Re: BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-18 23:39, JB wrote: That looks really nice! They have put a lot of work into it. It sounds like you cannot use any pointers yet or access everything in Foundation. You can use pointers -- but you can't dereference them. You can use pretty much everything in libfoundation, but not e

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread AndyP
I like the IDE set-up arrangement as it is with the floating panes. It is an especially workable when using a two monitor set-up. If the single view arrangement were to be implemented in a new IDE then the option to un-dock the script editor at the bare minimum should be an option. I agree that th

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 19 Aug 2015, at 3:22 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > The Viewer widget needed for that UI will be very nice for us, but I fear > making an IDE based around it, as it would no longer be truly LIVE CODE. I agree, personally I’d like a full screen script editor with an object tree on the side

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > My main 'beef' with an IDE of the VB6 type is that it blocks the > desktop from view and doesn't seem good if one wants to rearrange > where one's palettes sit on the screen. > > Things might prove a bit awkward if one wants to make a stack as > big as one's desktop if one canno

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Paul Hibbert
I totally agree, I use Photoshop dialy and while I’m quite happy with a one window type of environment for image editing I really don’t feel it would be appropriate for app development. However, there are some areas that I feel could be improved in the LC IDE, so I wrote my own plugin to help o

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Richmond
I'm messing around, as one does, in a scaffy carpark attached to the Conservatoire in Sofia, Bulgaria, having thrown one son on a plane to the States and waiting for the other from Germany. But I digress . . Reading a book from 1999 about Visual Basic 6 . . . AND what do I see? The "Visual

Re: BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread JB
That looks really nice! They have put a lot of work into it. It sounds like you cannot use any pointers yet or access everything in Foundation. John Balgenorth On Aug 18, 2015, at 5:43 AM, John Dixon wrote: > > >> From: rolf.kocherh...@id.uzh.ch > >> Second question: >> >> The new Widgets

Re: Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread Monte Goulding
The thing is importing using file mode changes the line endings which is perfectly fine in UTF8. It's still UTF8 afterwards which is why textDecode still works. You could just textDecode then script the replacement of the line endings but it's probably easier for the engine to do it. Sent from

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread RunRevPlanet
Richmond said: > I'd be interested to know where one can > find these "usability standards", and by > whom they are authorised to be 'standards' I know of no single website to visit that lists usability standards. When I think of such a concept, it is more about tools working in a way that I

Re: Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
Thanks for the link. I need to “grow up” and move some stacks to 7. I will need to re-re-learn about unicode before it bites me. .Jerry Jensen > On Aug 18, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > i would highly recommend a "deep read" of the read me docs for 7.05 where > there is super d

SFTP support [was: Re: Distribute beta versions of iOS app]

2015-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-18 22:42, Brahmanathaswami wrote: I have FTP off on the server by default. no one from anywhere for any reason can log in with clear text, its just not done, period. (why LC HQ doesn't get this and provide this as part of lib URL is beyond me... The LiveCode engine can already do s

Re: Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/18/2015 3:50 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: So I extracted this for my own ref http://dev.himalayanacademy.com/stacks/705-Release-Unicode-Notes.pdf Thanks for that. As Monte said, it turns out "file" works, but I didn't expect it because the entry for textDecode talks about binary files. I

Re: Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread Brahmanathaswami
i would highly recommend a "deep read" of the read me docs for 7.05 where there is super detail info on all the unicode changes so much changed, mission critical stuff, a lot easier, but you need to do it right. OH! the release notes for 7.1 don't have any of the unicode business... I don't

Re: Copy and Paste from LiveCode text fld in Mobile

2015-08-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Are you using a native mobile input control (text field)? A LiveCode field by itself won't offer this. Note that there are two input controls: a single line and multi-line. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/18/15, 1:32 PM, "Brahmanathaswami" wrote: >

Re: Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread Monte Goulding
I don't think it would hurt to use file for utf-8 Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Aug 2015, at 5:41 am, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Should I be using "file" or "binfile" to retrieve unicode text from a UTF-8 > text file? I thought I should be using binfile, but after textDecoding the > data, text c

Re: No Messages Until Scroll

2015-08-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Most likely it's a bug. When you create a scroller, one would assume that the control's starting scroll value is zero, yes? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/18/15, 1:04 PM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: >Is this a bug or expected behavior? I guess I have neve

Re: Distribute beta versions of iOS app

2015-08-18 Thread Brahmanathaswami
We have budget for this and so I'm going to buy your app... least we can do for all that you give to us! I have FTP off on the server by default. no one from anywhere for any reason can log in with clear text, its just not done, period. (why LC HQ doesn't get this and provide this as part of l

Copy and Paste from LiveCode text fld in Mobile

2015-08-18 Thread Brahmanathaswami
USE CASE: I need to offer the user the ability to copy out text on mobile (not cut) for passing to twitter or email or facebook on both iOS and Android I am using a plain text field, "textContent" on a single card "textReader" unlocked, traversal on... for importing text files to the stack f

RE: No Messages Until Scroll

2015-08-18 Thread Ralph DiMola
Is this a bug or expected behavior? I guess I have never seen it because when I create the scroller I always set the v/h scroll to something even if it's zeros. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto

Re: No Messages Until Scroll

2015-08-18 Thread Dan Friedman
Scott, mobileControlSet scrollerName,"vScroll",(mobileControlGet(scrollerName,"vScroll")) That did the trick! Many thanks! -Dan > Yes, I've run into this, or something related to it. It seems that controls > within a scrolling group are non-responsive until the group has been scrolled >

Re: No Messages Until Scroll

2015-08-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Yes, I've run into this, or something related to it. It seems that controls within a scrolling group are non-responsive until the group has been scrolled (or received some scroll message). A workaround that seems to get things going is, after creating the scroller, set the scroll value of the scr

Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
Should I be using "file" or "binfile" to retrieve unicode text from a UTF-8 text file? I thought I should be using binfile, but after textDecoding the data, text chunking and delimiters break when I do that. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

RE: No Messages Until Scroll

2015-08-18 Thread Ralph DiMola
Haven't had the problem. The only things off the top of my head is message path, layers or silently failing scripts. I'd put an answer dialog at the top of the mouseup handler for the group and button and see what you get. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeni

No Messages Until Scroll

2015-08-18 Thread Dan Friedman
Greeting! I'm having an issue with a group of objects receiving a touchStart (or touchEnd, mouseUp or mouseDown) message. The problem is on iOS only (haven't tried Android yet, but works fine on the Mac). This is a group of buttons that are being scrolled by a mobile scroller. If I drag the

iOS Tab Bar Icon Limits

2015-08-18 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Will Apple reject your app if you have more than 5 items on the bottom tab bar? -- Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

How to Go to The Edinburgh Fringe Festival

2015-08-18 Thread Jana Doughty
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Re: BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-18 14:57, Roger Eller wrote: I recommend working through the step-by-step guide that Georgia wrote: https://livecode.com/write-a-widget-in-8-steps/ It's quite easy to follow and it's a great intro to LiveCode Builder. That is a great intro, but where are the details of the language

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-18 Thread Mike Bonner
Theres so MUCH content in the forum, it seems to take over the results. Might be better to have it in a separate engine, and if there is still an online dictionary, set one up for that too. On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > +1 -- bookmarked! > > -- Peter > > Peter M. B

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
+1 -- bookmarked! -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 17, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Its pretty easy to set up a custom search engine in google. I created a > cse restricted to 4 sites. www.livecode.com forums.livecode.com > lessons.

Re: BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:50 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 2015-08-18 11:17, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: > > The new Widgets and the new LiveCode Builder language, when and how do >> we get more >> information about how to use the Language ? >> >> I had a look at all the movies and blog posts, but to

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

2015-08-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/08/15 16:07, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond Does "after LiveCode 8" mean "8.1" or does it mean "9 or maybe 10"? Because that could make quite a difference. It means that I don’t think it is going to be in any of the LiveCode 8.xx releases based on my memory of snippets of information o

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

2015-08-18 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond > Does "after LiveCode 8" mean "8.1" or does it mean "9 or maybe 10"? Because > that could make quite a difference. It means that I don’t think it is going to be in any of the LiveCode 8.xx releases based on my memory of snippets of information on this list and in the forums. (Which c

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/08/15 06:58, RunRevPlanet wrote: Peter said: > I have no doubt that these promises > were very genuine. Clearly, LiveCode > hasn’t been able to deliver them in > the time they expected. I never doubt the sincerity of LiveCode Ltd. and the team behind it. I don't think anyone is

Re: Distribute beta versions of iOS app

2015-08-18 Thread Colin Holgate
The server itself has to be HTTPS, for over the air installs to work on iOS 7.1 or later. > On Aug 18, 2015, at 1:03 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> >> uses SFTP to transfer to the server? How did you do that? > > No, it doesn't use SFTP for the actual transfer. _

Re: BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-18 11:17, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: The new Widgets and the new LiveCode Builder language, when and how do we get more information about how to use the Language ? I had a look at all the movies and blog posts, but to be honest, for me the present info is not at all enough to feel confid

RE: BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread John Dixon
> From: rolf.kocherh...@id.uzh.ch > Second question: > > The new Widgets and the new LiveCode Builder language, when and how do we get > more > information about how to use the Language ? > > I had a look at all the movies and blog posts, but to be honest, for me the > present info is not >

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 18 Aug 2015, at 13:33, Richmond wrote: > > If Kevin made me IDE Czar […] I, for one, welcome our new IDE overlord ;) Fraser ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage you

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

2015-08-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/08/15 05:12, Peter W A Wood wrote: I have updated my KickStarter report card thanks to the information about the new player for Windows being planned for LiveCode 8.0 that Tom Bodine kindly provided. As I understand, the phrase “new visual editor” refers to the new IDE. LIVECODE KICKSTA

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/08/15 03:13, Richard Gaskin wrote: RunRevPlanet wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote: >> RunRevPlanet wrote: >>> I understand that things take longer than expected, but when I read >>> the Kickstarter Campaign it is clear that the new IDE is a core >>> part of the next generation. It is not a str

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

2015-08-18 Thread Roger Eller
You'd think that a software company would make the dictionary available as a searchable e-book too, if not an actual mobile app for all supported platforms, and made with LiveCode itself. On Aug 18, 2015 3:22 AM, "Peter W A Wood" wrote: > > LIVECODE KICKSTARTER REPORT CARD -Version 4 > > The firs

BAF and other things - I am confused...

2015-08-18 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
I didn’t wanna chime in into all those discussions, but I am totally confused by the LiveCode mothership recently, and I have to now. I am confused with the new BAF License and all the talk about SVN. It is very clear to me that SVN does make a lot of sense to everyone. Therefore I programmed a p

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

2015-08-18 Thread Peter W A Wood
LIVECODE KICKSTARTER REPORT CARD -Version 4 The first thing to note is that LiveCode Ltd has open-sourced LiveCode under the GPL licence. It is freely accessible on Github. The second thing to note is that the majority of the Kickstarter rewards have been delivered. Only delivery of printed co

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card (Updated)

2015-08-18 Thread Peter W A Wood
Matthias > On 18 Aug 2015, at 14:32, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D > wrote: > > > > >> Am 18.08.2015 um 04:45 schrieb Peter W A Wood : >> >> There have been quite a few comments and clearly a number of different views >> amongst members of the community. I would like to add my perspective. >> >>