how to get the path of plugins folder

2012-11-07 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi all, Does someone knows how to get by script the path of the plugins folder? Need this for Mac/PC/Linux from Rev 4.0 and up. the function specialfolder() doesn't seem to do that. Thanks for help, Thierry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Guay
I have another plugin open of my design, but I have no answer "test" instances in the script. Plus, I've never had this problem before and have been using my plugin for several years. Thanks for the advice on TextWrangler. I'll check it out in the AM. Thanks for your help, Jacque. Roger On

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/12 9:13 PM, Roger Guay wrote: Thanks Jacque, Richard and Mark for your responses. Here is the code I'm using: on controlKeyDown whichKey from Jacqueline Landman Gay Yup, except for the substitution of the control key, that's the same script. I don't see how it could be that. Do

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks Jacque, Richard and Mark for your responses. Here is the code I'm using: on controlKeyDown whichKey from Jacqueline Landman Gay if ("editor field" is not in the name of the target and "script" is not in the name of the target) \ or the shiftkey is not down then pass c

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/12 2:59 PM, Roger Guay wrote: Can anyone tell me what the information icon with "test" means? It's coming up at times when I try to quit after using a frontScript, and I have to force quit. I've never seen this before. I just did a search and found four instances of "answer 'test'" in t

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/7/12 8:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Roger Guay wrote: > Yes, It's the answer dialog, and all I'm doing is inserting a front > script (Jacque's commandKeyDown frontScript that allows for script > insertion of quotes, parenthesis etc.). The frontScript resides and > is called from a subSt

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > Yes, It's the answer dialog, and all I'm doing is inserting a front > script (Jacque's commandKeyDown frontScript that allows for script > insertion of quotes, parenthesis etc.). The frontScript resides and > is called from a subStack of a plugin. This dialog appears only > som

Re: images in text fields - htmltext quirk?

2012-11-07 Thread James Hale
Thank you Klaus > I have struck two problems. >> 1: if the imageURL is of the form "http://.?"; the image gets inserted. >> if the imageURL is of the form "file:/full_filepath" then nothing gets >> inserted. > > the (very counterintuitiv) trick is to use BINFILE instead of FILE for local > fil

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 2:56:43 PM, you wrote: > Nuts! Do you remember how you fixed it?? Fixed? No, it has just appeared randomly before some kind of code domino effect. Then restart and everything's fine. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Guay
Hi Richard, Yes, It's the answer dialog, and all I'm doing is inserting a front script (Jacque's commandKeyDown frontScript that allows for script insertion of quotes, parenthesis etc.). The frontScript resides and is called from a subStack of a plugin. This dialog appears only sometime, and I

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the information icon with "test" means? > It's coming up at times when I try to quit after using a frontScript, > and I have to force quit. I've never seen this before. What exactly are you seeing (answer dialog?), and what is the recipe to reproduce i

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Guay
Nuts! Do you remember how you fixed it?? Thanks, Roger On Nov 7, 2012, at 2:49 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Roger- > > Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 12:59:58 PM, you wrote: > >> Can anyone tell me what the information icon with "test" means? >> It's coming up at times when I try to quit after usi

Re: Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Wednesday, November 7, 2012, 12:59:58 PM, you wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the information icon with "test" means? > It's coming up at times when I try to quit after using a > frontScript, and I have to force quit. I've never seen this before. I've seen that a handful of times over th

Free online cryptography course

2012-11-07 Thread Mark Wieder
Just started today. Be wary of the (5 to 7 hours a week) part... if this is anything like the coursera SaaS course I took a couple of months ago, it's wildly optimistic. Anyway, just thought someone might be interested. https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.n

Information "test"

2012-11-07 Thread Roger Guay
Can anyone tell me what the information icon with "test" means? It's coming up at times when I try to quit after using a frontScript, and I have to force quit. I've never seen this before. Thanks, Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Richmond
On 11/07/2012 09:28 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: I can't believe you're making fun of my LC by calling it "steam-driven". Yes, it has heat issues, but it still happily runs a HC stack I wrote for it some 20 years ago. I wasn't calling your LC "steam-driven" (unless it is a different model to my LC

Re: Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Kerner
I can't believe you're making fun of my LC by calling it "steam-driven". Yes, it has heat issues, but it still happily runs a HC stack I wrote for it some 20 years ago. Let me know if you get any replies. I might like to try putting LC on it and trying it out, but would the XCMD's/XFCN's work?

Re: My Choice for President

2012-11-07 Thread Mark Wieder
J. Landman Gay writes: > You stay up nights thinking these things up, right? Don't have to. We set our clocks back, so now there's an extra hour every day. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Richmond
On 11/07/2012 09:08 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: that's too new for me. I think I have an LC sitting here that's running 7.0.1. We can all play games of that sort - pace my BBC Micro running MOS - but this is a serious request for any information as to how to obtain a Mac Classic version of RunRev/

Re: Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Kerner
that's too new for me. I think I have an LC sitting here that's running 7.0.1. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 11/07/2012 08:55 PM, Christophe Leske wrote: > >> Am 07.11.2012 19:32, schrieb Richmond: >> >>> Yes, no surprises, it's Richmond again, the backward looking recidi

Re: Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Richmond
On 11/07/2012 08:55 PM, Christophe Leske wrote: Am 07.11.2012 19:32, schrieb Richmond: Yes, no surprises, it's Richmond again, the backward looking recidivist. And, Yes, some of us are using Mac OS 9 and lower; mainly, admittedly, to transfer some HC stacks to LC rather than waste a lot of eff

Re: Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Christophe Leske
Am 07.11.2012 19:32, schrieb Richmond: Yes, no surprises, it's Richmond again, the backward looking recidivist. And, Yes, some of us are using Mac OS 9 and lower; mainly, admittedly, to transfer some HC stacks to LC rather than waste a lot of effort that was spent "once-upon-a-time", and/or sp

Banging on about Mac Classic

2012-11-07 Thread Richmond
Yes, no surprises, it's Richmond again, the backward looking recidivist. And, Yes, some of us are using Mac OS 9 and lower; mainly, admittedly, to transfer some HC stacks to LC rather than waste a lot of effort that was spent "once-upon-a-time", and/or spend buckets of time on remaking things

UDP broadcast on a Mac?

2012-11-07 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, a while back, I asked about push notifications on the desktop. (Thanks again Mark and Alex) and finally I get around to play with the idea. While I get it to broadcast nicely from Windows to the Mac (and the other win machines in my network), trying from the Mac fails. This is the code:

Re: images in text fields - htmltext quirk?

2012-11-07 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi James, Am 07.11.2012 um 08:30 schrieb James Hale : > Hi, > > I have a text field in which I display html. > I am currently setting the htmltext of the field to the html I want to > display and all works as expected. > The context here is that I am displaying text content from an epub file. >

Re: Unhilite A Scrolling List?

2012-11-07 Thread Scott Rossi
I seem to recall there was some method posted on the list fairly recently that involved locking messages or something similar to handle this issue. Curse me for not bookmarking it at the time. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 11/6/12 6:05 PM, "Mike Bonner" w