Re: [Slightly OT] CSS or Javascript for a web page div that ignores vertical scrolling?

2011-06-11 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Michael. I was anticipating having to modify the code for IE to manage rounded corners but it's good to have this on the radar, too. Best, Keith.. On 10 Jun 2011, at 22:29, Michael Kann wrote: > It looks like for older browsers you might have to add a !DOCTYPE to make it > work. > -

Re: What's the syntax to check if a local folder exists?

2011-06-11 Thread Keith Clarke
Just to say thanks again for all the responses and insights. This project is destined to become a Revlet. I was thinking that creating some folders in the temporary special folder would be a safe, easy, cross-platform option to manage a 'behind the scenes' zip file download and extraction - to

Installer Maker Discount

2011-06-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Just a quick note to let you know that you can still get the Installer Maker plugin at a 25% discount. The discount will be valid until the new version is released, probably next week. All new licenses come with three months of free updates. The discounted license can be obtained only at h

Building Metacard

2011-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Somewhere down the line I mislaid my Metacard constructed with the aid of Jacque's excellent stack and MC 2.5 on my macMini G4. So I tired to do that again with LC 4.5-dp-4 and ended up with something called Metacard but in fact really being almost completely LC; so, obviously not really workin

How to force soft-wrapping by tag attributes in TextWrangler

2011-06-11 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, I'm working with a web service that creates a lot of complex attributes within various HTML tags. So, I'm looking for a way to persuade TextWrangler to soft-wrap HTML text at the start of each tag's attributes, so that becomes I found this this UNIX Filter that makes a good start,

Re: Why No Built in GetMyIP call in LiveCode?

2011-06-11 Thread John Patten
Good thing I read this explanation of regex Saturday morning ;-) ... I think? Seems like matchtext/regex would be useful for HTML scraping strategies too. Thanks for the explanation Jim! John Patten SUSD Sent from my iPad On Jun 10, 2011, at 9:20 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > > On Jun 10, 2011, at

Re: Installer Maker Discount

2011-06-11 Thread stephen barncard
But those of us who paid 4 months ago are outa luck? On 11 June 2011 02:15, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi, > > Just a quick note to let you know that you can still get the Installer > Maker plugin at a 25% discount. The discount will be valid until the new > version is released, probably next week

Re: Why No Built in GetMyIP call in LiveCode?

2011-06-11 Thread Jim Ault
On Jun 11, 2011, at 8:45 AM, John Patten wrote: Good thing I read this explanation of regex Saturday morning ;-) ... I think? Seems like matchtext/regex would be useful for HTML scraping strategies too. John Patten - SUSD Scraping HTML depends on your goals and the complexity of the pages,

Re: Installer Maker Discount

2011-06-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Stephen, Everyone who has bought a license less than one year ago can buy a new license at a 50% discount. I think you're best off if you buy a new license when yours is almost 1 year old. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http:/

Re: [ANN] Live LiveCode code event #27

2011-06-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
One hour until the event starts. make sure to join chatrev before the hour is full. http://bjoernke.com/chatrev On 10 Jun 2011, at 14:31, Björnke von Gierke wrote: > Here we go. Event 27 crawls into existence on its last tooth, and features > these presenters: > > Andreas Rozek will showcase

RE: Building Metacard

2011-06-11 Thread FlexibleLearning
See the instruction pdf file (MC Insall Guide for LC) that I uploaded to the MetaCard group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/. It is still valid, despite referring to v4.5! Hugh Senior FLCo From: Richmond asked Somewhere down the line I mislaid my Metacard constructed with the aid

Re: Building Metacard

2011-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/11/2011 08:06 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: See the instruction pdf file (MC Insall Guide for LC) that I uploaded to the MetaCard group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MC_IDE/. It is still valid, despite referring to v4.5! Hugh Senior FLCo Thank you very much for the help.

double byte chars?

2011-06-11 Thread Lars Brehmer
My project has Russian text fields (Arial,Russian). With one exception, everything works fine. Problem: a filter-as-you-type script. field "t1": зо field "t2": меня зовут Виктор --underscoring shows the matches-- field "t3": зовут курить почему I want to do is find a word in field

Re: double byte chars?

2011-06-11 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/11/2011 09:14 PM, Lars Brehmer wrote: My project has Russian text fields (Arial,Russian). With one exception, everything works fine. Problem: a filter-as-you-type script. field "t1": зо field "t2": меня зовут Виктор --underscoring shows the matches-- field "t3": зовут курить

RE: double byte chars?

2011-06-11 Thread Slava Paperno
The "set useUnicode to true" command is necessary only if you use the charToNum() or numToChar() functions. Otherwise they’re not useful. The text in your fields is in UTF-16, and you should access it as unicodeText of field "MyField." Word chunks of unicodeText can be correctly retrieved if yo

Re: 5000 lines of code

2011-06-11 Thread Geoff Canyon Rev
Richmond, you could rewrite that to be much more efficient, both in code, and I'm guessing in performance. Instead of this: case (numToChar(2339) & numToChar(2325)) set the unicodeText of fld "fPROC" to numToChar(61953) put 2 into DDROP break case (numToChar(2339) & numToChar(2326)) set the unico

Re: "Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS" oddities

2011-06-11 Thread stephenmcnutt
It's over three years later, and this apparently hasn't been fixed. Granted, I'm using LiveCode 4.5.3 and not the very latest version, so if it has been fixed, I'd like to know and would consider upgrading. In addition to this 22 pixel window shrinking problem, I find the Menubar Builder, at leas

Has anyone experimented with memo functions in LC?

2011-06-11 Thread Geoff Canyon Rev
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with creating an automatic memoization function within LC? Given that we can access argument lists, and have "do," it seems possible, but I'm betting commas in the arguments would be a pain. Something like this: fun

Re: Using Datagrids with 'stackrunner' like launcher.

2011-06-11 Thread Ken Ray
> After getting the path to the revDataGridLibrary stack file just issue this > command before loading any other stacks: > > put there is a stack thePathToDataGridStackFile into > theStackIsLoadedInMemory One of these days, we *really* need something simple, like: if is not loaded then l

Re: double byte chars?

2011-06-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks for this useful synthesis, Slava. Best regards, Pierre Le 11 juin 2011 à 21:12, Slava Paperno a écrit : > The "set useUnicode to true" command is necessary only if you use the > charToNum() or numToChar() functions. Otherwise they’re not useful. > > The text in your fields is in UTF-16

Re: "Set as Menu Bar on Mac OS" oddities

2011-06-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/11/11 3:36 PM, stephenmcnutt wrote: It's over three years later, and this apparently hasn't been fixed. Granted, I'm using LiveCode 4.5.3 and not the very latest version, so if it has been fixed, I'd like to know and would consider upgrading. I've learned to work with it, though I do wish

Re: Building Metacard

2011-06-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/11/11 8:20 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: Somewhere down the line I mislaid my Metacard constructed with the aid of Jacque's excellent stack and MC 2.5 on my macMini G4. So I tired to do that again with LC 4.5-dp-4 and ended up with something called Metacard but in fact really being almost co

Re: Has anyone experimented with memo functions in LC?

2011-06-11 Thread Jim Ault
On Jun 11, 2011, at 2:23 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization I'm wondering if anyone has experimented with creating an automatic memoization function within LC? Given that we can access argument lists, and have "do," it seems possible, but I'm betting commas i