Re: iOS - picking from a scrolling list

2012-08-10 Thread Howard Bornstein
Hi Tom, Sorry I didn't see your response until now. That, in fact, is what I did to deal with the situation. Thanks. On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:32 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Howard, > > I am running out right now so I won't be able to look deeper into this > just yet. But remember that with

Re: Need beta testers for new database library

2012-08-10 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richard Gaskin wrote > > I'd love to see that section as well. I have a few articles of my own > in the works for various things, and it would be great if either or both > of you would like to contribute articles for LiveCode Journal. > > I've always envisioned LCJ as a community-based effort

Re: Serial Port Access

2012-08-10 Thread stephen barncard
Sarah's serial stack go URL "http://www.troz.net/rev/stacks/SerialTest.rev"; On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi all. > > Has anyone written a serial port library? I would be happy to pay for it. > What I want to do is replace our call accounting software with something I >

Serial Port Access

2012-08-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Has anyone written a serial port library? I would be happy to pay for it. What I want to do is replace our call accounting software with something I write. We don't need much, just departmentalized reports for charge backs, so I can do that pretty simply in LC, but I am not very hip on

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, August 10, 2012, 1:01:28 PM, you wrote: > There may or may not be multiples, but I was responding to why we'd want > same-named controls in the stack. Ah... "in the stack". That's a different matter entirely. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/10/12 1:37 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, August 10, 2012, 9:30:46 AM, you wrote: if there is a control "whatever" then... It lets me flag a card to take some action without polling every object or needing to keep track in a custom property, or do something else that requir

Re: Problem with textshift

2012-08-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/10/12 11:43 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm using the textshift property to align icons inserted by setting the imagesource of a character in a line of text. All the development work was done using 5.5 and all worked fine. Recently, I ran the application on 5.0 and setting the textshift had n

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Friday, August 10, 2012, 9:30:46 AM, you wrote: >if there is a control "whatever" then... > It lets me flag a card to take some action without polling every object > or needing to keep track in a custom property, or do something else that > requires upkeep. As long as that control ex

Re: Need beta testers for new database library

2012-08-10 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, Check out the video at: https://vimeo.com/46918350 If you're interested, I would like to contribute an article soon. =D Cheers andre ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Teaser video for my new database library

2012-08-10 Thread Andre Garzia
On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Tim Selander wrote: > Andre, > > That was a very helpful video... and made me very interested in becoming a > beta-tester, if you still have open slots! Does the library work with > RevMedia 4.0? With Unicode? > > Hi Tim, I am about to release it. I haven't tested

Re: Teaser video for my new database library

2012-08-10 Thread Tim Selander
Andre, That was a very helpful video... and made me very interested in becoming a beta-tester, if you still have open slots! Does the library work with RevMedia 4.0? With Unicode? Tim Selander On 8/10/12 10:39 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Hey Folks, Since we've been talking lately about my new

RE: Problem with textshift

2012-08-10 Thread John Dixon
'textShift' has been around since version 1.0 > Is textshift supported in 5.0? I suspect it is a property that was introduced > after 5.0. > > Bob ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Need beta testers for new database library

2012-08-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: I want to see in LiveCode Journal, a special section devoted to the Mystic ,Magical and Wonderful world of Databases. [Notice: This is my personal point of view about this particular topic of computing] :-D Maybe Richard want to name this new section like: Love your Data[

Re: Problem with textshift

2012-08-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Is textshift supported in 5.0? I suspect it is a property that was introduced after 5.0. Bob On Aug 10, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I'm using the textshift property to align icons inserted by setting the > imagesource of a character in a line of text. All the development work wa

Problem with textshift

2012-08-10 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm using the textshift property to align icons inserted by setting the imagesource of a character in a line of text. All the development work was done using 5.5 and all worked fine. Recently, I ran the application on 5.0 and setting the textshift had no effect. This is probably not a very commo

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/10/12 12:15 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: 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. if there is a cont

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Kerner
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Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread Peter Haworth
I guess there are cases where I too use controls with the same name. The most obvious one is labels. 99% of the time, I never need to address labels in a script in any way so I let the default name of "Label" stand. I'm also OK with duplicate names for different types of controls (field, button,

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Kerner
I was too lazy to create a profile, which is why I did it anonymously. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good."

Re: LiveCode Mobile Development by Colin Holgate

2012-08-10 Thread tbodine
Just got the ebook. Looks great! Thanks Colin. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-Mobile-Development-by-Colin-Holgate-tp4653552p4653614.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Externals and COM objects

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks Dar. We'll try that. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Economy-x-Talk is looking for an amateur painter/cartoonist/poet etc. Contact me http:/

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.0.10

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Thursday, August 9, 2012, 1:09:39 PM, you wrote: > 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, a

Re: Externals and COM objects

2012-08-10 Thread Dar Scott
It has been years. This might be due to the wrong mode for the thread you are on. Look at how you use SetApartmentState() and CoInitializeEx(). Yikes! I misspelled the first function and the spellchecker found it! Thread problems can be fickle, so just because something seems to work onc

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Wieder
Chipp- Friday, August 10, 2012, 12:51:01 AM, you wrote: > on clearTempImgs >repeat with x = the number of images down to 1 > if the short name of img x is "temp" then delete img x >end repeat > end clearTempImgs less confusing alternative: if the short name of img x begins with "t

Re: Externals and COM objects

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks, Mike. Safely ignoring the error might be a solution. We are looking into that now. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Economy-x-Talk is lookin

Re: Versioning ( was ANN: GLX2 3.0.10)

2012-08-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hey that is a great tip! I used to use an old OS 9 utility to do something similar between old and new code bases. Bob On Aug 9, 2012, at 8:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > 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 >> an

Re: Externals and COM objects

2012-08-10 Thread Mike Bonner
Don't know much about this stuff but found some things that might apply. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2979113/qcroreapplication-qapplication-with-wmi-- says that the error is due to the com already being initialized and provides more info. http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 10, 2012, at 12:39 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > …Jacque - I know about the button you mentioned but ti still results in an > image ID. Here's the situation that caused me to ask the question. I had > around 30 images I was using as button icons, some for the enabled state, > some for the di

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

2012-08-10 Thread Roger Eller
*Gimp Sources for **OS X (Tiger, Leopard, SnowLeo, Lion, Mtn. Lion):* http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html *SumoPaint Alternative (if there is an internet connection):* http://www.sumopaint.com/ ~Roger On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Being a cheapskate (plus n

Externals and COM objects

2012-08-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, We have made an external that uses COM objects. Now we get the following error when running the external: Failed to initialize COM library. Error code = 0x80010106 Does this look familiar to anyone? Is anyone aware of problems with COM components and LiveCode? Any solutions? -- Best regar

[OT] Game Design Competition

2012-08-10 Thread Rod McCall
We are running a game design competition as part of an EC research project, if you are interested please check out the info and link below. Also there is a chance LiveCode will be used for the mobile apps, if you'd like that to be the case then why not come up with some cool design?:) The LiveCity

Re: Simple script doesn't work

2012-08-10 Thread Chipp Walters
There could be several reasons. The IDE might be eating the messages on startup-- or getting in the way somehow. The engine might have a timing issue. There may be an error thrown and not trapped. There could be other code executing in your stack doing something else and getting in the way. There c

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-10 Thread Chipp Walters
on clearTempImgs repeat with x = the number of images down to 1 if the short name of img x is "temp" then delete img x end repeat end clearTempImgs On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > > There are some convenient uses for same-named objects. I use them on > > pur