Hello Richard,I disagree with your conclusion that DoMenu was necessary in
HyperCard because that language wasn't rich enough to build an entire IDE
in.DoMenu was an integral part of HyperCard's ease-of learning-to-program.One
command (doMenu) versus many commands to learn/use/remember.Part of t
he
quotes?
Thank you again,
Larry
- Original Message -
From: "Alain Farmer"
To: "How to use LiveCode"
Sent: Sunday, September 21, 2014 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: reading a file
> replace:
> put quote & it & quote into thisFile
> with
> put it into thisFil
replace:
put quote & it & quote into thisFile
with
put it into thisFile
On Sunday, September 21, 2014 6:03 PM, "la...@significantplanet.org"
wrote:
Hello,
Could anyone please explain why the following script does not work?
(It puts into the field the name of the selected file and not the c
re is much-interest in this; not enough to warrant a
recode.
Nice chatting with you, Al.
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:26 PM, Alejandro Tejada
wrote:
Alain Farmer wrote
> Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-)
Actually, I have show LiveCode to many people and
their
Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-)
On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 8:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada
wrote:
Interesting enough, LiveCode had more
power than all XTalk software created
before... but there are just a few of us
who actually knows how to use fully
all this power.
On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 11:33:14 PM, Kay C Lan
wrote:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 2:18 AM, Alain Farmer wrote:
> Thank you, Mark, but the aliasReference is NEVER empty.
>
The Dictionary says:
Comments:
If the aliasPath does not exist, the aliasReference function returns
empty a
lder) -- answers: true & cr
& false
--
end testAliases
On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 2:18:04 PM, Alain Farmer
wrote:
Thank you, Mark, but the aliasReference is NEVER empty.
Therefore cannot use: if the aliasReference of it is empty
to test if something is an alias.:
on testAlias
h -- answers
targetFolder
answer targetFolder& cr & the aliasReference of targetFolder -- answers
targetFolder -- instead of empty
--
end testAliases
On Monday, September 1, 2014 7:29:56 PM, Mark Wieder
wrote:
Alain Farmer writes:
>setDirectoryTo someFolder
>create
on showToUser
set the cursor to none
-- show
end showToUser
On Monday, September 1, 2014 1:24:32 PM, "la...@significantplanet.org"
wrote:
I have a situation in my program where I'm showing the user some stuff. I do
not want the user to be able to click with the mouse during this ti
Hello,
I am using version 6.6.2
I am perplexed by the following:
setDirectoryTo someFolder
create alias "myAlias" to folder "existingFolder"
if the result is not empty then die the result
answer there is an alias "myAlias" -- returns false !?!
answer there is an alias (someFolder &
LOL!
Goes-to-show how accurate and relevant their information is. ;-)
On Sunday, August 31, 2014 5:56:36 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
>
> There's a way to check who Google thinks you are and what interests you. I
> wish I could find the lin
end die
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:04:10 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
wrote:
Haha. I like the paranoid version :)
SKIP
On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 3:53 PM, Alain Farmer
wrote:
> Here is the paranoid version :
>
> function insertAsColumn colNumber, dataToInsert, intoT
ertAsColumn
on die dyingMessage
answer dyingMessage
exit to top
end die
On Thursday, August 28, 2014 3:31:30 PM, JB wrote:
Thank you, Alain! This example will
help me out.
John Balgenoth
On Aug 28, 2014, at 12:24 PM, Alain Farmer wrote:
> Correction:
>
> function ins
line x in dataToInsert
get line x of dataToInsert
put it & tab before item colNumber of line x of intoThisTable
end
repeat
return intoThisTable
--
end insertAsColumn
on die dyingMessage
answer dyingMessage
exit to top
end die
On , Alain Farmer wrote:
on
on insertAsColumn colNumber, dataToInsert, intoThisTable
--
if the number of lines of dataToInsert is not the number of lines of
intoThisTable
then die "Error: Lists have different lengths."
--
set the itemdel to tab
repeat for each line x in dataToInsert
get line x
Yes, Peter, this is happening to me regularly (2-3 times per week).
Exactly as you described.
On Wednesday, August 27, 2014 12:30:36 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I received an email last night that my membership in this list had been
suspended due to "excessive bounces" and the last bounce rece
at it is a unicode issue.
Then I got lucky as I persevered.
How gratifying! :-))
On Monday, August 18, 2014 12:16:57 AM, Alain Farmer
wrote:
Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark.
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin
wrote:
Mark Wieder wrote:
> ...and indeed LC 7.0
Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark.
On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin
wrote:
Mark Wieder wrote:
> ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with
> diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode
> transliterations.
Thanks for confirmi
To Richmond: YES, LiveCode runs on UNIX machines. Btw, MetaCard was first
developed for UNIX, then Windows, then Mac.
To Richard: Thanks for the nudge to use/test version 7, but I am swamped with
work right-now, I do not have time, and I cannot risk using something beta at
this time.
To Mark:
Hello y'all,
I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine.
I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but..
there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals.
put getCurrentFolder() & "Acériculture" into myFolder1
put getCurrentFolder() & "Acericulture" into my
I browsed their entire site. Their information [about what it is] is extremely
scant.
OTOH, there are currently LOTS of Cloud-hosted servers available.
DigitalOcean, the one I'm using, only costs $5 per month, for the equivalent of
my own server.
They are a BIG operation,and therefore I am fairly
completed, polished, and documented.
Meanwhile, if you discover such a lib (for CouchDB), please notify me.
So much to do, so little time! ;-)
On Friday, August 15, 2014 3:38:48 PM, Richard Gaskin
wrote:
Alain Farmer wrote:
> I am also interested in JSON, because this is the native format
&g
In reply to : Taking a broader view, for most apps it's not desirable to save
UI elements at all, populating the UI with data stored externally instead, so
when you deploy upgrades the new UI can display older data without having to
worry about the old UI. And for separate data storage there a
Paul Hibbert wrote: "My biggest frustration at the time was the disjointed
documentation and
lack of structured tutorials, many people have also made the same
comments over the years. I feel the tutorials especially have improved
and the documentation is improving slowly. Thinking back to when
Regex is GREAT!
I use it a LOT.
Anyone need any help to grasp how it works ?
On Monday, August 11, 2014 10:14:28 PM, JB wrote:
That is nice to know!
I was thinking I would speed up the
longer text processing. You just did
me a favor and save me a lot of time
plus made it easier and fast
Hello,
I am using LC-6.6.2 on Debian.
I have been experimenting with revXMLib lately.
One of my objectives is to process 15000 xml-files, 3 different kinds.
Btw I am migrating a huge Drupal-site (exported to XML) to LiveCode.
First the encoding challenge had to be vaulted:
a) xml-lib won't lo
Hello,
I am using LC-6.6.2 on Debian.
I have been experimenting with revXMLib lately.
One of my objectives is to process 15000 xml-files, 3 different kinds.
Btw I am migrating a huge Drupal-site (exported to XML) to LiveCode.
First the encoding challenge had to be vaulted:
a) xml-lib won't load t
My two cents worth,
I love y'all and want to continue to communicate with you,
but, let's face it, this is a VERY-busy mailing-list.
So busy it is hard to keep-up, or even read most messages anymore.
My webmail-client often puts our mail-list messages in my spam folder.
For actively working on some
To Skip Kimpel,
About: "if you intend on digging deep into datagrid, make sure you get the
Datagrid Helper".
Question: what is "Datagrid Helper" ? what is its URL ?
Thanks,
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:11:08 AM, Klaus major-k wrote:
Hi Skip,
Am 23.07.2014 um 12:55 schrieb Skip Kimpel :
Thanks Richard,
Btw, I have only just recently upgraded to 6.6.2.
Now I have to upgrade already. Arr!
I will have to get used to it, I guess.
Is version-7 stable ?
Will it fix my problem ?
Stay tuned for the next episode!
Thanks,
On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 9:27:20 PM, Richard Gaskin
wrote:
Merci pour l'appui. mon cher Richmond.
Very important to me, because many of my projects are for francophones.
Message-in-a-bottle has been set to sea; let's see what happens.
Thanks
On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 1:34:30 PM, Richmond
wrote:
On 22/07/14 20:11, Alain Farmer wrote:
&g
es either; even worse than URL-encoded.
On Tuesday, July 22, 2014 11:44:17 AM, Richmond
wrote:
On 22/07/14 17:35, Alain Farmer wrote:
> I am using LiveCode 6.6.2 on Debian.
> I wanted to use folders with diacritics in their name: é, è, à, etc.
> Alas, LiveCode apparently does not
I am using LiveCode 6.6.2 on Debian.
I wanted to use folders with diacritics in their name: é, è, à, etc.
Alas, LiveCode apparently does not allow this.
1. answer there is a folder "écologie" -- answers false
2. answer there is a folder "ecologie" -- answers true
3. answer there is a folder "%A9co
Bravo on bringing HTML5+Javascript Web Delivery to LiveCode. Awesome!
Btw, I crafted a MetaCard WYSIWYG-editor of dHTML .. back in the day.
Of-course it will be far-better coded natively; more maintained that's for sure!
Thanks for this GREAT project.
I will try to help [financially] when I become
This may seem off-topic, sort-of, but it might be simpler to transmit an
exhaustive DESCRIPTION of the stack, and have their LiveCode create it all from
scratch. Then it gets filled with content that is gotten by URL. Kind-of like
how web-pages work. It's all text, no binaries.
On Friday, Jun
Use replaceText:
put replaceText ( yourData, "^[0-9]*", empty) into yourData
On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 2:25:11 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
wrote:
Hello LC'ers
I have data element that I need to scan for all NON numbers and remove
them. For instance this data element should read
Yes, there was Publish-&-Subscribe in it, but the really-amazing thing about
OpenDoc is that everything would have been document-centric, versus
application-centric like it is now and has been forever. In any
document/application you would systematically use the components of your
choice: your
I rermember OpenDoc. It would have been revolutionary. And it was READY to go.
I knew the guy at Apple Canada that was in charge of promoting it. He was
profoundly disappointed when Apple dropped-the-ball; just as we were when
HyperCard was steved. And so it was with many other promising R&D ini
Thanks Warren,
Yup, this is the version I am using.
I don't change often because it is not a trivial matter for me.
I have only ever used this version; no other versions used so-far.
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2014, at 17:31 , Alain Farmer wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop)
>
> None of the unicode stuff works [for me]:
> * set the useUnicode to true
> * the unicodeText of field
> * the unicodeFormattedText of field
> No error messages; just empty.
>
Hello,
I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop)
None of the unicode stuff works [for me]:
* set the useUnicode to true
* the unicodeText of field
* the unicodeFormattedText of field
No error messages; just empty.
Can anyone give me a clue as to what to do ?
Thanks,
Alain
___
Exactly, Jacque. Thank you kindly for responding.
Btw I am creating some experimentation stacks, that I will share with y'all
soon.
Kind regards,
Alain
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 1:17:44 AM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
On 4/29/14, 11:28 PM, Alain Farmer wrote:
> I am stumped.
share soon.
On Wednesday, April 30, 2014 6:50:10 AM, Klaus major-k wrote:
Hi Alain,
Am 30.04.2014 um 06:28 schrieb Alain Farmer :
> I am stumped. Why the contradiction below ?
>
> on mouseUp
> answer the cantDelete of part 1 -- answers true or false
> repeat with x =
I am stumped. Why the contradiction below ?
on mouseUp
answer the cantDelete of part 1 -- answers true or false
repeat with x = 1 to the number of parts
get the cantDelete of part x -- error! object does not have this property
end repeat
end mouseUp
Perhaps I have not been clear.
Here is my attempt to be clearer.
Can I use the regex expressions in site http://www.regexr.com/ in a LiveCode
stack on my local computer ?
Thank you,
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:06:40 PM, Alejandro Tejada
wrote:
mwieder wrote
> It uses the regex parser in th
Which "browser" are you referring to ?? Where does browser come into play ??
My question is whether the site ( http://www.regexr.com/ ) uses the same regex
syntax as livecode users do ?
Thanks,
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 10:10:43 PM, Mark Wieder
wrote:
Alain-
Tuesday, April 29, 2014, 7:01:
Hello Walt,
Thanks for the URL.
Is their regex the same as ours (livecode) ?
Thanks
On Tuesday, April 29, 2014 9:21:06 PM, Walt Brown
wrote:
This is a cool site. I'm not sure if it's been posted here. It's an
interactive tutorial/tester of RegExp expressions you might find useful.
http://www
Hello y'all,
Congratulations Richard. Good move, Kevin. :-)
I would like to share hundreds of handlers I have developed over time (years).
I will also want to share stacks I'm crafting to master certain features;
revXML at this time.
What is the best way to do this ?
Btw, I may be asking some new
the Real Beginner"
http://qery.us/3fi
LiveCode on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/
On 4/4/2014 06:24, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 4/3/14, 7:51 PM, Alain Farmer wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Is there still a Home stack in LiveCode ?
>> Are following expressio
Thanks Jacque. :-)
On Friday, April 4, 2014 12:24:52 AM, J. Landman Gay
wrote:
On 4/3/14, 7:51 PM, Alain Farmer wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Is there still a Home stack in LiveCode ?
> Are following expressions still supported ?
> * go home
> * edit the script of home
There
Hello,
Is there still a Home stack in LiveCode ?
Are following expressions still supported ?
* go home
* edit the script of home
Anyone using revXML ?
Any gotchas that I should be aware-of ?
Are you still working with Jabber/XMPP, David Bovill ?
Thanks,
Alain Farmer
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