Re: Misreported "corruption" between versions fixed

2014-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/2014, 4:25 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I already sent in my corrupted stack. I just wanted to respond to the subject line of misreported “corruption”. Oh good. Thanks. I hope they find the reason. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ah! Looks like it uses CSS. Sorry. Bob S > On Oct 29, 2014, at 15:17 , Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > Ummm. how? I think this expansion functionality is either done with some > dynamic CSS or Javascript... neither of which are supported by the field > object. > > > Bob Sneidar wrote: >> Kee

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Collapsible-List-in-HTML-Without-Java On Oct 29, 2014, at 15:17 , Brahmanathaswami mailto:bra...@hindu.org>> wrote: Ummm. how? I think this expansion functionality is either done with some dynamic CSS or Javascript... neither of which are supported by the field ob

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Ummm. how? I think this expansion functionality is either done with some dynamic CSS or Javascript... neither of which are supported by the field object. Bob Sneidar wrote: Keep in mind you can set the HTMLText of a field, so if you knew how to do this in HTML, you could simply do that. Bo

Re: externalizing data

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ya I bet he means using a card as a form and reading data into and out of it from a database. Pretty much standard procedure nowadays for database apps. Bob S > On Oct 29, 2014, at 14:34 , Timothy Miller > wrote: > > On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > >> tend to exte

Re: externalizing data

2014-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Timothy Miller wrote: > On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> I tend to externalize my data, paging it in and out of controls >> in a single card > > What does it mean to externalize data by paging it in and out of > controls in a single card? > > A wild guess: It means keeping

externalizing data

2014-10-29 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > tend to externalize my data, paging it in and out of controls in a single > card What does it mean to externalize data by paging it in and out of controls in a single card? A wild guess: It means keeping the data in an external database,

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Keep in mind you can set the HTMLText of a field, so if you knew how to do this in HTML, you could simply do that. Bob S > On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:40 , Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to reproduce the idea of a field with an expanding list of items > whereby you click on a super l

Re: Misreported "corruption" between versions fixed

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Jacque. I already sent in my corrupted stack. I just wanted to respond to the subject line of misreported “corruption”. I was thinking some were under the impression that it was all a figmentation of my imagination. :-) Bob S On Oct 29, 2014, at 11:37 , J. Landman Gay mailto:jac...@hypera

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > I want to reproduce the idea of a field with an expanding list > of items whereby you click on a super line of text and it shows > and hides sub lines directly below it, and before the next super > line. > > Does someone have a plug in, or idea for doing this in LC? I do

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread dunbarx
Not sure if this was denied. AOL woes. Hi. Simple to do as a kluge. You get the clickLine, and will have already stored the subLines in a custom property. These sublines are arranged in an addressable way, so that if you click on line 3 in the field, the third group of sublines is identifie

Re: Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Simple to do as a kluge. You get the clickLine, and will have already stored the subLines in a custom property. These sublines are arranged in an addressable way, so that if you click on line 3 in the field, the third group of sublines is identified. You simply insert the sublimes below th

Expanding List

2014-10-29 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Hi, I want to reproduce the idea of a field with an expanding list of items whereby you click on a super line of text and it shows and hides sub lines directly below it, and before the next super line. Does someone have a plug in, or idea for doing this in LC? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA

Re: Misreported "corruption" between versions fixed

2014-10-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/29/2014, 11:53 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Except that mine *really* was corrupted. I could not open the resulting stack in either 6.6.4 nor 7.0.0. I had to open the tilde version in 7.0 and save it as a 5.5.4 (or whatever the last legacy version was) stack. You're the second person to report

RE: 64-bit App Store requirement

2014-10-29 Thread Ralph DiMola
The CME of 2012 missed us by 5 days. This was estimated to be approximately the same as the 1859 solar storm. Lifted from Wiki==> "Telegraph systems all over Europe and North America failed, in some cases giving telegraph operators electric shocks. Telegraph pylons threw sparks. Some telegraph syst

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
You think that is crazy, I just watched a commercial where you can take a stylus and hand write what you want, which is then converted to computer text. I have a much simpler, economically and environmentally superior way to accomplish this. It involves taking old wood scraps, smashing and pulve

Re: Misreported "corruption" between versions fixed

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Except that mine *really* was corrupted. I could not open the resulting stack in either 6.6.4 nor 7.0.0. I had to open the tilde version in 7.0 and save it as a 5.5.4 (or whatever the last legacy version was) stack. Bob S > On Oct 28, 2014, at 07:16 , Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Kay C Lan wro

Re: Data grid Line or Index

2014-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Normally that would be true, but Datagrids work differently. If you set the dgData of a data grid, given no sort, you will see that the dgDataOfLine and the dgDataOfIndex are identical. Element 1 is line 1 and Index 1. Now click one of the columns to resort. Element 1 is still line 1 but the in

Unicode: LC 7.0 - PHP - MySQL?

2014-10-29 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I have a LC 6 program communicating through PHP with a MySQL db. Because my background about Unicode, PHP and MySQL is limited I wonder what I have to care about, when migrating to LC 7. I have read the release notes of LC 7. My limited thinking was, that UniCode really has a unique code f

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-29 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:24 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > http://quality.runrev.com/ > > and report your findings and the simple steps required to see the > 'failure'. Attach (upload) both stacks so they can see exactly what you are > seeing. > > If your stack contains confidential information that you

Re: Dreaming up a benchmarking suite of stacks

2014-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Malte Brill wrote: > inspired by a post by Geoff, I started thinking that it would > be rather cool to have a suite of stacks that lets us benchmark > the performance of the different engine versions. Brilliant idea! I've been pondering making one for a different purpose, for comparing relativ

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Selander
Hi Kay, Good question! Wait a moment OK, I'm back. Under 6.5 it also takes about 12 seconds. It is a data stack in the old HC sense, not SQL or even CSV. It is about 11,000 cards, each containing the customer's address & other info. !0.2MB total file size. I am pleased with how fast it

Re: Autosave ???

2014-10-29 Thread Tim Selander
I didn't know about this -- works great! Just what I needed. But why is Rinaldi's save so much faster than LiveCode itself?? Odd... And, hmm, LC7.0 just crashed on me a few minutes after activating SmartSave... conincidence? Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 10/28/14, 11:18 PM, Richard Gaskin w