OT: git-aware terminal

2016-02-27 Thread Mark Wieder
I just got hipped to this at the hack.summit conference this week. And immediately downloaded it and replaced my old git prompt functions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GehGKYH_-OM -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Open Process, Interactive Shell on OS X

2016-02-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
  Has anyone run an interactive shell session of any kind on Mac OS X? If so can you share some code? in the dictionary it says you cannot use the open process command on OS X to run a unix process. but you should use "shell" instead. OK that works... but once you get the result back from she

[ANN]SoCal LC Group Meeting Thurs in Pasadena

2016-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
The next meeting of the SoCal LiveCode User Group is coming up this Thursday in Pasadena - details in the forums: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=26486 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
They've put out a call for conference speakers. Maybe you could address it there, or set up a panel with other educators who attend. On February 27, 2016 3:33:05 PM Tore Nilsen wrote: One thing I really would hope LiveCode will do, is to find room for this as a part of the program for the co

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tore Nilsen wrote: > I do agree that this is a kind of task where we, as educators and > users of LiveCode should do the actual work. However, I think it is > vitally important that the outcome of such a process has an active > backing from the company... Oh indeed it does. One of the projects

Re: Resizing of a Stack

2016-02-27 Thread Terence Heaford
Strange when I change the resize stack handler to the following, I have added unlock screen, it works without the screen flash but the display of the chart is not quite as smooth. Could this point to something I am missing or a problem with LC? on resizeStack pWidth,pHeight unlock screen

Re: Possible enhancement

2016-02-27 Thread Peter Haworth
I like that better. It's more inline with LC's English-like structure. It also removes a potential problem with the break number if you add or remove a control structure. Is there already an enhancement request for it? On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 1:21 PM Mark Wieder wrote: > On 02/27/2016 12:53 PM

Re: LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread Tore Nilsen
> 27. feb. 2016 kl. 21.51 skrev Richard Gaskin : > > What could happen if we change "LiveCode" there to "we”? > > The company has many deep technical obligations to complete, and education is > an area that really needs the insights of education specialists to guide it. > > And since we're tal

Re: Possible enhancement

2016-02-27 Thread Mark Wieder
On 02/27/2016 12:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Worth an enhancement request? What I'd rather see, and I think Robert Calliau has suggested this before, is the ability to have named loops. Then you could exit from a loop by specifying its name. repeat . as outerLoop repeat. as l

Re: Resizing of a Stack

2016-02-27 Thread Terence Heaford
Thanks for the reply but I am already using El Capitan. Perhaps I should reinstall older versions of LC until I find the one that doesn’t cause the problem. All the best Terry > On 27 Feb 2016, at 16:39, Roger Guay wrote: > > Terry, > > I had similar experience with all versions of LC in

Possible enhancement

2016-02-27 Thread Peter Haworth
Following on from my post about the ability to enclose strings in single quotes, I came across another php feature which I think would be useful in LC. The php break statement has a numeric argument that defines how many control structures to break out off I sometimes find myself in 3 or 4 nested

LiveCode for Educators (was LiveCode for the Hobbyists)

2016-02-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Tore - Thank you for that valuable contribution to this discussion. I think you nailed it perfectly here: In my opinion LiveCode should try to put together a package of resources that can help teachers to use LiveCode in accordance with the competence aims of their respective curricu

Re: about XML...

2016-02-27 Thread Mark Wieder
On 02/26/2016 08:51 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/26/2016 06:07 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Prompted by Bill’s KML question I took a new look at the XML entries in the dictionary. It seems not to have changed lately. I’ve petitioned for E4X for years now, should I redescribed the advantages of it?

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Another item: I find https://www.pinterest.com to be a great resource to see what educators, especially in k-12 are doing. Lots of great ideas. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Feb 27, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > Tore, > Your idea has a lot of merit. In the ea

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Tore, Your idea has a lot of merit. In the early Apple days, HyperCard was very popular with educators. It was simple and revolutionary as a programming environment, and free with the computer. Livecode has the capability for this now, especially with the widgets and even more with Monte's wonde

Re: Resizing of a Stack

2016-02-27 Thread Roger Guay
Terry, I had similar experience with all versions of LC in OS X Yosemite. It was solved by upgrading to El Capitan. Roger > On Feb 27, 2016, at 8:53 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: > > > I have been using some self made Bar Charts in a stack. > > The bar charts consist of many objects created

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Roger Guay
I’d like to chime in here: I love LiveCode and the folks who use, develop, produce and maintain it. I want them all to flourish. I am strictly a hobbyist developer, but did have an occasion where I donated work to the SETI Institute (a non-profit). This was a couple of years ago when I could a

Resizing of a Stack

2016-02-27 Thread Terence Heaford
I have been using some self made Bar Charts in a stack. The bar charts consist of many objects created and placed in a group. When the stack is resized the group is resized accordingly and the bar chart created again. Up until the last week or so I have not been using the stack but upon return

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

2016-02-27 Thread jameshale
Thanks for the inelegant solution Phil. Although given I didn't find any to unlock (despite the unlock screen getting things to work) I trust I do not need it. Thanks Kay for the interpretation of the dictionary entry. Makes perfect sense. Opportunity for an edit to the entry I guess. We can proba

Re: KML anyone? Just checking

2016-02-27 Thread David Bovill
I have some KML code - ping me off list and I'll send it, or stick it up on github. On 27 February 2016 at 02:55, Colin Holgate wrote: > What is your end goal? Do you know you can use a browser control and set > its URL to http://maps.google.com/maps?q=the address to the kml file > > > > On Feb

Re: SSH-External for Live Code

2016-02-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Friday, February 26, 2016, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > @ Trevor Devore & Glen Bojsza > > is this working , today, as of LC 8 + > > https://github.com/trevordevore/SSH-External-for-LiveCode > Hi, I don't know. I host the code for Glen but I don't use it. -- Trevor DeVore ___

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Tore Nilsen
> 27. feb. 2016 kl. 03.35 skrev ambassa...@fourthworld.com: > >> Another good way to get a user base is to be available in schools. >> This is hard work, as network administrators, school boards, and >> politicians are often against all change. RunRev put a little >> effort into this a long time

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Terence Heaford
> On 27 Feb 2016, at 11:07, Dirk prive wrote: > > So for new customers in Jan 2017 the price will be over 3 times what it was > for new customers in march 2015. I would say that is a price that goes up > way faster than one would expect. The company knows the numbers though and > they need to ma

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Dirk prive
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: > I would like a license with LiveCode but am not prepared to stump up > $499/year which I believe, is extortionate (forgive the word, but it is my > word). > I may be wrong but has it just gone up to $. > > I am sure there are th

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Dirk prive
Hi again, I just re-read everything I received so far and have come to the conclusion that some things could have been communicated better by the company. *From their mail on feb 18th.* 29 More Reasons to Celebrate 8 We are committed to delivering a quality core product that offers great value to

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

2016-02-27 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:48 PM, jameshale wrote: > > As an aside when reading the dictionary on lockscreen it states that its > setting has no effect in the IDE with script debug enabled. > I have script debug mode enabled. > I am also doing all this testing in the IDE. > If lockscreen has no eff

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Terence Heaford
Is the existing method working? There always appears to be shifting sand, modifying this method for selling to renting, a different licence for this a different license for that, extensions for extra cash. All the shifting sands suggests to me that LiveCode are not making enough. What is enoug

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

2016-02-27 Thread Phil Davis
Here is an inelegant but effective way to handle an unknown number of nested lockScreens: put 0 into x repeat until the lockScreen is false unlock screen add 1 to x end repeat -- put your update indicator code here repeat x times lock screen end repeat Then you don't have to sear

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Howdy Folks, This is a very interesting thread with the pricing plan changing. LiveCode's Community Edition will fit the needs of many hobbyists perfectly, as others have rightly pointed out. But to be fair, it's unrealistic (false dichotomy) to believe that all software must be either comme