Re: scaleFactor strangeness

On 2015-10-14 00:38, Richard Gaskin wrote: Marty Knapp wrote: It would nice to see this developed more for sure. At this point, I'd settle for something even quasi - elegant, just for my users to be able to have a magnified view of the screen. FWIW, for folks making productivity apps in whic

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

On 2015-10-13 22:07, Scott Rossi wrote: Many of us tried to do the same thing when the feature was first announced. Unfortunately, you can't really use it for a zoom effect, at least not since I last looked into this. As you've seen, the stack jumps around as the scale is changed, and even if

Re: Learning Materials

William Prothero wrote: > I use Safari because it synchronizes all my bookmarks between my > devices. I know there is a Firefox plugin that does that. I used > it, but there was an issue I can't remember when I upgraded to > Yosemite, so I switched. Firefox is a very good option, tho. There's a

Re: Learning Materials

Richard, That sounds like a great offer! I think it would be a much more friendly site if we didn't have to download all the ads. I use Safari because it synchronizes all my bookmarks between my devices. I know there is a Firefox plugin that does that. I used it, but there was an issue I can'

Re: [ANN] LiveCode List Processor

Peter W A Wood wrote: >> Richard Gaskin > >> Aside from MetaCard I've seen almost no other scripting language >> but Rebol that wholeheartedly embraced the concept of delivering >> applications over the wire. ... > If only Carl had found a partner whose marketing prowess was the > equal of his te

Re: Learning Materials

Kay C Lan wrote: > What advertising? > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqfr5p2acpomkeh/lcwiki.png?dl=0 > > Firefox + the NoScript addon > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ > > Wouldn't visit any website without it :-) Amen. NoScript is great not only for web sites whose owne

Re: [ANN] LiveCode List Processor

Thanks for the explanation Monte > On 14 Oct 2015, at 08:33, Monte Goulding wrote: > > It’s a confusing topic. See the is really operator for more info. Under the > hood they are stored in the most efficient way they can be but it often > depends on the last operation: > > put “1” into t — is

Re: Learning Materials

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 8:31 AM, William Prothero wrote: > Only downside is all the massive advertising. What advertising? https://www.dropbox.com/s/vqfr5p2acpomkeh/lcwiki.png?dl=0 Firefox + the NoScript addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ Wouldn't visit any websi

Re: Learning Materials

On 10/13/2015 12:29 PM, Heather Laine wrote: The lessons site is not the be-all and end-all. A users wiki might be a good thing to add to it. However, I am also in favour of improving what we have, rather than attempting to replace it wholesale because its not perfect. A great way to ensure th

Re: [ANN] LiveCode List Processor

> On 14 Oct 2015, at 11:27 am, Peter W A Wood wrote: > > As I understand, LiveCode has very few types, mainly everything is a string > except for arrays and (maybe) objects. (I say maybe as my knowledge of > LiveCode is insufficient in the area of how Objects are stored.) It’s a confusing top

Re: Learning Materials

Only downside is all the massive advertising. I guess, for free, we can put up with it. “Beggards can’t be choosers”. One thing, thinking ahead, is how hard it will be to export and transfer the content to a different wiki site when we want to. Bill > On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaski

Re: Learning Materials

Richard: Just what I was thinking! Great resource. Bill > On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > I’m wondering if a possible approach might be if one of the users set > > up a wiki as a trial, then if it became popular and useful, it could > > be in

Re: [ANN] LiveCode List Processor

Richard > Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I've not used Rebol, but have read much of its documentation at various > points over the years. Carl Sassenrath is an interesting thinker, and his > language reflects some very unusual and intriguing concepts. > > Aside from MetaCard I've seen almost no o

Re: Custom radio button icons

Thanks for all the replies, guys, I've tinkered with them all. I'd considered a script similar to Bernd's, but putting spaces before the label text works too and is a little easier. I had no idea you could use tabs in a button label, and it worked great with one button but had an entirely diffe

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Yep, gotcha. On mobile you’d have to inversely rescale and dynamically reposition the slider control at the same time. Hard to see that working smoothly. Terry... On 14/10/2015 9:54 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Scott Rossi" wrote: >There's a more substantial limitation, Terry: it's not possib

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

There's a more substantial limitation, Terry: it's not possible to display objects that remain unaffected by the scaleFactor within a stack that is changed by the scaleFactor. What I had envisioned was something along the line of Google maps, where you have a floating slider overlaid on the map th

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Good demo Scott. It doesn¹t look so bad if you set the stack¹s fullscreen property to true but that¹s probably not that useful on desktops. Terry... On 14/10/2015 9:17 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Scott Rossi" wrote: >Believe me, Marty, that was the first thing I asked about. I sent them a >

Re: Learning Materials

William Prothero wrote: > I’m wondering if a possible approach might be if one of the users set > up a wiki as a trial, then if it became popular and useful, it could > be incorporated into the lessons and livecode site? A wiki is a > pretty different beast from the lessons site. It’s pretty easy

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Thanks Scott - I'll take a look. Marty Believe me, Marty, that was the first thing I asked about. I sent them a demo stack that illustrated the limitations of the effect, but they said they couldn't make the behavior work the way I (and you) want. You can try the demo stack via your message bo

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Marty Knapp wrote: It would nice to see this developed more for sure. At this point, I'd settle for something even quasi - elegant, just for my users to be able to have a magnified view of the screen. FWIW, for folks making productivity apps in which scaling a group would be useful: Can we h

Re: iOS dumb question

Bob: See Ralph DiMola’s posting below. Best, Bill > On Oct 13, 2015, at 7:31 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > No. It means any files that are not stack files e.g.. fonts, graphics, pdf > help files etc. > > Bob S > > > On Oct 12, 2015, at 16:25 , William Prothero > mailto:proth...@earthednet.org>

Re: Learning Materials

Heather: That’s a great suggestion. What do you think about some kind of finer grain help, but task rather than project oriented? Like the headings examples in my previous posting? I agree that you don’t want to fragment and throw out what is already working and just create another “mouth to f

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Believe me, Marty, that was the first thing I asked about. I sent them a demo stack that illustrated the limitations of the effect, but they said they couldn't make the behavior work the way I (and you) want. You can try the demo stack via your message box: go url "http://tactilemedia.com/downloa

Re: Custom radio button icons

Hi Jacque, this works for iconGravity left and keeps the distance of the right aligned text at a constant distance from the icon. -- on mouseUp ask "text for label of btn" if it is "" then exit mouseUp lock screen put "b1" into tBtnName set t

LC8 Dictionary

A note to the team: Can we please have a search box for the Guides section of the new dictionary. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin ___

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Hey Scott, It would nice to see this developed more for sure. At this point, I'd settle for something even quasi - elegant, just for my users to be able to have a magnified view of the screen. Marty Many of us tried to do the same thing when the feature was first announced. Unfortunately, yo

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Hey Devin, I just downloaded the test stack in your bug report and briefly tried it in LC 7.1. It seems like scaleFactor is not having that problem in this version. I've been using 6.6.5 and haven't noticed anything there either. Marty On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: I'm pla

RE: [ANN] mergExt: BLE, Google spreadsheets, Map directions, iOS 9 & special price

Great! Yeah my question was just for in house 'tinkering'. Nakia Brewer| WesTrac Pty Ltd | Technology Enabled Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions | 1 WesTrac Drive, Tomago NSW 2322 t: (02) 4964 5051 |m: 0458 713 547 | i: www.westrac.com.au ACN 009 342 572 Our applicable terms an

Re: Custom radio button icons

Sorry, that should have been Label, not name. Paul > On 13 Oct 2015, at 14:02, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > Instead of spaces you can also use 'tabs'… > > set the name of bin “myRadioButton" to tab & “myButton” > > I don’t know if there’s a way to adjust the tab though! > > Paul > >> On 13 Oct 2

Re: [ANN] mergExt: BLE, Google spreadsheets, Map directions, iOS 9 & special price

Sure but there's obviously licensing issues if you wanted to distribute an app. For personal and even in-house company use there's no problem though. Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Oct 2015, at 7:59 am, Nakia Brewer wrote: > > By any chance will mergBLE work with the community edition on OSX? __

Re: Custom radio button icons

Instead of spaces you can also use 'tabs'… set the name of bin “myRadioButton" to tab & “myButton” I don’t know if there’s a way to adjust the tab though! Paul > On 13 Oct 2015, at 13:51, Scott Rossi wrote: > > The only way I could figure out how to do this is to set the textAlign to > left,

RE: [ANN] mergExt: BLE, Google spreadsheets, Map directions, iOS 9 & special price

Hi Monte, By any chance will mergBLE work with the community edition on OSX? Nakia Brewer| WesTrac Pty Ltd | Technology Enabled Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions | 1 WesTrac Drive, Tomago NSW 2322 t: (02) 4964 5051 |m: 0458 713 547 | i: www.westrac.com.au ACN 009 342 572 Our ap

Re: Custom radio button icons

The only way I could figure out how to do this is to set the textAlign to left, the iconGravity to left, and insert a fixed amount of space characters before the button's text label. There really should be easier way to do this, like having a separate iconMargin property to position the icon indep

Re: Custom radio button icons

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 2:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I need to assign a custom icon for a whole lot of radio buttons. I want them > to use the same spacing as the default radio button: icon at the left, a > small margin, then the button text. > > Assigning a custom icon draws it at the ri

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

> On Oct 13, 2015, at 1:57 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: > > I'm playing around with scaleFactor on a desktop app as sort of a "zoom view" > feature. But there are some weirdnesses about it, especially in terms of > screen placement. For example, when the scaleFactor is anything but 1, > setting the

Re: scaleFactor strangeness

Many of us tried to do the same thing when the feature was first announced. Unfortunately, you can't really use it for a zoom effect, at least not since I last looked into this. As you've seen, the stack jumps around as the scale is changed, and even if you reposition it dynamically, the results

Custom radio button icons

I need to assign a custom icon for a whole lot of radio buttons. I want them to use the same spacing as the default radio button: icon at the left, a small margin, then the button text. Assigning a custom icon draws it at the right. Setting the textalign to "right" moves the icon to the correc

scaleFactor strangeness

I'm playing around with scaleFactor on a desktop app as sort of a "zoom view" feature. But there are some weirdnesses about it, especially in terms of screen placement. For example, when the scaleFactor is anything but 1, setting the loc of a stack is way off. Like setting the loc of a stack to

Re: Learning Materials

The lessons site is not the be-all and end-all. A users wiki might be a good thing to add to it. However, I am also in favour of improving what we have, rather than attempting to replace it wholesale because its not perfect. A great way to ensure this happens is to request a lesson on any partic

Re: Movie file in use prevents deletion of folder on external volume Mac OS X

Through the years I have learned to “untether” LC before such operations. There are several scenarios: Set the defaultFolder to empty (if you are logged into files on a volume over the LAN) set the filename of image to empty (if you are showing and image on a remote volume) set the filename

Re: Learning Materials

Heather: I use the lessons.runrev site a lot. It has loads of good information. One limitation though, is that it takes us through the beginning steps, but often stops at the very useful stage. For example, the database lesson is great for local databases, but is not practical for server based d

resolved: Movie file in use prevents deletion of folder on external volume Mac OS X

I resolved the problem. It seems on a shared volume there is a lag before the finder recognizes that the file is no longer in use by the LiveCode application. (it does not occur on a local volume) If I send the message to run my applescript in 500 ms then the finder won't give the error message

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Correction - I had written: A lot of folks I know still use v6.x, and I have one friend who continued to ship with v5.5.4. That sentence makes more sense when I type the "s" I'd intended rather than a "d": A lot of folks I know still use v6.x, and I have one friend who continues to sh

LC8 Widget Documentation

Looking for a function that will return the documentation created for a widget. The revIDEExtensionsLibrary has a function named revIDEExtensionDocsData but it returns only author and title for every installed widget. I know where the JSON file is for each widget and could parse it myself but wou

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Peter TB Brett wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Just because LiveCode 8 hasn't got all its eventual features yet > doesn't mean it can't, or indeed shouldn't, be used for creating and > shipping production apps. Many people are doing so quite successfully. > > "Developer Preview" is actually a misleading

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Hi Richard, Just because LiveCode 8 hasn't got all its eventual features yet doesn't mean it can't, or indeed shouldn't, be used for creating and shipping production apps. Many people are doing so quite successfully. "Developer Preview" is actually a misleading term for describing LiveCode 8's

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Mark Wieder wrote: On 10/12/2015 01:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: 1. How do we open them? Currently third-party tools are relegated to the Plugins submenu, but crafting a launcher tool rack is simple stuff, and equally simple to just hide the current IDE's toolbar (which I've been doing for yea

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

Peter TB Brett wrote: On 13/10/2015 15:33, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 13/10/2015 14:42, hh wrote: >> There is an interesting difference between LC versions 6 and 7. >>... >> [a] LC 6.7.7 >> repeat-PMB 0.326 <- fastest >> repeat-GC 0.350 >> repeat-hh 0.445 >> sort-G

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Peter Haworth wrote: > I see nothing. My bug report has been confirmed so not sure why you > see a message. Were you using lc8 dp7? Ah, thanks - that's it. I'm using the current shipping product, v7.1. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mo

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2015-10-12 22:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's an obvious option if we assume there must be only one IDE. And from the company's perspective that's a useful assumption, at least in as much as they need to provide at a solid basic toolkit to accompany the engine. Well

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

I ran the same code in 7.0.3 and got this: Run Count: 10 Test ID: 1 Looking for greatest value < 5 sort 9.366217 49338 repeat 1.764816 49338 PMB 4.268512 49338 Test ID: 2 Looking for greatest value < 5 sort 8.5548 repeat 1.534175 PMB 1.494919 Test ID: 3 Looking for greatest

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

@P.T.B The average time needed is (testing gave me a break ...) [c] LC 8.0.0-dp7 repeat-PMB 3.794 repeat-GC 1.475 <- fastest repeat-hh 1165.0 <- :-( No difference to LC 7.1.0! sort-GC 7.240 I have indeed data strings of the tested size (10-15 MByte). Advanced statistica

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

On 13/10/2015 15:33, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 13/10/2015 14:42, hh wrote: >> There is an interesting difference between LC versions 6 and 7. >>... >> [a] LC 6.7.7 >> repeat-PMB 0.326 <- fastest >> repeat-GC 0.350 >> repeat-hh 0.445 >> sort-GC 0.985 >> >> [b] LC

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

I see nothing. My bug report has been confirmed so not sure why you see a message. Were you using lc8 dp7? On Tue, Oct 13, 2015, 6:12 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > The publish/subscribe stuff sounds great, especially since I just > > found no newxxx messages are sent when

Re: R: Re: Is it possible ?

Are you saying that the "wait" command you are already using is not working? That is what I thought you meant. If you test: repeat 3 show img "yourImage" wait 30 hide img "yourImage" wait 30 end repeat What happens? Craig -Original Message- From: baccheschi To: use-livecode S

Movie file in use prevents deletion of folder on external volume Mac OS X

In my application I can movie a folder to the trash that has movie file in it that my application created by using an applescript with applescript's delete command. (*I use an applescript to delete it so the file and its contents are moved to trash, I tried revDeleteFolder but it just moves the f

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 13/10/2015 14:42, hh wrote: >> There is an interesting difference between LC versions 6 and 7. >>... >> [a] LC 6.7.7 >> repeat-PMB 0.326 <- fastest >> repeat-GC 0.350 >> repeat-hh 0.445 >> sort-GC 0.985 >> >> [b] LC 7.1.0 >> repeat-PMB 3.562 >> repeat-GC 1.483 <- fastes

Re: iOS dumb question

No. It means any files that are not stack files e.g.. fonts, graphics, pdf help files etc. Bob S On Oct 12, 2015, at 16:25 , William Prothero mailto:proth...@earthednet.org>> wrote: The standalone settings for iOS allow for copying files, but the “Copy Files” window states “non-stack files”.

Re: [OT sort'a] Trying to find a post

Roger Eller wrote > http://getwell.care/mobile/en > > This link works fine on my Android tablet. It looks very nice. > Screenshot > thumbnails enlarge when touched/clicked. There's a link to download the > app from the app store, but I can't test that on this device obviously. Hi Roger, Yes, t

Re: mobileControlSet "fontname" parameter

Hi Mark Done. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16206 Hope that’s understandable enough. cheers Alan On 12 Oct 2015, at 9:36 pm, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Hi Alan, > > Could you file a bug about this? I can't recall off the top of my head > whether the font

R: Re: Is it possible ?

Messaggio originale Da: dunb...@aol.com Data: 13-ott-2015 15.28 A: Ogg: Re: Is it possible ? Hi. I doubt it. This would have been noticed, er, a while ago. Can you give more details? Craig Newman Thanks for your kind and prompt response I want to show and then hide an image t

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

On Tue, Oct 13, 2015 at 4:35 AM, hh wrote: > function getMaxLessThan tList,maxVal >repeat for each item i in tList > if i < maxVal then put i & comma after outList >end repeat >return max(outList) > end getMaxLessThan > This returns 0 if there is no valid result, rather than em

Re: help changing the From address when sending email

Thanks so much to Ralph, Richard, Paul & David for all of the helpful advice. Hopefully I’ll finally be able to get it to work the way I want. If not, I’ll circle back around. Thanks! Theresa - Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2015 10:29:15 +0100 From: "David Williams" To

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

Hi Hermann, There's no array bug -- it's an aspect of its intentional behaviour. Appending to an element of an array always causes a copy, so you get O(N^2) complexity. Please re-test in LiveCode 8.0.0-dp-7, because there are some large performance optimisations in that release that may affe

Re: [ANN] LiveCode List Processor

Peter W A Wood wrote: > Again, I am influenced by Rebol. I've not used Rebol, but have read much of its documentation at various points over the years. Carl Sassenrath is an interesting thinker, and his language reflects some very unusual and intriguing concepts. Aside from MetaCard I've see

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

Similar things are useful for a very specialized statistical evaluation I have to do soon, so I tested again with LC 7: There is an interesting difference between LC versions 6 and 7. The 'direct way' of GC reveals now as clearly fastest. Tested with one of GC's 12 MB strings on a Mac mini(i5 2.

Re: Is it possible ?

Hi. I doubt it. This would have been noticed, er, a while ago. Can you give more details? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: baccheschi To: use-livecode Sent: Tue, Oct 13, 2015 6:19 am Subject: Is it possible ? Hi everybody Is it possible that the command "wait for ..." comp

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

Peter Haworth wrote: > The publish/subscribe stuff sounds great, especially since I just > found no newxxx messages are sent when creating a control from the > tools palette. I just ran a test: 1. Create a new stack 2. In the card script, add this: on newButton put the params && the millisec

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

Here are a couple of functions that might be useful re timing processes. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- function microsecs put the long seconds into s set the numberformat to "#.00" add 0 to s replace "." with empty in s

Re: [OT sort'a] Trying to find a post

http://getwell.care/mobile/en This link works fine on my Android tablet. It looks very nice. Screenshot thumbnails enlarge when touched/clicked. There's a link to download the app from the app store, but I can't test that on this device obviously. On Oct 13, 2015 12:47 AM, "Charles Warwick" wr

Is it possible ?

Hi everybody Is it possible that the command "wait for ..." compiled under window, does not work? Any suggestion about it will be welcome thank you very much Mario Baccheschi ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: help changing the From address when sending email

Hi Theresa, If you are needing to send email from a script and have it appear with the desired From: address, etc, you will need to follow at least the steps about email headers detailed in Ralph's response; mail servers tend to be very picky about how emails are formed. If you want to se

Re: [ANN] animationengine 6

@Matthias: I have discussed this internally and we will be sending out upgrade vouchers to all existing customers granting 20% off the purchase. So if any of the existing users does not receive the voucher within the next 48 hours, please feel free to contact me directly. All the best, Malte

Re: Is the assert command supported?

Thanks Mark > On 13 Oct 2015, at 15:52, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > On 2015-10-13 08:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: >> The assert command appears to be included in LiveCode 8 but is not >> mentioned in either the dictionary or the user guide. All I’ve been >> able to find about was in an article in Re

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

On 13/10/2015 02:20, Mike Doub wrote: Pass by reference and you can eliminate a memcopy on the initial function call. -= Mike That *used* to be true - but (unless my memory is playing tricks again :-), Mark Waddingham said on the list recently that recent (*) versions of LC use a pointer, an

Re: function for greatest object in list less than or equal to a value

@Craig I also found the "sort" method faster than the "repeat" method on a PPC. On intel, under several OSes, here always won the [1] below. @Bernd I didn't include your solution because pre-sorting wastes too much time. Perhaps sorting could be included in your binary loop? @Geoff You could also

Re: Is the assert command supported?

On 2015-10-13 08:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: The assert command appears to be included in LiveCode 8 but is not mentioned in either the dictionary or the user guide. All I’ve been able to find about was in an article in RevUp - http://newsletters.livecode.com/february/issue166/newsletter1.html

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

On 2015-10-13 06:08, Peter Haworth wrote: The publish/subscribe stuff sounds great, especially since I just found no newxxx messages are sent when creating a control from the tools palette. I did notice your bug report on that - however Ali is away for a few days at the moment so I haven't be

Re: LC 8 Property Inspector

On 2015-10-12 22:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: That's an obvious option if we assume there must be only one IDE. And from the company's perspective that's a useful assumption, at least in as much as they need to provide at a solid basic toolkit to accompany the engine. Well, the engine is pretty u

Is the assert command supported?

The assert command appears to be included in LiveCode 8 but is not mentioned in either the dictionary or the user guide. All I’ve been able to find about was in an article in RevUp - http://newsletters.livecode.com/february/issue166/newsletter1.html