re: compile problem

2014-03-13 Thread larry
Thanks Jacqueline!! So simple! ___ 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/use-livecode

Re: OSX/Windows issue

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Haworth
You're right, that's strange. The first mention I can find of it in either the dictionary or the release notes is 6.0(DP1). I think you may have solved the mystery though. I do see relayer in the commandnames in 5.5.4 on OSX but it's not there on 5.5.0 on Windows which is where I see the problem

Re: compile problem

2014-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/13/14, 10:45 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I have a hyperlink in my program. In the IDE, I have the cursor change to "hand" when it mouses over the link - works fine. Then I compile it and when I mouse over the link, the cursor just disappears. Check to be sure you've included th

compile problem

2014-03-13 Thread larry
I have a hyperlink in my program. In the IDE, I have the cursor change to "hand" when it mouses over the link - works fine. Then I compile it and when I mouse over the link, the cursor just disappears. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Monte Goulding
On 14/03/2014, at 2:05 PM, Stephen MacLean wrote: > Everything If tested so far works fine, but mergMK seems to have a problem > when when you go to set it's rect to the rect of a graphic that's been > scaled, it doesn't see it as scaled and is drawn at a quarter of the size. Hmm... LCInterfa

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Stephen MacLean
On Mar 13, 2014, at 1:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > So let's please do our part to ensure that the current Release Candidate > fully meets our needs. If we test thoroughly enough it may even be the most > solid release ever, which benefits everyone. > > 6.6 RC1 is available at the top of th

Re: OSX/Windows issue

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Thursday, March 13, 2014, 6:29:11 PM, you wrote: > As mentioned, it compiles fine on OSX under 5.5.4 even though the relayer > command doesn't exist in that version. Actually, it does. Type this in the messagebox: put "relayer" is among the lines of the commandnames -- -Mark Wieder ahs

Re: OSX/Windows issue

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Thursday, March 13, 2014, 6:29:11 PM, you wrote: > I plan on entering a bug report on this but in the meantime I'm hoping > someone will come up with a workaround (other than having 2 separate > version of the stack!) I know some languages have conditional compile > switches but I don't th

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Mark Wieder
John- Thursday, March 13, 2014, 3:25:19 PM, you wrote: > Will point 4 - 'part' synonym break anything that already uses 'part' as > a synonym of 'control'? I've only got one project that uses this > keyword - not a big deal for me to change it, but others may have more > substantial work to cha

Re: OSX/Windows issue

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Richard, The exact line is: relayer tControlToRelayerID before getLineInfo(pendline+1,"longID") As mentioned, it compiles fine on OSX under 5.5.4 even though the relayer command doesn't exist in that version. After the startup error on Windows, I tried a compile of the script and got the same

Re: OSX/Windows issue

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I should add that the code in question shouldn't even be executing during startup and that the script error window includes the heading "error while compiling". Why is any compiling happening at that point? Even if there is a good reason for it, why does this situation caus

Re: OSX/Windows issue - Found word(s) list error in the Text body

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I’m going to hazard a guess and say that when moving from platform to platform, a stacks scripts get re-compiled for compatibility issues. Bob On Mar 13, 2014, at 16:58 , Peter Haworth wrote: > I have a stack, developed on OSX, that tests which version of LC I'm > running under and if v6 or

OSX/Windows issue

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Haworth
I have a stack, developed on OSX, that tests which version of LC I'm running under and if v6 or later, executes a relayer command. If less than v6, some other commands are executed instead since the relayer command doesn't exist prior to v6. This has all compiled and worked fine on OSX, even when

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread John Craig
Will point 4 - 'part' synonym break anything that already uses 'part' as a synonym of 'control'? I've only got one project that uses this keyword - not a big deal for me to change it, but others may have more substantial work to change. On 13/03/2014 16:54, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: Dear lis

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I had to read it 3 times to get it right! No computer is THAT advanced! Bob On Mar 13, 2014, at 07:31 , Peter Brigham wrote: > On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > >> Can someone probably construct some sequence of characters that could be >> called a sentence that might get

Re: Setting up an Option Menu Button

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually all you need to do is send selectionChanged to the menu button. Bob On Mar 13, 2014, at 08:34 , Peter Haworth mailto:p...@lcsql.com>> wrote: If the menu history of the button is already 1, no menuPick will be generated. Try setting the menu History to zero then 1. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: package maker

2014-03-13 Thread Alain Vezina
Hi Matthias, You can count on me. I like when someone helps me, so I will do the same. Regards, Alain Vézina Logilangue 514-596-1385 www.logilangue.com Le 2014-03-13 à 15:59, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D a écrit : > Hi Alain, > > it would be nice, if you would share Ohanaware´s answer to your su

Re: package maker

2014-03-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Alain, it would be nice, if you would share Ohanaware´s answer to your support request after you received it. This would help others who have same problem. Regards, Matthias Am 13.03.2014 um 18:01 schrieb Alain Vezina : > That’s what I did. I’m waiting for an answer. > > Alain Vézina >

Re: SQLYoga and LC 6.6

2014-03-13 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks for all the suggestions on this issue. I finally resorted to dumping my data, creating a new db using Valentina Studio, and loading the data back in. Worked like a charm. I’m back in business. The original file was created with an older version of SQLite, so I’m guessing that had somethin

Re: Reading and decoding binary data

2014-03-13 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Thanks, Richard. That lets me anticipate the new changes. I'm also modifying images and I'l convert that code to use byteToNum. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Mar 13, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > prothero wrote: > > > Mainly, what I was wondering is if the byt

Re: Setting up an Option Menu Button

2014-03-13 Thread Terence Heaford
Just playing around trying different options and I thin it may be as simple as: on openCard put revDataFromQuery(tab, return, the uDB of stack "THFinancials", "select categoryName from 'categoryList' order by categoryName asc") into tCatNames set the text of cd btn "Categor

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/13/14, 10:45 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Things like this make me ponder in what scenario would it be necessary to isolate sentences at all. I've had more than one case where I wanted to extract portions of a paragraph. Right now lines = paragraphs and it gets messy trying to do that. Parse a

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
On 3/13/14 9:51 AM, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: Dear List Members, This discussion has been very interesting and there have been a lot of suggestions made. Ultimately I do not feel that now is the correct time to change the fundamental meaning of any of the syntax of LiveCode. My team and I have be

Re: package maker

2014-03-13 Thread Alain Vezina
That’s what I did. I’m waiting for an answer. Alain Vézina Le 2014-03-13 à 12:40, Marty Knapp a écrit : > I would contact Ohanaware and let them know. He's a great guy and very > responsive so if there's an issue with App Wrapper that needs to be fixed I'm > sure he'll take care of it. > > M

Re: v7 testing and "word"

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Brenstein wrote: > I wonder whether we really need a new keyword for old style word. I > mean that an alternative could be to have a global property that > controls whether word means the ascii word or the unicode word. While Unicode support is part of it, there's more to it than that. T

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear list member, Thank you for your input on this important matter. Having taken all the posts into account and discussed it internally we are inclined to implement the following in LiveCode 7.0: 1) Add a 'trueWord' chunk type to provide access to the Unicode Standard's notion of word-breaking.

Fwd: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members, This discussion has been very interesting and there have been a lot of suggestions made. Ultimately I do not feel that now is the correct time to change the fundamental meaning of any of the syntax of LiveCode. My team and I have been very carefully crafting the 7.0 release so t

Re: v7 testing and "word"

2014-03-13 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 13.03.2014 at 8:39 Uhr -0700 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: My only caution would be in cases where an existing token were changed in ways that break code, with my recommendation being not to do that for now. I wonder whether we really need a new keyword for old style word. I mean th

Re: Reading and decoding binary data

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
prothero wrote: > Mainly, what I was wondering is if the byteToNum command is the > correct one. In images, its the convert character to number, but > I thought the character commands for binary data were going to > be deprecated. Yes, for comparing a single-byte value, byteToNum is the better c

Re: package maker

2014-03-13 Thread Marty Knapp
I would contact Ohanaware and let them know. He's a great guy and very responsive so if there's an issue with App Wrapper that needs to be fixed I'm sure he'll take care of it. Marty Knapp Hi Matthias, Thank you for helping. I tried this App Wrapper on Mountain Lion. I seemed to work well un

Re: Setting up an Option Menu Button

2014-03-13 Thread Terence Heaford
Hi Pete, Simplified by putting addEllipsis into the menu script. put the script below into OpenCard handler on openCard put revDataFromQuery(tab, return, the uDB of stack "THFinancials", "select categoryName from 'categoryList' order by categoryName asc") into tCatNames set the text of cd

Re: Reading and decoding binary data

2014-03-13 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Folks: Mainly, what I was wondering is if the byteToNum command is the correct one. In images, its the convert character to number, but I thought the character commands for binary data were going to be deprecated. Thanks, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Mar 12, 2014, at 4:55

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Jim Hurley
Thanks Fraser. I’m looking forward to it. I have a poor man’s version that is workable. However just ran across a sentence in today’s NYT that I will have to include: (“What they’re offering people is a full stomach and an empty soul.”) I had dealt with the quote beyond the period and t

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Office products stumble at name and standard street abbreviations as well. Floating point numbers however are ignored. Apparently what they are looking for is period-space or period-. Not very comprehensive, but of course nothing could accommodate all abbreviations. The example, "I used to know

Re: v7 testing and "word"

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
dunbarx wrote: What Richard said, I will lose no sleep at all if I can never, ever: get the number of sentences of myText. Fortunately "sentences" poses no conflict with any existing code, so if it appears in v7 we know any issues with it are new and well worth reporting. My only caution

Re: Setting up an Option Menu Button

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Haworth
If the menu history of the button is already 1, no menuPick will be generated. Try setting the menu History to zero then 1. Pete lcSQL Software On Mar 13, 2014 4:40 AM, "Terence Heaford" wrote: > I have an Option Menu on a card accessed from other cards where I want to > select item 1 of the men

Re: [ANN] User Group Meeting in the Netherlands

2014-03-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Gee, wish I could come. :-) Bob On Mar 12, 2014, at 10:18 , Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hallo, > > Op 22 Maart 2014 organiseert eHUG weer een LiveCode-bijeenkomst. De > bijeenkomst begint om 11:00h en zal rond 15:00h afgelopen zijn. De locatie is > Utrecht. De exacte plek moet nog bepaald wo

Re: Setting up an Option Menu Button

2014-03-13 Thread Terence Heaford
Still looking for help. I have changed my script in the Tab Panel Script to below because the dictionary entry for menuHistory says: "When you set the menuHistory property, a menuPick message is sent to the button.” In the script below the menuPick message is not send to btw “CategoryMenu" on

Re: v7 testing and "word"

2014-03-13 Thread dunbarx
What Richard said, I will lose no sleep at all if I can never, ever: get the number of sentences of myText. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Richard Gaskin To: use-livecode ; LiveCode Developer List Sent: Thu, Mar 13, 2014 10:28 am Subject: v7 testing and "word" Joseba

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
Sure, that's what I'd need to do, convert each instance to items. I was bemoaning the sheer number of times it would have been necessary in just one night's work. It does point out the necessity for me to have a global switch of some sort. Think of all the swapping you'd have to do within a

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Brigham
On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 9:32 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > Can someone probably construct some sequence of characters that could be > called a sentence that might get mis-parsed? Possibly - I am familiar > with the library RunRev is using only by reputation, so I can't say for > sure. However for most

v7 testing and "word"

2014-03-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Joseba Aguayo made this very important request on the use-livecode list: Please, add options. Not change the options until now. The applications constructed now must be run OK in the new version 7. LiveCode v7 will include some of the most sweeping changes we've seen in any engine build in ma

Re: package maker

2014-03-13 Thread Alain Vezina
Hi Matthias, Thank you for helping. I tried this App Wrapper on Mountain Lion. I seemed to work well until I send my app to Apps Store. At that time I discovered that App Wrapper changed my info.plist by puttin 0 for the bundle version and it was supposed to be 1.2.7. So Apple rejected my app.

New Learn Tab

2014-03-13 Thread Heather Laine
Dear List Members, In response to a user suggestion, we have now added a new tab on our website, called Learn. This pulls together various training resources available to you which may previously not have been easy to find: http://livecode.com/learn/ Something on this page I'd like to highligh

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Alan Stenhouse
Wouldn't it be simple to set the itemDel to tab put item 1 of line x of fld y into tDate Granted, slightly more work, but since itemDel changes are limited to only the local handler, it's not too big a deal, is it? Or am I missing something else? Re: the change to "word" - I'd love for it to

Setting up an Option Menu Button

2014-03-13 Thread Terence Heaford
I have an Option Menu on a card accessed from other cards where I want to select item 1 of the menu whenever you go to the card. The Card that owns Option Menu Button is also accessed from a Tab Panel. I have this script that is used to setup the button and sometimes it works and other times it

Re: New chunks

2014-03-13 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 13 Mar 2014, at 04:48, Jim Hurley wrote: > > So I really can't see the purpose of RR's "sentence chunk". I wish they would > explain. > We'd be using ICU's sentence breaking code. They include a whole bunch of language-related knowledge with the library and can use that to tell the diffe

Tio anyone ?

2014-03-13 Thread John Dixon
Anyone having problems with tio ?... Everything was fine last night but it seems not to want to play nicely this morning... or is it just me ?..:-( ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 126, Issue 18

2014-03-13 Thread Joseba Aguayo
Hello: Please, add options. Not change the options until now. The applications constructed now must be run OK in the new version 7. Un saludo. Joseba Aguayo Fernández (jagu...@telur.es) El Mar 12, 2014, a las 8:40 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com escribió: > Hi all, > > Due to the ma