The stack should run on PC. Be sure the movie filename is correctly prepared as
a relative path, not an absolute path. E.g.:
set the filename of player 1 to “Images/MyMovie.mov”
Also, be sure the movie is correctly placed hierarchically. If for instance the
movie MyMovie is in a folder titled "
What does LiveCode need to do to significantly increase its audience among
teachers and students of computer programming?
I taught medical students for 25 years at the University of Miami School of
Medicine. LiveCode has provided an opportunity to further improve medical
education.
My stu
Several ways of animating with animated GIFs are shown in the free download:
Livecode Scripting Tutorial, in its section on Special Effects
Scripting/Motion, which can be found at www.medmaster.net/livecode.html, and
which accompanies my book Livecode Lite: Computer Programming Made Ridiculously
In order to create a wide variety of games in LiveCode, it is first important
to know the basic aspects of the LiveCode IDE and scripting. These can be found
at medmaster.net/livecode.html, which includes not only my book LiveCode Lite:
Computer Programming Made Ridiculously Simple as a downloa
et because of the ongoing rapid changes to
LiveCode. In the meantime, I certainly look forward to any comments from
readers that might improve the book's further development.
Stephen Goldberg
President, Medmaster Publishing Co.
Prof Emeritus, Univ of Miami Sch of Medicine
www.medmas
I've noticed the following problem in using the FIND command in LC7, as opposed
to LC5:
Say I have a stack with 200 cards, in which the last 198 cards contain a group
within which is a field named CODE. Say on one of the cards field CODE contains
the code word PPH.
In LC 5.5.3, if I'm on the f
Never mind. I immediately discovered why many words did not show up in the
dictionary. I should have set the left hand column of the dictionary to "All",
and it had been stuck on "Image".
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My new book, LiveCode Lite: Computer Programming Made Ridiculously Simple, is
at this time available free for download in PDF format at
www.medmaster.net/livecode.html. If anyone has comments or suggestions for
improvement, please let me know, so that the book can be as useful as possible
to th
estions?
The corrected URL for download of LiveCode Lite: Computer Programming Made
Ridiculously SImple is
www.medmaster.net/livecode.html
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Just a reminder that the corrected URL for downloading my book, LiveCode Lite:
Computer Programming Made Ridiculously Simple, is
www.medmaster.net/livecode.html.
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Got off to a bad start! The Medmaster web address in my last posting today had
a typo, which is corrected below. We try again:
I am pleased to announce my new book, LiveCode Lite: Computer
Programming Made Ridiculously Simple.
I am pleased to announce my new book, LiveCode Lite: Computer Programming Made
Ridiculously Simple.
It is temporarily available as a free PDF download at
www.medmaster/livecode.html, along with a LiveCode scripting tutorial for Mac
or Windows.
The original HyperCard language had only about
I'm working with LC 7 on Windows Vista. I notice that when trying to print a
field, whether through the menubar or by script, only the left half of the
field prints.
I'm not sure if this is a bug, or if I'm just doing something wrong. I could
not find reference to this in quality.runrev.com.
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On Mar 30, 2015, at 6:00 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com
wrote:
> I do not know why we?re getting such different results. On Mac
version 10.9.5, using LC 7.0.3, if I write the following script in the openCard
handler:
>
> on openCard
)
Stephen Goldberg
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>on Mar 2015 13:07:23
>jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
>Or you could just include a line of script that sets the filename of the
>movie in a preOpenCard handler. That's what I usually do and why I've
>n
Thanks to Richard Gaskin and Jacqueline Gay for their thoughts on the current
problem in creating standalones with referenced QT movies using LiveCode 6-7 on
Mac. Richard and Jacqueline have through the years been helpful and generous in
providing their expertise.
Here is a summary of what I fi
Scott Rossi wrote (3/26/15):
>Stephen, have you verified that VR playback works with QuickTime Player 10 on
>Windows? My guess is that the Windows system
>you're looking at has QuickTime Player 7 installed (which is also capable of
>playing VR movies on OS X, but is out of date). It seems un
The LC 6-7 series for Macintosh will not allow the creation of a relative path
for the movie player. I understand that Apple has deprecated Quicktime and
QTVR. While the LiveCode team works to resolve the issue, I find several
temporary workarounds for the problem:
1. On Macintosh, create th
Regarding the problem of the LC 6-7 series not allowing relative paths on the
Macintosh:
>On 3/24/2015 10:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I've always been wary of shipping things that rely on
>relative paths, since any other script can change the
>default directory out from under me at any time.
>HyperActiveSoftware |
>http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2015 07:09:53 -0400
>From: "stgoldb...@aol.com"
>To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
>Subject: Movie problems
>in LiveCode
>Message-ID:
<14c465318d0-4bd7-1b...@webprd-m97.mail.aol
School of Medicine
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The problem is the same regardless of whether the script mentioned below is
applied. Namely, I can't get a
player object to remember a relative path to a movie. As soon as I try to put
a relative path into the player control
LiveCode immediately changes it to an absolute path when using LiveC
Since I use a lot of movies in my stacks, I have gone back to LiveCode 5.5.3.
I’ve tried LiveCode versions 6.7 through 7.04 and they do not display movies
properly. For one thing, when I try to set a file path to a relative path, the
later LiveCode versions do not allow me to save the relative
The issue of a background group being in two places at once is not quite
clarified. Getting back to the script sequence below, when there is a mouseUp
handler in a background group, the message, on clicking on the grouped button
goes from:
button --> group --> card --> stack
When clicking on
In quantum mechanics something can be in more than one place at once. A
paradox of sorts seems to occur in the message chain with groups in LiveCode.
Try this:
1. Place a button on a card.
2. Make the button a group. Set the group's backgroundBehavior to true.
3. Place the following script
le? Thanks.
> On Feb 27, 2015, at 7:47 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com
wrote:
>
> I am completing a brief book called LiveCode Lite, which should be
ready this spring. It is designed for the beginner who wants to approach the
basic aspects of LiveCode step-by-step in a linear fashion.
>
>
I am completing a brief book called LiveCode Lite, which should be ready this
spring. It is designed for the beginner who wants to approach the basic
aspects of LiveCode step-by-step in a linear fashion.
Stephen Goldberg, MD
President, Medmaster Publishing Co.
www.medmaster.net
Mike Kerner
You can have a card button that deletes the card if you make the button a group
background button. While you see the button on the card, it is not actually on
the card but behind the card and can be used to delete the card.
on mouseUp -- script on background group button
delete this card
end mo
I thank Bob Sneider and Eric Corbett for their suggestions below regarding
"delete this card" not working. However, the problem appears more complex. For
many years on January 1, I have created a new invoice stack for the new year by
deleting the some 2000 cards from the preceding year's stack
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Happy New Year,
Stephen Goldberg
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Regarding the possibility of Livecode being developed in HTML5 so that a stack
or standalone can be accessed directly on the Internet, is the plan one in
which a standalone could be used using the same scripting language that is
currently employed for standalones on Mac and Windows desktops? O
I'm using LC 7.0.0 Community Edition build 10014 on my Mac system 10.9.5.
I wanted to upgrade from LC 5.5.3, on which everything worked well, to 7.0, but
the "play stop" code stopped working in 7..0.0.
In addition, the following command does not work in a list field in 7.0.0:
find whole tholder
When playing an audioclip, the command
play stop
correctly stops the audioclip from playing in LiveCode 5.5.3. However, I find
the command does not work for me in Livecode 7.0. Does anyone know why, or
have a suggestion for getting around this, perhaps with a different command?
Thanks.
Ste
Skip Kimpel wrote:
> I am exploring setting up a LC user's group down here in South
> Florida. I am in the Ft. Lauderdale region and am trying to
> gauge interest and determine how many LC developers we have in
> this area.
I've been using LiveCode for many years for business and for educa
unning 5.5.3, I upgraded to 5.5.3
and it now works! Thanks Colin!
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The problem I am having is that when I use the Quicktime player in a stack and
want to reference a movie choose "all files", mp4 files are greyed out and
cannot be selected. With Livecode version 5.5.2 (on Mac OS10.6.8) I can only
select .mov files. However, when using another computer that h
I'm using Livecode 5.5.2 and note that the Quicktime player, while able to
reference .mov files, cannot reference .mp4 files (or AVI files). However,
previous versions of Livecode did reference .mp4 files. Has there been some
change in the more recent version of LiveCode? Thanks.
Steve Gold
Several of my LiveCode standalones use Quicktime movies, but I have received a
report that Quicktime does not work on 64 bit WIndows 7. Can anyone suggest a
workaround to this problem? Thanks!
Stephen Goldberg
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not as yet published it, since I am
waiting for the latest update of LiveCode in 2013, and there are certain areas,
such as mobile programming, which still need work.
If anyone is interested in looking at it in its present form, feel free to
contact me at stgoldb...@aol.com, and I'll have a copy
bout using
these prefixes.
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Medmaster Publishing Co.
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I see now why the RevGoURL command has been deprecated in favor of launch URL.
While RevGoURL still works in standalones for the desktop in opening a URL on
the Internet, I find that I need to replace it with the launch URL command to
open the same URL from a LiveCode app on iPad; RevGoURL doe
Colin, regarding the pirating of your book, as a publishing company, we are
faced with the pirating problem every day, and have someone scanning the
Internet each day for illegal uploads of our books. According to the law,
unfortunately, upload sites are not required to confirm that the uplo
Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I found the following to resolve the
problem: Add
wait 0 with messages
prior to choosing the browse tool and closing stack "revTools" in the openStack
script.
Stephen Goldberg
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:53:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: "stg
I just upgraded from LiveCode 4.0.0, running on OS 10.6.8 to a new computer
with LiveCode 5.5.1, running on OS 10.7.4, and noticed the following problem
for the following script:
on openStack
choose browse tool
close stack "revTools"
end openStack
In the older versions of LiveCode and Ma
Co., Inc.
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Application
Browser, and how can I remove them from view? Thanks.
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On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 8:11 AM, David C. wrote:
> Hey folks,
> I have a very simple application in which one aspect of the app uses
> the QT player, always pointing to the same named MP3 file on my
> server.
>
> Yesterday, I went to visit a friend and gave
Revolution 3.5? Thanks.
Stephen Goldberg
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A quick and dirty way to display PDFs in an LC stack is to create an image of
each PDF page and insert each into an LC Image Area
You might also make use of the Marked Card feature for bookmarking.
Steve Goldberg
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Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:11:06 -0700
From
Apple's description of how to add information to the new iBooks Author
includes the ability to quickly attach "widgets" to the interactive eBook. The
question is whether such widgets can be created in LiveCode. If this is not
possible, just how difficult would it be to create from scratch an
Regarding the question of whether LiveCode could be suitable for publishers who
want to create interactive eBooks, I agree that such books would not be
published in epub or amz format, but how about an eBook created with LiveCode
as a pure LiveCode standalone that could be read in the cloud
Like many publishers, we are considering developing a number of our titles as
eBooks. I've used LiveCode (RunRev) for many of our projects, including CDs in
our books, free downloads of built applications from our website, and even in
the construction of our invoice system. Does anyone have
I've been following this great livecode (runrev) comments list for years and
could kick myself for not using this simple way of scanning it without a lot of
scrolling. It occurred to me just now as I woke up at 6AM: Simple type
"message:" into the find field and repeatedly press Return. It wi
On several of my projects, where the opening standalone screen is not
immediately responsive (particular on Windows) for say a half minute or more, I
have found it useful to place a card titled "Loading" at the top of the stack.
The card has a simple black background with the words "Loading..."
I created a stack that explains how to make custom cursors. It includes a
library of cursors that can be used within LiveCode for games or other
applications. If interested, let me know and I'll email it gratis.
Steve Goldberg
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4-bit Windows issue
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 8:05 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote:
> I understand that QTVR will not work on 64-bit Windows computers. Does
anyone know if there is a workaround in which panoramas will show in
Livecode, or
rk on 64 bit systems. Worth a
test?
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design
On Dec 26, 2010, at 5:05 AM, "stgoldb...@aol.com" wrote:
> I understand that QTVR will not work on 64-bit Windows computers. Does anyone
know if there is a workaround in which panoramas wi
I understand that QTVR will not work on 64-bit Windows computers. Does anyone
know if there is a workaround in which panoramas will show in Livecode, or if
Apple plans to correct the issue? Is QTVR obsolete? Thanks.
Stephen Goldberg
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There are programs that will convert an image (such as a jpeg) to a graphic
(vector). For instance, see http://vectormagic.com/home.
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