Re: LC Global - my experience

2017-06-19 Thread james--- via use-livecode
I must admit it did turn out better than I was expecting. The prerecording of the demos/lessons/walk throughs is an excellent idea. Now if it is only taken to the next step. 1. Have a script. 2. Use the script 3. Use a proper microphone (headset one will do) 4. Edit the thing to remove superfluous

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
ha… that's a simple hack… I might use # instead… though these all start showing up in PB as have in a 1 line script.. which I guess is server explanatory. panos wrote me back today say he thinks the default behavior is good for newbies. which it probably is. Theoretically the IDE *could* us

Re: LC Global - my experience

2017-06-19 Thread james--- via use-livecode
Roger wrote: > Although you still have to wait until the very end of the webinarjam (not > the YouTube link), you can select and copy the chat comments. Yes, they > are actual TEXT, not part of the video. Cool, thanks for that. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
and another case where we should have a little crowd fund setup. On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 4:00 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > +1 > > > On Jun 19, 2017, at 12:49 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Right, bu

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
+1 > On Jun 19, 2017, at 12:49 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Right, but every time you open the script and then close it again, it keeps > asking if you want to save the default. It gets irritating. > > I sometimes just replace the default entry with a single space and save i

Re: LiveCode Server - Html, Quotes & JS?

2017-06-19 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Mike and Mark, Thank you both for your suggestions! I will give them a good try and get back to you. Thanks again, Rick > On Jun 19, 2017, at 2:50 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode > wrote: > > Theres a couple things I do... For items like an href that are pretty > predictable, I have a st

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/19/17 12:58 PM, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode wrote: On Jun 19, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: so, does it make sense to request a feature enhancement to add a preference to*not* insert any handler in buttons/widgets, whose scripts are empty if inadve

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-19 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 3:31 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Greetings… > > With LC 8.1 and later, we’re now using tsNet rather than libURL. That’s > fine. However, a Windows standalone that uses tsNet cannot even launch > unless tsNet.dll is in the sa

Re: LiveCode Server - Html, Quotes & JS?

2017-06-19 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 06/19/2017 11:22 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: I have a nice example button image swap routine written in JavaScript which I’d like to use in a .lc script. To use HTML etc. within a .lc script I have to put the statement in double quotes such as: put “” or put “http://www.googl

Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

2017-06-19 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Greetings… With LC 8.1 and later, we’re now using tsNet rather than libURL. That’s fine. However, a Windows standalone that uses tsNet cannot even launch unless tsNet.dll is in the same directory as the standalone.exe. This makes deploying a single file on Windows impossible. Which means yo

Re: LiveCode Server - Html, Quotes & JS?

2017-06-19 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
Theres a couple things I do... For items like an href that are pretty predictable, I have a stack file with a template that can be used with merge. So I'd have [[tUrl]] in a property and merge that sucker in. (could use a description in a variable rather than a 2nd tUrl if you'd like put "http://

Re: LC Global - my experience

2017-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have some spare x-ray glasses I can sell you. Contact me off list. ;-) Bob S > On Jun 18, 2017, at 16:56 , prothero--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > I suspect that "jumping to the good parts" is a major feature for some. I > keep getting these ads that promise me very valuable, revealing,

LiveCode Server - Html, Quotes & JS?

2017-06-19 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
I have a nice example button image swap routine written in JavaScript which I’d like to use in a .lc script. To use HTML etc. within a .lc script I have to put the statement in double quotes such as: put “” or put “http://www.google.com' >” where I have to substitute s

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
and a visual indicator that an object has a script might be nice, too. A certain tool that some of your colleagues use does that with a filled-in top-left corner triangle. You can look in the project browser to see which objects have scripts assined, but that is certainly not ideal. You could al

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Paul Hibbert via use-livecode
On Jun 19, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: > > so, does it make sense to request a feature enhancement to add a preference > to *not* insert any handler in buttons/widgets, whose scripts are empty if > inadvertently opened? there would need to be a way to

Re: Server Installation

2017-06-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: > On Jun 16, 2017, at 17:23 , Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> In many cases you'll find you don't need to change permissions and >> then change them back; you can temporarily raise your own permissions >> with sudo to edit files and leave permissions as originally >> configured. > >

Re: Server Installation

2017-06-19 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi Bob, I keep the latest LC Server version in my Desktop. I also have a LC_SERVER folder, in which I put the old LC Server as soon as I download a new version. So, when a new LC Server version is released, I do the following: 1. Download latest LC Server on Desktop 2. Right-click on livecode-ser

Re: Server Installation

2017-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Ubuntu on a local server running under ESX1 5.1. I have already installed Apache and verified it's running. Mike Bonner has offered some useful information on how to enable those things. I will give those a try later. I wonder if there is a book called, "Setting up Apache2 on a Linux server as

Re: Server Installation

2017-06-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
True, if using terminal, but I was editing the file with the GUI text editor. I suppsoe I could have launched the text editor as sudo... Bob S > On Jun 16, 2017, at 17:23 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > In many cases you'll find you don't need to change permissions and then

Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I wrote support "complaining" that after I clear the on mouseup end mouseUp that is inserted in button scripts by default, apply, close, save. Then later if one inadvertently opens the script of that button, the script is reinserted. Panos replied this is the default behavior….gave me a hack t

Re: LC Global - my experience

2017-06-19 Thread Roger Eller via use-livecode
Although you still have to wait until the very end of the webinarjam (not the YouTube link), you can select and copy the chat comments. Yes, they are actual TEXT, not part of the video. ~Roger On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:32 AM, james--- via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >

Re: LC Global - my experience

2017-06-19 Thread james--- via use-livecode
Didn't know about being able to see comments while watching webinars. I simply clicked on the YouTube badge to go to the YouTube version and download it. Scrubbing a local file in VLC is so easy. So it would be nice if the text from the webinars could be provided though. James __

Re: LC Global - my experience

2017-06-19 Thread Lagi Pittas via use-livecode
I don't know if the users who asked for it to be disabled are just dumb or webinarjam for disabling the option after numerous requests by some morons (no I won't give them the benefit of the doubt ). If it's a replay then if I come to watch it, then I have decided to and if i decide I want to go

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 87

2017-06-19 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
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 #87 here: https://goo.gl/gjA9wE This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around t

Re: Uploading a file using FTP

2017-06-19 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
Terry, thanks for the info. I thought it would be a good idea to change the variable names to be the same as in the dictionary before uploading the stack. Wasn´t that good. I have corrected the online stack also in case others are interested also. Regards, Matthia Matthias Rebbe +49 5741 3100