Re: Fun with nummberFormat

On 16/02/2012, at 05:18 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Terry Judd wrote: On 15/02/2012, at 09:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes I know. I was remarking that you can put virtually anything in the numberFormat and it will pad with zero's. And all that time I've been 'manually' pad

Re: RevOnline upload (bis)

Thank you Mark, but the support is aware since 2011 december René Le 16 févr. 2012 à 06:11, Mark Smith a écrit : > Did not work for me either earlier this week. Did not try today though. You > might try sending a msg to support as they may not be aware of the problem. > > -- > View this message

Re: Lion

Simply installed from the "Additional Packages" folder on the Snow Leopard DVD. Sent from my iPad On Feb 15, 2012, at 5:14 PM, Marty Knapp wrote: > Hey Tim, > So you've actually gotten Rosetta to function under Lion? I see lots of > chatter in various forums with some people saying that they g

Re: Lion

Minor correction Tim. It's called the Optional Installs mpkg, but thanks for the guidance. Without looking for it, I probably would never have found it. OTOH, I must have installed it way back. Joe Wilkins Architect On Feb 16, 2012, at 4:15 AM, Tim Jones wrote: > Simply installed from the "Add

Re: Another naive iOS question - filling the iPad screen

Hello Graham, I use a background image or graphic in all of my apps and follow the steps you describe. I hide the status bar. I've not seen the problem you've identified. The graphic or image always covers the iPad screen. I have some time today and tomorrow, so I'll be happy to look at your st

Mac OS X 10.8!

Hi friends, just in case you did not know, check this: No it is not April, 1st! :-) Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

BTW Klaus, Apple's birthday IS April Fool's Day; as is my own and my mother's; so don't jest about this. So, should we all wait to move up to Mountain Lion? This is too much for a soon to be Octogenarian like me. (sigh!) Joe Wilkins Architect On Feb 16, 2012, at 6:38 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: >

AW: Mac OS X 10.8!

Oh no, not again this soon :( > Betreff: Mac OS X 10.8! > > Hi friends, > > just in case you did not know, check this: > > > No it is not April, 1st! :-) > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

Hi Joe, Am 16.02.2012 um 15:50 schrieb Joe Lewis Wilkins: > BTW Klaus, > > Apple's birthday IS April Fool's Day; as is my own and my mother's; so don't > jest about this. oopsie, so sorry :-) > So, should we all wait to move up to Mountain Lion? I just delivered the facts and leave this up t

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

Klaus wrote: just in case you did not know, check this: Thanks for that. I was wondering when they'd get around to naming a release after California's most beautiful animal (well, maybe a close second to the pronghorn antelope). -- Richard Gas

Scheduling iOS tasks

Is there a way to schedule LC-built iOS apps to do something in the background occasionally? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God sai

Re: Scheduling iOS tasks

Hi Mike, As far as I know, LC apps don't run in the background on iOS. I'd think this is currently impossible. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Do

Re: want you error expertise

Tiemo Hollmann wrote: from time to time I have customers where my LC 4.6.4 program crashes on windows machines right away when launching. The only error message is the generic windows message "windows has encountered a problem". I know that this can happen from everything. Installation without

Re: AW: Mac OS X 10.8!

Second prize is *two* trips to Philadelphia -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Oh no, not again this soon :( > > >> Betreff: Mac OS X 10.8! >> >> Hi friends, >> >> just in case you did not k

Question about operators

Hi, If I type Put 1<=1 AND 1<=8 into the message box I get true, but if If I type Put 1<=1<=8 into the message box I get false. Am I missing something or is the second form not allowed? Thanks, Tim Bleiler ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@li

Re: Question about operators

On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote: > Hi, > If I type Put 1<=1 AND 1<=8 into the message box I get true, but if > If I type Put 1<=1<=8 into the message box I get false. > > Am I missing something or is the second form not allowed? The second form is not a kosher LC statement.

Re: Question about operators

What I think is happening is.. 1<=1 (evals to true) so true <=8 is false On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:49 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote: > > > Hi, > > If I type Put 1<=1 AND 1<=8 into the message box I get true, but if > > If I type Put 1<=1<=

Re: Scheduling iOS tasks

Mike Kerner wrote: Is there a way to schedule LC-built iOS apps to do something in the background occasionally? Unlike most OSes, iOS has such a strong priority for battery life that the definition of "multitasking" is a bit different than what you may be used to, amounting in most cases to s

Re: Scheduling iOS tasks

Hi, Push notifications would solve this problem, theoretically. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how LiveCode apps would handle push notifications, because LiveCode apps on iOS always shut down completely. They simply don't run in the background. I wonder if it were possible to start a LiveCode app

Re: Scheduling iOS tasks

I have, and now that LC is going to support Push and Local Notifications, I am chomping to put them into action along with some background processing. After reading through the Push API's last night, it looks like for the moment I'm going to have to roll my own Push server. It would be great if LC

Re: Scheduling iOS tasks

Hey Mark, There are two problems with push: 1) Push messages are limited to 256 bytes, and if the app is not running, the app doesn't do anything. The user is notified, and if the user chooses, s/he can launch the app, and then the app can do something (which is really clunky on the other apps tha

Re: Fun with nummberFormat

Hey THAT IS useful! I didn't even know about that one! I will be putting that to good use. Bob On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:18 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > >> On 15/02/2012, at 09:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >> Yes I know. I was remarking that you can

Re: Question about operators

I have tried that to as a kind of between function. It doesn't work. It will evaluate one part which will return true or false, then the next part which essentially says true <= 8 which of course is false. Bob On Feb 16, 2012, at 7:49 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote: > Hi, > If I type Put 1<=1 AND

AW: want you error expertise

Hi Richard, it's really interesting to read your experiences, nice intro of Scott Raney :) About video drivers I havn't though of at all yet. But I will put it on my check list. With the messageMessages could be indeed the last try, good to know. Because of my program crashes right at launching ho

Re: want you error expertise

1. Does LC on Windows not produce a crash log the way it does on OS X? I would look at that if it exists. On OS X I've found these logs to be quite useful in tracking down crashes (mostly, in recent years, in my experience these crashes have related to externals). 2. If the log does not exist or

Re: want you error expertise

By the way, I found that Valentina 4.7 is the last version that is usable for Livecode.  Ruslan is aware of the defects I encountered.  I assume a later version will fix those problems. Others may well be using 4.8, 4.9 or 5.0 without facing the defects I faced.  It's just a question of which feat

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

I love the pronghorn antelope. Also, notes, reminders, notifications and especially AirPlay and Game Center. And I just downloaded the new Messages which has a very cool integration with iChat, FaceTime, and iMessages. Things just got more interesting. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-r

AW: want you error expertise

Hi Bernard, thank you for your useful advices, yes win has crash-(event-)logs. I will give them first a try (just forgot them with my last cases) and keep my own logging as plan B Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...

AW: want you error expertise

Good idea! > > Thinking about a crash before a debuglevel can be set, it seems that > debugging should be on by default, then switched off when an app is > successfully loaded. I will bear that in mind for my own logging in > the future. > > Bernard > _

AW: want you error expertise

... though I think Valentina wouldn't produce a debuglog file when it crashes while initializing, probably it has to be up fully to be able to produce such a logfile, so it wouldn't change anything My 2 cents Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [m

Re: Can't see my stack

On 2/15/12 11:34 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Jacque. Nothing on close. No handlers at all. "rev" at the begonning of its name? Cummon. Sorry, I didn't mean to be condescending. There was a bug in the engine about 2 years ago that caused Finder-launched stacks not to load, but it happened

Re: Another naive iOS question - filling the iPad screen

Randy thanks for the kind offer, but when I tried to create a stripped-down version of my stack as a demonstration, I couldn't make it go wrong! I created a stack the same size as the iPad screen (1024 x 768) and put a graphic rectangle of the same size into it, and it just stayed there with no

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

You didn't ask what a cloud of unknowing is… there is an interesting answer. Graham On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:40:34 -0800, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > What is Linux?? And what is "miasmic"? ;-) > > Bob > > > On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Richmond wrote: > >> Having said that; this criticism comes f

Re: Can't see my stack

Jacque. How long have we not known each other? Do you think I would take real offense at anything you might say? Anyway, I commented out all open and close handlers, so even suppressing messages (per Bob Sneider) has no bearing, as I knew it would not. I changed all manner of destroyStack pr

RE: Question about operators

I just had this situation: If 1=2 or 1=1 then Some code would NOT execute here***wrong End if BUT If ( (1=2) or (1=1) ) then Some code would execute hereCorrect* End if OR If ( 1=2 or 1=1 ) then Some code would execute hereCorrect* End if I just use parens all over the

Re: want you error expertise

Hi Tiemo! Are you working with HTMLText? Maybe even larger amounts? I had this in an app. It crashed almost immediately when a larger amount of HTMLText was set. The reason was a memory leak in using HTMLText with 4.6.4 that had been fixed with 5.0. The workaround for 4.6.4 was to have a space

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

On 02/16/2012 12:40 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: What is Linux?? And what is "miasmic"? ;-) One thing I am sure of; is that Linux is not miasmic. Beyond that, dunno! Bob On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:33 PM, Richmond wrote: Having said that; this criticism comes from "my own" 'University' of Abertay

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

On 02/16/2012 04:21 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/15/12 7:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Lynn- Wednesday, February 15, 2012, 4:28:58 PM, you wrote: More and more complex tasks will be able to be broken down to three steps or less. 1. Take it out of the refrigerator. 2. Sniff. 3. Toss it. This

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

On 02/16/2012 04:38 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi friends, just in case you did not know, check this: I wonder what is going to happen, when, at last, Apple hits "system 11" . . . will there be any cats left? Of course 'Slugworth' (pace Charlie and

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

On 02/16/2012 05:15 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Klaus wrote: just in case you did not know, check this: Thanks for that. I was wondering when they'd get around to naming a release after California's most beautiful animal (well, maybe a close second

Re: AW: Mac OS X 10.8!

On 02/16/2012 05:47 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Second prize is *two* trips to Philadelphia W.C. Fields forever. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:09 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Oh no, not again this soon :( Betr

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

On 02/16/2012 08:23 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: You didn't ask what a cloud of unknowing is… there is an interesting answer. Years ago, in the USA, I watched a film called "The Never Ending Story", based on a book by Michael Ende, and it has had a permanent affect on my brain . . . :) Graham

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

Yes, it is, and a puma, and a catamount, and a bunch of other names. I just went to a fascinating presentation about these amazing animals. If you would like to know more about them, check out felidae.org (info on wild cats in general) or bapp.org if you're in the San Francisco Bay area. Pete On

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

On Wed Feb, 2012, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) keith at gulfbreezeortholab.com wrote: Hi All, I have a problem... If a user selects a color and I put it into a variable (as RGB), how can I find a shade that is several shades lighter, and a shade that is several shades darker, also in RGB fo

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

On 02/16/2012 09:08 PM, Pete wrote: Yes, it is, and a puma, and a catamount, and a bunch of other names. I just went to a fascinating presentation about these amazing animals. If you would like to know more about them, check out felidae.org (info on wild cats in general) or bapp.org if you're i

Re: want you error expertise

On 2/16/12 7:27 PM, "Bernard Devlin" wrote: Hi Barnard, > By the way, I found that Valentina 4.7 is the last version that is > usable for Livecode.  Ruslan is aware of the defects I encountered.  I > assume a later version will fix those problems. > > Others may well be using 4.8, 4.9 or 5.0 wi

Re: AW: want you error expertise

On 2/16/12 7:37 PM, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" wrote: > Hi Bernard, > thank you for your useful advices, yes win has crash-(event-)logs. I will > give them first a try (just forgot them with my last cases) and keep my own > logging as plan B Also must be possible I think on windows, To ask for some inf

Re: Question about operators

You must be mistaken about why it isn't executing. It is working for me. In a button script: ON mouseUp pMouseBtnNo IF 1=2 OR 1=1 THEN put "Awesome!" ELSE put "Bugger!" END mouseUp displays "Awesome!" Bob On Feb 16, 2012, at 10:35 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > I just had this situation: >

Re: AW: want you error expertise

Tiemo Hollmann wrote: Would you say that LC programs today crash more often as programs of other languages in your experience, or is it just my personal experience? With features comes complexity, and with complexity comes bugs. I once knew a programmer of a commercial product whose manager ac

[OT] OS X's Gatekeeper

Looks like I may rival Punxsutawney Phil in the prognostication department - consider the screen shot in this article: ...and the one in this LiveCode Journal blog post from October

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

Richmond wrote: I wonder what is going to happen, when, at last, Apple hits "system 11" . . . will there be any cats left? Of course 'Slugworth' (pace Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), aka Shuttleworth, nicked "Ocelot" while the late Steve Jobs (may his socks be forever adored, may his manic-

Re: [OT] OS X's Gatekeeper

Richard, Gatekeeper can be configured to download anything you like, if you like. Le 16 févr. 2012 à 21:53, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > Looks like I may rival Punxsutawney Phil in the prognostication department - > consider the screen shot in this article: > >

RE: Question about operators

Yes you are correct. I looked back at the code and it was in a repeat while analyzing field heights and widths. Back then I looked at that code for an hour until I convinced myself that something else was going on. Added the parens and all was good. I will try to create a sample based on my problem

Re: [OT] OS X's Gatekeeper

Impressive young Skywalker! On Feb 16, 2012, at 12:53 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Looks like I may rival Punxsutawney Phil in the prognostication department - > consider the screen shot in this article: > >

iOS first steps - icon/splash trouble

I've progressed to the point of having written a small iPad app for testing purposes. It's really a version of something I wrote earlier for the desktop (Mac and Windows), fairly easy to adapt because it used one landscape window for most user interaction, so I have opted for a landscape-only iP

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

On 2/16/12 3:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: 3 Features New to OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion That Ubuntu Already Has Android already has all those too. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Softw

[ANN] mergExt

Hi LiveCoders mergZXing is evolving into a suite of externals called mergExt. A new iOS external mergTweet (use the iOS 5 Tweet dialog) is available in addition to the four that came with a purchase of mergZXing. mergZXing also now has a new function to scan an image file to see if there's a b

Re: Mac OS X 10.8!

But I am HAPPY with Snow Leopard ARGH... had to do a scavenger hunt to find XCode 4.2 in the Developer Portal... now it is all about Lion and Mountain Lion. Guess I will have to migrate soon... On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 8:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/16/12 3:19 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

focus-in-field problem

Hello All, Traversal on? Focus? Something else? I realize now my understanding of fields and focus is incomplete. A realization begun when watching MobGUI support-videos. And brought home when my iPhone app opened up and the keyboard suddenly appeared. The problem more specifically. To search

The target is different on Mac and Windows

I have a mouseDown handler in a menu bar group, necessary because mouseDown handlers don't trigger if they are in a button in a menu bar group. Because of the structure of my card, clicks on other buttons were reaching the mouseDown handler, causing weird problems so I put a check for the target a

Re: The target is different on Mac and Windows

On 2/16/12 9:05 PM, Pete wrote: Obviously a bug which I will enter at the QCC. I can deal with this by checking the platform of course, but it really concerns me that a basic concept like the target works differently on different platforms, at least in this circumstance. I don't think it's a

Re: The target is different on Mac and Windows

I'll try that of course, but why would that work differently on Mac than on Windows? Pete On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:30 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/16/12 9:05 PM, Pete wrote: > > Obviously a bug which I will enter at the QCC. I can deal with this by >> checking the platform of course, but i

Re: The target is different on Mac and Windows

On 2/16/12 10:25 PM, Pete wrote: I'll try that of course, but why would that work differently on Mac than on Windows? It has something to do with what the engine needs to do to put the Mac menu into the system menubar. Whatever that is, it's the same reason you can't put scripts in menu butto

[ANN] ExtTextInputMode external

Hi, Because I'm doing a lot with RTL and East Asian languages lately and things may go wrong if the user of my software uses the wrong keyboard, I wanted to check the input language on iOS devices before the user starts typing. There was no way to do this in LiveCode AFAIK and thus I decided to

A shorter way to express this?

Hi: I'm watching the tutorials (rewatching #3) and I was wondering whether some statements can be shortened. For instance repeat with x = 1 to the number of lines in field data put item 1 of line x of field data into tDataArray[x]["first name"] put item 2 of line x of field data into

Re: Valentina 5 Platform Announced; Reports, Valentina Studio for Postgre, Valentina DB and SQLite

I know this is sort of off-topic, but will you be supporting Python at any point? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.ru

Re: A shorter way to express this?

Actually thinking about it the with field data is redundant since its also referenced in the repeat statement. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pr

Re: Any in-house corporate developers?

So what about source control, any applicability here. Are Diffs possible? On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Well said. > > Bob > > > On Feb 10, 2012, at 4:31 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > > Well, I could testify that some developers knows really well > > their limitatio

Re: A shorter way to express this?

You could do something like: put 1 into tArrayIndex repeat for each line linData in field data put item 1 of linData into tDataArray[tArrayIndex]["first name"] put item 2 of linData into tDataArray[tArrayIndex]["last name"] ... add 1 to tArrayIndex end repeat On 02/16/2012 9:14 PM, Mich

Re: A shorter way to express this?

Nice, thanks!___ 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: A shorter way to express this?

As David suggested, you should definitely use for each line... As your data grows it will operate in linear time, while using line x of... will be something like quadratic time I think. If fully numerical indexes for your array are acceptable, this would work put 1 into i repeat for each li

Re: A shorter way to express this?

repeat for each line theLine in theFieldData put your field data into a variable trust me put item 1 of theLine into... do not alter the contents of theFieldData inside the repeat loop as you will hose it. This form of repeat parses the memory so any change in the original IN argument screws up

Re: Any in-house corporate developers?

> So what about source control, any applicability here. Are Diffs possible? > Not easiely. The binary nature of a stack makes this incredibly difficult. It is possible to write a little plugin that exports all scripts to plain text and, to a certain extend it is possible to export a stack to