Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/26/2015 11:08 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: And again there is also the number property (used by old timers like Jacque and myself) showing the multiple ways of accomplishing the same task: And if you look up "layer" in the dictionary, the "see also" refers to "number" as the first suggestion. I

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Scott Rossi
And again there is also the number property (used by old timers like Jacque and myself) showing the multiple ways of accomplishing the same task: "Specifies an object's position within a file, a card's position within a stack, or a control's layer on a card." set the number of card "settings" to

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Richmond: "and, were there a reference book that was not just a reprint of the Dictionary it would be a good thing." Have you read the User Guide from cover to cover? Page 207 7.1.2 Referring to objects by number A control's number is its layer on the card, from back to front. A card's numb

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
On Fri Jun 26 2015, Mark Weider wrote: > The livecode.com website seems to have been hacked recently. > While most of the content is merely dumbed down, a spurious > blog post has been entered spreading FUD for the MPAA. > Hopefully no user account information was exposed. That is the funniest po

Re: Text to speech and create wav file

2015-06-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Thank you Mark. Bill > On Jun 26, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Mark Schonewille > wrote: > > Here's an example, which uses the speak comman from eSpeak: > > on mouseUp > put fld 1 into myText > put "/usr/local/bin/speak -ven+f3" && quote & myText & quote && "-w > ~/desktop/text.wav" into myScri

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

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
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Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Roger Eller
Well, it's the weekend and I'm on vacation. Sometimes reading can and should be more "off the clock". Some of my colleagues however just can't take a break from code. On Jun 26, 2015 7:09 PM, "Dave Kilroy" wrote: > Oops thanks Roger, sorry I meant to write 'Neil Roger' - as to the > content/sty

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Dave Kilroy
Oops thanks Roger, sorry I meant to write 'Neil Roger' - as to the content/style of the posting - each to their own I guess - could you or others explain to me why it's good and what I'm missing? - "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein --

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Roger Eller
The post was written by Neil Roger (not Roberts), and I liked the change of style. On Jun 26, 2015 6:45 PM, "Dave Kilroy" wrote: > Jana does indeed work for LiveCode, I've corresponded with her and she's > very > nice - Hi Jana! > > That blog post is written by Neil Roberts and not Jana > > Howe

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Dave Kilroy
Jana does indeed work for LiveCode, I've corresponded with her and she's very nice - Hi Jana! That blog post is written by Neil Roberts and not Jana However I'm not sure that the awfulness of that post is down to Neil - I suspect that a decision has been made somewhere 'higher-up' in LiveCode to

Re: Problem with answer file with type command

2015-06-26 Thread Tore Nilsen
The error was indeed in my end. Using OSX 10.11, the menu was hidden until I pressed the button labeled “valg” in Norwegian. It is getting late here in Norway I can tell. Best regards, Tore > 27. jun. 2015 kl. 00.27 skrev Mark Schonewille > : > > Hi Tore, > > This works fine for me. At the

Re: Problem with answer file with type command

2015-06-26 Thread Tore Nilsen
I will have to give it another try then to see if there is something wrong at my end. Thank you! Tore Nilsen > 27. jun. 2015 kl. 00.27 skrev Mark Schonewille > : > > Hi Tore, > > This works fine for me. At the bottom of the dialog, there should be a menu > where you can change the file ty

Re: Problem with answer file with type command

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tore, This works fine for me. At the bottom of the dialog, there should be a menu where you can change the file type. Normally, the file type in "PNG|png|PNG" would be PNGf, so it should be "PNG|png|PNGf", but I believe this is no longer relevant since OSX 10.5 or 10.6. -- Best regards,

Problem with answer file with type command

2015-06-26 Thread Tore Nilsen
I am trying to restrict file types in an answer file with type command, but I am only able to get it to work with one file type at a time. The dictionary suggests this form for multiple file types: answer file "Choose a picture:" with type "JPEG|jpg|JPEG" or type "PNG|png|PNG” However, only the

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, It looks like this is a genuine post and Jana Doughty seems to be with LiveCode http://livecode.com/author/janalivecode but I don't see how this blog post is relevant. I could think of something why it is relevant, but to me it more looks like a search engine trap. -- Best regards, Mark

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Jana Doughty writes: > Happy Friday to you! We have a great new blog post about file sharing, > piracy, Netflix, and the widely known TV show: Friends! The livecode.com website seems to have been hacked recently. While most of the content is merely dumbed down, a spurious blog post has been ente

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Peter Haworth
+1 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:28 PM Jerry Jensen wrote: > Bernd’s excellent modTableField manages it. I haven’t explored how its > done, but in a modTableField, you can get a selectionChanged message. Its > very useful! > .Jerry > > > On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > > > On

Re: Messing around with LibreOffice Calc

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Now, at the risk of seeming incredibly stupid () I wonder why data copied from a Gnumeric file works, while data copied from a LibreOffice Calc does not??? Of course, were I a real 'trooper' I'd install every possible spreadsheet software on my Linux box and do the same sort

Re: Messing around with LibreOffice Calc

2015-06-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/06/15 22:50, Richmond wrote: So: I set up a stack containing a table field "ACCESS" and created a spreadsheet file in LibreOffice Calc. 1. I opened the spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc, selected the populated fields and then hit a button on my stack that contains the following script: o

Re: Messing around with LibreOffice Calc

2015-06-26 Thread Richmond
So: I set up a stack containing a table field "ACCESS" and created a spreadsheet file in LibreOffice Calc. 1. I opened the spreadsheet in LibreOffice Calc, selected the populated fields and then hit a button on my stack that contains the following script: on mouseUp set the text of fld "AC

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Phil Davis
On 6/26/15 12:28 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: Bernd’s excellent modTableField manages it. I haven’t explored how its done, but in a modTableField, you can get a selectionChanged message. Its very useful! .Jerry That's what I would do. I turned on the messageMessages to see what messages are fired

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Jerry Jensen
Bernd’s excellent modTableField manages it. I haven’t explored how its done, but in a modTableField, you can get a selectionChanged message. Its very useful! .Jerry > On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > >> Do you mean a ch

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > Do you mean a change to the data in a given cell, or a change of cursor > location within the table? > Either would work for me. The table is a two-column free-form list of values to be summed such as dog 5 cat 7 12 So if I either kno

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Phil Davis
Do you mean a change to the data in a given cell, or a change of cursor location within the table? Phil On 6/26/15 12:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: is there a way to detect cell changes in a table? I've tried giving it a script for tabKey, returnInField, arrowKey, and enterInField, and it doesn'

detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
is there a way to detect cell changes in a table? I've tried giving it a script for tabKey, returnInField, arrowKey, and enterInField, and it doesn't get called; it appears that not even keyUp gets called. Or is this how a regular table is supposed to work? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702)

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/06/15 18:20, Lynn Fredricks wrote: We hope you enjoy it and we'd LOVE to know what you think in the comments! http://livecode.com/the-one-where-we-sued-you/ It is too broad, contentious (yes, I made a funny) and political an issue for a blog post related to LiveCode. Indeed: I thought

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On June 26, 2015 5:52:29 AM CDT, Richmond wrote: >Wow! I knew LiveCode was incredibly versatile: but skinning cats - >really: bet that's a new one on most LiveCode programmers. It's not so hard: put the skin of the cat into tBin or: split tCat by tMembrane However the visual imagery pre

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On June 26, 2015 5:45:11 AM CDT, Roger Eller wrote: >I thought the rottenthesaurus became extinct billions of years ago. :-) I escaped the meteor. But I'm uncomfortable that I gave away my age. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Text to speech and create wav file

2015-06-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Here's an example, which uses the speak comman from eSpeak: on mouseUp put fld 1 into myText put "/usr/local/bin/speak -ven+f3" && quote & myText & quote && "-w ~/desktop/text.wav" into myScript get shell(myScript) end mouseUp You may want to remove quotes from the source text. I

RE: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> We hope you enjoy it and we'd LOVE to know what you think in > the comments! > > http://livecode.com/the-one-where-we-sued-you/ > It is too broad, contentious (yes, I made a funny) and political an issue for a blog post related to LiveCode. Best regards, Lynn Fredricks Paradigma Software ht

Re: The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Peter M. Brigham
How did she get access to the list -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 26, 2015, at 9:17 AM, Jana Doughty wrote: > Hi LiveCode Community, > > Happy Friday to you! We have a great new blog post about file sharing, > piracy, Netflix, and the wide

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Richmond wrote: > Wow! I knew LiveCode was incredibly versatile: but skinning cats - really: > bet that's a new > one on most LiveCode programmers. > > What most people forget is that while there are many ways to skin a cat, the cat hates each and every one . . .

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: I also use ask.com a lot . . . Online search engines are very valuable tools for learning any programming language. For example, when I search Google this morning for "livecode how to reorder cards" the first hit I get is: how do you move a card or reorder a stack?

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Richmond wrote: What I did say was that it is surprising how people who have been using LIveCode for a very long time are still unaware of some ways to do things: Hmmm, that sounds remarkably like the comment some people make "isn't is stran

The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Jana Doughty
Hi LiveCode Community, Happy Friday to you! We have a great new blog post about file sharing, piracy, Netflix, and the widely known TV show: Friends! We hope you enjoy it and we'd LOVE to know what you think in the comments! http://livecode.com/the-one-where-we-sued-you/ Also, if you really lik

The One Where We Sued You: A debate on file sharing and piracy

2015-06-26 Thread Jana Doughty
Hi LiveCode Community, Happy Friday to you! We have a great new blog post about file sharing, piracy, Netflix, and the widely known TV show: Friends! We hope you enjoy it and we'd LOVE to know what you think in the comments! http://livecode.com/the-one-where-we-sued-you/ Also, if you really lik

Re: LiveCode as an Xcode Library

2015-06-26 Thread Skip Kimpel
I remember that, just can't remember what it was called.Did anybody on this list buy that? Obviously not very many people made the purchase as it did not last for very long. Funny you brought that up as I was just thinking about the same thing the other day. I always thought that would be

Re: LiveCode quits, but stays in Dock (OS X Yosemite) and shows as open

2015-06-26 Thread Skip Kimpel
It probably has nothing to do with your issue (but then again it might be related) but I have noticed on a Windows machine that if I don't use "Quit" to get out of the standalone and allow the user to just "x out" of the application, it stays running in the background and you have to go into tas

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/06/15 13:45, Roger Eller wrote: I thought the rottenthesaurus became extinct billions of years ago. :-) On Jun 26, 2015 12:02 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: I did the same thing once with the "label" and "title" of a stack. I'm a tolerable dictionary but a rotten thesaurus. ___

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/06/15 11:53, Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Richmond wrote: What I did say was that it is surprising how people who have been using LIveCode for a very long time are still unaware of some ways to do things: Hmmm, that sounds remarkably like the comment some people ma

Messing around with LibreOffice Calc

2015-06-26 Thread Richmond
Trying to be clever (Ha, Ha, Ha . . . there's a sore point), I copied some cells from a LibreOffice spreadsheet and attempted to paste them into a tableField in LiveCode . . . what did I get (no, you don't get 50 bucks if you get this right; but you can give yourself a pat on the back) ? Xubun

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Roger Eller
I thought the rottenthesaurus became extinct billions of years ago. :-) On Jun 26, 2015 12:02 AM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > > I did the same thing once with the "label" and "title" of a stack. I'm a tolerable dictionary but a rotten thesaurus. ___ use-l

PDF generated on the fly and Safari on Yosemite

2015-06-26 Thread jbv
Hello list, I have several lc scripts on a server that generate pdf files "on the fly" when triggered from a html page on a client PC or Mac. Everything has been working fine for years (meaning the pdf were displayed or downloaded, depending on the OS or the browser). But suddenly, on Mac OSX 10.10

Re: Reordering cards?

2015-06-26 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Richmond wrote: What I did say was that it is surprising how people who have been using > LIveCode for a very long time > are still unaware of some ways to do things: Hmmm, that sounds remarkably like the comment some people make "isn't is strange how when you'r

Re: LiveCode quits, but stays in Dock (OS X Yosemite) and shows as open

2015-06-26 Thread Kay C Lan
Sounds like a need for some disk maintenance. When was the last time you ran Disk Repair and Repair Disk Permission from Disk Utility? If it's been a while, on start-up simultaneously press the command + r keys. Once the computer has started in Repair Mode, select Disk Utility and then select your

LiveCode as an Xcode Library

2015-06-26 Thread David Bovill
A while back there was a stab at being able to include LiveCode as a library within your existing Xcode project. As far as I remember this enabled you to use the language, but not the interface elements in your Xcode project. Is this still possible? ___