Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I'm using Livecode 5.0 on Lion. Should Livecode be running properly? I do see some things that are not operating properly that worked in Snow Leopard, specifically issues with playing QuickTime files. I can't seem to find RunRev documentation that states OS version compatibility. Peter UCLA O

Re: [CODE] cool elapsed function

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Monday, December 17, 2012, 9:44:04 PM, you wrote: > On 12/17/12 11:39 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> >>> Jacque- >>> >>> Monday, December 17, 2012, 6:55:20 PM, you wrote: >>> I'd like a function that returns years, months, and days elap

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
So going to a stack and using the Find command is OK, speedwise? I'm searching 5 substacks, each with 200-500 cards. The Dictionary says that offset is faster. I was hoping that someone with eons of experience would say, "Nah, you should do such and such..." I guess I'll have to try both. Tha

Re: [CODE] cool elapsed function

2012-12-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/17/12 11:39 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Monday, December 17, 2012, 6:55:20 PM, you wrote: I'd like a function that returns years, months, and days elapsed. I I'd like one that calculates gray hair as a function of lines of code.

Re: [CODE] cool elapsed function

2012-12-17 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Dec 17, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jacque- > > Monday, December 17, 2012, 6:55:20 PM, you wrote: > >> I'd like a function that returns years, months, and days elapsed. I > > I'd like one that calculates gray hair as a function of lines of code. So I should stop with the comment

Re: [CODE] cool elapsed function

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Monday, December 17, 2012, 6:55:20 PM, you wrote: > I'd like a function that returns years, months, and days elapsed. I I'd like one that calculates gray hair as a function of lines of code. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-l

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/17/12 9:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Sorry, not an answer but a pointer. How does the IDE's Find and Replace do it? This searches multiple stacks without visibly visiting the stacks - you end where you started, at the Find and Replace stack. It basically does what you want, except it only lists

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread stephen barncard
absolutely. If one does not need that fluff, then stay with Snow. Most Stable of OSs. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > New macs won't go back. Supporting a gang can get difficult. I gave in. > > However, I'm sticking with Snow Leopard Server as long as I can get > hardware

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > I do see that there is much more management with the "offset", however, I > believe I can use the offset without having to actually navigate to the > other stack, and I found that going to another stack and using the "Find" > there unlocks

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/17/12 5:54 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: I do see that there is much more management with the "offset", however, I believe I can use the offset without having to actually navigate to the other stack, and I found that going to another stack and using the "Find" there unlocks the screen (bad).

Re: [CODE] cool elapsed function

2012-12-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/17/12 10:46 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: the function is called elapsed and you can use it to figure out if a certain amount of time passed between two timestamps. I'd like a function that returns years, months, and days elapsed. I wrote a quick one that gets the number of days and divides b

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Jerry Jensen
New macs won't go back. Supporting a gang can get difficult. I gave in. However, I'm sticking with Snow Leopard Server as long as I can get hardware that will run it. .Jerry On Dec 17, 2012, at 4:30 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > if one wants to sync all one's devices with all one's apple app

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread stephen barncard
if one wants to sync all one's devices with all one's apple apps one will still need Lion at the least. mobile me worked with Snow, but was disconnected. sqb On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Unless you have some other compelling reason to upgrade you are probably > better of

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I do see that there is much more management with the "offset", however, I believe I can use the offset without having to actually navigate to the other stack, and I found that going to another stack and using the "Find" there unlocks the screen (bad). I want the entire search done in one go wit

Re: Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread dunbarx
I do not know if I am understanding you correctly, but my instincts say that "find" is the right way to go. "Offset" would require more management, whereas "find" is pretty self reliant. How would you use "offset" over multiple stacks anyway? Navigate to each card in each stack, and then test

Find vs. Offset

2012-12-17 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Hi, I have a stack with multiple substacks. One of the substacks is a Search tool to find text in the other substacks. Given a string to find, it searches the other stacks, returns a list of the cards where the string was found (there may be multiple hits on the same card), and puts excerpts of

Re: LC 5.5.3 and Windows Explorer 7

2012-12-17 Thread Cal Horner
Hi Bob Thanks for the reply. Here is a partial message from the Even Viewer. "The program LiveCode.exe version 5.5.3.1497 stopped interacting with Windows and was closed ... Process ID: b94 Start Time: 01cddc9fa3c85650 Termination Time: 49593 Application Path: F:\Program Files (x86)\RunRev\Live

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Kay C Lan
Unless you have some other compelling reason to upgrade you are probably better off sticking with SnoLeo. I've just posted about my own upgrade experience - [OT] MoLi Upgrade - Long and Boring Post Which may help you decide, but because it's so long I'll just cut to the chase: Summary MoLi woul

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-17 Thread Richmond
On 12/17/2012 10:22 PM, Richmond wrote: On 12/17/2012 07:55 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: To reach the higher planes of existence, your plane must also be equipped with a supercharger. HTH and a multi-coloured light bulb it seems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20753888 mind you some peopl

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-17 Thread Richmond
On 12/17/2012 07:55 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: To reach the higher planes of existence, your plane must also be equipped with a supercharger. HTH and a multi-coloured light bulb it seems: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20753888 mind you some people try it this way: hellospaceman.blogsp

Re: [OT] Using VBscript to send an email via outlook

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Sneidar
yup. On Dec 17, 2012, at 10:11 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > sorry for the double. Even if you do have to run cscript by hand, can still > be done in a shell call. > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > >> Hmm. Seems like i've done exactly this very thing. Wil have to get out

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Mike Bonner
And if you are referring to the web plugin, its no longer supported and being phased out. If you really need to run it on lion you might be able to force some browser somewhere to run in 32 bit mode and use the old player, but.. its not worth the trouble. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:03 AM, Robert

Re: [OT] Using VBscript to send an email via outlook

2012-12-17 Thread Mike Bonner
sorry for the double. Even if you do have to run cscript by hand, can still be done in a shell call. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Hmm. Seems like i've done exactly this very thing. Wil have to get out a > windows box and test. > > > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Ro

Re: [OT] Using VBscript to send an email via outlook

2012-12-17 Thread Mike Bonner
Hmm. Seems like i've done exactly this very thing. Wil have to get out a windows box and test. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > Cannot do it that way. Scripts will not launch automatically. They must be > invoked by using cscript myfile.vbs. HTH > > Bob > > > On Dec 16,

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Sneidar
There is no such thing as a Livecode player anymore. But you can roll your own. Just make a stack that opens other stacks. Bob On Dec 17, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Joseba Aguayo wrote: > Hello: > > I am consider to change my Snow Leopard system to Mountain Lion. > Exist a LiveCode Player for Mountai

Re: [OT] Using VBscript to send an email via outlook

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Sneidar
Cannot do it that way. Scripts will not launch automatically. They must be invoked by using cscript myfile.vbs. HTH Bob On Dec 16, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Try dumping the vbscript to a .vbs file and execute it with > shell("myfile.vbs") > > In many cases it will just work. (pr

Re: Unicode and the higher planes of existence.

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Sneidar
To reach the higher planes of existence, your plane must also be equipped with a supercharger. HTH Bob ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

Re: LC 5.5.3 and Windows Explorer 7

2012-12-17 Thread Robert Sneidar
By sleep, do you mean the machine goes into standby mode? That would be highly unusual. You may want to check the Application log in the Event Viewer to get a clue on what is happening. Bob On Dec 14, 2012, at 2:39 PM, Cal Horner wrote: > I've rebuilt my machine recently, in order to accommo

Re: Quit

2012-12-17 Thread Richmond
On 12/17/2012 05:21 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: I don't know why you are seeing the light show. But could you not set the visible of those stacks to false in a shutdown/shutdownRequest handler? Obviously, you'd have to change that property when the stacks are loaded again. Thanks; that should do

[CODE] cool elapsed function

2012-12-17 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, I've been using a little function that I liked very much so I decided to share. the function is called elapsed and you can use it to figure out if a certain amount of time passed between two timestamps. For example, suppose you have variable time1 with a given time and variable time2 with

Re: LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Mark Schonewille
Joseba, What do you mean with "player"? AFAIK RunRev isn't providing players anymore. -- 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 conver

LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion?

2012-12-17 Thread Joseba Aguayo
Hello: I am consider to change my Snow Leopard system to Mountain Lion. Exist a LiveCode Player for Mountain Lion Where is in the LiveCode Web??? Un saludo. Joseba. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: [OT] MoLi Upgrade - Long and Boring Post

2012-12-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
That was a really useful summary of current OS X issues. Thanks for taking the time to post that. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitte

Re: Quit

2012-12-17 Thread Bernard Devlin
I don't know why you are seeing the light show. But could you not set the visible of those stacks to false in a shutdown/shutdownRequest handler? Obviously, you'd have to change that property when the stacks are loaded again. Bernard On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: > So, a be