Re: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

On 29/01/14 23:40, Graham Samuel wrote: I'm using LC 6.5.1 on a Mac with Mavericks. Recently I was given a Pages document with some text I needed to paste into a LiveCode desktop app. You can, save from Pages into Microsoft's ubiquitous .doc format. My younger son, who stays in Germany and us

RE: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

> From: Graham Samuel > > Ha! So the person who wrote the text just **thought** they > were minus signs. The trouble with the en dash (as opposed to > the em dash - I used to set type by hand, so I remember > these) is that the glyph in most fonts is very close to the > minus sign. I generall

Re: 6.5.2 Doesn't Remember Script Editor Location

Definitely NOT confirmed. My problem (not LC's) is the exact opposite, I use multiple monitors and the script editor is always on another monitor, if I do not remember to shutdown LC correctly - by first moving ALL the LC windows and palettes back to the main monitor, if I start up LC without the

Re: ODBC connection to MSSQL under XP works in IDE, but not in Standalone

I had something like that happen a few LC versions back, but still in 6.x.x. The default SQL Server DLL's just stopped working with standalones built with the new version of LC, but installing the SQL version 10 drivers I found within Microsoft's download pages worked. ~Roger On Wed, Jan 29, 20

Re: 652 release

On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 9:01 AM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > > http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ > > Warm regards, > > Ben so much better …. Excellent! *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mailing li

ODBC connection to MSSQL under XP works in IDE, but not in Standalone

Hi all. For half an day now i am trying to figure out why my standalone is not able to connect to a MSSQL Server through ODC although in the IDE it works without problems. I tried already to manually select the "inclusions". But it doesn´t make a difference. The standalones always contain th

Re: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

Thanks Devin Ha! So the person who wrote the text just **thought** they were minus signs. The trouble with the en dash (as opposed to the em dash - I used to set type by hand, so I remember these) is that the glyph in most fonts is very close to the minus sign. So maybe I haven't got a problem

Re: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

On Jan 29, 2014, at 3:40 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > More issues - the minus signs don't seem to be Mac Roman after all (at least > MacToISO no longer seems to translate the although I could have sworn it did > earlier, nor ASCII, nor anything else I've found so far. LC's charToNum > function t

Re: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

More issues - the minus signs don't seem to be Mac Roman after all (at least MacToISO no longer seems to translate the although I could have sworn it did earlier, nor ASCII, nor anything else I've found so far. LC's charToNum function thinks their value is 208 (decimal). Still looking... Graham

OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

I'm using LC 6.5.1 on a Mac with Mavericks. Recently I was given a Pages document with some text I needed to paste into a LiveCode desktop app. The relevant text was: 3*(-1*x^2 + 4)(-1*x^4 - 5x + 2) (Don't worry, it's just a meaningless example). I changed this to plain text (it had originally

Re: Any super-simple way to texture a sphere?

Hi Geoff, After using PhotoRoom, written by Chris Bodell, I believe that you could create all images on the fly, by script, within your own program. :D http://ftp.runrev.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9490 https://skydrive.live.com/?cid=303263e8a35c7594&sc=documents&uc=1&id=303263E8A35C7594%211

Re: 652 release

Nicely done! ~Roger On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > Hi All, > > We've restructured the 'all downloads' section of the website to make it > easier to find the release you want and ensure that untested releases are > not made available before the are ready. > > http:

Re: Any super-simple way to texture a sphere?

Hi Geoff: The super simple way is an oval gradient, offset from the center of the "planet" graphic. The fancier way could be a group of a couple of graphics. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design Original message Subject: Any super-simple way to

Re: Any super-simple way to texture a sphere?

Nope. You cannot texture a sphere globally because you will have singularities somewhere (typically at the poles). This is the same problem as for maps of the earth. You have to patch together local maps, "à la Google maps". François Le 29 janv. 2014 à 20:20, Geoff Canyon a écrit : > I have 3D

[OT] Social Engineering against the common sense

Read and believe: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/01/29/lost-5-twitter-username/ Something like this would not happen again. Correct? Never again... :( Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Social-Engineering-against-the-common-s

Re: Scalini - image scaler for resolution independence

Hi Thanks for the info. Thank you Vaughn Clement Apps by Vaughn Clement (Support) *http://www.appsbyvaughnclement.com/tools/home-page/ * Skype: vaughn.clement https://secure.join.me/appsbyvclement FaceTime: vclem...@gmail.com LogMeIn also ava

6.5.2 Doesn't Remember Script Editor Location

Actually I don't know of any version for quite some time now which HAS re-opened the script editor window where I last closed it. I work with two monitors and I like to have the script editor window open on the second one. In previous versions I've edited the Revolution UI Back Script. I'd

Re: Scalini - image scaler for resolution independence

RogerE wrote: > It scales a folder of images > to all of the sizes needed (for resolution differences), and names them > according to Apple's requirements. Primarily it makes images sized and named to work with LC’s approach to resolution independence. When I built it I hadn’t thought that it mi

Any super-simple way to texture a sphere?

I have 3D gravity working. I have 3D positioning working. I have 3D perspective viewing working (arbitrary point of view and orientation). That means that as I approach Mars to land on it, I need some way to present it as more than an orange circle (which is what I have now). Any ideas on the best

Re: 652 release

Very nice, Ben. It looks much more professional than before. -- 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.

Re: Just confirming, groups themselves don't receive mouse messages, right?

Thanks, I was trying to avoid creating an object just to capture messages. I was thinking about doing a simple table-based layout system based on groups, but that necessarily implies being able to drag controls into and out of groups. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 8:36 AM, John Craig wrote: > I've used

Re: Visual Effect for a stack

Thanks Hank, sounds like just what I want. Off to try it out now. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 10:12 AM, wrote: > > > > I don't think

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

Richard - I have a stack of 'user preferences' which shows the width and height of another stack as it's resized. These numbers which should auto update continuously as the user continues to hold the mouse down and resize the stack, so unfortunately your suggestion won't work. However, settin

Re: 652 release

On 1/29/14, 12:09 PM, Richmond wrote: I wonder how you get to the server downloads now? The link is at the bottom of Ben's release announcement. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _

Re: 652 release

On 29/01/14 20:16, Matthias Rebbe wrote: The community version is also there http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ And the commercial one can be downloaded from the account. Regards, Matthias Oh, Aye, so it is, so it is, it must be my eyes ye know. Am 29.01.2014 um 19:09 schrieb Richmo

Re: 652 release

The community version is also there http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ And the commercial one can be downloaded from the account. Regards, Matthias Am 29.01.2014 um 19:09 schrieb Richmond : > I wonder how you get to the server downloads now? > > Richmond. > > _

Re: Visual Effect for a stack

> > I don't think there's a way to use a visual effect to deal with the stack > size change, or is there? > Pete, check out "revChangeWindowSize" Hank ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Re: 652 release

I wonder how you get to the server downloads now? Richmond. ___ 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/listinfo/

Re: 652 release

Hi Warren, This is the same issue as Francois noticed. This is now fixed. Regards, Ben On 29 January 2014 17:12, Warren Samples wrote: > On 01/29/2014 11:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: > >> Thanks. The externals SDK links seem to be broken >> > > > All links starting with 'LiveCode 5.5.5' l

Re: 652 release

On 01/29/2014 11:08 AM, François Chaplais wrote: Thanks. The externals SDK links seem to be broken All links starting with 'LiveCode 5.5.5' lead back to the download page. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2

Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce that LiveCode 6.5.2 is now available. This is a maintenance release. It contains 36 bug fixes and a similar number of dictionary updates. 11716 - Hi-res iPad icon size incorrect 11702 - Change in cantSelect behavior makes it possible to create graphic

Re: 652 release

Thanks Francois, This will be fixed shortly. Warm regards, Ben On 29 January 2014 17:08, François Chaplais < francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr> wrote: > Thanks. The externals SDK links seem to be broken > Francois > Le 29 janv. 2014 à 18:01, Benjamin Beaumont a écrit : > > > Hi All, > > >

Re: LiveCode and HTML

The problem is that you need the engine for livecode to run. For example, in websites running from an apache server, it's possible to add the engine as a cgi. This is called "livecode server", and it can be found here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ But that's not what you want. you wa

Re: 652 release

Thanks. The externals SDK links seem to be broken Francois Le 29 janv. 2014 à 18:01, Benjamin Beaumont a écrit : > Hi All, > > We've restructured the 'all downloads' section of the website to make it > easier to find the release you want and ensure that untested releases are > not made available

Re: 652 release

On 29/01/14 19:01, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: Hi All, We've restructured the 'all downloads' section of the website to make it easier to find the release you want and ensure that untested releases are not made available before the are ready. http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ Warm regards,

Re: 652 release

Hi All, We've restructured the 'all downloads' section of the website to make it easier to find the release you want and ensure that untested releases are not made available before the are ready. http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ Warm regards, Ben On 29 January 2014 16:38, Richmond wro

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

Jan Schenkel wrote: It depends on the 'liveResizing' property of the stack. The calculations needed to resize the content of the stack can be time-consuming. And on Mac redrawing the window takes longer than on WIndows/Unix. So the default behaviour on Mac is not to send 'resizeStack' messages

Re: EditBackground Message?

I've never found a message that indicates this. I'm not sure of the exact mechanism by which LC puts a group into edit mode but it appears to involve the creation of a temporary stack or card containing the ungrouped controls of the edited group. If that's the case, then maybe you could trap one

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

2014-01-29 Ender Nafi Elekcioglu : > Richmond, > > My subject line is confusing. > What I meant was “removing all non-alphanumeric chars except dash and space” > *Non-Ascii* was just a wrong statement. > > Thierry and John’s solutions work fine. In fact, they are the same :) I choosed the "extend

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

( Just remember that \w will include certain punctuation ;) ) On 29/01/2014 16:25, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: Thierry, John; Thank you very much, both work just fine. Inspecting your solutions, I’ve found my stupid mistake, btw. This was what I was trying: “[^\W- ]” which should be obviou

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

On 29/01/14 18:32, Richmond wrote: On 29/01/14 18:29, Ray wrote: I'm not sure how many versions back this goes but apparently the following script works differently on a Mac and Windows with 6.5.2: on resizeStack put the ticks end resizeStack On Windows the message is sent continu

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

Richmond, My subject line is confusing. What I meant was “removing all non-alphanumeric chars except dash and space” *Non-Ascii* was just a wrong statement. Thierry and John’s solutions work fine. Best, ~ Ender From: Richmond Richmond Reply: Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com Date: January

Re: 652 release

Now things are getting really kooky as the 6.5.2 server releases are now available here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/6_5_2/ as well as here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/server/6_5_2/ and the status of "6.5.2" with nothing on the end of it is no clearer. Richmond. _

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

On 29/01/14 18:29, Ray wrote: I'm not sure how many versions back this goes but apparently the following script works differently on a Mac and Windows with 6.5.2: on resizeStack put the ticks end resizeStack On Windows the message is sent continually as long as the mouse is down a

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

Hi Ray, It depends on the 'liveResizing' property of the stack. The calculations needed to resize the content of the stack can be time-consuming. And on Mac redrawing the window takes longer than on WIndows/Unix. So the default behaviour on Mac is not to send 'resizeStack' messages unless you s

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

I suspect this is a platform issue that RR can't easily overcome, the dictionary states; On Mac OS X systems… …The stack's original width and height are passed only with the first resizeStack message sent during a resize operation. So I'd guess the Mac OS is blocking the operation during the re

Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

I'm not sure how many versions back this goes but apparently the following script works differently on a Mac and Windows with 6.5.2: on resizeStack put the ticks end resizeStack On Windows the message is sent continually as long as the mouse is down and I'm resizing the stack. On

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

On 29/01/14 17:43, Thierry Douez wrote: 2014-01-29 Ender Nafi Elekcioglu : The statement should clear all whitespaces and non-ascii chars except dash and space. ~ Ender [ ...] -> character class; match any characters in between the brackets [^...] -> character class; do *NOT* match all cha

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

Thierry, John; Thank you very much, both work just fine. Inspecting your solutions, I’ve found my stupid mistake, btw. This was what I was trying: “[^\W- ]” which should be obviously “[^\w- ]” Silly me :) Thanks again… Best, ~ Ender ___ use-livecod

LiveCode and HTML

Hi, I need to know if there is any way for using LiveCode within HTML5. Concretely, I need to use a simple game I wrote in LiveCode as part of an iBooks author page. Is there any way for converting or embedding it for HTML5 ? Thanks and Regards. __ Sergio Schvarste

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

When you say 'non-ascii' do you mean non alphanumeric? if tData contains your string then.. put replaceText(tData, "[^[:alnum:]- ]", "") will replace anything that isn't alphanumeric, dash or space with blnk. :) On 29/01/2014 15:00, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: Hi all, I’m a little embarr

Re: RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

2014-01-29 Ender Nafi Elekcioglu : > The statement should clear all whitespaces and non-ascii chars except dash > and space. > > ~ Ender [ ...] -> character class; match any characters in between the brackets [^...] -> character class; do *NOT* match all characters in between the brackets So,

RegEx for Removing Non-Ascii Chars Except Certain Whitespaces

Hi all, I’m a little embarrassed to ask this question for two reasons: 1. I should have known sufficient regex, every coder should. 2. I should have found the answer online, every coder should. But apparently I couldn’t and I’m struggling for quite a time; please, excuse my ignorance. I need a

Re: Just confirming, groups themselves don't receive mouse messages, right?

I've used a button sized to fill the group and style set to transparent to catch the mouse events.. On 29/01/2014 14:13, Geoff Canyon wrote: I was experimenting with groups, and it appears the group itself doesn't directly receive mouseEnter, mouseMove, etc. If mouse messages are sent to an o

Re: Char index

Nakia Brewer wrote: Indeed it will, looked for every other iteration of offset, just not offset alone If you don't mind my asking, what were the other terms you were looking for? Presumably "index" was among them - were there others? I'd like to see additional tags added to the Dictionary to

Re: Just confirming, groups themselves don't receive mouse messages, right?

On 29.01.2014, at 15:13, Geoff Canyon wrote: > Is there a way to make it so that groups themselves can receive > messages directly? No. The only way is, to have an opaque rectangle graphic or other object that fills the whole area of the group. You can send the ink of the graphic to noop, so

Just confirming, groups themselves don't receive mouse messages, right?

I was experimenting with groups, and it appears the group itself doesn't directly receive mouseEnter, mouseMove, etc. If mouse messages are sent to an object in the group, and the object's script doesn't handle the messages, the messages pass to the group. But if the pointer is over an area of the

Re: EditBackground Message?

a quick look in to the dictionary says no, so unless it's undocmented, there's none. On 29.01.2014, at 02:24, Scott Rossi wrote: > Anyone know if there's related message sent when the editBackground of a > stack is enabled (or start editing group xyz)? I want to trigger some object > positi

Re: 652 release

I understand that, but there has been active communication about a bug, as recently as this morning, and they have yet to find the source of the issue. On Jan 29, 2014 8:08 AM, "Mark Schonewille" < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Roger, > > The new release notes contain a small list of

Re: 652 release

Roger, The new release notes contain a small list of bug fixes compared to RC1, if I understand the notes correctly. There are bug fixes for 6.5.2-rc-1 and 6.5.2. I think 6.5.2 follows 6.5.2-rc-1. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: 652 release

But what about the active an unresolved new bugs that have been reported for 6.5.2 RC1? On Jan 29, 2014 6:24 AM, "Benjamin Beaumont" wrote: > Hi Richmond. > > As you rightly point out, LiveCode 6.5.2 GM1 has been build and is on our > download server. It has passed the first phase of internal te

Re: 652 release

Hi Ben, I can download this release, but it's not visible on my account (commercial), so i can't activate it. Marek ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: 652 release

Hi Richmond. As you rightly point out, LiveCode 6.5.2 GM1 has been build and is on our download server. It has passed the first phase of internal testing and is currently being run against our automated test suit. Once it has passed all these tests it will be announce and activated through the aut

Re: 652 release

Hi Matthias, Whether or not I am a list member is not important. Whenever I need the latest version of LC, I follow the link to the downloads and download whatever appears to be the latest version. I'm not going to check the list for all announcements, while I just want to help out a new pot

Re: Char index

Indeed it will, looked for every other iteration of offset, just not offset alone Thanks Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Jan 2014, at 8:26 pm, "Thierry Douez" wrote: > > 2014-01-29 Nakia Brewer : >> Is there a way I can find out the char index for a chunk of text that may >> exists in a line of

Re: 652 release

Am 29.01.2014 um 00:29 schrieb Mark Wieder : > Nonetheless, something that hasn't been offically announced is pretty much > guaranteed to be broken, or at least not ready to be downloaded, installed, > launched, or mentioned in mixed company. > For listmembers: Yes, we should know and wait for

Re: Char index

2014-01-29 Nakia Brewer : > Is there a way I can find out the char index for a chunk of text that may > exists in a line of text of a variable ? Hi Nakia, offset will do it ! Thierry Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunn

Char index

Is there a way I can find out the char index for a chunk of text that may exists in a line of text of a variable ? The char index function doesn't seem to be helping much. Basically if a line in a variable contains "data_" (note;the portion after the _will vary so I can't check the full word) I