Re: How do I codesign an App?

2016-10-26 Thread Earthednet-wp
Code signing is very frustrating and time-wasting. I second, third, and fourth all recommendations to make the app deployment process easier for both standalone systems and mobile. I disagree that it should only be in the commercial version, though. Indy users distribute apps too. I'd chip in

Re: Store to iCloud?

2016-10-24 Thread Earthednet-wp
distributes, and > there's a Dropbox 2.0 API that is also out there. We do all of our data > transfer between devices and desktops with dropbox, right now. That's > across a bunch of apps and a pile of devices. > > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Earthednet-wp > wro

Re: Store to iCloud?

2016-10-24 Thread Earthednet-wp
> On Oct 21, 2016, at 7:57 AM, Bob Sneidar >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> On a Mac it's fairly easy if you are alreacy connecting to iCloud Drive. >>>> Just write a file to: >>>> >>>> /Users//Library/Mobile >>&

Re: Store to iCloud?

2016-10-21 Thread Earthednet-wp
; Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/ > > Not sure how to connect to an Icloud drive on Windows, but the process would > be similar. > > Bob S > > > On Oct 21, 2016, at 07:50 , Earthednet-wp > mailto:proth...@earthednet.org>> wrote: > > Folks, > I&#x

Store to iCloud?

2016-10-21 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, I'm wondering if anybody has stored data on Apple's iCloud or iCloud Drive. I have an app where I want the use entered data to be persistent between upgrades, and accessible between multiple devices, but don't want to support a database on my server. I am about to look deeper into this,

Re: Subject: Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LTI

2016-10-12 Thread Earthednet-wp
y, thanks, Todd. Wonderful contribution. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 12, 2016, at 7:12 AM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > Good, that is awesome! I'm excited! > Bill > > William Prothero > http://es.earthednet.org > >> On Oct 12, 2016, at

Re: Subject: Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LTI

2016-10-12 Thread Earthednet-wp
Good, that is awesome! I'm excited! Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 12, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Todd Fabacher wrote: > > Hello Martin and Bill and other educators, > > Actually we have been diligent little elves working away since the hangout > meeting. Based on research, we

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2016-10-04 Thread Earthednet-wp
I waited a year for the DOS version. It never came. Then I went to Director. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 4, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob Sneidar > wrote: > >> Agreed. I probably paid for the original Supercard and ab

Re: Wondering about iOS background tasks

2016-10-04 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks, Henry! I guess that saves the security risk of having apps run in the background and potentially causing security problems. It makes sense. Thanks again, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 4, 2016, at 1:13 AM, Mark Wilcox wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2016, at 06:17 P

Re: [OT] Fixing Data and Resource Fork of Macintosh files

2016-10-01 Thread Earthednet-wp
I didn't think Mac had resource and data forks after it went to Intel processors. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 1, 2016, at 6:41 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > Hi All, > > This question is for LiveCode MacOSX developers: > > Have you fixed a Macintosh file with a

Re: How to make my app keep running in the bg

2016-09-30 Thread Earthednet-wp
Mike, I haven't tried that. I fire up my iOS dev projects rarely enough that my skills with the intricacies are pretty rudimentary. For now, just keeping the app from going to sleep is good enough. Thanks again for your help. The step by step procedure, with your comments on several "gotchas" w

Re: reloading iOS provisioning profiles etc

2016-09-25 Thread Earthednet-wp
Ben, I feel your pain. I don't load a new app to my iPhone very often, but when I do, I plan an entire day stumbling around in the forest of updates, new versions, certificates, provisioning, etc, etc. There is a tutorial on the lessons and it worked the first time for me. But after that it was

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

2016-09-22 Thread Earthednet-wp
Martin, I hadn't heard about xAPI. I've really just dabbled in this subject. I know that my campus uses a highly customized version of Moodle, so it would be compatible with xAPI. Our local community college is changing over to Canvas after using Moodle, and before that, Blackboard. An organizat

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

2016-09-20 Thread Earthednet-wp
.earthednet.org > On Sep 19, 2016, at 10:47 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > Todd, > Fabulous! It will be a great resource for higher Ed developers. I'll see what > I can do to test it at UCSB when it is available. > Best, > Bill > > William Prothero > http://es

Re: LiveCode interface to SCORM /LIT

2016-09-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
Todd, Fabulous! It will be a great resource for higher Ed developers. I'll see what I can do to test it at UCSB when it is available. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Sep 19, 2016, at 10:02 PM, Todd Fabacher wrote: > > Hello Educators, > > Will Jamieson, and the DP te

Re: Playing Sound question

2016-09-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
Alejandro, I built it on livecode 8.1.0, the release version. It should be tested on that version before giving up. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Sep 18, 2016, at 9:29 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > After playing a bit more with this Sound Player > Livecode

Object inspector question

2016-09-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, I'm getting used to the object inspector in lc8, but notice that setting the font of a field or button is different. In v7 and earlier, the drop down menu showed a long list of fonts, but the new inspector show a short list of font types (system), etc. I can type in the name of a font and

Re: Playing Sound question

2016-09-17 Thread Earthednet-wp
Rick, It's for an update of a very simple app that plays a collection of sound files of yoga poses in a user defined order, with settable pauses containing only background sounds. It's for my own use for a yoga experience I share with my friends. I made it as an intro to making an iOS app. The r

Re: play sound command?

2016-09-15 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks for the info, folks. Perhaps I didn't read far enough in the dictionary entries for the play command, but I didn't see a list of supported audio file types. Also, I found a link to "stop" but had to look at the tutorial online to get the "play stop" syntax. For me, this isn't a problem, b

Re: Back to the Garden of Eden

2016-08-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richmond, Very true. It's hard for those experienced enough to write a book, to know which details might confuse a newbie. The ones I like use a bunch of sort, real world, simple examples, to demonstrate how to create the code. Now is a great time to write a new one, now that v8 is nearing compl

Re: IPv6 & Apple

2016-08-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
I put up a simple stack that might help you get started with php access to a MySQL db, perhaps helpful. http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Aug 22, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Charles Warwick > wrote: > >> On 23/08/2016 2:27 pm, Charl

Re: Ideas for LiveCode workshops - help needed

2016-08-04 Thread Earthednet-wp
An app that interacts with the cloud and/or web services would be of great interest to me. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Aug 4, 2016, at 8:04 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > How about a client-server user registration system? > > Everyone needs one, and in addition to bein

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations

2016-08-02 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, I'm wondering if it wouldn't be easier to just set up a payment web page that you interact with in the browser widget. Then you could, for instance, for PayPal, just use their easy payment button to get paid. There would need to be https communication, probably with some kind of encrypted

Re: Problem with custom functions

2016-07-01 Thread Earthednet-wp
Try putting: Cubit(3).In the message box, without the "put" This messed me up for awhile too. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jul 1, 2016, at 8:03 AM, Quentin Long wrote: > > I'm not sure if I've exposed a horrible bug, or I've managed to completely > forget something u

Re: Control? Object?

2016-06-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richmond makes excellent points. I am an experienced programmer, but have often scratched my head (as a relative newby) about whether to call a livecode thingy an object, a control, or whatever. For the future of livecode, it is vital that the dictionary, and other documentation and tutorials,

Re: Open in...

2016-06-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
Glen, Re sending email with attachments, this may get you started. This page has a link to a stack that uses a php cgi to send mail from a server. There are probably simpler ways of doing it using the user's own local email system, but I needed a solution that would send emails no matter the loc

Re: LC and webviews

2016-06-13 Thread Earthednet-wp
Lynn, Thank you for explaining some of the possibilities of the browser widget. I'd sure love to eventually see some simple example stacks showing how to implement some of these features. I'm not a JavaScript programmer, but can generally get by with a new language once I have a "skeleton" app t

Re: Card SnapShot from Negative Rect?

2016-06-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Scott, The important thing to recognize is that if you specify the rect in the snapshot command, you are essentially getting the data from the screenshot, but if you take a snapshot from a group, you get the data before it goes to the screen, where it exists in memory. I had a situation where

Re: Definite Bug

2016-05-26 Thread Earthednet-wp
Ali, Thanks! Glad it's been reported. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 26, 2016, at 12:12 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: > > Hi Bill, > I've already submitted a bug report for this, should you wish to track its > progress. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17544 >

Re: Infinite LiveCode -- What Happened Exactly?

2016-05-25 Thread Earthednet-wp
I'd be more likely to be in if the field widget had a setting for how it wraps text around an image, rather than just having it inline. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 25, 2016, at 12:43 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > OK, I'm in… > > I pledged (nothing sp

Re: Project Browser

2016-05-24 Thread Earthednet-wp
Project browser issues have also kept me from using v8 for development. It has been especially frustrating when trying to reorder objects on cards with groups. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 24, 2016, at 9:28 AM, RM wrote: > > It isn't my cup of tea either. > > But fo

Re: Suspense

2016-05-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
Heather, I had intended to increase my $100 pledge to $200. I put in s second pledge at $100, assuming it would add to the previous $100. True? If not, it is my intention to pledge $200 total. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 23, 2016, at 5:00 AM, Heather Laine wr

Re: Trevor DeVore interviews CTO and CEO

2016-05-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
Great interview! I can only imagine what the dev team went through to do this project. I'm happy to double my pledge. With this campaign, and the great foundation that has been laid with the first Kickstarter campaign, new feature and tools should come out much faster. Best, Bill William Prot

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-14 Thread Earthednet-wp
Is the glass half empty, or half full? Life seems to be much happier for those focus their assessment on the half full part. In Livecode's case it seems to be 98% (or higher) full. But then we still can't forget about the last 2%, while still honoring the 98%. Anybody who has worked with Adobe D

Re: SVG Widgets Work Well -- User Contributions - Screen Casts

2016-05-13 Thread Earthednet-wp
Great idea! I'd like to see that happen. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 13, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No > more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… > >

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Earthednet-wp
I'm in too. I am retired and give my educational software away for free. But the responsiveness of the LC team, the generosity of the users with help, and the actuality and future vision of the platform is so promising that I want to contribute. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.

Re: Urgent: Numbers in the audience? Description too.

2016-05-12 Thread Earthednet-wp
Mark, My work currently reaches introductory level Earth science college students. I am in the process of rewriting software originally developed with Adobe Director. A beta (stripped down) version is in use in several classes at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I expect much wider d

Re: First experience with LC 8.0's Interactive Welcome

2016-05-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
> Kevin > > Kevin Miller ~ ke...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ > LiveCode: Everyone can create apps > > > > > On 06/05/2016, 15:15, "use-livecode on behalf of Earthednet-wp" > proth...@earthednet.org> wrote: > >> Quentin's f

Re: First experience with LC 8.0's Interactive Welcome

2016-05-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Heather, Quentin's feedback is indeed fabulous. It is very difficult for experienced coders to write tutorials that work for newbies. This was a huge problem in the create-it course. My oceanography students schooled me in this and it was a mind-opening experience to look over their shoulder as

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, Richmond, thanks for your forthright posts and entertaining metaphors! Re fees, licenses, etc, I am a retired prof who spent a lot of years programming for research, then to support student learning in a large oceanography class. My son is an elementary teacher who teaches Lego robotics.

Re: Being silly with penguins

2016-04-22 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richmond, According to the Director model, a moving object would be a "Sprite". The Sprite could cycle through images to show character movement at a specific location. That would be a good analogy for your method of cycling background images. When the Sprite needs to move as it cycles through i

Re: How to compile in earlier versions using new keywords?

2016-04-09 Thread Earthednet-wp
Perhaps there is a way to have a text field that holds the appropriate script for the version, then you can set the script of btn xyz to fld "best script" on startup. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 9, 2016, at 6:11 AM, -hh wrote: > > Is there a way to *compile* the fo

Re: Error: Unable to open the database file

2016-04-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Ray, I have a stack for MySQL implementation that might help you get started, since you are thinking of using php as middleware. It's at http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation Scroll to the bottom of the page. Good luck. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 6, 2016, at

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

2016-04-03 Thread Earthednet-wp
Jacque, Perhaps I have more than one extensions folder. I'll check for another one. Btw, I am assuming v7 and v8 use the same extensions folder? Hmm, seems unlikely. I'll check. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 3, 2016, at 10:32 PM, "J. Landman Gay" > wrote: > >>

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

2016-04-02 Thread Earthednet-wp
I wonder how hard it would be to port max's Wikia wiki to a less commercial host. I am skeptical of those free sites dedicated to scraping user information for data mining purposes. Livecode could support it as part of their resources, as an experiment to see how it develops? Bill William Pro

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

2016-03-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
I second this. Organizing the code in a project is really important and there are lots of ways to go wrong. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:26 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > Ahh... so code that has object level scope should be e.g. > > "ti

Re: Can a widget be in the background?

2016-03-24 Thread Earthednet-wp
d a >> background on many cards, then make the background group on the first card, >> before you add the rest of the cards. >> >> Tore >>> 24. mar. 2016 kl. 06.02 skrev Earthednet-wp : >>> >>> Scott, >>> Thanks! You are the man

Re: Can a widget be in the background?

2016-03-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
Scott, Thanks! You are the man! Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 23, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > Use "Place Group" under the Object menu to place the group on any card > that doesn't already have it. If you copy and paste, you'll wind up with > multipl

Re: iOS deployment question

2016-03-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
Graham, I can take some notes. What I did to fix it was to delete all my developer certificates from my keychain and re-activate them. That was after I realized that the reference to "identity" actually meant that it couldn't find a valid certificate. Now it seems obvious, but didn't at first. I

Re: LC8 DP16 oddities, dataGrid?

2016-03-23 Thread Earthednet-wp
Ali, It was the lack of the columns inspector pane that I was referring to. Sorry for my posting being opaque.. No worries, I went back to v7 and changed it, then back to v8. I'm glad the column inspector is coming back in next release. Thanks! Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org >

Re: Separate Widget palette

2016-03-20 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, Some of the software I use has a "views" menu that shows a list of "columns" or items that appear on a specific palette or screen. I wonder if such a menu might be convenient in this case. The user could choose "basic", "extended", "All" or whatever. I can sympathize with Richmond's desir

Re: Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

2016-03-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
I just hate to do a workaround that may need to be modified in the future. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 17, 2016, at 10:42 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 18 Mar 2016, at 4:39 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: >> >> So, I guess we

Re: Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

2016-03-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
So, I guess we can't count on the formattedHeight and formattedWidth to return dimensions of a rect that will show all of the text in a field? I would like to keep the rect of the field as small as possible. I also use it to make a 90 degree rotated label. If this is a manifestation of a bug,

Re: Playing movies

2016-03-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Tom, Thanks. The movie is part of a slide show type presentation, so just playing it in a browser window might be best. I have done this in the past using the cref browser, but it adds a lot to the app size. Not being able to play movies in livecode, is a severe shortcoming, and I hope the play

Re: Use MouseLine() and still edit the same field?

2016-03-05 Thread Earthednet-wp
Mark, I had a situation where it thought I was French. Go to your setups or preferences and look at language settings. I also find that asking Google for info is useful, even for questions about livecode. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 5, 2016, at 5:17 AM, Mark Mitchell

Re: LC8 DP15 error message?

2016-03-04 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks, Peter, I'm planning on implementing code that will email me notifications, with some error source info. Will this kind of error information be available in my app? My apps get pretty complicated and I want to know when users encounter bugs in my software. I know there is a flag that can

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Another item: I find https://www.pinterest.com to be a great resource to see what educators, especially in k-12 are doing. Lots of great ideas. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Feb 27, 2016, at 9:05 AM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > Tore, > Your idea has a lot of m

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

2016-02-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Tore, Your idea has a lot of merit. In the early Apple days, HyperCard was very popular with educators. It was simple and revolutionary as a programming environment, and free with the computer. Livecode has the capability for this now, especially with the widgets and even more with Monte's wonde

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-20 Thread Earthednet-wp
r. Shouldn't be, though. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Feb 20, 2016, at 11:09 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > On February 20, 2016 at 6:50:55 AM, Earthednet-wp > (proth...@earthednet.org<mailto:proth...@earthednet.org>) wrote: > T

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-20 Thread Earthednet-wp
Graham, I have a little php script that returns GMT. I will post a demo stack on my server if you are interested. But it does sound like LC has this built in. However, it will need to go out to the internet if it is to eliminate its dependence on the user's computer. Bill William Prothero http:

Re: sqlite db password?

2016-02-11 Thread Earthednet-wp
the first place. My need isn't immediate, but I thought it might be easy. If nobody has a brilliant idea, I'll put this on hold for now. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > Peter, > Thanks so much! I

Re: sqlite db password?

2016-02-11 Thread Earthednet-wp
Peter, Thanks so much! I can probably do it if you point me in the right direction. I found the command line tool and I'll see if I can use it. I may not get to it until Monday. Going to be out of town until then. This may be the direction I need, tho. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.eart

Re: Release 8.0 DP 14

2016-02-06 Thread Earthednet-wp
Well said, Roland! My sentiments as well. The dev team is putting a lot of reliance on the users to do a lot of testing, and we will probably keep finding bugs, which the team will jump on. They deserve a lot of respect. A local Santa Barbara philosopher said: "I am not perfect, but parts of me

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-16 Thread Earthednet-wp
This sounds like a wonderful contribution and I know I'll find it very useful. Thanks so much and I'm looking forward to the result. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jan 16, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > I’m about ready to go into the docum

Re: mySQL Host access

2016-01-07 Thread Earthednet-wp
Peter, I do this on my server. I keep the php on my server. Then I only have to allow access from "localhost' because the php is being run on the server. The php is accessed with "post" command from livecode. If you need an example, I can send you a sample stack, with some sample php. Bill Will

Re: Displaying mixed text and images in iOS app

2015-12-25 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richard, I haven't done this, but it is pretty clear that since word can save to PDF, if livecode can display PDFs efficiently, that's going to be your most efficient and flexible approach. You do the formatting in Word, then export the doc to PDF. You might also try displaying the PDF in a brow

Re: Strange bevavious

2015-12-19 Thread Earthednet-wp
Whenever I get inexplicably odd behavior, I run Disc Warrior on my system drive. Strange things can be induced by disc errors, which seem to constantly creep into my computer. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Dec 19, 2015, at 8:27 AM, "tkuyp...@telenet.be" > wrote: > > Tha

Re: learning resources for kids

2015-11-22 Thread Earthednet-wp
Great work! I'll be looking forward to learning about it. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Nov 22, 2015, at 3:28 AM, Todd Fabacher wrote: > > Hi Monte, > > We are releasing our Playland Armenia Social/Game App. It contains over 16 > games, some are played individually

Re: Tab control-multiple cards or hidden groups?

2015-11-08 Thread Earthednet-wp
I've recently started doing this also, for a student/instructor login system. Depending on who is logging in, some of the input fields and buttons are different, and there may be multiple steps to the login and registration process. The main complication is that some buttons and fields need to b

Re: LiveCode TV Rides Again!

2015-11-03 Thread Earthednet-wp
David, Awesome! Great idea and I hope to participate. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Nov 3, 2015, at 8:01 AM, David Bovill wrote: > > Except we'll use a different name, and different technology. > > If any of you remember LivCode TV it was a free community project we > sta

Re: Why won't this work?

2015-10-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, I've had to forward this to my iPad to send it. I had to update my ssl certificate and it buggered the email from my server and I can't send from my Mac laptop, but I can from my iPad. Go figure! Thanks for your feedback, here is what I found out: > The long ID of a field looks somethin

Why won't this work.

2015-10-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, I tried Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid Put "my email" into tlongid This does not work. It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message box. Seems this should work. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org __

Re: LC8 (dp7) - pretty darn good

2015-10-16 Thread Earthednet-wp
Dave, Thank you for this great summary and encouragement for lc8. I'll definitely give it a try soon. This kind of info re strategies for getting apps on mobile, in the store, etc, are really useful. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 16, 2015, at 2:53 AM, Dave Kilroy

Re: Export snapshot and native controls

2015-10-15 Thread Earthednet-wp
Ludevic, I found that it's better to put the area you want to take a snapshot of, in a group and take the snapshot of the group. Leave out any rect. This way LC doesn't use the screen buffer to get the image data, which avoids some problems on some pc's. I'm not at my office, but can supply e

Re: Learning Materials

2015-10-13 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richard, That sounds like a great offer! I think it would be a much more friendly site if we didn't have to download all the ads. I use Safari because it synchronizes all my bookmarks between my devices. I know there is a Firefox plugin that does that. I used it, but there was an issue I can'

Re: Learning Materials

2015-10-10 Thread Earthednet-wp
Steven, Thank you. That seems quite fair. Regards, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Oct 10, 2015, at 4:23 AM, "Steven Crighton" > wrote: > > Thanks for your messages on the new learning course. > > We are constantly working on improving our learning materials. Create it V1

Re: Geometry Manager - Anyone?

2015-09-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
Roger, This looks really useful. I can't see how to purchase it, or what it's cost is, tho. The links to the markeplace take me Not to marketplace. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Sep 18, 2015, at 7:15 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > > A few useful links: NOTE - These

Re: v.8 Tool Palette missing, er, tools?

2015-09-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
I also found this, and the "run"pointer is in run mode, but the IDE is actually in debug mode. You have to click the debug pointer, then back to the run pointer to get the program to run. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Sep 18, 2015, at 6:56 AM, James Little wrote: > > Cr

Re: A book for babies?

2015-08-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richmond, Your concerns are very valid, with LC still in the midst of lots of changes. Here are some immediate rambling thoughts, perhaps obvious, but for what they're worth I like the workbook format. Very appropriate. Ideally, it might be distributed as an ebook or app type book that can

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richmond, I'll buy it too. I have a grandson who might get into it. Not to mention a two sons who are elementary school teachers. Get on it! Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Aug 27, 2015, at 5:36 AM, Monte Goulding > wrote: > > >> On 27 Aug 2015, at 10:29 pm, Richmond wr

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-14 Thread Earthednet-wp
Kay, Good points, after ignoring the rhetoric. There could be argument about which features are included in all versions. Seems like zip and PDF support would be part of any modern authoring system. I contributed a substantial (for me) amount to the Kickstarter, appreciate the need for the mothe

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-12 Thread Earthednet-wp
I would also find it very disappointing, after locking in 3 years of Indy license, to find that addon licenses were required to access some set of wonderful new livecode features. That said, I'm a single developer, so git isn't important to me. Also, if the purpose of the Indy license was to sup

Re: Script-controlled export of animation from Livecode?

2015-07-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Check out http://mergext.com/home/mergav/ However, I haven't used it, it works only for iOS and osx, and I'm not sure if it will capture screens for the video. It seems to be set up for images captured with the camera. But you could ask the author. Good luck, Bill William Prothero http://es.ear

Re: Script-controlled export of animation from Livecode?

2015-07-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
I think you are wanting to play the animation and end up with a mp4 movie, I think you need one of Monte's externals for this. On the other hand, if you only want to generate the movie in the dev environment, you could play it in livecode and use a screen capture program to capture the video. G

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-21 Thread Earthednet-wp
Bob, I subscribed to the Indy license with the understanding that it is the same as a commercial license, but for only a single developer. Hope I'm right. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jul 21, 2015, at 7:29 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Pardon my being late to the party, bu

Re: [OT] What the *&^#$!#$ Just Happened - SPAM

2015-06-09 Thread Earthednet-wp
Kay, The scam and spam problem is simply enormous. I notice that the National Science Foundation is soliciting research proposals for secure internet. How to civilize the beast may be hopeless, but it can't fail to change our civilization in ways we may not foresee. I am faced with criminal acti

Re: iOS & Android App in a Day workshop (and much more)

2015-05-15 Thread Earthednet-wp
Dave, That's great! I'll look forward to looking over the materials. I spend so much time over the niggling details, so working examples help a lot. Best regards, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 15, 2015, at 3:36 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > Hi Bill > > One of the things

Re: iOS & Android App in a Day workshop (and much more)

2015-05-14 Thread Earthednet-wp
Dave, This looks like a very nice event! I'd join in, but California is a bit of a distance and it's too long a bike ride for me. If any of your resources or courses get online, I'd be interested. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 14, 2015, at 1:53 AM, Dave Kilroy w

Re: Keeping a mobile app alive

2015-04-30 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks, John! Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 29, 2015, at 10:40 PM, John Dixon wrote: > > By default, iOS will dim the screen and eventually lock the device after > periods of no user interaction. > To control this behavior, use the following commands: > > iphoneLockI

Keeping a mobile app alive

2015-04-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
I have a mobile app that will be playing a long audio file. Is there a way to keep the application from going inactive when the device goes into sleep mode? On my iPad, after a period of no user activity, the screen goes black and the audio ceases. Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

Re: struggling with player

2015-04-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richard, I have been using Google to find docs on livecode. I wonder if there was an old, unlinked lesson that Google found. I'll try to find it and make a comment. I think it was titled something like "including media". Thanks, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 27, 2015,

Re: struggling with player

2015-04-27 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks, Dave! That's very helpful. Best regards, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 27, 2015, at 1:59 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > Hi Bill > > Just for your interest, I used mobilePlaySoundOnChannel on an iOS app a > couple of years ago and was able to play several audio fi

Can livecode do this?

2015-04-25 Thread Earthednet-wp
cts. This sounds like something Bramaswami would be doing. It also sounds like a very easy app to build, assuming that LC can play two audio files at the same time, with independently adjustable volume. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 25, 2015, at 8:29 AM, Earthed

Re: Does Version 7.0.4 work with Xcode 6.3.1?

2015-04-25 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thanks for the reply. I accidentally started downloading the update, but stopped it before it was done, so hopefully the prev version is still ok. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 25, 2015, at 5:04 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > Not yet no - if you've auto updated to Xco

Re: Custom Desktop Folders

2015-04-16 Thread Earthednet-wp
Scott, I looked at your wed site and wondered if you are thinking about apps that use that new way of thinking about math operations using that new grid system. Don't remember what it's called, but my grandson uses it. Some app for that could be very useful for home schoolers, too. Btw, there i

Chromebooks revisited

2015-04-01 Thread Earthednet-wp
Thinking about Chromebooks because my son, a 4'th grade teacher will be using them in his school. Still just a browser in a box? So we'll be waiting for livecode export to html5? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Apr 1, 2015, at 8:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > GMTA: the

Re: Android on Speed

2015-03-22 Thread Earthednet-wp
Snorting a couple lines of coke?? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 22, 2015, at 9:58 AM, "J. Landman Gay" > wrote: > >> On 3/22/2015 11:02 AM, Richmond wrote: >> http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2015-02-19-2015021914.30.38.jpg > > Cool. :) I like the credit card. But wh

Re: Long KML text file with no return chars

2015-03-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
Terry, Thanks. I'll try that method. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 18, 2015, at 10:29 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > Hi William - you should be able to read a text file of that size into LC > no worries. Have you tried the 'put url (³file:²&tPath) into tVar¹ method >

Re: LC7 & Unicode

2015-03-17 Thread Earthednet-wp
Cogent comments, all. One of the functions of this community, I believe, is to support and encourage the livecode dev team, and each other. Another equally important function is to provide honest feedback and a kick in the pants when it seems to be needed. I love the direction the team is going.

Re: LiveCode 7.0.3: a new meme

2015-03-02 Thread Earthednet-wp
For disk repair, I use Disk Warrior. Your disc should,be ok using Disc Utility, tho. But Disk Warrior has saved data not readable by Disc Utility for me. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Mar 1, 2015, at 7:48 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > Thanks for reminding me about fsck, I h

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