Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/06/15 23:05, Scott Rossi wrote: You're missing the point: Jacque didn't say she didn't know how reorder cards, she said she used a different method to do so. This has always been the case with LiveCode -- there are often multiple ways of accomplishing a task. Her comment has nothing to d

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
I did the same thing once with the "label" and "title" of a stack. I'm a tolerable dictionary but a rotten thesaurus. On 6/25/2015 9:21 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Synonyms are a good thing (in my book anyway). On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Richmond wrote: On 25/06/15 22:07, J. Landman Gay

Re: Insertion point problems

2015-06-25 Thread David Epstein
One more try on the second part of my original post. In LC 7.01, Mac Yosemite, I find that the insertion point blinks once when placed by clicking or typing, then disappears. It will also blink once in its most recent position if I click the title bar, but again it disappears. Also, if I type

Re: Text to speech and create wav file

2015-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
You can do this with a simple shell function. I'll look it up in a few hours if no one else posts it. -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Synonyms are a good thing (in my book anyway). On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 25/06/15 22:07, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 6/25/2015 1:03 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: >> >>> Set the layer of the card. >>> >> >> Didn't know that. I always use "set the number". >> >> > This is r

Re: Text to speech and create wav file

2015-06-25 Thread Bill Vlahos
Tom, I do want this on a Mac. This looks like a viable option using AppleScript. Thank you, Bill Vlahos > On Jun 25, 2015, at 9:48 AM, tbodine wrote: > > Hi Bill. > > I don't know if that's doable within Livecode. If not, perhaps you can use > an external source. A site such as http://www.fro

[OT] Quick delivery of Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner

2015-06-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi everyone, This week, we will ship a second batch of Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner. If you want a quick delivery, order before Friday evening and keep an eye on your mail box. Make sure to confirm your address as soon as you get a request for confirmation and we'll ship your boo

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Scott Rossi
You're missing the point: Jacque didn't say she didn't know how reorder cards, she said she used a different method to do so. This has always been the case with LiveCode -- there are often multiple ways of accomplishing a task. Her comment has nothing to do with the state of the dictionary. >Fr

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/06/15 22:07, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/25/2015 1:03 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Set the layer of the card. Didn't know that. I always use "set the number". This is really worrying: when people who have been with RunRev/LiveCode "from the start" are still discovering this sort of thing

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/25/2015 1:03 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Set the layer of the card. Didn't know that. I always use "set the number". -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Richmond
On 25/06/15 21:03, Geoff Canyon wrote: Set the layer of the card. Thanks very much for the help. Richmond. On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Richmond wrote: I have a pupil who has just made his own game, but forgot to put the game on the second card. He would like to have a first card th

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Geoff Canyon
Set the layer of the card. On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Richmond wrote: > I have a pupil who has just made his own game, but forgot to put the game > on the second > card. > > He would like to have a first card that is a start/splash screen; and, as > I either don't know > or cannot remembe

Reordering cards?

2015-06-25 Thread Richmond
I have a pupil who has just made his own game, but forgot to put the game on the second card. He would like to have a first card that is a start/splash screen; and, as I either don't know or cannot remember (which are functionally the same) how to reorder cards we are stuck. Grateful for hel

Re: Text to speech and create wav file

2015-06-25 Thread tbodine
Hi Bill. I don't know if that's doable within Livecode. If not, perhaps you can use an external source. A site such as http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ may have an API where you can send the text and get back a url to download your wav file. On the Mac side, looks like many people have used Apple

Release 6.7.6 RC 3 / 7.0.6 RC 3

2015-06-25 Thread Sebastien Nouat
Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7.6 RC 3 and 7.0.6 RC 3. This release is a maintenance release which contains regression fixes for both versions. The list of regressions fixed can be found in the Release Notes. *Getting the Release* To get the release

Text to speech and create wav file

2015-06-25 Thread Bill Vlahos
I’ve been playing around with the revSpeech commands to do text to speech. It works pretty well to get the computer to play the sound through the speakers. How can I create a .wav sound file? Thank you, Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your im

Re: Insertion point problems

2015-06-25 Thread dfepstein
Thanks to Bernd for the simplest solution to my practical problem. If we "go to" Stack A "the selectedChunk" will mean "the selectedChunk in stack A". But, as he notes, preservation of the prior selection depends on certain conditions (more on this below). One anomaly is that "the selecte

Re: FFmpeg scripting?

2015-06-25 Thread Peter Alcibiades
batch conversion recipe: the following to be run in the directory which has the .avi files #!/bin/bash for file in *.avi; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -c:a libmp3lame "Converted\\$file"; done; #!/bin/bash for file in *.m4a; do ffmpeg -i "$file" -acodec copy "C\\$file"; done; Clipped from somewhe

Re: overriding a function

2015-06-25 Thread David Bovill
Wow - creativity just keeps coming :) There is not much difference between a kludge and a creative discovery. Would be interesting to know though what the time cost is with regard to inserting and removing elements from the message path. I would think it is just adding and removing a line to an in