RevOnline fix

2012-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
I prodded Mark Waddingham during the conference and he was able to identify the problem with uploads to RevOnline. It's something on the server and apparently tiny files work but anything over a few K fails. He's got someone working on it. It could be fixed at any time, so anyone who's curious

Re: my book on Kindle...

2012-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/29/12 10:58 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: At least a couple of people were interested in getting the book on Kindle (or the app version of Kindle at least), and the info on Amazon only talks about the paper version being released on September 2nd. Well, it is also going to be released on Kindle,

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Ludovic Thébault
IN the open dialog, you just need to do an cmd-shift-G (french system) to display an other windows in which you can type the path to the desired folder. It's the same that in the finder under the menu "Go" HTH ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

my book on Kindle...

2012-06-29 Thread Colin Holgate
Got back home from the conference this evening. I came by train (after riding my foldable bike from the hotel to the Absecon train station). That was not too bad, I left after lunch and was back home in Brooklyn by 7pm. In addition to good sessions, great conversations, and very nice food and d

Re: Kickstarter.livecode

2012-06-29 Thread Monte Goulding
I've thought about this but I can't use the actual kick starter site because it's US only. In the end it's fairly easy to understand that if you buy a product the developer will have more resources to put into product development and maintenance. -- Monte Goulding On 30/06/2012, at 1:33 AM, Th

RE: OT: Tidbits from Jersey

2012-06-29 Thread Ralph DiMola
Great time!!! Thanks to all for sharing your insight and knowledge. Made it home in just over 6 hours even with the 30 mile traffic jam near Newark Airport. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net ___ use-liv

Re: Kickstarter.livecode

2012-06-29 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
On 6/29/12 5:33 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I think it's time we started discussing a Kickstarter.livecode program of some sort. Being at the conference really drove home a need for a system like this for livecoders from livecoders. Please take a look at kickstarter on the web and see what y

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
How about a Special Locations popup menu? Bob On Jun 29, 2012, at 1:47 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Don't know if that works or not but I need people to be able to open > databases anywhere on their computer, not just in ~/Library. > Pete > lcSQL Software > > > > On Fri

Opening files by drag/drop (was Access To ~/Library)

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm moving away from figuring out how to get access to ~/Library in favor of allowing users to open files by dragging and dropping them onto my application. I found a thread in the archives on this topic involving setting an entry in the plist file to the file extensions that the program is prepar

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Don't know if that works or not but I need people to be able to open databases anywhere on their computer, not just in ~/Library. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Can't you use the form: > > answer file "Choose a file..." with "~/

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Can't you use the form: answer file "Choose a file..." with "~/Library Application Support/" You can use with filter to filter the files you can pick I think. Bob On Jun 29, 2012, at 1:07 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Ah, okay. That makes sense. And yes, I can see where that would be useful.

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hmmm... I access an sqLite database used by a network scanner/inventory/help desk system called Spiceworks. To do this, I have to stop the Spiceworks process to make sure it is not open, and won't be opened while I am attempting to access it. I also have to create a share point on the Spiceworks

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Ah, okay. That makes sense. And yes, I can see where that would be useful. In fact, I've had to open a sqlite database from there in the past. My solution was to add ~/Library to my Favorites in the Finder, making it easy to access that location from any open file dialog. But like you say, that

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Chris, I guess that would do it - there is a terminal command to allow/deny access to ~/Library. To answer your question, the application in question is my SQLiteAdmin db admin program for SQLite databases. I had a user who wanted to browse a database that was in his ~/Library/ApplicationSuppor

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Thinking about more generic solution to this problem - allow users to drag/drop a file on my application's top window, or have the appliction open the file if they right click on it, select "Open With", then select my appliction from the list. Neither of these options work for me right now. In t

Re: Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
I'm not sure this is possible, unless you can run some sort of shell command before displaying the dialog. Just out of curiosity, why are you wanting a user to open a file from that location anyway? Isn't it considered "off limits" by the OS. Thus the reason it's hidden. ;-) Chris -- Chris S

Re: Yet Another Sound Problem in iOS

2012-06-29 Thread Tim Jones
Could she have the "Side Switch" set to "Mute" and turned on? Tim On Jun 29, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > OK, what the heck is going on now? My iOS app plays a sound in the simulator > and my iPad 3 but not in my wife's (identical) iPad 3. Everything else works > just fine in all thr

Access to ~/Library on OSX

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I know all the standard ways to get to ~/Library but just came across another - how do I get ~/Library to show up in the Open File dialog box? This will be on a customers computer so I can't ask them permanently unhide the folder. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Standalone name

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hah! You got it Mark, thanks. Actually the old name is all over the place in that tab and the Windows tab Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Oops, sorry, Pete. Have you also changed the Name

Re: Standalone name

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Oops, sorry, Pete. Have you also changed the Name field in the OSX tab of the Standalone Settings window? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color

Yet Another Sound Problem in iOS

2012-06-29 Thread Roger Guay
OK, what the heck is going on now? My iOS app plays a sound in the simulator and my iPad 3 but not in my wife's (identical) iPad 3. Everything else works just fine in all three environments! Any help please? TIA, Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list u

Re: Standalone name

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Mark, Yep, already did that. The standalone gets built with that name but the Application Menu still has the old main stack name. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:48 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Pete, > > There is a f

Re: What happened to my message box?

2012-06-29 Thread stephen barncard
Howard... could your message stack just be lurking offscreen, waiting for a "set the loc of stack 'message' to 100,100" ?? On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:59 AM, Stephen Barncard wrote: > could your message stack just be lurking offscreen, waiting for a > "set the loc of stack message to 100,100" ??

Re: Standalone name

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Pete, There is a field with the label "Standalone Name" on the General tab of the Standalone Application Settings window. You need to update this field. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twit

Standalone name

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Got a strange thing going on when I build a standalone for OSX. It runs fine but the application menu name is different than the standalone name. I changed the name and label of the main stack recently and the application name is the old main stack name, not the new one. Is there some secret pla

Re: OT: Tidbits from Jersey

2012-06-29 Thread Ken Corey
Not only that, we /know/ politicians get up to all sorts of debauchery (that I personally don't really need to hear about). It's a tough one: advertise debauchery for the conference and *really* boost those numbers...(except the part where everyone gets in trouble with the spouses, etc), or ke

[OT] SQLite4

2012-06-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Looks like SQLite4 is looming on the horizon. Mostly internal changes but one thing I did note is the ability to use "rowid" as a synonym for an INTEGER PRIMARY KEY column is planned to go away. If that happens, I'm sure there will be a lot of applications that will need to be re-worked! Pete lcS

Re: OT: Tidbits from Jersey

2012-06-29 Thread Tim Jones
On Jun 29, 2012, at 8:26 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Just remember "What happened in the Oval Room, stays in the Oval Room" ! Uhh, that only applies in Washington, DC. ;-) Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Kickstarter.livecode

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I think it's time we started discussing a Kickstarter.livecode program of some sort. Being at the conference really drove home a need for a system like this for livecoders from livecoders. Please take a look at kickstarter on the web and see what you think for our plugin/external/control develop

Re: OT: Tidbits from Jersey

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Just remember "What happened in the Oval Room, stays in the Oval Room" ! Had a great time…… Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 29, 2012, at 7:22 AM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: > Hi, > > #1, > Radio news in Atlantic City reports that new local laws wi

Code signing error

2012-06-29 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i exported my xcode "code signing assets" and imported them into xcode on an other mac. But when i try to build an ios standalone on that machine i get the error: "There was an error while saving the standalone application could not find a valid identity to use for the selected profile."

OT: Tidbits from Jersey

2012-06-29 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, #1, Radio news in Atlantic City reports that new local laws will soon allow the playing of electronic gambling in and around casinos. There is a flood of mobile app demand screaming for developers if I ever heard of one. Patrons who want to gamble that way will need to be on site and check out

Re: What happened to my message box?

2012-06-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
Glad it's useful. I should give credit to Richard Gaskin since we worked on it together, and he did a large part of the work. On 6/28/12 7:15 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: thanks jacque, this is marvelous! On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 10:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/27/12 1:14 PM, Howard Born