On-Rev: translating Markdown text to html?

Has anyone developed the capability of translating Markdown text (see http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/ ) into HTML in LiveCode? Thanks for any pointers. Jim Lyons ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

[OT] MacDefender

Dangerous sh*t: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13453497 ___ 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/listinf

RevMedia?

http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/7149/revolution-media are passwords still obtainable for this? is the Windows version still available? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and man

Europe Vs. America

how to format a currency column set as such. €. 1.200,00 formats European and not American? The data comes from a sqlite db if I insert the values ​​in a column in the datagrid the values ​​are wrong. is there a way to format a datagrid column format in Europe! Not all the world is American t

Is there an IRC

Hello Is there an IRC channel for Live Code? Thanks Todd Todd Geist -- geist interactve 805-419-9382 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to su

Re: Is there an IRC

Todd, ChatRev is our "IRC". http://bjoernke.com/chatrev -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode

Still learning

I"m trying to create my first iOS app for a non-profit group I work with. There are several "screens" that contain large sections of text, such as a HISTORY screen, etc. How do I created a card that allows you to show all the text by scrolling by flicking the entire screen up or down and that "

Re: Is there an IRC

Nope, there's only chatrev. > Is there an IRC channel for Live Code? > Thanks > Todd -- official ChatRev page: http://bjoernke.com/chatrev Chat with other RunRev developers: go stack URL "http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/chatrev1.3b3.rev"; ___ use-liv

Re: [OT] MacDefender

What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got infected and click the Cleanup button. What is even scarier is that I had to replace the keyboard of an accounting user recently who didn't think it at all odd to pop out staples above her keyboard. She thought it made

RE: Livecode for Digital Signage

THANK YOU Chris!!! I do have a Mac (Mac mini a couple years old). But if this works smoothly, I have no problem using a mini as the Dig Sign platform for all of the stores. Chris, that's a very big help. Thank you SIR!! I'll work on it today !!! jim schaubeck 714-321-4499 -Original Messa

Re: Europe Vs. America

Heresy! Burn the witch!! Bob On May 19, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Alessandro Pisoni wrote: > Not all the world is American ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscripti

Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Greetings, I've created a simple stack of 3 cards with Prev and Next buttons to navigate through them. Each card has a single field with a single character whose imageSource is set to a URL, for example: http://linkit.com/Schools/ETS%20Items/ETS%20Item%20Bank/ETS10Q1/01%20Full%20 Bank/06%2

Re: Is there an IRC

Thanks everyone. Cool! Just logged in Todd 2011/5/19 Björnke von Gierke > Nope, there's only chatrev. > > > Is there an IRC channel for Live Code? > > Thanks > > Todd > > > -- > > official ChatRev page: > http://bjoernke.com/chatrev > > > Chat with other RunRev developers: > go stack URL "http

Re: Europe Vs. America

Hi Alessandro, What is the format of the data in the sqlite db? Does it already have a currency symbol or is it just a number? The way you display data in a datagrid is under your control. You can either put the data into the datagrid (setDataofLine, setdataofIndex, set the dgtext of) with whate

Generating e-mail

Hi All, Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to generate a custom e-mail message for each. I think I can manage it but advice and tips from others' experiences would be great to avoid any problems. Thanks

Re: Still learning

I think we'd have to run the stack in question to debug the issue. As described, I see no obvious error on your part. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Steve Jones wrote: > I"m trying to create my first iOS app for a non-profit group I work with. > > There are sev

Re: Still learning

Sorry, wrong thread! :P ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:30 PM, Nonsanity wrote: > I think we'd have to run the stack in question to debug the issue. As > described, I see no obvious error on your part. > > ~ Chris Innanen > ~ Nonsanity > > > > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

I think we'd have to run the stack in question to debug the issue. As described, I see no obvious error on your part. ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity P.s. Sorry about the repeat due to posting this to the wrong thread at first... On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Greetings,

Re: Still learning

Hi Steve, > I"m trying to create my first iOS app for a non-profit group I work with. > > There are several "screens" that contain large sections of text, such as a > HISTORY screen, etc. > > How do I created a card that allows you to show all the text by scrolling by > flicking the entire scr

Re: On-Rev: translating Markdown text to html?

I don't think so. But it's just about text manipulation, which Livecode is very good at, and shouldn't be that hard to write. Consider it an exercise, add more features and offer the library to others when you're done! If you're on a Mac, you could probably run the PERL code with 'do script as per

Re: Europe Vs. America

Even printing money in English format (commas separating 1000's, period for decimal) requires a homemade function for formatting. Here's one I threw together for Euro format: function PrintAsEuros x set itemdel to "." put item 2 of x into d[0] put 1 into a put trunc( x ) into x rep

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

OK. I've never tried including attachments on the list before but here it is. Thanks, Ray -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Nonsanity Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 12:34 PM To: How to use LiveCode Su

Re: On-Rev: translating Markdown text to html?

Thanks Stephen. If I do it I will be happy to share it. I'm doing this at On-Rev. After I hit "send" I thought, why can't I just call the perl script? I will try that in a while, but using shell (right?). Any comments, pointers about this welcome. Jim On May 19, 2011, at 12:47 PM, stephen barn

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Ray Horsley wrote: OK. I've never tried including attachments on the list before but here it is. Your attachment was stripped from the message before delivery to the subscribers, because this list doesn't allow attachments. You'll have to post it to a server or to RevOnline and post the URL

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Thanks Richard. I assumed that was the case. Ray -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:32 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Livecode Crashes

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

DropBox, which is free, is another great way to share stacks. I keep many of my works-in-progress in a DropBox folder, which means sharing one to the list is as easy as right-clicking the file and selecting the public link for it from the DropBox menu. (PC and Mac) If you don't want to install it

Re: [OT] MacDefender

Touched a nerve. Sorry for the soapbox. Actually most mac users are USED to seeing these cheezy popups which always lie and the ads usually refer to Windows (the links are zip files that fail harmlessly). Most mac users are informed enough about this stuff to ignore it anyway. The fact that ther

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > Touched a nerve. Sorry for the soapbox. > > Actually most mac users are USED to seeing these cheezy popups which always > lie and the ads usually refer to Windows (the links are zip files that fail > harmlessly). > > Most mac users are inf

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Chris, Cool download - Dropbox. I believe I've set it up right. Do you see my stack? Thanks, Ray -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Nonsanity Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 1:44 PM To: How to use Li

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On 5/19/11 1:08 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Anyway, if you've downloaded and installed this thing, then you get what you deserve. Any app I'm going to install or buy will have to be investigated first before I let it touch my hard drive. I want to agree in general, but we're not completely repr

Re: [OT] MacDefender

While I agree mostly with Stephen, I think "deserve" is probably the wrong word. "Inevitable" comes to mind, as in it's inevitable that a person who in this day and age does not know to NOT click anything in a webpage that says he is infected, will get some kind of malware at some point in time.

Re: [OT] MacDefender

I meant when one works hard at ignoring the warnings, one gets what one deserves. There are many situations where one can't be protected from one's own errors. On 19 May 2011 11:24, Roger Eller wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:08 PM, stephen barncard > wrote: > > Touched a nerve. Sorry for t

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

He would need the link to it right? Bob On May 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Chris, > > Cool download - Dropbox. I believe I've set it up right. Do you see my > stack? > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com > [mail

Re: Europe Vs. America

On 05/19/2011 06:23 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Heresy! Burn the witch!! Which one? The American one or the "other" one. Bob On May 19, 2011, at 7:14 AM, Alessandro Pisoni wrote: Not all the world is American ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Wouldn't that be my email (r...@linkit.com)? (stepping out for a few hours.) Thanks, Ray -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 2:40 PM To: How to use LiveCode S

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Hi Ray, Just a suggestion... on mouseUp lock messages go next card put the short name of this cd into fld "CardName" --| Add this line... get flushEvents("all") --| And this for completeness... unlock messages end mouseUp Does it solve your problem? You are also not unlocki

Re: [OT] MacDefender

I turned off all automatic updates on her machine then I told my mother to NEVER install anything, to always call me first and that I would help her take care of it using screen sharing. She did, and she was very alert for anomalies after that. Screen sharing is a great thing for helping aging par

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On 05/19/2011 09:47 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I turned off all automatic updates on her machine then I told my mother to NEVER install anything, to always call me first and that I would help her take care of it using screen sharing. My father (78-9) touched the 'update' thing on Ubuntu and fa

Re: [OT] MacDefender

Recently, Roger Eller wrote: >> Anyway, if you've downloaded and installed this thing, then you get what >> you deserve. > > I don't believe that anyone DESERVES to get a virus. There are > newbies (noobs) even to the intuitive Mac OS. There are innocent > little grandmothers that got a Mac min

Re: Generating e-mail

On 5/19/11 11:18 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to generate a custom e-mail message for each. I think I can manage it but advice and tips from others' experiences wo

Re: [OT] MacDefender

Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox "What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got infected " "Most mac users are informed enough about this stuff to ignore it anyway" "Virus protection is just not needed at all on most macs if one just

Number of cards in a stack

What is the number of cards a stack can safely contain? A thousand? Five hundred? Thanks in advance. Ton ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferen

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

https://www.dropbox.com/help/167 ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Wouldn't that be my email (r...@linkit.com)? > > (stepping out for a few hours.) > > Thanks, > > Ray > > > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.c

Re: [OT] MacDefender

I think it's the 23th allele on the Y chromosome at work. Or similar. On 19 May 2011, at 21:25, David C. wrote: > Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox > > "What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their > computer got infected " > > "Most mac users are i

iPhone font question

First a BIG thanks to Joh Dixon for an assist on my scrolling field question earlier today. All is well there and working good! I am noticing that when I set the font in a field to TIMES and then run it in the simulator, it is switched to HELVETICA. I've looked around online and found a list

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On 05/19/2011 10:25 PM, David C. wrote: Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox "What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got infected " "Most mac users are informed enough about this stuff to ignore it anyway" "Virus protection is just

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On 05/19/2011 10:33 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: I think it's the 23th allele on the Y chromosome at work. Or similar. Hairy-chested computers ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

[Ann]Live LiveCode code event #24

Saturday. Time to sit down, and laugh about app in a day. Bring a picture of yourself to be included in the most quickest created (native looking) iOS app that was ever made with LiveCode. Win the prize when John shows his nifty iOS app creation tool (not related to the tool shown last time by A

Re: [OT] MacDefender

> > Is that something that requires hard work or does it just come naturally? It requires hard work, my friend. This is about tough love. I was an involuntary mac computer tech support person for 13 years. My attitude after that experience was that people should just eventually learn how to cook

Re: [OT] MacDefender

Thanks for the personal example on the subject. Bob On May 19, 2011, at 12:25 PM, David C. wrote: > Touched a different nerve. Sorry for another soapbox > > "What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their > computer got infected " > > "Most mac users are informed eno

Re: Generating e-mail

On May 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/19/11 11:18 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate >> e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to >> generate a custom e-mail message for each. I

RE: Livecode for Digital Signage

Hey Chris, I just verified that the stock ticker tape app is very smooth on my 2 year old Mac Mini. Good enough for prime time !!! Initial tests look great and that also takes care of the hardware deployment question. Thanks for looking into this !!! Problem solved: Use a Mac jim schaubeck 714

RE: Number of cards in a stack

Read page 48 of the 'User Guide'... Section 2.2.9 LiveCode Memory Limits > What is the number of cards a stack can safely contain? A thousand? Five > hundred? > > Thanks in advance. > > Ton ___ use-livecod

Re: Livecode for Digital Signage

On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Jim Schaubeck wrote: > > Problem solved: Use a Mac > > I've been saying that for years... ;D ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: Livecode for Digital Signage

I could be wrong, but I am willing to bet that the real issue is the graphics card in the Windows machine. Some cheaper cards use the computer memory for it's video RAM. I wonder if you had a comparable Windows machine how it would fare? And note that I am an Apple aficionado through and through

Re: [OT] MacDefender

> Thanks for the personal example on the subject. > > Bob Hey, no problemo, Bob... I knew you would appreciate it. ;) Listen guys... I understand the position that each of you have taken and am not 100% opposed to your theory about relative safety in regards to OS. We *all* live in an age of risk

Re: Generating e-mail

I seem to remember someone has an SMTP stack for Livecode... Shao Shen maybe (probably totally messed up the spelling, sorry). Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > > On May 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > >

Re: [OT] MacDefender

Sonds good to me. But I wasn't being condescending. My point was that it scares me that there are so many people who will click that button, even after all the news coverage of malware and the wealth of information out there about how to protect yourself. I guess it scares me because no matter h

Re: Generating e-mail

I wasn't able to download her stack from the Sons of Thunder website a couple of days ago. It might have been removed. There's another one at troz.net. http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks On 05/19/2011 2:34 PM, Pete wrote: I seem to remember someone has an SMTP stack f

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On 5/19/11 2:33 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: I think it's the 23th allele on the Y chromosome at work. Or similar. LOL! I knew it was a guy thing. "23th" indeed. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.c

Re: Number of cards in a stack

I don't think there is a limit, but unlike HC, LC does not handle large card sets expeditiously. Finding and sorting is slower when you get into the several tens of thousands. Below, say, 5000 or 10,000, on modern machines, this should not be an issue. Craig Newman -Original Message--

Re: Generating e-mail

On 5/19/11 3:37 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: On May 19, 2011, at 12:12 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/19/11 11:18 AM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Hi All, Does anyone have a good example of using LiveCode to generate e-mail? I have a DB of addresses and related information and want to generate a custom e

Re: Number of cards in a stack

On 5/19/11 2:30 PM, Melitón Cardona Torres wrote: What is the number of cards a stack can safely contain? A thousand? Five hundred? It depends. In theory: any number as long as the total stack size is under 4 gigs. In practice: anything under 2-3K cards pretty much works okay I've pushed it

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Hugh, Thanks for your ideas but this unfortunately doesn't work. I meant to mention that I've tried various locations of the flushEvents function, both in the mouseUp and mouseDown handlers as well as with and without unlocking messages. They all lead to the same crash. Anybody else? Thanks,

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Chris, Definitely a cool thing - DropBox. Here's the link: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/29743466/Test.LiveCode I'll also put the same stack on my own server just in case at: http://www.linkit.com/zAccess/Test.zip Please take a look if you have a minute. I can't get anything to keep Livecode from

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

i don't have time to look at the stack at this time of the day, but generally, try to keep setting and getting of imagesource as simple as possible. crashes in general should go to supp...@runrev.com , or the quality center. Not that i did that, because interrupting a set of a imagesource does s

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Confirmed that it crashes on the third card. Ray, a question: Why is 'Radiobehavior' true on group 'Header'? this is usually only used for controlling radio buttons. Just tested after deselecting 'radiobehavior'. No crash. On 19 May 2011 16:10, Ray Horsley wrote: > Chris, > > Definitely a c

Re: On-Rev: translating Markdown text to html?

Jim, Calling the shell to the markdown command works, I did it too with multimarkdown which is basically markdown on steroids. You can wrap it in a little command with shell and then it just works. Remember to install the markdown scripts though, I don't remember if they are bundled with On-Rev s

Re: [OT] MacDefender

The student stories I could tell you... Judy On Thu, 19 May 2011, Bob Sneidar wrote: What is scary is that anyone who owns a mac would believe their computer got infected and click the Cleanup button. What is even scarier is that I had to replace the keyboard of an accounting user recently w

Re: [OT] MacDefender

While I wouldn't say people deserve to get a virus, every day I show up for work amazes me with the stupid stuff students/consumers think and do with computers. So, this term -- these are non-CS majors -- we talked about doing data backups. Eyes rolled into the backs of their skulls. We talk

Re: experience Generating e-mail

On May 19, 2011, at 3:27 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 19 > Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 14:12:09 -0500 > From: "J. Landman Gay" > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Generating e-mail > Message-ID: <4dd56b89.9080...@hyperactivesw.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; char

Re: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

On 5/19/11 5:50 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: Hugh, Thanks for your ideas but this unfortunately doesn't work. I meant to mention that I've tried various locations of the flushEvents function, both in the mouseUp and mouseDown handlers as well as with and without unlocking messages. They all lead to

Re: experience Generating e-mail

On 5/19/11 8:18 PM, Ronald Zellner wrote: Have you looked at the revMail command? Yes, that's what I was planning on using. I was just looking for cautions or insights that someone might have gleaned through experience. I've had good experience with revMail, no particular problems. It's been

Re: [OT] MacDefender

On 5/19/11 8:08 PM, Judy Perry wrote: So, this term -- You should write a book. Then tell all your students that they have to read it as part of their classwork. And then tell them that if they don't read it, you'll put *them* into the next edition. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: [OT] MacDefender

my father saw one of the executive secretaries to the president of the company staple a floppy disk and some papers together so that they would not go missing... On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 4:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/19/11 8:08 PM, Judy Perry wrote: > > So, this term -- >> > > You should

Re: [OT] MacDefender

oh I also so a student at my university asking the other guy: "how do I download an intel core 2 duo, my processor is too slow and I want to download a better one from the net..." On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 5:37 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > my father saw one of the executive secretaries to the preside

RE: Livecode Crashes with Image Source Set to a URL

Ray I cannot crash your stack. Works fine. Windows XP w/4.5.2 in the mc IDE. Am suspecting either the version or (heaven forfend) the LC IDE. Why use a url-based imgSrc? Why not store the imgs in a substack instead? If you have to fequently update the imgs, can you 'start using' a url-based sta

Re: [OT] MacDefender

Ha! I've got that one nearly beat. I worked my way through school doing DOS word processing for real estate appraisers (including that wonderful WordAwful program that dumped you into an entirely blank screen). I'd save project files onto 5-1/4" floppies... that my boss would later put a pee