Re: Limitation on length of Menu Items in a Combo Box?

2016-10-05 Thread Roger Eller
Is this a size in bytes limitation, or a number of lines limitation? ~Roger On Oct 5, 2016 3:28 PM, "Roger Eller" wrote: > I have pasted a long list into combo box (2106 lines), and it truncates > the list to about 10 lines. If I reduce the list to 2095 lines, the list > does not truncate. An

OSX Opening an App with a document

2016-10-05 Thread Paul Dupuis
Okay list gurus: What is the best practice method for determine whether a Standalone app under OSX was opened with a document (by drag and drop or double-click)? I have an appleevent handler that get any doc dropped on the app while it is running. I was also checking this after startup (and by st

Limitation on length of Menu Items in a Combo Box?

2016-10-05 Thread Roger Eller
I have pasted a long list into combo box (2106 lines), and it truncates the list to about 10 lines. If I reduce the list to 2095 lines, the list does not truncate. Any more, and it will truncate. ~Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2016-10-05 Thread Richmond
I wonder how any development suite and/or language could claim it did not rely on a metaphor unless it consisted of programming in nothing but ones and zeros? Richmond. On 5.10.2016 20:03, David V Glasgow wrote: I PAID in advance for the Windows version, and then switched to mTropolis. II

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2016-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
David V Glasgow wrote: > I PAID in advance for the Windows version, and then switched to > mTropolis. IIRC it trumpeted that it did not rely on a metaphor. > > Boy was I glad to get back to stacks & cards For me it's not even the "card metaphor" - we could call it a "form" like VB does or a "

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2016-10-05 Thread David V Glasgow
I PAID in advance for the Windows version, and then switched to mTropolis. IIRC it trumpeted that it did not rely on a metaphor. Boy was I glad to get back to stacks & cards David G > On 5 Oct 2016, at 2:03 am, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > I waited a year for the DOS version. It never came. T

Re: 9.0???

2016-10-05 Thread Richmond
Well: whaddayaknow? https://github.com/livecode/livecode/milestones Here's another way of looking at the phenomenon I have previously pointed out: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=28061#p147023 I wonder whether anybody has yet pointed out to whoever cooks up the version number

Re: MacWorld UK

2016-10-05 Thread Richmond
Well the first thing you have to remember is that in Britain everything computerwise is behind the times. Every year when I go over to visit my parents and so on I am amazed at how retro all the computer magazines look. This, of course, is without mentioning the UK government's obsessive need