Re: Important Message

2013-04-07 Thread Ken Corey
Who's got a virus today? *smile* -Ken On 07/04/2013 16:47, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: Please view the document iuploaded for you using Google docs. Click herejust sign in with your email to view the document its very important. Thank you. ___ use-

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-09 Thread Ken Corey
We all know companies make the T's & C's to suit themselves as much as possible, giving as little as possible while gaining as much as possible. I feel that EULAs, copyright and patent laws have gone well beyond too far. They have gone so far that corporations are far more important than peopl

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-04 Thread Ken Corey
Oh dear! I guess I haven't read enough of the book. Is that one of the instructions? I *knew* Colin was a closet Mac-lover. *grin* -Ken On 01/09/2012 02:14, Shawn Blc wrote: I bought the PDF version, read it on my pc, uploaded it to my dropbox and now have it on my Mac! I shot my pc with

Re: pirate version of my book

2012-09-03 Thread Ken Corey
You're right. My favourite way to feel victimised is for evil, cruel, hard people to throw wads of money at me. Doesn't happen often enough, frankly. *grin* -Ken On 03/09/2012 22:19, Andrew Kluthe wrote: With a little hard work, anyone can make themselves feel victimized and alienated by a

Re: pirate version of my book

2012-09-03 Thread Ken Corey
On 03/09/2012 21:52, Andrew Kluthe wrote: discovers the pure gift. The growing passion for stealing books, clothes, food, weapons or jewelry simply for the pleasure of giving them away gives us a glimpse of what the will to live has in store for consumer society. Right! Uh... Unless human nat

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Ken Corey
I have always had an inkling that the best way to beat piracy is 1) to give users a reason to keep contacting you (regularly upgraded content/capabilities). 2) making it /easy/, even automatic in your app, to contact you. Both of which Runrev has gotten fairly right, at least for those of us o

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Ken Corey
Real numbers will be hard to come by obviously, but androidpit seems to claim that they provide for those in eastern europe and russia (and maybe down into the far east for all I know), as they claim to have set up deals with merchant providers in those countries. Android pit seem to be workin

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-01 Thread Ken Corey
Yep. Two days after releasing my app on the Google Play store, it showed up on adroidpit.com for sale. Of course, at 130% of the cost on the android store...and without any chance of us making any money off it. If I didn't love making software, I wouldn't be doing it (I'd likely be stealing

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-08-31 Thread Ken Corey
This will probably not cheer you up; but I found versions of the FREE version of my Devawriter available on torrent sites. Oh man! I *hate* that. According to RIAA accounting, you're out *millions*...maybe even >billions<. -Ken ___ use-livecode mai

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-23 Thread Ken Corey
Just to be pedantic you can have libURL on /desktop/ OSes. A significant restriction, for some of us. liburl is not open source, so we cannot do any of the porting... It's possible to port libcurl to android: http://thesoftwarerogue.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/porting-of-libcurl-to-android-os-using

Re: Older versions. Was "New Pricing".

2012-08-21 Thread Ken Corey
On 21/08/2012 14:09, Richmond wrote: Why version 4.0 specifically? Why not version 3.0, or 2.0, or 5.0? I used the word 'say'. I would like it if Runrev offered all previous whole-number versions from 2.0 onwards with a rider that NO SUPPORT is offered Offered or not people who pay expect

Re: has anyone worked on in-app purchase through google?

2012-08-21 Thread Ken Corey
Just as I was about the consider these issues, google took my app down. Gotta love IP take-down notices: guilty until proven innocent. I ended up going through ejunkie (which was also stopped because the aggressors pursued us through paypal as well...ugh!). That said, the integration with ej

Re: LC Android FC on Samsung s 3 sph-l 710. Android version 4.0.4

2012-08-03 Thread Ken Corey
ola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Ken Corey Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 5:18 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: L

Re: LC Android FC on Samsung s 3 sph-l 710. Android version 4.0.4

2012-08-02 Thread Ken Corey
Uh...I don't know. The tablet is certainly a touch screen. Let's see...I don't see any limitations in the 'Standalone Application Settings'. I opened the AndroidManifest.xml, and it supp0orts large screens. When you uploaded the app to the market, which countries did you list? I'm in the U

Re: LC Android FC on Samsung s 3 sph-l 710. Android version 4.0.4

2012-08-02 Thread Ken Corey
I don't have that device either. I was going to try it on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10", but the app wasn't available for my tablet. So, I made a new stack, dragged a text entry widget onto it, and launched it on the tablet. I only have the Samsung keyboard installed. When predictive text is

Re: [OT] How long before..

2012-08-02 Thread Ken Corey
On 02/08/2012 08:16, Peter Alcibiades wrote: If the HIG are not scientifically provable "usability", but simply subjective statements, then how can we measure "usability"? The enterprise is fundamentally mistaken. We have to start by recognizing there is no such thing. One size does not fi

Re: [OT] How long before..

2012-08-01 Thread Ken Corey
Like I said, I agree in general...but what /should/ a good measure of a successful interface be? If you'd like to think of it that way, Windows (for all its faults) /is/ touched by the gods. My children have been getting ICT training at school for the last four years, and what have they been

Re: [OT] How long before..

2012-08-01 Thread Ken Corey
On 01/08/2012 08:40, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Its not a problem that is confined to Apple - though Apple maybe sets the tone. You can see it in Linux too. Both Gnome 3 and KDE 4 have gone through a phase of total user interface redesign. In both cases the result was pretty unusable - though it

Re: That man again.

2012-08-01 Thread Ken Corey
Well, yes, he's annoying. Unimpressive, and fanatical could describe him. I met him 17 years ago when he came to the Labs at Sun where I was working. I thought "what a wackjob" then...and he's gotten worse. That doesn't mean he's wrong. Look at the tendency of coporations to lock us out of ou

Re: The Screen Density Conundrum

2012-07-31 Thread Ken Corey
I'll vote for scaling upon first load. We've forgotten something here. When we get away from being tied to pixels, we can give our users more choice. My 72 year old father will want the chrome of an application (as well as the content) visually much larger on the screen (pixel density and sc

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

2012-07-29 Thread Ken Corey
It's actually stickier than that, depending on how far and wide your currency must be displayed... Currency can be 1-3 characters ($ or GBP, if you see what I mean)...and many of the single letter currency symbols require unicode...take the euro "€" for example. On windows it's alt-0128 (on t

Re: special prize, all my money to the winner!

2012-07-26 Thread Ken Corey
I hate to tell you this (actually I don't) but I beat you to it by pre-ordering. A wire transfer would be fine, and I'll email you a receipt. Sadly, I don't know any exchange that deals in micro-payments. Oh...wait a minute...I'm thinking of *my* finances. Judging by the number of folks who've

Re: Old timey data entry GUI problem

2012-07-22 Thread Ken Corey
On 22/07/2012 18:47, Björnke von Gierke wrote: As for proof checking as a second persons job, we'd need two or three people for every one person entering stuff. Printouts would be too slow, but because there's a networked database solution existing already, proof reading could be done on anoth

Re: Old timey data entry GUI problem

2012-07-22 Thread Ken Corey
I'm not sure what kind of tourney you've got there, but why in heaven's name do all 4 numbers have to be entered each time? Surely the id is known before-hand...and likely the table and partner number too, otherwise how is this event scheduled? All of this should be entered before the event h

Re: The future of LiveCode

2012-07-20 Thread Ken Corey
I've already gone on too long, so apologies to all. But, it seems to me there's a manpower shortage. There's lots of work, and not enough engineers/coders/documentors/etc to meet it. What about volunteers? I'd /happily/ code up solutions to my troubles (no header access for http calls on mo

Re: The future of LiveCode

2012-07-20 Thread Ken Corey
The problem I had when I was starting LiveCode is that the information is scattered all over here and there. I was interested in LiveCode for mobile development. I started with the User Guide. I wanted to create a button on the screen. Okay, so create a new Main stack, drag the button out,

Re: Threading or similar in LiveCode

2012-07-20 Thread Ken Corey
Send can mimic this behaviour. You wouldn't want each car in its own 'thread', to be sure, as send has a certain amount of overhead...but it's a simple matter to set up recurring events: on animate --do some animation stuff here -- if your drawing loop can take a variable amount of time

Re: Non-blocking transfers ...

2012-07-17 Thread Ken Corey
I've written a small asynchronous HTTP library based on rresocket that allows for access to headers. Your code looks like this: on openCard httpGet "http://my.url.path/blah","callBackFunctionName"; [...] end openCard on callBackFunctionName [...] put httpBuildCookies() into tCookie end

Re: Raspberry PI

2012-07-09 Thread Ken Corey
*sigh* You /would/ have to bring reality into it. I *hate* it when people do that. I've been a School Governor here in the UK. I'm not a teacher, and never tried to be one, but if I'd have wanted to be a teach that little glimpse would most assuredly have put me off. Things are most decided

Re: Raspberry PI

2012-07-09 Thread Ken Corey
Hrm...communication would seem to be a given already, isn't it? Can't LiveCode access RS-232 serial (real or emulated over USB) already? The reason I'm excited about this kind of thing? Friday my daughter came home from school for the summer with a set of DVD's with the software she had been

Re: Raspberry PI

2012-07-08 Thread Ken Corey
Well, strictly speaking the Android effort is based on an ARM chip, so ARM chips would seem to pose no significant problem...and there is a Linux version, after all... I think "Can't be done" might be a bit strong. Smells a bit more of "hasn't been done yet" to me. I saw a quote on the Raspb

Re: List post rejected

2012-07-06 Thread Ken Corey
Meatballs. Yep, seems to work. HTH, -Ken P.S. Seriously? What a great way to spook the uninitiated...:^) On 06/07/2012 20:30, J. Landman Gay wrote: If the first word of your message happens to be one of those commands, the server may assume you are trying to change your account settings and

Re: Android: List Field and Native Scroller

2012-07-02 Thread Ken Corey
That delay seems to be the best choice...how else can you tell if the user (moving in human-time) is going to drag a finger? You don't unless you wait a little while. In a web browser, sometimes you don't care about scrolling, you can try to remove the wait this way: http://cubiq.org/remove

Re: OT: Tidbits from Jersey

2012-06-29 Thread Ken Corey
Not only that, we /know/ politicians get up to all sorts of debauchery (that I personally don't really need to hear about). It's a tough one: advertise debauchery for the conference and *really* boost those numbers...(except the part where everyone gets in trouble with the spouses, etc), or ke

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

2012-06-27 Thread Ken Corey
*smile* That would be a "Harry met Sally" kind of thing. Oh dear, my wife would /not/ like hearing that. No, she's a long ago friend, and we've only recently reconnected thanks to Facebook. ...not that *I* ever go on, you understand. Uh...it's my wife, see. She goes on quite a bit and...uh

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

2012-06-27 Thread Ken Corey
When I was 13, I got a crush on a girl who asked me my name when we were in a noisy room. 'Corey' was all she heard. Of course, being 13, I think I was 14 by the time I bashfully admitted that was my surname. I'm 47 now, and she *still* calls me 'Corey'. No offense taken. *grin* -Ken On

Re: Syntax for incrementing a numeric 'word'

2012-06-27 Thread Ken Corey
I built a label with multiple lines, put "1 2 3/n2 3 4/n3 4 5" into it and ran this line of code on it: add 1 to word 2 of line 2 of field "field" It worked just as you'd expect it to. However, this seems a very slow way to do it. Hashes work a treat for this kind of thing. on mouseUp

Re: iOS features

2012-06-27 Thread Ken Corey
1) Yes, *but* you have no access to headers sent back from a POST. Much of the functionality you'd be looking for is provided by libURL, which is not supported (at least yet) on iOS and Android. (Please, /someone/ prove me wrong!) So, if you're using a cookie-based authentication token as I d

Re: Is there a way to get an "exitGroup" behavior when someone clicks a non-group field

2012-06-26 Thread Ken Corey
Okay, here's a brute force approach for what I think you're asking about. Put this in the card script. You will need to deal with each special group you have like this. local ingroup on handleEnterGroup -- handle entering the group log "handleEnter" end handleEnterGroup on handleExitGr

Re: Standalone won't run

2012-06-24 Thread Ken Corey
Does your code get a chance to run at all? If so, you can put alerts in to announce how far the app gets before it's crashing. on preOpenStack answer "preOpenStack" [...regular code...] end preOpenStack on openStack answer "openStack" [...regular...] end openStack and so on. If LiveC

Re: ANN: Stars

2012-06-22 Thread Ken Corey
Even better: several Turtle graphics libraries, bezier graphics, and more. Thanks for the link, I might never have found his website. This proves my point completely. RunRev shouldn't bother re-implementing the stuff Jim (and you) have done. They should make sure it's easier to share it in t

Re: ANN: Stars

2012-06-22 Thread Ken Corey
Lovely analysis, and most accessible... ...but...you've provided great examples of turtle graphics in your stack. Why should Mr. Miller and crew implement turtle graphics when it's quite possible for an enterprising teacher such as yourself to provide a library that does the same thing? (At le

Re: Works sometimes -- but not other times

2012-06-21 Thread Ken Corey
Uh...why are you using the on idle handler? Searching and showing a picture isn't something you're going to want to do a lot of times, it's something that is directly tied to keystrokes...and you're only going to want to do it once per keystroke. Also you feel it's causing a race condition...an

Re: LiveCode 5.5.1 Released

2012-06-21 Thread Ken Corey
Here, here. I'd definitely vote for this. I mean, it's *so* bloody close: 1) Drop a label on your app that's inactive so you can see it, but it doesn't block events. 2) Define an error handler that prints the error message to the label (and truncates the label at xx lines). All of this is

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Ken Corey
I don't generally go on the forums regularly, per se, but I've been there and gotten help there before. Just checked, and my experience is similar to Nicolas: all pages I tried came back within 4 seconds or so. I'm on 8MB ADSL in the south of the UK, so it should be pretty fast. Could there

Re: My Application Browser is showing too many stacks

2012-06-20 Thread Ken Corey
Oh I *hate* that man. He sneaks in and hides one of each pair of socks, and puts bugs in my code. Someone should *get* him. -Ken On 20/06/2012 12:35, Klaus on-rev wrote: there was a man in your house a couple of nights ago who switched you computer on, launched LiveCode and selected: Menu:

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-17 Thread Ken Corey
Just sounds like permissions from hell kinda problem. Have your administrators set up permissions for a LAN? Ar eyou running with an account that does not have administrative privs? In either of these cases, you need to figure out where you have permissions and only save there. I guess tha

Re: Newbie -- files are not showing on my WIN Vista desktop

2012-06-17 Thread Ken Corey
On 17/06/2012 03:09, Mark Rauterkus wrote: With LC 5.5, within the application, I save files (LC stacks) but they are NOT visible when I surf the computer's hard drive from outside of LC. Furthermore, when I create a new folder from within LC, even the new folders are not visible when I browse th

Re: IOS: scrolling a group with iOSscroller?

2012-06-16 Thread Ken Corey
On 16/06/2012 22:45, Matthias Rebbe wrote: i am pretty sure that i am doing something wrong. But i cannot get it work to scroll a group of buttons/fields and images with the iosScroller. A single field works here without problems. Or is it not possible to use the iosScroller with a group of dif

Re: Use-Revolution vs. Use-LiveCode

2012-06-15 Thread Ken Corey
This is not realistic. A couple might change because of your plea. The rest are too busy, or don't know how. How hard is it to add another filter to your mail system? -Ken On 15/06/2012 00:00, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: Messages sent to this old address get 'lost' in my filtering system,

Re: Seeking a navigation system among 200 individual / card DB for attendance at camp

2012-06-14 Thread Ken Corey
On 14/06/2012 10:15, Ken Corey wrote: On 13/06/2012 17:59, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi LC Pros and the Rest of the world more experienced than me: I am searching for a "navigation system" for my>200 card camp attendance project. Pointers welcome. I'm always intrigued by q

Re: Seeking a navigation system among 200 individual / card DB for attendance at camp

2012-06-14 Thread Ken Corey
On 13/06/2012 17:59, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi LC Pros and the Rest of the world more experienced than me: I am searching for a "navigation system" for my>200 card camp attendance project. Pointers welcome. I'm always intrigued by questions like this, because it gives me a chance to try out a

mergDataGridScroller Control?

2012-06-12 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, In one of my projects, I was looking to create a DataGrid that works under iOS. I managed to do it, and the performance was fine in the simulator, and at 320x480 on my iPad 2, but at full 1024x768 resolution on the iPad 2 the performance was abominable. When I asked the list, nobod

Re: Geography based game?

2012-06-11 Thread Ken Corey
On 11/06/2012 19:11, Larry Weaver wrote: In the meantime, I've been tasked by a friend to help develop a geography based game for her middle school class. Since there will not be an internet or wifi connection allowed, it rules out any connection to Google maps and related data. I'm not sure how

Re: Converting a Stack to many formats starting from XML

2012-06-08 Thread Ken Corey
On 03/06/2012 18:47, Alejandro Tejada wrote: There are many scripts to convert stacks to XML, but... How many developers have taken the path of converting this stack from XML to other formats? Searching the web, I found many free and paid converters from XML to almost every file format available

Re: DATAGRID: slow scrolling even in the IDE

2012-06-05 Thread Ken Corey
On 05/06/2012 00:07, Matthias Rebbe wrote: ah that make sense. I will try to implement a switch in the FillinData Handler of the row behavior of the Datagrid. Maybe that solves it. Thanks for the hint. I was not aware, that the data is reloaded each time it is shown. But sounds reasonable. Per

Re: DATAGRID: slow scrolling even in the IDE

2012-06-04 Thread Ken Corey
On 04/06/2012 22:52, Matthias Rebbe wrote: for an iOS app i need the possibility to show several records, each with one image and 4 text fields. I am now experimenting in the ide to find out how to do that. I thought a datagrid form might be the right solution for that. The following happens

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

2012-05-31 Thread Ken Corey
35 AM, Ken Corey wrote: Mark Weider was right: trust no one. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinf

Re: Nuts! Where did that go? WTH!

2012-05-31 Thread Ken Corey
On 31/05/2012 18:06, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I am on a Mac, so I probably cannot help here, but know that this is the worst report I have ever heard of. It is NOT usual. LC is very stable. That said, no particular code construction or authoring methodology should be at any particular risk. Wow.

Re: can someone please try this test...

2012-05-23 Thread Ken Corey
On 23/05/2012 17:10, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just the same, this seems a good opportunity to offer a gentle reminder that we have members here with a wide range of experience, and we want this to be a safe and friendly place for all of them to get help. Bravo, you hammer the point home quite well

Re: can someone please try this test...

2012-05-23 Thread Ken Corey
On 23/05/2012 05:29, Chipp Walters wrote: in the msg box, copy and paste the line below: put URL " https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/tq?tqx=out:csv&key=0AiQYsJmyjjz8dEJIT2VyamhRWWVEM3U0MGR1Y21nUUE " Please tell me if it returns anything. Thanks. *smile* I /love/ how willing we are all to h

Re: Age & Anniversary Calculations

2012-05-21 Thread Ken Corey
On 21/05/2012 08:02, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: What is the 'best' way to perform these 2 calculations with LiveCode? 'convert' just rocks. Here's a couple of throwaways to show you how I'd approach it. They probably aren't exactly what you need, but you'll get the idea. 1) Calculate

Re: Auto-opening folders

2012-05-13 Thread Ken Corey
On 13/05/2012 07:45, J. Landman Gay wrote: If an app creates a folder with files in it, do you like it if the app takes you to the desktop and opens the folder? Or would you rather remain in the app and open the folder later yourself? Hi Jacque, I'd say there's not enough information in the qu

Re: [OT] Mac Beach Ball Party (or welcome to hell, here's your mac)

2012-05-11 Thread Ken Corey
On 11/05/2012 20:00, stephen barncard wrote: Could I get a recommendation from some of the Mac folks on this list about a good 'Cleaner' application? The last week or so, I've gained a rather persistent 'friend' - the dreaded beach ball of death. All the time. Type a few letters in a browser (S

Re: SHIFTkey "Fun"

2012-05-09 Thread Ken Corey
Yes, there's no raw key access on MacOS Why not code around it? Much as I'd like RunRev to respond to each and every request, it makes sense for them to fix the things we cannot do, rather than doing it the way we'd like. In the stack script: - on openStack k

Re: Breakpoints being ignored

2012-05-09 Thread Ken Corey
On 09/05/2012 08:08, Kay C Lan wrote: Hard type them, you'll have 100% success. The graphical ones are less than By 'Hard type', do you mean to put "breakpoint" in my code?, or do you mean "go to the breakpoints tab, right click, and select 'new breakpoint'"? -Ken __

Re: Breakpoints being ignored

2012-05-08 Thread Ken Corey
On 08/05/2012 23:39, Colin Holgate wrote: When you're next in the script editor, look at the bottom of the Debug menu. Is Script Debug Mode checked? I've checked that the debug mode is checked on my environment. It is. I've noticed that there are situations where existing breakpoints from p

Re: [TO] HTML5

2012-05-08 Thread Ken Corey
* When will the fact that my website is NOT written in HTML5 will browsers be unable to cope with it? * What you're asking: Whicih is better: HTML4 or HTML5? The question needs to be refined. It's like asking: Which is better: Mac or PC? Emacs or Vi? There's no point in these questions, and

Re: Mobile Apps: Battery Life Native vs LiveCode

2012-05-05 Thread Ken Corey
On 30/04/2012 09:34, Roderick McCALL wrote: We are currently looking into using LiveCode for a variety of location-aware programs that we want to test on Android and IOS. One key issue is battery life with many viewing any cross-platform tools as having a negative impact. Therefore does anyone ha

Re: Datagrid in scroller on iOS update speed?

2012-05-01 Thread Ken Corey
On 01/05/2012 13:45, Colin Holgate wrote: There was a recent discussion about how having groups inside other groups will lead to poor performance, and that RunRev are looking into a way of defining a group as just being a container. Might that help your case? Perhaps. I don't know enough to say

Re: Datagrid in scroller on iOS update speed?

2012-05-01 Thread Ken Corey
On 01/05/2012 08:39, Gerry Orkin wrote: Turn on accelerated rendering :) on preopenstack if the environment is "mobile" then set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to true end preopenstack Hi Gerry, Thanks for writing. On my iPad 2 I couldn't tell much of a response from doing this

Datagrid in scroller on iOS update speed?

2012-04-30 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, I've got a datagrid inside of an scroller on iOS. I wouldn't call the datagrid complex, but there are 4 fields, varying height, and the rows are alternately coloured. When it was shown on the screen at 320x480 it was fairly responsive., even on the device. Of course, that looks fu

Re: Casey is now in the App Store

2012-04-25 Thread Ken Corey
Why, dear girl, you run to the bank cackling with the huge pots of money about to head your way. Rovio who? *grin* -Ken On 26/04/2012 00:32, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/25/12 6:01 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Congrats Jacque Thanks Andre. I was positive Apple would reject it for something s

Economy-x-Talk's fabulous Error Parsing Service down?

2012-04-25 Thread Ken Corey
Anyone know why the Error Parsing service from Economy-x-Talk is down? Thanks, -Ken ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.run

Re: [OT] Justified boast?

2012-04-04 Thread Ken Corey
On 04/04/2012 16:54, Richmond wrote: On 04/04/2012 06:50 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: LC isn't really OO. Well, I, for one, could never quite work out what is the difference between Object-Based (LC ?) and Object-Oriented (RB). Would be most grateful if you could tell me. I'd expect RB would bri

Re: Android 4

2012-03-25 Thread Ken Corey
On 25/03/2012 02:33, Mark Schonewille wrote: "Does anyone have (good) experience with LiveCode apps running on an Android 4 tablet? I thought I'd ask before upgrading my tablet." Does that mean that LiveCode is not compatible with Android 4 yet? I'm using it with a Sumvision Astro tablet (fro

Bug in custom fonts on iOS?

2012-03-23 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, I was wanting to add a little nicety to my iOS app, so I used three fonts: Myriad Pro Regular.ttf Myriad Pro Bold condensed.ttf Myriad Pro Italic.ttf So, I duly copied the files into the Copy Files pane of the Standalone Settings dialog, and then tried to run on the simulator. No joy

Different row templates for a datagrid?

2012-03-23 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, I'm starting to think about the possibility of using my app on a Retina iOS device. The central feature of my app is a datagrid that was originally designed for the older iOS screens. I could just let it pixel double, but that just doesn't seem right, somehow. After reading the dat

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-23 Thread Ken Corey
On 23/03/2012 11:21, Bernard Devlin wrote: OK. Thanks for that explanation. It sounds like tomorrow has arrived (although the emphasis is on "might replace desktop apps"). From your description both RealStudio and RunRev are facing in the wrong direction. But there are many people who have piv

Re: datagrid in iOS scroller (improved questions)

2012-03-23 Thread Ken Corey
On 23/03/2012 06:48, Terry Judd wrote: Hi Ken - don't know if it will help but what I usually do is put group the form datagrid inside of another group (with the datagrid as the only member) and then lock the 'parent' group to the required size. Then, each time I update the datagrid I set it's

Re: datagrid in iOS scroller (improved questions)

2012-03-22 Thread Ken Corey
On 22/03/2012 21:42, Ken Corey wrote: On 22/03/2012 20:02, Michael Doub wrote: I have successfully used form data grids on IOS with no problem. Can you be more clear on the symptoms of your problem? Are you setting the layer mode of the grid to scrolling and AcceleratedRendering of the stack

Re: datagrid in iOS scroller

2012-03-22 Thread Ken Corey
On 22/03/2012 20:02, Michael Doub wrote: I have successfully used form data grids on IOS with no problem. Can you be more clear on the symptoms of your problem? Are you setting the layer mode of the grid to scrolling and AcceleratedRendering of the stack to true? http://livecodejournal.com/

datagrid in iOS scroller

2012-03-22 Thread Ken Corey
Okay, so I decided to devote myself to a little toy project: download a list, display it to the user, and filter according to tags. Precisely the sort of thing I'd want a high-level language for, and LiveCode should be ideal, as I want it on Android devices as well! Okay, so I dig around and

Re: Setting script in object not working...

2012-03-22 Thread Ken Corey
On 21/03/2012 22:01, Glen Bojsza wrote: I have a stack where I generate a series of images. I then set the script of each image to a script that is stored in a custom property. I'm *very* new to all of this but...isn't this when the 'behavior' field would come in handy? Put the script into

Re: What is wrong with this ?

2012-03-12 Thread Ken Corey
On 12/03/2012 17:34, Klaus on-rev wrote: ## An unfortunately undocumented "feature": libUrlSetSSLVerification false Uh...doesn't that turn off SSL certificate validation? As in: "we don't really know if we're talking to the people we think we are"? I once saw a beginner write a c p

Re: What is wrong with this ?

2012-03-12 Thread Ken Corey
On 12/03/2012 15:38, John Dixon wrote: on mouseUp put"https://gg.com/racing"; into raceListURL put URL raceListURL into fld 1 end mouseUp It will not work for me under Win XP from boot camp... Can anyone tell me why ? It's not a help, but as a negative data point it seems to work for

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Ken Corey
On 09/03/2012 03:09, Kay C Lan wrote: paying a lot more for gas than that because I only purchase the cheap stuff and I have no doubt that it will be well above $8.50 by year's end. Prices are insane. I just filled my tank here in the UK, and paid £1.45 per litre for diesel. That's 1.45 x 4

Re: AW: How to close a modal stack by keyboard?

2012-03-06 Thread Ken Corey
On 06/03/2012 18:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/6/12 12:37 PM, Ken Corey wrote: I develop exclusively on Mac and only use other operating systems for testing. Do you use any third-party tools? I keep my IDE native. Come to mention it, I have installed a few things that installed plug-ins on

Re: AW: How to close a modal stack by keyboard?

2012-03-06 Thread Ken Corey
On 06/03/2012 17:25, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/6/12 6:57 AM, Ken Corey wrote: Removing Apply would seriously affect my work flow. I routinely try out new things and if I bork it too much to backtrack, I revert the stack. I save manually immediately after every change I want to keep. That&#

Font of menu on the Mac?

2012-03-06 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, I have an oddball problem. I'm using a custom font to display cursive english writing. This uses unicode characters, and non-standard glyphs (e.g. the left square bracket character U005B is a character to join between letters, not a bracket). I would like to write a little tool to

Re: AW: How to close a modal stack by keyboard?

2012-03-06 Thread Ken Corey
On 06/03/2012 12:48, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Ctrl-Shift, right click did it! Thank you! My pleasure! One other thing: I *never* use the 'Apply' button any more. I always apply by using the 'Ctrl-S' save function. (Of course, it's Command-S on Macs). That way, when I bork the IDE, or do s

Re: How to close a modal stack by keyboard?

2012-03-06 Thread Ken Corey
On 06/03/2012 10:52, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: When I have opened (in the IDE) a modal stack without closebox, how can I close it by a windows keyboard shortcut? The messagebox window isn't reachable, because of the modal state of my stack. I just had a quick play around... On my machine (Windo

Re: Changing mobile horses in midstream?

2012-03-05 Thread Ken Corey
On 05/03/2012 19:23, J. Landman Gay wrote: My question may be a nonsensical one, but is it conceivable that an app could start on one device and somehow be transferred to or woken up on another, so that the layout work would have to be done again during the operation of the device? I don't thin

Re: Directories on iOS?

2012-03-04 Thread Ken Corey
Hi Colin & Thomas, Thanks for writing on a Sunday afternoon! Yes, this was it exactly. On 04/03/2012 17:09, Colin Holgate wrote: specialFolderPath("engine") use: specialFolderPath("Documents") My code now gets a little bit farther...and then crashed with one of those cryptic errors about 'r

Directories on iOS?

2012-03-04 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, I found a /hugely/ useful error message just now. My app is called "WriteOn.app", at least for the moment. Hi All, I'm hoping someone can help. I called 'create folder' with the path to my app on my iPad: /var/mobile/Applications/706ECCCF-DC1D-42F1-B71E-F3D96610DAEF/WriteOn.app/Downlo

Re: Spinning object animation

2012-03-04 Thread Ken Corey
The frames of the vase are in the opposite order of the globe. Rearrange the frames in the opposite order (I did it in GIMP in < 1 minute). For the vase, frame 2 becomes frame 12, frame 3 becomes 11, 4->10, 5->9, 6->8. It's just swapping the two frames. Also, the movement felt wrong to me.

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-03-02 Thread Ken Corey
On 29/02/2012 17:37, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote: You can't, unless you install android, as there's no ARM livecode linux. I was thinking about this...technically there is, it's just called 'Android' LiveCode. Android LiveCode and ARM Linux will have a common linux-based core. Of course, I ha

Re: HELP! - Unable to acquire FTP file list...

2012-03-01 Thread Ken Corey
On 01/03/2012 21:26, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote: Anyway, I am able to upload and download files with no problem. Furthermore, I am also able to make directories and delete directories. The problem I am having is the acquisition of a file list for the FTP account. I have tried both of

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Ken Corey
On 29/02/2012 17:37, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote: You can't, unless you install android, as there's no ARM livecode linux. Sadly, I woke up too late to buy one, they sold out before midday :( Now there's a shame! The RPi would be the *perfect* target for a rapid IDE environment. Hrm...Maybe it

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Ken Corey
On 29/02/2012 16:30, Richmond wrote: That would be great fun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918 I've got one on order, and it's meant to be arriving the 16th of April. I'll certainly be trying out LiveCode apps on it! -Ken ___ use-li

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