Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Mark Wieder
One of the interesting things Bill Atkinson said this evening is that the source code for HyperCard has been donated to the Computer Museum. You can download the code for MacPaint and MacDraw which were also donated, but the HC source code isn't yet downloadable. Bill was optimistically hoping that

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, August 12, 2012, 10:26:02 AM, you wrote: > I admit I choked up a bit when I read the article. I wouldn't be here if > it hadn't been for HyperCard. I seem to be playing straight man for you quite a bit lately, but... OK - where would you be? ...and there should be some kind of p

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
J. Landman Gay wrote > > [snip] > I wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for HyperCard. > Me too! :-D Back then, I tried to build a "Spanish Translation Assistant" http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/HyperCard/message/2159 (Why the HyperCard group is stored among the Finance groups in yahoo???

Re: Old versions of RR/LC and old computers?

2012-08-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > > I belive that were RunRev to market early versions of > RR/LC at cut-down prices they would make some money, > not detract from their sales of up-to-date versions, and > do a lot of people a good service. > Free software is not "free" for the companies that rele

The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Read and save this article about Steve Jobs. I could assure you that his "management style" will find many followers in the short place and near future. We should expect disastrous results in more than one case... http://www.wired.com/business/2012/07/ff_stevejobs/all/ Al -- View this message

Re: Problem with textshift

2012-08-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Good thought Jacque but unfortunately no joy. It was a stack saved in Legacy (2.7) format but opening it in 5.0, then Save As..., then opening the saved version in 5.0 didn't fix the problem. I'm wondering if I can work around whatever the problem is by putting a 4 pixel transparent border at the

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
stephen barncard wrote: Kevin liked it so much he bought the company. (altered quote may only has relevance to those in the US who were watching tv in the 70s and 80s) We were laughing ourselves at Victor Kiam in Britain as well. And, while I am here I would just like to say that Kevin mak

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread stephen barncard
Kevin liked it so much he bought the company. (altered quote may only has relevance to those in the US who were watching tv in the 70s and 80s) On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 11:10 AM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> FWIW, this year is the 20th anni

Re: Problem with textshift

2012-08-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/11/12 12:58 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: 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 sh

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Richard Gaskin wrote: FWIW, this year is the 20th anniversary of LiveCode - while I don't have the specific release date, I believe MetaCard was first released in 1992. At the risk of seeming picky; surely it is the twentieth anniversary of Metacard? Happy birthday, LiveCode. -- Richard

Re: Server doesn't send response code

2012-08-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 28.04.2012 at 22:34 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: But PayPal's sandbox test tool consistently shows an error and replies "IPN delivery failed. Unable to connect to the specified URL. Please verify the URL and try again." Obviously it did find my server and URL, because my script

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
FWIW, this year is the 20th anniversary of LiveCode - while I don't have the specific release date, I believe MetaCard was first released in 1992. Happy birthday, LiveCode. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode devel

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/12/12 11:03 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Someone on the HC list noted this. Hypercard's 25th anniversary. This link was attached: http://www.tuaw.com/tag/hypercard There are some nice links back to RunRev. I admit I choked up a bit when I read the article. I wouldn't be here if it had

Re: Need beta testers for new database library

2012-08-12 Thread stephen barncard
so true! Ever read the Huffington post? Not just the misspellings but the difficulties with Unicode in the text as well. On Sun, Aug 12, 2012 at 9:35 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > If you have an interest in writing anything for LiveCode Journal, please > don't let your confidence in your English ho

Re: Need beta testers for new database library

2012-08-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: 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

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
dunb...@aol.com wrote: Someone on the HC list noted this. Hypercard's 25th anniversary. Well worth celebrating: When Nikita Khrushchev died he went to Hell, and the first things he saw was Hitler up to his neck in shit, and Stalin up to his waist in the stuff. So he asked the Devil why

HC 25 years old today

2012-08-12 Thread dunbarx
Someone on the HC list noted this. Hypercard's 25th anniversary. Craig ___ 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/m

Re: Fast Way to get a Path to files in thumbnail folders

2012-08-12 Thread Charles E Buchwald
How about setting the item delimiter to "/" and using chunk operations, instead of regex? (Not that it would be hard to use regex, but generally LC code is even easier) On 2012-08-11, at 11:57 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > I'm working on catalog delivery system in our new web site. > > o

Old versions of RR/LC and old computers?

2012-08-12 Thread Richmond Mathewson
So, here I am in Britain for a visit with my Mum and Dad, and doing a spot of work on my Tray-loading G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.3.9; and it does just exactly all that I need However, this machine cannot be used with versions of RR/LC later than 4.0 [not really a big problem as far as I am

Re: What was that thing with Photoshop images?

2012-08-12 Thread Chipp Walters
Ok, Still, why do I care to give them unique names (or group them) when I'm just going to delete them milliseconds later in the same handler? On Saturday, August 11, 2012, Mark Wieder wrote: > Chipp- > > Sorry - typing in a rush as I was heading out the door. I was trying > to show alternate mea