Re: I'm a Happy Kickstart Camper . . .

2013-06-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, June 8, 2013, 12:57:47 PM, you wrote: > On 6/8/13 10:13 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: >> It would be nice to know what the response has been - any idea of how many >> new registrations? Kevin mentioned some impressive statistics in the conference keynote. I don't remember them,

[ANN] LiveCode-bijeenkomst in Nederland

2013-06-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Beste LiveCode-gebruikers in Nederland, Bijna een jaar geleden organiseerden we een bijeenkomst voor Nederlandse LiveCode-gebruikers. Het is de hoogste tijd weer eens bijeen te komen. Op de agenda staan: presentaties, hulp met LiveCode-kwesties, algemene vragen, boekpresentatie en signeren, ve

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Dar Scott
I'm guessing that most installations, maybe the vast majority, would have encoding set up for UTF-8. (You will have to query SQLite experts on how many people really use an encoding other than UTF-8.) When (and if) you decide to support UTF-16 (native endian), UTF-16BE and UTF-16LE, it should

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Dar, I think I get the picture now. I'll stick with UTF8 for now. Pete lcSQL Software On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > I encourage you to go to full Unicode. > > That means (for now) using the unicodeText to get text into and out of a > field

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Richmond wrote: > Why do I have a funny feeling you are over-complicating things? > I don't know but I hope you're right! > > Let's start with a few questions: > > 1. "Queen's English": well as Queen Mary IV and III ( > http://www.jacobite.ca/kings/**mary4.htm

Re: [OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
On 06/08/2013 01:22 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: Hello Richmond! Sent from my iPad On 08/06/2013, at 2:45 AM, Richmond wrote: 4. In practise I am not an anarchist because my experience suggests that humans are not up to the standard of managing to function properly in a state of true a

Re: [OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
On 06/08/2013 11:34 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Politicians stay in power by buying cronies. They make the favors for these few look good, good to groups in the populace. So, they get crony funding and popular support. These bought cronies are usually big businessmen who would usually fail by bei

Re: Looking for Mac Flow Charting Software

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
On 06/08/2013 11:09 PM, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote: I hope this isn't a verboten use of this list and, if it is, my apologies in advance. I have a friend who is looking for Mac software that does flowcharting. Do any of the developers on this list have a product that does this? If not, can

Re: I'm a Happy Kickstart Camper . . .

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
On 06/08/2013 10:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/8/13 10:13 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: It would be nice to know what the response has been - any idea of how many new registrations? I'm sure RR wouldn't ever say. But Kevin mentioned that tech support inquiries have gone from hundreds to t

Re: [OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

2013-06-08 Thread Dar Scott
Politicians stay in power by buying cronies. They make the favors for these few look good, good to groups in the populace. So, they get crony funding and popular support. These bought cronies are usually big businessmen who would usually fail by being inept or crooked. The result is big pow

Re: Looking for Mac Flow Charting Software

2013-06-08 Thread Devin Asay
As it happens, Chipp Walters just mentioned his product Diagram Creator in a recent email. Check it out here: http://blog.chipp.com/new-downloads-for-diagramcreator/ Maybe it's useful for what your friend needs. Devin On Jun 8, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Marian Petrides, M.D. wrote: > I hope this isn

Looking for Mac Flow Charting Software

2013-06-08 Thread Marian Petrides, M.D.
I hope this isn't a verboten use of this list and, if it is, my apologies in advance. I have a friend who is looking for Mac software that does flowcharting. Do any of the developers on this list have a product that does this? If not, can someone recommend a good product for this purpose? Tha

Re: Developing for multiple desktop platforms

2013-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/13 11:52 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm also finding the IDE menu setup much more usable on WIndows than Mac. The way that the IDE's system menu keeps changing on OSX depending on context has always been frustrating to me. In WIndows, there's a menu in the main IDE window that never chan

Re: I'm a Happy Kickstart Camper . . .

2013-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/13 10:13 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: It would be nice to know what the response has been - any idea of how many new registrations? I'm sure RR wouldn't ever say. But Kevin mentioned that tech support inquiries have gone from hundreds to thousands (a week? a day? can't remember) and so

Re: scrolling stack I made

2013-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/13 9:51 AM, Roger Eller wrote: From the screenshots, the app appears to have a phone layout. Did you have to specify anywhere that it can also run on tablets? I believe J. Landman Gay also had this initial problem with Casey's Solitaire, but it runs fine on tablets now. Actually I ha

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Dar Scott
I encourage you to go to full Unicode. That means (for now) using the unicodeText to get text into and out of a field. Then convert that to UTF8 and back for a database with UTF-8 encoding. (And at this point you can say that your program only works with UTF-8 encoding set for SQLite.) It is

Re: Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
Why do I have a funny feeling you are over-complicating things? Let's start with a few questions: 1. "Queen's English": well as Queen Mary IV and III ( http://www.jacobite.ca/kings/mary4.htm) couldn't get her head round any English to save her life, that must be a serious problem . . . LOL.

Re: [OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

2013-06-08 Thread Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu
This time; a little less information, a little more propaganda; sorry :) At least 100 thousand gathered in Taksim this evening, it's spectacular; words hardly describe this scene! --- To all my hobbit brothers out there… Remember, Uruk-hai's may have giant swords, Goblins may be 4 times bigger

Unicode (was Getting Kanji from a .csv file)

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
I apologize up front for being particularly clueless on this whole character encoding concept. I'm still trying to adjust to speaking American English as opposed to the Queen's English so not too suprising I'm not grasping unicode too well! I understand the concepts and the use of uniencode and u

Re: Polygon's share of its rectangle inconsistent?

2013-06-08 Thread Dar Scott
Yeah, the lineSize idea doesn't get far (at this point) when the function is looking at the entire rectangle and returning 100% in my case I don't know if this is a function bug or a dictionary issue. From the dictionary... If the point is within the clickable area of the object,

Developing for multiple desktop platforms

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
My usual development machine is a Mac but I've been using a WIndows 8 box quite a bit recently. I'm really glad I had the opportunity to do that for a number of reasons. First, it's made me a lot more aware of things I need to pay attention to to make sure things look right on Windows. I've come

Re: When is a color not a color

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks everyone. It seems "is a color" is broken. I did see the dictionary entry about accepting a single integer as a color but this goes beyond that. I think I'll enter a bug report about it. By way of context, I'm trying to identify what type of data is in custom properties as part of a proj

Re: [OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

2013-06-08 Thread Friedrich F. Grohmann
The caterpillars, what a marvelous story. I absolutely loved it. Profound respect and best wishes for you, your family, and all your friends. May sanity prevail. All the best from the Far East, Fritz On Sat, Jun 8, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu wrote: > Simon, thank you for your advice

Re: I'm a Happy Kickstart Camper . . .

2013-06-08 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, agreed. I wasn't very comfortable with it as a long term thing, but this is a fair enough reason when you have just taken such a momentous step. It would be nice to know what the response has been - any idea of how many new registrations? J. Landman Gay wrote > Kevin said it was to see wha

RE: scrolling stack I made

2013-06-08 Thread Roger Eller
Searching via the play store app did not reveal your app because it knows what devices I have. I did find it however by searching from a browser (not signed in). From there, I touched the icon and it took me to your app in the play store. Immediately, I saw that it says "Your device isn't compat

Making a bad impression on MacUpdate

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
Really: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/36141/livecode 1. The listing should be bang up-to-date. 2. The OSS version should be there as well. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

[OT] Devawriter Updated

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
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Re: Polygon's share of its rectangle inconsistent?

2013-06-08 Thread David Epstein
Thanks to Dar Scott, Craig Newman, and Jim Hurley for thinking about this. I don't know why the coverage function would yield 1.0 (except for a very small graphic; see glitch described below). The Dar Scott amendment to my function--subtracting 1 from the right and bottom of the rect that

Bought the book but didn't hear from Economy-x-Talk?

2013-06-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, If you bought the book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner", but you never got an e-mail from Economy-x-Talk, please contact me! If you try to contact me, but don't get any replies, check your spam box first. If you really didn't get a reply, use a different e-mail address. Avoid

Re: Re-subscribing Test - Please Disregard

2013-06-08 Thread Medard
Richmond wrote: > Um - censorship ? I don't think so ;-) Simply, there is no human at this address... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preference

Re: Re-subscribing Test - Please Disregard

2013-06-08 Thread Richmond
On 06/08/2013 10:18 AM, Medard wrote: Re-subscribing, after being banned for bounces ;-> I forgot to make the changes after the On-Rev server was modified... Note that I wrote a message to to explain the situation, but there was no response -- unless the banning was a response ;-) Um - censo

Re-subscribing Test - Please Disregard

2013-06-08 Thread Medard
Re-subscribing, after being banned for bounces ;-> I forgot to make the changes after the On-Rev server was modified... Note that I wrote a message to to explain the situation, but there was no response -- unless the banning was a response ;-) ___ us