Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 11 Jul 2016, at 3:23 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > OK, great. AVFoundation has text to speech so we could do that bit but I’m > not sure about generating an asset from that to include in a video… would > need some research to work out the feasibility of that. Actually it looks like AVSpe

Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
OK, great. AVFoundation has text to speech so we could do that bit but I’m not sure about generating an asset from that to include in a video… would need some research to work out the feasibility of that. Cheers Monte > On 11 Jul 2016, at 2:46 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > Thanks Monte - you¹re

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Yes it’s not intended as markdown to htmlText so if you need that you may need to fiddle with the output or roll your own. Reporting any issues with dp 2 would be very helpful. Cheers Monte > On 11 Jul 2016, at 3:10 PM, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: > > I got it to work already, but I think it

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread me
I got it to work already, but I think it returnsfor line breaks (which is the current way to do that) but LC doesn't like them. So I have to add my own. Also, dp2 may be too unstable for me to be productive. I'll probably write a basic translator myself, in the meantime. Thx for getting back to

Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks Monte - you¹re right, it would need to include some support for animation/transition (e.g. text and graph builds). Text to speech capability would probably be fairly important as well for the sort of videos I¹m looking to produce. I¹ve applied for some funding to kickstart a new project on

Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 11 Jul 2016, at 12:45 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > I know that video export from LC isn’t currently possible, and is unlikely to > be on the LC team's development radar, but is this the sort of thing that > could potentially be implemented as an external by someone with the right > skills?

Re: Parsing a PDF file

2016-07-10 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jul 11, 2016 at 9:36 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > Since this seems to be Mac only, why not "do as Applescript" the select > all, and Copy? > Because Preview isn't properly scriptable and you can't "Select All" or "Copy". As Richard said, the answer is with Automator. If you open Automator, se

screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Terry Judd
LC has some really nice export features allowing you to save the screen, bits of it or specific objects to images or PDF. What I’d really like to do however is to export LC ‘presentations’ direct to video, so that I can switch from delivering personalised but static PDFs (assessment/feedback rep

Re: Parsing a PDF file

2016-07-10 Thread Roger Eller
Since this seems to be Mac only, why not "do as Applescript" the select all, and Copy? ~Roger On Jul 10, 2016 7:18 PM, "Jim Hurley" wrote: > hh wrote: > > > > > [Description for MacOS, works on Win/Linux similar.] > > > > The best results for extracting tables from PDF I had with the free "RAW"

rotating the entire rendered playing field on mobile, and collisions

2016-07-10 Thread Dr. Hawkins
As mentioned in the advertising section, I"m starting to work with my game again. I'm trying to figure out a sane way to rotate the entire playing field by a few degrees. I'll have probably a dozen or two objects (borders and groups) as well the player (a group). If it was all a png except for t

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Jerry Daniels
Hopefully the documentation in gitHub will get me thru the night. JD > On Jul 10, 2016, at 7:11 PM, Jerry Daniels wrote: > > Monte, > > As far as I can tell, mergMarkDown is not in the dictionary. Is it part of > this build? I do need to know the syntax to use it. I did see what I think > migh

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Jerry It looks like you’ve found a bug in my build tools. I’ll try and get a fix in dp-3. For the time being: Name: mergMarkdownToXHTML Type: function Syntax: mergMarkdownToXHTML(, [, , , , , , , ]) Summary: Returns the XHTML translation of the markdown document. Introduced: 8.0 OS: i

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Jerry Daniels
Monte, As far as I can tell, mergMarkDown is not in the dictionary. Is it part of this build? I do need to know the syntax to use it. I did see what I think might be it (mergMarkdown-x64) in the new inclusions. Appreciate any help you can offer with this. JD > On Jul 10, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Mon

Re: Advertising in iOS or android apps

2016-07-10 Thread Mark Schonewille
AFAIK, currently there is no co-operation between RunRev/LiveCode and Inneractive. You'll have to make arrangements with Inneractive on your own behalf. Kind regards, Mark Schonewille http://economy-x-talk.com https://www.facebook.com/marksch Buy the most extensive book on the LiveCode langua

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 11 Jul 2016, at 9:17 AM, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: > > Does the markdown support tables? I know some do. Tables are optional. There’s parameters to turn on and off support for a heap of things ;-) Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Parsing a PDF file

2016-07-10 Thread Jim Hurley
hh wrote: > > [Description for MacOS, works on Win/Linux similar.] > > The best results for extracting tables from PDF I had with the free "RAW" > method: > > = Open the file with Preview. > = Select All (menu Edit). Copy. > = Go to a LC stack with a field "INCOMING" > = Use by a button or the

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread me
Does the markdown support tables? I know some do. Best, Jerry On Jul 10, 2016, 4:07 PM -0500, wrote: > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread me
Thx, Stephen. Best, Jerry On Jul 10, 2016, 4:27 PM -0500, stephen barncard, wrote: > BTW > good to see you here again, Jerry. > > sqb > > Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - > mixstream.org > > On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Monte Gouldingwrote: > > > Hi Jerry > > > > It was the same

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread me
Thx, Monte. Best, Jerry On Jul 10, 2016, 4:07 PM -0500, wrote: > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/list

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread me
Thx Bill. Best, Jerry On Jul 10, 2016, 4:34 PM -0500, Bill Vlahos, wrote: > Yes. Glad to see you back. > > Bill Vlahos > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Jul 10, 2016, at 2:25 PM, stephen > > barncardwrote: > > > > BTW > > good to see you here again, Jerry. > > > > sqb > > > > Stephen Barnca

Has anyone gotten "set the icon of this stack" to work?

2016-07-10 Thread Howard Bornstein
I want to modify the icon in the dock (not the Finder) under script control. According to the dictionary, the proper command is "set the icon of this stack". I can successfully call this command and test that the icon of the stack is set to the image ID I specify, however, the dock icon never chan

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Bill Vlahos
Yes. Glad to see you back. Bill Vlahos Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 10, 2016, at 2:25 PM, stephen barncard > wrote: > > BTW > good to see you here again, Jerry. > > sqb > > Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - > mixstream.org > >> On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread stephen barncard
BTW good to see you here again, Jerry. sqb Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - mixstream.org On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi Jerry > > It was the same bug as this one and has been fixed for dp-2: > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17754 > > Cheers > >

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Jerry It was the same bug as this one and has been fixed for dp-2: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17754 Cheers Monte > On 11 Jul 2016, at 6:33 AM, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: > > Anyone know (from experience) whether the LC 8.1dp2 mergEXT markdown stuff > will work in a Mac

Re: Draft LiveCode Conference App for 2016, but we have a bug

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Todd There was a bug that I recently found in our build process that was filtering out android externals for platforms other than Mac. If you are doing your android builds on Windows or Linux you could be bumping into that. You could try downloading the latest version from here instead: htt

Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread me
Anyone know (from experience) whether the LC 8.1dp2 mergEXT markdown stuff will work in a Mac app? It has worked in the IDE, but could not be included in a build for Mac. Best, Jerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: Advertising in iOS or android apps

2016-07-10 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Here is the Interactive rejection. Does anyone know what the "criteria" are? If it's already having distributed the app, that's kind of a catch-22--and why would I switch over *after* coding to use something else? Thank you for your interest in Inneractive. Unfortunately, at this time, your re

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-10 Thread Mike Bonner
I don't have time to do it today but heres some possible pseudocode for a tool that would help. get revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() -- the path to the users plugins folder click a button to move that folder to a new location (thereby removing all user plugins in one fel swoop) re-create an empty

Re: Parsing a PDF file

2016-07-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 07/09/2016 08:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Across the US we're beginning to see a revolution in government data >> sharing. > > > Except, of course, when it comes to actual data. Hi Mark. See my reply to Richard. The actual data I wanted was how the election tur

Re: Parsing a PDF file

2016-07-10 Thread Jim Hurley
Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Jim Hurley wrote: > >> Thanks Richard. >> >> You are so right about releasing data in complex formats. >> I spoke to the election's off about posting election results in PDF >> format. >> I knew there was not use fighting them when they told me that it was >> now County

Draft LiveCode Conference App for 2016, but we have a bug

2016-07-10 Thread Todd Fabacher
At Digital Pomegranate, our team members wanted to do a simple App for the upcoming LiveCode conference and us it as a form of training. But we also came up with a simple, but great business plan to create a profitable business given the number of conferences that happen today, We found a few exist

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
[ this isn't yet a well-formed idea, but I'm sure there could be something ... ] Could there be a special "plugin diagnostic mode" ? When it is active, the IDE would - startup one plugin at a time - let you use it / try things out - and then (on some simple command) startup the next one,

Mental with maps.

2016-07-10 Thread Richmond
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=27476&p=144504#p144504 Creative weekend. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: h

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
You mean widget instances I presume because widgets have their own reverse domain based naming convention/kind. I suspect it would be useful to use some part of the widget name in the instance name of a widget given all widgets are referred to as widget so reading the code it may be hard to wor

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-10 Thread Dave Kilroy
OK Monte how about naming convention for widgets? I currently prepend widget names with “wj” - what do the rest of use This is all great fuel for the scripting style panel at the conference. Also we have: - strict compilation - being even stricter by also declaring repeat loop iteration var