Re: (somewhat) OT: Bill Atkinson on HC - but rather Vannevar Bush in July 1945

ective of our scientists as they emerge from their war work. Like Emerson's famous address of 1837 on "The American Scholar," this paper by Dr. Bush calls for a new relationship between thinking man and the sum of our knowledge. — THE EDITOR/ Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke _

USA TODAY: Check out this photo from August political cartoons from the USA TODAY Network

>From USA TODAY August political cartoons from the USA TODAY Network https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/9c3a4b42e9ab7aeae81e79b50e6eff1cf291b0a3/c=32-0-2969-2208/local/-/media/2017/08/29/USATODAY/USATODAY/636395658646117843-082917indyWebOnly-texas-flooding.jpg The cartoonist's homepage, indystar.c

Re: Refer to new group?

Bug 8275 about "Groups: Bugs and features ("last group" broken)?" submitted in 2009 is still pending. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke *Bug 8275* <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8275> -Groups: Bugs and features ("last group" broken)? *Status*:

Re: OT: Need better hardware vs need better software./ Sub-subject "HyperPad"

his message: I support those that suggest approaches to broaden the basis of Metacard. The 10th anniversary of Metacard (is that correct?) would be one more reason for taking steps in that direction. Regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft.

Performance speed of widgets (was: how to create a Custom Control)

, but would a widget *execute* much faster than a group as a custom control? Would, for example, a matrix-convolve widget for image processing make up for the serious speed loss we are experiencing especially with LC versions 7.x and 8.x? Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

whose labels can be dynamically changed by script during runtime. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Licensing questions again (was: Glen Bojsza "LC 8 hard question...")

scussions, which is a standard usually employed in academic or scientific discourses, but useful everywhere. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ use-l

Licensing questions again (was: Glen Bojsza "LC 8 hard question...")

downloads and offline activation files. We are discussing these issues at the moment. Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: Licensing Problems

gust 2018. After the expiration of my original Commercial license valid until August 15, 2016, I will be using the Community versions. I do not exclude the possibility that I would be interested to purchase a new Indy license somewhere in the future, provided the quality and stability of the Li

Re: Licensing issues [was: Re: LC 8 DP 11]

ate interests. I think the focus of any new marketing strategy should first be to produce and deliver a stable product and only then think about increasing profits, but thereby avoiding to impose severe restrictions on longtime and loyal supporters. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Di

Re: LC 8 DP 11

detail in various posts this year) apparently occurred totally unnoticed from the side of the Livecode team. So I think there is still some room and the necessity for improving the organisation of testing new and old features (that might be affected by new changes). Kind regards, Wilhelm Sanke

LC 8 DP 11

organized development process (following established rules and practices of professional software development) including with proper testing of old and new features before releasing new versions. Kind regards (almost still believing in Livecode), Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

Monte Goulding monte at appisle.net Sun Nov 15 21:05:46 CET 2015 wrote: > On 15 Nov 2015, at 11:12 pm, sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote: > The URL <http://livecode.com/lock-in-your-price>> led to the Cleverbridge website <https://www.cleverbridge.com <https://www.cleve

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

esent commercial license with its conditions - valid up to August 2016 - cannot be found. I hope that until August 2016 Livecode will come up with a usable and stable version that allows me to work in my special fields of interest, a version without regressions and bugs that I then can use *

Re: Release 8.0 DP 5

image processing and the ability to use Photoshop-compatible filters. Thierry Douez has experimented with Lua externals (for Windows and Mac) as far back as 2010. Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antivirus-Software auf Viren geprüft. https:

Re: last control

est stacks could constitute a valuable tool for development, meaning that at that time such test stacks were not used - and I am really unsure if such development procedures are the state of the art implemented now in Livecode. Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

ower than with the same script under MC 4,6,1, which needs only 303 milliseconds. I know that there are alternatives for instance using arrays, and I haved tested them, but they are not necessarily faster in all cases. Best regards, Wilöhelm Sanke --- Diese E-Mail wurde von Avast Antiviru

Re: Is there a way to find a lighter and darker shade of a RGB color programmatically?

n" button of my old "Imagedata Toolkit" <http://www.sanke.org/software/ImagedataToolkitPreview3.zip> Best regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ 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: Image Cropping Tool for Livecode

, then the script of this palette will not work as expected. I am sure that Wilhelm Sanke have worked extensively on this same topic and the code that you need is in one of his stacks. Al What Alejandro had in mind was probably my (also old) stack "More about Masks" <http://

Access to archives

Has there been a change in the procedure to access the archives or is something wrong with my machine (Windows XP)? Regards, Wilhelm Sanke ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

[ANN] More about masks (+ sample stack)

return to the two-line "starter" script of the beginning which requires an image as a selection tool instead of a graphic. I have added one card to the sample stack where this option can be tried out. One feature is especially helpful when using a resizable and reshapable selection i

"Seamless Tiles 2" stack updated

t; to "*.rev", to enable users of Rev 3.0 to see and load the stack. See the quote of my earlier post (to the Metacard- and Improve-lists) concerning this special problem: Strange change of file associations with Rev 3-gm-3 engine Wilhelm Sanke Sat, 20 Sep 2008 11:59:50 -0700

Re: Location of dialog box

Addendum to my last post in this thread: I have used this approach for dialog stacks with the added "newloc" property in many of my stacks, e.g. look at the scripts of buttons "Store image 1" and "Store image 2" in my stack "seamless tiles".

Re: Location of dialog box

ialog as a substack, it will not work with the Livecode IDE of another user. On the other side, with an answer dialog embedded as a substack you might run into troubles, because the Livecode IDE is very special with double stacks and might throw an

Re: color histogram?

ented with a number of other routines to set general parameters of images like "white balance", "mid balance", "black balance", "gamma correction", "dynamic range", "saturation", "set chroma", "brighten/darken",

Re: group name persisting

have to group and ungroup image parts several times in sequence - as is for instance necessary in my "Kaleidoscope Tools". Groups are a very special case in Livecode. I am waiting for a number of group bugs to be fixed since some time. It would be nice when the

Discussing image filters for Livecode (was: "Blurred vision" ...)

- Use "add noise" from the noise button, then apply the "Rev blur" filter. You will see that some pixels may be removed, but on the whole the noise pixels are just blurred like all other pixels. - Now again "add noise" to a new or reset image, the

"Blurred vision" of Rev newsletter, Apr 21

21) in button "Rev-blur" and the stack script. Speed of his blur filter is 32 seconds in the Rev IDE and 28 in the MC IDE; when compiled as a Rev standalone performance is like in the Metacard IDE (configurations as described above). The optimized Walters/Sanke/Waddingham versi