Re: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

Jim Hurley-2 wrote > This is WAY off topic, but I don't know where else to turn. Google has > failed me entirely. > > I need TWO levels of superscript in MS Word. X to the Y power to the Z > power. Three levels of text: base level, superscript level, and > super-duper script level. Not sure but

Re: "launch document" synchronous on Linux only?

On 01/19/2013 12:47 AM, Warren Samples wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the "launch document" command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help->User Guide.

Re: "launch document" synchronous on Linux only?

On 01/18/2013 11:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the "launch document" command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help->User Guide.

"launch document" synchronous on Linux only?

I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the "launch document" command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help->User Guide. I've filed a bug report for the IDE issue:

Question about automation

Hi, I need to do some processing on an SQLite file that gets backed up from an iPad. I'm trying to think of a way to automate this. Does anyone know if there is a way to trigger another desktop application to run after an iTunes backup (on a PC)? PS a longer version of this question was posted on

Re: A string is a string is a string

Hi Cal, Be sure to strip the quotes out of the object name when you put it into the variable. Say you have - field "xyz" -. When you put the "xyz" into your variable, be sure to get rid of the quotes or LC will take them as part of the object name. Pete lcSQL Software O

Re: Desktop visual effect

On Jan 18, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > One simulated effect I've done is to create a loop that progressively sets > the blendLevel of a stack, which results in fading the stack in (or out > of) the desktop. Here's from the script of the first card of a splash stack that I use: on open

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 01/18/2013 12:46 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: >> >> Next morning you discover to your dismay that your HR department has been >> overwhelmed with calls and emails in the hundreds of thousands, because >> people ignored your prerequisites, an

A string is a string is a string

I'm having a bit of a senior moment here folks. I've looked through lots of LC and RunRev documentation and I can't find a clear and simple definition of a string. Sometimes they have quotes around them and sometimes they don't. So what's the difference between a string and a literal? OK, now tha

Re: Animated gif editor

That does work! Thanks. As an added bonus it also prevents the app from showing up when you command-tab, so a user cannot inadvertently quit it, but of course it also prevents ME from quitting it should something go wrong! So do all your testing with the app in the dock, and then switch it when

Re: Desktop visual effect

Folks, Thanks for all the suggestions. I have found that I can get the effect I want by using a hidden group and show/hide it when appropriate with the visual effects. Didn't have to use a stack at all. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Scott Rossi wro

Re: More about audio-video

J. Landman Gay wrote > Thanks, I'll ask my client about it. Right now I'm collecting all the > responses here so I can talk to them. In this website, you could find Cameyo, a free app for virtualising applications: http://www.cameyo.com/ The virtual app that I build, using StackRunner and Quickt

Re: Animated gif editor

The trick is communicating with it in Windows. I use it as a general dialog, and wanted to build it into something more robust, with different animations, progress bars, messages, etc. I suppose that before calling it you can create a low level hidden text file with all the parameters, and then

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

If there were shell access and root, we could install our own version of PostGRE. The disk space limit is insulting at the current pricing and an idea from another decade. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > I just sent an email. A polite one too, not a flamer. How many of

Re: More about audio-video

Yes, exactly. Anyone who doesn't have a DVD-ROM drive and bundled DVD-Video software, or gone to the trouble of installing MPEG-2 playback by some other means, would end up having to install something. QuickTime is probably the easiest thing to require, because of the millions of users who have

Re: Animated gif editor

Only if the app is activated via Applescript. There is a way to launch an app without it coming to the foreground. Since I use the system window property, it floats above my application, and I position it to the loc of the open stack, so it shows up in the middle of whatever stack opens it. It

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

I just sent an email. A polite one too, not a flamer. How many of you thought me capable of civility? ;-) I don't care about the PostGRE, although I understand some others might be who used it. The disk space will not affect me now, but may in the future, so I voiced my reserved objections. B

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

Thank God I didn't decide to use PostGRE for any apps! Bob On Jan 18, 2013, at 12:05 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: > Hey guys, > > Did you notice that on-rev is no longer going to support > PostgreSQL databases anymore? > > All of my developmental work is being done with > PostgreSQL databases! >

Re: More about audio-video

Right. But wasn't the question about being able to play audio and video cross platform without having to make the user install anything? Also, I have played ripped DVD content off my hard drive, and the format of the ripped video is MPEG2, so strictly speaking, you don't *have* to play MPEG2 off

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

On 19/01/2013, at 8:11 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > On 1/18/13 3:06 PM, stephen barncard wrote: >> I just got the notice, by email, a few hours ago. This is official. > > Right, I've seen it now. The email says to contact RR if there are concerns. > They don't read this list, so I hope people

Re: Desktop visual effect

You have strange dreams. In mine, scantily clad beautiful women seem to magically show up. But hey, to each his own! ;-) Bob On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > But when asking about it > much later, nobody could recall if (or how) it was done, so maybe it was > just a dream (ev

Re: Animated gif editor

Even better, thanks Alejandro! Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:34 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi Pete, > > > Peter Haworth wrote > > Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize > > an existing animated gif. > > Did you know th

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

On 1/18/13 3:06 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I just got the notice, by email, a few hours ago. This is official. Right, I've seen it now. The email says to contact RR if there are concerns. They don't read this list, so I hope people do that. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyp

Re: More about audio-video

On 1/18/13 2:57 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Jacque, J. Landman Gay wrote I've been testing in Windows 7 without QuickTime installed to see how video and audio files work in a player object. [snip] I need a video format that will play in Windows without QT. Which of the many others should I

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

I just got the notice, by email, a few hours ago. This is official. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Howard, RR has always honored their contracts. I haven't seen any > information about new changes. In the past, anything that affected existing > users generated an email

Re: Desktop visual effect

Alejandro: One issue with the stack you referenced is the technique relies on a screen capture of the desktop, which is no longer necessary since LiveCode can create actual translucent windows. Any PNG image that contains transparency will work, simply by setting the windowShape of the stack to t

Re: More about audio-video

Hi Jacque, J. Landman Gay wrote > I've been testing in Windows 7 without QuickTime installed to see how > video and audio files work in a player object. > [snip] > I need a video format that will play in Windows without QT. Which of the > many others should I look at? Could you try virtualizi

Re: Animated gif editor

On 01/18/2013 12:57 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Only thing is, it shows up in the dock! It would be nice if there were some kind of option to prevent a standalone from appearing in the dock. Does this work? http://regardlater.wordpress.com/2011/04/18/how-to-hide-mac-application-from-showing-in

Re: More about audio-video

Hi Stephen, Stephen Barncard-4 wrote > VLC is also apple-scriptable. Some months ago, Klaus Major posted a message asking for developers interested in a VLC dll for LiveCode. What happened with this DLL? Klaus? I have used VLC from the command line from LiveCode, showing a borderless video wi

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

On 01/18/2013 12:46 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Next morning you discover to your dismay that your HR department has been overwhelmed with calls and emails in the hundreds of thousands, because people ignored your prerequisites, and everyone from housewives with no degree to gardeners and janito

Re: Desktop visual effect

Thanks Alejandro, I'll take a look. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi Pete, > > > Peter Haworth wrote > > Thanks Scott. I guess I'll have a go at the blendlevel fade trick. > > Please, check this source code in a stack and

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

Howard, RR has always honored their contracts. I haven't seen any information about new changes. In the past, anything that affected existing users generated an email notification. Where would I go to see the info? Or did I miss an email? On 1/18/13 2:23 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: This is v

Re: Animated gif editor

Hi Pete, Peter Haworth wrote > Anyone know of an animated gif editor, preferably free? I need to resize > an existing animated gif. Did you know that you could resize an animated gif inside your stack? Here is the recipe: Originally posted on 23 Feb 2003 14:42:43 -0800 in the message thread:

Re: Desktop visual effect

Hi Pete, Peter Haworth wrote > Thanks Scott. I guess I'll have a go at the blendlevel fade trick. Please, check this source code in a stack and the executable Demo posted by Chipp Walter in this mail list. Visit his webpage and look for the following text: http://www2.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/R

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

This is very distressing to me. I purchased a Founder's account when they were just starting and we had a *contract* that specified 100 GB storage for life. This action is exactly like AT&T offering "unlimited" data to its early iPhone users and then later deciding that they had changed the definit

Re: Desktop visual effect

Thanks Scott. I guess I'll have a go at the blendlevel fade trick. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:18 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Stacks don't appear on the desktop with visual effects -- these are used > when navigating between cards, or stacks within an alre

Re: No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

They are also cutting disk allowance in half to 50 gigs, when other providers (like Dreamhost) don't set such limits. No mention of root access. That's it for me, outa here. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: > Hey guys, > > Did you notice that on-rev is no longer going to sup

No More PostgreSQL on On-Rev anymore!

Hey guys, Did you notice that on-rev is no longer going to support PostgreSQL databases anymore? All of my developmental work is being done with PostgreSQL databases! I think that is outrageous! Anyone else upset by this change? If so we'd all like to here from you now. Thanks, Rick __

Re: Animated gif editor

Good to know - it was the reference to Applescript that made me ask about WIndows. Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Bob's technique actually works well on Windows because stacks without > titlebars don't show up in the task bar. >

Re: More about audio-video

MPEG-2 isn't needed to use DVD-ROMs. It is needed to play DVD-Video. The license for MPEG-2 is covered in the cost of the software that you buy for playing DVDs. You may well get bundled software, and so the cost is hidden from you. I think that each way of playing back DVD-Video will have its o

Re: Animated gif editor

Bob's technique actually works well on Windows because stacks without titlebars don't show up in the task bar. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 1/18/13 11:20 AM, "Peter Haworth" wrote: >I need Windows as well as Mac. Also, doesn't the Mac menu bar for the

Re: Animated gif editor

I need Windows as well as Mac. Also, doesn't the Mac menu bar for the standalone show up? Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > If you only want it for a progress dialog, I built a standalone with an > animated gif, and some comman

Re: Desktop visual effect

Stacks don't appear on the desktop with visual effects -- these are used when navigating between cards, or stacks within an already open stack. One simulated effect I've done is to create a loop that progressively sets the blendLevel of a stack, which results in fading the stack in (or out of) the

Re: Desktop visual effect

OK, thanks Klaus. Will it work if I go to a card in the stack instead of the stack? Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Am 18.01.2013 um 20:08 schrieb Peter Haworth : > > > I'm probably missing something obvious but I c

Re: Desktop visual effect

Hi Pete, Am 18.01.2013 um 20:08 schrieb Peter Haworth : > I'm probably missing something obvious but I can't get the visual effect > command to do anything. > > I issue the visual effect command right before opening a stack, hoping that > the stack would appear according to the chosen effect, bu

Re: More about audio-video

Righto. That's one of the commercial apps that uses it. p On 1/18/13 11:05 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Phil, I use ffmpeg too and I found a GUI interface to it - ffmpegx, available at http://www.ffmpegx.com/ Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Phil Dav

Desktop visual effect

I'm probably missing something obvious but I can't get the visual effect command to do anything. I issue the visual effect command right before opening a stack, hoping that the stack would appear according to the chosen effect, but no matter which effect I choose, the stack appears without the vis

Re: More about audio-video

Hi Phil, I use ffmpeg too and I found a GUI interface to it - ffmpegx, available at http://www.ffmpegx.com/ Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 11:50 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > One tool l I have found to be almost magical in its media conversion > capabilities is ff

Re: Animated gif editor

If you only want it for a progress dialog, I built a standalone with an animated gif, and some commands and functions to respond to Applescript commands. With these I was able to show, hide, launch, quit, set the message and resize the dialog. The stack window was set to be a system window, so i

Re: htpasswd creation in Livecode

I think the encryption method used in .htaccess on the password dialog side is fixed. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > FWIW, the md5Digest is not as secure as the sha1digest, which LC now > supports. > > -- Peter > > Peter M. Brigham > pmb...@gmail.com > http://home.com

Re: htpasswd creation in Livecode

One could go so far as to say that in regards to security, MD5 is no encryption at all. You can find pretty easily MD5 decryption software with no trouble. Search for Windows XP Password Crack in google and you will see what I mean. A friend of mine who is very good at this helped me once by pl

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

Web based iPhone 'apps' can be made easy for the user. They can be made to easily add a launch button to the users phone from the app, and many users won't notice the difference. CSS can be deployed to make it look like a 'real' app and some of the iPhone specific controls can be implemented. On F

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

Consider that you have a business, and need to hire a certified accountant. You put out in a nationally available newspaper classified ad that you are looking for such a person with some contact information, but stress that only qualified persons with at least a bachelors degree in accounting ne

Re: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

If memory serves, you can set the superscript height of any selected character. Once done, save it as a style sheet, so you can simply apply a style later. Bob On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:30 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: > This is WAY off topic, but I don't know where else to turn. Google has failed > me

Re: Quicktime doesn't work on Windows 64 bit

I believe they will have to upgrade to the newest quicktime player. Others are reporting that it does in fact work. You can also have them try compatibility mode, running in XP or Vista compatibility. Bob On Jan 18, 2013, at 8:14 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: > Several of my LiveCode standal

Re: More about audio-video

Really? My mistake then I as under the impression that this was included in all operating systems because they will need to play DVD ROM's. Bob On Jan 17, 2013, at 7:53 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > MPEG-2 isn't really an option. Only systems that have DVD-ROMs, and DVD-Video > playing software

Server Maintenance - short outage expected

Dear List members, We are doing some scheduled maintenance on the RunRev server this weekend, around midnight on Saturday UK time. This will lead to a brief outage of the runrev.com website, and list mail will not be delivered during this time. We should be down for no more than 30 minute

Re: Animated gif editor

And I was just about to download them! I know this topic comes up from time to time but is there any likelihood that LC will ever support animated gifs during blocking operations? Pete lcSQL Software On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 9:31 AM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@b

Re: Animated gif editor

Thanks Richmond. I use gimp too but read somewhere that it didn't handle animated gifs, and of course everything you read on the internet is true! Pete lcSQL Software On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 9:53 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 18/01/13 04:06, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Anyone kn

Re: htpasswd creation in Livecode

FWIW, the md5Digest is not as secure as the sha1digest, which LC now supports. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jan 17, 2013, at 12:47 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > function hexDigest pvalue > put "" into tRes > put md5Digest(pValue) into tMD5 >

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

On 01/18/2013 11:34 AM, Warren Samples wrote: gratuitous features to a useful uni-purpose utility Maybe you could add a button to your Android app: "Text this information to my sorry iPhone using friends" :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Re: [OT] A tale of App Store rejection

On 01/17/2013 06:50 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: At least people on Android can enjoy easy access to the traffic conditions. Cheers andre It seems perverse to me that a developer might be forced to add gratuitous features to a useful uni-purpose utility in order to appeal to the gadget lust of a

Re: Animated gif editor

Richmond should love this! These softwares are for XP and G4s and G5s, macOS 10.2.8 to 10.3.8 On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop > can easily create/edit animGifs. > > http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2

Re: User extension folderpath

And if one is developing on multiple machines this is useful to switch Livecode prefs to live in a Dropbox. On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 7:47 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > Hallo Klaus, > > Here it is: revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() > > Always forget to look in the Release Notes :( > > Vielen Dank, > >

Re: Telephony in LiveCode

The keyspan adapter requires drivers, and they are still updated regularly. Until the relatively recent full adoption of USB by PCs (Macs were the first personal computer to use USB in 1997) RS232 was the universal interface standard for peripherals, and made adoption of these devices cross-plat

OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

This is WAY off topic, but I don't know where else to turn. Google has failed me entirely. I need TWO levels of superscript in MS Word. X to the Y power to the Z power. Three levels of text: base level, superscript level, and super-duper script level. Now I know that it is possible. I have a

Re: Quicktime doesn't work on Windows 64 bit

I can play movies in QuickTime Player in Windows 8 64 bit, and would have thought it would work in Windows 7 too. On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:14 AM, "stgoldb...@aol.com" wrote: > >Several of my LiveCode standalones use Quicktime movies, but I have received > >a report that Quicktime does not work

Re: Strange contents of long name

On Jan 16, 2013, at 7:15 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > >> FWIW, I submitted a request some time ago for a "truncated ID" option >> which uses the stack name instead of the stack path, similar to what the >> engine does when storing behavior

Re: Strange contents of long name

On Jan 16, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > This works a treat, although you have to watch out for changing file > references if you store a long id from one session to the next (and maybe > even during a session? I haven't checked). See my post on the virtual property "robustName," which

Quicktime doesn't work on Windows 64 bit

Several of my LiveCode standalones use Quicktime movies, but I have received a report that Quicktime does not work on 64 bit WIndows 7. Can anyone suggest a workaround to this problem? Thanks! Stephen Goldberg stgoldb...@aol.com ___ use-livecode maili

Re: Strange contents of long name

Here is a workaround, meanwhile, in the form of a virtual property "robustName": getProp robustName a virtual property, read only -- getting the long name of a control can result in different values depending on -- (a) where the stack is stored on the user's disk and -- (

Re: Shoutout to Colin

Interesting article, with only minor errors! Looking at the list of 48 CD-ROMs at the end, I programmed 11 of them, and there are several others that I programmed bits of. On Jan 18, 2013, at 10:09 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > >I came across this, which is relevant to this thread, and may even

Re: Animated gif editor

Adobe has released some of their older CS2 software for FREE. Photoshop can easily create/edit animGifs. http://www.adobe.com/downloads/cs2_downloads/index.html ~Roger On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:53 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 18/01/13 04:06, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Anyone know of an animated g

Re: User extension folderpath

Hallo Klaus, Here it is: revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() Always forget to look in the Release Notes :( Vielen Dank, Thierry 2013/1/18 Klaus on-rev > Bonjour Thierry, > > Am 18.01.2013 um 16:30 schrieb Thierry Douez : > > > Hi all, > > > > Is there a function, a property or a global variabl

Re: User extension folderpath

Bonjour Thierry, Am 18.01.2013 um 16:30 schrieb Thierry Douez : > Hi all, > > Is there a function, a property or a global variable > to know where is located the User extension ? > > I mean the path which is defined in >Preferences->Files & Memory and bottom of the window >

User extension folderpath

Hi all, Is there a function, a property or a global variable to know where is located the User extension ? I mean the path which is defined in Preferences->Files & Memory and bottom of the window ( User Extensions: /Users//MyLiveCode ) I need this for Mac, Windows and L

Re: Shoutout to Colin

I came across this, which is relevant to this thread, and may even cheer a few people up: http://www.ijdc.net/index.php/ijdc/article/view/216/285 On 03/01/2013 15:34, Graham Samuel wrote: Yes, it's sad that so many weren't "re-purposed" (i.e. adapted for other platforms) and so evaporated. Wa

Re: Telephony in LiveCode

On 17/01/2013 18:42, Robert Sneidar wrote: ALL USB devices are serial. That is what the S in USB stands for. You may mean I think, that the protocol is similar to 9 pin protocols like RS232? I don't think that is true, but I am not an expert in protocols. Fair point. What I meant (or at leas

Re: loki.on-rev.com down?

Hi all New update. Just received email confirming there were serious problems with loki but steps are being taken so this doesn't happen again. Yay! Very happy email is working again & nothing seems to have been lost. regards alex On 18/01/13 5:41 PM, Phil Davis wrote: So much for pingdo

AW: issue transfering 5.5.3 stack from windows to mac

Thank you Bob, good idea. I saved it on win as 2.7, copied it to mac, saved there as 5.5 and copied it back to win. After that procedure now I can save it on win also as 5.5 again, and copy it to mac and everything still works. Strange things happen. Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von