Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/2014, 9:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: NVM my NVM. I passed all the closeStack messages as well as the closeStackRequest messages. Stack still will not close. If you are trying to not just close the stack but also remove it from memory, I hit a similar problem with a series of converted HC

Re: Make stack close itself

2014-05-20 Thread dunbarx
Bob. Not sure what you are up against. This works fine. To test. make a new stack. Put a button in it with this in its script: on mouseUp close this stack end mouseUp ??? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tue, May 20, 2014 9:41 pm

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
NVM my NVM. I passed all the closeStack messages as well as the closeStackRequest messages. Stack still will not close. Bob S On May 20, 2014, at 19:11 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > NVM I think I am trapping closeStack somewhere. > > Bob > > > On May 20, 2014, at 18:40 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > >

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-20 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richmond, Could you create any kind of custom text editor if you load it's font using revfontload? Imagine that you want to publish a portable text editor and grammar spellchecker for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirth http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarati http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tengwar

UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
NVM I think I am trapping closeStack somewhere. Bob On May 20, 2014, at 18:40 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi all. > > I am at a complete loss. I am trying to make a stack close itself via script. > I get you cannot do this while a script is running, so I tried send in time. > No dice. Stack no c

Re: Checkboxes

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
erm… until you encounter combo boxes, which are like a hybrid field and button, but in the end are classified as a button. Bob S On May 6, 2014, at 06:20 , Mike Kerner mailto:mikeker...@roadrunner.com>> wrote: Pretty soon they start to abstract it on their own - a button is something that you

Make stack close itself

2014-05-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I am at a complete loss. I am trying to make a stack close itself via script. I get you cannot do this while a script is running, so I tried send in time. No dice. Stack no close. I tried send “close me” to this stack in 1 second. No close. I tried sending close stack (insert the long I

The All-Time 1001 things to do with LiveCode Top 10

2014-05-20 Thread Peter W A Wood
1. Code an App store accepted game in a week 2. Administer SQLite databases 3. Manage a database of images 4. Build mobile games 5. Make a talking dog 6. Build an assembly language interpreter 7. Exercise Your Right Brain 8. Build a virtual pet ... when you're eleven! 9. Develop an interac

Re: setProp handlers

2014-05-20 Thread Devin Asay
On May 20, 2014, at 3:56 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Devin, > > The properties inspector seems to lock messages before setting properties. > This also applies to e.g. setting the width and height of a control. If it > didn't do this, the properties inspector would probably become unusab

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/14, 3:28 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Without any real good reason, I like Trevor’s and Klaus’ delays. delays solved my playback problems as well. Okay, I'll do it all -- send the command in a "send in time" construct, wait a few

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread stephen barncard
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Without any real good reason, I like Trevor’s and Klaus’ delays. > delays solved my playback problems as well. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mail

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread Dar Scott
I don’t have any good ideas on the network side of things. If the player gets impatient, then maybe delaying things until after the rain of messages might be good. Maybe the file retrieval is not as fast as expected. That might even be compounded if the other messages are doing network thin

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Jaqueline, Am 20.05.2014 um 20:06 schrieb J. Landman Gay : this is also worth a try: > set the filename of player pPlayerName of cd 1 of me to empty wait 5 > set the filename of player pPlayerName of cd 1 of me to tFileName > ... > end if Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de

Re: LockMoves

2014-05-20 Thread Alejandro Tejada
The relationship between the command lockmoves and layermode could be more evident if LiveCode IDE had an Alert or Pop-Up that REMINDS about them. Does exists a user customizable plug-in that could do this function? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabbl

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/14, 12:55 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Dar Scott wrote: Do you stop the player when you change cards? that's a very likely suspect, IMHO the player seems to need to be 'reset' in some way. Do you think I should stop it in addition to setting th

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/14, 1:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I had some problems with playback before and the list suggested using "start" instead of "play". Apparently there's a problem with just "play"; when that was all I used, the player never started up at all most of the time. We do use callbacks in these, a

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Stephen's comment about all the pre/opencard messages is a good one, and > my script adds a couple dozen additional commands to the sequence. I'll > move the audio playback to the very end of all that and see if that helps. > There is a lo

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
I think Klaus is the player expert, but at any rate, you're the network expert. The player audio is a narration and has a constant volume. On opencard, the filename of the player is set to empty, then loaded with the new URL, and playback initiated like this: set the filename of player pPla

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread stephen barncard
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > Do you stop the player when you change cards? that's a very likely suspect, IMHO the player seems to need to be 'reset' in some way. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* __

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread Dar Scott
I am very hesitant to say anything, since you are the expert here. Does the player have a relatively quiet ending? Do you stop the player when you change cards? Could the currentTime be left in the quiet ending and the play starting there? Does the result show an error? Dar On May 20,

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread stephen barncard
On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 10:31 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I should mention that each card has a different audio file assigned, and > the failure occurs on any card with any URL, not just a particular one. > It's sporadic and unpredictable. Perhaps a delay of some kind is needed before loading th

Re: Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/14, 12:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I have a player whose filename is set to an audio URL on the web whenever a card opens. For 99.9% of the time it works fine but occasionally it does not play. If the user goes to another card and then returns to the original card, it does play. Checkin

Remote audio file does not always play

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
I have a player whose filename is set to an audio URL on the web whenever a card opens. For 99.9% of the time it works fine but occasionally it does not play. If the user goes to another card and then returns to the original card, it does play. Checking the result after setting the filename sh

Re: LockMoves

2014-05-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/20/14, 2:04 AM, Nakia Brewer wrote: Settings the layer mode to dynamic made it heaps better. It's still not perfect but I can live with it! Make sure you set the layermode for the group and not for the objects inside it. If that's what you did already then I think it's as good as it gets

RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC4

2014-05-20 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6.1 RC4. This is a maintenance release for the 6.6 series and contain 57 bug fixes, 5 of which are new for this RC4 release. We are now approaching final release so please test this release thoroughly to ensure your projects

Re: Nice news for builders of financial apps

2014-05-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
Richard Gaskin wrote Check this out - looks like independent column alignment via a tabAlign property is coming in v7: ... Wow! I have been waiting long, long time for this!!! RObert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pl

Re: setProp handlers

2014-05-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Devin, The properties inspector seems to lock messages before setting properties. This also applies to e.g. setting the width and height of a control. If it didn't do this, the properties inspector would probably become unusable because we'd have to switch message on and off all the time a

Re: Nice news for builders of financial apps

2014-05-20 Thread BNig
Hi Richard, Richard Gaskin wrote > Check this out - looks like independent column alignment via a tabAlign > property is coming in v7: > ... > I know what I'll be testing during the LiveCode Global Jam this is fantastic news and I think I will join you for the LiveCode Global Jam If thi

Re: Nice news for builders of financial apps

2014-05-20 Thread Peter Haworth
+1 Pete lcSQL Software On May 19, 2014 11:09 PM, "Jerry Jensen" wrote: > On May 19, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > > Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > > >> Richard Gaskin wrote > >>> [snip] > >>> With the field object now supporting independent column alignment, we > >>> get attractive

Re: LockMoves

2014-05-20 Thread Nakia Brewer
Settings the layer mode to dynamic made it heaps better. It's still not perfect but I can live with it! Sent from my iPhone > On 20 May 2014, at 8:10 am, "Nakia Brewer" > wrote: > > Mmmm, no I didn't. > > The two moving objects are groups so I will give this a try tonight... > > Thanks for