What is the best/fastest way to extract strings of text?

2011-08-02 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Hello, I am still playing with LiveCode and am now exploring chunks... My question is as follows. Suppose I have a variable with a lot of text. Throughout the text I have various strings, separated by consistent tags, that I need to extract. For example, the following text is in the variable m

Re: What is the best/fastest way to extract strings of text?

2011-08-02 Thread Keith Clarke
The recipe I (learned here and) use with extracting specific HTML / XML elements is to get the specific target elements on their own line, remove the unwanted lines and then move the target string items in the remaining lines out into a separate variable - something like... 1. Get the target el

RE: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> That said, it appears there's not enough money for devs for > such apps, even on the iPad. I've noticed the top 3 to 4 note > apps on iPad have pretty much ceased all development for > quite some time now. And none of them are what I would > consider 'professional' apps. I guess you can't sur

Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-02 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, I have stored several files of my app in /library/preferences/ because they should be accessible for all users. One file is a registration file, which doesn't make sense in the users folder and on the other hand I have 8GB of video files, which I obviously want to share for all users and di

Re: Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-02 Thread Shao Sean
As previously mentioned: • /Library (Mac OS X only)—Applications that share resources between users store those resources in this version of the Library directory. Sandboxed application are not permitted to use this directory. "Sandboxed applications" are apps from the Mac App store.. If th

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
I had hoped that like the iPad it might charge over the fat USB cable, and I did eventually try that (surprising how hard it is to find a USB type A to type A lead), but it wouldn't charge. I was wrong about the power adapter not being strong enough, I was using the wrong one! With the right on

AW: Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-02 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Sean, (it is your first name - right?) thanks for your quick response. I have read your previous post about this, but it is still not clear for me, or I misinterpret it. In the apple restrictions posted below, all write accessible paths begin with "~", what means for me it's the users path. And

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
I own an Acer Iconia and love it. I do not use gmail. I use the built in email client with my email accounts. It works great. I am experiencing NONE of the problems you have stated. Mike On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 00:36:35 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: > I suspect, just like the iPad, it requires a

RE: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
Keyboard works, mouse is coming (and may already work with the newest update, which was promised). Other peripherals work fine. Mike On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 22:59:49 -0700, Lynn Fredricks wrote: >> But, it does seem to be more Windows like and less Mac like in that it has many more settings an

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
I could not disagree more. I brother owns and Ipad 2. He and I were having lunch and he noticed my hi-def, surround sound Acer Iconia (yes, it has Dolby Surround). He also noticed the dual cams (one a 5 megapixel), the gps on board, the tactile touch and feel. I let him try it. He was blown awa

RE: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
I'll tell you why. Unlike apple, which controls every facet of app creation and takes a healthy cut of the profits AND charges to allow you to become a developer AND makes it near impossible to publish anything, Android and google have a more hands off approach. Does this mean the market is

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
We call that rooting round these parts. Be careful, it voids warranty. Mike On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 16:42:47 +1000, Gerry Orkin wrote: > I think it can, if it's jailbroken. > > Gerry > > On 02/08/2011, at 4:35 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > >> iPad certainly can't do THAT. > >

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
Again, I disagree. I bought all the angry birds apps, along with tons of other games and the Nvidia Tegra dual core SHINES. Every kid that has played it (I am a administrator at a camp this summer) LOVES IT. They say it rivals their xbox 360 and playstation 3. The Ipad 2 is good, but not THAT

Re: What is the best/fastest way to extract strings of text?

2011-08-02 Thread Michael Kann
put numToChar(255) into m replace "<#B>" with m replace "<#E>" with m put zero into c repeat for each item k in raw_input    add 1 to c    if c mod 2 is zero then   put k & kr after h    end if end repeat delete char -1 of h put h into clean_output --- On Tue, 8/2/11, Keith Clarke wrote: F

Re: What is the best/fastest way to extract strings of text?

2011-08-02 Thread Michael Kann
put numToChar(255) into m set the itemDel to m  -- FORGOT THIS LINE replace "<#B>" with m replace "<#E>" with m put zero into c repeat for each item k in raw_input    add 1 to c    if c mod 2 is zero then   put k & kr after h    end if end repeat delete char -1 of h put h into clean_

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
Have you then been able to plug the device into a high power USB 2 port, and it gains charge? That would be so useful, I wouldn't have to carry the power adapter around with me. BTW, I have an app that quits all other apps, and I use that when testing performance. I'll try a session with Angry

Re: MD5 digest of arrays and controls

2011-08-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Terry, Finally, I found the property that was blocking my code: set the caseSensitive to true Now, the question is: Why setting the caseSensitive to true, is impeding this line of code to work: do "set the fillGradient of it to " & tGradientName (where tGradientName is an arrayvariable named

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
TBH, the battery lasts so long I really don't care about charging it. It lasts 20 hours for me - so I can let it go for almost a week before charging it. Then I put it on charge overnight and I wake up and it's ready to go for another week. Mike On Tue, 02 Aug 2011 09:29:03 -0400, Colin Hol

iOS forcing interface rotation

2011-08-02 Thread Scott Morrow
I am working with an iOS UI that allows portrait and landscape rotation on one card but requires that the UI be presented in portrait on all other cards… no matter what the actual device rotation is. The problem arises when leaving the card that allows landscape and going to a card that requir

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Tim Selander
Hey, that's about how good I talk Japanese ;-) Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 8/2/11 3:09 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Ok, sounds good, I'll check it out. 1 of the nice things about the keyboard is it has this microphone controls wixom speaking into right now Listen to everything exactly right. But c

Success with LiveCode Server, Mac OS X server and revigniter

2011-08-02 Thread Martin Koob
I have installed Livecode server on Mac OS X server and have the got the revignitor chat tutorial running. There were a couple of bumps on the way I thought I should share in case someone else it trying to get livecode server running on Mac OS X server. I first tried following the instructions in

Re: [server] using STACKS within ON-REV

2011-08-02 Thread Martin Koob
I was able to get the command 'go stack' to work. >From the 4.6.3 release notes: The go stack command is also valid: go stack "" Here, the newly loaded stack will sit in front of the home stack and will be sent the standard initialisation messages (preopenstack, openstack etc). I created a stack

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 8/2/11 3:31 PM, "Admin" wrote: > > I could not disagree more. I brother owns and Ipad 2. He and I were > having lunch and he noticed my hi-def, surround sound Acer Iconia (yes, > it has Dolby Surround). He also noticed the dual cams (one a 5 > megapixel), the gps on board, the tactile touch a

[OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Kay C Lan
It would appear Flash is dead or certainly critically ill. Happened much quicker than even I expected. http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47914&id=e9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10 And all those people who thought banning Flash would be the end of Apple, and that it was stifli

Re: What is the best/fastest way to extract strings of text?

2011-08-02 Thread Jim Ault
For Html, the returns have no meaning, so the first step I would take is to replace cr with empty in textBlock and make the text a single line... but this may not be good, depending on the original textBlock On Aug 2, 2011, at 1:01 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: The recipe I (learned here and) u

Re: MD5 digest of arrays and controls

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
What is in it? Is the object in it correct case sensitively? Why set the case sensitive to true anyway? What does that accomplish? Bob On Aug 2, 2011, at 6:30 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi Terry, > > Finally, I found the property that was > blocking my code: > > set the caseSensitive to

Re: carrying a global variable from stack to sub stack

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
heh heh nice. :-) Bob On Aug 1, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Bob- > > Monday, August 1, 2011, 9:39:37 AM, you wrote: > >> Hi Admin. (Did your parents really name you "Admin"??) ;-) > > http://xkcd.com/327/ > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > ___

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/2/11 7:40 AM, Admin wrote: Get an app that saves battery and automatically closes programs. What you may not know about the Iconia (and hence most android 3.0 devices) is that it multithreads and all the apps are still running. You have to shut them off to ensure a quality experience. From

RE: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> It would appear Flash is dead or certainly critically ill. > Happened much quicker than even I expected. > > http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47914&id=e > 9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10 > > And all those people who thought banning Flash would be the > end of Apple, and

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/02/2011 07:12 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: It would appear Flash is dead or certainly critically ill. Happened much quicker than even I expected. http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47914&id=e 9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10 And all those people who thought banning Flash

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/edge/ Better than Danton's head . . . :) ___ 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/

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On Aug 2, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Ruslan Zasukhin wrote: > * Ipad do not have GPS? > The 3G one does , the wi-fi one doesn't, but that's rarely an issue. If i was stuck in the wilderness needing to use satellites to find my way, I could use my iPhone, and probably wouldn't have my iPad with me any

RE: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> * Dolby Surround sound? > How you will listen it without big room, and 6 good dynamic? > and why ? Tablet is mainly for READING. > Other task go to book... You can simulate various audio effects on smaller devices nowadays. There are systems that, for example, make 5.1 soun

[OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Does anybody know who "Max-Gentleman" is? He keeps sending me e-mails (to all my e-mail accounts), and obviously is a very short person (P.O.R.G. - person of restricted growth) as he seems to be appealing for some sort of pills to make him grow. Should I feel sorry for this chap, considering h

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:12 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: >> It would appear Flash is dead or certainly critically ill. >> Happened much quicker than even I expected. >> >> http://www.telecomtv.com/comspace_newsDetail.aspx?n=47914&id=e >> 9381817-0593-417a-8639-c4c53e2a2a10 >> >> And all those people

AirLaunch 1.0b1

2011-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
I've uploaded the first beta of a plugin that allows you to install iOS apps without the use of iTunes or XCode. This version has only basic functionality, there will be more to come. For now I'm looking for a few folks to test it and get back to me with any issues with just this basic feature

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
Here's the latest Flash thing I did (we did the whole site): http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/mixit/index.html At that page you can either just view "mixits" that other people have done, or you can log in, make your own one, and save that for others to view. Even with that barrier to entry there h

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
They make calls too? On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:25 PM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: > How many people use an iPhone just to make calls? :-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-02 Thread stephen barncard
Use gmail and *smite* him. On 2 August 2011 09:27, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Does anybody know who "Max-Gentleman" is? > > He keeps sending me e-mails (to all my e-mail accounts), and obviously > is a very short person (P.O.R.G. - person of restricted growth) as he seems > to be > appealing fo

RE: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/mixit/index.html > > At that page you can either just view "mixits" that other > people have done, or you can log in, make your own one, and > save that for others to view. Even with that barrier to entry > there have been over 60,000 mixits made in the last day.

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/02/2011 08:18 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Use gmail and *smite* him. I tried; but to no avail! On 2 August 2011 09:27, Richmond Mathewsonwrote: Does anybody know who "Max-Gentleman" is? He keeps sending me e-mails (to all my e-mail accounts), and obviously is a very short person (P

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Chipp Walters
'And the resolution isn't "much" better. The wide screen can be useful when playing Angry Birds Rio levels, but the actual DPI is only 149 versus 132. 132 is already fairly high, and unless I wear reading glasses and try to look for differences, I wouldn't describe the extra 12% as being that much

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Turns out the Android doesn't know how to spell I pad. :-) On Aug 2, 2011 12:38 PM, "Chipp Walters" wrote: > 'And the resolution isn't "much" better. The wide screen can be useful when > playing Angry Birds Rio levels, but the actual DPI is only 149 versus 132. > 132 is already fairly high, and un

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Considering how much investment, in terms of talent, money and time there has been in Flash [I really wonder what the proportion of websites that use Flash is, but, subjectively at least, it does seem quite high] I cannot see everybody merrily abandoning it for the "next thang" very quickly.

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread David C.
Just an FYI... If you don't mind the smaller size, need the functionality of on-board camera(s) or 3/4G, the Nook Color makes a really nice and inexpensive Android tablet. Plus you can run the whole thing off of the MicroSD card, without rooting the device and/or worrying about warranty issues. My

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think you misunderstand him. He intends to make his BANK ACCOUNT grow. The pills he wants to sell you, at best, if dropped into a cup of coffee, make it sweeter. This same gentleman also contacts me frequently, but as I have no need for anything about me to grow any more, (even if the pills DI

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Chipp Walters
I should also mention, once I figured out how to use the cursor with my finger, it's a MUCH more satisfying experience than the 'bubble approach Apple has. Score one for Google in UIX over Apple. Still, there's little if any after market accessories for any of these Android products, especially co

Re: [OT] Max-Gentleman

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/02/2011 08:44 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I think you misunderstand him. What? Me misunderstand him? Surely not? He intends to make his BANK ACCOUNT grow. The pills he wants to sell you, at best, if dropped into a cup of coffee, make it sweeter. I have a feeling that the pills (if they ex

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/2/11 12:42 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: We've heard "XXX is dead" so many times that it gets like that chap looking after the sheep who thought it was a big laugh to cry "Wolf". I bought a few shares of Apple stack back when Apple was dead. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/2/11 12:42 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: We've heard "XXX is dead" so many times that it gets like that chap looking after the sheep who thought it was a big laugh to cry "Wolf". I bought a few shares of Apple stock back when Apple was dead. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac

Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
[Yeah, I know, it sounds a bit like the 'Max-Gentleman' post; sorry] http://www.turnkeylinux.org/all of course, these virtual appliances are open-source, and as such, free. I wonder what are the chances of seeing some sort of version of Livecode "in the cloud" in a way that end-users could use

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/02/2011 08:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/2/11 12:42 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: We've heard "XXX is dead" so many times that it gets like that chap looking after the sheep who thought it was a big laugh to cry "Wolf". I bought a few shares of Apple stack back when Apple was dead.

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/02/2011 08:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/2/11 12:42 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: We've heard "XXX is dead" so many times that it gets like that chap looking after the sheep who thought it was a big laugh to cry "Wolf". I bought a few shares of Apple stock back when Apple was dead.

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
I see some reviews that talk about a grid being visible on the screen and also really bad photo quality in the built-in Gallery App. They're reviews form when the Iconia first came out so wondering if those issues have been addressed? Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue

Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
Not having any luck using the startup message. I have a handler for it in the stack script of my main stack but it doesn't seem to get the message (tried an answer info, setting a global, setting a cprop of the stack, none of it happens Any clues? Pete Molly's Revenge

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
Pete, The startUp message isn't sent to your stack if you open the stack in the IDE, nor if you open the stack while your standalone is already running. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twit

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
is your stack actually the mainstack of the standalone that you are starting? otherwise, it will not get any startup messages. Use preopencard or preopenstack instead if you just want to do something when your stack is opened. On 2 Aug 2011, at 20:58, Pete wrote: > Not having any luck using the

SMTP Library that works with Gmail over SSL?

2011-08-02 Thread Trevor DeVore
Does anyone have a LiveCode solution that can send HTML email via SMTP using SSL? I need to send email through the Gmail SMTP server and the existing SMTP libraries I've found for LiveCode don't support SSL. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems LiveCode Resources for Developers: http://l

LiveCode.tv event #34 wrap up

2011-08-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi I was trying to beta test BvG Docu 2 live on the stream, with the expected confusing and stumbling result: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16335997 http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/16336428 BvG Docu 2 is now available from my site: http://bjoernke.com/bvgdocu/ John showed us a few nifty tricks

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
Thanks folks, didn't realise this message only applied to standalones. Is there then no equivalent for stacks running in the IDE, other than a preOpenCard/preOpenStack handler? Pete Molly's Revenge 2011/8/2 Björnke von Gierke > is your stack actually the mainst

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Colin Holgate
He only let his closest friends call him Gail. On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > Mind you, there are a few people around who feel that Gail Amelio was a bit ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: datagrid: how to apply a numberFormat to a column?

2011-08-02 Thread JosepM
Hi, I still can't find a solution to this problem. Someone has the same issue? Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/datagrid-how-to-apply-a-numberFormat-to-a-column-tp3425298p3713612.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archiv

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Pete wrote: Thanks folks, didn't realise this message only applied to standalones. Is there then no equivalent for stacks running in the IDE, other than a preOpenCard/preOpenStack handler? Startup is for when the engine starts up, preOpenStack is for when a stack is opened. Having both messa

Re: datagrid: how to apply a numberFormat to a column?

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
How are you loading from the database? Almost sounds like the FillInData handler is not being executed. If it is, not sure why the numberFormat isn't working. Only other thing I can think of is: set the text of field 1 of me to round(pdata,2) Pete Molly's Revenge

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Roger, Thanks for the link... Loan sharking is the most destructive way of putting the theory of increasing returns in the interests of a few still fewer. Saas information systems tailored to the needs of the majority are the other possible scope of the economic model of increasing returns t

RE: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Slava Paperno
On a related note: I have often wished that preOpenStack and openStack were not called when I open the stack in the IDE. When the programming is not finished, some calls that are already written into those handlers cannot yet be successful because other parts are missing. The result is that the fir

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
Thanks Richard. If I understand the message path correctly, the preOpenStack handler in the mainstack will be executed for every substack of the main stack that is opened? I can easily check whether my initialisation code has already executed in the handler but was hoping for a way to have the co

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/2/11 3:49 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: On a related note: I have often wished that preOpenStack and openStack were not called when I open the stack in the IDE. When the programming is not finished, some calls that are already written into those handlers cannot yet be successful because other par

Re: www.ted.com/talks -- anyone watch them?

2011-08-02 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks Michael ! Le 2 août 2011 à 00:30, Michael Kann a écrit : > I've put together a web page to make it easier to navigate the videos at > www.ted.com/talks -- especially if your native language is not English. If > anyone is interested I'll polish it up and let it loose. > > Mike > > > __

Re: Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
I too am interested in the answer to this. I'm not sure it ever got resolved in the previous thread on the question. Is there anywhere under Lion that files can be installed for use by all users without having to resort to chmod commands? Pete Molly's Revenge On

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, Move your script from the stack script to the card script. If you keep a preOpenStack script in the card script, then it won't be executed when other substacks are opened. If you want the script to execute in the standalone only and not in the IDE, then you have to options. Either put

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Slava Paperno wrote: On a related note: I have often wished that preOpenStack and openStack were not called when I open the stack in the IDE. When the programming is not finished, some calls that are already written into those handlers cannot yet be successful because other parts are missing. The

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
Thanks, makes sense. Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Move your script from the stack script to the card script. If you keep a > preOpenStack script in the card script,

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I use turnkey linux appliances for a lot of things, but I guess I don't follow what you are talking about in the later half of your post. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Virtual-Appliances-tp3713223p3713853.html Sent from the Revolution - User maili

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/03/2011 12:42 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: I use turnkey linux appliances for a lot of things, but I guess I don't follow what you are talking about in the later half of your post. What I meant was a web-based version of Livecode rather like Sumo Paint; http://www.sumopaint.com/home/ or, a

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Wow; Sumo Paint seems to be Flash based: http://www.sumopaint.com/home/ directly relevant to the much vaunted "death of Flash". Why do I have a feeling that the Sumo people are not going to "reinvent the wheel" just to remove a dependency on Flash? __

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread stephen barncard
Richmond is here to remind us how ridiculous and contrary the computer world is; and to provide comic relief between heated cheese discussions. Hmm... heated cheese... On 2 August 2011 14:42, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I use turnkey linux appliances for a lot of things, but I guess I don't > follow

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/03/2011 12:51 AM, stephen barncard wrote: Richmond is here to remind us how ridiculous and contrary the computer world is; and to provide comic relief between heated cheese discussions. Hmm... heated cheese... Got me in one . . . :) On 2 August 2011 14:42, Andrew Kluthe wrote: I us

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Sorry to spoil the celebration, but Flash still has a strong role to play on the Internet, albeit not with iOS. Google has graciously given Apple a huge head start in the tablet wars, but to call them 'over' would be as silly as saying Flash is dead. I seem to recall reading recently that over 7

Re: SMTP Library that works with Gmail over SSL?

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Speaking of which, does Livecode do AES encryption now? I thought it did. I want to store passwords in AES format and decrypt them in my stack script. Bob On Aug 2, 2011, at 12:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > Does anyone have a LiveCode solution that can send HTML email via SMTP using > SSL? I

Re: [OT] Flash is Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
I told all my friends back then to stop listening to media pundits who, if they had expertise in any Information Technology field whatsoever, would be out making a lot more money in the real world doing it, rather than writing articles for a rag bagging on everybody else about how not to do it.

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/03/2011 12:56 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: How ironic to be having this discussion in an LC forum where we all only wish we could have one tenth the market penetration of Flash. Ain't it just! So; to my previous wibble: wouldn't it be nice if there were an online way to author Livecode s

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Insert an exit openStack or exit preOpenstack at the top of the handler and comment it out when you want to avoid running the handlers and delete the comments when you want to run them. Alternately check the state of a property of the stack and run only when true. Seems simple enough. Bob O

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Andre Garzia
I personally think that flash is a great way to make web games... it has a huge market penetration and looks like javascript... :-) On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Sorry to spoil the celebration, but Flash still has a strong role to play > on the Internet, albeit not w

Re: Startup message

2011-08-02 Thread Graham Samuel
Startup will do what you want. To test while in the IDE, do send "startup" to stack "mymainstack" from the message box. HTH Graham On :Tue, 2 Aug 2011 13:57:14 -0700, Pete > > Thanks Richard. If I understand the message path correctly, the > preOpenStack handler in the mainstack will be ex

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
And let's not forget there may have been some imbibing of refreshing beverages going on at some point today. Bob On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:51 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > Richmond is here to remind us how ridiculous and contrary the computer world > is; and to provide comic relief between heated

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Well, I guess I lied when I said I didn't understand the second part. I did understand it. What I didn't understand was how this relates to Turnkey linux Virtual Appliances. They are good for things like a fast redmine setup, or an XMPP server, or a lampstack. How does that technology you spoke

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
That I agree with. I wish the manufacturers would all agree on a hardware data port so that 3rd party companies could support them and create cool gadgets. Grrr. Mike On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 12:44:30 -0500, Chipp Walters wrote: > I should also mention, once I figured out how to use the c

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
The grid is in the hardware - it's part of the screen. I guess that's the touch sensitive part. There is no current photo problems - must have been resolved. Mike On Tue, 2 Aug 2011 11:24:34 -0700, Pete wrote: > I see some reviews that talk about a grid being visible on the screen and >

Re: Virtual Appliances

2011-08-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 08/03/2011 01:55 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Well, I guess I lied when I said I didn't understand the second part. I did understand it. What I didn't understand was how this relates to Turnkey linux Virtual Appliances. It doesn't really; but TLVAs put me in mind of stuuf such as Sumo Paint, an

RE: automatic popup with combo box - how?

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
Hello all. Why someone types in a combo box, usually it opens based on the letter you are typing, so, say you have a dropdown box with countries in it and you type 'U', Uganda, United States, etc should pop open. How do you do this with Live Code? Mike

Re: datagrid: how to apply a numberFormat to a column?

2011-08-02 Thread JosepM
Hi, The FillinData is executed. I will try this... Into the database the value is a decimal(12,4), so 4 positions for decimals, but I left the user try to customize the format for the decimal places. Ever I get 4 positions... Salut, Josep -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolut

Append to Contextual Menus

2011-08-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. This may have been discussed before. I want to add a contextual menu to fields in addition to the one the IDE is presenting, so I can add things like validations while in edit mode. Is there a way to do this without overriding the standard contextual menus? This can be filed as so obsc

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:12 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > > Hey Kay - wow, that site has an annoying pop up. If you don't want to join, > that pop up doesn't go away and won't let you read the article. > > Sorry, no idea, I run Firefox 5.0.1 with the NoScripts 2.1.2

Re: MD5 digest of arrays and controls

2011-08-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Bob, slylabs13 wrote: > > What is in it? Is the object in it correct case sensitively? > Why set the case sensitive to true anyway? > What does that accomplish? > > Bob > The code that I am debugging is part of this stack: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/Eps_Import_V05B.zip

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-08-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Tim, Timothy Miller-2 wrote: > > Meanwhile, a comprehensive LC tutorial, extremely user friendly, > written in LC, starting at the most elementary level... > > Has it been envisioned? > > Tim > This is the free MetaTalk Programmer :-D http://www.metacard.com/pi6.html http://www.canelaso

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Kay C Lan
Classic. Turns out none of my Apple products knows how to spell Icons... no I mean Iconic... no I mean Icon is :-) There's a website around somewhere (sorry can't locate right now) that is dedicated to the SMS messages that have had their meaning completely jumbled due to 'auto-spell correctors'

Re: Append to Contextual Menus

2011-08-02 Thread Pete
I'm doing something similar but I have my own tools palette instead of the IDE so I can configure the controls as they are dropped onto the card. One thing you might try is having a palette stack which has button it to set your various validation options. Select the control you want to insert val

Re: [OT] Flash is NOT Dead

2011-08-02 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Andre Garzia-3 wrote: > > I personally think that flash is a great way to make web games... it has a > huge market penetration and looks like javascript... > Flash is not dead, but it will be making place for HTML5, an open standard. This is the way it should be: an open standard that

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Admin
Dear all, I am in desperate need of help. The revlet player is simply broken on all levels. On Mac, in Safari, it takes between 4 and 8 clicks to press a button. On PCs, all kinds of browser crashing is going on. What can I do? How can I get people to use the database I created? Any ideas?

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