Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Why not make it an even lower price and get the attention of Dealnews.com: "Dev tool that allows even beginners to create desktop and mobile apps--with a $ Kickstarter pledge, normally (if it fails to fund, you still get the app)." Peter On Feb 11, 2013, at 7:59 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:

Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Maybe for me or you, but most people won't be contributing, they will just be using the tool. Some number of them will not want to pledge £640 to then possibly get the commercial license, but they might pledge £150 to definitely get the commercial license. Any new commercial license holders are

Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Why would it need to be an instant reward? After reading a couple of Mark's blogs though I think just getting the concentrated effort on refactoring and adding extensibility to the engine will be enough reward. Once done then so many more things will become possible with LiveCode. Not to mention

Re: radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Right after sending I saw a flaw in my idea, if the £150 deal was part of a reward. It would need to be an instant reward, not a project success one, if that is allowed under Kickstarter rules. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

radical Kickstarter idea…

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I saw this page, and item 5 in particular: http://www.gamesbrief.com/2012/07/kickstarter-after-the-kick-but-before-the-start/ It gave me an idea. What if you gave everyone who pledged £150 or more a year of commercial license? I mean the current one, not the one that would be there if the proje

Re: couple of people I know, plus a robot

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
By the way, although Stephen only has 8,274 followers, a lot of them are in education. One follower he has is Bill Thompson, someone else I have emailed. Hopefully the tweet will prompt Bill to reply to my message! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Re: couple of people I know, plus a robot

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I sent Stephen another message. He still didn't reply, but did soon afterwards did do a tweet: stephen heppell @stephenheppell I loved #hypercard for the way it got folk programming. A proper attempt to recreate it needs yoiur helpkickstarter.com/projects/17552… The tweet included the media

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Monday, February 11, 2013, 10:45:38 AM, you wrote: > Yes, indeed it is getting "re" -diculous: maybe we could retrench, return to > reconsider my original question, if anyone can actually remember or > recall what it was. LOL. I can't say the OQ is high on my list of things to worry

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Thomas McGrath III
hmm, I will keep that in mind. a polling loop for updates. I wonder if it will seem fast enough ? -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Feb 11, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > If an external won't work you could write it as a small app then open process

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Monte Goulding
If an external won't work you could write it as a small app then open process for update and read / write to the process. On 12/02/2013, at 3:45 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > For the current project I am working on I am trying to get a lower level Key > Trapper/Key Monitor written as an Exte

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Richmond
On 02/11/2013 08:21 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: Oooohhh I love word games! Refried! Refrigerator! Redeem! ;-) On Feb 10, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Sunday, February 10, 2013, 12:37:31 PM, you wrote: Thanks. But that still

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 11, 2013, at 11:05 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > Oooohhh I love word games! Refried! Refrigerator! Redeem! > > ;-) > > > On Feb 10, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> Richmond- >> >> Sunday, February 10, 2013, 12:37:31 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Thanks. >> >>> But that still doesn't

Re: How to present a picklist on mobile?

2013-02-11 Thread Devin Asay
Ben, I'd recommend following Elanor's excellent native scroller tutorial in the latest RevUP newsletter for your list. Once you've wrapped your head around mobile-native controls I think you'll see that they're not difficult, and they go a long way to taking the "clunk" out of your mobile apps.

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Robert Sneidar
That seems like a very useful thing. On Feb 11, 2013, at 8:51 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Tom- > > Monday, February 11, 2013, 8:45:03 AM, you wrote: > >> Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. > > I've had to do this before and ended up with a whole event loop in a > DLL, as if it were a Windows

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Robert Sneidar
heh heh. good one. Bob On Feb 11, 2013, at 7:58 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Peter- > > Monday, February 11, 2013, 4:33:11 AM, you wrote: > >> Reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw: >> "I AM retired -- I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired again to day." > > Could be worse. > Yesterday I was ta

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Robert Sneidar
Oooohhh I love word games! Refried! Refrigerator! Redeem! ;-) On Feb 10, 2013, at 1:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Richmond- > > Sunday, February 10, 2013, 12:37:31 PM, you wrote: > >> Thanks. > >> But that still doesn't quite explain the 're' of 'repackaged'. > > Or the 're' of 'reduced'. > O

couple of people I know, plus a robot

2013-02-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Found this blog post: http://blog.runrev.com/blog/bid/266658/Reporting-back-from-Bett-2013 Stephen Heppell is one of the people I've emailed to try and get to help with the Kickstarter thing. He didn't yet reply. We've know each other for about 24 years, so I'm hopeful that when he gets a chanc

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Mark, Thanks for looking into this. Does that talk with LC? Does it trap all keys even modifier keys? Does it trap them only if they were pressed by themselves and not in a combination? Looking forward to seeing this. Thank you, Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Kevin, The keysDown() does not handle certain keys like the fn key by itself yet the OS on Mac does, it uses the fn pressed twice to perform certain functions in VoiceOver. Also, on Mac, the OS does not distinguish between left and right shift keys different than how Windows does BUT it does di

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Tom- Monday, February 11, 2013, 8:45:03 AM, you wrote: > Any ideas or suggestions are welcome. I've had to do this before and ended up with a whole event loop in a DLL, as if it were a Windows app. I don't have that in front of me right now but I'll try to dig it up and send it to you offlist.

Re: LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Kevin Miller
Do you need an external? Can you use keysDown() in a loop? Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can code On 11/02/2013 16:45, "Thomas McGrath III" wrote: >For the current project I am working on I am trying to get a lower level >Ke

LC speaking with other apps

2013-02-11 Thread Thomas McGrath III
For the current project I am working on I am trying to get a lower level Key Trapper/Key Monitor written as an External for LC for Mac and for Windows and one problem I am encountering is with the requirement on the Windows External side to have to use VC++. Since this could be accomplished as a

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter- Monday, February 11, 2013, 4:33:11 AM, you wrote: > Reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw: > "I AM retired -- I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired again to day." Could be worse. Yesterday I was tardy. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

OT: Director 12 released

2013-02-11 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
FYI: I know there are a few of us who are from the Director world... just saw that version 12 was released today. SKI ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscriptio

How to present a picklist on mobile?

2013-02-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm making yet another attempt to get more seriously into cross-platform mobile, having not focused on this for a long time, during which I know the state of the art has moved forward. I'm working on a little app for in-house use. I want to present the user with a list, for them to make a choi

Re: Open Source Livecode: a few daft questions.

2013-02-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Feb 10, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> But that still doesn't quite explain the 're' of 'repackaged'. > > Or the 're' of 'reduced'. > Or the 're' of 'relax'. > Or the 're' of 'reality'. Reminds me of the bumper sticker I saw: "I AM retired -- I was tired yesterday, and I'm tired agai

Re: What If... scenario for Open Source Livecode

2013-02-11 Thread Heather Laine
Yes, there is a maximum amount for any one pledge, by one person. Kickstarter is a crowd funding site, and it is set up so that venture capitalists cannot simply contribute the balance and take control of a project. So we need everyone to contribute something. Regards, (and thanks to everyone