Re: Can You Really Install an iOS App outside of Apple's App Store?

2014-07-03 Thread Gerry Orkin
Kinda sorta. In iOS 8 if you want to somewhat misuse the service (it's meant for beta testing) you can use TestFlight and install onto 1000 devices. https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/TestFlight/ Gerry On 3 Jul 2014, at 8:39 am, Ralph DiMola wrote: > Apple has removed the option t

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jul 3, 2014, at 5:59 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jerry- > > Thursday, July 3, 2014, 4:50:45 PM, you wrote: > >> So my answer is, of course, three. 8-) > > Three is also the largest number crows can distinguish, so that makes > sense. Ah! Oh, wait... __

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- Thursday, July 3, 2014, 4:50:45 PM, you wrote: > So my answer is, of course, three. 8-) Three is also the largest number crows can distinguish, so that makes sense. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security

Re: OT : Advice on SQL database design

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Thursday, July 3, 2014, 5:06:16 PM, you wrote: > I'm particularly interested in the idea of NoSQL databases - they seem > too good to be true :-) Well, be careful with nosql databases. In many cases they are indeed too good to be true. You need to be very specific with your needs. -- -Ma

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Paul Looney
31 - the maximum number of days in month. > On Jul 3, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > What would seem a reasonable upper limit to English-like spelled numbers? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCod

Re: OT : Advice on SQL database design

2014-07-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 01/07/2014 13:17, Robert Brenstein wrote: You will get lots of advice, I am sure. Database design is a science and an art. What helps often is to identify data along the lines of I did indeed get lots of good advice - many thanks to all who replied. So many new things to read about

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
In the Electronic Maintenance shop at Capitol Records, one guy had two stock answers that he snarkily claimed would answer all questions. First answer: three. Second answer: it can't be done. So my answer is, of course, three. 8-) .Jerry On Jul 3, 2014, at 3:59 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: >

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread stephen barncard
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 4:45 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: > > These 21 additional words would allow numbers up to 999 billion if you > construct your phrases like this: > "one hundred thousand two hundred fourteen" > or > "twenty million four hundred twenty two thousand three hundred forty six"

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Charles E Buchwald
If you are strict about how they are written, then you don't need many constants and keywords. Just add: eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen eighteen nineteen twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seventy eighty ninety hundred thousand million billion These 21 additional words wo

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jul 3, 2014, at 10:45 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > > repeat forever with messages ??? repeat with messages ??? I think we've been through this before. The compiler doesn't mind, but the "with messages" part is not legal syntax and does nothing.

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Richmond, As a sometimes teacher myself, I really appreciate your compulsion to foster initiative. How about showing your "champion" how to define constants? Then she could go ahead and use "eleven" and "twelve" and so on... - Charles On 03 Jul 2014, at 4:43 PM, Richmond wrote: > That has neve

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread Scott Rossi
Another option is to use a frontscript to intercept mouseup (or down) messages before they arrive at the controls on the card. A frontscript is foolproof and will handle all controls, but you need to plan this carefully because, as Mark mentioned, you don't want to leave the stack unable to fun

Re: OT: Collaborative Diagramming Software

2014-07-03 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 12:26 PM, Brahmanathswami wrote: > And we are very close to real-time collaboration which would be way cool. > Check this Jun 13 support doc. > > https://jgraph.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/ > 312533-how-do-i-get-real-time-collaboration-on-draw-io-using-goog

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
No idea. Just take a pencil, start writing and see when you think you've had enough. -- 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 Maker for LiveCode:

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
What would seem a reasonable upper limit to English-like spelled numbers? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Follow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/FourthWorldSys

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, Ten is defined as a constant and tenth as a keyword according to the dictionary. Eleven and eleventh aren't defined. Although a warning might be appropriate, it is easy to find out why it doesn't work, if one reads the dictionary: eleven and eleventh don't exist. Unfortunately, s

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/14 23:46, Paul Hibbert wrote: On 2014-07-03, at 12:44 PM, Richmond wrote: Now I had a choice of things to say at that moment: 1. "Because I'm a slob who didn't think about that problem." [possibly the only reasons I didn't use this one was that it was a bit early in the morning for

Re: Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2014-07-03, at 12:44 PM, Richmond wrote: > Now I had a choice of things to say at that moment: > > 1. "Because I'm a slob who didn't think about that problem." [possibly the > only reasons I didn't use this > one was that it was a bit early in the morning for honesty, and, as a > Bulgarian

Ordinal numbers

2014-07-03 Thread Richmond
So I have a field containing a text string (nothing very special there). BUT, I want to delete the eleventh character. Now scripts like this: delete the tenth char in fld "TEKST" work superbly. But after 'tenth' we get "in a pickle" . . . . and we have to do this: delete char 11 in fld "TEK

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, If you like your own approach, just do what you think is best. I discourage such brute force approaches however, because if something goes wrong, the only way for the user to get out of the trap is to restart the software. My example can be adjusted fairly easily to provide a way out

Re: OT: Collaborative Diagramming Software

2014-07-03 Thread Brahmanathswami
Surprising that draw.io gets so little press. Free for up to 500 users with unlimited docs... made by http://www.jgraph.com/... which is a pretty advanced company... Lucid Chart and Giffy have other features but they charge https://jgraph.freshdesk.com/support/articles/57101-how-come-draw-

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread William Prothero
Folks: Actually, I like the method of putting a transparent rectangle over the stack window and trapping all mouse events. That makes the number of places where I have to modify my code much smaller. I have multiple buttons on the screen and they each call a number of handlers. I just thought t

Re: Can You Really Install an iOS App outside of Apple's App Store?

2014-07-03 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hello! Only other option is to purchase an Apple Enterprise License. Then you can distribute apps within your organization , but not to general public. For example, a school district might purchase an enterprise license to distribute home grown apps to their staff. Cheers! John Patten SUSD Se

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread Peter Haworth
I guess you could lock messages but that would lock all messages not just mouse events. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 10:32 AM, William Pr

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, One way to do this: local lBusy,lSecs on mouseUp if lBusy is true then beep exit mouseUp else if lBusy is not true then put true into lBusy put the seconds into lSecs repeat forever with messages // some long task here if the seconds

Re: Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Bill, Check out: "Use the flushEvents function to prevent unwanted messages from being sent during a handler's execution." be well, randy - On Jul 3, 2014, at 12:32 PM, William Prothero wrote: > Folks: > > Is it possible to inhibit mouse events? Some of the operations that are > initi

Inhibit mouse Events possible?

2014-07-03 Thread William Prothero
Folks: Is it possible to inhibit mouse events? Some of the operations that are initiated by a mouse click require a bit of time and I don’t want the user to be able to click around until each operation is finished. One approach would be to put a transparent rectangle over the stack and not pass

Re: OT: Collaborative Diagramming Software

2014-07-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Brahmanathswami- Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 2:44:14 PM, you wrote: > Anyone using Diagramming software. Look for a free option that runs > online and is collaborative. Maybe this? http://blog.chipp.com/category/diagram-creator/ -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be u

Re: OT: Collaborative Diagramming Software

2014-07-03 Thread David Bovill
draw.io looks good to me. Thanks for the link - seem to remember a similar app as a Chrome extension I came across in the last month... On 2 July 2014 22:44, Brahmanathswami wrote: > Anyone using Diagramming software. Look for a free option that runs > online and is collaborative. > > Draw.io