Re: Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

2016-11-23 Thread Paul Hibbert
> On Nov 23, 2016, at 8:44 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > is this even doable? The good news: Right click on the Polygon then choose 'Reshape Polygon' and the points that you require should appear. :-) Now the bad news: Sadly this also revealed the ghost trails seen before when

Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

2016-11-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I want to be able to draw an adjustable trapezoid in Livecode. The regular polygon tool set to 4 sides doesn't allow you to grab any given Similarly, the polygon graphic also doesn't provide grab points for corners of a rect that you can drag and adjust Is this just impossible? or am I missing

Re: LibraryStack Message

2016-11-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
The libraryStack handler should only fire when the stack is first put in use. It's like an openstack handler for libraries. Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On November 23, 2016 4:33:42 PM Sannyasin

AW: Suffering from a Brain Fart...

2016-11-23 Thread Paul Dupuis
Thank you all for the replies. ... open inv as modal show repeat wait 0 with messages -- to allow any controls in the dialog to function -- do repeat loop stuff, updating dialog items as needed end repeat close ... does get you a modal dialog while the script continues, where as ... modal

Re: LibraryStack Message

2016-11-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > (hmm I guess this would be easy enough to test, > now that I break it down….) Nothing beats hands-on empirical evidence. And maybe needed here, because to be honest I don't understand your script. I see that you have a "start using" command, but I don't see

Re: LibraryStack Message

2016-11-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I guess I am not being clear (hmm I guess this would be easy enough to test, now that I break it down….) helloWorld.livecodescript # stack # contains handler 1 on libraryStack answer "One World, One God" with "OK!" end libraryStack # contains handler 2 on wonderOfWonders A

Re: LibraryStack Message

2016-11-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: ... > on libraryStack > # do more initialization stuff here that you > # may prefer to encapsulate inside this script > end libraryStack ... > ? this issue is: we don't want the initialization scripts in the > stack to fire everytime it is called, only on the ver

LibraryStack Message

2016-11-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
if you have a stack in your repository e.g. lib_colorManipulation.livecode # script only that is in the stack files and your initialization script loops through the stack files and for every "lib_*" file it runs start using stack [lib_colorManipulation.livecode] # and any others… these are al

[ANN] Order Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner now!

2016-11-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi coders, In one month, it will be Christmas again. During this time, we are often told that shipments are urgent. If you want to have your copy of the book before the holidays, don't wait but order it now. Any orders placed until Monday 28th November will be sent on Wednesday 30st November.

Re: [Blog] Do as Javascript Comes to HTML5

2016-11-23 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 23/11/2016 17:07, Heather Laine wrote: Dear List Folks, Check out this exciting blog post showing you a major advance in LiveCode for HTML5: https://livecode.com/control-your-webpage-with-livecode-html5/ Looking forward to som

Re: [Blog] Do as Javascript Comes to HTML5

2016-11-23 Thread Bob Sneidar
This is awesome. Right now I fill my fillable PDF's using Applescript to tell Javascript to tell Acrobat what to do. What a kludge. I should be able to work out a better form fill algorithm for the future using this. Bob S On Nov 23, 2016, at 09:07 , Heather Laine mailto:heat...@livecode.com>

[Blog] Do as Javascript Comes to HTML5

2016-11-23 Thread Heather Laine
Dear List Folks, Check out this exciting blog post showing you a major advance in LiveCode for HTML5: https://livecode.com/control-your-webpage-with-livecode-html5/ Looking forward to some rainbow web pages :) Regards, Heather