Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

So do I! But it's the armory of useful utitliy scripts now. Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I wish I'd posted my "getpaint" handler sooner. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: [ANN} Task List Plugin lcTaskList Released

congratulations on the release Bill!!! I am looking forward to buy it! =D On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:56 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > I'm pleased to announce that lcTaskList, the Task List Plugin for LiveCode > Programmers, is now available for sale exclusively in the RunRev Marketplace > Store. >

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

On 8/10/12 12:01 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: This works could work too. Change this line for: put url ("binfile:"&it) into the selobj this line: set the text of the selobj to url ("binfile:"&it) Yup. Two ways to do it. I have HyperCard habits. :) That's why the handler is called "getpaint" t

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

Jacque- Thursday, August 9, 2012, 10:09:12 PM, you wrote: >> That's my feeling about objects with the same name. > There are some convenient uses for same-named objects. I use them on > purpose sometimes. ? OK - I'll bite. Name one. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

On 8/9/12 11:39 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Replying to all. In general: Patient to Doctor: "Doctor - it hurts when I do this" Doctor to Patient: "Well don't do that then." That's my feeling about objects with the same name. There are some convenient uses for same-named objects. I use them on

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

Hi Jacque, J. Landman Gay wrote > > on getPaint -- replace an img's content; img must be selected >if the selobj = "" then > answer "Select an image first." > exit getPaint >end if >answer file "Choose replacement image:" >if it = "" then exit to top >put url ("binf

[ANN} Task List Plugin lcTaskList Released

I'm pleased to announce that lcTaskList, the Task List Plugin for LiveCode Programmers, is now available for sale exclusively in the RunRev Marketplace Store. At only $10 it is affordable by everyone who writes software. This plug-in will help you create and manage a list of programming tasks by

Re: [OT] Image Editing App Updated (and on sale?)

Being a cheapskate (plus not doing much in the way of image manipulation), I've started using Gimp on OS X (it's free). It's kinda weird looking but so far I've managed to do the simple things I need to do with it. Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Chris

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

Replying to all. In general: Patient to Doctor: "Doctor - it hurts when I do this" Doctor to Patient: "Well don't do that then." That's my feeling about objects with the same name. The engine allows duplicate names for objects (except stacks) so I'm not sure how allowing control names for butt

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 11:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > It's not what you're looking for (which would be great, I agree) but on > desperate occasions I have opened two stacks as text files in BBEdit and > run "find differences" on them. > Yep, when I know it's just script changes I'm looking

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

The Unix diff command can compare two files and create a set of edit statements to recreate one from the other. I'm assuming GLX2 could make use of that when storing new versions of scripts. Moving from there to store edit statements to recreate a complete stack file would be possible but I imagi

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

On 8/9/12 10:42 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Then there is the process of retrieving lost data. You can't just open up any of these backups because they have exactly the same stack name as the stack you are working on. It's not what you're looking for (which would be great, I agree) but on desperate

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I have, several times. It's on my list of bacon-saving devices. > Yes, and on my list as well, along with TimeMachine and Carbon Copy Cloner. But my comments were more a reflection of how complex, laborious and space wasting the current si

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

On 8/9/12 7:43 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Why does the Inspector allow only image IDs for button icons - object or file names would be so much easier for maintenance purposes. What Scott said. While Mark's right that "lowest layer wins" would be logical, I think it would introduce yet another le

Re: [OT] Image Editing App Updated (and on sale?)

Some may be interested in knowing that you can download a fully functional 30-day trial from their web site. That's what I did a few days ago. But I am planning on buying a copy as well. Chris Sheffield On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > At $15 it's worth having just to check

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

Scott- Thursday, August 9, 2012, 6:55:15 PM, you wrote: > If you had two images of the same name, how would you (or the engine) > determine which image to use? Same way the engine disambiguates everything else: lowest layer number wins. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

If you had two images of the same name, how would you (or the engine) determine which image to use? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Peter Haworth wrote: > Which reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. Why does the > Inspector allow only im

Teaser video for my new database library

Hey Folks, Since we've been talking lately about my new database library, I decided to share a video about it. https://vimeo.com/46918350 Feedback is welcome! Cheers andre -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service.

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

Mark, Mark Wieder wrote > > Well, undo/redo in glx2 is already finished. And the generic mechanism > has now been uploaded to revOnline. Glx2 does have auto-archiving, > which pretty much does what you're describing: saves multiple versions > with timestamps as you go along in an archive directo

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

Kay- Wednesday, August 8, 2012, 9:29:42 PM, you wrote: > Please don't stop working on GLX2 Multi-Undo, because I don't see Versions > coming to LC anytime soon, it's just that I hope it does come because, when > done properly, it will be so much better than what we have now. Well, undo/redo in g

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

Charles- Thursday, August 9, 2012, 10:28:41 AM, you wrote: > I haven't had to use it yet, I have, several times. It's on my list of bacon-saving devices. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

Mike- Thursday, August 9, 2012, 1:09:39 PM, you wrote: > Are we taking suggestions in this thread? If so: No, I don't want to pollute this list with suggestions and bug reports. Please file those as issues at the bitbucket site. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

Which reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask. Why does the Inspector allow only image IDs for button icons - object or file names would be so much easier for maintenance purposes. I know I can do "set the icon of button xyz to the ID of image abc" but would be easier do it in the inspe

Re: Logging Device Tokens

It was a fixed length file format. It had a header that ended in an eof, followed by lines that were in length the sum total of all the columns +1. The +1 was the deleted flag at the beginning of the record. There were no variable length columns. Everything was padded with spaces. Even numerica

Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

Thanks Jacque and Tim, its wonderful having you guys around to discuss these issues with. -- Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Creating-a-reusable-object-Part-2-tp4653520p4653576.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Na

Re: [OT] Image Editing App Updated (and on sale?)

At $15 it's worth having just to check out, and it's in the Mac App Store, so very easy to buy. I gave it a 150MB Photoshop file to open, and it opened it in about five seconds. Photoshop CS6 took seven seconds. Some of the filter effects didn't work, but generally things worked well. They made

[OT] Image Editing App Updated (and on sale?)

Got this notice on another list... PixelMator -- a Photoshop-like app -- apparently just released a new version (and dropped the price?). It does a large amount of what Photoshop does at a fraction of the price: 15 bucks. It supports setting image resolution, though i

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

On 8/9/12 4:27 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That could very well be. The image was imported into the stack but not via the File menu. I did it from the message box via a handler I've used for years. It just takes a file path and puts the image f

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

On Aug 8, 2012, at 11:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/8/12 1:20 AM, Scott Morrow wrote: >> I can't remember, was the image imported into LC or referenced from >> disk? Could the file on disk be fine but some hiccup have happened >> during the import? > > That could very well be. The image wa

Re: Logging Device Tokens

Peter, then you should probably stay away from any of the NoSQL engines, lol. Many of the features you mention are part of many modern DBMS's, but not all. I'm still nursing a DBMS that is well over 30 years old and it is most certainly not ACID compliant, and it does not provide for data integri

Re: Logging Device Tokens

Hmmm, I'm afraid I have to disagree with almost all of that :-) Arrays, cards, csv files, spreadsheets - none of them are databases other than in the sense that they store data. They have no structure, no data integrity enforcement, no inter table relatioships, no ACID compliance, nor any of the o

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Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

On 8/8/12 11:37 PM, Mark Smith wrote: I haven't played with back scripts so I'm not sure how I would get that working (or how different it would be from just having a stack script... but feel free to enlighten me... please!) Backscripts and frontscripts are just scripts in the message hierarch

RevZip issue

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Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

Are we taking suggestions in this thread? If so: 1) The parser should, when colorizing and capitalizing control structures, include the IF keyword (THEN, ELSE and END are included) 2) Code collapse/hiding with disclosure triangles, and construct lines would be great. -- On the first day, God cre

Re: Logging Device Tokens

Hi, Dan. The following info will hopefully help, or at least give you some ideas. I wrote a 'draw something' style app at the beginning of the year and although it's never been released, it's delivered thousands of push notifications on the test service. The scripts run on an on-rev server.

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

On 8/9/12 12:28 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: Kay: It's been pointed out here before. (I'm sorry I don't remember by whom... was it you, Jacquie?) that you can use Dropbox in this way. Of course you need a net connection. If you keep your stacks in your Dropbox desktop folder, Dropbox will store

Re: Logging Device Tokens

If you've ever used an array or set up a background so that you can store records in a stack, you have used a database. I'm sure you already know that. If you've ever used a spreadsheet, you have used a database. If you have ever created a delimited file to store data, you have used a database.

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

Kay: It's been pointed out here before. (I'm sorry I don't remember by whom... was it you, Jacquie?) that you can use Dropbox in this way. Of course you need a net connection. If you keep your stacks in your Dropbox desktop folder, Dropbox will store 30 days worth of previous versions, or ALL pa

Re: Logging Device Tokens

Hi Mike, I guess I've just never dug deep enough into databases... so they aren't quite "stupid-easy" for me, yet... If I have readily available hosting on a LAMP server, and some basic network communication skills, can you (or anyone else here) suggest a specific LC database library to help me

Re: Visual effect in rect

No one is that stupid. I blame Gremlins. ;-) Bob On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:40 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I'm not using it. But I just found the problem. Some idiot programmer was > putting the new content into a field twice. Who'd be that stupid? ___ u

Re: Need beta testers for new database library

Oh great tip Peter! I had no idea! Bob On Aug 8, 2012, at 5:42 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Alejandro, > I would love to contribute the WOrld of Databases! > > Also, a quick comment on connections to sqlite. It's not normally > necessary to have more than one connection. The most common way t

Berkeley Cybersalon Welcomes Hypercard Team

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Re: Visual effect in rect

On 8/9/12 10:29 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: Jacque, Is this for mobile by chance? And in particular for iOS? If so, are you using iphoneSetRedrawInterval somewhere? This can have negative effects on visual effects. If you're using this, trying setting it to 0 (zero) before locking the screen, the

Re: Visual effect in rect

Jacque, Is this for mobile by chance? And in particular for iOS? If so, are you using iphoneSetRedrawInterval somewhere? This can have negative effects on visual effects. If you're using this, trying setting it to 0 (zero) before locking the screen, then back to whatever value once the visual e

Re: Visual effect in rect

On 8/9/12 2:55 AM, Jacques Hausser wrote: Afterthought (more likely): are you sure they are not "embedding" classical lock - unlock screen around your command ? If you have command mainStuff lock screen doChanges unlock screen end mainStuff command doChanges lock screen for

Re: Creating a reusable object - Part 2

Hi Mark, Glad you found my previous suggestions helpful. Let me offer something else for you to think about. I agree with Jacqueline that if all you need to do is handle the resizeStack message, then the best approach is to catch the message at the stack level or the backscripts level. Th

LiveCode Mobile Development by Colin Holgate

My copy of LiveCode Mobile Development arrived in the mail yesterday from Amazon. Thanks Colin, I am looking forward to a great read. -= Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: Visual effect in rect

Afterthought (more likely): are you sure they are not "embedding" classical lock - unlock screen around your command ? If you have command mainStuff lock screen doChanges unlock screen end mainStuff command doChanges lock screen for visual effect in rect tRect unlock scree

Re: Visual effect in rect

Hi Jacque, I had the same problem and finally it worked with the following, but I don't remember exactly why. The trick was perhaps 'show image "Affiche" ' which was never hidden. If it is the case, you should perhaps group the things you are changing and 'show group' before unlocking ? loc