Re: Learning by... avoiding mistakes

2013-03-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." -- F. P. Jones -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 18, 2013, at 1:18 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > I love Mark Twain's observation (aka st

Re: Xcode 4.6.1

2013-03-18 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Chip, Yes, I just did the same thing. Same problem. You have to repoint LiveCode to the SDK. Of course when you try to use "Find" to locate it, all one finds are old versions, because Apple has now hidden things inside Xcode itself. I had to search old LC emails for the clues. Go to your Li

Re: Learning by... avoiding mistakes

2013-03-18 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Certainly, making mistakes is an essential part of learning in real life ... always that we survive them. If I understand correctly what I read, then every mistake ever made is stored in memory, ready to be recalled when a similar situation arises... This situation is not useful for ever

Xcode 4.6.1

2013-03-18 Thread Chip Thomas
So I updated my device to 6.1 and so then I had to update Xcode. But now I can't get LiveCode to work with this new version. Keep getting an error that Armv 7 builds require the iOS 6.0 SDK to be installed. How can I fix this? Thanks in advance! ___ u

Re: [OT] Preload hoses my system

2013-03-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Monday, March 18, 2013, 10:54:49 AM, you wrote: > shrank my 'Home' partition by some 37 GB, and then copied my 9.5 GB > 'boot' partition over into > the freed space and flagged that space as 'boot': took all night, but > did it by itself while I slept: cheers, cheers! Yay! -- -Mark W

Re: Intermittent availability of Android emulator for Test Target

2013-03-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 18/03/2013 21:34, Pierre Sahores wrote: Ben, I had it frequently and to avoid such inconsistencies witch occurred against real devices too, i test all my android builds against real devices in using the free android "AirDroid" (web server) app to install them in seconds over WIFI. Problem

Re: Where did all the color go?

2013-03-18 Thread Cal Horner
Just to close off this problem. First, thanks Mark and Jacqueline for your quick response. I took your advice and just to be on the safe side and not have this problem go on forever. I removed all copies of LiveCode from my system then reinstalled LC 5.5.4.. Hey presto! Everything was all right

Re: Trouble with Android

2013-03-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 15/03/2013 20:41, Michael Hatch wrote: > I have found that in android setting the acceleratedrendering of a stack in > preopenstack will sometimes cause black screens and other unwanted effects, > so I now set it via opencard of the first card. Setting the compositor to > software or disabling

Re: Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
For handling Japanese text, these functions (below) by Kenji Kojima have served perfectly for years. (Many thanks again, Kenji!) -- Nicolas Cueto on mouseUp answer file "Open unicode file:" if it is empty then exit mouseUp put url ("binfile:" & it) into tURL set the useUnicode to tr

Re: Intermittent availability of Android emulator for Test Target

2013-03-18 Thread Pierre Sahores
Ben, I had it frequently and to avoid such inconsistencies witch occurred against real devices too, i test all my android builds against real devices in using the free android "AirDroid" (web server) app to install them in seconds over WIFI. Problem solved ;-) Le 18 mars 2013 à 21:54, Ben Rubi

Pulling Unicode Data from a DataGrid

2013-03-18 Thread James Little
Hey all, We're translating our app SmoothieRx into Japanese and have been struggling to get UTF-16 text from a DataGrid. We've tried all sorts of combinations of uniEncode, uniDecode on the data and it all comes out garbled. We first overrode the DataGrid, so we can see that the Japanese in the

Intermittent availability of Android emulator for Test Target

2013-03-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm having trouble running tests on the Android emulator from LiveCode on Mac. Sometimes I see it in the "Test Target" menu, sometimes I don't. This is on various versions of LiveCode from 5.3 onwards. I restart AVD, restart the emulator, restart LiveCode, reselect Android in Standalone Appli

Re: Learning by... avoiding mistakes

2013-03-18 Thread Phil Davis
I love Mark Twain's observation (aka story of my life): Good judgment comes from experience; Experience comes from bad judgment. :-) Phil Davis On 3/18/13 12:17 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Alejandro Tejada writes: I was checking in Amazon the impressive collection of books about learning by avo

Re: Learning by... avoiding mistakes

2013-03-18 Thread Mark Wieder
J. Landman Gay writes: > I won't tell you the dumbest thing I ever did. But I'll tell you what I > did 3 days ago and maybe you'll think that's the dumbest thing I ever did. Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. -- Albert Einstein. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftw

Re: Learning by... avoiding mistakes

2013-03-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro Tejada writes: > I was checking in Amazon the impressive collection > of books about learning by avoiding mistakes: I would counter that making mistakes is the best way to learn. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode

Re: [OT] Preload hoses my system

2013-03-18 Thread Richmond
What can I say except "Thank God for gparted": shrank my 'Home' partition by some 37 GB, and then copied my 9.5 GB 'boot' partition over into the freed space and flagged that space as 'boot': took all night, but did it by itself while I slept: cheers, cheers! AND: "Don't make a boot partitio

Google App Engine

2013-03-18 Thread Mark Wieder
hi- Don't yet know how this might apply to LC, but this showed up in my inbox this morningl, so I thought I'd pass it on. Google is offering startups $1,000 of credit to start building applications on Google App Engine. App Engine is a development platform that makes applications easy to write,