Re: [ANN] Coding Nine LiveCode Games eBook

2014-03-03 Thread Marian Petrides MD
Looks interesting! I sprang for a copy. On Mar 3, 2014, at 8:00 PM, LiveCode Feeds wrote: > Hi, > > Way, way back, "Basic Computer Games" by David Ahl was the definitive book > about > coding and playing games on what were then called "home computers". I wanted > to > make a similar book with

Re: Wait command

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Monday, March 3, 2014, 9:46:16 AM, you wrote: > None. Idle handlers are the devil's playground, as they say. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties to this email do no

[ANN] Coding Nine LiveCode Games eBook

2014-03-03 Thread LiveCode Feeds
Hi, Way, way back, "Basic Computer Games" by David Ahl was the definitive book about coding and playing games on what were then called "home computers". I wanted to make a similar book with 101 LiveCode computer games, but quickly realised that it would take a very long time to do. Instead, today

[ANN] Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner - 3rd print

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi everyone, I'd like to share a few words about my book with you. The second print of "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" has been sold out now. In approximately 6 weeks we will publish the third print of the book. This book will be slightly different from the second print. I will p

Re: [OT] Naive question number 5,000

2014-03-03 Thread Richmond
On 03/03/14 20:55, Roger Eller wrote: Maybe... http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57618026-285/the-easiest-way-to-install-android-apps-on-bb10/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_10 "As of the latest Operating System available (OS 10.2.1), users are able to download and install Androi

Re: Wait command

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Richard. I already have Flight Recorder but forgot to use it for this problem. I will give it a whirl and see what transpires. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

Re: [OT] Naive question number 5,000

2014-03-03 Thread Roger Eller
Maybe... http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-57618026-285/the-easiest-way-to-install-android-apps-on-bb10/ On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 03/03/14 20:29, Fraser Gordon wrote: > >> On 03/03/2014 18:22, Richmond wrote: >> >>> What sort of operating system does a Blackberry

Re: [OT] Naive question number 5,000

2014-03-03 Thread Richmond
On 03/03/14 20:29, Fraser Gordon wrote: On 03/03/2014 18:22, Richmond wrote: What sort of operating system does a Blackberry run? QNX, I believe. ___ There's a chap blethering anent developing with Livecode on, among other things, Blackberry, and

Re: [OT] Naive question number 5,000

2014-03-03 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 03/03/2014 18:22, Richmond wrote: > What sort of operating system does a Blackberry run? QNX, I believe. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferen

Re: [OT] Naive question number 5,000

2014-03-03 Thread Colin Holgate
It has a few different names. Some are shown here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry_OS ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http:/

[OT] Naive question number 5,000

2014-03-03 Thread Richmond
What sort of operating system does a Blackberry run? 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/listin

Re: Wait command

2014-03-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Any idle handlers? None. Idle handlers are the devil's playground, as they say. I tend to agree. In times like this I sometimes find it helpful to be able to review a log of all execution, and made the 4W Flight R

Re: Wait command

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Any idle handlers? None. Idle handlers are the devil's playground, as they say. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

Re: Wait command

2014-03-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: However, I still don't understand why the "wait 0 with messages" command caused the rest of the statements in my script to be ignored. There was no other user interaction going on at the time so there should not have been any messages being fired. Even if there were, shouldn

Re: Wait command

2014-03-03 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks to all for the replies, especially Geoff's clear example. That explains why I could not duplicate the bug I was chasing while in debug mode, since clicking any of the debug icons when on the wait command generated the usual mouse messages. However, I still don't understand why the "wait 0

Re: GUI scripting on windows

2014-03-03 Thread Thierry Douez
2014-03-02 17:14 GMT+01:00 Todd Geist : > Hello, > > I need to do a bit of GUI scripting for a small project. I can do it just > fine on the mac using Applescript. But I have no idea whats possible on > the windows side. And I need windows :-( > > Are there any LiveCode externals for doing scre

Re: GUI scripting on windows

2014-03-03 Thread Thierry Douez
2014-03-03 16:39 GMT+01:00 Roger Eller : Hi Roger, > Looks good. I "expect" that I'll be learning more about this. :) > http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/expect4win/ And Activestate is great! I have a long positive experience working with them with Perl and Komodo. Thierry > ~Roger

Re: GUI scripting on windows

2014-03-03 Thread Roger Eller
Looks good. I "expect" that I'll be learning more about this. http://docs.activestate.com/activetcl/8.5/expect4win/ ~Roger On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:41 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > Hi Todd, > > Another alternative for you, could be to use Expect. > Incidentily, this morning, I spoke a bit about

The I-Ching

2014-03-03 Thread Richmond
Go on, I dare you! http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=19414 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.

Re: How to set "Set as stack Menu bar"?

2014-03-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Where can I see all properties of an object (in this case of the stack). To see the names of all properties and messages that pertain to a given object type, open the Dictionary and click the object type in the left-hand list. To see the values of all properties for a

Re: How to set "Set as stack Menu bar"?

2014-03-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Tiemo, set the editMenus to true|false -- 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 other colour

Re: GUI scripting on windows

2014-03-03 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Todd, Another alternative for you, could be to use Expect. Incidentily, this morning, I spoke a bit about it here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=19377#p97985 Expect works on Unix, Linux, Mac and PCs, and we even could imagine building a LC-external for it which means the scrip

How to set "Set as stack Menu bar"?

2014-03-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi, In the menu builder window you can check the option "set as stack menu bar", so that the menu bar isn't shown in the stack window, but replaces the OS X menu. Now I would like to set this option by script, so that the menu switches to the OS X menu only in a standalone and not in the developme