Re: Can I put advisory text in an 'ask' dialog?

2012-04-12 Thread Pete
I use a similar technique for option menus. Set the text property to the initial advisory (suitably colored). On mouseDown' set the text to the real options. On Apr 12, 2012 1:48 PM, "Graham Samuel" wrote: > Thanks very much Hugh Senior, Ken Ray and Mark Smith for their solutions, > which are goi

Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread Pete
ngs a bell. > > Dar > > > ___ > 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/listinfo/use-livecode > >

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
Got it, thanks Warren. Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:22 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > It was Mark who commented that tar+compression seems like too much work > without any benefit, and my original comment was mostly a response to that > thought. -- Pete Molly's

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
27;s nothing else to do so it just seems like overkill. Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On Apr 10, 2012, at 5:54 PM, Pete wrote: > > > Hi Warren, > > It's the un-zipping at the other end that concerns me, not the zip on my > > machine.

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
Hi Warren, It's the un-zipping at the other end that concerns me, not the zip on my machine. Sounds like the ability to handle tar files might require a Windows user to install some software. Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 04/10/2012 07:04 PM, Pe

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
Yeah, it was the earlier comment about WIndows that scared me. Now, if only the revZIP commands worked OK, we wouldn't be excahnging these emails! Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Pete, > > On Mac,

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
straightforward with tar? Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Tim, > > Yes, you're right, tar is older. Nonetheless, can you think of any other > reason why one would want to use tar, except for gl

[ANN] SQLiteAdmin

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
permanent disk file. A 30-day demo version of SQLiteAdmin is available at http://www.lcsql.com/products.html. Some functionality is disabled in the demo version. -- Peter Haworth lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark, I'll take a look. Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Pete, > > This is a line from my Compression Tool software. It zips without the > .DS_Store files. Item -1 of fld "File" is the

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
ernal program. I'll give tar a try. Pete On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 8:48 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > tar (from the shell) works even better. > > On 9 April 2012 19:29, Kee Nethery wrote: > > > Or just use the Mac Archive or Compress

Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-09 Thread Pete
he same file with the built-in OS X compress function works fine and so does the CleanARchiver utitlity. ANy ideas? -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vis

Re: Disabling a tab

2012-04-05 Thread Pete
Phil and Marty, Wanted to pass on to you that, while the enable/disable solution, it changes the selectedtext property of the tab control. Didn;t get a chance to see if using the "(" prefix did the same thing or not. Pete On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > Hi Pete,

Re: OT: mails bouncing back?

2012-04-03 Thread Pete
t the problem, I noticed the product and bought it. So sometimes, there really are silver linings! Pete On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Tim Jones wrote: > > > On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > >> I've had domains caugh

Re: [on-rev]Line endings for a db query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
Do you mean decimal 10 or octal 10? Decimal 10 is newline (which is what I'd expect), octal 10 is backspace. Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I just checked to see what revDataFromQuery uses for a row delimiter by > default, if you do not provide one. It re

Re: [on-rev]Line endings for a db query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
rowdelim character for revDataFromQuery? What platform are you on? My test was done on a Mac. Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > Hi Peter > > Thanks, I just tried your suggestion. > > That still inserts blank lines into the variable that I have to fi

Re: OT: mails bouncing back?

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
ly, I sgtrongly object to having my genuine emails blocked in this fashion. It's illegal to tamper with the US Mail and it should be illegal to block the delivery of genuine email as well. End of rant! Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Tim Jones wrote: > It appears that OnRev

Re: getProp syntax query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
s are great but it takes a while to get to grips with them! Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > For the very first time in a pretty long career as a LiveCode coder, I'm > trying to make sense of DataGrids, which I see were a heroic effort to > extend LiveCo

Re: [on-rev]Line endings for a db query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
Try if tvar is empty then put stuff into tvar else put return & stuff after tvar end ig On Apr 2, 2012 8:13 AM, "Pete Haworth" wrote: > Line delimiters are squirly! Try this pseudo code: > > if tvar is empty then > Put stuff into tvar > else > put re

Re: Disabling a tab

2012-04-01 Thread Pete
Thanks Phil. I think the "(" is the standard char to disable menu items, so that makes sense. I did notice the "(" character in front of the lines that I disabled. Pete On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > Hi Pete, > > As usual in Livecode, there a

Re: Disabling a tab

2012-04-01 Thread Pete
Thanks Marty. Sometimes the obvious just slips by me! Pete On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: > Hey Pete, > Using "disable menuItem 2 of btn "Tab Menu" seems to work. > > Marty Knapp > > I have a tab control and I'm using the method

Disabling a tab

2012-04-01 Thread Pete
ng to be greyed out, kinda like a disabled menu item. Any ideas how to do that? -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-31 Thread Pete
Thanks Geoff, I like the concept of time based updated rather than based on number of records processed. Pete On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > I'll throw my 2 cents in here as well -- I've found that it doesn't impact > performance significantly to ch

Re: Preferences

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Actually, yes, I think that is what happened. I'm still using 5.0 on a daily basis but I ran 5.5 yesterday to try a couple of things. I'll get ther latest 5.5. Pete On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/30/12 1:55 PM, Pete wrote: > >> Somehow or

Preferences

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Somehow or other, LC has lost my preference settings. Where is the Preferences file kept on OS X? I can restore from Time Machine backup. -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list u

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Those quantum guys are such pranksters! Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > > > Its a particle.. Its a wave! its a particle. Its a wave! Its a cat in a > > box! > > Coincidence -- some

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
garde but I don't want to end up with a dead phone! I also tried the OTA Update on my phone (HTC Incredible from Verizon) but seem to always get a "service not available" message. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > That's a good guess. If I wait

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Roger and Tim, I'm not sure where I got that idea from. Maybe the cell phone providers don;t want you to upgarde so you're mor elikley to buy another phone? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > Just about all Android phones, and tablets can be end-user

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Scott and Richard. I think I've got my algorithm to determine when to update the progress bar nicely tuned now. I'm a little confused by the lock screen thing though. Isn't lock screen for when you don't want screen changes to be seen? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark. You justy answered another question I had. I was under the impression that you were stuck with whatever version of Android was on a device when you purchased it but sounds like you can updaste it? Maybe it's just phones that can't be updated? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
n animated cursor to see how it compares performance wise. Isn't there some rule of quantum physics about changing the outocme of an experiment by observing it? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Pete wrote: > > > I

Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
in a tight loop and LC doesn't get a chance to update the screen but I'm uncertain how to solve that without adding to the overall execution time of the loop. Enlightenment much appreciated. -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark. Yes, the A100 is the 7" version, not sure if there other differences. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 10:40:47 PM, you wrote: > > > Anyone got one of the above and willing to share thoughts on i

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
I see they confirmed it as a bug in January. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/29/12 12:27 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > >> Have you reported this to the RunRev support team? We can all >> commiserate with you here on the list, but only they can

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
I think many of us have reported this to support, but to no avail. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Tim Jones wrote: > Have you reported this to the RunRev support team? We can all commiserate > with you here on the list, but only they can fix something's that's wrong… &g

[OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
Anyone got one of the above and willing to share thoughts on it? -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
enough about it to judge whether the problem is hardware, software, good vs bad teachers, lack of teacher training , or any other cause. But I'm not a teacher and I tend to view these things more simplistically than perhaps I should. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alejandro Tejada wro

Re: CSV Files

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
nd I see Alex's does createw an array at one point so there may well be some benfits to switching over to his routine. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Pete wrote: > > OK, so I know CSV files are not everyone's favorite subject but sometimes >>

Re: CSV Files

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
sible ASCII character in fact. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > ...that seems to be the same for Google sheets, too - though I've not dug > into whether there is an obvious end-of-line character. > Best, > Ke

CSV Files

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
ng at every character in the csv file. It seems to work just fine but I'm wondering if the collective knowledge of this list gas already come up with a more efficient solution. Thanks, -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-27 Thread Pete
ything you want these days. For those interested, you might want to read the book "Wrong" by David H. Freedman. A fascinating account of why an alarmingly high number of studies carried out by experts come to completely wrong conclusions. Pete On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Bob Earp

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
All I can say, Bob, is if the great thinkers, scientists, and philospohers of the years had that attitude, we'd still be living in caves. Pete On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > This discussion can happen at all because of the human mind's inability to > focu

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
ecode > > Roger > > > On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:03 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > > Message: 7 > > Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:01:28 -0700 > > From: Pete > > To: How to use LiveCode > > Subject: Re: ANN and OT: Calli

Re: About item in Application Menu

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
pllication menu for OS X systems. Pete On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > On my current application I'm building custom menus that appear on the > cards so that I can make them larger and they'll appear the same on both > the Mac and Windows versions; h

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
Roger, I'd love to take a look at your stack but when I download it and open it in Livecode, I get an error that it is not a stack. This is with Livecode 5.0.2. Pete On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > Tom, > > Please forgive me (especially Tim) for appar

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
time writing Livecode scripts. Maybe someone will write an LC plugin to deal with pdf files one day. Judging by the response to my initilial question, seems like there would be enough interest to make it worthwhile. Pete PS I'm still looking at ScreenSteps. They confirm that bookmark

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Pete
Thanks Richmond and Warren for the info. I like the idea of using a Linux distro that is somewhat like an OS X interface. Pete On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: > >> So now I'm left with the question of which Linux &g

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Colin, forgot about that. I'll give that a try. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > I don't remember that part. My suggestion was to read the PDF in a player > object, by setting its filename property. > > > On Mar 2

Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
ck if possible. Are there any other ways of displaying a pdf file within LC other than using revBrowser? I though I remembered seeing some sort of plugin but a quick search didn't come up with anything. I am still looking into ScreenSteps and WordLib. -- Pete Molly's Revenge

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
loped on my Mac, although it is a pretty new computer so I may run into the driver issues you mentioned. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Pete wrote: > > > Hi Richard, > > This thread has been very interesting to me as I'm considering > > gett

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks Warren. As you and Jacque both pointed out the VM approach solves the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I alrea

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Jacque. I had some not-so-grat experiences a few years back running emulators on a Mac so that's coloring my opinion, but they've probably improved a lot since then. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/24/12 5:48 PM, Pete

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
te why the use of Linux is not more widespread, no matter what advantages it has over other OS's. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > People buy whole-product solutions. -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Hi Bjornke, Does the below mean your Docu plugin won't work with 5.5? I'd be sorry if that was the case - it's sooo much better than the built in dictionary interface! Pete 2012/3/24 Björnke von Gierke > Furthermore, there's no way to find out the possible settings out

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
s. For instance, I tried www.google.com in the URL box. The status message at the bottom says "accessing http://www.google.com";, the lights at the top right flash away and it just stays like that, no web site displayed. My internet connection is working fine and I can access web site just fin

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
rward http:// url and nothing displayed. Any tips on how to get this to work? Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Am 23.03.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Pete: > > > I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and > >

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
sure this is a built in feature of pdf files, but wondering if there is a way to create that type of format from a standard word processing program as opposed to purchasing Acrobat. Thanks, Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Pete wrote: > Thanks Colin and Phil for the ScreenSteps recomm

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
Thanks Colin and Phil for the ScreenSteps recommendation. I'll definitely take a look. Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > You should look at ScreenSteps: > > http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/ > > In addition to being a very

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
t happens. I'm not against typing into LC fields, just finding that there's less work involved in using a word processor that is built to deal with formatting, spell checking and inserting graphics that doing all that in native LC. Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Richard Gas

Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
and graphics. Is it possible to open a pdf file and display within an LC application without starting a separate pdf viewer program? Thanks for any guidance, -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: Need an example of how to use "try" and "catch"

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
done using sqlite so maybe other SQL variants is where try/catch is needed or perhaps it's due to your use of SQLYoga. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > When you are in a standalone, a runtime error that would halt execution > might be fatal. Try/Catch allows you

Re: Translation s'il vous plait/por favor :-)

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
Looking back at the original request, it was to translate the phrase "Copy file XXX to your Applications folder", no mention of "into". Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > > Klaus, I would hate to

Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
x27;s formats but it lists all the files in the default folder, not an individual file. I guess it won;t take too long to get that and use filter to narrow it down to the source file for the copy. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/22/12 7:25 PM, Pete wrote: >

Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
Hi Maarten, That's a nice solution. Fast and doing it in chunks allows me to show a progress bar. I think I'll settle on that method. Is there a way to get the size of a file in LC? With that, I could decide if it's even worth displaying a progress bar. Pete On Thu, Mar 22,

Re: Need an example of how to use "try" and "catch"

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
;s not the case or does SQLYoga silent about errors? I have experienced silent datagrid problems that were only revealed by enclosing the datagrid access statements in try/catch. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > I have been using the try/catch idiom for years

Re: Need an example of how to use "try" and "catch"

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
e the command with a do statement. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I use it to determine if there has been an error executing a sequel query > for example. All my database calls go inside a try catch statement. If you > put it into a repeat loop, you can test to

Re: Need an example of how to use "try" and "catch"

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
#x27;t cause an error. I've sometimes wished there was a preference similar to the "Strict Compilation Mode" to deal with that. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Jim Hurley wrote: > Bob, > > Yes that would be fine, except that I get a compilation error at the line:

Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
ences are as much as you found, there may not be a need for a progress bar at all. Also, I assume the shell commands would be different on Windows and Mac. That's an inconvenience because it means extra coding, but not a show stopper. Thanks, Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Geoff Can

Re: Setting script in object not working...

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
u set would not be there in any following executions of the standalone. All this is predicated on the standalone being one self-contained stack file and not a splash stack that loads the real application stack at run time. Somewhat stabbing in the dark though Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:52

Re: Setting script in object not working...

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
Is this another manifestation of not being able to save anything in a stack in a standalone program? Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > Hello, > > I have a stack where I generate a series of images. > > I then set the script of each image to a script that

Speaking of SmartAss..

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
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Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
advantages" to using it over "put URL" or any other method, amongst which is that it does not require reading the file into memory, and since some of these files could be pretty large, that's significant. On a Mac, it also displays a progress bar which I don;t think would be pos

revCopyFile

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
Anyone know of a way to get rid of that annoying sound when revCopyFile has finished copying a file? This is on a Mac, don't know if it happens in Windows. -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode

Re: Highest Image File ID

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
Maybe "get the ID of the last image of stack "xyz"? Not sure if that would work or not, I seem to remember having problems with using the "last" keyword in the past but I think that was specifically to do with groups. Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM, J. Landman Ga

Re: MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
I think I vaguely remember running into that once, worth a try. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: > > > Next I copied the button containing the working script to my existing > app and saved that as a sta

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
The new 5.5 release has lots of stuff related to field formatting. Maybe some of that might help, especially if RunRev used the new features to colorise scripts. Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Pe

Re: MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
iling code along with the error message you're getting. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: > Thanks, Pete. That gives me a clue. The LC app of primary concern to me > has such a long history it started out as a HyperCard stack (and formerly > interfaced wi

Re: MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
I suspect it's some LC related issue. The favorite candidate for things like this is usually relying on data being saved somewhere in the standalone, which can't be done. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: > Can anyone point me to an article or tutorial

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
I'm happy to see in the newsletter announcement of LC 5.5 I just received that it retains "Save As" as a file menu option. Maybe Apple will ban LC from use on desktops because of that, who knows. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On Mar 19, 2012, at 3

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
your hope for a "more right" answer is probably in vain at this point! Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > On 20/03/2012 17:17, Pete wrote: > >> So I wouldn't vote for a bug report that asked for lines to behave like >> characters in this re

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
anting to specify a line range with an end point before the start or was it just an observation? Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > > > Hi Peter, > > > > Am 20.03.2012 um 14:40 schrieb

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
ith table names. I definitely agree it's good practice to do that for clarity but as long as a column name is unique among all tables, SQL will figure out which table an unqualified column name belongs to. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ken Ray wrote: > > On Mar 20, 2012, at

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
ement, but that's not the case. You can refer to any columns form the selected tables anywhere in your SELECT even if they are not explicitly selected. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach < reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the replies. > I&#x

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
Thanks, 4wProps no installed. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: > You might want to check out Richard's 4wProps (under the > Development/Plugins menu). Easy access to all the properties. > -- Pete Molly's Revenge <http:/

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
the number, dunno. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > repeat with n = 1 to length(tInput) > if char n of tInput is a number > then put "+" into char n of tInput > else put "-" into char n of tInput > end repeat > >

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
I wonder if there might be a less ugly way to do this in LC instead of SQL... Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Marek wrote: > Thanks a lot! That helped me a lot man. > > Marek Reichenbach > > On 2012 Kov. 19, at 19:29, Ken Ray wrote: > > > > > On M

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
ies" or something similar. I ended up writing my own plugin to show all the properties of a selected object and allow me to change any of them. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 03/19/2012 06:05 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: > >> I have a slider in which the sho

Re: OS X application ID

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
But be careful - those properties aren't carried over to the standalone so if you need access to them in the standalone as well as the IDE, you'll need to grab them and put them into your own custom properties, possibly in the savingStandalone handler. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 1

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
ers expect different things. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/19/12 11:47 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> If it resolves to an insertion point, then it's doing exactly what >> you would expect. It's putting something into that insertion point.

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2012-03-17 Thread Pete
SELECT A,B,C,TABLE2.D FROM TABLE1 LEFT JOIN TABLE2 ON TABLE2.C < TABLE1.B On Mar 17, 2012 3:44 AM, "Marek Reichenbach" wrote: > I'm trying to do in LiveCode with MySQL: > how to use data from other table in the same query for filtering: > > SELECT A, B ,C, (SELECT D FROM TABLE2 WHERE C[from table

Re: Detection of Keyboard Closing

2012-03-15 Thread Pete
As an Android user not developer, maybe this explains a somewhat annoying aspect of some Andorid apps which, when you open them, position the cursor in a field which requires input before you can continue but does not bring up the keyboard until you tap on the field. Pete On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-15 Thread Pete
Thanks Trevor, I found the problem. I had a set dgText to empty in there, forgetting that dgText doesn't exist in these circumstances. Changed that to se the dgNumberOfRecords to zero and all works fine now. Pete On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-14 Thread Pete
u think of anything that might cause this behavior? Thanks, Pete On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Pete wrote: > > > OK, found the problem. I had a set dgProps["sort by column"] statement > > after setting the dgN

Re: Filter probelm

2012-03-14 Thread Pete
Duh!! Thank you Terry. Pete On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > On 14/03/2012, at 02:52 PM, Pete wrote: > > Unless I'm doing something wrong, "filter tvar without tab" doesn't work, > that is the lines with a tab remain in tvar after the fil

Re: help pls

2012-03-14 Thread Pete
AFTER INSERT ON thetable FOR EACH ROW UPDATE thetable SET PRICE to (NEW.Col1 * New.Col2) WHERE id=NEW.id You would also have a second trigger defined as AFTER UPDATE. With those triggers in place, just SELECT PRICE FROM theTable. Hope that helps. Pete On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Marek Reiche

Filter probelm

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
Unless I'm doing something wrong, "filter tvar without tab" doesn't work, that is the lines with a tab remain in tvar after the filter command. Suer would be nice to have that work when dynamically building the contents of a popup menu with indented lines in it... -- Pete M

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
nuances to using dgNumberOfRecords! Pete On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > If you have the dgNumberOfRecords set to a positive number then that makes > sense as the data grid has to redraw. > > If the dgNumberOfRecords is set to 0 (and messages aren't loc

Re: Cyberduck versus Flow

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
I use Cyberduck and Taco HTML Edit together to get the benefits of the combined editor/ftp. Cyberduck detetcs the presence of Taco on your computer and includes a contextual menu item to download a file into Taco, then when you save it in Taco it automatically upload to the server again. Pete On

Re: Externals

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
Thank you Francois. Pete 2012/3/12 François Chaplais > try > http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue13/newsletter5.php > and > http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue14/newsletter3.php > Best regards, >François > Le 12 mars 2012 à 22:53, Pet

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-12 Thread Pete
I'm not sure whose post you're responding to Bob. Where do you see something that amounts to a statement being passed as a referenced parameter? Pete On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Just weighing in here, that would be a bit confusing. Passing by reference

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-12 Thread Pete
Correction of type! Both instances of 1-2 should read 1-12, sorry. Pete On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Pete wrote: > GetDataForLine gets called once for lines 1-12, then a second time for > lines 1-2 again, and occasionally a third time for lines 1-2. -- Pete Molly's Re

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