Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

On 1/26/2016 10:07 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: @ Jaqueline… If you run a 16:9 — 1200 X 675 stack on an iPad. the card rect is still reported as 675 high even though the screen is 728 high set the bottom of grp “bottomNav” to item 4 of (the rect of this card) will float the group

Re: Getting the long name(or ID) of a control

On 1/27/2016 12:15 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: I think it was Jacque who pointed out a while back that quoting control names results in slightly faster execution, since the engine doesn't need to determine if your word is a variable or an object name. I don't know if it was me, but it's true and in

Re: Getting the long name(or ID) of a control

What Colin said. You CAN use unquote object names, but I think it was Jacque who pointed out a while back that quoting control names results in slightly faster execution, since the engine doesn't need to determine if your word is a variable or an object name. Ever since that explanation, I starte

Searching revBrowser content

The docs say I should be able to select text in a browser control by setting the "selected" property. Repeatedly doing that should iterate through all matches. I can't get it to select anything even once. Is anyone else able to execute this successfully: revBrowserSet sBrowserId, "selected",

Re: [BUG] write to file

On 01/26/2016 09:01 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: I’m pretty sure 2013 was in Edinburgh so that was one heck of a shopping cart ;-) Did I forget to mention the trip took a year? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: Getting the long name(or ID) of a control

Yes menu is a keyword. The rest is just what the parser can and can’t cope with. > On 27 Jan 2016, at 4:04 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > > Riddle me this Batman: > > I have 2 controls named "F1"(field) and "menu"(button) both in a group named > G1 > > Why does this work... > put "F1" into some

Getting the long name(or ID) of a control

Riddle me this Batman: I have 2 controls named "F1"(field) and "menu"(button) both in a group named G1 Why does this work... put "F1" into somevar put the long name of control somevar into someothervar But this does not work... put "F1 of group G1" into somevar put the long name of control s

Re: [BUG] write to file

> On 27 Jan 2016, at 3:57 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Heh. My brother lives in San Diego, so I figured out a 15-minute walk from > his house to the San Diego Trolley, so I could take the train to the 2013 LC > conference at the hotel. The train stopped across the street from the hotel. > I was

Re: [BUG] write to file

On 01/26/2016 08:03 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: The first time I went to the UK from the States I was mad about some vendor or something and walked into the office at 9am and loudly pronounced how "pissed" I was. I quickly learned US=mad UK=drunk. After that when I traveled I refrained from any coll

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

On January 26, 2016 at 9:39:15 AM, Colin Holgate (colinholg...@gmail.com) wrote: In showAll to position controls in the corners you need to know the ratio of the device screen. You then multiply that by the width or height, to work out the position. @ colin: I th

RE: [BUG] write to file

-Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Kay C Lan Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2016 7:59 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: [BUG] write to file On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> I would prefer if if p

Re: Temp folder on public computers

On 1/26/2016 7:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: > I need to write a temporary file on computers that may be locked > down, such as those in a computer lab or library. Can I be fairly > certain that the temporary folder permissions will always allow > access? Even if it wer

Re: match a parenthesis literal in a lived regex?

typo --in all cases '(' should end up in the msg box I originally tested: if (matchText(tStore,"(\(\w+)",tFound) = true) then so it was finding: (text but your request was for a single opening parenthesis so I removed the \w+ bit On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > You're

Re: match a parenthesis literal in a lived regex?

You're missing something :-) If you are using the matchText function you must remember you still need your capturing parenthesis \( will find a single opening parenthesis [(] will find a single opening parenthesis [\(] will find a single opening parenthesis or back slash in the msg box - change t

Re: Temp folder on public computers

J. Landman Gay wrote: > I need to write a temporary file on computers that may be locked > down, such as those in a computer lab or library. Can I be fairly > certain that the temporary folder permissions will always allow > access? Even if it were, on well-designed systems the temp folder will

Re: [BUG] write to file

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> I would prefer if if people wouldn't use "the mothership" to describe the > core dev team. > > Sorry, no disrespect intended. I basically failed English and it's not the first time I've used a turn of phrase on this List which I thought

Temp folder on public computers

I need to write a temporary file on computers that may be locked down, such as those in a computer lab or library. Can I be fairly certain that the temporary folder permissions will always allow access? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

match a parenthesis literal in a lived regex?

My understanding is that at least one of [(] or [\(] should match an opening parenthesis in a regular expression, but my experimenting isn't filing this. Am I missing something, or is this just not implemented? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 __

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

On 1/26/2016 12:00 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: As for 3:2… that’s a new one on me… got any real number pixel > dimensions for that one? There's a chart here:

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

In showAll to position controls in the corners you need to know the ratio of the device screen. You then multiply that by the width or height, to work out the position. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: [BUG] write to file

On 01/26/2016 07:34 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: I would prefer if if people wouldn't use "the mothership" to describe the core dev team. My goodness. Somebody got up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. and monolithic ...there's that word again... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.co

Re: [BUG] write to file

On 01/26/2016 08:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Your find prompted me to do a search in the bug DB for all reports that include "sc...@runrev.com" among the commenters and found some other gems from the olden days, like this useful tidbit I never knew before (is this documented?): ...you can

Re: [BUG] write to file

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter TB Brett wrote: > > I would prefer if if people wouldn't use "the mothership" to describe > > the core dev team. > > I think the intention is less "Childhood's End" and more "Star Trek", a > tip of the hat to the centrally important

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Interesting… “give us artwork/image 4:3 with 75% interior safe zone” I thinks still works for 5:3 and 16:10. You will just have some of the bleed showing in those ratios. As for 3:2… that’s a new one on me… got any real number pixel dimensions for that one? But getting art/image background to

Re: [BUG] write to file

Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 26/01/2016 14:47, Kay C Lan wrote: >> >> Panos at the mothership has confirmed that this is a bug that >> effects OS X only. > > I would prefer if if people wouldn't use "the mothership" to describe > the core dev team. > > After all, the core dev team working here at Li

Re: Using the Widget to display charts

Very interesting! Thanks, Sri -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Using-the-Widget-to-display-charts-tp4700428p4700436.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livec

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

You have to support iPhone 5, meaning, include default-5...@2x.png, so that it doesn’t look like an iPhone 4 app. > On Jan 26, 2016, at 4:25 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > Colin Holgate wrote: > > > Being letterboxed isn’t a quality issue, it isn’t even bad. It’s just > > that Apple would r

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Colin Holgate wrote: > Being letterboxed isn’t a quality issue, it isn’t even bad. It’s just > that Apple would reject the app. On what grounds? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web __

Re: exits on suspend (was Re: Davos Day 3)

Also check out Monte's mergEXT. You can get notifications from iOS Best, Steve MacLean > On Jan 26, 2016, at 11:20 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > Aha - interesting indeed. Thanks Thierry. > > TBH, until I checked today I didn't know that there was this option to have > it NOT exit on suspen

Re: [BUG] write to file

Peter, I would consider it high praise, not something else. Over here in The Colonies, there are many references to "The Mothership", and I can't think of one that is derogatory. On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Kay C Lan wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Rich

Re: [BUG] write to file

Kay C Lan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Good find. How did you come across that bit of archaeology? > > Not that good, what you really need to know is whether the enhancement > request was ever actioned. I'd guess the URL form remains as Jacque described, a

Re: exits on suspend (was Re: Davos Day 3)

Aha - interesting indeed. Thanks Thierry. TBH, until I checked today I didn't know that there was this option to have it NOT exit on suspend, so I've already coded a solution for the app I'm currently playing with, to save state on shutdown, and retrieve on startup, which works for me. So I'

Using the Widget to display charts

I have previously been trying to display charts using HighCharts in a LC browser in LC6 & LC7 without success from a local copy of HighCharts. I have just thrown together a test stack using AMCharts in a LC8 Browser widget and to my surprise it has worked. I have three fields. 1. The AMCharts

RE: [BUG] write to file

'the mothership' in the context of talking about the 'runtime revolution' or what has now become the 'liveCode' headquarters in Edinburgh is a term of endearment that has been used to refer to it more or less for the complete term of its existence... as a chap once said .. 'What's in a name ? th

Re: [BUG] write to file

On 26/01/2016 14:47, Kay C Lan wrote: Thanks Mike, Yes, that is all correct. Panos at the mothership has confirmed that this is a bug that effects OS X only. I would prefer if if people wouldn't use "the mothership" to describe the core dev team. After all, the core dev team working here a

Re: exits on suspend (was Re: Davos Day 3)

2016-01-26 11:54 GMT+01:00 Ben Rubinstein : > - interestingly, when the stack is not set to exit to suspend, it does not > appear to get any of the messages you might expect (i.e. > suspend/resume[Stack]). AFAICT there's no way with this option for an app to > tell when it has been suspended. (Wi

Re: [BUG] write to file

Thanks Mike, Yes, that is all correct. Panos at the mothership has confirmed that this is a bug that effects OS X only. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscript

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Being letterboxed isn’t a quality issue, it isn’t even bad. It’s just that Apple would reject the app. In the Android world it’s more normal to develop for an 800x480 ratio, and people on wider or taller devices understand why there is letter boxing. It’s an Apple problem not an Android one. Al

Re: [BUG] write to file

However, the contents of the file is: This is open/read/write/close On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Windows output: > > This is open/read/write/close > This is > > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Kay C Lan > wrote: > >> On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Richard Gaskin < >>

Re: [BUG] write to file

Windows output: This is open/read/write/close This is On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Richard Gaskin < > ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > > > > Good find. How did you come across that bit of archaeology? > > > Not that good, what you

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Please stop downplaying what quality level is considered acceptable on Android. You're making false stereotypical assertions when in reality there are app designers so focused on providing a great experience. You may not see them all, because some don't publish to Apple (by choice). On Jan 25, 20

exits on suspend (was Re: Davos Day 3)

Hi Todd, This is great stuff, thank you for somehow finding time to write up your blog as well as everything else that you're up to! Re the suspending issue... The "${xxx}" syntax in the settings.plist is used by the standalone builder to mark where substitutions go, so it's a clue that ther

Davos Day 3

On day 3 we spent most of our time focused UI/UX issues with LiveCode. We created a desktop/ native mobile scrolling lib. I see lots of post on this from beginners, we put put it into a substack. Take a look and let me know if there is a better way. Also, we can not deal with the suspending of Li