ANN: PowerDebug 2.0

2016-07-25 Thread Mark Wieder
I have released a new version of PowerDebug. PowerDebug completely supports LC8 and is backwards-compatible to at least version 4.x. Debugging of standalone applications is still supported on the same computer, cross-platform on multiple computers, and on different computers in the same local

Re: Initializing Libraries

2016-07-25 Thread David Bovill
Script only stacks are designed from the IDE's point of view as not needing to show a stack window - as what would be the point as any changes to the visible appearance are discarded. Consequently the IDE loads the stack as an invisible stack, and will often open the script in the script editor wit

Re: Initializing Libraries

2016-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/24/2016 10:56 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: lf you use just use someStack.livecode when you open the "stack" (script only) it actually instantiates a window in the IDE that you can then do cmd-K and it auto opens the script. if you double click on the someStack.livecodescript from

Re: openBackground ID in Behavior Script

2016-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
This is a message sent by the engine and it will provide the id of the background, which you can't specify yourself. The handler needs to use a valid parameter variable to catch that id, and numbers won't work. It should be something like pID or similar which the engine can populate. You can

Re: [OT] Vertical Tab

2016-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On July 25, 2016 10:49:11 AM Richmond wrote: and started wondering what possible advantages Vertical Tab might have over a CR (13) or a LF (10): A vertical tab is not a line delimiter. That means you can add visual line breaks while still using normal line and text chunking syntax. MS Word a

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Scott Rossi
This should do what you want, in the script of the group (set the margins of the group to 0): local scrollX, clickX, allowDrag on mouseDown put hScroll of me into scrollX put mouseH() into clickX put true into allowDrag end mouseDown on mouseMove X,Y if not allowDrag then exit mouse

[OT] Vertical Tab

2016-07-25 Thread Richmond
I am a pinhead: I ended up dipping into that horrible VB6 book again. Any way I bumped up against ye olde ASCII codes and 'Vertical Tab' (ASCII 11) [something I had never heard of before]. So, "just for a laugh" I popped this into a button: on mouseUp set the text of fld "fText" to numTo

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Another mousemove version.. local sDragging, sLastX on mouseup put false into sDragging end mouseup on mouserelease put false into sDragging end mouserelease on mousedown put true into sDragging put item 1 of the mouseloc into sLastX end mousedown on mousemove px,py if the mouse

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Roger Guay
try putting the following script into each moving image: local tx, ty, dx on mousedown put item 1 of the loc of me into tx put item 2 of the loc of me into ty put tx- the mouseH into dx end mousedown on mouseMove x,y if the mouse is down then set the loc of me to x+dx, ty end mouseMove C

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Paul Dupuis
Put the following in the script of the image that is inside the scrolling group. You may also want to change the cursor to a hand on mouseDown on mouseDown set the hMin of me to 0 set the hPos of me to item 1 of the mouseLoc set the hMax of me to the width of me end mouseDown on mouseStillD

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Richmond
See daft effort here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27672 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.ru

Re: [ANN] Updates to LiveCode's platform support policy

2016-07-25 Thread Stephen MacLean
> On Jul 25, 2016, at 4:27 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 22/07/2016 01:58, Stephen MacLean wrote: > >> While I understand why you might want to limit support to “released” >> OSes, I would say that LC needs to checking against each “early” >> release, looking for issues and checking for new

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Richmond
Stupid Richmond: on mouseDown set the idleRate to 0 grab me end mouseDown on mouseStillDown set the loc of me to (item 1 of the loc of me, 133) end mouseStillDown http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-January/166949.html Now: how does one prevent the 'wobble'? Richmond.

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Richmond
Constrained grab? R. On 25.07.2016 12:53, [-hh] wrote: Script your grouped image with the following. local iAmDragged=false on mouseDown set lockloc of me to true put the loc of me into iL put item 1 of iL into i1 put item 2 of iL into i2 lock cursor; set cursor to hand put

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Richmond
That's super; but it does seem a long-winded way to do things. I wonder if I cannot use scrollBarDrag in some way? R. On 25.07.2016 12:53, [-hh] wrote: Script your grouped image with the following. local iAmDragged=false on mouseDown set lockloc of me to true put the loc of me into iL

Re: Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread [-hh]
Script your grouped image with the following. local iAmDragged=false on mouseDown set lockloc of me to true put the loc of me into iL put item 1 of iL into i1 put item 2 of iL into i2 lock cursor; set cursor to hand put true into iAmDragged dragMeInGrp i1,i2,the mouseH-i1,the mouseV

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-25 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Kevin & Richard, Thanks for engaging so positively with this discussion. Let me start by saying that I'm very much on the side of LiveCode succeeding and want to help not just complain from the sidelines. Open source licensing FUD tends to make my blood boil a little, although leaving that asi

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 43

2016-07-25 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 #43 here: https://goo.gl/MNxKjs This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and

Slip, sliding away

2016-07-25 Thread Richmond
I made a lng rectangular image (3 times wider than my stack) and grouped it into a group the width of my stack and gave it a horizontal scrollbar; so I can scroll the image laterally using the scrollbar . . . surprise, surprise; and jolly s*xy it looks too. I would look even s*xier if

Re: [ANN] Updates to LiveCode's platform support policy

2016-07-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 22/07/2016 01:58, Stephen MacLean wrote: While I understand why you might want to limit support to “released” OSes, I would say that LC needs to checking against each “early” release, looking for issues and checking for new features that might be supported. LC should take bug reports against