completely OT, but you might want to know

Tonight / today is the 150th anniversary of Quantrill's raid in Missouri, and it's being re-enacted "live" on Twitter. The raiders have set off, but most of the action will be tomorrow. https://twitter.com/search?src=typd&q=%23qr1863 -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Creating a line that I can see

Hi, I want to create an graphic arrow. I script: put the ScoreComColor of this stack into cColor create graphic set the style of last graphic to "Line" set the name of last graphic to "Arrow" set the endArrow of last graphic to true set the lineSize of last graphic to 2 set the ar

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Richard- Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 6:27:20 PM, you wrote: > Cut to Godwin's Law: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDeG4S-mJts > :) Oh my. Thanks for that. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Pete- Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 6:18:48 PM, you wrote: > I heard : > "Best thing to do is jwehf KJHFKHFTYL *%*%$$$ kjdkhdkjhd pull request" Well, hey... you asked... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecod

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

Yes, I'm aware of Box2D integration and I'm very excited about it. I can't wait to see the possibilities. But, I'm not sure how much performance boost it will give us. I've stumbled on an article tonight about algorithm optimizations. It's kind of a case study. *Spots* finds the wifi hotspots nea

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Peter Haworth wrote: Mark, You said: Best thing to do is fork the repository, git clone it locally, make your changes, push them, and submit a pull request. I heard : "Best thing to do is jwehf KJHFKHFTYL *%*%$$$ kjdkhdkjhd pull request" :-) Cut to Godwin's Law: http://www.youtube.com

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

On 21/08/2013, at 02:48 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Terry- > > Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 5:49:58 AM, you wrote: > >> The computers are in a managed lab so hopefully most could be >> prevented. being able to disable modifier keys would certainly help. > > If this is in a managed lab, what good wou

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Peter Haworth wrote: >Mark, > >You said: > >Best thing to do is fork the repository, git clone it locally, make >> your changes, push them, and submit a pull request. >> > >I heard : > >"Best thing to do is jwehf KJHFKHFTYL *%*%$$$ kjdkhdkjhd pull request" I think he said you can push a clone ar

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Mark, You said: Best thing to do is fork the repository, git clone it locally, make > your changes, push them, and submit a pull request. > I heard : "Best thing to do is jwehf KJHFKHFTYL *%*%$$$ kjdkhdkjhd pull request" :-) Pete lcSQL Software _

Re: revFontUnload Fail

Monte Goulding wrote: > >On 21/08/2013, at 7:52 AM, "J. Landman Gay" >wrote: > >> What a great request. We've needed that for a long time. > > >Blame Trevor for the idea and most of the work ;-) Trevor is guilty of many such ideas :-) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactive

Re: revFontUnload Fail

What about if you unload the font on suspend and then reload it on resume? Would that prevent other apps from getting hold of it if you switch to them from LC or would they have access to it in the background anyway? Terry... On 21/08/2013, at 09:46 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > Thank you both for

Re: revFontUnload Fail

Thank you both for the research and actioning a plan to fix this problem. I'm thinking that I only had my standalone running. Possibly LiveCode too in some cases, but I usually close it after building. One thing I considered, but haven't tested is to set the font of the objects which use it to em

Re: revFontUnload Fail

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Aug 20, 2013 5:53 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > > > On 8/20/13 4:33 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > >> > >> Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? > > Nope. I even made sure that the font is not installed on my system,

Re: Stack Menu

Thansk Jacques, I'll try the "ancient" trick. I tried switching traversalOn off and that did prevent the initial highlight but had some other undesired visual effect, too difficult to explain in words. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:30 PM, J. Landman Gay w

Re: revFontUnload Fail

On Aug 20, 2013 5:53 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > On 8/20/13 4:33 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> >> Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? Nope. I even made sure that the font is not installed on my system, so my system is the same as the end users systems. >> start using

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Pete- Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 2:31:42 PM, you wrote: > On the subject of open source, is there a process in place to get > contributed enhancements included in the docs? I see lots of cool stuff > being discussed on the forum that involve new commands and properties. Here's the docs editor. I

Re: revFontUnload Fail

On 21/08/2013, at 7:52 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > What a great request. We've needed that for a long time. Blame Trevor for the idea and most of the work ;-) -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! _

Re: revFontUnload Fail

On 8/20/13 4:33 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? revFont on windows loads the font globally. I've just sent in a pull request to move revFont into the engine with the syntax: start using font file [globally] Where the default is a privat

Re: revFontUnload Fail

On 8/20/13 4:19 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I'm trying to include a font with a desktop application. I don't want to install the font because the users may not have admin rights. This in on WinXP and Win7. revFontLoad does the trick perfectly, but in my closeStackRequest handler is where I try to u

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > There may be others. I've done a lot of experimenting with html formatted > text, which I use to set the htmltext of a field, and then I observe what > "works". Then you can reverse the process and 'put the htmlText' of the > field and see how

Re: revFontUnload Fail

Do you have any other apps open that might be using the font? revFont on windows loads the font globally. I've just sent in a pull request to move revFont into the engine with the syntax: start using font file [globally] Where the default is a private font load so other apps can't lock the fon

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

Thanks Devin. I guess I'll have to go through the release notes and try to glean what I can from them. I know there was a recent thread about the poor quality of the LC docs which included some reasons why it won;t get updated until the whole open source thing settles down. I really hope going f

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

Thanks Mark - that seems pretty clear. Terry... On 21/08/2013, at 12:29 AM, "Mark Wilcox" wrote: > It's distribution not use that counts in the GPL. If you put the download > behind a login then you could possibly argue that the distribution was > entirely internal, however, students are not

revFontUnload Fail

I'm trying to include a font with a desktop application. I don't want to install the font because the users may not have admin rights. This in on WinXP and Win7. revFontLoad does the trick perfectly, but in my closeStackRequest handler is where I try to unload the font, and the result is "couldn

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:25 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > > On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> I recently discovered that, contrary to the dictionary entry, htmlText >> supports any of the standard html entities like ¶, %crarr;, etc >> >> With that in mind, does anyone know if the l

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

On 8/20/13 3:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I recently discovered that, contrary to the dictionary entry, htmlText supports any of the standard html entities like ¶, %crarr;, etc With that in mind, does anyone know if the list of supported html tags in the dictionary is complete? It lists the foll

Re: Stack Menu

On 8/20/13 2:26 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Just tried that and no luck unfortunately. I can live with it the way it is but it means I will have to relayer a bunch of controls which will be in a pain since they're in groups. There's an ancient trick where you create a tiny editable object, make

Re: html tags recognized by htmlText

On Aug 20, 2013, at 2:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I recently discovered that, contrary to the dictionary entry, htmlText > supports any of the standard html entities like ¶, %crarr;, etc > > With that in mind, does anyone know if the list of supported html tags in > the dictionary is complete?

html tags recognized by htmlText

I recently discovered that, contrary to the dictionary entry, htmlText supports any of the standard html entities like ¶, %crarr;, etc With that in mind, does anyone know if the list of supported html tags in the dictionary is complete? It lists the following: recognizes face= size=

Re: Stack Menu

Just tried that and no luck unfortunately. I can live with it the way it is but it means I will have to relayer a bunch of controls which will be in a pain since they're in groups. Pete lcSQL Software On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:50 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > On Aug 20, 20

Re: HTML entities not displaying on Chinese Windows

Thanks, Richmond, this makes some sense. How then, would I encode fields as unicode so they display reliably? Peter On Aug 20, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 08/20/2013 01:51 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> The music history e-book we've been working on for the last couple

Re: Stack Menu

On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I'm using the feature to name a stack to display when a menu is clicked > instead of showing the values in the menu button's text. > > All works great except that when the stack is displayed, the button with > the lowest layer is hilited. I'd

Re: HTTP proxies

Thanks, Roger and Trevor. It sounds like it can be a minefield. This gives me a starting point anyway. Devin On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> I am a neophyte when it comes to proxy servers. My application phones home

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 4:23 AM, Richmond wrote: > To illustrate this consider a possible future scenario: > > 2030: > > Desktop computers are largely a thing of the past. > > A large array of handheld devices run on successor systems to Android, > Linux and Mobile versions of > Mac and Windows, a

Stack Menu

I'm using the feature to name a stack to display when a menu is clicked instead of showing the values in the menu button's text. All works great except that when the stack is displayed, the button with the lowest layer is hilited. I'd prefer that no buttons are hilited at that point but haven't b

Re: HTTP proxies

On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > I am a neophyte when it comes to proxy servers. My application phones home > on occasion via HTTP requests (mostly GET but some PUT) to get content > update updates and such. One user has reported that this fails because the > application isn't

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

Amen. I don't put this into words often enough, but I love this list. I learn from it constantly and the camaraderie and collaboration is wonderful. Sometimes it's discovering a new way to approach an old problem, sometimes it's unearthing a little corner of LC that I had not discovered, sometim

Re: HTTP proxies

I don't know if I would put myself into a position that *depends* on RunRevs implementation of proxy authentication. Even RunRev themselves can't even get it working for their licensing system, so we have off-line activation. It has been this way since Revolution 1.1, (as long as I have been usin

HTTP proxies

Hi all, I am a neophyte when it comes to proxy servers. My application phones home on occasion via HTTP requests (mostly GET but some PUT) to get content update updates and such. One user has reported that this fails because the application isn't set up to use his university's proxy server. I

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

Terry- Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 5:49:58 AM, you wrote: > The computers are in a managed lab so hopefully most could be > prevented. being able to disable modifier keys would certainly help. If this is in a managed lab, what good would screenshots do? Wouldn't they be confined to the individual

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

Ender- Tuesday, August 20, 2013, 1:11:12 AM, you wrote: > Still, I wish to see a really cool game or an app with > mind-blowing effects done via LiveCode. > It would be a great showcase, don't you think? You *are* aware that a new physics engine is one of the Kickstarter stretch goals, right? It

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Curry Kenworthy wrote: > >> I see an "of of" in line -5. Also be sure of your cr's and your file paths! > > Good catch! I'd looked at Peter's code and completely missed that. > > This is why I love this community: > > When you need to opti

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

RunRevPlanet wrote: Knowing little about Apache meant I carefully followed the instructions in the LiveCodeNotes-5_0_2-Server.pdf Deployment Notes and it worked after some experimentation. I did have had to make sure the permissions of the livecode-server.so file were set to allow it to execute.

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

Curry Kenworthy wrote: I see an "of of" in line -5. Also be sure of your cr's and your file paths! Good catch! I'd looked at Peter's code and completely missed that. This is why I love this community: When you need to optimize a routine into a three-line solution using arrays, Alex Tweedly

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

Ludovic Thébault wrote: > Le 20 août 2013 à 17:13, Mark Wilcox a écrit : > Just for clarify : if i look in the binary of a standalone created by the community edition, i can see all the scripts aka the source code, no ? >> >> Yes, there's no encryption or password protection on com

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

Le 20 août 2013 à 17:13, Mark Wilcox a écrit : >>> Just for clarify : if i look in the binary of a standalone created by the >>> community edition, i can see all the scripts aka the source code, no ? > > > Yes, there's no encryption or password protection on community edition stacks > but the

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

>> Just for clarify : if i look in the binary of a standalone created by the >> community edition, i can see all the scripts aka the source code, no ? Yes, there's no encryption or password protection on community edition stacks but the GPL does not accept being able to extract the code in some

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

Le 20 août 2013 à 16:28, Mark Wilcox a écrit : > It's distribution not use that counts in the GPL. If you put the download > behind a login then you could possibly argue that the distribution was > entirely internal, however, students are not generally under the control of > an organisation in

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

It's distribution not use that counts in the GPL. If you put the download behind a login then you could possibly argue that the distribution was entirely internal, however, students are not generally under the control of an organisation in the same way that employees are - a student could legiti

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

Hi jbv, I used to host a LiveCode Server (with MySQL) based site on Thor in 2012. Two reasons caused me to switch to an Unmanaged VPS. * The increasing performance problems in the later half of 2012. * All my clients are here in Australia, and the round trip to servers in the USA meant too much

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

D'oh! Should work now. The only remaining puzzle is why it worked on the Mac but not in the Windows standalone. Maybe the Mac understands stuttering better…. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Curry Kenworthy wrote: > > I

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

On 20/08/2013, at 8:31 PM, "Richmond" wrote: > On 08/20/2013 06:32 AM, Terry Judd wrote: >> I've been looking at the FAQs, and in particular this question... >> >> Can you give me some examples of where I do and don't need a commercial >> license? >> >> ... and I'm still not exactly clear on

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

On 20/08/2013, at 10:19 PM, "Colin Holgate" wrote: > I’m not sure how much effort it’s worth going to. A potential cheat might > somehow do a screenshot, find the screenshot, get on to email, email the > picture to themselves, and some of those steps you could prevent. The computers are in a m

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

On 08/20/2013 03:18 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I’m not sure how much effort it’s worth going to. A potential cheat might somehow do a screenshot, find the screenshot, get on to email, email the picture to themselves, and some of those steps you could prevent. But a far easier way to cheat would

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

I’m not sure how much effort it’s worth going to. A potential cheat might somehow do a screenshot, find the screenshot, get on to email, email the picture to themselves, and some of those steps you could prevent. But a far easier way to cheat would be to take a picture of the screen with your c

Re: A peculiar character substitution problem with URL

Well, Dave :) This worked perfectly. Thank you for taking the time to look into this - it really helped me. It also taught me that I need to learn more about uniencode and unidecode. Again - a huge thanks! Take care, Jonathan On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: > > On 19 Aug

Re: HTML entities not displaying on Chinese Windows

On 08/20/2013 01:51 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: Hi all, The music history e-book we've been working on for the last couple of years has gotten to the point of having some people in China now translate large parts of it to Chinese. However when they open the compiled version on their Windows ma

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

On 08/20/2013 06:32 AM, Terry Judd wrote: I've been looking at the FAQs, and in particular this question... Can you give me some examples of where I do and don't need a commercial license? ... and I'm still not exactly clear on where I stand. My situation is that I am distributing apps to stud

Re: Windows standalone puzzle

I see an "of of" in line -5. Also be sure of your cr's and your file paths! Best wishes, Curry K. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

Lynn Fredricks: "This is something that they should stay away from. … An investment that cannot work on all supported platforms and not leverage the natural productivity of LiveCode isn't a good investment for Runtime." Well put, indeed. I'm quite convinced about this. Taking a platform-specific