Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-20 Thread SparkOut
As well as changing your handler, which is unfortunately necessary at the moment, if you have access to the QCC you could vote for bug #4941 and/or message support and bring awareness back to this. It's not that Livecode "can't" determine pre epoch dates on Windows - it's just that the implementati

Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread SparkOut
I don't know why this is the case, because Windows can obviously calculate dates prior to the 1970 start of epoch in other applications... but something to do with the method LC uses to hook into a date function based on the epoch will fail. Try: put the date into tDate convert tDate to dateItems

Re: Hotel Management Software

2011-07-14 Thread SparkOut
Also have a look at http://rapla.org/ perhaps. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Hotel-Management-Software-tp3666333p3666911.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-

Re: Rev Customer Databased Hacked?

2011-07-11 Thread SparkOut
The advice to change password was *not* because of any success by any hacker at accessing your (our) password information. BUT because the hacker now has username and on-rev domain name, *if* you have a weak password it would be wise to change it to one that may be harder to try and attack by dict

Re: [ANN] New custom control > Circular Slider

2011-06-25 Thread SparkOut
I'm getting the same behaviour as AcidJazz - click on a slider and it works, but "never lets go" and have to Ctrl+Alt+Del to kill LC in order to get anything else to respond. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-New-custom-control-Circular-Slider-tp3

Re: RTF documents as templates

2011-02-21 Thread SparkOut
Thanks Jan I was actually doing this in a sort of dynamic way looping through fields in the stack to make the variables on the fly, and hence not declared them. As soon as I added a line: do "local" && tMergeFieldName it started working well. I obviously wasn't doing something right because ha

Re: RTF documents as templates

2011-02-21 Thread SparkOut
If you use MS Word to produce a template file that contains your [[Placeholders]] then there is a distinct problem with formatting. I believe Jan's very own advice in one of the "Merge" newsletter articles was always to "Save As" to as to force MS Word to write a completely new document out. I'm n