RE: What icon editor do you use?

. Thirty bucks for a home license. I bought mine a few years ago, and it still works. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

RE: What icon editor do you use?

e, has a > nice export plugin for Mac icons. That's good and I have it, > but I need PC icons too. http://icofx.ro/ works very nicely, but it's cheap not free. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _

Your installer is broken

ot;C:/Program Files (x86)/RunRev/LiveCode Community". What happened to the "7.0.1"? I figured, this is the best I could do so I clicked "Continue". It switched to "Ready to Install", and said that it would install in "C:/Program Files (x86)/RunRev/LiveCode

RE: LiveCode and learning C++

ow: The video indicates that you can wrap "any" OS API. Does that mean that callbacks are seamlessly integrated into the LC messaging architecture? That's always been the sticking point for me when writing externals. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Install over previous version

ath, not just the prefix it applies to the "LiveCode Community x.x.x" that it now insists upon creating. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Install over previous version

the choices of which updates to be notified of do not persist after LiveCode is closed and reopened. That's a bug. And I expect someone's already mentioned it, but in case they haven't, I just installed 6.6.3 but Help->About and the title bar say 6.6.2. This is a "stable" rel

RE: [OT] A Modern Typeface For Programmers

good, but more important, it has a bare minimum of leading between the lines, so for a given font size and window size you can see more lines. Every other mono font I've tried wastes lots of space between lines. And the sample image of Input Mono looks like no exception. -- Ciao,

RE: Should "dispatch" be extended for timers?

essage in the timer list only stores a single string anyway, in which case "dispatch" with a time limit would have no advantage at all over "send" with a time limit. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com _

Asynchronous externals interface

and: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2012-August/176675.html It was said at the time that there was a more generalized asynchronous external interface in the iOS SDK, which would hopefully find its way into LiveCode on other platforms. So has anything happened with this? -- Ciao,

Two quick questions:

inside the .app file. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription p

RE: OT-ish warning: Apple is still using Mac Roman

> minus sign. I generally use en dashes for minus signs in documents, because hyphens are too short in many proportional fonts, especially compared to plus signs. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___

RE: What are the best programming fonts?

sole, for one reason: Lucida Console has no excess vertical padding, so even with fairly large characters, you get more lines of text in a particular window size than with the others. If I knew how to edit that parameter in fonts, I might consider Source Code Pro. -- Ciao,

RE: Handling of final delimter (was Re: "this me"?)

consistent or not (and many > people have), but it's definitely confusing to LC newcomers. I pointed that out about fifty messages back. ;-) I wonder if anyone actually relies on that ability. If not, perhaps THAT should be changed, since it appears to be the one glaring inconsistency that can

RE: Handling of final delimter (was Re: "this me"?)

't followed by a delimiter would be ignored entirely. This would be counterintuitive when the delimiter is a printable character (e.g., "a,b,c,d" would ignore the "d"), but has some precedent when the delimiter is a return (some parsers ignore an unterminated last line in a

RE: "this me"?

seems like an obsessive commitment to being "English". Having to write "put i + 1 into i" is pretty tedious. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use

RE: Alternative cursor shapes

> From: Paul D. DeRocco > > I created some alternative cursor shapes as .png files, with > transparency, > and added them to my main stack. They work fine on my Win7 > machines, both in > the LC environment or when exported as standalones. I tried > them on an old

RE: odd and even numbers

mes. > > repeat with the number of bottles of beer on the wall > take one down > convert it to a number > subtract 1 from it > convert it to a string > put it back on the wall > end repeat Exactly! -- Ciao,

Alternative cursor shapes

environment terminates as soon as I load the .rev file. Has anyone had problems with embedding .png files? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

RE: odd and even numbers

g. > > I'm currently seeing fairly consistent results with all the different > options, even with the mod and trunc functions thrown in the mix. I hope the engine is smart enough that "repeat 1 times" doesn't convert the count back and forth between a string and a nu

RE: odd and even numbers

on was to represent values as the combination of a number and a string, one of which may be missing and only generated whenever something asks for it. A missing number could be represented as a NaN, and a missing string by a null pointer. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco

RE: odd and even numbers

metic, or because the arithmetic itself is done in BCD? Does anyone know how the engine works? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

RE: odd and even numbers

resentation, either one of which (but not both) may be missing, deferring generation until it is needed. If that's the case, just asking for the last character of a number might very well cause the representation to be generated, which would be significantly costlier than doi

RE: odd and even numbers

that way, but I think this is an unnecessary and unexpected limitation. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subs

RE: How can I edit a built-in cursors

image editor. With that I was able to create new versions in Photoshop. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsu

How can I edit a built-in cursors

reen capture because that doesn't capture the cursor. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

RE: Can't set hilitedLine inside openStack

ler. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ 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: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

roblem. Just in case, I wrote the shutdown handler so that if it's called twice, nothing bad will happen, so that should be safe no matter how it works under OS X or Linux. Now, if only someone knew the answer to my hilitedLine question. (Nudge, nudge.) -- Ciao,

RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

ng the *last* window does shut it > down. But it > isn't always the last window the user is closing, so we need > two messages. Oh bugger, I hope this doesn't mean that it will work differently on a Mac. I don't have a Mac to test it on. -- Ciao,

RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

no message that universally indicates shutdown, no matter how it is invoked, but I guess I can live with it. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

RE: Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

d why what should "obviously" work, doesn't. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Reliable way to do something on shutdown?

but not when I click the X in the corner. What's the right way to do this? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Can't set hilitedLine inside openStack

., non-modally so that it will actually trigger the break), I can see that n contains the correct value. When I step across the above statement, nothing happens. If I then type exactly the same statement into the Message Box, the proper line is highlighted. What the heck is going on? -- Ciao,

RE: Feature request: semaphores for externals

docs by the time the refactoring is complete. Maybe it's a Real Men Don't Write Comments thing. I guess that makes me a quiche-eater. ;-) -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-liv

RE: Feature request: semaphores for externals

wouldn't be able to understand my own code after a month if it wasn't carefully commented. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

RE: Feature request: semaphores for externals

s set", so my LC program can then call the external function to retrieve whatever input had arrived. Now, I have to blindly call that function every x milliseconds as a result of a timer message, which sucks CPU time and imparts a random delay of zero to x milliseconds. -- Ciao,

Feature request: semaphores for externals

item, the semaphore handle, to each line. Either the time or the semaphore could be empty. Comments are welcome. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

RE: Weighted Random Number

order should be small enough that by itself you'd get a range that covers only a small portion of the screen, then the third-order should be sufficient to cover the full width of the screen. You can fiddle the first- and third-order coefficients to adjust the weighting. --

LiveCode on ARM Linux?

I've been playing with a Gumstix board, which runs Linux on an OMAP processor, and which uses XFCE for a desktop environment. Is it likely that the Linux desktop version of LiveCode can be compiled to work in this environment, or would that be a major job? -- Ciao, Paul D. De

RE: $0!

> From: Colin Holgate > > Don't know how they did it, but someone just pledged $0. > Every bit helps. Except that bit, it didn't help too much. I wonder if anyone's tried pledging a negative amount. You never know how the software was written. -- Ciao,

RE: Coding challenge

both a quarter and a 20-cent coin. So the algorithm would make 40 cents out of 25+10+5, instead of 20+20. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

RE: Coding challenge

is > 3+3 and the next in line would be 4+1+1. And then six coins. Yes, and the examples so far would render 6 as 4+1+1, not 3+3, which is the wrong answer. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com __

RE: Coding challenge

re brute force > > approach, less > > elegance. > > I'm missing something. Why would that be different? How would you represent 6? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com __

RE: Coding challenge

Now how would you do it if the available coin values were: 40,30,10,4,3,1 That's a more interesting problem, but probably a less interesting coding test, because I think it would involve a more brute force approach, less elegance. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco

RE: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

MS Equation editor > so that it becomes a word "in line" with normal text? In general, any embedded object has a choice of how it flows with the text, so you ought to be able to treat it like a big "character". But the first solution shoul

RE: OT: Super duper scripts in MS Word

ct inline with the text, but that's probably gilding the lily. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

RE: opening txt files

n the ASCII set is followed by a null, and something is converting the nulls into blanks? Possibly the display routine itself? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Socket question

don't want to write the program at the other end and then find out that my idea won't work at all. So I'm hoping someone here has already played with UDP datagram sockets in Rev or LC, and already knows the answer. Thanks in advance. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco

Async input from externals, or MIDI input?

yet. If it has, I'd like to know about it, and if it solves my problem, upgrade to the latest version. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Using two mouse buttons

buttons to work concurrently? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

RE: Strange Rev 3.5 problem

>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: >> >> I'm recompiling an old program with a few minor mods, and now I'm >> getting the following error on a line in my first handler that merely >> says "local s": >> >> st

Strange Rev 3.5 problem

uot;s". None of the other fileds or controls have anything called "s" that I can find. The dictionary doesn't show anything built-in called "s". What's the big deal about "s" all of a sudden? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Help with C externals

d binary, and so forth. (If current LC has advanced beyond that, I'd be interested to hear.) But like I said, it's just busywork, and on modern machines it's not so slow as to be a problem. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

RE: Help with C externals

rate sufficient to the application. But that doesn't deal with callbacks that occur during the time when a function called by your code is in progress, since you're not handling timer messages during that time. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pder

RE: Something that makes Windows 7 look good

ned versions of Windows from time to time, like Vista, Windows Me, the early versions of NT before Win2K. I skipped from XP, which I like, to Win7, which I also like. We'll see if my next OS is Win9. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com __

RE: signed 8 bit to "sign and magnitude" handler needed [PART ONE]

ll show the PHP code I tried to convert but failed) Looks like offset binary to me, so x - 128 is the two's complement version. If you need to represent the latter as unsigned bytes, the easiest way is probably (x + 128) bitAnd 255. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Menu font sizes

which may not agree with what the user set up in the desktop properties, I'd rather get back the original behavior of just letting Windows set the font size. Anyone have any ideas how to do that? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul

RE: Window Positioning

ts contents moved to the system menu on the top of the screen. I never found a bullet-proof solution to this that properly adapted to variations in menu bar height. Can anyone say if this issue has been resolved? -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paul