Re: Why Programming is Difficult

On 08/02/14 08:40, Bob Sneidar wrote: Without reading the article, I can think of one principle I have employed in all my time working with computers: Computers never do what you want them to. They only do what you tell them to. Bob Indeed; the main problem is NOT with the computers; it i

Re: [OT] will amuse you Linux fans

On 08/02/14 07:06, Bob Sneidar wrote: Only upon the lawless. :-) Those who choose to obey the laws (that they themselves are protected by I might add) do not need to be compelled. Bob There is a small problem there. I am sure that most of us here on the Use-List would applaud a North Kor

Re: Why Programming is Difficult

On 08/02/14 06:28, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Interesting article: Very good article! Thanks. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Why Programming is Difficult

Without reading the article, I can think of one principle I have employed in all my time working with computers: Computers never do what you want them to. They only do what you tell them to. Bob On Feb 7, 2014, at 20:28 , Mark Wieder wrote: > All- > > Interesting article: > >

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

Never ceases to amaze me the stuff Livecoders come up with! And if Scott likes something graphicky, it’s gotta be good! Bob On Feb 7, 2014, at 15:26 , Scott Rossi wrote: > That's pretty awesome Bernd -- works well on a complex image. :-) > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > T

Re: Send and the context

This may bore most of you to tears so please disregard if it doesn’t interest you. What I am attempting is to be able to get values from objects on a card that is not the current card, or even in the current stack, like fields and states of buttons, without enumerating the entire path to the o

Re: [OT] will amuse you Linux fans

Only upon the lawless. :-) Those who choose to obey the laws (that they themselves are protected by I might add) do not need to be compelled. Bob On Feb 6, 2014, at 10:06 , Andrew Kluthe wrote: > How profound: All instruments of law are imposed and maintained by force > and threats. > > >

Why Programming is Difficult

All- Interesting article: -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

FAIL! I can't even spell "Trekkie". ;-D ~Roger On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > Here's a few color images that might be good for tests. > > > http://retoucher07030.deviantart.com/art/LCARS-Color-Palette-156731034 > > http://retoucher07030.deviantart.com/art/LCARS-Vector-Sh

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

Here's a few color images that might be good for tests. http://retoucher07030.deviantart.com/art/LCARS-Color-Palette-156731034 http://retoucher07030.deviantart.com/art/LCARS-Vector-Shapes-156730231 http://retoucher07030.deviantart.com/art/Trek-XI-Starfleet-Insignias-104044489 http://retoucher0

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

Roger, Scott, thank you. Just wait for the colorTrace version (hint, hint) For early version testers contact me by mail. Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Tracing-Stack-was-the-points-of-graphic-tp4674846p4675594.html Sent fro

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

Very nice! Should be added as a LifeCode feature! ~Roger On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 6:00 PM, BNig wrote: > there is a new version of a stack that traces transparent images > > http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19040&p=96086#p96086 > > It extracts transparency info from maskData and

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

That's pretty awesome Bernd -- works well on a complex image. :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 2/7/14 3:00 PM, "BNig" wrote: >there is a new version of a stack that traces transparent images > >http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19040&p

Re: Tracing Stack (was: the points of graphic)

there is a new version of a stack that traces transparent images http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=19040&p=96086#p96086 It extracts transparency info from maskData and renders the shapes as graphic. Now renders all subshapes also. Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in con

Re: Setting a fade in/out of a group

Yeah, you need to qualify what triggers the fade. Try placing the mouseLeave handler in the group script, something like: on mouseLeave if short name of the target is "myTransButton" and not within(me,mouseLoc()) then doFade . . . end mouseLeave Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tact

Re: Setting a fade in/out of a group

Yes, making it the bottom control now works great for a mouseEnter/fade in. However, mouseLeave/fade out is the problem. For as soon as the mouse enters one of the other controls that are layered higher up, the mouseLeave is triggered and the fade out happens (while the mouse is still in the gro

Re: Relayering a control

Thanks Scott, I found it in RevOnline and will give it a whirl. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Trevor Devo

Re: Relayering a control

Trevor Devore wrote a set of scripts that does the same relayering as "relayer"( how he ever figured this out I have no idea). Look in the mail archives or maybe the forums, maybe visit his Blue Mango site. If you can't dig it up, email me off list. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tact

Re: GPS Speed on IOS

Oh okay, the speed value didn't work on version 5.5.X so that is great if it now works. I'll give it a try and see what happens.. Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Feb 2014, at 4:57 pm, "Guglielmo Braguglia" > wrote: > > Hi, > you don't have to "calculate" speed ... > ... starting from, if I remem

Re: Setting a fade in/out of a group

Yes, make the button the first (bottom) control in the group. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design > On Feb 7, 2014, at 10:07 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > > So I put a transparent button into the group on top of all the > > others. The

Re: Stupid simple version control using dropbox

Hi Geoff, I've been using Scott Rossi's trick of putting a "player app" in Dropbox and having it load in my current stack into IOS via a text link. ( http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-February/167981.html) It is so helpful to be able to make a change in my current app in the edi

Re: Relayering a control

Thanks Marty and Geoff. It appears the relayer command was introduced in LC 6.1. I need to do this in my lcStackbrowser plugin and I'm reluctant to force people to have at least 6.1 so I need to find a solution without using relayer. I think I see the problem now. The error I get when I have re

Re: Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

On 07/02/14 21:11, Mark Wieder wrote: In case unicode is getting too easy to deal with, http://www.mufi.info/ Dead Muffy . . . this has been going on for yonks: it isn't really a problem as such as the Unicode 'thang' has loads of empty planes: we'll park all those dead letters somewher

Medieval Unicode Font Initiative

In case unicode is getting too easy to deal with, http://www.mufi.info/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription p

Re: Send and the context

Mike Bonner writes: > Curious now though, is there an easy way to get the owning card name of an > object that is sent to without parsing or tree crawling? What do you mean by "without parsing"? put the long id of me into tLongname put word -4 of tLongname into tCardname if word -5 of tLongname

Re: Setting a fade in/out of a group

Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > So I put a transparent button into the group on top of all the > others. The effect now works great. But how do I send a mouseClick > to the other buttons in the group that are underneath it? Move the transparent button behind the others? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth Worl

Devawriter Pro and PISMO

My Devawriter Pro (for Sanskrit) has had a significant upgrade, and version 1.5.1 may be obtained here: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html My PISMO (for Old Slavic) has been upgraded, and version 0.3 may be obtained here: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/LANGTOOLS.h

Re: Send and the context

Ah k. I understand what you're saying now. The OP points out that "put the short name of this card" is returning the current card (as per the dictionary, and the behavior in the OP matches this.) If things remain the same and the message is "sent" to the card itself (like it was in the OP) then th

new way closing a stack in IOS 7

Hi All, You know that in IOS 7 there is a way to pass from one app to another : you double press the home button and all the active apps appear in a row, letting you browse from one to another without closing anyone of them. If you want to close any app of this row, you push it up. So, I would

Re: new way closing a stack in IOS 7

Hi Alain, I think what you’re asking is in fact *how to keep alive your app even in the background*; then this is what you need: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=1#p95224 And here is the answer of your second question: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userex

Re: new way closing a stack in IOS 7

Hi Alain, I think what you’re asking is in fact *how to keep alive your app even in the background*; then this is what you need: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=1#p95224 And here is the answer of your second question: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/userex

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

On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > 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 conne

Re: [OT] PopClip for Mac - a very useful utility

Me too! Make sure you check out the extensions, especially Swap & Paste=, I use them all the time. Paul On 2014-02-06, at 11:57 PM, René Micout wrote: > Yes ! I love it ! > > Le 7 févr. 2014 à 07:04, James Hale a écrit : > >> I must admit I really enjoy trying out new utilities and apps on

Re: [OT] The last few copies of Programming LivCode for the Real Beginner

Hi Mr. Stuart, I'll make sure that you get a copy. -- 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.Lab and o

Re: Stupid simple version control using dropbox

Geoff- Friday, February 7, 2014, 6:50:25 AM, you wrote: > It's not git, but as a file-level resource it's a 1000x better than > nothing. I borked up some code last night (never try to solve a problem at > 3am that stumped you at 9pm) so I'm really happy that I can just revert to > the 9pm version

Re: Send and the context

Mike- Friday, February 7, 2014, 7:08:29 AM, you wrote: > Its also probable I should have typed it clearer.. use "of me" instead. > "This" refers to the current card of the default stack. I'm not concerned about your use of "this" or "current". But "me" is the object that generated the send or d

Re: [OT] The last few copies of Programming LivCode for the Real Beginner

Mr. Schonewille, Please save me one as I just ordered your book. Mark Stuart - Regards, Mark Stuart --- LC 4.6.4 LC Community 6.1 WinXP/7/8 32bit and 64bit -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-The-last-few-copies-of-Programming-LivCode-

Re: Setting a fade in/out of a group

Thanks, Scott. So I put a transparent button into the group on top of all the others. The effect now works great. But how do I send a mouseClick to the other buttons in the group that are underneath it? Peter On Feb 7, 2014, at 12:21 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Hi Peter: > > You need an object

Re: Stupid simple version control using dropbox

On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 8:59 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > I completely agree. I have a 16GB account and keep a backup of my active > project folder on Dropbox and, which has saved me a few times. > > Anyone else reading this: if you want to registe

Re: Send and the context

Really? From the dictionary *Summary: * Indicates the current stack , or the current cardof the current stack . Since send changes the "current stack" context, then it would be the current card of whichever stack is sent to.. Or is the dictionary wrong or i'm misunderstanding? In fact, the d

Re: Stupid simple version control using dropbox

Hi Geoff, I completely agree. I have a 16GB account and keep a backup of my active project folder on Dropbox and, which has saved me a few times. Anyone else reading this: if you want to register for Dropbox quickly, you can follow this link http://qery.us/u6 -- Best regards, Mark Schonewi

Stupid simple version control using dropbox

Not sure if this has been posted before, but just in case: If you store your stack files in the dropbox folder on your computer, dropbox does a really good job of saving a copy of each separate file whenever the file is saved. You can look at a list of the saved versions and get/restore any of them

[OT] The last few copies of Programming LivCode for the Real Beginner

Hello, We have 5 copies of "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" left. I don't know when I will print them again. If you want a copy, you can order one at http://qery.us/42z . Feel free to contact me by e-mail if you want to make sure that we still have a copy available for you. At ht

Re: iOS Native browser kills native player

On further investigation the player is destroyed only if the URL of the page being loaded into the browser contains inline video or audio content and controls. Setting the browser control's "allowsInlinePlayback" property to false (which is documented as preventing inline media from playing) doe

Re: Setting a fade in/out of a group

Hi Peter: You need an object in the group to trap the mouse messages. Add a transparent button or graphic whose blendLevel is set to 100 that spans the width/height of the group. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 2/6/14 11:21 PM, "Peter Bogdanoff" wrote: