On 02/26/2012 06:42 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
You are correct; they have NO IDEA how their file system works. I'm
lucky if they can even recall what they named a file, and they pay
ZERO attention to file formats. One couldn't grasp the concept of
overwriting a file. Sigh.
Judy
On Tue, 14 Feb
On 02/26/2012 06:48 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
O_o
Judy
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012, Lynn Fredricks wrote:
I think you should also not underestimate the value of a predictive (and
more advanced AI) system that allows other interfaces to be more
simplified.
So many lessons were learned starting from the l
Come to think of things:
Plonking a kid down in front of a computer that has NO programs on it, just
RunRev/Livecode and showing her/him that, very quickly indeed, s/he can get
quite a long way with getting the machine to do what one wants, is
pretty good.
I do this every summer; lots of cast-
Medard wrote:
> maybe some trick from my Orange provider ;->
> [France]
seems to be the matter:
I sent a message from one On-Rev account to another account hosted by my
ISP... I got this:
===
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could n
Thanks to Ken Corey and others on this list, I am managing to play sounds in my
developing iOS app quite nicely - as appears to be required, I'm playing them
from a file, and I'm using 'the environment' to distinguish between the IDE and
the real app (and simulator). So far so good. My current p
On 26/02/2012 14:10, Graham Samuel wrote:
Thanks to Ken Corey and others on this list, I am managing to play sounds in my
developing iOS app quite nicely - as appears to be required, I'm playing them
from a file, and I'm using 'the environment' to distinguish between the IDE and
the real app (
I too couldn't get 'looping' to work with the 'play' command... however using
'iphonePlaySoundOnChannel thefile, theChannel, type' does work...
on mouseUp
put specialfolderpath("engine") & "/sc.mp3" into thefile
iphonePlaySoundOnChannel thefile, 1, looping
end mouseUp
> Thanks to Ken Co
The Play command used for iOS is a special adaptation of the regular Play
command (as is described in the docs) and as such does not yet support looping
when on iOS. "For more control use the iphonePlaySoundOnChannel" for looping.
But meanwhile if you use the mediaPicker it only works with the P
Tom... it does indeed say that the support has been added for a variant of the
'play' command, but also states that 'looping' works with this... You have to
believe the documentation, but it does make one wonder if the command in
association with 'looping' was ever tested before putting the s
I'm getting an error dialog box when I try and start the LiveCode IDE
about a missing device or file:
\Device\Hardisk4\DR4
I believe this is a Mac type description (I'm on Windows 7) and I'm sure
it's got something to do with a plugin or something that I used to
have. I recently had a crash
We're wandering a bit here, but I disagree completely, so of course I
should reply ;-)
Some 100 years ago, it was considered necessary to memorize log tables.
That skill is now useless.
I remember (near 50 here as well) learning how to derive a square root.
That skill is also useless.
I agree wi
Write supp...@runrev.com explaining the situation including the email used
to register originally, and lc version etc and they'll probably be able to
set you up with a download link.
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Len Morgan wrote:
> I'm getting an error dialog box when I try and start the Li
On 02/26/2012 07:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
We're wandering a bit here, but I disagree completely, so of course I
should reply ;-)
I'm not sure whether we are wandering, as there is some sort of malaise
among young people
if they think that knowing how to create emoticons in Facebook
constitu
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Richmond wrote:
> On 02/26/2012 07:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
>> We're wandering a bit here, but I disagree completely, so of course I
>> should reply ;-)
>>
>
> I'm not sure whether we are wandering, as there is some sort of malaise
> among young people
> if the
Richmond-
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 10:14:47 AM, you wrote:
> A slide-rule helps children (and adults!) visualise numbers and their
> relations to one another;
> a calculator does not.
As does an analog clock: there's a mathematical affinity that grows
out of visualizing the relationships betwe
On 2/26/12 11:00 AM, Len Morgan wrote:
I'm getting an error dialog box when I try and start the LiveCode IDE
about a missing device or file:
\Device\Hardisk4\DR4
I believe this is a Mac type description (I'm on Windows 7) and I'm sure
it's got something to do with a plugin or something that I u
On 02/26/2012 08:42 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 10:14:47 AM, you wrote:
A slide-rule helps children (and adults!) visualise numbers and their
relations to one another;
a calculator does not.
As does an analog clock: there's a mathematical affinity that grows
ou
It's interesting that you bring up the slaughterhouse analogy -- I've used
it on many occasions to make the opposite point: I know that cows are
butchered to make steaks. I've seen videos of it, in fact. I shouldn't have
to learn how to do it to order at McDonalds.
There's a world of difference be
On 02/26/2012 10:53 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
It's interesting that you bring up the slaughterhouse analogy -- I've used
it on many occasions to make the opposite point: I know that cows are
butchered to make steaks. I've seen videos of it, in fact. I shouldn't have
to learn how to do it to order a
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Richmond wrote:
>
> Kids should learn how to think, but in the context of the
>> environment they are/will operate in.
>>
>
> Which may change at any moment; so the more things they are exposed to the
> better
> chance they have to adapt to whatever circumstance
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Geoff wrote :
I remember (near 50 here as well) learning how to derive a square
root.
That skill is also useless.
I agree with you that "It is far more IMPORTANT that kids learn to
think
logically and coherently," but that doesn't at all mean that they
learn a
Hi,
Are there externals available to read simple joystick input (button
presses)? And at the more advanced end, are there externals for reading
input from Kinect?
Thanks,
Tom Bodine
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Just a quick two Eurocents to say that I strongly agree that we should not
split up the list, and I agree with Malte's arguments. I know nothing about
Linux, and like many things I know nothing about, I'm scared of it - but one
day I may need to know more and if and when that happens I would wan
I'm (almost entirely) on Geoff's side with this. I am old enough to have worked
on computers which wouldn't even boot up until some underpaid geek (me,
sometimes) had put in a bootstrap program directly into the machine's RAM -
this was done by flicking switches on a massive console. Output was
I think I still have a slide rule stashed away somewhere. It was my
step-father's. I once asked (circa 1983) in a chemistry class if slide rules
were allowed in addition to calculators, and everyone's head turned.
Richmond, to your point, check out what MIT is doing with Scratch Jr.:
http://sc
Roger Eller wrote:
> Imagine if Steve Jobs (RIP) had been simply given a Mac, iPod,
> iPhone, iPad when he was a child. Would he have worked to gain the basic
> understanding of all the underlying parts and code that brings forth the
> usefulness of those inventions?
I'm somewhat reluctant to prol
Hi LiveCoders
The mergAV suite of externals has grown again! The top pick on our poll was
movie picking, recording, editing and saving and so we have added a new
external (mergAV) to our lineup. More details on mergAV and a fresh poll with
the highest ranked and new user contributed external id
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
> I'm somewhat reluctant to prolong a thread that's so off-topic during a
> time when discussion of one of LiveCode's three desktop engines is
> considered a candidate for exclusion here...
Please enlighten us. I've noticed the lacking su
Roger Eller wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> I'm somewhat reluctant to prolong a thread that's so off-topic during a
>> time when discussion of one of LiveCode's three desktop engines is
>> considered a candidate for exclusion here...
>
> Please enlighten us.
I know how to use LC to do a simple web entry like this:
put URL "https://www.google.com/search?q=online+pdf+to+text+conversion";
into tHTML
But how do I handle java forms?
At this page:
http://www.fileformat.info/convert/doc/pdf2txt.htm
If I manually enter the pdf file I wish to convert, from
Medard-
Sunday, February 26, 2012, 2:05:56 AM, you wrote:
> I sent a message from one On-Rev account to another account hosted by my
> ISP... I got this:
the on-rev servers are in a server farm in Texas that serves
other clients as well. They unfortunately share a common smtp server.
You will p
Hi, LiveCode experts!
I would like to show a Splash at the launching on android.
I input a PNG file to a Splash field at the Basic Application Settings.
But, there is no splash on my software on android at the launching.
Do you know how to show a splash on android?
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On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Richmond wrote:
> I have hacked the system
> menus so NOTHING else is available at all.
>
> Sorry, I'm confused.
Were not previous posts all about how hopeless the kids today are because
they can't even fathom the file system, and here you are denying it to them.
On 2/26/12 7:30 PM, Takashi Yoshino wrote:
Hi, LiveCode experts!
I would like to show a Splash at the launching on android.
I input a PNG file to a Splash field at the Basic Application Settings.
But, there is no splash on my software on android at the launching.
Do you know how to show a spla
Thank you for your reply.
My stack is a little bit large.
It take a lot of time to show the first card. So, I want to show a splash
screen.
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Takashi Yoshino
http://www.wakayama-u.ac.jp/~yoshino/lab/
Tel: +81-73-457-8441
http://vimeo.com/36579366
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