Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
I believe the class/API Richard refers to simply write the data they are given to a file in the prefs folder that Apple wants you to use. If you give bad data to them, they will foul up the prefs file just as badly as writing the same bad data directly from LC would foul it up. I thnk Apple wants

How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-18 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, Any pointers on how to extract programatically an XML file hidden within an OSX bundle that looks like a file but which Text Wrangler shows the internal folders and target XML file? Best, Keith.. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

[NOT] From my Yahoo Spam box: mtp.mc

2012-06-18 Thread Richmond
"Take pills today, get an increased size tomorrow" [NOT] = Not Off Topic. I've never been a great one for taking pills, however it really is time RunRev and I had "an increased size" on the educational front. As I am a fairly lazy slob, and would far rather leverage somebody else's work than re

Re: strange scroll on iOS

2012-06-18 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 19 juin 2012 à 06:06, Ralph DiMola a écrit : > Are you setting the native scroller vertical scroll position when a letter > is selected using a iphoneControlSet "MyScroller" , "vScroll" , > scroll_position ??? If so you are my be seeing an anomaly that I have > submitted to the livecode team.

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/12 9:05 PM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi Again, I can't build a script that crafts a temp variable that can be used in a "go to card name" script. #Fail for me. So, I want to go to a different stack. -- check. write to a field -- check But I can't get to the proper card. I put the card n

Re: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/12 5:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Roger Guay wrote: > my iOS app loads fairly quickly so I would like my "Splash" screen > to stay up longer. Any way to do that? I see no harm and much benefit to an app that lets people get to work instantly. Rather than hamper the experience by intr

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/12 10:22 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: JavaVM is an habitual offender, which I believe has been removed from Lion. Yes. And as soon as you want to build for Android, you have to download and put it back again. With the latest update, Apple is turning it off if you don't use it for a while, so

RE: strange scroll on iOS

2012-06-18 Thread Ralph DiMola
Are you setting the native scroller vertical scroll position when a letter is selected using a iphoneControlSet "MyScroller" , "vScroll" , scroll_position ??? If so you are my be seeing an anomaly that I have submitted to the livecode team. Create a handler called foo with the iphoneControlSet "MyS

Re: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread Tim Jones
On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > Thanks, Tim. I found another way as well: Just put a wait function in the > openStack script. That works as well. My thought was that you could do something further such as a small animation on the "Splash" card (a lens flare on your logo, for e

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > What's new is that your app doesn't "write" there per se. Apple is now > requiring that the OS write there on your behalf, using either the > theNSUserDefaults Cocoa class or the CFPreferences API. > > At face value this seems silly, sinc

Re: strange scroll on iOS

2012-06-18 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Ludovic, I was having the same problem. I had to do a lot of digging around until I found a helpful example. http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=7991 Good luck and let me know if this helps. Rick On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:15 PM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: > Hello, > > I've created a

Re: Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread Thomas McGrath III
It seems Apple won't be the only one requiring apps only through the store and only certified Hardware. Seems Linux is the only holdout. 1Works exclusively with apps from the Windows Store. Surface for Windows RT includes Office Home & Student 2013 RT Preview 2Works exclusively with printers,

Re: where is the conference being held?

2012-06-18 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Dolce Seaview, http://www.stocktonseaview.com/ More info at http://www.runrevlive.com/venue.html -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 18, 2012, at 8:52 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > This page in the RunRev store: > > http://www.runrev.com/store/product/runrev

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi Again, I can't build a script that crafts a temp variable that can be used in a "go to card name" script. #Fail for me. So, I want to go to a different stack. -- check. write to a field -- check But I can't get to the proper card. I put the card name into that vTempC temp handle, complete w

Re: Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Anyone know if this platform will be added to the LC mobile platforms? Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > Scott- > > > > Monday, June 18, 2012, 5:06:24 PM, you wrote: > > > >> "Fro

Re: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks, Tim. I found another way as well: Just put a wait function in the openStack script. Cheers, Roger On Jun 18, 2012, at 5:30 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 9 > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:23:11 -0700 > From: Tim Jones > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re:

Re: Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread Tim Jones
On Jun 18, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Scott- > > Monday, June 18, 2012, 5:06:24 PM, you wrote: > >> "From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big >> screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface." > >> http://www.surface.com > > Gotta love

Re: Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Monday, June 18, 2012, 5:06:24 PM, you wrote: > "From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big > screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface." > http://www.surface.com Gotta love the fine print, no? "Works exclusively with apps from the Window

where is the conference being held?

2012-06-18 Thread Colin Holgate
This page in the RunRev store: http://www.runrev.com/store/product/runrevlive12-earlybird-hotel/ says: RunRevLive.12 Ticket Plus Hotel, Stay with us in Dolce Basking Ridge for the RunRev Event of the Year, Get your ticket to four days of intensive LiveCode learning. This event will take place

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Monte, I'm still of the opinion that apps that write to the Preferences folder, no matter how they do it, will be rejected by the Mac App Store, although I will admit that it's far from clear. I've already switched my app over to comply with the MAS guidelines. I will attempty to get clarifica

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, Thanks for pointing me to the bug report. Seeing that you put it in there in 2005, it's pretty clear it won;t get fixed at this point so I'll have to program around it. I noticed the response to your bug report included the time honored excuse that fixing it would cause backwards comp

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah, dictionary says a default name will be set if none is supplied during the create. Obviously this isn't happening as it should. On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > To me, this is a bug but I've been corrected before on what I believe to >> be >>

Re: Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread stephen barncard
Running Linux, right? On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > "From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big > screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface." > > http://www.surface.com > > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > T

Re: Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Did Microsoft license iPad technology from Apple? Because that is an iPad with a fancy magnetic keyboard cover. Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 5:06 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > "From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big > screen, you can see more, share more, and do more wit

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes I was thinking about that in an earlier post, only I envisioned that RunRev would probably do something along these lines in the next update. You might want to contact them (if you are in the developer group) and see if this is in the works, so you don't waste your time creating an external

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
I can see why this happens with the control itself but not for the owners of the control that do have names defined. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Yep, do the same with buttons. > > create button > create button > > > you get

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Mike, interesting what happens if you just click in and out of the name box. Unfortunately, I don't have control over the objects that cause this behavior - they are part of the datagrid structure. I think I will report it as a bug. Kind of a pain to work around it though. I think I will

Microsoft Tablet Event in LA Just Wrapped

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Rossi
"From touch to type, office to living room, from your screen to the big screen, you can see more, share more, and do more with Surface." http://www.surface.com Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design ___ use-l

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: To me, this is a bug but I've been corrected before on what I believe to be bugs so what do you think? I think it's a bug, and have submitted a request for changing the behavior: "long name" returns long ID when control name is empty

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Monte Goulding
> What's new is that your app doesn't "write" there per se. Apple is now > requiring that the OS write there on your behalf, using either the > theNSUserDefaults Cocoa class or the CFPreferences API. Would people like an external solution for this? I have an iOS solution to integrate with the

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 18.06.2012 at 14:34 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: hmmm... If by context you mean that if I go to a card in another stack and get the name of this card, it will return the name of the card I came from and not the card I went to, I think you are mistaken, but I may have misunderstoo

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Mike Bonner
Yep, do the same with buttons. create button create button you get two buttons with no text, IE no name. Do something that forces the name to be set and viola'. if you create button then put the name of the last button, same deal. It puts the id because apparently the name is not set. This also

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Mike Bonner
If you go into the inspector after creating the 2 grcs the name is set to the id. I think this is a behavior that occurs when there is no valid name set for the grc, but the name of the grc isn't actually whats shown in the inspector. If you click in the box, don't change the name, click out of the

Re: The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wow! Nice catch! If not a bug, it's certainly an "anomaly". Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 3:32 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I've come across what I think is a bug in what is returned as the long name > of a control. It only happens in fairly obscure circumstances. > > Here's the recipe (LC 5.5). >

Re: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > my iOS app loads fairly quickly so I would like my "Splash" screen > to stay up longer. Any way to do that? I see no harm and much benefit to an app that lets people get to work instantly. Rather than hamper the experience by introducing an unnecessary wait, why not just

The Long Name peculiarities

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
I've come across what I think is a bug in what is returned as the long name of a control. It only happens in fairly obscure circumstances. Here's the recipe (LC 5.5). Button script: on mouseUp create graphic create graphic end mouseUp Group the two graphics together and give the group a sp

Re: Clever Table Object

2012-06-18 Thread BNig
Sorry about that, insert the said fix into the on mouseEnter handler after put the left of me into tLeft I will try my luck with revOnline again but will probably have to post the stack on my website. Too bad. I hope Runrev will find the time to fix revOnline in the near future. It is such a ni

Re: Clever Table Object

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
To which handler? Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 4:33 AM, BNig wrote: > If anyone wants to make this work for versions < 5.5 and >= 5.5 add this to > the script > -- > -- fix for the changed tab location in LiveCode 5.5 > put the version into tVersion > replace "." with "" in tVer

RE: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread John Dixon
Put a 'wait' cammand in the preOpenStack handler > my iOS app loads fairly quickly so I would like my "Splash" screen to stay up > longer. Any way to do that? > > Thanks, > > Roger > ___ use-livecode ma

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
On Jun 18, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > On 18.06.2012 at 12:03 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: >> I'm not entirely sure this is the issue, but let me describe how Livecode >> interprets your code. When you say "field boy", Livecode translates that to >> "field "boy" of th

Re: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread Tim Jones
On Jun 18, 2012, at 2:16 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > my iOS app loads fairly quickly so I would like my "Splash" screen to stay up > longer. Any way to do that? Make your first stack card look the same as your provided load image and then time that before moving on to your app's first real window.

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 18.06.2012 at 12:03 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: I'm not entirely sure this is the issue, but let me describe how Livecode interprets your code. When you say "field boy", Livecode translates that to "field "boy" of the current card of the topstack" (others will correct me if I am

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 18.06.2012 at 16:36 Uhr -0400 Mark Rauterkus apparently wrote: Hi, Yep. LC just went strict with me. Errors such as: stack "Kids": compilation error at line 4 (Expression: unquoted literal), char 46 For the past week or two I've been FINE without these issues. Seemed as if LC didn't care. N

Re: Another Question About "About" Screens

2012-06-18 Thread Roger Guay
my iOS app loads fairly quickly so I would like my "Splash" screen to stay up longer. Any way to do that? Thanks, Roger On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:14 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 19 > Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 12:10:30 -0700 > From: Scott Rossi > To: LiveCode Mail List

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I do not see how the second form has any meaning. vTempC will be the number of the mouse button you clicked. Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: > This works: > > on mouseUp > go to card "Roberto Clemente" of stack "Kids" > end mouseUp > > But, this does not: > > on mo

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Soon, very soon, there will be no real distinction between Apple and Microsoft. With this latest Macbook Pro, it is clear that Apple does not want to be in the business of doing repairs. Memory soldered to the motherboard? Unreplacable battery? Case GLUED TOGETHER?? Really Apple? REALLY? N

Re: FYI, initializing variables by reference

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
You are saying these variables survive the command call because they are called by reference? Interesting! I would have thought that this would throw a compile error because the variables do not exist in the calling handler. Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 7:24 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > For some

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, Yep. LC just went strict with me. Errors such as: stack "Kids": compilation error at line 4 (Expression: unquoted literal), char 46 For the past week or two I've been FINE without these issues. Seemed as if LC didn't care. Now I've gone back throughout the code looking at the colors of the w

strange scroll on iOS

2012-06-18 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, I've created a field to display a long list. I can scroll with a native scrolller on iOS ( iphoneControlCreate ...) no problem, it's work. Because the list is very long (>2000 lines) i've create an alphabetic list to go directly at one letter. It's work also. But for example : in the ma

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, I see what you're saying. I'm still confused though since probably the majority of the apps in the MAS are written using Cocoa and the MAS submission guidelines don't make any mention of it being OK to write to Preferences using Cocoa. I'm definitly with you on Apple's increasing desire to co

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Monday, June 18, 2012, 10:26:13 AM, you wrote: > "To promote a more consistent user experience rotfl. That's Microsoft-speak for "here's why you have to have a ribbon in all your apps". -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecod

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > The OP has requested we let this issue go, and I'm rather in favor of that > myself.  This will be my last post in this thread (my previous one would > have been my last but I couldn't resist the opportunity to use the word > "fiat" ). The

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/12 2:02 PM, Richmond wrote: On 06/18/2012 09:42 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/18/12 1:09 PM, Richmond wrote: Tried this and had NO JOY: on mouseUp put the id of the focusedObject into fOB repeat until control id fOB is a field put (fOB + 1) into fOB end repeat focus on fld i

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
The first word of the abbrev name of the control tells you what type of control it is. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Richmond wrote: > How does one differentiate between control types? ___ use-livecode ma

RE: mobile apps: About screens, or not?

2012-06-18 Thread John Dixon
Chris... I have three apps in the iTunes store now... 1 has a 'splash' screen, 2 don't... I think that the choice is yours... It is probably a good idea to have one if your app takes a while to initialize.. > From: cmsheffi...@me.com > Subject: mobile apps: About screens, or not? > Date: Mon

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I don't know what the deal is with the HIG but the guidelines for the MAS make it very clear that if your app writes to any location other than the sanctioned ones, the app will be rejected. So as far as MAS is concerned, you can't write to the Preferences folder, doesn't m

FYI, initializing variables by reference

2012-06-18 Thread Peter M . Brigham
For some reason I never realized that you can use referenced variables in a command handler -- I was thinking of them only when using functions. In case others haven't discovered it, you can, for instance, do something like this: on prepareInvoice tID initializeVars tID, tName, tDOB, tAddr, tP

Re: mobile apps: About screens, or not?

2012-06-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Almost every app has a "Credits" "Info" or "About" screen. There is no limitation as far as I've seen. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Question for anyone who has dealt with this. Is it customary to do About > screens in mobi

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Also it seems to me that loop will either blow up when it hits on a control id that doesn't exist, or else it will repeat forever when it exceeds the highest control id of the objects on the card. Not sure which, sorry. Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 6/18/12 1:0

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Whoops! Of course I meant their layer property. Bob On Jun 18, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Richmond wrote: >> This has the added advantage of being able to run a "tab order" procedure to >> change the tab order of objects without changing their ID's. ___ u

mobile apps: About screens, or not?

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Sheffield
Question for anyone who has dealt with this. Is it customary to do About screens in mobile apps (iOS and Android)? Just curious what the norm is. Does either platform have restrictions or guidelines regarding this? I've seen several iOS apps with About or Info screens, so I'm assuming it's just

Re: jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'm not entirely sure this is the issue, but let me describe how Livecode interprets your code. When you say "field boy", Livecode translates that to "field "boy" of the current card of the topstack" (others will correct me if I am wrong). LC allows you to do this for the sake of brevity in codi

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread Richmond
On 06/18/2012 09:42 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/18/12 1:09 PM, Richmond wrote: Tried this and had NO JOY: on mouseUp put the id of the focusedObject into fOB repeat until control id fOB is a field put (fOB + 1) into fOB end repeat focus on fld id fOB on mouseUp the 'repeat' line "

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/18/12 1:09 PM, Richmond wrote: Tried this and had NO JOY: on mouseUp put the id of the focusedObject into fOB repeat until control id fOB is a field put (fOB + 1) into fOB end repeat focus on fld id fOB on mouseUp the 'repeat' line "threw a bluey" (is: bad validation type) repla

Re: Support for Git

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Wieder writes: nvm - I found what was slowing it down. Build 3.0.7 fixes it. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your su

jumping among Mainstack and substacks isn't easy

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, My database for camper kids is progressing, but some newbie head scratching is in full force. Cards in a mainstack keep contact info and attendance details, one card per person. This seems to be working fine, except when I jump to different substacks. Then an error occurs. Case in point: I am

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread Richmond
On 06/18/2012 08:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Works great so long as you only have fields, but sooner or later it is going to focus on your button. What I have done is on openCard I build a list of fields whose names match a criteria, such as starting with "fld" whose locktext is false. I save it

Re: Array Filtering

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes I did in fact, but I have decided that for purposes of searching, I want to work with a fixed data set. When a form is opened I want to load the data as it is at the time the form is opened. There will be a refresh option as well, and before I save data, I do verifications which include no t

Re: sending focus to next field

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Works great so long as you only have fields, but sooner or later it is going to focus on your button. What I have done is on openCard I build a list of fields whose names match a criteria, such as starting with "fld" whose locktext is false. I save it in a property. When I want to set the focu

Re: Array Filtering

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Bob, Have you taken into account that the data you are filtering may be out of date by the time it gets filtered in memory because data was either added, changed, or deleted in your database? That's an application-dependant issue of course so maybe it either doesn't matter or can't happen in yo

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I REALLY cannot STAND when OS vendors try to "fix" things for us using techniques like this. Either let me do what I want, or tell me that for security purposes I am not allowed to do that. But don't save a file in a location other than the one I chose! GAWD who thought THAT was a good idea?? B

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, The only statement I've found as to why Apple is doing this is in the OS X Developer Library document "Submitting to the Mac App Store": "To promote a more consistent user experience, applications submitted to the Mac App Store must follow certain rules about where they write files. Us

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > I am not weighing in one way or the other on this conversation, but > I had to make the point: When did "Democratic" become a synonym for > "fair"? It isn't. The words have very different origins and meanings. And though I recognize that the majority of civilization's hist

Re: Array Filtering

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes, consider a HUGE array. Better to pass by reference. I am going to give Dick's method a try, only with 2 repeat loops to account for the numbered key structure of a Datagrid array. It sure would be nice if the engine had an array conversion feature which converted an array to a sqLite databa

Re: Array Filtering

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Dick. For simple arrays this will work well. I am envisioning large datasets, and I want to filter based upon a substring being present in a list of columns I provide. The goal is to create a comprehensive find field that works much the way a Spotlight search works, only on SQL data. Some

Re: lcTaskList Plugin 1.0rc2 Released

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Chris Sheffield writes: > One (hopefully) small request. How difficult would it be to simply had a horizontal scroller? This would > allow us to scroll to see all the columns easily if the window's width is smaller. In my case, I have several > plugins open at once, and trying to position all the

Re: Support for Git

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Igor de Oliveira Couto writes: > When I get a chance, I'll try to look for the project, and see if I can cook up something of my own. It would be > nice if LiveCode had a built-in "Export to VCS..." option, though... The latest builds of glx2 have implemented fledgling git support, mostly just b

Re: lcTaskList Plugin 1.0rc2 Released

2012-06-18 Thread Chris Sheffield
Bill, Thanks again for your hard work on this. This plugin has been a huge time saver for me over the last few weeks. One (hopefully) small request. How difficult would it be to simply had a horizontal scroller? This would allow us to scroll to see all the columns easily if the window's width

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I am not weighing in one way or the other on this conversation, but I had to make the point: When did "Democratic" become a synonym for "fair"? I would can both words and instead approach this from the perspective of expediency. It would be expedient for the person who controls the Nabble list t

Re: AW: AW: ANN: GLX2 3.05

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh good to know! Thanks. Bob On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:44 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > you can always take back your votes after the feature is implemented. At > any moment you can reorganize them. > > > On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 5:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> So, if a feature request or bug fix

OT: ICANN haz tld?

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Alt Text: Stupid New Domain Names and What They Really Mean for the Web http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/06/alt-text-stupid-new-tlds/ -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
One is an alias of the other. It is the same list, not different versions of it. Sorry if I misunderstood you. I think the thing to do is alert whoever the moderator of the old nabble list is and tell them to change the addresses. Bob On Jun 17, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > I'

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Too funny! On Jun 15, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Interesting... coincidence. :-D > > http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ancient-aliens > > > Mike Bonner wrote >> >> I think alien brain and poofy hair are linked genetic traits. >> So the answer is yes. :) >> > > > -- > View this

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > A few weeks ago, someone else in this list pointed me to the > following document: > > http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGUide/FileSystemOverview/FileSystemOverview.html > > If you have a look at

Re: how to get rid of "icon" added in a repertory by Lion

2012-06-18 Thread André Bisseret
Le 18 juin 2012 à 12:49, Mark Schonewille a écrit : > Hi André, > > But then it is easy, right? > > if line x of tList is ("Icon" & numToChar(13)) then... Ouups! yes! Thanks a lot Mark (once again ;-)) > > Apple probably decided to add this character to avoid confusion with other > files wit

Re: Clever Table Object

2012-06-18 Thread BNig
Hi Bill, Bill Vlahos wrote > > Several folks have asked me how I got the native field object in > lcTaskList to do those table tricks without using ListMagic or the Data > Grid. > > I recently discovered Bernd Niggeman's "OldTableFieldDragDividers" stack > in RevOnLine (he uploaded it in 2010 b

Re: how to get rid of "icon" added in a repertory by Lion

2012-06-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi André, But then it is easy, right? if line x of tList is ("Icon" & numToChar(13)) then... Apple probably decided to add this character to avoid confusion with other files with the same name. Of course, it is not smart of Apple, because any developer might very well do the same as Apple. I

Re: is it possible to hide datagrid column dividers?

2012-06-18 Thread Terry Judd
On 18/06/2012, at 08:04 PM, André Bisseret wrote: Le 18 juin 2012 à 11:21, Terry Judd a écrit : I'd like to hide the column dividers in a datagrid I'm using in a custom popup menu. Does anyone know if this is possible? Bonjour Terry, Yes it is: set the dgProp[ "show column dividers" ] of gro

Re: is it possible to hide datagrid column dividers?

2012-06-18 Thread André Bisseret
Le 18 juin 2012 à 11:21, Terry Judd a écrit : > I'd like to hide the column dividers in a datagrid I'm using in a custom > popup menu. Does anyone know if this is possible? Bonjour Terry, Yes it is: set the dgProp[ "show column dividers" ] of group "data grid 1" to false Best regards from Gre

how to get rid of "icon" added in a repertory by Lion

2012-06-18 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour, I am on Mac OS 10.6.8 In a stack I am getting a list of names from a directory with set the directory to "nameOfsuchFolder" put the files into tList in tList I must delete a file ".DS_Store" , no problem My friend for whom I am maintaining the app. bought a new Mac with Lion. Now, w

is it possible to hide datagrid column dividers?

2012-06-18 Thread Terry Judd
I'd like to hide the column dividers in a datagrid I'm using in a custom popup menu. Does anyone know if this is possible? Terry... Dr Terry Judd Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Eduction Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne ___