Re: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Saturday, December 8, 2012, 7:52:59 PM, you wrote: > Please forgive my ignorance here, Mark, but are you suggesting > another way of doing this kind of thing? Ah, sorry, no. Just describing what you were doing: using a variable to hold the name of a math operator an then executing the var

Re: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Guay
Please forgive my ignorance here, Mark, but are you suggesting another way of doing this kind of thing? Thanks, Roger On Dec 8, 2012, at 11:15 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jim- > > Saturday, December 8, 2012, 10:11:31 AM, you wrote: > >> But could you tell me how this "mouseUP" handle fails to

Re: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Guay
On Dec 8, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: > I put my script into a separate button. I think yours was in the Option > button. I did exactly as you did, i.e. put your script into a separate button, created 2 fields, 1 and 2 > > snip snip > You should get a field 2 that locks like this

Re: LiveCodeJournal.com forum registration

2012-12-08 Thread stephen barncard
As one that manages several Wordpress blogs, I do not think Richard's request is unreasonable. One can still use the gmail client by patching in any 'forwarding only' email from one's connection provider. Almost every provider provides at least one email address that usually isn't used anyway. ( li

Re: LiveCodeJournal.com forum registration

2012-12-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: > I'm not on the forums, and don't feel any particular need to join > them since I'm not a professional LC developer, but the exclusion > of gmail addresses seems extreme. It is. I regretted having to add it to the filters, and it was the last one to be added - I put it

Re: What are hSscroll, vScroll really?

2012-12-08 Thread Graham Samuel
Jacque Actually, the concept of text scrolling within a field is universal, iMHO; the concept of any old collection of objects scrolling in a (possibly invisible) frame, less so. My problem, apart from general dumbness, was my inability to see that the two cases are essentially the same. I agr

Re: More scrolling queries

2012-12-08 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks for the reply. I thought that the object was really moving: to me, the 'frame' was the rect of the visible graphic (actually a group, tho I have no idea why) through which I see my object, but the object (the thing with the contentRect) itself was really moving under the frame. I suppose

Re: Send appleevent to livecode doesnt work ?

2012-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/8/12 2:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/8/12 1:31 AM, Serge Brami wrote: I want to send an Applevent to another livecode app running on an other Mac on a local network. for example on the Mac 1 a button with the script : "on mouseup send "hello" to "Mac2:livecode" end mouseup"

Re: Send appleevent to livecode doesnt work ?

2012-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/8/12 1:31 AM, Serge Brami wrote: I want to send an Applevent to another livecode app running on an other Mac on a local network. for example on the Mac 1 a button with the script : "on mouseup send "hello" to "Mac2:livecode" end mouseup" on the Mac 2 "on appleevent type

Reversing the end point arrow

2012-12-08 Thread Jim Hurley
In RR the start arrow and the end arrow point away from each other. I needed a line with the more traditional arrows, both pointing in the same direction along the line. The following handler will reverse the direction of the start arrow. It does so by introducing a third point ON THE LINE betwe

Re: More scrolling queries

2012-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/8/12 8:39 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: This message arrives in the Console window as normal, with x changing values as expected, and the loc of the group always the same. Why is this so, and what am I seeing move if it's not my group? I think you've already figured this out, but just in cas

Re: What are hSscroll, vScroll really?

2012-12-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/8/12 10:50 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: This is a comment that the LC documentation has not (yet) delivered the goods. I think there's a bit missing (I've tried the user guide, the release notes and the dictionary by searching for the words 'scrolling' and 'scroller'). In the LC dictionary, it

Re:Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Jim Hurley
I put my script into a separate button. I think yours was in the Option button. Put this script into your Option button: on menuPick pItemName put field 1 into tAngle --Or wherever your angle is located put tAngle*pi/180 into tAngle put pItemName into tTrigFunct switch tTrigFunct

Re: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Jim- Saturday, December 8, 2012, 10:11:31 AM, you wrote: > But could you tell me how this "mouseUP" handle fails to do the job? Well, it's not nearly as hard to read, for one thing. But seriously, the use of lambda functions (google it) can provide a degree of flexibility in code and help preven

Re: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Guay
Hi Jim, I was trying to directly use the label of an option menu button (with sin, cos and tan as menu items) and combining that with the angle derived in another script. Something like: put (the label of btn myOptionMenu)&"("&tangle&")" This result in

Re:Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Jim Hurley
Hi Roger I'm sure I missed the point of this thread. I'll go through it more carefully. But could you tell me how this "mouseUP" handle fails to do the job? Thanks, Jim on mouseUp put field 1 into tAngle put tAngle*pi/180 into tAngle --put the label of btn "myOptiionMenu" into sOptio

Re: Capture the Trig Function from an Option Menu Button

2012-12-08 Thread Roger Guay
Thank you, Mark. Works great! On Dec 7, 2012, at 5:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Roger- > > Or try a one-liner: > > on otherHandler theta > do "put" && sOption & "(" & theta & ")" > end otherHandler > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > __

Re: What are hSscroll, vScroll really?

2012-12-08 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Actually, LC/RR docs would benefit of 1) Interactive stacks that demo/explains the terms and the context of use. 2) Frecuently Asked Questions about this term and possible source of bugs while using or applying in your program Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolu

Re: What are hSscroll, vScroll really?

2012-12-08 Thread Richmond
On 12/08/2012 06:50 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: This is a comment that the LC documentation has not (yet) delivered the goods. I think there's a bit missing (I've tried the user guide, the release notes and the dictionary by searching for the words 'scrolling' and 'scroller'). In the LC dictionar

What are hSscroll, vScroll really?

2012-12-08 Thread Graham Samuel
This is a comment that the LC documentation has not (yet) delivered the goods. I think there's a bit missing (I've tried the user guide, the release notes and the dictionary by searching for the words 'scrolling' and 'scroller'). In the LC dictionary, it says this about hScroll (the horizontal a

DB Lib

2012-12-08 Thread Paul Looney
On Oct 29, 2012, at 6:47 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Paul, > > I am ready to give away a copy of DB Lib to be raffled during the LUG > meeting. > > DB Lib (SQL, active record style) and its add-on Data Storage Lib (NoSQL, > built on top of DB Lib and included with every DB Lib purchase) are new >

Re: LiveCodeJournal.com forum registration

2012-12-08 Thread Peter M. Brigham
I'm not on the forums, and don't feel any particular need to join them since I'm not a professional LC developer, but the exclusion of gmail addresses seems extreme. I have been using a gmail address exclusively since they were offered by Google. I would hate to have to create a new email accoun

More scrolling queries

2012-12-08 Thread Graham Samuel
While experimenting with scrolling on iOS (as per my earlier mail), I came across something odd. Probably finger trouble on my part, but can anyone explain it? I set up a little scrolling experiment based on the example offered in the LC Scroller Example stack. I have an iPhone screen with a ki

Re: Password Field - Mark Schonewille

2012-12-08 Thread Andre Garzia
Andrew, Long time ago I made a little droptool for a password field. Http://droptools.sonsothunder.com/products/aag/aag-pw.irev It does not have the nice padlocks from Jacque though... Cheers Sent from my ASUS Transformer http://andregarzia.com :: Desktop, Mobile and Web programming On Dec 7,

FT: FieldTrip Pre-Beta Note

2012-12-08 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Howdy FieldTrip Preorder Folks, I posted recently that the first FieldTrip beta release was imminent. It is, and some folks have written since to inquire again, and suggested that I post here too, so here's a quick note. After completing the current formatting features and custom GUI, I've

Re: Password Field - Mark Schonewille

2012-12-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Andrew, Have you reported the bug already? There's a contact for for it on Economy-x-Talk's website. -- 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

Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-08 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders A number of LiveCode developers need sockets on iOS and android. The subject of developing an external for this feature came up recently on the LiveCode Developer Program list. It was proposed by a number of developers that the external would be a good candidate for crowd funding.

Re: iOS Scrolling - need a cookbook

2012-12-08 Thread Graham Samuel
Jacque, what a treasure you are! What I hope to do now (there are some other pressures) is to experiment, refine this explanation a bit and write it up with a couple of diagrams (which sadly can't go into this list). I think it's pretty bad news that (AFAIK) very little of this has reached any o