Re: Custom Radio Buttons?

2013-05-29 Thread Monte Goulding
On 30/05/2013, at 3:02 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Am I missing something here? No > Is there no way to use images in radio > buttons without resorting to a bunch of manual resizing? Yes... or use a button and field. What we probably need is an iconAlign property and labelMargin property. The

Custom Radio Buttons?

2013-05-29 Thread Scott Rossi
I'm trying to set up a bunch of custom radio buttons using images for the button portion of the controls. It seems that when you do this, LiveCode forces the button to the right of the control, with the text on the left. And the only way to move the button back to the left of the control is to set

Re: [ANN] Book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" sold out!

2013-05-29 Thread Marian Petrides, M.D.
Thanks, Mark. Have no idea how DHL delivers here. Guess it may not make it here before I leave for the summer. Bummer. On May 29, 2013, at 5:26 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Marian, > > No, there is no tracking service offered. I'd think that DHL delivers the > book to you, but DHL might

Re: Stack menus

2013-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Ken, that clarified the color stuff. I guess the fact that the armFIll and autoArm properties are not shown in the IDE Inspector for a button makes it hard to figure this out! Still puzzled by the message path though. Using your example, I had a mouseUp handler in a button in Stack2 which

Re: Stack menus

2013-05-29 Thread Ken Ray
> When the mouse rolls over one of the stack menu options, it's background > becomes a very dark blue color. Looking for guidance on how to fix that > since I've tried the obvious color settings to no avail. Maybe some other > property needs (un)setting? Peter, I think the reason you're seeting

Re: [ANN] Book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" sold out!

2013-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Marian, No, there is no tracking service offered. I'd think that DHL delivers the book to you, but DHL might leave it to a local postal service. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter

Droptools not working?

2013-05-29 Thread Alan Stenhouse
G'day all I'm using DropTools (Nice tool!! :-) and it seems like I can no longer drag stuff onto a stack - the forbidden icon appears etc anyone come across this before? I have been using it successfully up until today... The mode of the stack that I'm dragging to is 1. Using LC 5.5.5 +

RE: LC Users - in the Bristol, Southhampton,Taunton triangle

2013-05-29 Thread John Dixon
mmm... let's extend the area a little then... Are there any liveCode users in the South-West of England ? > From: dixo...@hotmail.co.uk > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: LC Users - in the Bristol, Southhampton,Taunton triangle > Date: Wed, 29 May 2013 10:41:55 +0100 > > Are there an

Re: [ANN] Book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" sold out!

2013-05-29 Thread Marian Petrides, M.D.
Yes, congratulations, Mark! And I hope you will go ahead with a second printing, even though I bought one the first time around. It's always good to have at least one book for beginners available to help people get started. On May 29, 2013, at 2:30 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: > Hi Mark, > > Co

Re: [ANN] Book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" sold out!

2013-05-29 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Mark, Congratulations, on successfully selling out your copies of your book! Now you just need to decide if you are going to do a second printing. Or will the next version be an e-book instead? Let us know! Rick On May 29, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi, > > For now, the

Re: [ANN] Book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" sold out!

2013-05-29 Thread Marian Petrides, M.D.
Mark, For those of us who ordered the book early on, is there some way of tracking the shipment on our order? Do you know offhand how orders were shipped in the US? UPS? FedEx? USPS? Thanks Marian On May 29, 2013, at 12:57 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi, > > For now, the book "Programming

[OT] DBADPL License

2013-05-29 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I went to grab a php boilerplate app today and I saw this license on the bottom of the page. I think I might license future libraries etc in this way. Lol. LICENSE Version 1, December 2009 Copyright (C) 2009 Philip Sturgeon em...@philsturgeon.co.uk Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute

Re: Check marks in menu items

2013-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I guess my issue is really that there's no clear documentation that says what type of menus work with checkmarks and diamonds and which don't. When I run into something like this, my first reaction is that I must be doing something wrong because there's no documentation that says it shouldn't work

Re: Stack menus

2013-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Paul, I think we're talking about different things here, probably because I didn't explain very well! You're referring to menus used as menu bars, I think and yes I've seen this issues you mentioned when creating those. I remember the issue of having to use a group script to handle mouseUp bec

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/13 11:33 AM, Roger Guay wrote: What a cool idea! I also wonder if blending will work? It does. In fact, when I need an opaque object to get info that doesn't work with transparent objects, I sometimes set the blendlevel to 1. Visually it still looks transparent but all the color/inter

[ANN] Book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" sold out!

2013-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, For now, the book "Programming LiveCode for the real Beginner" is unavailable. I'll take a day to decide what to do next. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer

Re: AW: [ANN] A quick update on my book

2013-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Cool, Tiemo! You were right in time! -- 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 convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour sp

[OT] Fighting Cancer

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
www.re-mission.net of course, apart from the valuable role it is playing, we can look at the game for ideas for work with Livecode. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe a

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Mike Bonner
Is the "opaque pixelx" functionality fixed for the current version (with intersect)? It was broken in 6.0 community. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Richmond wrote: > Well: > > I made a stack with a regular polygon shape (7 sides) > filled with a very 'fetching' green, > and a field called "

Re: How Many Pages are in a PDF?

2013-05-29 Thread dfepstein
1 + (the duration of player myPlayerName)/ 75 David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listi

Re: Detect Name of Button on Mouse Click

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 07:55 PM, Richmond wrote: Well, I don't know what is so difficult about that: on openCard declare a global string variable (e.g. BNAME) and then have this as 2 lines of code in each button script: put the name of me into BNAME pass mouseUp and then this in your card script: on

Detect Name of Button on Mouse Click

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
Well, I don't know what is so difficult about that: on openCard declare a global string variable (e.g. BNAME) and then have this as 2 lines of code in each button script: put the name of me into BNAME pass mouseUp and then this in your card script: on mouseUp put BNAME end mouseUp Of cour

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
Well: I made a stack with a regular polygon shape (7 sides) filled with a very 'fetching' green, and a field called "INN", and put this script into the graphic: on mouseWithin put the mouseColor into fld "INN" end mouseWithin and . . . when the mouse was WITHIN the coloured polygon I got 83

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Roger Guay
What a cool idea! I also wonder if blending will work? I'm going to go play. Thanks! On May 29, 2013, at 9:27 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > I wonder if that can be set temporarily inside lock screen and get the right > results for polygons that are not opaque.

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Dar Scott
It seems "opaque" has come up several times. I wonder if that can be set temporarily inside lock screen and get the right results for polygons that are not opaque. Dar On May 29, 2013, at 10:07 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > What's wrong with "intersect(grc "pointThing", grc "polyThing", pixels)"?

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode itsle

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Roger Guay
What's wrong with "intersect(grc "pointThing", grc "polyThing", pixels)"? Assuming opaque polygon, of course. Roger On May 29, 2013, at 7:17 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Is there a way to determine if a point is inside of a polygon graphic, and > not necessarily inside the graphic's containing r

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Malte Brill
Of course you might also want to take a look at the animationEngine sourcecode, which has a function for that. ;-) Cheers, Malte -- derbrill IT-service Malte Pfaff-Brill Tanneneck 2, d-24790 Ostenfeld Tel: +49 4331-337 640 0 eMail: i...@derbrill.de web: http://www.derbrill.de Steuernummer: 28 01

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 10:44 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > Consider a horizontal line through the point. Find the points where it > crosses the line segments of the sides. (Take care of the special case of > a line segment being on your horizontal line.) Count the points to the > left of your point.

Re: Detect Name of Button on Mouse Click

2013-05-29 Thread Mike Bonner
look at "the target" in the dictionary. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Graham Pearson wrote: > Looking for a way to detect which button was clicked by the user and > retrieve the name field of this so based on the button different actions > can be performed. > > Each button was placed on the

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Dar Scott
I like the idea of trying to get within() to work. But if that does not work, try computing. Consider a horizontal line through the point. Find the points where it crosses the line segments of the sides. (Take care of the special case of a line segment being on your horizontal line.) Count t

Detect Name of Button on Mouse Click

2013-05-29 Thread Graham Pearson
Looking for a way to detect which button was clicked by the user and retrieve the name field of this so based on the button different actions can be performed. Each button was placed on the card using the create invisible button command and after placing at a specific location, setting the label t

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread dunbarx
What Geoff said. Another way is: on mouseMove if the mouseloc is within the rect of grc 1 then put the mouseColor end mousemove The "mouseColor" is a function that works only on the properties of the current mouseLoc. It has one advantage in that it can tell when the mouse is outside t

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Mike Bonner
if the grc is set to opaque (or selected) it works fine, if within(grc "mygrc", the loc of me) then On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:25 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 05/29/2013 05:44 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> On May 29, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: >> >> Is there a way to determine if a

Re: lost CRs in Mailing list?

2013-05-29 Thread Dar Scott
I don't see this in my mail client for this email or the previous two. Mail will be processed by the sending mail client, filtered by programs you or your company set up, handled by mail servers, processed and filtered by the mailing list program, sent back to you, filtered again by anything you

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > Have you tried the within() function? It works the way you describe for > images, but I'm not sure about graphics objects. This works for graphics objects as well, as long as their opaque is true. within(grc 1,the loc of btn 1) -- true if t

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 05:44 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On May 29, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: Is there a way to determine if a point is inside of a polygon graphic, and not necessarily inside the graphic's containing rectangle? Unfortunately my feeble attempt with: on mouseDown grab me end mo

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Mike Bonner
If it doesn't work the same with graphics you could cheat and snapshot, overlay, check, delete the snapshot. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:44 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > On May 29, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > > > Is there a way to determine if a point is inside of a polygon graphic, > and

Re: Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Devin Asay
On May 29, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Is there a way to determine if a point is inside of a polygon graphic, and > not necessarily inside the graphic's containing rectangle? Ray, Have you tried the within() function? It works the way you describe for images, but I'm not sure about

Re: How Many Pages are in a PDF?

2013-05-29 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Anybody know how to get this? I've tried loading the PDF into a player but > this >only gives me access to things in terms of time such as the TimeScale and the >CurrentTime of the player. from unix commands, pdfinfo thefile.pdf and grep f

Point in Poly

2013-05-29 Thread Ray Horsley
Is there a way to determine if a point is inside of a polygon graphic, and not necessarily inside the graphic's containing rectangle? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage y

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 04:36 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: On 2013-05-29, at 5:14 AM, Richmond wrote: However, that was not really the thrust of what I was writing; it was that, as far as I can tell, No desktop computers have Fn keys on their keyboards, so your information, while being jolly useful for lapt

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2013-05-29, at 5:14 AM, Richmond wrote: > However, that was not really the thrust of what I was writing; it was that, > as far as I can tell, > No desktop computers have Fn keys on their keyboards, so your information, > while being > jolly useful for laptops is useless for non-laptops. Not

Re: Best screencast demo ever!

2013-05-29 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 29.05.2013 at 11:36 Uhr +0300 Richmond apparently wrote: 2. I wonder about the legality of the company vis-a-vis "Hey Jude". Apropos legality, I can't see this video because "Unfortunately, this EMI-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective mus

How Many Pages are in a PDF?

2013-05-29 Thread Ray Horsley
Anybody know how to get this? I've tried loading the PDF into a player but this only gives me access to things in terms of time such as the TimeScale and the CurrentTime of the player. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Richmond, Am 29.05.2013 um 15:06 schrieb Richmond : > On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote: >> On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: >>> >>> Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for >>> a standard Windows-native font, >>> but those in the PPU area are

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 03:31 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode itsle

If you are trying to contact me...

2013-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, If you are trying to contact me and you don't get any replies, try writing from a different e-mail address or enter a different e-mail address on the web form or try to provide me with a different way to contact you (no phone). -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consultin

Re: revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/29/2013 07:09 AM, Richmond wrote: Those chars that are in the standard Unicode places are substituted for a standard Windows-native font, but those in the PPU area are left as they are, kerning rules in either the font or inwith Livecode itslef are over-ridden by Windows; something that do

lost CRs in Mailing list?

2013-05-29 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
More and more often the mailing list server dumps all of my line breaks in my emails and my whole email is in one line (see my two previous last posts). [second line:] Sometimes only a few CRs are lost [third line:] and sometimes all line breaks are included. [fourth line:] Any idea what is happ

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 12:44 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: On 29/05/2013, at 7:36 PM, Richmond wrote: As far as I can tell 'Fn' keys are only present on Mac laptops. Not quite true: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-the-fn-key-on-your-laptop.html Indeed, both re your link and tha

revFontLoad, Unicode and Windows post-XP ?

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
I wonder if anybody else has run across this problem with Windows Vista (does anybody use Vista?), 7 or 8? If I install a font that has non-standard Unicode chars in the Personal Private Use Area on one of these Windows systems (I test with Windows 7) something 'funny' happens: Those chars t

AW: [ANN] A quick update on my book

2013-05-29 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Ok, you finally got me with your last rush marketing :) Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Mark Schonewille > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. Mai 2013 13:05 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: [ANN] A quick up

Re: [ANN] A quick update on my book

2013-05-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, We have 7 copies left and I expect the book to be sold out within 2 days, maybe tonight already. http://qery.us/3hn -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK:

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/05/2013, at 7:36 PM, Richmond wrote: > As far as I can tell 'Fn' keys are only present on Mac laptops. Not quite true: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-the-fn-key-on-your-laptop.html -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___ use-liv

LC Users - in the Bristol, Southhampton,Taunton triangle

2013-05-29 Thread John Dixon
Are there any liveCode users within the above triangle in the UK ? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefer

Mac Function Keys

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
This could be subtitled "The Full Nausea" as anybody who doesn't have a photographic memory is going to get in serious trouble trying to memorise this lot. http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 And if you print them out, laminate them in plastic and glue them to the edges of your monitor the thing

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 12:19 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: On 29/05/2013, at 6:29 PM, Richmond wrote: crtl-return does work in the multiline msg box. Probably that would be command-return (i.e. the key with an apple on it) on a Macintosh. If the message box is set to multi-line mode, then pressi

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/05/2013, at 6:29 PM, Richmond wrote: >> crtl-return does work in the multiline msg box. > > Probably that would be command-return (i.e. the key with an apple on it) on a > Macintosh. If the message box is set to multi-line mode, then pressing the return key simply adds another line. On

'Enlarge with sample'

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
As ever, the Spam box in my Yahoo mail is excellent at catching the BEST messages, and this one really got me thinking . . . Certainly, I've enlarged since the Open Source version of Livecode was released, and I hope that all of the good folk on the use-list have enlarged as well. However, one t

Re: Best screencast demo ever!

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/28/2013 10:23 AM, René Micout wrote: YES !!! Two things occurred to me: 1. Couldn't somebody "rip" that off and make a version in Livecode? 2. I wonder about the legality of the company vis-a-vis "Hey Jude". The first one interests me a lot. Richmond. Le 28 mai 2013 à 03:49, Bill Vl

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 06:17 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: crtl-return does work in the multiline msg box. Probably that would be command-return (i.e. the key with an apple on it) on a Macintosh. On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 9:09 PM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi, On a laptop I don't have an "ENTER" key and can

Re: Download page and version #

2013-05-29 Thread Richmond
On 05/29/2013 06:28 AM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi, The download page, http://livecode.com/download/, does NOT note what version is being served. I see some posting about 6.0.2. But only 6.0.1 is now on the download for LC Community. There was a few day lag going to 6.0.1 too. Wondering, will f