Re: 1001 things to do with LiveCode - only 400 page views per day

2013-03-16 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hi Alastair I've just prepared the entry about your trivia app for 1001 things to do with LiveCode. I've taken a little "poetic licence" to avoid mentioning trivial pursuits and to cut it down a little (to fit into the blog style). Let me know if anything needs changing. It should go out with

Re: datagrids and databases

2013-03-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 1:04 PM, wrote: > You could certainly load just a part of your data, but why? Unless it is > large and you want to see and >scroll only a relevant section, for visual and user friendliness? For one of the places I'm using it, loading it all is practical. Even so, I'm no

Re: [OT] "MacMini" 7-8 years later

2013-03-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 9:34 AM, Richmond wrote: > There doesn't have to be an Open Source fork; if installing Mac OS X is > comparatively easy to install on a machine such as the NUC > and the necessary patches are "out there", then, surely, Apple's software > people could just put various insta

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 16, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > This goes a bit farther, though: the filing attorney's name and > address must be on these pleadings. The primary license key provided > to the client gets decrypted at runtime with the user's public key. > providing the name and address for th

Re: Getting additional data about a file or a folder

2013-03-16 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
You are AWESOME.. thank you! SKIP On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > "the detailed files" > or > "the detailed folders" > > it's also possible to get info from the os, by using the shell() function, > for example using "ls" on unix based systems. > > On 16.03.2013, at

Re: Getting additional data about a file or a folder

2013-03-16 Thread Mike Bonner
Look at the detailed folders (and files) if you look in the dicionary under folders it specifies which item of the returned data (the detailed folders) stands for what. On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 3:15 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > Is there an easy way to get ad

Re: Getting additional data about a file or a folder

2013-03-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
"the detailed files" or "the detailed folders" it's also possible to get info from the os, by using the shell() function, for example using "ls" on unix based systems. On 16.03.2013, at 22:15, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: > Is there an easy way to get additional information about a

Getting additional data about a file or a folder

2013-03-16 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Is there an easy way to get additional information about a file or a folder? For instance file date, size, modified date, etc.? My primary interest is a folder date but I know sooner or later I am going to want file info as well :) SKIP ___ use-livecod

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: > On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> Using someone else's key will also put their name and address on the >> output, which is only useful for filing with the court . . . > > We used a technique similar to that years ago. I f

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 16, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Richmond wrote: > If one does not tie a piece of software to a piece of hardware there is > probably no way to prevent multiple copies being distributed across many > machines. The trick is to tie the software to more than one piece of hardware. -Mark _

Re: datagrids and databases

2013-03-16 Thread Peter Haworth
There is a way to load only the data fro the visible number of lines into a datagrid. It takes a fair amount more code and isn't usually worth it you are loading a very large amount of data into the datagrid and performance is suffering. Take a look at section 9.1 of the Datagrid Manual for detai

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 16, 2013, at 12:00 PM, kee nethery wrote: > The people who make a lot of money selling software are those that focus on > how to get more people to use their software, not those who focus on how to > get less people to use their software. > > The "get more people" group occasionally wi

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Richmond
On 03/16/2013 09:33 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Richmond wrote: It does seem that all the extra fuss and work involved sorting out a serial number system is hardly worth the effort. The amount of effort is dependent on situation. Of course . . . one could send out

Re: datagrids and databases

2013-03-16 Thread dunbarx
You could certainly load just a part of your data, but why? Unless it is large and you want to see and scroll only a relevant section, for visual and user friendliness? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sat, Mar 16, 2013 12:54 pm Subjec

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 16, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Richmond wrote: > It does seem that all the extra fuss and work involved sorting out a serial > number system is hardly > worth the effort. The amount of effort is dependent on situation. > Of course . . . one could send out a standalone of a stack to find out o

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread kee nethery
On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:52 AM, "Dr. Hawkins" wrote: > > Using someone else's key will also put their name and address on the > output, which is only useful for filing with the court . . . Unless you are postal mailing the software to your customers AND looking at every order before you create a

Re: Documents folder on Windows 7

2013-03-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The path is valid (try it). windows is schizophrenic about the "my xxx" folders (I especially like the way you can create a "documents" folder on german systems, that really confuses it!). Always remember, these folders belong to Microsoft, and are only lent to you ;-) On 16.03.2013, at 18:00,

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Richmond
On 03/16/2013 07:51 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Using someone else's key will also put their name and address on the output, which is only useful for filing with the court . . . We used a technique similar to that years ago. I figured that no respe

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 16, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Using someone else's key will also put their name and address on the > output, which is only useful for filing with the court . . . We used a technique similar to that years ago. I figured that no respectable doctor would want the practice nam

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread tbodine
>One of the messages that decrypts at runtime will have the attorney >name, bar (law license) number, address, and program serial number, >all of which appear in the output--with the name, and serial number >actually appearing on the copyright notice on each page of output. >Using someone else's

Documents folder on Windows 7

2013-03-16 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
When trying to get the documents folder using either: answer specialFolderPath("Documents") or answer the documents folder I get an invalid path... it is looking for the folder "Documents" instead of "My Documents". Am I missing something or is this a bug? SKIP __

datagrids and databases

2013-03-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
As I continue to wrestle with datagrids, I'm wondering if I missed the obvious: Do I need to load the entire database table into the array before I can use it with a datagrid, rather than just part of it? I had assumed that I was simply going to mate the table to the grid, but if I can't do that,

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > > Make standalone with a custom property that contains dummy string, for > example 16 chars >long. Now use a stack, script or other means to find that dummy string in the >standalone, and >replace it with a "proper" license string that

Re: Get the source from an browser instance ?

2013-03-16 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 16 mars 2013 à 17:19, stephen barncard a écrit : > Well if one could easily get the source code of any page through a browser > then the internet would stop working, due to all the security breaches. It > would be a steaming mess. Sure, but here the web page is created locally (in the temp

Re: Get the source from an browser instance ?

2013-03-16 Thread stephen barncard
Well if one could easily get the source code of any page through a browser then the internet would stop working, due to all the security breaches. It would be a steaming mess. When a web page renders, it may make more than one pass at the data. There's an intentional thick wall between 'browser s

[OT] My First iPad App

2013-03-16 Thread Roger Guay
Hello Folks! I am very pleased and proud to announce that my first iPad app is now available on iTunes. SETIsyncProb was created by me and donated to (and published by) the SETI Institute so that all proceeds would go to them. (This was a long and painful process compared to actually building

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think it should also be possible to alter an existing custom property in a standalone, as long as the replacement text is the same length in bytes as the one you replace. This is because there's no redundancy caching in the stack file format. Better ask RunRev support if that's still true befo

Get the source from an browser instance ?

2013-03-16 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello How get the source from an revbrowser instance ? I've made a web page wich is displayed with revbrowser. The user can modify some parameters in the page ( with javascript ) which are visible in the code source of the page with a real browser but not with revbrowserget(browserId, "htmltext

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, You can append a string to the end of a Windows executable and add a file with a string to an OSX application package. You could use a standalone on which you drop an executable or application package and automate the process. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread kee nethery
Instead of user name, I recommend using their email. Why? Because my user name is Richard Hawkins but my email is k...@kagi.com (if I want to receive the app you are going to send to me). "Richard Hawkins" On Mar 15, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > Richard, > > You could... > >