Re: crashing LiveCode regularly with this innocent-looking script

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/23/2015 03:12 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Because there is a cancel button, but when you click it, it doesn’t cancel. I’m talking about from a user experience here. I can read the code and tell what it does. Ah. Got it. My eyes were reading faster than my brain. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread dunbarx
Oh. The toolbar. That is what everyone said, right? I keep confusing this with the tool palette. Craig -Original Message- From: Warren Samples To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sat, May 23, 2015 4:42 pm Subject: Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it On 05/23/2015 06:00 P

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/23/2015 06:00 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: "Messages button in the toolbar" Where is this? Did you mean "Suppress Messages" in the menubar? Craig Under the "View" menu are options to toggle toolbar text and toolbar icons. Enable one or both of these and you will find "Messages" right

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Mike Kerner
I didn't even think of that in the panic that I had as LiveCode was crashing over and over and over. I like your idea even better. On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 7:00 PM, wrote: > Jacque. > > > "Messages button in the toolbar" > > > Where is this? Did you mean "Suppress Messages" in the menubar? > > >

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread dunbarx
Jacque. "Messages button in the toolbar" Where is this? Did you mean "Suppress Messages" in the menubar? Craig -Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sat, May 23, 2015 9:11 am Subject: Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it It usually w

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Scott Rossi
It's less of an issue with hi res screens of today but bitmap fonts allow pixel perfect display of text. But the fonts are designed to be used only at specific point sizes. Antialiasing routines can make any font appear soft and/or fuzzy, and that's actually a key aspect of using bitmap fonts

Re: SQL IN() function

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
When I only have one value type to keep track of, it seems more efficient to me to simply put the values in a list. It’s something that has carried over from my Foxpro days developing for SBT. Of course back then, efficient use of storage was a big deal. But I figured a way to search for values

Re: crashing LiveCode regularly with this innocent-looking script

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
Because there is a cancel button, but when you click it, it doesn’t cancel. I’m talking about from a user experience here. I can read the code and tell what it does. Bob S > On May 22, 2015, at 16:21 , Mark Wieder wrote: > > Bob Sneidar writes: > >> >> Once I fixed the smart quote it wor

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Richmond
On 23/05/15 22:55, Paul Dupuis wrote: On 5/23/2015 2:43 PM, Richmond wrote: On 23/05/15 18:32, Bob Cole wrote: put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box Over here in the "Happy World of Linux" (Xubuntu 15.04): 1. "put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box" results in nothing at all,

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/23/2015 2:43 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 23/05/15 18:32, Bob Cole wrote: >> put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box > > Over here in the "Happy World of Linux" (Xubuntu 15.04): > > 1. "put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box" > > results in nothing at all, whether 6.7.5 or 7.0.5, prob

Re: Livecode <=> SQL?

2015-05-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
> Le 23 mai 2015 à 18:20, Dr. Hawkins a écrit : > > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Pierre Sahores > wrote: > >>> An http solution would be blocking, >> >> Yes (in theory) and no (in practice) as long as each cgi thread opened by >> the http server (ideally openLiteSpeed instead of Apache 2)

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Richmond
On 23/05/15 18:32, Bob Cole wrote: put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box Over here in the "Happy World of Linux" (Xubuntu 15.04): 1. "put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box" results in nothing at all, whether 6.7.5 or 7.0.5, probably because there is no "Arial" font on my mach

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bob, "It doesn't work" is very much not informative. Could you please explain what result you get and what result you expect instead? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkp

Re: Go to method for interface resizing (for mobile)

2015-05-23 Thread Dave Kilroy
Skip my advice is use code and don't use the Geometry Manager, just don't... - "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Go-to-method-for-interface-resizing-for-

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:10 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > It usually works for me to click the Messages button in the toolbar (to > turn off messages) before opening the stack. That prevents a crash if the > problem is script related. You can still use the editor and other IDE > stacks, and you ma

Re: Livecode <=> SQL?

2015-05-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > > An http solution would be blocking, > > Yes (in theory) and no (in practice) as long as each cgi thread opened by > the http server (ideally openLiteSpeed instead of Apache 2) acts > independently from each other. It would be blocking a

Re: Livecode <=> SQL?

2015-05-23 Thread Pierre Sahores
> Le 23 mai 2015 à 16:44, Dr. Hawkins a écrit : > > On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Pierre Sahores > wrote: >>> >>> Oh, I see what you mean. At the moment, I'm taking the approach of >>> using a persistent server app, as the time to open a postgres database >>> is significant, and could happ

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
It usually works for me to click the Messages button in the toolbar (to turn off messages) before opening the stack. That prevents a crash if the problem is script related. You can still use the editor and other IDE stacks, and you may also be able to turn messages back on after the stack has op

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/23/2015 11:37 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > On 5/23/2015 11:32 AM, Bob Cole wrote: >> put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box > I get 0 (zero) as under LC 7.0.5 under Windows 8 > I should have added for anyone not familiar with the function that 0 (zero) is the expected result for a scalable

Re: the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/23/2015 11:32 AM, Bob Cole wrote: > put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box I get 0 (zero) as under LC 7.0.5 under Windows 8 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

the fontSizes

2015-05-23 Thread Bob Cole
I’d appreciate it if someone can confirm this does not work in 7.0.4: put the fontSizes of "Arial" into message box It does work in 6.7.2 I’m using a Mac (Yosemite 10.10.3) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Mike Kerner
For me the next time I have to be able to do this... I had a stack that was causing LC to hard-crash at startup. THAT is really inconvenient when you're trying to recover your stack and when you're trying to fix it, since you can't actually get the stack to the script editor, so 1) Create anothe

Re: Livecode <=> SQL?

2015-05-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: >> >> Oh, I see what you mean. At the moment, I'm taking the approach of >> using a persistent server app, as the time to open a postgres database >> is significant, and could happen every couple or few seconds for each >> client. > > Should’