Re: Wireless mic with iOS?

I think you could do this using the free microphone and sockets external examples in the iOS external sdk. For discovering the desktop it would be best to use bonjour but that would require an external to be written. The alternative would be to have the user type in the ip or host name of the c

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

Bonjour James, Here with a data grid "Datagrid1" without space before 1 and 5 columns named : - name - filename - display_page - current_book - id a copy of your script populates the data grid as expected ; no problem ;-)) Best regards from Grenoble André Le 27 juin 2012 à 19:32, James Hale a

Re: What happened to my message box?

On 6/27/12 1:19 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: Yup. Launch LC, call up the msg box, enter "Put the time", hit return. Nothing. The only other person I know of who had this problem was Craig (DunbarX) and I think upgrading eventually fixed it. If I remember right, clicking the lower pane of the

Re: What happened to my message box?

On 6/27/12 1:14 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: Btw, do you know of a list of error message numbers so I can make the error reporting a little more robust? I distributed this lookup stack today at the conference as part of my debugging session: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23431607/ErrorLookup.live

Wireless mic with iOS?

Is it possible with iOS to make an app that uses an iPhone (or iPod touch) as a wireless microphone over Wi-Fi? It would need to send sound to a Mac (or a PC) to a companion app on that platform that would output the sound and be able to record it. I don't see any relevant information in the us

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

On 6/27/12 2:33 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Spaces are *evil* No spaces in names. Ever. For any reason. I used to feel the same way until a few years ago when someone mentioned that he always named his numbered controls with a space before the number. That allows easy identification of the num

Re: Delete stack

On 6/27/12 1:45 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: The application browser is unreliable and that's why I stopped using it years ago. To check that the stack was removed from memory, you use the following syntax in the message box: Perhaps it's changed since you last used it. I leave it open all the

httpproxy and revBrowser

I'm pretty sure I've got httpproxy setup and working correctly in the Livecode environment but the settings don't seem to apply in the revBrowser environment. Is that to be expected? If so, how can I implement my proxy settings within Livecode so that revBrowser will see and use them? Terry...

Re: acceleratedRendering is my friend

>From what Mark said the preopencard is the place to do it and I have not seen >any flashing in 5.5.1 -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:27 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Tom, > > Thanks for the info. Very useful. > > I haven't actually tri

Re: What happened to my message box?

Interesting. I have horrible problems with the editor and debugger. I frequently have to close and restart the editor (losing all my open tabs) and the debugger often skips over breakpoints and otherwise acts wonky. My other version, 4.6.4, works much better but I don't have an IOS seat for it. I'

Re: Comment Lines interfere with continuation lines

Hi Peter, and Bob, I see what you're saying but if that's the case I would have expected to get a compile error. "with p1, p2" is certainly not a valid instruction. Although I just checked that out by inserting exactly that line in a the middle of a script - no compile error. I think it is interp

Re: Comment Lines interfere with continuation lines

On Jun 27, 2012, at 8:33 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hi Craig, > I kind of see why it doesn't work. The main surprise was that the line > after the comment was correctly colored, seems like it should have been > colored like a comment, then the problem would have been obvious. I think that's beca

Re: bluetooth and LC

Hi Dr. Vokey, Are you using an IBVA system by any chance, Regards, Debdoot On Mar 14, 2012, at 6:54 PM, Vokey, John wrote: > All, > I am completely naive on this, but as I am getting a new portable EEG device > for my lab that communicates by bluetooth, I thought I would ask whether any > o

Re: What happened to my message box?

FWIW, I have been using 4.5.3 for a long time, still using it, and I've found it to be quite stable. I've never seen what you're describing. MacBook, OSX 10.6.8, Rev Studio 4.5.3, build 1210. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:19 P

Re: What happened to my message box?

Which is why, in a follow up post to your follow up post, I told you I did and thanked you for the suggestion ;-) By the way, when I put "set the revmessageboxredirect to empty" in my homegrown message box, it didn't do anything. On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:25 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

Solved! > My guess is that the group is labeled "DataGrid 1" rather than "Datagrid1". > Notice the space before 1. This very issue has tripped me up in the past. > (James Little) Thanks to everyone who replied. It was 3:30 AM and I was getting a bit weary. I also agree that there should not

Re: Comment Lines interfere with continuation lines

Hi Craig, I kind of see why it doesn't work. The main surprise was that the line after the comment was correctly colored, seems like it should have been colored like a comment, then the problem would have been obvious. However, it has made me realise that I should really be doing more validation

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

On 28/06/2012, at 7:21 AM, Gerry Orkin wrote: > Joseph wrote: > >> Of course I agree that. The support is excelent, I ask myself when he sleep >> :) > > Monte is Tasmanian. Close relative of zombies. They never sleep! I don't qualify as a Tasmanian yet. I've only been here 4 and a half years

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Thanks Jim and everyone else for your support. The deal ends Monday folks so don't miss out! On 28/06/2012, at 8:41 AM, Jim Lambert wrote: > mergExt is very well worth it. You won't be disappointed. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical m

good wi-fi news

Sorry I couldn't be on the boat tonight, there is some work things I had to do, that I haven't been able to because of the slow wireless (it involves downloading some big files). I was all set to let it take its time to download, using the Ethernet/routers we have set up, but I found that my mac

Re: Comment Lines interfere with continuation lines

I think the way to look at this is to replace the backslash and cr with empty (which is how the compiler sees it) and then see if it makes sense. What you get is: dispatch function "xyz" to button "123" --Bug# 567 with p1,p3 Well, as you can see, it won't choke on the first line because puttin

Re: Comment Lines interfere with continuation lines

Hi. This goes back to HC. You cannot interrupt a line-continued, er, line, with a comment. Once committed, you have to complete the whole thing in one shot. Logically, this seems counterintuitive. It just must be how the parser thinks. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Peter

Comment Lines interfere with continuation lines

I've got into the habit of surrounding changes to my scripts with a couple of comment lines that include a reference to the bug/enhancement request that cuased them to be changed. I recently ran into this interesting situation. My original code looked like: dispatch function "xyz" to button "123

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

mergExt is very well worth it. You won't be disappointed. Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/

Re: Standalone won't run

Hi Richard, I think it's a bug too. I don't think any application should quit silently, except by specific request. To compoud matters, the error reporting dialog IS switched on for the application but it did not appear. So I'm thinking this warrants a separate QCC report from your feature reque

Re: Standalone won't run

Peter Haworth wrote: My debugging showed that the setting of fonts was causing the standalone to abort silently IMNSHO that's a bug. Errors in execution should be reported by default, with the ability to have mystifying failures happening silently only as an option. But for reasons I d

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Ah, that does explain it. ;) Matthias Am 27.06.2012 um 23:21 schrieb Gerry Orkin: > Joseph wrote: > >> Of course I agree that. The support is excelent, I ask myself when he sleep >> :) > > Monte is Tasmanian. Close relative of zombies. They never sleep! > > Gerry > __

Re: Delete stack

Thanks Paul, you nailed it! I did as you suggested, except I simply closed the stack after setting destroyStack to true rather than delete it and all worked. I had to refresh the Application Browser to see it disappear but that's not unusual. Thanks to you and Mark for helping out. Pete lcSQL S

Re: Delete stack

Maybe I am misunderstanding something, but if you are applying the destroyStack right before the delete stack you are not changing anything permanently, unless you save the stack before deleting it of course. Called from "Stack A": set the destroyStack of stack "Stack B" to true delete st

Re: What happened to my message box?

which is why (in a follow up post) I suggested a method to make one's own temporary 'message box' ...so you can poke around On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Howard Bornstein wrote: > I didn't know about revmessageboxredirect but even if I did, I couldn't set > it to empty because... well, the me

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Joseph wrote: > Of course I agree that. The support is excelent, I ask myself when he sleep :) Monte is Tasmanian. Close relative of zombies. They never sleep! Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: Delete stack

Hi Peter, Maybe you need to post the relevant part of your script. Also, I didn't mean to lock messages but to turn them off in the Developer menu and to do all tests from the message box. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://ec

Re: Delete stack

Hi Mark, - The result is empty after the delete. - I don;t refer to the long ID of the stack anywhere in my code - I locked messages right before the delete and unlocked right after: the stack was still in memory. Weird! Pete lcSQL Software On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Much appreciated Thomas! Next year I promise ill be wherever it is but at this stage all sales are being reinvested as product development time so I can keep what customers I have happy and entice some new ones. The primary goal in the next year will be to gradually wean myself off iOS only e

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

I agree. The challenge is that when you drag a new datagrid object onto a stack, LiveCode defaults to a name with a space, e.g. group "Datagrid 1". I've learned to always remove the space from the default name. Jim L. On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Wed, Jun 27, 201

Re: Delete stack

Peter, Check the result. Do you have a script somewhere that uses the long id before you get a chance to check whether the stack is still in memory? What happens if you turn off messages before deleting the stack? Is it still in memory when you test for it? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille

Re: Delete stack

HI Paul, Unfortunately, I can't use that method. I'm doing this as part of a tool I'll be announcing soon so it will be accessing other peoples' stacks and I don't think they'd be happy if I changed the destroyStack property on them! Pete lcSQL Software On Wed, Jun 27, 20

Re: Delete stack

Hi Mark, executing the message box command you gave me retruns true, so the stack is definitly still in memory. The stack does have substacks and I close them all in a repeat loop before the delete stack command, but I don;t get any error messages as you described. This is with LC 5.5.0 OSX 10.7.

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:44 AM, James Little wrote: > My guess is that the group is labeled "DataGrid 1" rather than "Datagrid1".   > Notice the >space before 1.  This very issue has tripped me up in the past. Spaces are *evil* No spaces in names. Ever. For any reason. The only punctuation

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

quote yoru array keys. You can't use name, id, etc the way you are because they're reserved words. If you quote them the error should go away. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Table field

Hi Bjornke, With lots of help from various people, I succeeded in creating a graphic as you described. However, when I set the background pattern of my table to the id of the graphic, I just get a solid grey color as the background of the whole table, no alternating row colors no matter what color

Re: Delete stack

Peter, Have you tried setting the destroyStack to true before deleting it? set the destroyStack of myStack to true Quote from the LC Dictionary; "destroyStack Summary: Specifies whether a stack is purged from memory when it's closed, or whether it remains in memory. Value: The destroyStack of

Re: Delete stack

Hi Peter, The application browser is unreliable and that's why I stopped using it years ago. To check that the stack was removed from memory, you use the following syntax in the message box: put (there is a stack "") I think that the application browser stores the long id of a stack somewhere

Delete stack

I have a need to close a stack and remove it from memory by script and the dictionary says delete stack will do that if the stack referred to is a mainstack. However, after executing the delete stack command (I've double checked to make sure I'm referring to the correct stack), the stack still sho

Re: acceleratedRendering is my friend

Tom, Thanks for the info. Very useful. I haven't actually tried any of this yet, but is there still a problem where the screen flashes when toggling acceleratedRendering on/off in preOpenCard and closeCard? I was seeing this a couple months back, so I'm curious if that still exists. I haven't

Re: What happened to my message box?

Yup. Launch LC, call up the msg box, enter "Put the time", hit return. Nothing. I've got the standard plugins along with a couple others, but I've been using those for years and haven't updated them. Someone else on this list reported the same problem with the message box last year, specifically

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

*smile* That would be a "Harry met Sally" kind of thing. Oh dear, my wife would /not/ like hearing that. No, she's a long ago friend, and we've only recently reconnected thanks to Facebook. ...not that *I* ever go on, you understand. Uh...it's my wife, see. She goes on quite a bit and...uh

Re: What happened to my message box?

This is a great idea and it's what I did. It took some fiddling to get it to work the way I wanted but I now can actually get some work done. Thanks for the idea. Btw, do you know of a list of error message numbers so I can make the error reporting a little more robust? On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:

Re: What happened to my message box?

I didn't know about revmessageboxredirect but even if I did, I couldn't set it to empty because... well, the message box doesn't work ;-) On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:23 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > this is way off the wall and may not be related or work at all, b

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

First make sure that the actual column names are the same as the key names in the array. There is a display name, as well as the column name and they can be different. I tripped up on this at first myself. Bob On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:32 AM, James Hale wrote: > Hi, > > I have finally got arou

Re: data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

Hi James, My guess is that the group is labeled "DataGrid 1" rather than "Datagrid1". Notice the space before 1. This very issue has tripped me up in the past. Jim L. On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:32 AM, James Hale wrote: > Hi, > > I have finally got around to using the DataGrid. > > I have an

data grid error - Error description: Chunk: can't find background

Hi, I have finally got around to using the DataGrid. I have an array that I want to display in a datagrid I have dragged one on to the current card, named it "datagrid1" and set the column names. as an example: put "fred" into theRecordsB[1][name] put "fred file" into theRecordsB[1][filename]

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

El 27/06/2012, a las 16:11, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com escribió: > Am 27.06.2012 um 10:43 schrieb Gerry Orkin: > >> Monte wrote: >> >>> because mergExt will just keep getting better and I know at some point >>> people will recognize what I'm trying to achieve and back it. >> >> >>

Re: acceleratedRendering is my friend

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > After sitting with Mark W. for an hour over lunch yesterday I was able to > both understand the role of acceleratedRendering and the best usage of it. > It turns out that the order of when these commands are used is of utmost > importan

acceleratedRendering is my friend

After sitting with Mark W. for an hour over lunch yesterday I was able to both understand the role of acceleratedRendering and the best usage of it. It turns out that the order of when these commands are used is of utmost importance. I have been rewriting my code and have an instant increase in

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

I just paid for another 3 months. Monte and his externals SHOULD be here at the conference and people need to know about them and how to use them. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 27, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Indeed! > > Chris > >

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

You are adding 1 to word 2 when there is no space. Tabs are not word delimiters. I may misunderstand the script though I haven't looked at it in depth. Bob On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:24 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > Hi folks, > I'm working on a simple script to identify and count the unique words dum

Re: Standalone won't run

Only works for new objects though. Not existing ones. Bob On Jun 26, 2012, at 4:46 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > You can do that now I believe. There are templates for every object. > There's a keyword for each named "Templatexxx" where xxx is the type of > object - card, button, field, etc. See

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

On Wednesday, June 27, 2012, Ken Corey wrote: > > I'm 47 now, and she *still* calls me 'Corey'. > does that make her, "Mrs. Ken"? :) -- The Hawkins Law Firm Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 hawkinslawf...@gmail.com 3025 S. Maryland Parkway Suite A Las Vegas, NV 89109 _

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

You have probably solved your problem already, but here's what I use for counting occurrences of strings in containers: function howmany tg,container -- how many tg = is in container -- note that howmany("00","00") returns 3, not 5 -- if you want to allow overlapping matches, use:

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Indeed! Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 7:12 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > what they all said!!! > > I really enjoy using the externals, they are very powerful!!! > > On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:24 AM, William de Smet > wrote: > >> + 1 K

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

When I was 13, I got a crush on a girl who asked me my name when we were in a noisy room. 'Corey' was all she heard. Of course, being 13, I think I was 14 by the time I bashfully admitted that was my surname. I'm 47 now, and she *still* calls me 'Corey'. No offense taken. *grin* -Ken On

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

Yes, good point well made, Craig - thanks. I've moved to an array structure as suggested by Ken Corey. So, the keys behave better (and much faster) than my attempts to iterate through and compare poorly structured lines in two fields. Best, Keith.. On 27 Jun 2012, at 13:52, dunb...@aol.com wrot

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

Whoops, sorry Ken - I was too busy copy & pasting your improvement on my code to proof-read my thank you email properly! Your help warranted a 'Mr. Corey' at the very least! :-) Best, Keith.. On 27 Jun 2012, at 11:23, Keith Clarke wrote: > Thanks John & Corey. ___

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

what they all said!!! I really enjoy using the externals, they are very powerful!!! On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 6:24 AM, William de Smet wrote: > + 1 Keep it going Monte! > > - > Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! > > Op 27 jun. 2012 om 12:07 heeft Matthias Rebbe < > matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de>

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

The original issue, the error thrown by your script, can be traced back to the fact that: line tLine of fld "results" "tLine" is not an integer. A line number has to be so designated, and your "line" is of the form: "someWord" & tab & 1 This throws the parser for a loop. Craig Newman

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

+ 1 Keep it going Monte! - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 27 jun. 2012 om 12:07 heeft Matthias Rebbe het volgende geschreven: > > Am 27.06.2012 um 10:43 schrieb Gerry Orkin: > >> Monte wrote: >> >>> because mergExt will just keep getting better and I know at some point >>> people will

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

Thanks John & Corey. Your two responses have helped with both cleaning-up the source list and increasing the efficiency of the code. Not to self... Get more comfortable with abstracting problems into arrays, rather than relying on proving each step of the code by rendering into a field - as a

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Am 27.06.2012 um 10:43 schrieb Gerry Orkin: > Monte wrote: > >> because mergExt will just keep getting better and I know at some point >> people will recognize what I'm trying to achieve and back it. > > > Can I just add my voice to encourage iOS developers using LiveCode to think > seriousl

RE: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

Does this help you...? on mouseUp put empty into fld "result" set itemDel to tab replace comma with space in fld "source" replace "." with space in fld "source" replace space & "'" with space in fld "source" replace "'" & space with space in fld "source" replace "?"

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

I built a label with multiple lines, put "1 2 3/n2 3 4/n3 4 5" into it and ran this line of code on it: add 1 to word 2 of line 2 of field "field" It worked just as you'd expect it to. However, this seems a very slow way to do it. Hashes work a treat for this kind of thing. on mouseUp

Re: [ANN] mergExt $50 off conference special (for everyone)

Monte wrote: > because mergExt will just keep getting better and I know at some point > people will recognize what I'm trying to achieve and back it. Can I just add my voice to encourage iOS developers using LiveCode to think seriously about supporting this project? Monte is plugging gaps in

Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

Hi folks, I'm working on a simple script to identify and count the unique words dumped into a 'Source' field to create a 'Results' list field with the word and counter. However, this script is throwing errors at the line when I attempt to increment the second word by adding 1 to it. What's wron

Re: iOS features

1) Yes, *but* you have no access to headers sent back from a POST. Much of the functionality you'd be looking for is provided by libURL, which is not supported (at least yet) on iOS and Android. (Please, /someone/ prove me wrong!) So, if you're using a cookie-based authentication token as I d