Re: Certain Images cause LC Freeze?

On 07/30/2012 05:28 AM, webmas...@curiositi.com wrote: Are file attachments allowed on this mailing list? I'm attempting to upload example stack as ZIPed file this time. No, they are not. You must provide a url to where your "attachments" are stored. --ForrestD On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:22:1

Re: THe debugger is going for a walk???

Howard- Friday, July 27, 2012, 3:00:53 PM, you wrote: > Unfortunately, Trace never made its way back into the debug menu and there > are still Trace commands listed in the dictionary (TraceStack,TraceReturn, > TraceDelay). Actually, the traceStack, traceReturn, traceAbort, traceUntil properties

ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.8

Hi- It appears that some of my new version emails have been ending up in spam folders, so I'll make this a more general announcement. Following up on a thread on the use-list this last week about trace mode no longer being in the IDE's debugger, I realized that trace mode had stopped working in P

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

On 30/07/2012, at 2:21 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > With Android you can post an APK anywhere, and people can install it (if they > have enabled the ability to install apps that way). so, much easier situation > than iOS. Yes, and test directly to a device easily (which is what we need fruitstra

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 106, Issue 65

I am on Mountain Lion, and 5.5.1, but I'm also on iOS 6, so I'm using Xcode 4.5. That seems to work. I'm sure I did the 5.0 download tha tJim mentioned, but that was because of a deficiency in LiveCode. On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:08 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > I still wonder if others on this list ha

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

With Android you can post an APK anywhere, and people can install it (if they have enabled the ability to install apps that way). so, much easier situation than iOS. On Jul 29, 2012, at 11:42 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > What? It works on Android too? Now I'm listening. ;-) __

Re: [ANN] EPS Import V05C

Thanks for the extra details. I've done a lot of importing of AI files today. I find that fresh AI files that have new curves are producing stacks that are zero width and height, but copying the curves into an existing AI that has something in it will give me a file that works. I save as Illus

Re: Upgrade to Mountain Lion and LiveCode 5.5.1 Problem

Sorry folks< i forgot the Subject line. On Jul 29, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Jim Lambert wrote: > This MIGHT help. > > In Xcode go to Preference > Downloads and download the 5.0 Simulator. Thanks, Jim. I did that early on and it made no difference. My situation remains the same: my iOS simulator hangs

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 106, Issue 65

On Jul 29, 2012, at 7:08 PM, Jim Lambert wrote: > This MIGHT help. > > In Xcode go to Preference > Downloads and download the 5.0 Simulator. Thanks, Jim. I did that early on and it made no difference. My situation remains the same: my iOS simulator hangs in every situation. I still wonder if

Re: Certain Images cause LC Freeze?

Hi Forrest, It works fine here. Phil Davis On 7/29/12 7:42 PM, webmas...@curiositi.com wrote: Sorry for the extra posts. Since I can't upload, here is a URL to download the example stack. http://www.curiositi.com/filestoshare/ImageCauseFreeze.zip Could some of you please download and tell m

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

On 30/07/2012, at 01:21 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > I just added another function to this plugin. You can now use it to test and > see logs from both iOS and android simulators and connected android devices. > So version 1.1 is up now. Thanks Monte - I tried the fruitstrap feature out this mor

Re: ChartMaker and the London Olympics: Update

Really Nice! Thanks for sharing. :-) How could I see results from, for example, Brasil, Mexico, Argentina, etc... Keep Up your great work! Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ChartMaker-and-the-London-Olympics-Update-tp4652945p4653034.html Sent

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

On 30/07/2012, at 1:42 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > What? It works on Android too? Now I'm listening. ;-) hahahaha... well TestFlight and FruitStrap don't but the Test button starts displaying the logs from both the device and emulator. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke a

Re: Certain Images cause LC Freeze?

Hi Your stack is version 2.7 I tested in RR 2.8 and RevMedia 4 without problems... Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Certain-Images-cause-LC-Freeze-tp4653018p4653031.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

What? It works on Android too? Now I'm listening. ;-) ~Roger On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:21 PM, Monte Goulding < mo...@sweattechnologies.com> wrote: > I just added another function to this plugin. You can now use it to test > and see logs from both iOS and android simulators and connected and

Re: Amazon opportunities for apps

This is good news! Many thanks for sharing this link in this mailing list. Suddenly, mobile computing is turning upside down the programming world. All the big players are fueling this change of paradigm: Apple (Leaders and Innovators) Google (The IBM of the Internet) Microsoft (who is waking up

Re: Wait just a doggone minute!

Wrong mail list??? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Wait-just-a-doggone-minute-tp4652904p4653029.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

I just added another function to this plugin. You can now use it to test and see logs from both iOS and android simulators and connected android devices. So version 1.1 is up now. Cheers -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergE

Re: making a graphic the shape of a bitmap

Hi Roger, Roger Eller wrote > > Alejandro also has a few bezier manipulation examples. Just look for > filenames beginning with 'bezier'. All of this work is very useful to us. > I wish RunRev would adapt some of this into the drawing tools in the IDE. > http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandr

Re: [ANN] EPS Import V05C

Hi Colin, Colin Holgate-2 wrote > > You may have read my other message about getting graphics > to be an exact shape, your EPS thing looks like it will solve > the problem for me, thanks! > You are welcome! :-) Just notice that these EPS are actually files saved as Adobe Ilustrator 7 or minor

Re: Saving data with a Stand Alone

yeah Sarah rocks... one of our best teachers.. On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:40 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > Oops! I mean one of "Sarah's" how-to, hosted on Richard's site. :) > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Roger Eller > wrote: > > > Save a splash screen stack as a standalone, plus a separate

Re: Certain Images cause LC Freeze?

Sorry for the extra posts. Since I can't upload, here is a URL to download the example stack. http://www.curiositi.com/filestoshare/ImageCauseFreeze.zip Could some of you please download and tell me if you can recreate the error. Any ideas for preventing this error? --ForrestD On Sun, 29

Re: Saving data with a Stand Alone

Oops! I mean one of "Sarah's" how-to, hosted on Richard's site. :) On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:32 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > Save a splash screen stack as a standalone, plus a separate stack for > data. Here's one of Richard Gaskin's excellent how-to's: > > http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/s

Re: Saving data with a Stand Alone

standard practice is to create another stack to hold the settings of things that change and save it to a preferences or documents directory. Then each instance on different computers can have its own settings. You might have to rewrite some of your code to accomodate this. Apple has put forth new

Re: Saving data with a Stand Alone

Save a splash screen stack as a standalone, plus a separate stack for data. Here's one of Richard Gaskin's excellent how-to's: http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html ~Roger On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 10:08 PM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: > How does a Developer write a stac

Re: Can't PASTE into fields

Hi, Still puzzled by this > On stack I've created, a simple card database of campers, I can type > into the text fields. But I can't PASTE into them. > > In other stacks and substacks, paste works. > > Can't figure out why. Then help came from RLG with Q: Is this in the IDE or in a standal

Re: Certain Images cause LC Freeze?

Are file attachments allowed on this mailing list? I'm attempting to upload example stack as ZIPed file this time. --ForrestD On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:22:10 -0500, webmas...@curiositi.com wrote: Have others encountered this problem before? I've found that loading certain images into a LiveCode

Certain Images cause LC Freeze?

Have others encountered this problem before? I've found that loading certain images into a LiveCode Image Area cause the program to become unresponsive. I have to force quit LiveCode and upon relaunch "set the filename" of the image area to empty. Otherwise, it will lock up again. Any ideas

Saving data with a Stand Alone

Hi, How does a Developer write a stack so that the Stand Alone Application can save that updated version of the stack, really? So, I get that the Stand Alone is "Read Only." Or, I think I get it. I want to write a LC application and have it passed to a "coach" on a Flash Drive as a stand alo

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

Another gem! Thank you, Monte. 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/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: A small love gift.

> > *This may say something about 5.5.5. !* I just re-upped for two more years. I guess I gained a couple of version points in my enthusiasm. sqb On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 07/29/2012 08:58 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> Richmond FYI >> launching your stack

Re: Upgrade to Mountain Lion and LiveCode 5.5.1 Problem

Roger, This MIGHT help. In Xcode go to Preference > Downloads and download the 5.0 Simulator. Jim Lambert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefere

Re: A small love gift.

On 07/29/2012 08:58 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond FYI launching your stack made the tool palette disappear forever until Livecode (5.5.5) is restarted. Encouraging . . . NOT authored in 4.5 with nary a problem. This may say something about 5.5.5. ! The trouble about being at the

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

Hmm. Betcha theres a built in linux way, but yeah if you are looking for multiple markets it absolutely makes sense to roll your own. Don't know why I forgot to mention linux in my list of problems with this method.. Homer moment. DOH On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sun,

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 4:42 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Of course if vbscript is broken (how likely is that *coughWINDOWS*) then > your customer won't be happy. Gee, this didn't work on the linux box on my lap when I found this :) Windows is actually a secondary market for me. I'll probably make m

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

Try this in a button. on mouseUp put "result = FormatCurrency(25432)" into tScript do tScript as vbscript put the result end mouseUp As long as your system region settings are what you expect you should get $25,432.00 in the message box. Of course if vbscript is broken (how likely is th

Re: A small love gift.

stephen- Sunday, July 29, 2012, 1:39:22 PM, you wrote: > I know, but I TRUSTED Richmond. He makes me laugh. I know, I know, but... I've gotten lots of spam emails lately purporting to be from folks I know with just a url and a short message like "open this, you'll like it"... -- -Mark Wieder

Is it really this hard to print currency values?

On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Robert Brenstein wrote: > On 29.07.2012 at 9:05 Uhr -0700 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote > > If you deal only with dollars, the issue is trivial. Things get quickly > complicated if you deal with multiple currencies. > Trivial would be good :) Yes, only dollars; this is f

Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

> I haven't said much in this discussion because it's all such a mess I don't > know where to start. But to be honest, I agree that scaling would be better > in general than sets of presized images, since as you say, they'd all need > scaling anyway on some devices. Good point. I'll try to clar

Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

On 7/29/12 4:37 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: I was suggesting something along these lines a couple of days ago but both Scott and Chipp shot the idea down in preference for proportional scaling of x2 images. I'm not sure how the low end devices will cope with scaling images on the fly but it would r

Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

I was suggesting something along these lines a couple of days ago but both Scott and Chipp shot the idea down in preference for proportional scaling of x2 images. I'm not sure how the low end devices will cope with scaling images on the fly but it would reduce app size. It's worthwhile noting th

Re: iOS - picking from a scrolling list

Hi Tom, Thank you for this code. It has been very helpful in getting me going on using an IOS scroller. It works fine except for the following situation, which is baffling me at this point. If I implement a scroller with your code, everything works they way I would expect it to. However, if I scr

Re: LiveCode User Group: Aug 2, Pasadena

On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Richard Gaskin wrote: > The first Thursday of each month the SoCal LiveCode User Group meets at > Burger Continental in Pasadena at 7 PM - details here: > > > Sou

standalone building and externals as inclusions

How does the standalone builder integrate externals into a standalone? In particular, where does it insert them in the path? And does it use one object per external or one for all? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please v

LiveCode User Group: Aug 2, Pasadena

The first Thursday of each month the SoCal LiveCode User Group meets at Burger Continental in Pasadena at 7 PM - details here: Bring your questions, cool algos or projects you've been working on, and an appetite for BC's excellent burgers and

Re: A small love gift.

I know, but I TRUSTED Richmond. He makes me laugh. On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > stephen- > > Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:58:17 AM, you wrote: > > > Richmond FYI > > launching your stack made the tool palette disappear forever until > > Livecode (5.5.5) is restarted. >

Re: Insertion points, cursors and locked textFields

On 07/29/2012 10:30 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: Overlay the field with a locked transparent field? Love you man! -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jul 29, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Richmond wrote: DOES ANYBODY KNOW how one can lock a textField while ke

Re: Insertion points, cursors and locked textFields

Overlay the field with a locked transparent field? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jul 29, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Richmond wrote: > DOES ANYBODY KNOW how one can lock a textField while keeping the insertion > point visible? ___

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

On 29.07.2012 at 9:05 Uhr -0700 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: As I sat down to finally encode currency into my output, I pulled old answers from older questions and did more searches. Is it *really* this hard to output currency? If you deal only with dollars, the issue is trivial. Things get

Re: [OT} (another) Free Office Suite

its the forked koffice suite. kexi is quite interesting - filemaker competitor. Never got along very well with koffice, but if you like frame oriented word processing, it is that. Simple desktop publishing can be quite useful. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.27830

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

On 07/29/2012 08:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:43:49 AM, you wrote: Something a bit wrong with column widths on my Thunderbird e-mail client over here: My column widths seem to truncate my email send column such that my emails from Shakespeare's Associates thea

Re: A small love gift.

stephen- Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:58:17 AM, you wrote: > Richmond FYI > launching your stack made the tool palette disappear forever until > Livecode (5.5.5) is restarted. rotfl. I would never ever launch an unknown file that came in an email that said "launch me an see what happens"... e

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

Richmond- Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:43:49 AM, you wrote: > Something a bit wrong with column widths on my Thunderbird e-mail client > over here: My column widths seem to truncate my email send column such that my emails from Shakespeare's Associates theater troupe results in my receiving emails

Re: A small love gift.

Richmond FYI launching your stack made the tool palette disappear forever until Livecode (5.5.5) is restarted. On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:55 AM, Richmond wrote: > From time to time I need something, and I generally make my own > stack to do it; this is one I have just been using: > > http://a

Insertion points, cursors and locked textFields

I've got a right chestnut over here: My Devawriter Pro features output fields (unsurprisingly) that are currently unlocked. However a problem has come up that seems to be solvable by stopping end-users from being able to click in an output field. HOWEVER . . . If I lock those outputs field

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

Something a bit wrong with column widths on my Thunderbird e-mail client over here: I read this thread as " Is it really this hard to print currency" ? LOL I dunno, never tried, but if anybody can find a way to get Livecode to print currency I would love to be the first to know.

Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

On 7/29/12 9:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Should we consider adding an imageDirectory property? Is there some simpler way to swap out the paths to all referenced images without changing each one individually? I think it would be pretty straightforward to do that without an engine change. Bui

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

It's actually stickier than that, depending on how far and wide your currency must be displayed... Currency can be 1-3 characters ($ or GBP, if you see what I mean)...and many of the single letter currency symbols require unicode...take the euro "€" for example. On windows it's alt-0128 (on t

Re: making a graphic the shape of a bitmap

Alejandro also has a few bezier manipulation examples. Just look for filenames beginning with 'bezier'. All of this work is very useful to us. I wish RunRev would adapt some of this into the drawing tools in the IDE. http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/ ~Roger On Sun, Jul 29, 2012

Re: making a graphic the shape of a bitmap

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:40 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: > When you say, "there doesn't seem to be a way to edit a graphic's shape" > how do you mean? There is "Reshape graphic" under the Object menu for > manual editing. Or did you mean something more sophisticated? > > Jim Hurley > Alejandro has don

Re: making a graphic the shape of a bitmap

That is something I didn't know about, and it could be of use for reshaping low count polygon. I have complicated tight fitting curves, and the reshape feature shows that as hundreds of anchor points, reshaping it gives me lots of spikes. If I made a curve out of straight lines, that might get m

Re: Upgrade to Mountain Lion and LiveCode 5.5.1 Problem

On Jul 29, 2012, at 7:44 AM, Colin wrote: > Another thing that can cause such messages is if you have not given the app > and Internal ID. Leaving at at the default text can stop the app from being > installed. Enter something valid, like "com.rogerguay.appname", where > "appname" would be the

Re: making a graphic the shape of a bitmap

> > Message: 14 > Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:31:12 -0400 > From: Colin Holgate > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: making a graphic the shape of a bitmap > Message-ID: <2c60fc45-5cd4-4ac1-b12b-c802eb95e...@verizon.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > How can you make a graphic

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

function commaFormat tNum put tNum mod 1 into remainder delete char 1 of remainder put trunc(tNum) into tNum put the number of chars in tNum into n repeat with i = 1 to trunc((n-1)/3) put comma after char n - 3*i of tNum end repeat return tNum& remainder end comma

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

Hi. I wrote a checkWriting stack in HC about 25 years ago. No modulo, just text parsing. It is compact and utterly basic. If nobody else replies in the next day, I will pull it from my office and send you the code. It is just chunk engineering. Fun stuff. Craig Newman -Original Messag

Re: filePath utility

On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:39 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > >> For anyone who might find it useful… >> >> I'm posting a little utility stack that allows you to drag and drop a file >> or folder and get its LC file path, then click a button to put it on

A small love gift.

From time to time I need something, and I generally make my own stack to do it; this is one I have just been using: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/GIFTS/Buttoneer.rev.zip Love, Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

Thomas McGrath III wrote: > The reason I posted this (most obvious post) was because the LC > engine already knows the difference between a point and a pixel > and interprets two physical pixels as a logical point with this > command. It does know how to double the size of 'everything' all > at o

Re: filePath utility

On Sunday, July 29, 2012, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > For anyone who might find it useful… > > I'm posting a little utility stack that allows you to drag and drop a file > or folder and get its LC file path, then click a button to put it on the > clipboard. Option (alt) drop a folder to see and copy

filePath utility

For anyone who might find it useful… I'm posting a little utility stack that allows you to drag and drop a file or folder and get its LC file path, then click a button to put it on the clipboard. Option (alt) drop a folder to see and copy the folder contents. Available as a plugin or as a stand

Re: Preview of Resolution Independent Control library for RevMobile

The reason I posted this (most obvious post) was because the LC engine already knows the difference between a point and a pixel and interprets two physical pixels as a logical point with this command. It does know how to double the size of 'everything' all at once. And what we are actually looki

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

Yes... Now ;-) -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 29/07/2012, at 10:32 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Monte, > > Is there a download link yet? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: [ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

Monte, Is there a download link yet? -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jul 29, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi LiveCoders > > I thought I'd spend this rainy Sunday polishing off a handy little iOS app > testing plugin (mergTestApp). If you do

[ANN] Test Flight and direct to iOS device plugin added to mergExt

Hi LiveCoders I thought I'd spend this rainy Sunday polishing off a handy little iOS app testing plugin (mergTestApp). If you do frequent cycles of rebuild and deploy to your own device then you will love the Fruit Strap button. This button does one click app build and install direct onto any c