Re: SUMMARY Re: LiveCode Books

On May 5, 2014, at 10:40 PM, "Dar Scott" wrote: > > I noted these: > > RunRev Ltd. > LiveCode User Guide > > Mark Schonewille > Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner > > Scott McDonald > Coding Nine LiveCode Games > > Colin Holgate > LiveCode Mobile Development > > Edward D. Lavieri Jr.

SUMMARY Re: LiveCode Books

I noted these: RunRev Ltd. LiveCode User Guide Mark Schonewille Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner Scott McDonald Coding Nine LiveCode Games Colin Holgate LiveCode Mobile Development Edward D. Lavieri Jr. LiveCode Mobile Development Hotshot Did I miss anything? Is the last one real?

Re: [ANN] Facebook Lib

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Re: [ANN] Facebook Lib

On May 1, 2014, at 1:51 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > As said in the popular Sega Genesis game Altered Beast: "RISE FROM YOUR > GRAVE!" > > Hey Folks, > > Long time no see! I missed you all and this is my "I am back" email. For > the past year and a half I've been heavily involved with Mozilla

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

Howard, As far as I can tell this article is a complete FUD. What it is saying is that someone could use the redirect URL part of the OAuth 2.0 cycle to redirect you to some place else. This is the same thing as opening any phishing site. If you open a website, click for example "Login with Faceb

Re: Checkboxes

When I was teaching beginners to use HC back in The Day, "checkboxes are buttons" was always grasped right away. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > A kid recently made a fireball object. He called it a ‘part' so he could > change from graphic to image. (I didn’t explain behavi

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

And of course, there's this: http://lifehacker.com/security-flaw-found-in-oauth-and-openid-heres-what-it-1570872265 On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:00 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > I’ve created an OAuth 1 in the past for Evernote all in LiveCode plus the > favorite browser. So, it can be done, but I won’t

Re: More screengamma

On 5/5/14, 6:24 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: On 5/5/14 4:16 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: Some day you and I should compare bloody office walls. This has always been one of my favorites: http://www.i-view.net/stuff/head_bang.gif That is EXACTLY how I feel! And it's only Monday. -- Jacqueline La

Re: More screengamma

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Re: More screengamma

Oh man, I think I just figured out what's going on. You need to be an interpreter if you're going to do this stuff professionally. We have an image in the background with a blendlevel set. To view it normally, you right-click it and the script sets the blendlevel to zero. I think she's talking

Re: More screengamma

I may be wrong, but a ways back I think there was some addition to LC related to color profile support. Maybe some of the images you're using have color profiles associated with them, while others don't, and maybe LC is interpreting (or trying to interpret) those. But usually images displaying da

Re: More screengamma

On 5/5/14, 5:39 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: On my Mac system, the PNG image at the top appears darker than the JPEG below. When the slider is adjusted, only the top image is affected (LC 6.6.1, OSX 10.8.5) Are you seeing something different? Well, I was screensharing when I saw it. I told the clie

Re: More screengamma

Honestly Jacque, I've never seen JPEGs affected by screenGamma settings. The only reason I would imagine this happening is if something was done to an image after it was imported (resized, edited, etc) that would change the (I believe) paintConversion to PNG. I posted a simple test stack here: go

Re: More screengamma

On 5/5/14, 4:03 PM, Roger Guay wrote: The dictionary says "Use the screenGamma property to control the color display of PNG images.” Could that be your problem? Yeah, maybe. Only it used to change everything so I've ignored that. Maybe they fixed a bug I was counting on. So does anyone know

Re: Need to compare two datagrids

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > filter lines of tdg2Text matching tRegexp into tTemp And yet another correction to the filter syntax: filter lines of tdg2Text with regex pattern tRegexp into tTemp I tested the code this time and it seems to work. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: copying an image

Hello Richmond, That is what really threw me. Outlook Express accepts copy/paste from other programs, notably ACDC, a photo organizer software that I use all the time. I haven't really tried it with too many other programs. The bottom line is that Word accepts from LC and Outlook Express doe

Re: Need to compare two datagrids

On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:42 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > filter lines of tdg2Text with item 1 of of rLine into tTemp I think that line should be: filter lines of tdg2Text with (item 1 of rLine & tab) into tTemp That should work as long as item 1 doesn't appear in anything other than the first

Re: Need to compare two datagrids

Hi Skip, Following Phil's suggestion, I think you could do this using the filter command, something like this: put the dgText of group dg1 into tdg1Text put the dgText of group dg2 into tdg2Text set the itemdelimiter to tab repeat for each line rLine in tdg1Text filter lines of tdg2Text with it

Re: Checkboxes

A kid recently made a fireball object. He called it a ‘part' so he could change from graphic to image. (I didn’t explain behavior and me, but this will have to come up.) Dar On May 5, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Whoops - yes, when I was describing what the code might be, I mess

Re: [OT] For Ender Nafi

Hi Ender Nafi, Thanks for the reply. I don't understand what you mean? All error messages tell me that your e-mail address doesn't exist. Note that I'm able to send e-mails to other people, just not to you. Can you send me an e-mail from a different address? You can also contact me on Skype t

Re: Checkboxes

My suggestion was to take advantage of the property that was already there, text. The checkbox is a nice way to introduce ‘if’ statements. However, the syntax causes MEGO. It introduces several new concepts. I have to rearrange things, then, since responses are underwhelming. Maybe a quick

Re: [OT] For Ender Nafi

Apparently, the e-mails are hidden by the mail-list. Again, my active e-mail address for those who needs to reach to me: endernafi [at] keehuna [dot] com Best, ~ Ender From: Ender Nafi Elekcioglu endern...@keehuna.com Reply: Ender Nafi Elekcioglu endern...@keehuna.com Date: May 6, 2014 at 0:07

Re: Community standards for a LEGO kit?

I’m not sure what you mean by a LEGO kit? We have been tinkering with snap-together controls over here. Or do you mean LabView style programming, data flow? Or do you mean 3D construction? Or do you mean a library to interface with Mindstorms EV3? (If one of those show up on my doorstep,

Re: [OT] For Ender Nafi

Mark, It seems that the real problem is slightly different. Please have a look at the attached reply from your server: ~~~ Your message could not  be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.  Please, do not reply to this message.  : host economy-x-talk.com[74.81.78.146] said: 

Re: More screengamma

Jacque, The dictionary says "Use the screenGamma property to control the color display of PNG images.” Could that be your problem? Roger On May 5, 2014, at 1:56 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > In LC 6.6.1, setting the screengamma doesn't do anything, at least on Mac. > The appearance of images

Re: [OT] For Ender Nafi

Mark hi, I’ve closed all of my gmail accounts and switched to a corporate mail, probably that’s the reason of bounce-back. Sorry for the inconvenience. Here is my active e-mail address for all of you who needs to reach to me: endern...@keehuna.com Warmest Regards, ~ Ender From: Mark Schonewi

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

I’ve created an OAuth 1 in the past for Evernote all in LiveCode plus the favorite browser. So, it can be done, but I won’t say it is not hard. I did run into some OAuth 2 problems with a kiosk that connected to ConstantContact and used an alternate security. Those problems were related to th

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

I didn't get far enough with 1.0a to be helpful - never got it to actually work. Sorry! Phil On 5/5/14, 1:24 PM, Monk in Exile wrote: Yes - 1.x sucks. Still I need it. Phil you got any code to share? On 5 May 2014 20:43, Phil Davis wrote: For my project, I abandoned my effort with 1.0a wh

More screengamma

In LC 6.6.1, setting the screengamma doesn't do anything, at least on Mac. The appearance of images does not change. Is this useless now? My client isn't happy with how their images look. These are all jpgs. They also report that the appearance of the images in the IDE is "dramatically differe

[OT] For Ender Nafi

Hi Ender Nafi, Could you please send me an e-mail? All e-mail addresses I have of you bounce back. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Mak

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

Yes - 1.x sucks. Still I need it. Phil you got any code to share? On 5 May 2014 20:43, Phil Davis wrote: > For my project, I abandoned my effort with 1.0a when Vimeo published their > new API (still in beta) which uses > OAuth 2. We are getting ready to create

Re: Need to compare two datagrids

Hi Skip, If it would make it easier (as in "doable"), why not put the dgText of the data grids into variables and work with the data in that form? That's probably what I would do. Then update each data grid with its updated dgText list at the end. Or if you're an "array person" you might pre

Need to compare two datagrids

I have two datagrids that I need to compare column 1. I then need to separate these two lists out into additional datagrids. For instance, datagrid 1 contains three columns: 1234, ItemA, ItemDetails 1235, ItemB, ItemDetails 1236, ItemC, ItemDetails Datagrid 2 contains three columns: 1234, ItemA,

Re: copying an image

On 05/05/14 22:22, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: you're right. let's (you) write an app to fix all that If you can fix the European Union you should have everybody clamouring at your door! Richmond. By-ther-way: have you found out whether Outlook Express will accept copied images fro

Re: copying an image

you're right. let's (you) write an app to fix all that - Original Message - From: "J. Landman Gay" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 12:16 PM Subject: Re: copying an image On 5/5/14, 12:35 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: And that is the eternal question:

Re: Checkboxes

Another problem with using control-specific property names to represent the (existing) hilite of a control is syntax-related. Using "selected" might be appropriate to describing that state of a checkbox, but how do you distinguish this from the "physically selected with the pointer tool" selected?

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

For my project, I abandoned my effort with 1.0a when Vimeo published their new API (still in beta) which uses OAuth 2. We are getting ready to create the new code lib very soon. Phil On 5/5/14, 5:36 AM, Monk in Exile wrote: Any updates on this - I've got a b

Re: Checkboxes

Whoops - yes, when I was describing what the code might be, I messed up and didn't include the object type. My bad. But after looking at it again, I sort-of like not having to remind LC that it's a group, or a control, or a button, etc. On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > I do

Re: Checkboxes

I don't like this idea. Every control then has to have some special keyword for describing its state, even when the controls are compound, as radio buttons and segmented controls, tables, etc. are on mobile. Originally, a checkbox was for one state, and a radio button was for multiple states. A

Re: copying an image

On 5/5/14, 12:35 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: And that is the eternal question: "Why would Microsoft program Word with the ability to paste the copy, but not program their email app, Outlook Express, to also paste the copy?" It's sort of like the European Union or the United States -

Re: copying an image

On 05/05/14 20:35, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: Thanks Jacquelin, I'm still in coding "kindergarten" and need everything spelled out! Not until you mentioned that the ability to paste elsewhere would depend on the receiving app's ability, did I even think about that. I just go around as

Re: copying an image

Thanks Jacquelin, I'm still in coding "kindergarten" and need everything spelled out! Not until you mentioned that the ability to paste elsewhere would depend on the receiving app's ability, did I even think about that. I just go around assuming that everything is supposed to work "right." So

Re: copying an image

On 5/5/14, 11:42 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I used your: put the clipboarddata["image"] in a variety of ways, but could not make it work. > The dictionary says "set the clipboardData..." not put. Sorry, I wasn't clear. I used "put" just to see the binary data in the message box

Re: Community standards for a LEGO kit?

As promised: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=20290 Get your thinking caps on. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preference

Re: copying an image

Hello Jacqueline, Thanks for trying to help, but I am still lost. I used your: put the clipboarddata["image"] in a variety of ways, but could not make it work. The dictionary says "set the clipboardData..." not put. Then I used this code in a button: on mouseUp set the clipboardData["ima

Re: Community standards for a LEGO kit?

On 05/05/14 16:39, Charles E Buchwald wrote: There are DropTools, PowerTools, tmControl, MobGUI, and some others which I'm sure I'm forgetting, so I daresay it's an idea that's been attempted a few times. I like very much the idea of "a LEGO kit" for, let's say, casual or beginning programmer

Re: copying an image

On 5/5/14, 5:50 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) I cannot figure out how to copy an image (that is imported into my stack) to the clipboard I am using; copy image "myImage" And the image does not end up in the clipboard Nothing, nada, zip, zilch It should be th

Re: Call for testing with 6.6.2 RC3

On 5/5/14, 1:06 AM, Earthednet-wp wrote: I have a very simple test stack the moves 3 colored rectangles to random positions, then takes a snapshot. Without a wait before the snapshot command, it doesn't get the snapshot. Or, it takes the snapshot before the randomization finishes. I'm new to live

Re: Community standards for a LEGO kit?

On 05/05/14 16:39, Charles E Buchwald wrote: There are DropTools, PowerTools, tmControl, MobGUI, and some others which I'm sure I'm forgetting, so I daresay it's an idea that's been attempted a few times. I like very much the idea of "a LEGO kit" for, let's say, casual or beginning programmer

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

OAuth 1.0 and 1.0a sucks! Horrible specs and hard to implement. On the other hand OAuth 2.0 is quite easy to implement. I've did that for Facebook Lib. Does the API you need has an OAuth 2.0 endpoint? On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 9:36 AM, Monk in Exile wrote: > Any updates on this - I've got a bunch o

Re: Big bug smackdown! - check your In Box

TL;dr: If you've submitted bug reports previously, you should have received an email from RunRev listing all your bugs. Please test each of those outstanding bug reports in the most recent version of LC. On 05 May 2014, at 17:07, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Thanks to everyone who pitched in with

Big bug smackdown! - check your In Box

Thanks to everyone who pitched in with the testing of v6.6.2RC3 over the weekend. 10 new bug reports were submitted, and the dev team is looking into those this morning. Looking at the bigger picture of RunRev's Big Bug Smackdown: Over the years many of us have submitted bug reports, and alth

OT Mavericks mail

Folks, My mail server won't come online and I've read that a lot of folks are having mail server showing up offline, on Mavericks. Probably related to the ssl bug. I'm wasting a lot of time trying things. Anybody got a fix for this? Fortunately, my iPad email still works. Thanks, Bill William

Testing proxy servers in 6.6.2/6.7

For those who were testing libURL with proxy servers in previous versions of 6.6.x can you please try again in 6.6.2 rc-3 and 6.6.7 dp-3? While previous versions have a version of libURL with support for doing SSL through a proxy server, it didn't have code that detected the proxy server. I would

Re: Reporting the number of duplicates in a list of numbers?

I'm the biggest fan there is of arrays - but for this problem an array looks like overkill - see the simple code below. (btw - not actually tested, so beware typos) put empty into tCounted put empty into tLast repeat for each line L in tData if L = tLast then add 1 to tCount else

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC3

And to be clear, you're supposed to create these at "normal", not "best". I just created them in "best" because at "normal" the scan results were even worse. At 6.5.2 and previous (6.1.3, 5.5.5), on "normal" you get exactly what you would expect. On Sun, May 4, 2014 at 10:34 PM, John Dixon wro

Community standards for a LEGO kit?

There are DropTools, PowerTools, tmControl, MobGUI, and some others which I'm sure I'm forgetting, so I daresay it's an idea that's been attempted a few times. I like very much the idea of "a LEGO kit" for, let's say, casual or beginning programmers. I've known many designers who dabble in prog

Re: Oauth in Livecode?

Any updates on this - I've got a bunch of stuff that needs oAuth in various flavours. On 1 February 2014 04:36, Phil Davis wrote: > Hi Geoff, > > I'm currently working on a Vimeo code lib that includes Vimeo's OAuth 1.0a > implementation to the extent it's needed for logging in and using parts

Re: Looking further than the end of your nose - Was “Toolin’ Around”

On 05/05/14 14:47, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, That’s one hell of a rant against ToolBook. I think it fair to add a few comments. Indeed! With Feeling! Making choices about the software that you find, like and use is based upon …… those three words !

Looking further than the end of your nose - Was “Toolin’ Around”

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, That’s one hell of a rant against ToolBook. I think it fair to add a few comments. Making choices about the software that you find, like and use is based upon …… those three words ! Find : Sometimes you use the wrong software for solving your problems, q

Re: import snapshot

Thank you John and Richmond Larry - Original Message - From: "Richmond" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Monday, May 05, 2014 4:54 AM Subject: Re: import snapshot on mouseUp import snapshot from graphic "ggg" set the name of last image to "XYZ" end mouseUp Richmond.

Re: import snapshot

on mouseUp import snapshot from graphic "ggg" set the name of last image to "XYZ" end mouseUp Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pref

RE: memory management

put empty into var "WhichVar" > From: la...@significantplanet.org > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: memory management > Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 04:14:28 -0600 > > If I load a large file into a variable, I believe the variable is stored in > RAM, right? > > When I am finished using th

RE: import snapshot

set the name of the last image of this card to "whateverYouWantToCallIt" > From: la...@significantplanet.org > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: import snapshot > Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 04:43:41 -0600 > > I am importing a snapshot from an image object. LC places the snapshot (to > my

copying an image

I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) I cannot figure out how to copy an image (that is imported into my stack) to the clipboard I am using; copy image "myImage" And the image does not end up in the clipboard Nothing, nada, zip, zilch TIA Larry ___ use-livecode m

import snapshot

I am importing a snapshot from an image object. LC places the snapshot (to my specified size) in a new image object in the middle of my stack. But how do I programatically know what the name of the newly created image object is? (so I can then do stuff to it) TIA Larry

memory management

If I load a large file into a variable, I believe the variable is stored in RAM, right? When I am finished using the variable, how do I remove it from memory? TIA Larry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: Determining which/how many rows of a datagrid form are currently displayed

Excellent! Thanks Zyrip. Terry... On 05/05/2014 07:23 PM, "zryip theSlug" wrote: >Terry, > >Use the dgVisibleLines property of the datagrid group. > >This property returns the first and last line being displayed in the >data grid as a comma delimited list. >http://lessons.runrev.com/s/3527/m/da

Re: Determining which/how many rows of a datagrid form are currently displayed

Terry, Use the dgVisibleLines property of the datagrid group. This property returns the first and last line being displayed in the data grid as a comma delimited list. http://lessons.runrev.com/s/3527/m/datagrid/l/7344-data-grid-api Example: put the dgVisibleLines of grp "datagrid 1" into tLines

Re: [OT] "Tooling" around

On 05/05/14 01:22, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Richmond, If I understand well your message, you want that Livecode exports stacks as websites or webpages. I did not intend that at all. What I was doing was pointing out that Toolbook Instructor has one strength Livecode does not. However, as