Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Terry Judd
I¹ll vouch for mApp. I¹ve delivered a couple of cross platform phone apps that use it support all iPhone and Android screen sizes and aspect ratios and require an absolute minimum of hand coding of geometry management. Pretty easy to use. Terry... On 17/05/2015 9:10 am, "Monte" wrote: >Have you

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Roger Eller
Fantastic! On May 16, 2015 9:54 PM, "Monte" wrote: > Yeah, actually it works fine on desktop too but the framework was > originally designed for mobile back when we had to script resolution > independence. It's pure LiveCode. > > -- > M E R Goulding > Software development services > > mergExt -

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Mike Kerner
Monte did a presentation on it a RunRevLive 13. I've played with it, but I haven't done anything with it in a while. On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 9:54 PM, Monte wrote: > Yeah, actually it works fine on desktop too but the framework was > originally designed for mobile back when we had to script reso

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Monte
Yeah, actually it works fine on desktop too but the framework was originally designed for mobile back when we had to script resolution independence. It's pure LiveCode. -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! > On 17 May 2015, at 11:20 am, Roger

Re: OT: Cheap Andoid Tablets for campers? Source for Q: 200?

2015-05-16 Thread Roger Eller
Please disregard the under $50 tablets. None of them have Bluetooth, and that was part of the original criteria. Sorry. On May 16, 2015 11:14 AM, "Roger Eller" wrote: > This has better specs, is a known good brand, but may be over-budget. > > > http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchToo

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Roger Eller
When you say mobile, do you mean all LiveCode supported mobile platforms? On May 16, 2015 7:17 PM, "Monte" wrote: > Have you seen mApp? It's my open source mobile app framework that includes > a geometry manager designed for mobile. It uses a unique concept in > geometry management of layout rul

Re: temporary stack files?

2015-05-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tim Selander wrote: > I'm having one such issue now, that I would like to ask for > collective help with. I set up a stack, imported a csv file of > about 150,000 records as individual cards -- only about 9MB of > data total -- and then 'saved' the stack. > > The import took hours. OK. The save s

temporary stack files?

2015-05-16 Thread Tim Selander
With the advent of v.7 and 'just works' Unicode, I am making serious efforts at finally moving my company's HyperCard based programs over to Livecode. A lot of what we did 'way back has been ported to FileMaker, but I've got a couple of jobs that just wouldn't work in FM the way we wanted them

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Monte
Have you seen mApp? It's my open source mobile app framework that includes a geometry manager designed for mobile. It uses a unique concept in geometry management of layout rules that are executed in order so the author has full control. You still occasionally write a resizeStack handler but not

RE: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
Richard Gaskin wrote: > Am I the only person who enjoys hand-crafting resizeStack handlers? I spent the first 6 months of using LC writing a generic resizing library with aspect ratio independence. I just make a few calls to it in my resizestack handlers and I'm done. On mobile there always a few

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/16/2015 09:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Am I the only person who enjoys hand-crafting resizeStack handlers? "Enjoys"? Probably. I do it, but it's not something I look forward to. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On May 16, 2015 11:45:02 AM CDT, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >Am I the only person who enjoys hand-crafting resizeStack handlers? I wouldn't exactly say I enjoy it but I always write my own for the same reasons you mention. And now that we have auto scaling on mobile, my code is far shorter than i

Re: Geometry Manager For Mobile

2015-05-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: > Interesting - I just started messing with Xojo, again, since I see > they're (finally) getting into the ios game (I didn't see anything > about Android). Their version of the Geometry Manager is implemented > on ios. I wonder if we're going to see it again in LC 8... Am I

Re: OT: Cheap Andoid Tablets for campers? Source for Q: 200?

2015-05-16 Thread Roger Eller
This has better specs, is a known good brand, but may be over-budget. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9205583&srkey=vsu-102607730 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: OT: Cheap Andoid Tablets for campers? Source for Q: 200?

2015-05-16 Thread Roger Eller
Here's a bunch for under $50 w/free shipping from China. http://www.gearbest.com/tablets-7-inch-tablets-android-_gear/ ~Roger Sent from my 3 year old Chinese tablet (PiPo M2) On May 16, 2015 9:21 AM, "Mark Rauterkus" wrote: > Hi All, > > Looking for a cheap 7-inch android tablet for 200 campe

Re: OT: Cheap Andoid Tablets for campers? Source for Q: 200?

2015-05-16 Thread Richmond
On 16/05/15 16:20, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi All, Looking for a cheap 7-inch android tablet for 200 campers for summer program that can run LC, of course. Need Bluetooth 4.0, a camera, wifi for getting on the internet, and some simple case / protector would be nice to protect them as we lug aroun

OT: Cheap Andoid Tablets for campers? Source for Q: 200?

2015-05-16 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi All, Looking for a cheap 7-inch android tablet for 200 campers for summer program that can run LC, of course. Need Bluetooth 4.0, a camera, wifi for getting on the internet, and some simple case / protector would be nice to protect them as we lug around town. Talking to DHL, freight/import fro