Re: How to initialize a tabbed button object

2014-05-29 Thread Terence Heaford
Please be aware that if you intend to build for Mac the tab panel does not display correctly. It displays black text on a dark grey background for the selected tab and black text for all other tabs. The Mac default is white on a dark grey background for the selected tab and black for the other

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread Dar Scott
Yeah. And it might be handy for other things. On May 29, 2014, at 11:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/29/2014, 7:42 PM, Dar Scott wrote: >> Is there an easy way to set a behavior in the IDE? >> >> Like copy the long ID of an object (how?) and then paste into the behavior >> field? Or

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 30 May 2014, at 3:19 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Hm...maybe there could be a contextual menu that copies the long ID > reference. That would at least be a shortcut. Indeed, that would be a very usable solution. Another one would be to use a control/option/command+drag from a child to a par

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/2014, 7:42 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Is there an easy way to set a behavior in the IDE? Like copy the long ID of an object (how?) and then paste into the behavior field? Or select the parent object? Hm...maybe there could be a contextual menu that copies the long ID reference. That would

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/2014, 10:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Dar- Thursday, May 29, 2014, 5:42:44 PM, you wrote: Is there an easy way to set a behavior in the IDE? No. The message box is your friend. I have wished so often that there was some other way. So I started thinking about it after Dar asked, but

Re: question about ide bug, and usage of LC

2014-05-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/29/2014, 9:57 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Whilst I am very happy that this has been fixed in rc5, this problem forced me to use 'option+retun' (on OS X) to split a line - the \ character is used to show a split line. Option-return only works on Macs and will throw an error if you move the stac

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Devin Asay
Mike, It sounds like the same bug that Trevor reported earlier in the thread. Devin Sent from my iPhone > On May 29, 2014, at 6:47 PM, "Mike Kerner" wrote: > > Anyone else seeing that the line number area in the script editor is too > narrow? I can only see up to 99. After that, just tens a

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Dar- Thursday, May 29, 2014, 5:42:44 PM, you wrote: > Is there an easy way to set a behavior in the IDE? No. The message box is your friend. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The pa

Re: question about ide bug, and usage of LC

2014-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: But wouldn't this annoy the hell out of everyone who uses the script editor daily? Why is this not fixed already? Is no one actually using LC to script stuff? > Whilst I am very happy that this has been fixed in rc5, this problem forced

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread dunbarx
Do you mean the native behavior property of a control? The long ID of the parent button is loaded into the child control, and the parent button script is essentially inserted into the message path of the child. But I suspect you know this. What is different between my short blurb above and you

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 12:55 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Except for Preview, which is document based but auto-closes. On my Mavericks 10.9 3 and Preview 7.0 (826.4), Preview is in a league of it's own. With all the other mentioned auto-close apps, when the last window is closed then the app clos

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Mike Kerner
Anyone else seeing that the line number area in the script editor is too narrow? I can only see up to 99. After that, just tens and ones show. Bug 12568 On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:01 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > The issue here is that the formattedWidth for fields is returning an > incorrect va

Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread Dar Scott
Is there an easy way to set a behavior in the IDE? Like copy the long ID of an object (how?) and then paste into the behavior field? Or select the parent object? Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Funkiness with snapshot

2014-05-29 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I tried my app (working in LC 6.6) in 6.7 dp4. There is still funkiness in the snapshot command. I can’t reproduce it in a test app (I submitted a test app to the bug reporting system and LC folks verified the bug). There are two snapshots in succession and the first one works, but the se

Re: Documentation

2014-05-29 Thread William Prothero
Vaughn: I can understand the LC community wanting keep the community working toward a single place to go for docs and I know that this issue has been discussed pretty thoroughly on this list. I also appreciate that the changes to LC are massive and I’m so glad that I’m investing my time in a pla

Re: Documentation

2014-05-29 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi Bill I've been pushing now for a year to get the dictionary and the documentation improved. The World Jam last week was one of the places I mentioned it once again. I have seen small improvement in documentation due to the massive changes being made to LC. I understand the changes required to d

Documentation

2014-05-29 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I know there is work being done on the documentation. I’d like to add my voice to those who are wanting and needing better, more useable documentation. Just recently, I tried to find out how to initialize a tabbed button. Nothing in the dictionary. But, a google search took me to the righ

Re: How to initialize a tabbed button object

2014-05-29 Thread William Prothero
Never mind! Found it. on preOpenStack set the menuHistory of btn "Tab Menu" of group "myTabs" to 1 end preOpenStack Bill On May 29, 2014, at 1:23 PM, William Prothero wrote: > Folks: > I’m using a tabbed button, which is very cool. But, now I want to set the > initial state of the button.

How to initialize a tabbed button object

2014-05-29 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I’m using a tabbed button, which is very cool. But, now I want to set the initial state of the button. The sectedtext will give me the tab that is hilited, but is there an easy way to set the initial state without faking a mouse click? Thanks, Bill William A. Prothero, Ph.D. University

Re: question about ide bug, and usage of LC

2014-05-29 Thread Mike Kerner
It works for me - you're referring to sideways scrolling right? That was one of the bugs that was fixed in 6.6.2 rc5 (just came out today). At least, it works on my Mac. I haven't tried Win or Lin yet. I'm testing some of the other rc5 fixes. On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Björnke von Gier

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Trevor DeVore
The issue here is that the formattedWidth for fields is returning an incorrect value in 6.6.2 rc-5. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12563 -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.screensteps.com-www.clarify-it.com ___ use-live

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Yes, exactly. Okay, I’ll go file a report if there isn’t one already. Thanks. On May 29, 2014, at 9:26 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > On May 29, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Chris Sheffield > wrote: > >> Anyone else seeing goofy display issues in the Project Browser in RC5? >> Fields look like they’re on top o

question about ide bug, and usage of LC

2014-05-29 Thread Björnke von Gierke
When typing a very long line in the script editor, the editor does not update it's size and the scrollbar remains still, while the script editor field remains static. This problem was introduced in LC 6.5.0 or 6.5.1, and is in all versions since then, up to the current 7.0.0dp6 and 6.6.2.rc5.

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Devin Asay
On May 29, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Anyone else seeing goofy display issues in the Project Browser in RC5? Fields > look like they’re on top of each other or cut off in some cases. Seems to > function normally otherwise. If others are experiencing it, I’ll file a > report. I

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Chris Sheffield
Anyone else seeing goofy display issues in the Project Browser in RC5? Fields look like they’re on top of each other or cut off in some cases. Seems to function normally otherwise. If others are experiencing it, I’ll file a report. If not, I’ll troubleshoot some more and figure out what’s going

RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6.2-rc-4

2014-05-29 Thread Michael McCreary
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6.2 RC5. This is a maintenance release for the 6.6 series and contain 63 bug fixes, 6 of which are new for this RC4 release. We are now approaching final release so please test this release thoroughly to ensure your proje

RELEASE LiveCode 7.0 DP6

2014-05-29 Thread Fraser Gordon
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 7.0 DP6. *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.* Important Changes - The file format has changed for this

South Florida LiveCode User Group

2014-05-29 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
Skip Kimpel wrote: > I am exploring setting up a LC user's group down here in South > Florida. I am in the Ft. Lauderdale region and am trying to > gauge interest and determine how many LC developers we have in > this area. I've been using LiveCode for many years for business and for educa

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
On May 29, 2014 7:49 AM, "Igor de Oliveira Couto" wrote: > > Now, how useful would that be if we were able to do the same from, let’s say, inside a stack window (viewing previous versions of an interface), or directly from the script editor?… > LcStackDiff provides a way to view all the changes be

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-29 Thread Phil Jimmieson
At Richard's suggestion, I've submitted an enhancement request for this. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12558 On 28 May 2014, at 15:40, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Phil Jimmieson wrote: > >> Currently, if you save a stack with version 7 of LiveCode and try and open >> it with version 6

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Peter Haworth
> > That said, there's an auto-save plugin (RevSmartSave) that ships with LC for those who want it. > LcStackBrowser does this too, either at timed intervals or on request, along with an optional user supplied comment. Versions can be restored from a list showing the creation date and time along wi