Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/19/14, 12:05 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: Me too, Jacqueline! But who is going to do that? I wouldn't have a clue how to begin to make a separate Notes stack that integrates with the Dictionary. Help! I'd have a clue, but I don't have the time. Let's make Richard do it, it was

Re: before vs on in behavior scripts

2014-03-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/19/14, 12:14 AM, Devin Asay wrote: it didn't work with both and after end and on handler Lay off the Scotch, Devin. ;) Though actually, if you read it out loud, it makes sense. > I don't have another mouse up Hendler Reminds me of something I saw: "Frankly, auto-correct, I'm tired of y

Re: before vs on in behavior scripts

2014-03-18 Thread Devin Asay
> On Mar 18, 2014, at 8:54 PM, "Scott Rossi" wrote: > > I didn't realize it until just now, but this is the order of events: > > before mouseUp > answer "A" > end mouseUp > > on mouseUp > answer "B" > end mouseUp > > after mouseUp > answer "C" > end mouseUp That's what I thought. But w

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread larry
Me too, Jacqueline! But who is going to do that? I wouldn't have a clue how to begin to make a separate Notes stack that integrates with the Dictionary. Help! Larry - Original Message - From: "J. Landman Gay" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 11:00 PM Subject

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/18/14, 7:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: C. Make an separate Notes stack that integrates with the Dictionary I like that idea a lot. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread larry
Hi Vaughn, Whenever you're ready with it, I'll be your first customer. thanks, Larry - Original Message - From: "Vaughn Clement" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 8:09 PM Subject: Re: I'm trying to rally the troops... Hi Larry I would put it in live code but

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Vaughn- Tuesday, March 18, 2014, 7:09:48 PM, you wrote: > All of the data will be available to edit, copy and paste into external > media or scripts. NOTE: I have hundreds of hours in the development and > that is only to add data, it will have ongoing support to maintain the > dictionary. That d

Re: before vs on in behavior scripts

2014-03-18 Thread Scott Rossi
I didn't realize it until just now, but this is the order of events: before mouseUp answer "A" end mouseUp on mouseUp answer "B" end mouseUp after mouseUp answer "C" end mouseUp Really cool stuff for custom behaviors, but I'm still trying to come up with a nifty use for the "after" ev

Re: before vs on in behavior scripts

2014-03-18 Thread Scott Rossi
How are you determining that "on" isn't working? Is it possible that "on" is executing immediately after "before"? Placing the following in a behavior script works fine here: before mouseUp answer "A" end mouseUp on mouseUp answer "B" end mouseUp If you need some kind of alternate behav

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi Larry I would put it in live code but! The LC issue with relational databases is not so good. That is why the LC people used DataGrids to do the Dictionary and that doesn't present the best way to do searches and to use a relational table design. My issue with LiveCode is you need to first lea

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
larry wrote: Hello Richard, Great thoughts! I hope someone will do what you suggest. As I said, I program as a hobby and not as a pro, so I'll have to leave it up to the rest of you. But I know what features I would like! You may be selling yourself short, Larry. After all, we all started

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread larry
Hello Richard, Great thoughts! I hope someone will do what you suggest. As I said, I program as a hobby and not as a pro, so I'll have to leave it up to the rest of you. But I know what features I would like! Thanks, Larry - Original Message - From: "Richard Gaskin" To: Sent: Tu

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
larry wrote: > Over a year ago I wrote to RR and suggested they allow the user to > add notes directly to the LC dictionary. (for private viewing) > > I understand why they need to approve notes that are added for public > viewing. > > But there are literally HUNDREDS of times where I have to fig

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread larry
Hello Vaughn, That's great. I hope you're saying the app would integrate directly into LiveCode? I really don't want to have it be a separate app, but even that would be OK if your app also includes ALL the LC dictionary and notes. - Original Message - From: "Vaughn Clement" To:

Re: I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi larry I am in the process of doing just what your asking for, a dictionary that allows you to edit, add, and save code. It will be online in the next 15 days. I will even have Google translate in the app where you can convert the scripts or text to any language. I will annonce the app very soon

I'm trying to rally the troops...

2014-03-18 Thread larry
Hello Everyone, Over a year ago I wrote to RR and suggested they allow the user to add notes directly to the LC dictionary. (for private viewing) I understand why they need to approve notes that are added for public viewing. But there are literally HUNDREDS of times where I have to figure somet

before vs on in behavior scripts

2014-03-18 Thread Devin Asay
All, If a button has a behavior attached to it, and the behavior script has a 'before mouseUp' handler, can the behavior script also have a 'on mouseUp' handler? I could swear the answer was yes; I thought I had done that before, but now when I try it, it doesn't work. (In LC 6.5.x. and 6.6.0R

Re: LC Commercial Update

2014-03-18 Thread larry
Thank you Richard, That is a very good point. And thanks to Mark Schonewille for explaining how to turn off the update message. Larry - Original Message - From: "Richard Gaskin" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 4:57 PM Subject: Re: LC Commercial Update larry wrote: > It does

Re: LC Commercial Update

2014-03-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Larry, I just deleted "livecode setup.exe" and "livecode setup.app" and am no longer getting these messages. I decided to do this after trying to turn off update checks in the preferences without success. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

Re: LC Commercial Update

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
larry wrote: > It doesn't do any good to update to a new full of bugs IDE and waste > time programming. That's exactly why working with these interim releases is so important. After all, if no one tested that would only guarantee bugs won't be found until after release. Even if you don't int

Re: LC Commercial Update

2014-03-18 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Cal, in the LiveCode preferences under update you can select if you want to get informed. Regards, Matthias Am 18.03.2014 um 23:33 schrieb Cal Horner : > Finally, the question: > Is there a switch I can set that will stop that startup message from > notifying me something I don't want or ne

re: LC Commercial Update

2014-03-18 Thread larry
I agree with Cal. It doesn't do any good to update to a new full of bugs IDE and waste time programming. Backing up stacks is not the issue. (why even bother to point that out?? Duh! Everyone is going to be backing up all the time!!) It's wasting time coding in the IDE and only after compil

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Anybody else see anything particularly interesting in this release? High-dpi support on the desktop. This is critical for form generation; a standard page of paper appears too small for most eyes . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702

LC Commercial Update

2014-03-18 Thread Cal Horner
Call me old fashioned and stodgy but I'm still using LC 5.5.5 to do what I want to do. No doubt I will upgrade when LC 7.0 comes about, if it meets my needs. But, while I continue to use what I consider to be a fairly stable IDE I don t wish to be bothered each time I start up by that annoying mes

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Peter Haworth
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Anybody else see anything particularly interesting in this release? The > expansion of the syntax for assert was interesting for me, even if I'm > still not sure what advantage it holds over existing syntax. > Getting the SQLite library up to

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Mike Kerner
Anybody else see anything particularly interesting in this release? The expansion of the syntax for assert was interesting for me, even if I'm still not sure what advantage it holds over existing syntax. On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: > Could people please limit the text t

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Gerry Orkin
Could people please limit the text they include from the message they are quoting when replying? A one line response followed by 50 lines of quoted text makes scrolling through messages on mobile devices a pain.  Thanks.  Gerry On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:10 AM, Stephen MacLean wrote: > Hi

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements - Found word(s) cum in the Text body

2014-03-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry, I meant Richmond. Can I blame speel coreect? On Mar 18, 2014, at 12:23 , Richard Gaskin wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > Just pointing out that we need to be careful about the words we type > > in our emails if we want them to get past people’s spam filters. I > > copied that from one o

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi John >From the 13th: >> Everything I've 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. Best, Steve On Mar 18, 2014, at 4:

RE: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread John Dixon
What was the mergMK issue ? > Subject: Re: 6.6 RC2 Release > From: smacl...@madmansoft.com > Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 16:05:56 -0400 > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Fixed the mergMk issue, thanks > > Best, > > Steve _

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Stephen MacLean
Fixed the mergMk issue, thanks Best, Steve On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Heather Laine wrote: > Dear List Members. > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6 RC2. This release is > now considered feature complete. > > Warning, this is a pre-release with new features whi

Re: revDataFromQuery with variable list question

2014-03-18 Thread Terence Heaford
Out of interest the RunRev Lesson on how to create and use a sqlite database found here: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/30516-how-to-create-and-use-an-sqlite-database does not double quote identifiers, for example: put "CREATE TABLE contact_details (name char(50), email char(50))"

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements - Found word(s) cum in the Text body

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Just pointing out that we need to be careful about the words we type > in our emails if we want them to get past people’s spam filters. I > copied that from one of Richards posts. There's your problem: the NSA has me blacklisted because I often write favorable things about

Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Kenji Kojima
Please restore box filtering. It was very useful for making a mosaic image. I loved 6.5 of poor quality image too. Thanks, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ On Mar 18, 2014, at 11:54 AM, Heather Laine wrote: > Dear List Members. > > We are pleased to announce the release of

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Mar 18, 2014, at 9:19 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > On the heroism, I'm just telling you what the writers of the posts seem to > be saying, unless I'm reading them wrong. > > I don't disagree that LC is a nice tool to have. I do seem to spend enough > time using it - but - I've used lots of tools

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements - Found word(s) cum in the Text body

2014-03-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Just pointing out that we need to be careful about the words we type in our emails if we want them to get past people’s spam filters. I copied that from one of Richards posts. Bob On Mar 18, 2014, at 10:57 , Peter M. Brigham wrote: > On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> I’

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Awesome Richard. Erm… this isn’t going to hack my bank account is it…? ;-) Bob On Mar 18, 2014, at 07:43 , Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: Hard to beat a full VM for containment, but for those of you who may need to run stacks from unknown sources within your main sy

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements - Found word(s) cum in the Text body

2014-03-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Mar 17, 2014, at 11:44 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I’m not sure what kinds of words or phrases might trigger a spam filter on > this list. Words in a phrase like this could not POSSIBLY be causing a > problem could they? "Cheese" ??? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comc

definition of "word"

2014-03-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
In playing around with this I came across the following problem. if tSentence = "I think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous and give the wrong answers." (including the quotes), then word -1 of tSentence = "I think animal testing is a terrible idea: they get all nervous

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Mike Kerner
CSO article: http://www.csoonline.com/article/749849/bitcoin-stealing-malware-hidden-in-mt.-gox-data-dump-researcher-says?source=CSONLE_nlt_salted_hash_2014-03-18 On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mike Kerner wrote: > > By the way, it appears the hackers were trying to

6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-18 Thread Heather Laine
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6 RC2. This release is now considered feature complete. Warning, this is a pre-release with new features which have the potential to cause issues. Please ensure you backup your stacks before testing this release. Release

Re: alternative to do for loading variables from array?

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: There are NO script limits anymore in either Community or Commercial LC. This is true at the moment but the docs still say otherwise, so I filed a but report on that some time ago: Whether the bug is in the docs or an oversi

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: By the way, it appears the hackers were trying to uncover fraud at Mt. Gox, so they're actually being considered heroes, which is a little weird... Weird or not, nice to see LC in the role of hero code. And by the way, this is EXACTLY why when I download some random stack

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Mike wrote: I'll cheer the hackers latching on as a very big deal for tool growth. We could likewise hope for organized crime to latch on too; they have money to invest, and that could benefit everyone? That's not to say that hackers could never be heroes. A technique or a tool can be used

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Mike Kerner
On the heroism, I'm just telling you what the writers of the posts seem to be saying, unless I'm reading them wrong. I don't disagree that LC is a nice tool to have. I do seem to spend enough time using it - but - I've used lots of tools that were nice. Sometimes, though, in business, mass leads

Re: Famous at last, though not in the best way

2014-03-18 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Mike wrote: By the way, it appears the hackers were trying to uncover fraud at Mt. Gox, so they're actually being considered heroes, which is a little weird... Heroes? I seriously doubt it. The only scenario I could imagine for that argument would mean instead of using the heroism as cover f

Re: Triggering LC scripts when emails are received

2014-03-18 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi jbv, the first command i use after the Alex & Matthias, > > Thank you so much for your help. > I have made a quick test with a php script, and when I entered the > path of the php script, the mail forwarder detected a problem with > the script (it needed to be made executable) and added the f

Re: Triggering LC scripts when emails are received

2014-03-18 Thread jbv
Alex & Matthias, Thank you so much for your help. I have made a quick test with a php script, and when I entered the path of the php script, the mail forwarder detected a problem with the script (it needed to be made executable) and added the following line at the top of the script : #!/usr/local/

Re: Triggering LC scripts when emails are received

2014-03-18 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Peter, do you mean the livecode-server engine with „executable"? I have installed it exactly how Runrev recommends it. But you are right. Sensitiv data or executables should be outside public_html. I am already using a special folder above public_html which contains sensitiv data like db user