Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-15 Thread dunbarx
I am just like Jerry, home,Desktop,OSX Craig -Original Message- From: Jerry Jensen To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, Oct 15, 2014 11:28 pm Subject: Re: 3 questions about your coding habits 1: Home/Desktop 2: & 3: OSX only .Jerry On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-15 Thread Jerry Jensen
1: Home/Desktop 2: & 3: OSX only .Jerry On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:22 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > 1. When you're working on stack files, do you always keep them somewhere in > your Home folder, or run with admin privileges and keep them somewhere else > (e.g. Applications)? > > 2. Do you regularly

LiveCode scripts on Rosseta Code

2014-10-15 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, After reading in Rosetta Code's website, about tasks not implemented in LiveCode, I am sure that many of you have published scripts that implement these task using LiveCode: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Reports:Tasks_not_implemented_in_LiveCode Could you name the scripts and their locatio

3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
1. When you're working on stack files, do you always keep them somewhere in your Home folder, or run with admin privileges and keep them somewhere else (e.g. Applications)? 2. Do you regularly switch among different OSes, and if so how do you sync your files (drag-and-drop, rsync, OwnCloud, or

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: .. > and you don't risk forgetting to reset the itemDelim, which I > often forget to do, especially in repeat loops…. As a discrete function it should be okay, since unlike SuperCard in LiveCode the itemdel is a local property. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-15 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Oct 15, 2014, at 7:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > On Oct 14, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> function nDepth >> get param(1) >> repeat with i = 2 to paramCount() step 2 >> set the itemDel to param(i+1) >> get item param(i) of it >> end repeat >> return it >> end nDe

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-15 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Oct 14, 2014, at 3:45 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > function nDepth > get param(1) > repeat with i = 2 to paramCount() step 2 > set the itemDel to param(i+1) > get item param(i) of it > end repeat > return it > end nDepth Another one to add to my collection. Thanks, Richard! I

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC3

2014-10-15 Thread Terry Judd
Is that better or worse than a plastic trap? Terry... On 16/10/2014 5:55 am, "Peter M. Brigham" wrote: >On Oct 14, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> My IT brain is like an open drain. Stuff swirls around for a bit then >>it¹s gone. > >One of my patients, complaining of memory problems,

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-15 Thread Peter M. Brigham
While we're waiting to see what comes of language extensions, here's a function that I use to simplify getting items from lists with various delimiters: function getItem tList,tIndex,tDelim -- returns item # tIndex of tList, given itemdelimiter = tDelim -- could just "get item tIndex of tLi

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC3

2014-10-15 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Oct 14, 2014, at 6:56 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > My IT brain is like an open drain. Stuff swirls around for a bit then it’s > gone. One of my patients, complaining of memory problems, said "I have a mind like a steel sieve." -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 7:59:44 AM, you wrote: > Well, that was fast: jut hours later that issue is now marked as > "Fixed- Awaiting Build". Not only that, the discussion on the bugfix code is very informative. Two options here, and I think the right one was taken. -- -Mark Wied

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread JB
This is FANTASTIC! John Balgenorth On Oct 15, 2014, at 8:09 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > JB wrote: > > > There are many powerful tools in foundation. I am not > > sure how difficult it would be but it would be a great if > > instead of making a few really good changes to LiveCode > > with fou

Re: Palette style window

2014-10-15 Thread John
If any one is interested, there is a related bug. When palette windows are hidden and redrawn, the redraw order of the windows reverses causing any overlapped widows to be positioned incorrectly. Submitted as: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13685 . Thanks, John On Oct 15, 2014,

Re: Palette style window

2014-10-15 Thread John
Thanks Richard, I didn’t know (I guess I should have searched) that there was a property for this. If I add: set the hidePalettes to true to the openStack handler, the built app works correctly. Bug report (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13684) submitted. Thanks, John On Oct

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-15 Thread JB
That is great! thank you, Richard and the LiveCode team. John Balgenorth On Oct 15, 2014, at 7:59 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Last night I wrote: > >> Warren Samples wrote: >> > I find the 'diskSize()' returns an unexpected and useless result >> > here under openSUSE, despite the dictionary'

Re: Palette style window

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
John wrote: >When I run an app in the IDE, stacks with a style of “palette” > auto hide when another application is brought to the front. This > is the expected behavior. When I build the app, the windows do > not auto hide, they become disabled. Am I expected to script the > auto hide beh

Palette style window

2014-10-15 Thread John
Hi, When I run an app in the IDE, stacks with a style of “palette” auto hide when another application is brought to the front. This is the expected behavior. When I build the app, the windows do not auto hide, they become disabled. Am I expected to script the auto hide behavior or is this

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4 RC3

2014-10-15 Thread Richmond
Sorry lovely people, a bit slow on the uptake this time; anyway, just fired up my iMac G5 [that's a PPC Mac running Mac OS 10.5.8 for those who are recent arrivals to the Mac fan club] . . . 1. Still no installer icons inside the DMG in icon view. 1.1 icon is visible in list view; queer or wh

Re: License Info

2014-10-15 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Mark. You're right that I didn't see it my mail but I found it on Nabble. Pete -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/License-Info-tp4684566p4684608.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Secure Sockets

2014-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi all I'm rather uneducated with encryption stuff, so I wanted to try out secure sockets. However, most likely due to my incapability to understand what I'm doing, I've been unable to get a simple example working. I've used my own "simplest socket client/server" stacks from rev online, ran th

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On October 15, 2014 5:25:55 AM CDT, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: >I'm working with a guy right now who is taking my "clunky" LC Windows >prototype and rewriting it so that it will run in any browser. He >tells me >that he can code it so that the program automatically detects the >screen

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: > There are many powerful tools in foundation. I am not > sure how difficult it would be but it would be a great if > instead of making a few really good changes to LiveCode > with foundation and GCD etc that they opened the doors > so anyone could access the tools in foundation from t

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Last night I wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > I find the 'diskSize()' returns an unexpected and useless result > here under openSUSE, despite the dictionary's indication that it > is supported under Linux. That would be a bug - confirmed here, so I just submitted a report against it; feel free

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
There is no way to search the dictionary, but I have made a replacement for it, which can do full searches: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ As a side note I really wish "trueWord" would be named "humanWord" instead, it'd make the distinction to the historic "word" much more immediate comprehensibl

Re: Regex wildcard in XML Query

2014-10-15 Thread Glen Bojsza
I think I may have given the wrong phrasing... I would say I would like to be able to XML queries similar to what can be done by Regex (but not use regex to do the actual query). Basically, I have found several references where XML language supports it's own style of "regex" like commands. Since

Re: Regex wildcard in XML Query

2014-10-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'll just leave this here: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/2149933 On 09 Oct 2014, at 18:41, Peter Haworth wrote: > On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > >> > xsi:type="xsd:pattern">IGD.NetDevice.\d{2}\.NetCommonInterfaceConfig. >> > > Hi Glen, > Couple of issues with using

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread larry
Hi John, I'm on board with all of that! Even though the LC community is relatively small, I agree 100% with you that a lot of people would start writing shared code that would greatly improve the LC IDE. AND if LC did that, it would start attracting a lot more programmers. I am of the opinion

Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-15 Thread JB
There have been hints that in the near future it will be possible to program LiveCode with LiveCode like you write scripts for your stacks. Now that foundation has been added they have been updating LiveCode and it sounds like they are using Grand Central Dispatch for some of the graphics. There