joy to drive. Would not hesitate to take it again to Maine, or Florida, or British Columbia, or Iowa or... any of the other places it's been. I AM (proudly) old and I d

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Igor, I agree with you on this one. TM has saved me on more than one occasion. Maybe I've just got used to using it and don't notice whatever the problems are that others have referred to. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto < i

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I've noticed some people complaining about Time Machine in this thread. On 30/05/2012, at 6:01 AM, François Chaplais wrote: [...] > about time machine: yes, it can be a plague. [...] I have to say, Time Machine has saved my skin twice already. First time, a visiting cousin accidentally droppe

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Phew, I was worried there for a while. I'm gonna give Bodega a shot. I'll post some feedback. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 3:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/29/12 4:46 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > >> I'm with Andrew. There's noting in the license agreemen

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/12 4:46 PM, Tim Jones wrote: I'm with Andrew. There's noting in the license agreement I agreed to that prevents me from selling somewhere besides the AppStore. That may work for a closed ecosystem like iOS, but Mac users would not put up with that (nor would Mac developers...). That's

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread stephen barncard
yeah otherwise Apple should be due for an anti-trust investigation soon. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > I'm with Andrew. There's noting in the license agreement I agreed to that > prevents me from selling somewhere besides the AppStore. That may work for > a closed ecosyst

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread stephen barncard
I've got you beat on that Jacque, my 1988 stick Volvo station wagon is still my favorite car, even though I inherited a 2005 Prius. On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 9:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/29/12 2:22 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > I merely tried to use an analogy that people get set in their ways

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Tim Jones
I'm with Andrew. There's noting in the license agreement I agreed to that prevents me from selling somewhere besides the AppStore. That may work for a closed ecosystem like iOS, but Mac users would not put up with that (nor would Mac developers...). Tim On May 29, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Andrew He

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I think the article may have that wrong, you can sell your apps anywhere you want, the MAS is just another outlet. Quite a few developers seem to be switching to Mac App Store only policies (eg Pixelmator) which is their choice, but ive not seen anywhere that is a requirement unless its chan

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, Yes I realise it's Apple's doing that, not Bodega. I've emailed Bodega about the issue but it doesn't seem true to me. For example, Coda 2 is available on the Mac App Store. It's also available on the Panic web site, either through the Mac App Store or directly from Panic, with the c

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/29/12 1:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I haven't used them yet, but have been considering it. They got a very good write-up at CultOfMac this month:

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread François Chaplais
My two cents: about the scrolling: first time I got a mac (in '88) I found the way scroll arrows worked totally counter intuitive about time machine: yes, it can be a plague. I recently thought of excluding ~/Library/Caches in the Time machine options and things are definitively better now. IMHO,

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Oh dear. I assume that's in the Bodega T&Cs? I really hope that's not true because I refuse to be told where I can and cannot sell my app. I will check into this further. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/29/12 1:39 PM, R

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/12 1:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Pete wrote: Anybody know anything about Bodega - http://appbodega.com/ I haven't used them yet, but have been considering it. They got a very good write-up at CultOfMac this month:

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Yeah, I can certainly see that it would be more natural for gestures and/or a trackpad. All I can say is it confused the heck out of me and I'm happy now I'm back to the old way. I use a Kensington mouse on my Mac and I thought for a while it wasn't compatible with Lion. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I thought you'd get it! Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/29/12 12:29 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> But I can switch it off if I want to >> do things where I would rather it wasn't in control (don't ask!). >> > > Exactly th

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Tim Jones
They made the change because it's more like moving the page with your finger on the iPad/iPhone. You want the page to move up - you flick up, move down, flick down. This is the exact opposite of the old scrollwheel way where you moved the scrollbar thumb, not the contents. Also, once you get t

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/12 12:29 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: But I can switch it off if I want to do things where I would rather it wasn't in control (don't ask!). Exactly the point. That's what Apple should have done. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Yes, I think the problme is with the mouse wheel. At the risk of being accused of being to set in my ways, why did Apple change this? It made me feel seasick! Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I use trackpad full time, and th

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I think I will give them a whirl, no setup fees and 7% per transaction, plus a few minutes to set up the app. I'd also like to pass on an interesting side effect of selling an app on your own web site and through the Mac App Store. This applies to situations where the version on your web site ins

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin writes: > I haven't used them yet, but have been considering it. They got a very > good write-up at CultOfMac this month: It does beg the question as to why a developer would bother placing apps in a store that nobody knows exists... -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Colin Holgate
I use trackpad full time, and the new way feels fine. I think with a mouse wheel it would be a little more confusing. On May 29, 2012, at 2:23 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > >I am not near my Lion machine, but I believe the fix is in the > >"trackPad/mouse" pane of system preferences, under eith

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
PS The setting is in the mouse Prefs, uncheck "Move Contenet in the direction of finger movement" to get back to the old way. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hah! So the scroll direction DID change! That's been driving me cr

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: Anybody know anything about Bodega - http://appbodega.com/ I haven't used them yet, but have been considering it. They got a very good write-up at CultOfMac this month:

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hah! So the scroll direction DID change! That's been driving me crazy, thinking I just wasn't remembering how things used to work. Glad there's a way to put it back to the old way. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 11:23 AM, wrote: > I am jumping into this l

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
No but I bet Apple will buy them or shut them down. ;-) Bob On May 29, 2012, at 11:27 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Anybody know anything about Bodega - http://appbodega.com/ > Pete > lcSQL Software > ___ > use-livecode mailing lis

Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Anybody know anything about Bodega - http://appbodega.com/ Pete lcSQL Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: ht

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread dunbarx
I am jumping into this late, so maybe this was answered, but Colin had mentioned the new insane scroll direction. This is the Lion default, but you can change it back to "normal". I am not near my Lion machine, but I believe the fix is in the "trackPad/mouse" pane of system preferences, under

Re: Kicking Off a Standalone Save

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Monte: Thanks, yes I'm aware of those and aleady use them for a couple of things. I was looking for a way to programmitically start the standalone build process. Mark: Thanks, I think you solved my problem! Actually, your code looks familiar; I think you may have sent it to me once before, thank

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I bought a new car recently. It has automatic transmission so it decides when to shift gears. Except that there's a mode where I can use it like manual transmission and control when the gear shifts happen. It also has computer controlled traction control. But I can switch it off if I want to do

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/29/12 2:22 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: I merely tried to use an analogy that people get set in their ways, especially the longer they have been using something. I hope I haven't offended any Hot Rodders, as that was not my intent either. I'm an old hot-rodder. I kept my 17

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
That was just a scam our parents conned us into. We all fell for it. Now they AND our children are laughing at us! ;-) Bob On May 29, 2012, at 9:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I'm getting used to being old. Sort of. Now I'm waiting for respect for the > aged to kick in. :) _

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/12 2:22 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: I merely tried to use an analogy that people get set in their ways, especially the longer they have been using something. I hope I haven't offended any Hot Rodders, as that was not my intent either. I'm an old hot-rodder. I kept my 17-year-old car until a f

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Tim Jones
On May 29, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Having got a little used to Lion I then felt better about trying out Mountain > Lion. My current setup is that I have 10.8 on my internal SSD, and still have > 10.7.4 on the external SSD. I still need that because under 10.8 you can't > publis

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Colin Holgate
I seem to be having a different experience with Lion than many here. I too was reluctant to change my way of scrolling, or to give up on using Rosetta apps, and so had not yet upgraded to Lion. I usually grab OSX updates very early on (as a piece of trivia, I was the first person anywhere, inclu

Re: Peter M. Brigham´s textlib.rev

2012-05-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On May 25, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > Hi, > > Bob Sneidar already helped me out. > > Regards, > > Matthias > Am 25.05.2012 um 23:26 schrieb Matthias Rebbe: > >> Hi, >> >> last year in summer Peter M. Brigham posted a download link to his library >> textlib.rev. The download

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
Stephen, undoubtedly you are right, our methodologies are different. But that is not what my comments are about, and clearly I have problems expressing myself - which is understandable when you consider I only passed English because 49.5 was rounded up to 50% :-( So in attempt not to offend anyon

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: Maybe this doesn't affect *your* Save methodology, but it affects *mine*. The Macintosh used to be about having several ways to accomplish a task, now we are confronted with fewer choices, THEIR choices. That's my problem with what's happening to the OS. When I save an au

Rotating a 3D object / movie

2012-05-29 Thread Sergio Schvarstein
Hi Charles, I was thinking about trying the approach you suggest but I wasn't convinced it would run smoothly because my looping movie has 300 frames. But now that I've read about your results I will try it, maybe removing some frames of the movie before. You used the hidden cards method, proba

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-29 Thread Peter W A Wood
I know its a kludge but couldn't you do something like: " end somehandler on run-it put "lc version is" && the version & "" put "this web page shows the problem" & "" put "here x = " && x & "" somehandler put "and finally x still =" && x & "" end run-it run-it ?> Regards Peter On

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-29 Thread Keith Clarke
Forgive the naiveté (I have no formal development background) - and so maybe there is a subtlety about the formal definition of constants in computer science that I'm missing - but to have a mathematical constant available outside of handlers, can we not choose from script variables, global vari

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thanks Igor, but you're talking about where constants can be declared; I was talking about where they can be used. I read the dictionary the same way you do, in the context of declaration (constants can be declared within or outwith handlers, with different context). And I agree with Mark that

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-29 Thread Alex Tweedly
No. What tripped me up was " constant x = 4 put "this web page shows the problem" & "" put "here x = " && x & "" on somehandler put "within a handler, x =" && x & "" end somehandler somehandler put "and finally x still =" && x & "" ?> Constants do not take effect *outside* handlers. You rar

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Kay, thank you very much for the correction: On 29/05/2012, at 4:42 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: [...] > I don't know where you got the information about Versions "taking up a lot > of storage space" if you have a lot of backups, but my understanding its > the complete opposite. Like TimeMachine, Versio

Export display of Livecode app doesn't work

2012-05-29 Thread Glen Bojsza
I have two linux machines (A and B) on Linux machine A I have a Livecode application on Linux machine B I : - ssh -X machineA@192.168.15.6 - launch the Livecode application on machine A but gets displayed on machine B When you do this with any other linux applications everything works fine.

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks Kay. Maybe you didn't understand that I am really, really not old. I'm not a teenager anymore, but being under 40 I consider myself far from old. Just a little advice, in case you wish to show respect to people of a certain age: call them wise rather then old. -- Best regards, Mark Sch

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread stephen barncard
Maybe this doesn't affect *your* Save methodology, but it affects *mine*. The Macintosh used to be about having several ways to accomplish a task, now we are confronted with fewer choices, THEIR choices. That's my problem with what's happening to the OS. When I save an audio or video file, I don't

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
Mark, My apologies, I did not appreciate that old is an offensive term and will try not use it from now on. The term is a sign of respect in my culture, but mine is not necessarily the right culture and I should appreciate other cultures can be 180 degrees out of phase to my own. I merely tried t