Re: restore selection from selectedChunk expression

2015-07-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/31/2015 5:52 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: If we make a text selection and store it as a selectedChunk string e.g gCurrentSelection which them would have say... a value of char 669 to 1094 of field 6 How to I re-select that text? global gCurrentSelection on mouseUp set the backgroun

Re: Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-31 Thread EED-wp Email
Tom, Great call! I'll check it out. Dtill on the road, so it will take a couple ofdays. Thanks, Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 31, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > Bill, > > I’ve just read the following explanation from RG relating to another snapshot > pro

Re: Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-31 Thread EED-wp Email
Mark, I got it. Haven't seriously used it yet, but will very soon. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 31, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Mark Schonewille > wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > I just noticed the second paragraph of your message. I trust you have > received the license by now. If

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
If the issue is just with fonts, why have the flag be "-g" to turn off all graphics ? Why not "-f" to turn off font initialization ? I have a number of scripts that render graphics (resize images, on-the-fly thumbnails, etc.) but none that need to render fonts, and I'd imagine there are variou

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
I've never asked. I can't see why they wouldn't allow it. -- Alex. On 31/07/2015 16:48, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: I've been happy with hostm.com - Livecode pre-installed and servers in Americas, Europe and Pacific Rim. -- Alex. Alex, Just curious : is it possible to chose a server on a spec

Re: restore selection from selectedChunk expression

2015-07-31 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Perhaps there are more elegant ways, but a quick solution would be do "select" && gCurrentSelection -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer

restore selection from selectedChunk expression

2015-07-31 Thread Brahmanathaswami
If we make a text selection and store it as a selectedChunk string e.g gCurrentSelection which them would have say... a value of char 669 to 1094 of field 6 How to I re-select that text? global gCurrentSelection on mouseUp set the backgroundcolor of gCurrentSelection to yellow end mouseU

Re: Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-31 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, I just noticed the second paragraph of your message. I trust you have received the license by now. If not, let me know. I'm really glad you like the book enough to buy a replacement copy! -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-31 Thread Paul Hibbert
Bill, I’ve just read the following explanation from RG relating to another snapshot problem and wondered if it also relates to your student’s problems… > > The "from" option renders the object into a new buffer set up just for the > snapshot, while the older "of" syntax grabs the object's rect

Re: Import Snapshot of Stack?

2015-07-31 Thread tbodine
Richard, Thanks for that great tip! I was just grumbling about the poor image quality of my exported snapshots (on Win7, LC 7.0.5). I tried your syntax "from card" instead of a rect or object, and it's a night and day difference. Gradients, photos and type are much smoother in the image from the

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Malte Brill
If this is governed via .httaccess it might be a bit tricky, as for one project you might not need font support, but for others you might need it. Would be better to be able to decide this at startup of the script IMHo. Not automatic searching, but maybe setting a property in the startup handler

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/31/2015 1:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Add an optional command line flag to turn off graphics initialization, including fonts. I proposed using -g for this, similar to how we already have -ui for bypassing GUI initialization in the desktop engine. I'm for this. As developers, we are likel

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread stephen barncard
What Richard said about Interserver ++ On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Graham Samuel wrote: > > Way back in May there was a discussion of hosting companies that were > > reliable and LiveCode friendly. Dreamhost was picked out as a > > good’un, but at the time there

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: > Way back in May there was a discussion of hosting companies that were > reliable and LiveCode friendly. Dreamhost was picked out as a > good’un, but at the time there seemed to be some doubt about the > speed of LiveCode Server on the platform. Most hosting companies suppor

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread jbv
> I've been happy with hostm.com - Livecode pre-installed and servers in > Americas, Europe and Pacific Rim. > > -- Alex. > Alex, Just curious : is it possible to chose a server on a specific continent ? Thanks jbv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Re: Import Snapshot of Stack?

2015-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: > Anyone know if this is possible without referencing a windowID? > > This fails with a script error: > import snapshot from stack "xyz" > > > This defaults to selecting a region to capture and then fails: > import snapshot of stack "xyz" > > > This works, but clips the snapshot

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Alex Tweedly
I've been happy with hostm.com - Livecode pre-installed and servers in Americas, Europe and Pacific Rim. -- Alex. On 31/07/2015 13:41, Graham Samuel wrote: Way back in May there was a discussion of hosting companies that were reliable and LiveCode friendly. Dreamhost was picked out as a good’

OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Graham Samuel
Way back in May there was a discussion of hosting companies that were reliable and LiveCode friendly. Dreamhost was picked out as a good’un, but at the time there seemed to be some doubt about the speed of LiveCode Server on the platform. Can anyone say what the status is now? I’m looking for a

Re: setprop handlers for custom property sets

2015-07-31 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 30, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Paul Dupuis writes: > >> >> The LC 6.7.5 dictionary entry for setProp has the following: >> >> If the custom property you want to control is in a custom property set, >> use array notation in the first line of the setProp handler, as in the >>