Re: bug or feature in player filename?

2014-12-14 Thread Timothy Miller
Thanks Jacque, > On Dec 14, 2014, at 12:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > It seems like expected behavior. If the file path is wrong, nothing happens > and the player retains whatever it was previously set to. If there was a > filename set then it stays there. The engine doesn't remove the prev

bug or feature in player filename?

2014-12-13 Thread Timothy Miller
I’m in version 6.7.0 on Macintosh. I’m not very good at searching for bugs, so it’s possible it’s a fixed bug. If you set a player filename to an invalid filename, by hand or by script, the player seems to play the last valid filename entered, even though the invalid filename continues to displ

Playing musical notes in LC

2014-12-12 Thread Timothy Miller
IIRC, there was once a time, perhaps antediluvian, when the command “Play G3” would play a G below middle C. The user could also specify a duration, I think. Either I don’t recall correctly, or this feature was scrapped. Is there an extension or plug-in that makes this possible in current versio

externalizing data

2014-10-29 Thread Timothy Miller
tabase, swapping data from card to database and vice-versa, with an LC script. Correct? With a large database, it's going to be faster. Any other advantages? Timothy Miller ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-29 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 27, 2014, at 10:24 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > http://quality.runrev.com/ > > and report your findings and the simple steps required to see the > 'failure'. Attach (upload) both stacks so they can see exactly what you are > seeing. > > If your stack contains confidential information that you

Re: Open with 6.7 vs. 7.0

2014-10-28 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 28, 2014, at 7:03 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > This works for you? I've tried it many times for 5.5.4, and it hasn't > worked yet--tends not to even leave *that* file changed. > > (It works for other applications; just of livecode. And of course, it > doesn't solve Adobe's aggressively s

Open with 6.7 vs. 7.0

2014-10-27 Thread Timothy Miller
I opened one stack one time with version 7.0. Now, Finder: Get Info: "Open with" has been changed to version 7.0 for all my archived stacks. I'm not ready to make that change. I've tried switching a folder full of stacks back to Finder: Get Info: Open With version 6.7, then tried the "Change A

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-27 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 27, 2014, at 1:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On October 27, 2014 3:32:05 PM CDT, Timothy Miller > wrote: >> >> The result from the failed sorts was empty. That's one of the reasons I >> suspect a bug. > > Your first idea was probably right. If

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-27 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:27 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/27/2014, 1:08 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> --Paste field "intakesecs" and field "patient name" onto card 1. I >> put dummy values into those fields, don't know what happens if they >>

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-27 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 27, 2014, at 11:08 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: > The sort command seems not to be executing at all, judging by timing the > script when it is working, in version 6.5 vs. when it is not working, in > version 7.0 I meant version 6.6.5

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-27 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > And weirder still, this behavior seems consistent in both 6.7 and 7.0. > > Tim, any chance you may have NULLs or other oddities in the data? When you > test across versions, is it with the same data? I've been able to replicate the pro

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0 -- troubleshooting bears fruit

2014-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > How about trying it without the "bg" in the latter one? Absent-minded me! You were right. Both scripts now work normally on card 1. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0 -- troubleshooting bears fruit

2014-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I think there may be something else going on than just an empty field. Absent field, not empty field. But it wouldn’t surprise me if something else going on. See my next message on this thread. Tim Miller __

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0 -- troubleshooting bears fruit

2014-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Card 1 of this stack is an index card. A pair of buttons appear on the card > 1, along with other stuff. “Sort cards by name” and “Sort cards by intake > date.” Their function is obvious. I just realized than neither sort command

Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0 -- troubleshooting bears fruit

2014-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > I'm with Richard on this - I've never tried to sort cards numeric, and > I'm not even sure what I would expect if I tried it. What does or > doesn't work now, and what was the result previously? Does/did that > sort numerically on the names of th

Re: Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Really glad to hear that worked out, Tim. Your kindness is appreciated. > > The result is empty even when the script doesn’t work. > > Doesn't work as in doesn't sort the cards, leaving them in the original order? Precisely. Tim Miller __

Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

2014-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
Sorry about the panic yesterday. My “corrupted” stacks do open in 7.0 and I was able to save a version in format 5.5. They open up just fine in version 6.7. My precious data is retrieved and my backup negligence is forever cured. A tiny problem triggered my panic attack yesterday. That tiny prob

Re: 7.0 corrupted two stacks!

2014-10-24 Thread Timothy Miller
Well, that's a relief. I'm downloading 7.0 again, will install it, try it on backup stacks, see what happens, will report back. Tim Miller On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > > > I just downloaded and installed the "stable&

Re: 7.0 corrupted two stacks!

2014-10-24 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 24, 2014, at 7:10 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > On mouseup > sort numeric by field "foo" > answer "all done" > end mouseup shoulda wrote "sort cards numeric... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

7.0 corrupted two stacks!

2014-10-24 Thread Timothy Miller
I just downloaded and installed the "stable" version of 7.0, didn't give it much thought. I only opened two stacks, noticed that a simple script in one stack wasn't working right. On mouseup sort numeric by field "foo" answer "all done" end mouseup I didn't get an error message, but the sort di

Re: multiple crashes with OS 10.8.4 and 6.0.2 community

2013-07-03 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi Tiemo, Thanks. It's possible I unwittingly entered a Unicode character into a field. Is it possible to do this by accident? Tim On Jul 3, 2013, at 12:40 AM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" wrote: > Do you have any Unicode chars in your text? > I just had crashes because of Unicode in the stack title

multiple crashes with OS 10.8.4 and 6.0.2 community

2013-07-02 Thread Timothy Miller
I've experienced half a dozen crashes in the past hour or two with the same stack. I haven't yet had a chance to investigate the possibility of similar problems on other stacks. It's a very simple and ordinary stack, except that it has about 1600 cards. I store a lot of text in this stack. Mos

[OT - I remembered this time]

2013-05-09 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 9, 2013, at 1:45 PM, Richmond wrote: > Let's just say that if I find Jerry Garcia, John Lennon or Janis Joplin > anywhere near me in heaven, > I'll ask for a transfer to hell directly; especially with regard to Jerry > Garcia. Okay... Lil Wayne overdoses on drank for the last time. He f

[OT - I remembered this time]

2013-05-09 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 9, 2013, at 7:26 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > All he could think about was > A, D, F, G...A, D, F, G...A, D, F, G... I can't figure that one out. Hint? Jerry Garcia dies, wakes up in a vast featureless space. Far in the distance he sees a tiny dot. As he walks toward it, he can graduall

Re: [OT] Security for stacks with Community version

2013-05-06 Thread Timothy Miller
#x27;s save that for another thread. Getting back to my original question. I should have been more precise and concise. Mostly, I'm trying to understand how secure, or insecure, my machine is, if lost or stolen, if protected only with a login password. I'll repeat my main questions:

[OT] Security for stacks with Community version

2013-05-05 Thread Timothy Miller
Years ago, when I first wrote my "rolodex" stack, I intended to store phone numbers, addresses, passwords, credit card numbers, bank account numbers, and other useful information in one convenient place, one stack in a suite of stacks I use in my day to day business. If these fell into the wrong

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 2, 2013, at 12:41 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 05/02/2013 02:48 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> On May 1, 2013, at 4:39 PM, stephen barncard wrote: >> >>> Well, here's another smart-aleck question while I'm feeling randy. Are >>> there script limits

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 4:39 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > Well, here's another smart-aleck question while I'm feeling randy. Are > there script limits in the Community edition? I have no idea. Don't even know what a script limit is. Feel better now? TM

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > In terms of capabilities, nothing's changed. > > But yes, the pricing for the Commercial Edition has changed. > > Most developers were coding for multiple platforms, and by the time you add > up all the platforms from their formerly-complex pr

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 3:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > They've been pretty up-front about the omission of the security module, it > was in the Kickstarter materials. Security can't be in the community version. > If it was, it would be worthless; anyone could read the algorithm and use it > to unlo

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 2:57 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > If it's for your own use, why do you need to protect you stacks at all? You > don't trust yourself? Nobody likes a smart aleck. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vis

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 3:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > They've been pretty up-front about the omission of the security module, it > was in the Kickstarter materials. Security can't be in the community version. > If it was, it would be worthless; anyone could read the algorithm and use it > to unlo

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 3:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: >> Is LiveCode turning its back on users like me? > > Not at all. > > All previous versions of LiveCode were commercial versions, and all those > features and more are available in v6.0 o

Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > If its 6.0.1 commercial you should be able to. But of course if its 6.0.1 > commercial it should have been able to open it to begin with. If its the > community version the answer would be no, that part of things has been > removed. Not commercial

Re: Stack won't open in 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Wondering if your dictionary is having issues. Found this entry in mine. > > *password* > > ** > > *Type: *property > > > *Syntax: * > > set the password of *stack *to {*passwordString *| empty} Thank you Mike. > set the password of this st

Re: Stack won't open in 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 1, 2013, at 2:14 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Wondering if your dictionary is having issues. Found this entry in mine. > > *password* > > ** > > *Type: *property > > > *Syntax: * > > set the password of *stack *to {*passwordString *| empty} Thank you Mike. > set the password of this st

Stack won't open in 6.0.1

2013-05-01 Thread Timothy Miller
1, can I restore password protection? Will I have to change any critical scripts? Never too old to be a newbie. I tried to RTI. Honest. Thanks in advance. Timothy Miller ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit thi

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 16, 2013, at 12:00 PM, kee nethery wrote: > The people who make a lot of money selling software are those that focus on > how to get more people to use their software, not those who focus on how to > get less people to use their software. > > The "get more people" group occasionally wi

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Nothing will happen to the file on disk until you save it. Remember that > stacks exist only in memory until they're saved. Copy 1 of LiveCode won't > know a thing about the changes you made in Copy 2. The dangerous part is when > you sav

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 2, 2013, at 4:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/2/13 5:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote: >> one can create a copy of Livecode and run each version (name it Livecode B >> or something) in a different space, yet cut and paste between. No name >> space conflicts this way! > > I do that all

Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, When working on a long and complex document with a word processor, I sometimes find it useful to display the same document in two windows, simultaneously. I can cut and paste from one window to the other, or read one part of the document while typing in another, and so on. Now I have th

Re: Telephony in LiveCode

2013-01-15 Thread Timothy Miller
On Jan 15, 2013, at 10:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/15/13 11:59 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> USB modems are cheap and widely available. > > Of course, there's the problem that LiveCode has no USB support. > Okay, I feel stupid now. I must say, the dictionary ent

Re: Telephony in LiveCode

2013-01-15 Thread Timothy Miller
Thanks for all the thoughtful replies. Maybe analog phone lines aren't completely obsolete. Back to the original question, then I only need to manipulate three phone lines. USB modems are cheap and widely available. I think I can do everything I want -- answer, play recordings, listen for

Re: Telephony in LiveCode

2013-01-14 Thread Timothy Miller
right away when I googled it: > http://www.sustworks.com/pa_guide/compatibleModems.html > > Bob > > > On Jan 13, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have to re-think my telephone system for business use. There's only one >&

Telephony in LiveCode

2013-01-13 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, I have to re-think my telephone system for business use. There's only one employee, me, and I usually can't answer the phone, but I want callers to have a convenient user-friendly experience, and to reach me when they need to. Some kind of simple auto-attendant, the ability to transfer a

Re: Reuse an image

2012-11-15 Thread Timothy Miller
I've been wondering about a similar question (assuming I understand this question) Once I import an image into one card, can I reference that image and display it on another card? For instance, if I want to display an index of thumbnail imported images from other cards. Hmm... I just re-read t

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-15 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 15, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Ken Ray wrote: > ... > > Custom Props: > ... > > Cons: *Much* easier to accidentally store permanently what > > should be a temporary change to a value (for stacks that need to call > > "save" for any reason); more difficult to use (gMyGlob

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-12 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 12, 2012, at 7:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/12/12 6:50 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> >> I consistently put empty into all unused globals when a script starts. > > Unlike HyperCard, in LiveCode you can actually delete them entirely: > > delete global g

Re: [OT] Where ill conceived copyright laws can lead

2012-10-12 Thread Timothy Miller
Evolution optimized the human brain to cope effectively with ownership of a physical object bigger than a pea and no larger than a barn. Ancestral humans did not own land, for instance. Until recently, people didn't own many abstractions. Maybe a stock certificate or the deed to a house. Our e

Re: Unpopularity of global variables - why?

2012-10-12 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 12, 2012, at 2:25 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Across ALL stacks in the IDE. That is the rub. If you only work on one > application at a time, well and good. But what about library stacks? What > about plug-ins? Use as a global something a plugin also uses as a global, and > you could rea

Re: dysfunctional scroll the loc script

2012-10-10 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 9, 2012, at 8:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The "move" command is optimized animation, and is only one line: > > move field "foo" from 537,1 to 537,650 in one second > > There's other variations you can use, take a look at "move" in the > dictionary. You can move things using exact pos

dysfunctional scroll the loc script

2012-10-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, I thought this would be easy. It isn't working right. Don't know what to do. The script: on mouseUp put "537,1" into locVar repeat with i = 1 to 650 set the loc of field "foo" to locvar add 1 to item 2 of locVar wait 1 millisecs end repeat end mouseUp It works,

Re: Text field over photo

2012-10-09 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Tim, > > For such tasks, I use a transparent field with white text and an outerglow > with the following settings: > > opacity 255 > blendmode normal > size 6 > range 255 > filterbox3pass > color 0,0,0 > spread

Re: Text field over photo

2012-10-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Got it. Thanks Marty. Is there a way to import the image into the background of the field, so I only have to scroll the loc of one object, instead of two? Tim On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:02 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: > Hey Tim, > I would make a soft-edged, white box and save it as a transparent PNG, th

Text field over photo

2012-10-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, I want to display a line of text -- in a field, over a photo. The loc of the field will scroll down. I want the text to be as legible as possible, but the photo will vary. I'm wondering about the best way to make the text legible. What do you suggest? --A black font with a white outline

[OT] State of the internet

2012-10-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 3, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I'd like to point out something I noticed when I was young. People tend to > put a lot of stock in what has happened in the past, and then apply it to > predict what will happen in the future. From stock prices to global warming, > everyone seems

Home brewers

2012-10-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Oct 2, 2012, at 1:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I just meant that anyone developing cross platform apps (Windows, OS X, > mobile) couldn't use the same code base for all builds. The menu is strictly > an OS X service, so there would have to be a lot of code-branching for each > platform, an

Re: command-click on a word

2012-10-02 Thread Timothy Miller
There's my answer. Thanks, J. On Oct 1, 2012, at 4:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > It's an OS X Service and apps can hook into it if they want. I suspect > LiveCode doesn't do it because of its cross-platform nature. None of the > other operating systems have it and branching the engine code to

Re: command-click on a word

2012-10-01 Thread Timothy Miller
checker application available on the RunRev > store but I don;t remember seeing anything for the feature you mentioned. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:34 AM, Timothy Miller < > gand...@doctortimothymiller.com

command-click on a word

2012-10-01 Thread Timothy Miller
I'm not writing to complain about an absent feature. Mostly just curious, and maybe I'll learn something useful. In recent years, I've come to take it for granted that I can hilite a word and command-click on it to get a pop-up dialog box with items like "cut" "copy" "look up in dictionary" and

Re: version 5.5.2 upgrade trouble

2012-09-13 Thread Timothy Miller
Never mind. Before I posted, I messed around with it, could not fix it. Inevitably, it started working, after I posted. I did mess around a bit more. Not sure what was wrong or what I did right. Tim On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > >> Hello, >> >

Re: version 5.5.2 upgrade trouble

2012-09-13 Thread Timothy Miller
Correction: Version 5.5.2.1492 Tim On Sep 13, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Hello, > > Yesterday, I got notified that version 5.5.2 for the Macintosh desktop was > available. I clicked the right buttons, verified my license, and it worked. > > Today, I got a si

version 5.5.2 upgrade trouble

2012-09-13 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, Yesterday, I got notified that version 5.5.2 for the Macintosh desktop was available. I clicked the right buttons, verified my license, and it worked. Today, I got a similar notification, but the version looked a little different. I can't remember now. Maybe something like 5.5.2-gm?? I

Re: [OT] EULA and legality

2012-09-10 Thread Timothy Miller
ns. Sorta like EULAs, it seems. Cheers, (Doctor) Timothy Miller On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:38 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Good point Mark. > > Looking at my Snow Leopard EULA (as it differs from current EULAs) it says: > > 1 General. The software... are licensed, not sold, to you... You

Re: import snapshot

2012-09-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Sep 3, 2012, at 1:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Are you using an older copy of LiveCode? That's a really old bug. Unwittingly perhaps. All better now. Thanks Jacque Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

import snapshot

2012-09-03 Thread Timothy Miller
All my previous questions answered completely, so far. Praise Isis, praise Osiris, all hail Runrev. Here's another one. >From the dictionary entry for "import snapshot": > If you do not specify a rectangle or an object, LiveCode displays a > crosshairs cursor. Click at one corner of the rectang

images and path names

2012-09-02 Thread Timothy Miller
If I set the "source" of an image in its inspector by clicking on the little file icon and selecting the file from the dialog box, the source field in the inspector shows "./test.image.jpg" Same thing happens with File menu: New referenced control: Image file... Yet if I write a script: import

Re: pirate version of my book...

2012-09-02 Thread Timothy Miller
When immoral behavior becomes common, profitable, and more or less anonymous, it is no longer generally regarded as immoral. If the victim is distant stranger, or an abstraction, like a corporation, the sense of immorality diminishes further. When people find hundred dollar bills lying around o

Re: another display image question

2012-09-02 Thread Timothy Miller
Generous, knowledgeable, clear and concise, as always. You are a gift from god, Jacque, Tim On Sep 1, 2012, at 8:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > There's a built-in "crop" command, see the dictionary. Basically you pass it > a rectangle and the image gets cropped to that size. ___

another display image question

2012-09-01 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, This is a follow-up to another question on a similar topic, posted just a few minutes ago. I'm wondering how to crop the display of an image in an "image area." The original is a .jpg or .png saved on the hard disk. I could do that with with overlying opaque fields, moving them around a

display image question

2012-09-01 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, Forever the noob, I'm working on a project that involves displaying images. This involves unfamiliar issues, which I will probably be able to work out for myself one way or another, but a little boost over the fence would be appreciated. So, I've saved some images on my hard drive, vary

Simple script doesn't work

2012-08-04 Thread Timothy Miller
In certain frequently-used stacks, I get tired of closing the revTools window, choosing the browse tool, and so on. Y this script no work? on OpenCard choose browse tool close window revTools close window revStartCentre end OpenCard I've tried on openCard, on preOpenCard, on openStack

Re: insertion point glitch

2012-05-21 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 21, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > > I should have said: I keep seeing exactly that once a while as well. > > As far as I can see, based on a few years of observation, it has to do with > mis-clicking somehow. I see it sometimes when a script places the insertion point in a

Re: insertion point glitch

2012-05-21 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 21, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > This seems an intermittent but pervasive issue for which it has been > difficult to pin down a recipe: > > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5043 > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6416 > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.

Re: insertion point glitch

2012-05-20 Thread Timothy Miller
Thankya, Igor, I too am familiar with stray-thumb trackpad behavior. In the case of the glitch in question, it also happens on my Mac Mini, which has a mouse, no trackpad. But I appreciate your attempt to help. Tim On May 20, 2012, at 10:53 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > Dear Tim, > >

Re: insertion point glitch

2012-05-20 Thread Timothy Miller
button in the answer dialog box, the field accepts keyboard input normally. T On May 20, 2012, at 9:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Hi, I do a fair amount of tedious data entry with my liveCode stacks. > > Now and then, a field's focus border is hilited, the cursor insertion point &

insertion point glitch

2012-05-20 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi, I do a fair amount of tedious data entry with my liveCode stacks. Now and then, a field's focus border is hilited, the cursor insertion point is blinking in the field, but the field is unresponsive to keyboard input. Clicking again in the field does not make a difference. The only way to mak

[OT] Big Google Brother

2012-05-15 Thread Timothy Miller
Probably no conspiracy, yet… If and when we find out a conspiracy exists, it will be too late to take precautions. On the other hand, if I wanted to be Big Brother, fifteen years from now, I would go to work for Google today. (I'd consider Facebook, but I'd probably go with Google.) Maybe Goog

Re: Windows Metro

2012-05-15 Thread Timothy Miller
That will fill in the few remaining gaps in Google's comprehensive knowledge of your life. Unless you encrypt the documents. Is there a way to encrypt Google docs? I never use it. Tim On May 15, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Google Docs does it for me, at least for moderatley compl

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-15 Thread Timothy Miller
That's funny! Tim On May 15, 2012, at 1:05 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > In some third world place there is a tribe that use arm-farts en masse as > musical expression. It sounds like marching feet. It's on a rare Nonesuch > field recording. > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-15 Thread Timothy Miller
Maybe so, Mark. I understand why armpit farts are funny. Don't understand why Pages is funny. Tim On May 15, 2012, at 12:42 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Tim- > > Tuesday, May 15, 2012, 12:25:55 PM, you wrote: > >> I have a feeling I'm getting teased, but I'm not enough of a >> wirehead to get th

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-15 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 14, 2012, at 9:31 PM, Richmond wrote: >>> Or, put it another way; have you got such a resource-hungry operating >>> system that it leaves you with hardly any RAM for >>> anything else? >> You know how it goes. Plants vs. Zombies running in another window, Firefox >> with fifteen open tabs

Re: tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 14, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 05/14/2012 09:52 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> Something bad happened to one of my stacks. I wasn't doing anything unusual. >> (Nor was the stack, or LiveCode. My wife might have been doing something >> unusual in th

tilde after .rev in file name

2012-05-14 Thread Timothy Miller
Something bad happened to one of my stacks. I wasn't doing anything unusual. (Nor was the stack, or LiveCode. My wife might have been doing something unusual in the next room.) I did have a number of applications running at the same time, and I only have 2 GB of physical RAM. It might have been

Re: Button oddities -- LC 5.5 related? (Not a serious problem)

2012-03-31 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 31, 2012, at 3:56 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/31/12 5:34 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >> I just discovered that if I click with the browse tool on the >> place where the buttons should be, the button becomes visible and the >> button script executes. If I save and

Button oddities -- LC 5.5 related? Possible serious problem?

2012-03-31 Thread Timothy Miller
We're in Mac OS 10.6.8, recently upgraded to LC v 5.5., using a stack that worked normally every day in LC 5.0.2. It's a single-core Intel MacBook. "That's funny. I thought I had little "go prev" and "go next" buttons in the upper right and left corners of this stack. Just my imagination, I gues

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-28 Thread Timothy Miller
A bit further off topic... I used to donate my spare clock cycles to seti at home. Fun at first. I stopped for two reasons. One -- If anyone finds ET's phone number, it will cause global pandemonium. The human race isn't ready for this discovery. Two -- If I find ET's phone number and I become

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-10 Thread Timothy Miller
he find. > find tstring in field tField > return the result > end findit > > > > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Timothy Miller < > gand...@doctortimothymiller.com> wrote: > >> >> On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >>

A little help with the foundChunk

2012-03-10 Thread Timothy Miller
So I've got a list of foundChunks in the form -- "char 10 to 16 of field 1 of card ID 1586" How do I convert them to the form -- "word 3 to 4 of field 1 of card ID 1586" I want to do that, because I want to include the next word in each foundChunk by adding 1 to word 4 of each line. Alternate

Re: a little help with "find" script

2012-03-10 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. > Not even every month. > > Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance > of a string in field "foo&qu

a little help with "find" script

2012-03-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. Not even every month. Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance of a string in field "foo" I know how to write repeat loops, but can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when t

Confused again

2011-10-25 Thread Timothy Miller
I keep getting this message, too. I don't know what to think. I never subscribed to the developers' program. Don't know what it is. (Well... I think it's some kind of a program for developers, but that's just a guess.) I am a registered owner of 5.0 for the Mac desktop. That's all I need or want

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi Jacque, True. I'm not in the dev program. The announcement showed up as some kind of alert when I launched LiveCode 5.0. Somebody at LiveCode goofed I guess. Tim On Oct 20, 2011, at 7:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Tim, it just occured to me that you may not be in the dev program. The 5.0.

Re: download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread Timothy Miller
I'm on: http://www.runrev.com/store/account/products/ I'm logged in. I see "seat 1" I see my name I see a popup button labeled "version" I see 5.0.0 What am I doing wrong? Tim On Oct 20, 2011, at 4:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/20/11 3:40 PM, Timo

download maintenance upgrade??

2011-10-20 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi, A few weeks ago, I installed LC 5.0 for the Mac desktop. Seems to work okay. If it has new features, I haven't discovered them yet. I've gotten notifications about a maintenance upgrade. 5.0.1 or something like that. I follow the links, but can't find a link to download the upgrade. Frustr

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

2011-09-06 Thread Timothy Miller
"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" The 'wherefore' here means "why?" rather than "where?" What Juliet is asking, in allusion to the feud between her Capulet family and Romeo's Montague clan, is 'Romeo, why are you a Montague?'. Tim On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:23 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote:

newbie question about smartphone apps

2011-09-05 Thread Timothy Miller
Sorry to disappoint. No OT rants about education today. Nor any inquiries about strange LC behavior arising entirely from my own incompetence. I have the vague notion that LC developers are writing smartphone apps. Until ten minutes ago, it never occurred to me that I would attempt such a thing.

Re: [OT] Mediocre Britain

2011-08-31 Thread Timothy Miller
On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:35 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 08/31/2011 12:32 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: >> For any techniques to succeed requires a willingness is that, participant >> have to closed minds (and the frequently associated clenched fists) can hold >> nothing value - just a tight grip

Re: [OT] Mediocre Britain

2011-08-29 Thread Timothy Miller
On Aug 29, 2011, at 8:50 AM, Camm wrote: > This topic has been quite interesting and narrow minded ... In essence, intelligence represents the rate at which a person learns. For instance the average elementary school child learns to read at the rate of one academic year per chronologica

Re: LC --> Website ?

2011-08-28 Thread Timothy Miller
On Aug 26, 2011, at 11:53 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > That's not necessarily true and many (most?) professional website > designers do use tools like Dreamweaver (or whatever Adobe is calling > that these days). It is IMO only an elite group of web designers who > produce their pages programmatic

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