> 'dumb everything down to the stage where its just simply insulting'
> school of thought
Richmond, I've been in lurk mode temporarily but this post drew me out.
From prognathous to mall-rats, heroin, and Steve Martin, it's classic.
Beyond dis/agree; either way it's a blast.
Along that line,
Le 12 oct. 2013 à 21:53, Warren Samples a écrit :
> On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote:
>> linux (ubuntu 12).
>>
>> What i missed ?
>>
>> Thanks
>
>
> One additional note; you may find that you have to take special precautions
> to terminate your app and the mplayer process. Cl
Mike Kerner writes:
> In case you didn't understand, the way you get the busy cursor (beachball)
> to animate is to set it. Each time you set it, it moves.
>
> Thus
>
> repeat 100 times
> set the cursor to busy
> end repeat
>
> You can rotate it or not rotate it as much as you want.
Right. T
Mike Kerner wrote:
> Anyone can write a novel, too, by the way. That doesn't demean the
> knowledge of folks who are experts using it.
That's a typewriter usability issue. Once typewriter designers care
enough about end-users to improve things, we'll all be Steinbecks.
:)
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Richard Gaskin writes:
> I would call it a bug, since both forms should work.
It's definitely a bug. Has it been entered yet? I can enter the fix into the
bug's comments if so. Unfortunately, the team still isn't accepting pull
requests for the IDE (this is October), so I can't fix it myself.
-
Anybody CAN learn how to program with many languages (BASIC is another one
that comes to mind), but that doesn't mean you can learn to do it well.
We used to have this same sort of debate on the HC usenet group 20+ years
ago. Here's what frequently happens, though: someone new comes to the
commu
Really, mine too! Although I used a HyperCard clone called "Foundation" on
my Amiga 500.
~Roger
On Oct 13, 2013 9:07 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
> Roger Eller wrote:
> >On Oct 13, 2013 7:01 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
> >>
> >> I can only think of all those people who didn't know they could
>
Roger Eller wrote:
>On Oct 13, 2013 7:01 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
>>
>> I can only think of all those people who didn't know they could
>program,
>and who never in a million years thought they'd want to, back when
>HyperCard came out. Suddenly everyone was a programmer, even the
>"morons."
>>
>
On Oct 13, 2013 7:01 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote:
>
> I can only think of all those people who didn't know they could program,
and who never in a million years thought they'd want to, back when
HyperCard came out. Suddenly everyone was a programmer, even the "morons."
>
Must you be so harsh as you
I love real love stories.
On 10/12/13 4:01 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Like me. One of the best gifts my husband ever gave me was a pocket
protector as acknowledgement that I'd "arrived."
;-)
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> RunRev produce a fantastic product; a product that can
> produce simple Powerpoint-like slideshows to incredibly
> complicated stuff (my Devawriter being about 25% along that
> line); so advertising Livecode like this is just doing RunRev
> a disservice.
I have noticed an uptick in email ma
On 10/12/13 4:53 PM, Vaughn Clement wrote:
Now 2 weeks after I paid for the
programs one of them is now offered for free. Most companies would check
back a refund the fees for any user who paid within the last 30 days. Now I
feel that I am not being treated equal to the people who are getting the
On 10/12/13 2:18 PM, Richmond wrote:
I'm all in favour of more people learning how to program computers.
What I am not in favour of is giving people the false impression that it
does involve quite a bit of time adf effort.
You mean "doesn't involve" I think.
I can only think of all those peo
The movie is built with a program called gource (another open source app) that
builds the movie out of the git commit log. There isn't actually much I did to
make the video just called gource from within my clone setting some parameters
and piping it to ffmpeg that created the movie. The music
Hi
I would be more concerned that they were not trying to do ads and did not
watch the cash flow. It sounds like they are doing the things they need to
do to be a business. My one thing is that they treat everyone equal. For
example I paid for training that was $100.00 to learn things that should
Richmond,
Maybe they just hired an enthusiastic, fresh-out, naïve marketing person,
for whom we should cut some slack :-) Or maybe the Scottish Valley Girls
need to do SOMETHING to justify their expense to Inland Revenue...
Walt
On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Richmond wrote:
> Why do I feel th
Devin Asay wrote:
> It turns out that you can still call functions directly from the
> message box, but the form you have to use has changed. Prior to
> 6.x you would do this:
>
> put myFunction("foo")
>
> Now you don't have to (indeed you cannot) embed the function in
> a put statement:
>
> m
On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote:
linux (ubuntu 12).
What i missed ?
Thanks
One additional note; you may find that you have to take special
precautions to terminate your app and the mplayer process. Closing the
app window may not actually end one or both of the processes. P
On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote:
Hello,
I work on an multi platform open source stack that need to play wma or mp3
(voices memos from an dictaphone).
Even with "dontuseQT" true, nothing happen under linux (ubuntu 12).
What i missed ?
Thanks
Are you using the player object? Li
On Oct 12, 2013, at 1:35 AM, Christer Pyyhtiä wrote:
> There is a difference between 5.5..4 and 6.1.1 (have not tested the -rc
> versions) as follows.
>
> I have a function in the code, which I call from the MSG box command line,
> works fine in 5.5.4.
>
> In 6.1.1 get an error message 'Can't
On 10/12/2013 09:56 PM, Ray wrote:
I don't know Richmond - I kind of disagree with you, albeit
respectfully so. You've apparently taken some time to write down your
concerns here and that's to be respected. I'd just create a junk mail
filter and be done with it.
That will block out the 'bac
I don't know Richmond - I kind of disagree with you, albeit respectfully
so. You've apparently taken some time to write down your concerns here
and that's to be respected. I'd just create a junk mail filter and be
done with it.
Actually, I'd kind of like to see the masses get into scripting
Why do I feel that RunRev have been scraping the barrel recently?
I wonder if the, unintended, result of their open source initiative is
that their income has
dropped considerably; hence the rather childish adverts.
My e-mail inboxes (I have 2 e-mail addresses that are personal and one
for my
Phil - thanks for the suggestion but I just tried it and no-can-do. For
some reason, and this is a Mac-only behavior, when I mouseDown on the
desktop I can't see any messages at all which are sent to Livecode. The
suspend message is sent if I mouseDown on another stack, but not on a
file on th
Have you tried using 'suspend' instead of 'mouseDown' and
'suspendStack'? Should work the same on both platforms (famous last words!).
Phil
On 10/12/13 6:31 AM, Ray wrote:
On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the
current stack window goes inactive, thus triggering the
Hello,
I work on an multi platform open source stack that need to play wma or mp3
(voices memos from an dictaphone).
Even with "dontuseQT" true, nothing happen under linux (ubuntu 12).
What i missed ?
Thanks
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On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the current
stack window goes inactive, thus triggering the suspendStack message. I
use this to create a field which then accepts dragDrops. However, this
is different on a Mac. The current stack window on a Mac waits until
the mou
On 10/12/2013 10:35 AM, Christer Pyyhtiä wrote:
There is a difference between 5.5..4 and 6.1.1 (have not tested the -rc
versions) as follows.
I have a function in the code, which I call from the MSG box command line,
works fine in 5.5.4.
In 6.1.1 get an error message 'Can't find handler'. Th
There is a difference between 5.5..4 and 6.1.1 (have not tested the -rc
versions) as follows.
I have a function in the code, which I call from the MSG box command line,
works fine in 5.5.4.
In 6.1.1 get an error message 'Can't find handler'. This applies all the
functions.
However, if I add
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