Fast Way to get a Path to files in thumbnail folders

2012-08-11 Thread Brahmanathaswami
I'm working on catalog delivery system in our new web site. one of the media types is "slideshow" and we have a path that we can programatically build from the database data that knows what year the photos were taken and has a file ID that match the folder on disk... After that we also know t

Re: [ANN] extIco2Png External Half the Price

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Al, There are lots of applications that need to display file icons, app icons, device icons, or just icons. If you know your way in the registry, you can find out the path to the icon for each file and the ID number of the right icon in that file. You can display a native folder icon in your

Re: Smartphone apps that are transforming us

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro- Saturday, August 11, 2012, 3:49:23 PM, you wrote: > And, I am talking about the kind of excessrcise that > does not endanger your private and public life. :-D LOL -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: Smartphone apps that are transforming us

2012-08-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Mark, Mark Wieder wrote > > Guitar strumming as exercise? If those wankers would learn to play a > real instrument (yes, I *am* talking about a bass) they'd find out > what work really is... > An exercise better than Wii Fit. :-D But, now that phones have cameras, would not be easier to recor

Re: Hilite pattern in list field doesn't scroll correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/11/12 12:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: > I have a carefully sized gradient image that I use as a custom > hilite pattern in a list field. It is exactly the height of the > textheight. When the field is not scrolled it lines up perfectly > wit

Re: sent message skipping card handler and going to stack

2012-08-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > If your closeField handler is at stack level, then it will be able to call > other handlers at stack level or higher only. If you want to call a handler > lower in the message hierarchy, then you need to use the send command: send > "up

Re: Smartphone apps that are transforming us

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro- Saturday, August 11, 2012, 1:48:26 PM, you wrote: > eating and physical activity, which they can do by holding their phones > up to a food package’s barcode, or by tapping the screen a few times > at the start and end of a walk (the app offers a range of activity > categories, includin

Re: [ANN] extIco2Png External Half the Price

2012-08-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Mark, How did other applications use this functionality? Displaying other application icon's could be useful for creating your own file selector dialogs, but besides this specific use, Which other uses could have this dll? Thanks in advance Al Mark Schonewille-3 wrote > > I know that Wind

Re: Hilite pattern in list field doesn't scroll correctly

2012-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/12 12:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: > I have a carefully sized gradient image that I use as a custom > hilite pattern in a list field. It is exactly the height of the > textheight. When the field is not scrolled it lines up perfectly > with any selected line of t

Mobile font sizes

2012-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
Has anyone got a list of default font sizes for various iOS devices? I.e., what's a good visible font size on iPhone, iPhone retina, iPad, iPad retina? I know these will vary depending on the app, but I'd like a ballpark target. It's hard to tell in the simulator what will look right. -- Jac

Re: sent message skipping card handler and going to stack

2012-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/12 4:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I'm probably missing something simple here . . . A field does a bit on closeField, and then passes closeField. In the stack closeField, updMyVal is invoked. Rather than the card handler for updMyVal, it steps into the stack handler for updMyVal. What cou

Re: sent message skipping card handler and going to stack

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, If your closeField handler is at stack level, then it will be able to call other handlers at stack level or higher only. If you want to call a handler lower in the message hierarchy, then you need to use the send command: send "updMyVal" to this cd. If this doesn't answer your question, th

sent message skipping card handler and going to stack

2012-08-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm probably missing something simple here . . . A field does a bit on closeField, and then passes closeField. In the stack closeField, updMyVal is invoked. Rather than the card handler for updMyVal, it steps into the stack handler for updMyVal. What could be causing this? -- The Hawkins Law

Smartphone apps that are transforming us

2012-08-11 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Interesting article written by David H. Freeman http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/06/the-perfected-self/8970/?single_page=true Dramatic introduction: "B. F. Skinner’s notorious theory of behavior modification was denounced by critics 50 years ago as a fascist, manipulative vehicle

Re: Problem with textshift

2012-08-11 Thread Peter Haworth
Checked out the fixedlineheight and it is true. I've now run this on the same computer (OS X Snow Leopard) same stack, same data using 5.0.2 and 5.5.1 and the different behavior still persists. If I step through the code in 5.5.1, I can see the image shift down when the line of code that sets the

Re: Hilite pattern in list field doesn't scroll correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: > I have a carefully sized gradient image that I use as a custom > hilite pattern in a list field. It is exactly the height of the > textheight. When the field is not scrolled it lines up perfectly > with any selected line of the field. > > But if the scrollbar is dragged an

Re: Hilite pattern in list field doesn't scroll correctly

2012-08-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/12 11:08 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: don't set the hilitepattern, set the backgroundpattern instead. I want the field background color to be black. I want the hilited line in the list to be the custom gradient. I've used a script that moves a patterned button over the selected lin

Re: Hilite pattern in list field doesn't scroll correctly

2012-08-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
don't set the hilitepattern, set the backgroundpattern instead. On 07.08.2012, at 04:33, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I have a carefully sized gradient image that I use as a custom hilite pattern > in a list field. It is exactly the height of the textheight. When the field > is not scrolled it lines

Re: Teaser video for my new database library

2012-08-11 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Andre, thanks for that video. I would love to test your library. I sent you an email already some days ago, but did not get an answer. Regards, Matthias Am 10.08.2012 um 03:39 schrieb Andre Garzia : > Hey Folks, > > Since we've been talking lately about my new database library, I > decided

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Chipp- Sorry - typing in a rush as I was heading out the door. I was trying to show alternate means of dealing with that situation without having to resort to the confusion of having multiple controls with identical names. What I meant to suggest was 1) instead of naming all the graphics "temp",

Re: Teaser video for my new database library

2012-08-11 Thread Mark Smith
Andre, brilliant little library. Thanks (PS will give it a test this evening and let you know if I can break it). Probably not, looks very solid. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Teaser-video-for-my-new-database-library-tp4653583p4653635.html Sent

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-11 Thread Chipp Walters
Mark, ? You haven't any idea how or why this is used. How can you suggest something like: begins with "temp" over is "temp" ? How do you know how the images got there? Do you know they are in a group? I really don't understand your comment. You asked for a case where you can see the possible us