Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread RM
The only thing that was crashing there was me; not Livecode. R. On 30.05.2016 23:06, Dar Scott wrote: I'm glad my comments helped. Crashing on any empty object reference does seem like a bad thing, though. If you can narrow it down, it might be worth reporting. Dar On May 30, 2016, at 1:

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread Dar Scott
I'm glad my comments helped. Crashing on any empty object reference does seem like a bad thing, though. If you can narrow it down, it might be worth reporting. Dar > On May 30, 2016, at 1:49 PM, RM wrote: > > I dunno who was or wasn't being rude: but, Dar, you helped me out of the bog.

Re: Alternative interfaces

2016-05-30 Thread RM
Today's lunchbreak: started reading Richard Dawkins' "God Delusion"; which, while being a very well written book, and extremely thought-provoking, is strong meat: so strong that I leapt back to the computer and "extended the extended" so that end-users can now access the standalone settings stac

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread RM
I dunno who was or wasn't being rude: but, Dar, you helped me out of the bog. Thank you very much indeed. Richmond. On 30.05.2016 22:00, Dar Scott wrote: Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case? Can you check that? Or are you getting a crash in just doing this: get the sel

Re: [ widget that turns text horizontal ]

2016-05-30 Thread William Prothero
Bernd, Thanks. I got it. One thing about whiteboard animations I’ve seen is that the hand that is supposedly drawing on the board, for text anyway, moves so fast you can’t see whether it is actually following the text or not. At least this is true for smaller font sizes. I’ll check out the draw

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread RM
Of course I coped: people have been being rude to me for donkey's ages, and I, who, of course, am 'NEVER' rude, have been being 'DIRECT' for years. Oddly enough, I couldn't spot your supposed rudeness. R. On 30.05.2016 22:10, Colin Holgate wrote: It seemed ok. Also, rude is Richmond’s middle

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread RM
"I'm just socially inept." Don't let that worry you for a moment; you are not the only one who suffers from that problem round here. Should you require any advice I am extremely well qualified at how to put one's foot in one's mouth. Richmond. On 30.05.2016 22:05, d...@swcp.com wrote: Yikes.

Re: IS there a dictionary of the datagrid properties?

2016-05-30 Thread zryip theSlug
Hi Tiemo, dgDataControl is the property you are probably looking for. Try this code in the datagrid group script: on mouseMove put the dgDataControl of the target into tTheDataControl if (tTheDataControl is empty) then put empty else put "Column:" && the dgColumn of tTheDataC

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread Colin Holgate
It seemed ok. Also, rude is Richmond’s middle name (his parents had a strange sense of humor). I’m sure he coped. > On May 30, 2016, at 3:05 PM, d...@swcp.com wrote: > > Yikes. That came out sounding rude. Not my intent. I'm just socially > inept. > > And eventually you might want to han

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread dsc
Yikes. That came out sounding rude. Not my intent. I'm just socially inept. And eventually you might want to handle the case of multiple selected objects. > On May 30, 2016, at 1:00 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > > Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case? Can you check > that?

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread Dar Scott
Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case? Can you check that? Or are you getting a crash in just doing this: get the selectedObject Dar darzLab > On May 30, 2016, at 12:43 PM, RM wrote: > > So; here I am mucking around with my alternative front-end and have a merry > litt

getting bogged down with the selectedObject

2016-05-30 Thread RM
So; here I am mucking around with my alternative front-end and have a merry little button with this script in it: on mouseUp put fld "nname" into NN set the name of the selectedObject to NN end mouseUp which, unsurprisingly perhaps, changes the name of a selectedObject in the topStack [wh

Re: IS there a dictionary of the datagrid properties?

2016-05-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Actually, here is more what you are looking for I think. http://lessons.livecode.com/m/datagrid/l/7344-data-grid-api On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Have you looked here: > http://lessons.livecode.com/m/datagrid/l/7343-data-grid-properties ? > > On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:49

Re: IS there a dictionary of the datagrid properties?

2016-05-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Have you looked here: http://lessons.livecode.com/m/datagrid/l/7343-data-grid-properties ? On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > how do I get the info, which column or row I am hovering with the mouse? > > I have read the datagrid lessons on livecode.com, but the

Re: Random? changes to textAlign

2016-05-30 Thread dsc
Lost it. My test stack reliably showed the problem yesterday. But... Today when I opened Livecode 8.0.1 and threw a field and a label onto a new stack and selected them, the problem was not there. So, I guess I just needed to restart LiveCode. This also means I don't have a reliable re

IS there a dictionary of the datagrid properties?

2016-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, how do I get the info, which column or row I am hovering with the mouse? I have read the datagrid lessons on livecode.com, but they guide you mainly thru the property inspector of datagrids Where do I find, the property and array names of the datagrid structure to retrieve the wanted info

LiveCode + WP Webinar

2016-05-30 Thread Todd Fabacher
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the LiveCode Infinity campaign. As promised, Digital Pomegranate and I are putting together the code and a presentation. We are looking for Monday June 27th @ 1:00 pm NYC time [EST] for the webinar using Google on air Hangouts. We are setting up a page on our

Re: Random? changes to textAlign

2016-05-30 Thread Peter M. Brigham
My software never has any bugs, just lots of random features. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com On May 29, 2016, at 5:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > I love random features. > > On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 3:23 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > >> I'm wondering if it has something to do with my leav

Can I set a tooltip for each column or c-header in a data grid?

2016-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I would like to provide a tooltip for each column (or column header) to show the full column name. Is there such a build in feature, which I didn't find yet or do I have to create it myself? Thank you Tiemo ___ use-livecode mailing li

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 35

2016-05-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #34 here: https://goo.gl/qujvtR This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and aroun

Re: [ widget that turns text horizontal ]

2016-05-30 Thread BNig
Bill, as a proof of principle for "hand drawing on the screen" in Livecode see http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=22575&hilit=+whiteboard with sample stacks Kind regards Bernd Wprothero wrote > Bernd: > > What I would really love is one of those applications that shows t

Re: [ widget that turns text horizontal ]

2016-05-30 Thread BNig
Bill, I apparently completely misunderstood what you wanted to do. here is a script that I hope is close to what you have in mind. Please watch out for line breaks in the script due to text wrapping local sTurning = false local sD