Re: [TEASER] "Kochi Mini SVN" a very simple "Script-Level Version Control System" for LiveCode

Rolf - this looks pretty cool and is something that I could definitely use. Terry... On 31/10/2012, at 04:43 AM, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: > Hello LiveCoder's > > Just a little teaser of a tool I made. Recently there was a lot of talk on > both lists > about Script-Level Version Control. I have c

Re: Any virus issues with 5.5.3 installer on Windows?

On 10/30/12 9:00 PM, tbodine wrote: Hi, All. I was installing the LC 5.5.3 update on my Windows XP PC and Trend Micro Internet Security claimed it was a threat (specifically HEU_CDPLC014) detected by "Correlation scan". Anyone had a similar issue? Thanks, Tom Bodine I haven't seen anyone mentio

Re: Control Key on Linux

On 10/30/12 7:13 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Is that what that funny flag icon key on the left is? I've been wondering for years why every keyboard I buy seems to have this key that does nothing as far as I can see Every time you press it, it sends a message to Microsoft saying you're usi

Any virus issues with 5.5.3 installer on Windows?

Hi, All. I was installing the LC 5.5.3 update on my Windows XP PC and Trend Micro Internet Security claimed it was a threat (specifically HEU_CDPLC014) detected by "Correlation scan". Anyone had a similar issue? Thanks, Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.27

Re: Control Key on Linux

Is that what that funny flag icon key on the left is? I've been wondering for years why every keyboard I buy seems to have this key that does nothing as far as I can see Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Control-Key-on-Linux-tp4656763p46

Re: Control Key on Linux

Thanks everyone. I got confused (easily done!) by the dictionary entries for controlKeyDown: "On Windows systems , a control key combinationsends a commandKeyDown message instead, and the *controlKeyDown* m

Re: Control Key on Linux

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 8:30 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > I see, Richard. You didn't want to make clear that your keyboard isn't > standard but you were just kidding. OK, I got it. > > The special modifier keys are: Shift, Control, Alt, Meta, Hyper and Super.

Re: Control Key on Linux

I see, Richard. You didn't want to make clear that your keyboard isn't standard but you were just kidding. OK, I got it. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 5027

Re: Control Key on Linux

Mark Schonewille wrote: > On 30 okt 2012, at 23:02, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Mark Schonewille wrote: >> >> > I'd say that a Linux box is just a PC with a standard keyboard... >> >> ...except in my office, where I've fixed the bug in which most PC >> keyboards have a Windows key even when you're

Re: Control Key on Linux

Isn't that a control key, left of the function key, Richard? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.L

Re: Control Key on Linux

Mark Schonewille wrote: > I'd say that a Linux box is just a PC with a standard keyboard... ...except in my office, where I've fixed the bug in which most PC leyboards have a Windows key even when you're not running Windows, just this like:

Re: Control Key on Linux

Pete, I'd say that a Linux box is just a PC with a standard keyboard (where the definition of standard may differ by country). Each keyboard has a control key nowadays, but as a long-time Mac user I wouldn't call that typically for Macs :-) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Co

Control Key on Linux

Since I don't have a Linux box, can someone let me know if their keyboards typically have a control key, like a Mac keyboard? Thanks Pete lcSQL Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Re: [OT] New ChromeBook

Thanks for the feedback Erik. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Erik Schwartz wrote: > I've been using the chromebook I got at google IO since spring of 2011. If > you live in cloud based apps (google docs, email, other web apps) it's > awesome. Terri

Re: a little unicode help

Interesting. I've had issues with UTF16 and SQLite too so thanks fort the solution. However, according to the SQLite docs, it supports both UTF8 and UTF16 and will convert between them so I wonder why the uniencode/decode calls are necessary. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue,

Re: [TEASER] "Kochi Mini SVN" a very simple "Script-Level Version Control System" for LiveCode

Well implemented! Great work. On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > That looks great Rolf! I know it's a little early to be making suggestions > but I think it would be really useful to be able to assign a name to the > version instead of automatically creating one, possibly

Re: [TEASER] "Kochi Mini SVN" a very simple "Script-Level Version Control System" for LiveCode

That looks great Rolf! I know it's a little early to be making suggestions but I think it would be really useful to be able to assign a name to the version instead of automatically creating one, possibly as a preference setting. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at

Version control

At the risk of being accused of being a kitchen-table sort of programmer I find the easiste way to 'do' version control is to have alarge piece of paper stuck on my office wall, where I have drawn a thing that looks vaguely like those slightly misleading diagrams of phylological evolution that mos

Re: [TEASER] "Kochi Mini SVN" a very simple "Script-Level Version Control System" for LiveCode

Rolf, I have been waiting for the perfect script level version control and I think what you have come up with is it! Any idea when it might be ready for "consumption?" SKIP > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Rolf Kocherhans > wrote: > >> Hello LiveCoder's >> >> Just a little teaser of a tool

Re: a little unicode help

On 10/30/2012 05:36 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: I know several of you out there are unicode "experts". I'm in need of a little help with something. Working on an iPad app. At one point I'm using a native input text field to get the user's name. Until yesterday I was simply retrieving the text p

Re: [TEASER] "Kochi Mini SVN" a very simple "Script-Level Version Control System" for LiveCode

Rolf, Congratulations on your soon to be released tool. A little feedback from the video: - Please during your installation process don't simply quit LiveCode with a dialog. Present the user with the option of exiting or doing it later. The user may have unsaved work in there. - Your comment st

Re: Images in Data Grids

Ah, I see - it's a form not a table. But I learned something new - didn't know images had a text property that represents the image itself. That could probably be used in the FillInData for a datagrid table. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Mark Wiede

Re: [OT] New ChromeBook

I've been using the chromebook I got at google IO since spring of 2011. If you live in cloud based apps (google docs, email, other web apps) it's awesome. Terrific battery life. Wakes up and sleeps instantly. If you live in desktop apps or you find yourself without a good internet connection, it is

[TEASER] "Kochi Mini SVN" a very simple "Script-Level Version Control System" for LiveCode

Hello LiveCoder's Just a little teaser of a tool I made. Recently there was a lot of talk on both lists about Script-Level Version Control. I have created a plugin that just fits into that niche and it's just about ready for prime time ! Are you interested ? Check it out at http://dl.dropbox.

Re: Images in Data Grids

Thanks Mark, I'll take a look. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > Monday, October 29, 2012, 1:26:44 PM, you wrote: > > > Cool! How do you get them into the datagrid? Using FillInData or > > something? > > Even a short f

Re: a little unicode help

Excellent! That seems to have done the trick. I had thought about trying that at one point, but hadn't quite gotten that far. Thanks again for the help. Chris On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Chris, > > Are you 1) first retrieving the data from the native text fiel

Re: a little unicode help

Hi Chris, Are you 1) first retrieving the data from the native text field as unicode, then saving the data to SQLite, then reading it from SQLite and finally setting the text of the LiveCode field or 2) just retrieving the data from the native text field and immediately setting the unicodeText

Re: a little unicode help

Mark, Here's a selection of my code. It really is quite simple. I first retrieve the text from the native text input control: put mobileControlGet(myInputID,"unicodeText") into tUserName This user name then gets saved to a SQLite database. Then the user name is placed in a LiveCode field using

Re: Scripting shades of colors?

Hi Jan This was spot on! Thanks for your reply and stack Michael > Hi Michael, > > > You might be interested in Quartam Color Library for LiveCode - a free / open > source software project available under the commercial-friendly LGPL license. > > It has built-in functions for producing lig

Re: Scripting shades of colors?

Michael, Here is a function that I use to lighten a color. You could modify this to get a darker color as well. Hope it helps. function lightenColor origColor try repeat with i = 1 to 3 add 50 to item i of origColor if item i of origColor > 255 then put 255 into item i of ori

Re: a little unicode help

Chris, Post your script to show the encoding. You should encode Russian and English text in exactly the same way. If it works for Russian, then it works for English. If it only disaplays the first character, then there is probable a NULL character somewhere, which indicates double-byte encodin

Re: a little unicode help

Thanks for the quick reply, Mark. I've tried treating all text as unicode, but the characters from the English keyboard still don't work right. But maybe my problem is in the conversion. So I'm retrieving the unicodeText property of the native text field. Then I'm using the unicodeText property

Re: a little unicode help

Hi Chris, Just consider all text as unicode. I'm not sure that it is possible to display different types of unicode (Japanese, Hebrew, English, Russian, Thai) next to each other in one field. This used to be impossible, but I hope this was changed in the latest version of LC. -- Best regards

a little unicode help

I know several of you out there are unicode "experts". I'm in need of a little help with something. Working on an iPad app. At one point I'm using a native input text field to get the user's name. Until yesterday I was simply retrieving the text property of the field and all was working well. B

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

To get prerelease ones you would, yes, but check your RunRev account, see if the is 5.5.3 release version waiting for you. On Oct 30, 2012, at 9:33 AM, Christophe Leske wrote: > > > Ok, so this is where I get uncomfortable, as I am just a normal paying > customer. > I got 5.5.2 here - in o

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Hi Matthias et al, the new version 5.5.3 got me going again, I am fine now besides the fact that my OS X harddisk is now completely filled... But thanks for the quick turnaround! Greets, Christophe Leske ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Christophe, when did you purchase? Try to contact supp...@runrev.com and describe your problem with the iOS6 simulator. Maybe they find a solution for you. They are more than fair. Regards, Matthias -- Matthias Rebbe matthias (at) rebbe.tk Tel +49.5741.31 Tel +49.160.5504462 -- "Life is to

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Ok, so this is where I get uncomfortable, as I am just a normal paying customer. I got 5.5.2 here - in order to get access to the latest LiveCode Version, i am supposed to subscribe to a developer's program? I find that to be quite daft after having paid 500€ in order to get the software lic

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Hi Christophe, welcome to the list. There is also a little problem with the ios 6 simulator: The new simulator does not like like apps with the same domain installed in your simulator. This could give an error message like "Unable to start simulation: iOS Simulator failed to install applicatio

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Am Tue Oct 30 14:28:00 2012 schrieb Colin Holgate: Welcome! Not sure where you got Xcode 4.5.5 from, the latest prerelease one I can see is 4.5.2, and when I get prerelease ones I tend to keep the existing release one installed too, which would be 4.5.1. Hi, my fault, I got indeed 4.5.1 (d

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Welcome! Not sure where you got Xcode 4.5.5 from, the latest prerelease one I can see is 4.5.2, and when I get prerelease ones I tend to keep the existing release one installed too, which would be 4.5.1. In Xcode Preferences there is Downloads section, where you can download older SDKs for it

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Am 30.10.12 14:02, schrieb Thomas McGrath III: Actually, what really happened was that I rebooted my computer after the weekend fishing and all was fine so it just took time to settle in. Hello Thomas, thank you for your reply. Downloading and installing the old simulator fixed it for me, I

Re: iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Christophe, Any time you have a new Desktop OS, and a new Development IDE, and a new iOS, and a new Livecode version you are bound to run into issues until everything gets worked out and all caveats are resolved. As far as I know this would be the same on any platform. With the new xCode, Appl

iOS simulator closes right after opening of app

Hi there, i am an old time Director user who recently switched to LiveCode for mobile development. Thanks to Colin Holgate for pointing me to this list. After trying to figure out how to write and test my apps, I ran into a couple of issues which I cannot resolve... sigh. I am trying to tes

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

I use it (PostgreSQL) since 1996 and it never gave me any problem or difficulty. No one crash on any config i had to set up in 17 years (Linux, Solaris, OS X). Just one of the best ACID-RDBMS ever, far before Oracle or Sybase… and BSD2 licensed ! Le 29 oct. 2012 à 22:25, Lynn Fredricks a écrit