Re: Send and the context

2014-02-05 Thread Scott Rossi
One reason is because "send" can be time delayed, while dispatch cannot. And you can pass arguments using send: [ button script ] send "answerIt bob,debbie,judy" to this cd [ card script ] on answerIt arg1, arg2, arg3 answer arg1 && arg2 && arg3 end answerIt Regards, Scott Rossi Creative

Re: Download LiveCode Server

2014-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thank you, Neil. Where is that linked to from the main site? > Hi Richard, > > You should be able to pick Community Server up from our main > downloads page here- > > http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop,

Re: of possible Android interest

2014-02-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
This WAS too good to be true: > Dear Customer, > > Thank you for your order at FocalPrice.com. > > We are so sorry to inform you that MH0618W in your order FPGZFDBXHXYT is our > Clearance Center product, which only has limit inventory and has been sold > out already. Due to our system bug, t

Re: Download LiveCode Server

2014-02-05 Thread Neil Roger
Hi Richard, You should be able to pick Community Server up from our main downloads page here- http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ Kind Regards,
 Neil Roger -- RunRev Support Team ~ http://www.runrev.com -- On 06/02/2014 06:09, Richard Gaskin wrote: Where is the link on LiveCode.com to

Download LiveCode Server

2014-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Where is the link on LiveCode.com to download LiveCode Server Community Edition? This is for a tutorial, so please, no special links you've picked up from other sources. I'm looking for the path a new user would take to get LC Server when visiting livecode.com. TIA - -- Richard Gaskin Fo

RE: Custom Props Set

2014-02-05 Thread Nakia Brewer
VimsEventChannels is the custom prop set, there are multiple custom props in this set. I was trying to get the names of all the Custom Properties that exists in a Custom Property Set. I want to loop through them all and see if one has a value I am looking for. Obviously I did look to the dictio

Send and the context

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
I read from the dictionary: When the send command is used the stack containing the target handler temporarily becomes the defaultStack. All object references in the message are evaluated in the current context i. e. the defaultStack. Therefore references within the message that refer to "this c

Re: Custom Props Set

2014-02-05 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Is the entity VimsEventChannels" a custom property? If so it must be referenced with "the". Do you have it as a customPropertySet? If so, customPropertySets are not arrays, so getting the keys of it will not give you much.. But you can get the value of a custom property within a custo

Custom Props Set

2014-02-05 Thread Nakia Brewer
Hi, I have a grp with Custom Property Set that has multiple Custom Properties within it. I want to be able loop through each of these custom properties within this set but I am having issues doing so. (It's just an error in my syntax I think) repeat for each line tType in the keys of Vim

Re: referring to a file on the local network by name?

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
So after thinking about it for a while, it seems you can enumerate the folders in /Volumes fairly easily. BTW, you should NOT be ending up with a folder called Joe-1 unless something has gone wrong with your connection while you were connected to Joe. No matter though. If there is a Joe and a Jo

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
To avoid having to recode yourself, you should get in the habit of building a library stack that you insert into the front of every app you are building. That way you can have a central library of common reusable code, which is why library stacks were meant to do. I am working on a Database Se

Re: SoCal LiveCode User Group Meeting: Thursday

2014-02-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Oh Dayam! I’m in! Never been so looking forward to meeting all the geniuses! Well, Kevin can't make it to this meeting, so you'll have to deal with the sub-geniuses. :) But it'll be great to see you if you can make it. If you haven't set up LiveCode Server on your server

Re: referring to a file on the local network by name?

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
never mind I just tried it. No workie. It should though. Bob On Feb 5, 2014, at 18:52 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > hmmm… can you not use something like smb://sharepoint/subfolder/subfolder2 > etc? Apple uses AFP in place of SMB. > > Bob > > > On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:10 , Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >>

Re: referring to a file on the local network by name?

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
hmmm… can you not use something like smb://sharepoint/subfolder/subfolder2 etc? Apple uses AFP in place of SMB. Bob On Feb 5, 2014, at 11:10 , Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Is there a "clean" way to refer to a shared file on another machine by name? > > For example, on mac, the file central.local:/U

Re: SoCal LiveCode User Group Meeting: Thursday

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh Dayam! I’m in! Never been so looking forward to meeting all the geniuses! Bob On Feb 4, 2014, at 07:48 , Richard Gaskin wrote: > Just a quick reminder about the upcoming meeting of the LiveCode User Group > in Pasadena on Thursday at 7PM. > > We're focusing that meeting on LiveCode Server

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
And to think that Apple was seriously considering using BeOS as it’s next generation OS at one time. Bob On Feb 5, 2014, at 24:07 , Richmond wrote: > It seems that Haiku (a.k.a. BeOS rediviva) has bitten the dust: > > http://haiku-os.org/ > > A greta pity. > > Richmond. > > _

Re: [OT] will amuse you Linux fans

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
I’ve come up with a saying some years ago. Anything is constitutional that no man is willing to resist. Nothing is constitutional that no man is willing to defend. (Substitute “constitutional for whatever instrument of law your particular country subscribes to). Bob On Feb 3, 2014, at 19:18

Re: Extracting emails from mac mail

2014-02-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
An Applescript would probably do it. Barring that, each email is stored as a discreet file in the operating system, so given you know where that file resides, and you have permission to view it, you should be able to open them as a low level file and read them. (I’ve not attempted this so take t

Re: How to Reset ID's of Controls

2014-02-05 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jan 28, 2014, at 2:18 AM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: > Mark: > "> I have tens of cards, each one has hundreds of controls >> and I create those controls on each time the user navigates to those cards. > > Why? When I need to do something like that I will most likely show/hide > groups of c

[ANN] Installer Maker 1.8.2

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hello, A new version of the Installer Maker Plug-in for LiveCode has been released. This version contains a new feature requested by many. Installer Maker 1.8.2 allows for saving all settings in a profile. This profile can later be read from disk and re-used for your project again. This way,

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Peter Haworth
This would be a useful command in LC. I'd like to see a "strip leading/trailing" command to. I usually do that with a regExp but like the solution to this problem, it's not the most readable thing in the world. Sounds like it might be worth a post to the Open Source forum. Pete lcSQL Software <

Re: rTree questions

2014-02-05 Thread James Hale
Hi all, All but one of my rTree issues are now resolved. The details are over in the rTree forum where Mats has resurfaced. If you are interested the post is http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=17623 I will continue the discussion there. Thanks for listening :-) James _

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
I absolutely agree. I have a function in my personal "standard library" that does (something close to) this, and I would never consider replacing that with this C-like code; I wrote C for a living for too many years already, thanks. But as an answer to the request (i.e. native LC, not a functi

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Dave Kilroy
Mike Kerner wrote > because if it's part of the language, and my vocabulary improves, then I > have less crap to move into my libraries, and I would feel a lot less > foolish if I discover such a thing later. Even worse, when I throw a > kluge > into a project, and I can't find it, later, when I n

referring to a file on the local network by name?

2014-02-05 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Is there a "clean" way to refer to a shared file on another machine by name? For example, on mac, the file central.local:/Users/joe/joesfile.txt could end up in /Volumes/joe/joesfile.txt, or /Volumes/joe-1/joesfile.txt, depending upon how many times the connection had been made. I can see hacky

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Kerner
nice. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > On 05/02/2014 15:06, Mike Kerner wrote: > >> Alex's idea is also clever, but what if I am trying to repeat another >> character, like "#"? >> >> >> > put replacetext( format("%30s", " "), " ", "x") into myVar > > (no promises for bein

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Kerner
don't get me wrong, I hate it, because it's c and I can't just stare at it and know that %30s means pad the front with spaces, but nice. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > nice. > > > On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > >> On 05/02/2014 15:06, Mike Kerner w

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 05/02/2014 15:06, Mike Kerner wrote: Alex's idea is also clever, but what if I am trying to repeat another character, like "#"? put replacetext( format("%30s", " "), " ", "x") into myVar (no promises for being the speediest solution - but still one line and no library involved). -- Alex

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Kerner
because if it's part of the language, and my vocabulary improves, then I have less crap to move into my libraries, and I would feel a lot less foolish if I discover such a thing later. Even worse, when I throw a kluge into a project, and I can't find it, later, when I need it again, I end up reinv

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Dave Kilroy
Mike Kerner wrote > I was trying to avoid the solution Craig suggested Why do you want to avoid it? Making a function to do the job seems the best way to me! - "Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare & Hugh Senior -- View

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Mike Kerner
Mark, I must have screwed something up the first time, because I wound up with 31, even though I expected 30. When I just tested it, it came out at 30. Alex's idea is also clever, but what if I am trying to repeat another character, like "#"? I was trying to avoid the solution Craig suggested b

Re: SoCal LiveCode User Group Meeting: Thursday

2014-02-05 Thread Bill Vlahos
I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there tomorrow. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. lcTaskList: (http://www.infowallet.com/lctasklist/index.htm) RunRev lcTaskList Forum: (htt

Re: rTree V2.03 requires tree to be visible to be constructed?

2014-02-05 Thread Mats Wilstrand
Hi James! First I want to apologize for not responding to your posts in the Forums! I'm not receiving mail reminders from watched topics in the forums any more. It is not an excuse as I should have checked the forums now and then even without the email reminders! Anyhow I have reported this to Hea

Re: [OT] Haiku

2014-02-05 Thread Dirk prive
Not completely. https://dev.haiku-os.org/ https://github.com/haiku/haiku But yes, it looks like another casualty. Sad. It booted my netbook in under 10 seconds, but I couldn't use it due to lack of up to date software. I was hoping they could make it work. I guess losing Google's support for the S

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, Into item 29 gives you a string of 29 chars, after 29 makes a string of 30 chars, into item 30 gives a string of 30 chars. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogra

Re: repeating string

2014-02-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
How about put format("%30s", " ") into a -- Alex. On 2/5/2014 03:28, Mike Kerner wrote: There isn't a repeating string function/keyword/construct, right? put 30 spaces into a or put space * 30 into a ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

[OT] Haiku

2014-02-05 Thread Richmond
It seems that Haiku (a.k.a. BeOS rediviva) has bitten the dust: http://haiku-os.org/ A greta pity. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pre