Re: Female form of 'guru'?

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Om! Hum! Phat! On 4.04.2016 04:26, Mark Wieder wrote: On 04/03/2016 05:57 PM, Roger Eller wrote: When an Amiga computer crashes, it is called a guru meditation error. This is what it looked like. http://c1.soft112.com/images/81/ac/guru-meditation-screen-saver/pad_screenshot.gif Wow. Such

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread Charles Warwick
On 4/04/2016 4:04 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: Then you can make your changes and e-mail them through. Thank you for that, you almost make it sound easy. Then I read Mark Wieder's comments to Kay and decided I was wrong. :) I'll give it a try. If you just want to get the latest code and send

Re: Use github for dictionary changes.

2016-04-03 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 04/04/2016 02:28, Mark Wieder wrote: Oh. Forgot to mention linking your github account to livecode's. At least the error message there gives you instructions. Vulcanbot tries to be helpful! ;-) Peter -- Dr Peter Brett LiveCode Open Source Team LiveCode 2016

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 10:55 PM, Charles Warwick wrote: On 4/04/2016 5:27 am, J. Landman Gay wrote: Speaking of github, isn't there some kind of "check out" procedure? If so, I'm not sure how that would work. Asking Charles to do that for us and then push the changes might be more than he signed up for.

Re: Set Image Reference to Relative Path

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 10:40 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Am I the only one that thinks a great enhancement would be to insert a relative path? OR do we have a but where that should be the default behavior. Why? Relative paths have been around for a while and are pretty much imperative for ap

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread Earthednet-wp
Jacque, Perhaps I have more than one extensions folder. I'll check for another one. Btw, I am assuming v7 and v8 use the same extensions folder? Hmm, seems unlikely. I'll check. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 3, 2016, at 10:32 PM, "J. Landman Gay" > wrote: > >>

Re: Female form of 'guru'?

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 6:26 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:52 PM, -hh wrote: Is there also a designation for a "female guru" in use here? 'Lady guru'? I've never thought that "guru" implied gender. But then, "guress" could be cool . . . gurista? gurque? Jacu? :) You guys are to

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 4:50 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: I thought this would make an interesting widget. I put together a widget that does the following: 1. Allows you to turn on/off rounded corners for each corner of the widget. 2. Allows you to set the radius. 3. Allows you to set a filename of an image tha

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

2016-04-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
But FWIW.. this does not work on assignBehaviors set the behavior of stack "siva-portal-links_behavior" to (localPath() & "main-stack-scripts/generic-mobile-functions_behavior.livecode") end assignBehaviors OTOH: if you assign the behavior via the inspector to the script-only stack it *does*

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

2016-04-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Interesting caveat here. Could be "Major" You can edit the script as you say, and save But if you go to the stack inspector for the script only stack and assign a behavior...ala class, super class it will begin to work in this session...So you think "aha. how cool, cascading hierarchy..." So t

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread Charles Warwick
On 4/04/2016 5:27 am, J. Landman Gay wrote: Speaking of github, isn't there some kind of "check out" procedure? If so, I'm not sure how that would work. Asking Charles to do that for us and then push the changes might be more than he signed up for. In git terminology, "check out" just means ret

Set Image Reference to Relative Path

2016-04-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I just made the happy discovery... no doubt known to many that you can declare a relative path for image reference. Assuming your have this directory layout myApp.livecode /img fish.jpg if you use the inspector to pick this image you get: /Users/Brahmanathaswami/Documents/App Develo

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread William Prothero
Trevor: Never tried to install a widget before. I downloaded your zip folder and copied the folder with its contents to the “extensions” folder. I don’t see it in the extensions manager. I’m in dp15. Any suggestions? Bill > On Apr 3, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27,

Re: Use github for dictionary changes.

2016-04-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Oh. Forgot to mention linking your github account to livecode's. At least the error message there gives you instructions. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscr

Re: Female form of 'guru'?

2016-04-03 Thread Mark Wieder
On 04/03/2016 05:57 PM, Roger Eller wrote: When an Amiga computer crashes, it is called a guru meditation error. This is what it looked like. http://c1.soft112.com/images/81/ac/guru-meditation-screen-saver/pad_screenshot.gif Wow. Such intuitive. Very parse. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.

Re: Use github for dictionary changes.

2016-04-03 Thread Mark Wieder
On 04/03/2016 06:05 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: On 04/04/2016 00:34, Mark Wieder wrote: cd ~/livecode before trying to add a git remote Thanks Mark - works fine now. That gives me a great opportunity to improve the document on how to contribute - so I can use that as my test case for modifying

Re: Use github for dictionary changes.

2016-04-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 04/04/2016 00:34, Mark Wieder wrote: cd ~/livecode before trying to add a git remote Thanks Mark - works fine now. That gives me a great opportunity to improve the document on how to contribute - so I can use that as my test case for modifying the docs :-) I have (I think) fixed this mi

Re: Female form of 'guru'?

2016-04-03 Thread Roger Eller
When an Amiga computer crashes, it is called a guru meditation error. This is what it looked like. http://c1.soft112.com/images/81/ac/guru-meditation-screen-saver/pad_screenshot.gif ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: Use github for dictionary changes.

2016-04-03 Thread Mark Wieder
On 04/03/2016 04:18 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: So, inspired by all this discussion about editing the dictionary, I tried to follow Ali's instructions for getting set up on github, etc. (from https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/community-docs/docs/contributing_to_docs.md), in particular the sec

Re: Female form of 'guru'?

2016-04-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 1:52 PM, -hh wrote: > > Is there also a designation for a "female guru" in use here? > 'Lady guru'? I've never thought that "guru" implied gender. But then, "guress" could be cool . . . gurista? gurque? Jacu? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _

Use github for dictionary changes.

2016-04-03 Thread Alex Tweedly
So, inspired by all this discussion about editing the dictionary, I tried to follow Ali's instructions for getting set up on github, etc. (from https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/community-docs/docs/contributing_to_docs.md), in particular the section under "Command line". I got registe

Re: LC 8 -- Losing Target references

2016-04-03 Thread Ali Lloyd
The fix for this issue is done and will be available in the next release of LC 8. On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 8:25 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > FYI for anyone struggling with the "lost reference" issue in LC8 where > > -- you click on something in the Project browser a button for example, a

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami < bra...@hindu.org> wrote: > Our design team finished a design for a mobile app. The used rounded > corners everywhere. > > see > > http://wiki.hindu.org/screenshots/radius-all-corners.jpg > > Something I wished we had in LC for all contr

LiveCode Images Pixel Size Limit

2016-04-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Recently, Richmond ask: > Is the 4000 x 4000 pixel limit on image sizes still there in Livecode 7? In Ubuntu 14.04 x64, using LC 7.1.3 this 4MB compressed/ 580MB uncompressed Jpeg image: http://www.satsignal.eu/wxsat/msg-1-fc-40.jpg imported and displayed fine. According to this page:

Female form of 'guru'?

2016-04-03 Thread -hh
Also in this list the word "guru" from Sanskrit is used and handled as a designation for a certain male being. Is there also a designation for a "female guru" in use here? 'Lady guru'? Hermann [Or ist simply 'jacque'?] -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabbl

Re: with effects

2016-04-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Scott, Scott Rossi wrote > "With effects" refers to graphic effects, not inks. > It would be nice if inks were included but you probably > need to do a snapshot of a card region to include inks > (and I believe Alejandro may have already posted > the suggestion for this). Bernd answer thi

Re: with effects

2016-04-03 Thread Scott Rossi
"With effects" refers to graphic effects, not inks. It would be nice if inks were included but you probably need to do a snapshot of a card region to include inks (and I believe Alejandro may have already posted the suggestion for this). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
In LC8 you can get the names of the inks: put button "pulldown" of group "ink" of group "Ink" of card id 1002 of stack "revPropertyInspector 1" Peter On Apr 3, 2016, at 11:58 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/3/2016 12:45 PM, RM wrote: >> Well: I must be rather stupid: but where-O-where is th

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 7:07 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Charles Warwick wrote: There will be limitations on what I can do depending on the volume of requests that come through..., please feel free to contact me directly. Charles, THANK YOU so much for offering, but can I sugges

Re: with effects

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Hmm: back-to-the-future? http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Oval-framed-photo-td4664647.html R. On 3.04.2016 22:15, RM wrote: So . . . Here I am trying to import and/or export a snapshot of either an image or a graphic with inks, and the ink does NOT 'stick'. I have tried stuff

LC 8 -- Losing Target references

2016-04-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
FYI for anyone struggling with the "lost reference" issue in LC8 where -- you click on something in the Project browser a button for example, and choose "Inspector" and the inspector opens to an inspector for the stack instead. -- or you click on a field and the inspector opens to the last butto

Re: Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 7:25 AM, -hh wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote >When the "effective" keyword was first introduced, it applied to only a >handful of properties. Over the years, additional ones were added. When I >look in the dictionary, the keyword now shows what appears to be a >comprehensive list of prop

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

2016-04-03 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 04/01/2016 06:47 PM, Jim Kanter wrote: Then there’s this: https://livecode.com/new-livecode-app-building-course/ I guess this is part of what confused me. That link leads to a $75 course. This one leads to a $59 course. https://livecode.com/courses/create-it-with-livecode-course/ Early

with effects

2016-04-03 Thread RM
So . . . Here I am trying to import and/or export a snapshot of either an image or a graphic with inks, and the ink does NOT 'stick'. I have tried stuff like this: import snapshot of image "ZZZ" with effects to no avail. Richmond. ___ use-livecod

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 12:45 PM, RM wrote: Well: I must be rather stupid: but where-O-where is the 'Inks' button? What Tore said. I was thinking of LC 8 where the inks are in a popdown button in the inspector. Either place should work. Scripting it would require knowing the name of the control you want

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/3/2016 7:31 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: PS Unfortunately if you click on the 'button' link against Associations it doesn't take you back to the relevant button page with all it's Associations. Hopefully they are working on that. Works okay here in dp16. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | ja

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
So it does: thanks for the help. Not exactly intuitive.. . . Might be time for a Feature Request: inkNames Richmond. On 3.04.2016 21:34, Tore Nilsen wrote: It works when you hold the mouse over the field with the inks in the blending section of the property inspector Tore 3. apr. 2016 kl.

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread Tore Nilsen
It works when you hold the mouse over the field with the inks in the blending section of the property inspector Tore > 3. apr. 2016 kl. 19.45 skrev RM : > > Well: I must be rather stupid: but where-O-where is the 'Inks' button? > > Richmond. > > On 3.04.2016 20:38, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> Put

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Well: I must be rather stupid: but where-O-where is the 'Inks' button? Richmond. On 3.04.2016 20:38, J. Landman Gay wrote: Put this in the message box: put the text of the mousecontrol Point the cursor to the inks menu button in the IDE and hit the return key. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Smashing: Thanks! BUT, there 'must' be a way to script that R. On 3.04.2016 20:38, J. Landman Gay wrote: Put this in the message box: put the text of the mousecontrol Point the cursor to the inks menu button in the IDE and hit the return key. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | ja

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
Put this in the message box: put the text of the mousecontrol Point the cursor to the inks menu button in the IDE and hit the return key. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On April 3, 2016 12:24:

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Aha. Well, if you could find a way to answer my post about inks I could get on with my batch processor :) R. On 3.04.2016 20:20, J. Landman Gay wrote: On April 3, 2016 11:59:33 AM RM wrote: Of course the obvious question at this point is "why use a distributed work environment?" Because

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 3, 2016 11:59:33 AM RM wrote: Of course the obvious question at this point is "why use a distributed work environment?" Because you work in a large company with different departments? Or you have a team of a dozen people, each with particular skills? Or your students want to team u

ink / blend

2016-04-03 Thread RM
While it is easy to populate a dropdown menu with fontNames: on mouseDown put the fontNames into me end mouseDown I'm honestly not sure how to do this with the names of inks/blends as there is no 'inkNames' or 'blendNames'. Richmond. ___ use-live

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
I should have left off the "s" in "htrp" . But yeah, they should fix it. The lessons are apparently hosted over on the Screensteps domain, so there's a certificate conflict. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperact

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Well, for what it's worth: here's a start: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26933&p=140562#p140562 This is "bog basic" in that it does "nothing more" than import the image, unite it with a graphic 'frame' and then allow you to export the end result as a PNG [ Papua New Guinea

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

2016-04-03 Thread Tore Nilsen
Try http://lessons.livecode.com I don’t think this is a secure adress at all. Regards Tore > 3. apr. 2016 kl. 18.22 skrev Jim Byrnes : > > On 04/01/2016 05:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> On 4/1/2016 4:17 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: >>> Right now I am interested in learning Livecode on the desktop onl

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

2016-04-03 Thread RM
"The owner of lessons.livecode.com has configured their website improperly. To protect your information from being stolen, Firefox has not connected to this website." Ouch. Richmond. On 3.04.2016 19:22, Jim Byrnes wrote: On 04/01/2016 05:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/1/2016 4:17 PM, Jim

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

2016-04-03 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 04/01/2016 05:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/1/2016 4:17 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Right now I am interested in learning Livecode on the desktop only, mobile may come later. Looking at the list of lessons on the right I don't see anything that jumps out at me as being very graphics intensive.

Re: 7.1.3 installer failure

2016-04-03 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Robert, I got the same message and have reported it to support@runrev Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/7-1-3-installer-failure-tp4702798p4703043.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Well, for what it's worth: here's a start: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26933&p=140562#p140562 Love, Richmond. On 3.04.2016 00:02, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: RM: Your "why bother" assumes a) we work in teams of one in solitude or something like that. OR b) you have

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Is the 4000 x 4000 pixel limit on image sizes still there in Livecode 7? Richmond. On 3.04.2016 16:29, Alejandro Tejada wrote: In this mail list, Richmond self-assigned duty is, in his own words: "stir the pot" And he is very successful at this. :D There is a name, a greek name, in classical t

HyperNext 4.1

2016-04-03 Thread RM
Is now totally FREE: http://www.tigabyte.com/index.html Personally I've never had the time to work out how to use it: but maybe, someday . . . Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
In this mail list, Richmond self-assigned duty is, in his own words: "stir the pot" And he is very successful at this. :D There is a name, a greek name, in classical theater for the character that fills that role in a play. In a play, this character helps to develop and advance the plot until it

Re: Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field

2016-04-03 Thread -hh
J. Landman Gay wrote > When the "effective" keyword was first introduced, it applied to only a > handful of properties. Over the years, additional ones were added. When I > look in the dictionary, the keyword now shows what appears to be a > comprehensive list of properties. However, none of the

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

2016-04-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Yeah, not my favorite either. Whilst I don't wish to kerb anyone's enthusiasm to contribute to Max's or anyone else's Wiki, I do have two concerns. Clearly, the spare time of this Community to contribute to any community effort (be it bug r

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread RM
On 3.04.2016 00:02, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: RM: Your "why bother" assumes a) we work in teams of one in solitude or something like that. OR b) you have experienced talented "workers" in image process. In a distributed work environment, the options to pre-process images prior to g

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Charles Warwick wrote: > > There will be limitations on what I can do depending on the volume of > requests that come through..., please > feel free to contact me directly. > Charles, THANK YOU so much for offering, but can I suggest that instead such requests are p

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 4/3/2016 2:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Alternately (and harder) would be someone who could write a LiveCode > plugin that would do the same thing. I suspect a lot more of the docs > would get updated if we had something like this. I second this. I too would contribute more if I didn't need t

Re: Using LC for Interactive Tutorial

2016-04-03 Thread Dave Kilroy
Ali this is great! I would love to be able to use a 'tutorial plugin' for the training work I occasionally do for Code4Health and other times I train people to use LiveCode I could make little 'snippet' tutorials introducing people to different LiveCode / coding concepts - it would be great! Ther

Re: Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field

2016-04-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
When the "effective" keyword was first introduced, it applied to only a handful of properties. Over the years, additional ones were added. When I look in the dictionary, the keyword now shows what appears to be a comprehensive list of properties. However, none of the formatted* properties are l

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-03 Thread Charles Warwick
On 3/04/2016 4:29 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm not keen on trying to learn github but I want to help with the documentation. I keep finding things. Filling out bug reports is too much trouble and clutter for things like misspellings or syntax examples. So I was wondering if there might be a g

Re: Set Text to the Vertical Center of the field

2016-04-03 Thread -hh
J. Landman Gay wrote > On 4/2/2016 11:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> put the EFFECTIVE formattedheight of \ >>char 1 to -1 of pObj into tFheight >> There it is! "EFFECTIVE"! > > Would be nice if that were documented. Hmph. Need user notes. It is documented. The 'effective keyword' in