Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hi Scott This works for me in LiveCode 7 dp3: set the Label of Button "Button" to numToCodepoint(0x1D122) ;; bass clef Also pasting the correct character into the label field in the property inspector works under OS X (and may work on other systems too.) I suspect the problem that yo

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Mike Kerner
Sounds like a wiki - even though, IMHO, wikis suck. On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 10/05/14 21:24, Marc Van Cauwenberghe wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to broaden the discussion to all livecode knowledge being >> easily available. >> >> There are stack being scattered

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Mike Kerner
I can't even remember them because once it was obvious that nobody was looking at them, I stopped working on them, so it's been more than a year, I would bet. On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 5:43 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mike Kerner wrote: > > ...For instance, community contributions to the > > > do

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: > The other area I'm even more interested in is RunRev's other major > "orphan" - the on-rev client, and LCServer live debugger. That was a > great idea - and the debugger still has the potential to be a unique > advantage for LC server; unfortunately, the original on-rev clie

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 10/05/2014 16:07, Richard Gaskin wrote: How this applies to what we currently call "RevOnline" is something we'll have to figure out, but I think it's very encouraging that just is in this one thread we have several people willing to help. ... I'll make that the focus of my next meeting

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: > ...For instance, community contributions to the > documentation is supposed to be included, but it > does not seem to happen. Ostensibly there's a process for this, with style guidance as well:

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 22:26, Scott Rossi wrote: Actually, I see there's a unicodeLabel property, which could work. So if the Unicode number of the character in a font is U+03A9, how does one get this to render properly in a label? I've tried various string combinations and uni-prefixed properties, but I

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Scott Rossi
OK, went through some deleted mail and found the answer. I was missing: "set the useUnicode to true" Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/10/14 12:26 PM, "Scott Rossi" wrote: >Actually, I see there's a unicodeLabel property, which could work. > >So if the

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/10/14, 2:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/10/14, 1:42 PM, Richmond wrote: Making new objects out of compounded existing objects is, to my mind at least, less urgent than how to add props to existing ones. I believe this is the goal of the Open Language initiative, which is scheduled to h

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/10/14, 1:42 PM, Richmond wrote: Making new objects out of compounded existing objects is, to my mind at least, less urgent than how to add props to existing ones. I believe this is the goal of the Open Language initiative, which is scheduled to happen after the engine rewrite is done. -

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Actually, I see there's a unicodeLabel property, which could work. So if the Unicode number of the character in a font is U+03A9, how does one get this to render properly in a label? I've tried various string combinations and uni-prefixed properties, but I continue to get Asian characters as the

Re: Resizing a group's controls when the group is resized

2014-05-10 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Randy, Bernd sent me a couple of stacks offline and I have things working. What is worrisome though is why the simple code I included in the original post didn't work, particularly the fact that grabbing the bottom handle and dragging it down actually made things wider instead of taller. I

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 21:41, Vaughn Clement wrote: Hi I was talking to a senior developer today in the UK, and it is clear that this email "How To" is good, but it would be much better if it was a subject based forum that can be searched for answers. I know that RunRev has a forum for this purpose and it

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi I was talking to a senior developer today in the UK, and it is clear that this email "How To" is good, but it would be much better if it was a subject based forum that can be searched for answers. I know that RunRev has a forum for this purpose and it could serve this purpose. The question is i

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 21:17, Scott Rossi wrote: On 5/10/14 10:49 AM, "Richmond" wrote: I can only assume that 'htmlText' is not a property of a label. It's not. It's a field property. But I'm hoping someone may have found a way to pull this off. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 21:24, Marc Van Cauwenberghe wrote: Hi, I would like to broaden the discussion to all livecode knowledge being easily available. There are stack being scattered over tons of different sites. Somebody (who ?) has to assemble a master page (preferably hosted on RunRev's site) that

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 21:17, Scott Rossi wrote: On 5/10/14 10:49 AM, "Richmond" wrote: I can only assume that 'htmlText' is not a property of a label. It's not. It's a field property. But I'm hoping someone may have found a way to pull this off. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Marc Van Cauwenberghe
Hi, I would like to broaden the discussion to all livecode knowledge being easily available. There are stack being scattered over tons of different sites. Articles like the one 'Extending the Livecode Message Path’ I only found after spending months with Livecode. A good search engine that in

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Scott Rossi
On 5/10/14 10:49 AM, "Richmond" wrote: >I can only assume that 'htmlText' is not a property of a label. It's not. It's a field property. But I'm hoping someone may have found a way to pull this off. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design _

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Earthednet-wp
I completely agree. Naive or new users can provide invaluable input to documentation authors. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > > > Being here asking questions is a valuable contribution in itself. For every > question posted here there are many subscribers who had the same q

Re: HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 20:38, Scott Rossi wrote: Is there some way to the the label of a button to HTMLtext? Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design Well I just tried this: set the htmlText of the label of btn "targe" to "Click here!" and that didn't work. I also

HTMLtext in Label?

2014-05-10 Thread Scott Rossi
Is there some way to the the label of a button to HTMLtext? Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

mouseEnter/Leave weirdness

2014-05-10 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm using mouseEnter/Leave to hilite the active row as the user mouses over (and also to show a control group) It seems that unless I have debug breakpoint in mouseLeave, it doesn't necesarily get called before mouseEnter for the new field. I'm dealing with bordered fields whose borders overlap.

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
Vaughn Clement wrote: I see your request for assistance as needed and I would like to help, but based on my limited LC experience I would hinder the progress. I am responding just to say we hear your request, and want to help. I do have an ongoing need to see a better documentation system for use

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
I'd say you are in an ideal position to be the eyes of the volunteer team. The documentation is far too extensive to find problems easily. A person who can report the entries that are confusing or outdated would be of tremendous help. You wouldn't have to fix them, just tell folks where to lo

Re: Resizing a group's controls when the group is resized

2014-05-10 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Peter, Check out: ResizeGroup by Bernd Niggemann on the LiveCode user samples… and And: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=17614&p=102374#p102374 be well, randy On May 8, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I have a resizeControl handler for a group in which I've tried ch

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi Richard I see your request for assistance as needed and I would like to help, but based on my limited LC experience I would hinder the progress. I am responding just to say we hear your request, and want to help. I do have an ongoing need to see a better documentation system for users (new user

Re: New Documentation section in Forums/Open Source (was Re: wait with messages)

2014-05-10 Thread Marc Van Cauwenberghe
Great Richard! Best regards, Marc Op 10-mei-2014, om 16:12 heeft Richard Gaskin het volgende geschreven: > As promised, thanks to Heather's work in helping me sort out some PHPBB > permissions issues, we now have a forum for Documentation in the Open Source > section of the forums: >

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
BNig wrote: RevOnline/ User Samples does work very well for me in 6.6.2 RC3. It is working in 6.7 DP3, not working in 6.6.1 and 7.0 DP3 The problem seems to be that hanging/not working is different for different users and the bug(s) are difficult to reproduce. But I hope it is getting there. ht

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
TL/DR version: there are challenges, but improving the state of stack file sharing is doable, esp. with community participation. Longer version for folks with too much time on their hands: Björnke von Gierke wrote: > Yes, and every time the community starts to talk business about this, > someo

New Documentation section in Forums/Open Source (was Re: wait with messages)

2014-05-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
As promised, thanks to Heather's work in helping me sort out some PHPBB permissions issues, we now have a forum for Documentation in the Open Source section of the forums: One way I see this as becoming a productive working group is for proposals f

Re: mouseLeave -like message for stacks?

2014-05-10 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Richard, Am 10.05.2014 um 02:06 schrieb Dr. Hawkins : > Is there something like mouseLeave or closeField that can be used when a > stack loses focus, either to another stack or to another application? check "suspendstack" and "resumestack"! > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. Best Klaus

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Alright here's a first version of a category management stack, including some 'dummy' example stack interface elements, to show off how it works. It's mostly a way to avoid category clutter right now. http://bjoernke.com/temp/Category_test.rev On 10 May 2014, at 10:07, Björnke von Gierke wrot

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 06:40, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Friday, May 9, 2014, 8:15:13 PM, you wrote: If we could work out a way to share the work on this with RunRev, anyone here interested in rolling up their sleeves to help? You mean trying to work with a rev team that spent six months ignoring the f

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Richmond
On 10/05/14 06:15, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Friday, May 9, 2014, 12:38:36 PM, you wrote: But RevOnline is rather erratic . . . You're being too kind. At one point Heather assured me that revOnline was about to be replaced with something better, or at least differe

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 10 May 2014, at 05:40, Mark Wieder wrote: > Friday, May 9, 2014, 8:15:13 PM, you wrote: >> If we could work out a way to share the work on this with RunRev, anyone >> here interested in rolling up their sleeves to help? > You mean trying to work with a rev team that spent six months ignoring >

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread BNig
RevOnline/ User Samples does work very well for me in 6.6.2 RC3. It is working in 6.7 DP3, not working in 6.6.1 and 7.0 DP3 The problem seems to be that hanging/not working is different for different users and the bug(s) are difficult to reproduce. But I hope it is getting there. http://quality.

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Scott Rossi
I'd be up for contributing. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design > On May 9, 2014, at 8:15 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > There have been some bug fixes, but the longer-term plans are queued for > after some of the other things get done first (Cocoa, Unicode, etc.).

Re: [OFF] Cool Plugins

2014-05-10 Thread Terence Heaford
As a newcomer here, just tried it for the very first time, it crashed and locked up LIveCode. Not a good advert. All the best Terry On 10 May 2014, at 04:15, Richard Gaskin wrote: > There have been some bug fixes, but the longer-term plans are queued for > after some of the other things ge