Re: Size of window between close/startup

On 27 Aug 2014, at 21:15, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Yes, or reference something in the stack that's the right dimensions. I'm > working on a stack where a background image is the same size as the stack, so > I just set the width and height of the stack to the width and height of that > image. I

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

On Aug 27, 2014, at 10:34 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > Make sure that you are using a quality USB stick as well. Some cheap and > nasty ones can be awfully slow. > > Terry... A good USB 3 flash drive will help eliminate some of the speed penalty with flash vs a hard drive. Prices have come down a

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

Make sure that you are using a quality USB stick as well. Some cheap and nasty ones can be awfully slow. Terry... On 28/08/2014 3:25 pm, "Bill Vlahos" wrote: >Charles, > >InfoWallet is also designed to be run from a USB drive as well as from a >hard disk. There are a lot of advantages in doing

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

Charles, InfoWallet is also designed to be run from a USB drive as well as from a hard disk. There are a lot of advantages in doing so. The only limitation I see running from a USB drive is how long it takes to load the data file or save the data file. The larger the data file the longer it tak

Re: Strange mailing list email.

Months back or maybe even last year, I had to set a gmail filter so that some members' list-messages came through despite being marked as spam. Alain Farmer's and Craig Newman's are such two. There may be others too (not Peter Haworth's). For what it's worth. -- Nicolas Cueto On Thu, Aug 28, 20

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

Al I have not tried or even thought of that. Is there a script that you can use for windows that would automatically do that for the user when he double-clicks on the exe file on the flash drive? Any scripts you can suggest would be greatly appreciated! Sent from my iPad _

Re: Strange mailing list email.

I get this sort of thing about once a week. It is legit, though annoying. I keep having to renew my membership from a link supplied in the eMail. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Mark Schonewille To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, Aug 27, 2014 12:42 pm Subject: Re: Strange mail

Re: Apps on Flash Drive Advice

Could you copy your app/stack to the hard disk cache ot temp folder and run your app/stack from this folder of the user computer? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Apps-on-Flash-Drive-Advice-tp4682592p4682593.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Apps on Flash Drive Advice

I have an app that was designed to run on the desktop on school computers, which are mostly windows based. However, the app may have to run on flash drive because of administrator's issues. I know I will have to disable preferences that I had for the desktop version. I have already tried my a

Re: permuting a string (was Re: Speed)

On 27/08/2014 23:02, Alex Tweedly wrote: I'll have a go at serializing this code - hopefully tonight (i.e. starting now and not getting myself tied up in knots with it :-) Here's a serialized version. Not as fast as I had hoped - it's about twice as fst as the recursive vesion, but that mean

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

Peter, Thanks for setting me straight This means that send with no time specified and dispatch behave exactly the same behavior as a hander or function call, where the currently executing entry is push on to the stack and sent or dispatched item is put on top and is executed. This makes sens

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

I would like to append this to what may be a record number of incorrect scripts on my part. Hugh pointed out in the forums that the floor of 5 is 5, and the ceiling of -5 is -5. These scripts might actually be correct, but I'm not guaranteeing anything at this point... My apologies for the noise

Re: Julian dates

Bob Sneidar wrote... Not to throw a wrench in the works, but wasn't there some discussion in the past about different versions of Julian dates? Which one is the more widely accepted? I suppose the question could be formed, which one does Microsoft use for Excel? :-) Hi Bob There is only one Ju

Re: permuting a string (was Re: Speed)

(second reply ..) On 27/08/2014 21:15, Beat Cornaz wrote: Alex wrote : Recursive scripts is something I know in principle about, but never have used them before. They are quite compact, but I find it hard to follow, especially as your variables are emptied in each new entry into the script (f

Re: permuting a string (was Re: Speed)

I'm going to reply 2 or 3 separate answers ... otherwise it will get confusing :-) Sorry if this overloads anyone trying to delete or ignore the thread message by message. On 27/08/2014 21:15, Beat Cornaz wrote: As for the Duplicates : Alex wrote : permut() is the optimized version - optimi

Re: Strange mailing list email.

Yes, Peter, this is happening to me regularly (2-3 times per week). Exactly as you described. On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:30:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I received an email last night that my membership in this list had been suspended due to "excessive bounces" and the last bounce rece

Re: delete lines

Hi Mark. Thank you so very much! I really appreciate it a lot. John Balgenorth On Aug 27, 2014, at 2:07 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi John, > > filter myVar without ".*" > > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: h

Re: delete lines

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delete lines

I am using the files to list all of the files in a folder. This also list all of the hidden files & they begin with a dot “.”. What is the fastest way to delete all lines in a variable that begin with a dot? John Balgenorth ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: revXMLDeleteNode and LC server

Helps if I test it first Tried ony my lc server - seems to work fine. Simon On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:27 PM, wrote: > Simon, > Actually when I say LC server it's actually my account at on-rev. > Obviously the XML library is included since other commands like > revXMLRootNode, revXMLChildNames

RE: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

> From: Peter Haworth > > I think send works the same way if it has no time specified. > According to > the dictionary, a send with no time executes the "sent" handler > immediately, then execution of the current handler continues. > With a send > in time, the current handler finishes executing

Re: Size of window between close/startup

On 8/27/2014, 1:24 PM, Terence Heaford wrote: The stack size was 1660 x 1002 as expected but the top of the window is now underneath the menubar. Yes, it will be if the stack is taller than the available screen space, or the top is above the menu bar when its centered on screen. You can push

Re: permuting a string (was Re: Speed)

Alex wrote : >To make it faster, it *should* be serialized, so that it isn't actually >recursive; that should be quite easy (but will make the code much less > easy to read or understand, so I haven't done it yet). If you think it's > worth pursuing, let me know and I'll have a go at unrollin

Re: Unicode: baby steps

Fraser, that's very very helpful, although still quite mysterious to me. For example I thought Unicode was cleverer than just having a two-byte representation for everything, but allowed single byte representation for the 'lower end' of the catalogue of characters. However I quite see that anyth

Re: Unicode: baby steps

On 27/08/2014 18:17, Graham Samuel wrote: > Having forgotten all I ever knew about Unicode (it wasn't much), I am trying > to understand Unicode in LC, and although I have heard about "just works" I > am not sure how to proceed. For example, the code for pi (Greek letter, lower > case) is appare

Re: revXMLDeleteNode and LC server

Simon, Actually when I say LC server it's actually my account at on-rev. Obviously the XML library is included since other commands like revXMLRootNode, revXMLChildNames, revXMLNodeContents etc work perfectly in the same script... The problem seems to be limited to revXMLDeleteNode... jbv > Hi

Re: revXMLDeleteNode and LC server

Hi revXMLDeleteNode requires the XML Library which does not seem to be included as part of the LC Server (along with other the other libraries) - so while the dictionary does say it is supported by the server, this does not seem to be access or add the needed libraries currently. Hope I am wrong -

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > The send with no time specified and dispatch, both inserts the called > hander, just below the top entry on the stack to it will be the next to > execute when the current top entry is finished. I might be misunderstanding your explanation

revXMLDeleteNode and LC server

Hi list I have a script using revXMLDeleteNode that runs fine on OSX and LC 6.5.2, but with LC server I get the error Handler: can't find handler (revXMLDeleteNode) The dictonary for LC 6.5.2 says for revXMLDeleteNode : Platforms: Desktop, Server, Web and Mobile I've googled the problem but the

Re: ._!

Bob Sneidar wrote: > This is a real crappy way to save file info. I like the old > resource/data fork method Apple used to use. Not sure why > they got rid of that. Ironically, for interoperability. :) But more specifically, for interoperability with NeXT, which was renamed with a new UI to bec

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

My apologies... I tested this when I first wrote it, and I thought I had everything covered. As others have pointed out, it requires a test for negative integers, so it should be: function Floor pValue if pValue is an integer OR pValue < 0 then return trunc(pValue) - 1 else return trunc(pV

Re: Size of window between close/startup

On 27 Aug 2014, at 18:03, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The IDE truncates the window size to fit inside the area not occupied by the > IDE palettes. This is controlled by the windowBoundingRect property. You can > change it temporarily by launching LiveCode and putting this into the message > box:

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

William Prothero wrote: > I've wondered what, specifically, "blocking" means. Does it mean that > there are no idle messages sent? What is being blocked? Given this: on mouseUp DoSomething send "DoSomethingElse" to me DoSomeOtherThing end mouseUp on DoSomethingElse put 1+1 into gSom

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

I think blocking was just a poor choice of wording. Here is my take on how it works: Think in terms of the message queue being a stack. A stack of things to do where the top entry is what is currently executing. Entries blow it will be executed in sequence as the top entry is popped off.

Re: mp3 files not playing on Windows

FORD JR, CURT wrote > They are both 16bit; the one that works is 22.1 kHz, bitrate 56 kbps, > the ones that don't work are 44.1 kHz, 128 kbps. > But we've delivered many other modules with files at 44.1/128 > with no issues. > Could that cause a problem on this one computer, or > is there some

[ANN] lcStackBrowser v2.1.5 released

I'm pleased to announce the release of version v2.1.5 of lcStackBrowser. lcStackBrowser is a plugin replacement for the Livecode IDE Application/Project Browser. This version includes several bug fixes and enhancements, including the ability to view and edit the paragraph level field settings intr

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

Beware: This function fails when the number is a negative integer. Bill > function Floor pValue > if pValue < 0 then return trunc(pValue) - 1 else return trunc(pValue) > end Floor William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Aug 27, 2014, at 9:11 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Nicely done! I lov

Unicode: baby steps

Having forgotten all I ever knew about Unicode (it wasn't much), I am trying to understand Unicode in LC, and although I have heard about "just works" I am not sure how to proceed. For example, the code for pi (Greek letter, lower case) is apparently (via internet sources) U+03C0 it also seems

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

I've wondered what, specifically, "blocking" means. Does it mean that there are no idle messages sent? What is being blocked? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Aug 27, 2014, at 8:16 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > You cannot dispatch in time. But you can send in time. If you: > >

Re: Size of window between close/startup

On 8/27/2014, 2:10 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: This is a stack on a Mac (Mavericks) LC Community 6.7 dp 9. I have zoomed my stack and it is the window size excluding the mac menubar height. When checking the size in the proper inspector it is 1680 x 1002. I close the stack and LC asks me if I

Re: Strange mailing list email.

Pter, You said you're not seeing my e-mails, so probably you don't read this. It looks like you have an overzealous spam filter in place. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalk

Strange mailing list email.

I received an email last night that my membership in this list had been suspended due to "excessive bounces" and the last bounce received from me was yesterday. I'm pretty sure from various things in the email that it was a genuine email and not some phishing attempt. I'm not sure exactly what th

Re: ._!

Nice! I’m going to try to create a script to do this in Livecode. I have a forms generator app I use everyday for work to manage the forms I need to do copier installs. It would be nice to have a button I can click that can unzip the current firmware for the copier and put it on the USB drive!

Re: ._!

As an interesting side affect, and a treatise on why it’s never a good idea to do things this way, if I put Toshiba copier firmware on a USB drive using OS X, these hidden files end up also on the USB drive. Failing to remove these hidden files in Windows before attempting to apply the firmware

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

I’ve always thought that LC should include a roundUp and roundDown version of round(). Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http:

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

Nicely done! I love this list!! Bob S On Aug 23, 2014, at 13:22 , Charles E Buchwald mailto:char...@buchwald.ca>> wrote: function Floor pValue if pValue < 0 then return trunc(pValue) - 1 else return trunc(pValue) end Floor I know this is trivial, but here's a ceiling function, just to kind o

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

Just what I was thinking. Bob S On Aug 23, 2014, at 12:13 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: Well, presumably one way to do this would be to check if the number is positive or negative, and then, if it is negative multiply it by -1, round it, and then multiply it by -1 ag

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

Yer a bit low. I’d add a pint. Bob On Aug 23, 2014, at 11:29 , Richmond mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: No: I was running 2 pints of beer :) Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

floor = roundDown? Bob On Aug 23, 2014, at 09:13 , Earthednet-wp wrote: > Richmond, > Floor of a number is the largest integer that is less than or equal to the > number. For positive numbers, it would be trunc(myNumber) but for negative > numbers, floor(-4.34) would have to evaluate to -5.

Re: Arrays in LC [was: Re: [TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality]

Bob Sneidar wrote: > Come to think of it, Trevor Devore seems to have found a way for > numerically indexed arrays to have their keys in order in sqlYoga. > Also, when you get the dgData of a data grid, the array is > “numerically indexed” by which I mean the keys of the array are > numbers, and

Re: Open App/file

check first that the application and document exist first tho’. Bob S On Aug 25, 2014, at 14:13 , Colin Holgate wrote: > launch [document path] with [application path] should work, shouldn’t it? > > Read the Dictionary entry for other variations. >

Re: OpenField mystery

I’ve seen this too Jacque in the current app I am working on. If I am in a field and I click the “Save” button closeField does not get sent to that field. I will use your solution to get around it. Bob S On Aug 23, 2014, at 14:22 , J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/23/2014, 3:02 PM, Graham Samue

Re: [ANN] LiveCode meeting in the Netherlands

I’ll be there in spirit. 1/4 norwegian. ;-) Bob S On Aug 24, 2014, at 15:11 , Mark Schonewille mailto:m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com>> wrote: Dear everyone, On 20th September 2014, there will be a LiveCode meeting in the Netherlands. The exact location will be announced shortly.

Re: Why doesn't menupick work

I see bugs sometimes, but usually it is after drinking too much skunk beer. Bob S On Aug 23, 2014, at 14:47 , revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote: The crlf was created from my code. The bug is not with Livecode. The bug is staring at my mon

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

Not to throw a wrench in the works, but wasn’t there some discussion in the past about different versions of Julian dates? Which one is the more widely accepted? I suppose the question could be formed, which one does Microsoft use for Excel? :-) Bob S On Aug 23, 2014, at 13:27 , Mark Wieder

Re: Sunset, sunrise, twilight calculations in LC?

Hey thanks for that Kay. I have a date conversion function that includes formats like sqlDate which the LC covert command does not support. This will be a nice addition. Bob S On Aug 23, 2014, at 01:28 , Kay C Lan mailto:lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com>> wrote: Nope, but this will help you calculat

Re: Sending Terminal Command (Python) Using LiveCode?

Awesome! I’m trying to get this working but I think I’m having a problem with providing the path to the Python App. I keep getting the error: python: can’t open file ‘Macintosh HD/Users/jpatten/gam’:[Errno 2] No Such file or directory. Here’s what I have in my button script: on mouseUp put c

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

Works so long as you are certain the affected rows will never be 0. Bob S On Aug 20, 2014, at 15:16 , Ralph DiMola mailto:rdim...@evergreeninfo.net>> wrote: Using the revExecuteSQL returns the number of deleted/inserted/updated rows in the result. Then the test is: If the result is not a numb

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

I just put all calls to database functions inside a try/catch construct. Bob S On Aug 20, 2014, at 15:09 , Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Dan Friedman > wrote: > >> Thanks for the reply. The entire error string is "revdberr," (with the >> comma). I tried your sugge

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

You cannot dispatch in time. But you can send in time. If you: send doSomething to me in 0 seconds do someotherthingsfirst then someotherthingsfirst will run and anything else that comes after it. doSomething will run the next idle message. Bob S On Aug 27, 2014, at 07:46 , dunb...@aol.com w

Re: permuting a string (was Re: Speed)

On 27/08/2014 14:33, Beat Cornaz wrote: So, getting rid of the duplicates inside the script is quite important. I still don't see yet how I can do that in Geoff's script (I will look into that again, as soon as I can find a little time). If we can get that to work, I think we'll have a winner

Re: Arrays in LC [was: Re: [TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality]

Good luck getting RunRev to deprecate anything. One of their huge selling points has always been backwards compatibility. Bob S On Aug 20, 2014, at 09:56 , Jacques Hausser mailto:jacques.haus...@unil.ch>> wrote: What I suggested is ONLY to deprecate (not suppress, just deprecate) the two par

Re: Arrays in LC [was: Re: [TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality]

Didn’t know that thanks Pete. Bob S On Aug 20, 2014, at 09:33 , Peter Haworth wrote: > I wouldn't be in favor of using {}. Problem is that LC currently accepts > those characters as delimiters for the keys of an array. I don't use them > on purpose but every now and again I notice I typed o

Re: Arrays in LC [was: Re: [TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality]

Come to think of it, Trevor Devore seems to have found a way for numerically indexed arrays to have their keys in order in sqlYoga. Also, when you get the dgData of a data grid, the array is “numerically indexed” by which I mean the keys of the array are numbers, and they are in numerical order.

Re: Arrays in LC [was: Re: [TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality]

The second command generates an error, just like adding one + 1. But that brings up an interesting point: Can an indexed array contain associative arrays and vis versa? Nice little pickle. And how do you tell, or is it important necessarily to tell? Bob S On Aug 20, 2014, at 08:23 , j...@sous

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

Richard. When you say "send" is blocking, in what way? Is this really any different that calling any handler? For example: on mouseUp doSomething end mouseUp on MouseUp send "doSomething" to this card end mouseUp Can you explain the difference? Craig -Original Message- Fro

Re: unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

Björnke von Gierke wrote: > while the screen is locked, in the repeat loop: > > wait 0 seconds with messages > > Annoying, and weird, I know. But it's been like that since a few > versions now, so this "feature" probably will most likely stay > like that. Apparently it annoyed Mark Waddingham to

Re: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

Peter Haworth wrote: > Sounds like a great idea to me. I seem to remember that one of > dispatch/send is blocking and the other isn't. Could that be a > possible reason for the lack of "in" with dispatch? Both are blocking when called immediately; "send" can become on-blocking by specifying a

Re: permuting a string (was Re: Speed)

Thanks Peter, your script works, but is in the same speed region as my original script, with the added disadvantage that it can't go beyond 9 chars. As for the duplicate elements : I did the same before - make all the possible permutations and then delete the duplicate ones. But as Geoff rightl

Re: unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

Thanks Björnke and Mark. It does work now. I shall perhaps reconsider my old school approach of several coding details like that one... In the old days, locking the screen did speed up scripts that needed lots of CPU times anyway... jbv ___ use-liveco

Re: unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

Hi jbv, Data processing doesn't slow down because of screen redraws. If a repeat loop like yours needs a lot of CPU time, it will take this and less time will be left for screen updates. The lock screen and unlock screen commands themselves also take some time. There's a good chance that a s

Re: unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

while the screen is locked, in the repeat loop: wait 0 seconds with messages Annoying, and weird, I know. But it's been like that since a few versions now, so this "feature" probably will most likely stay like that. On 27 Aug 2014, at 13:25, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: > Hi list > > I have th

Re: unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

actually the loop is like this (my mistake) : lock screen repeat 2 times -- do a lot of things unlock screen put myVar into fld "myVar" lock screen end repeat but the problem remains. jbv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-li

unlock screen doesn't unlock screen

Hi list I have the following loop : lock screen repeat 2 times -- do a lot of things unlock screen put myVar into fld myVar lock screen end repeat The purpose is to lock the screen so that the heavy data processing inside the loop isn't slowed down, but also to display

Re: Sending Terminal Command (Python) Using LiveCode?

2014-08-27 9:27 GMT+02:00 Rolf Kocherhans : > Hello John > > Yes this is possible, I do this all the time ! I do this very often too, with Perl or shells. Instead of using the replace, I've choosen the merge road; find it more flexible and readable when you have to deal with a long list of comma

Re: Sending Terminal Command (Python) Using LiveCode?

Hello John Yes this is possible, I do this all the time ! The way I use it: Create a stack with a field, put the whole python script (can have multiple lines) into the field. Replace place holders (replace %NAME% with Peter etc.) in the field, and then put field into a variable and execute it w

Size of window between close/startup

This is a stack on a Mac (Mavericks) LC Community 6.7 dp 9. I have zoomed my stack and it is the window size excluding the mac menubar height. When checking the size in the proper inspector it is 1680 x 1002. I close the stack and LC asks me if I want to save the stack, I save it. I then reope