RE: Simple play videoclip question

2012-02-28 Thread John Dixon
play stop videoclip "NWOpen.mov" ... will work. The 'play stop' syntax will not make it disappear..:-) but it will be put away when you go to another card. > I'm doing this: > > In a card script: > > on openCard >play videoclip "NWOpen.mov" at 400,300 >pass openCard > end openCard >

Re: iPhonePickMedia .m4p

2012-02-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Todd, I had a different problem with iPhonePickMedia but not with .m4p files. For me the problem was that certain songs could be listed in the library but not really be there physically and yet they were not available to download via iCloud either. It was as if they were in-between being downlo

Ask file: can I force the user to use an extension?

2012-02-28 Thread Graham Samuel
Consider a statement like this (on Windows): ask file "Save it" with myPath with filter "JPEG file, .JPG" my user sees a default name (it's the string after the last "/" in myPath). By convention I propose a name ending with an extension like: File-extract.JPG I do this because when I do the

Re: revpdfprinter + RevServer?

2012-02-28 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, I know it is not what you are asking for but Quartam PDF works on RevServer. Cheers andre On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 12:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Does LC's revpdfprinter work with RevServer? > > I would guess the answer is "no" since CGIs have no graphics environment, > but it would

Mr. Thierry's debugger gadget

2012-02-28 Thread dunbarx
I just upgraded to v.5, There was a great modification of the script in the debugger that allowed one to hide system globals, those starting with either "gRev" or "$". This seems to have changed with the latest version, and I cannot find the function handler that allowed one to tinker. Origin

Looking for Developers with LiveCode and Ruby on Rails experience

2012-02-28 Thread Trevor DeVore
I'm looking for a development house with experience in Ruby on Rails, ActiveRecord, jQuery, SQL and LiveCode to take over a project. If you work at such a place and are interested in discussing then please email me directly. -- Trevor DeVore Blue Mango Learning Systems www.clarify-it.com-

iOs, xCode 4.3 Lion and LC 5.0.2

2012-02-28 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, can anyone point me on how to use the latest xCode under Lion for iOs testing wit LC 5.0.2? What Do I need to provide to the mobile support settings in preferences? xCode is a package now, which apparently can not be chosen? Thanks a heap, Malte _

Re: iOs, xCode 4.3 Lion and LC 5.0.2

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Jones
Hi Malte, I haven't tested this with LiveCode, but it solves issues with other non-Apple dev environments: sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/ This command points system resources to the correct header paths, command-line tools, etc. if you have the fu

Re: iOs, xCode 4.3 Lion and LC 5.0.2

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Malte, Apparently, this is currently impossible. You have to use XCode 4.2. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plugin

[iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Devin Asay
It appears that the ask password form in iOS does not encrypt the string the user enters into the dialog as it does on the desktop. 1. Do I have this right? 2. Is this documented? (I can't find it in the dictionary or the release notes, except a note under "What doesn't work" stating that "indu

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/12 10:16 AM, Devin Asay wrote: It appears that the ask password form in iOS does not encrypt the string the user enters into the dialog as it does on the desktop. 1. Do I have this right? 2. Is this documented? (I can't find it in the dictionary or the release notes, except a note under

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Jaqi, There have got to be dozens of LC users out there who are in the same boat as I am; so here goes: Why are strings encrypted? I "vaguely" understand the concept, but the expression is bandied about so freely that I figure someone must know something that I don't know. Unless it serves

RE: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Lynn, What a coincidence! Not long ago, I was reading a book from Mark Steyn about the same topic. He made some extraordinary predictions about the future of humanity... :-O Lynn Fredricks-2 wrote > >> Things should be made slightly harder, not easier, for children; >> otherwise we will end

Re: Running LiveCode and Quicktime as virtual applications

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Thanks to the Cameyo forum users, now there is a fix and a working version :-D http://www.cameyo.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=569 Have a nice day! Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Running-LiveCode-and-Quicktime-as-virtual-applications-t

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
There are a number of reasons for encrypting passwords. First, let's say you stored user accounts and passwords on a web server unencrypted. There are multitudinous examples of web servers getting hacked into via some bit of software on the side or directly, and once that happens you will have e

Re: Running LiveCode and Quicktime as virtual applications

2012-02-28 Thread Bernard Devlin
Alejandro, thanks for sharing this with us. I'm sure it will come in useful for me too. Bernard On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi All, > > Thanks to the Cameyo forum users, now > there is a fix and a working version :-D > http://www.cameyo.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_I

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/12 10:56 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Why are strings encrypted? Not all strings are, but passwords should be so that they are not readable by anyone. You really don't want your bank storing your password as plain text, where a hacker could get it and wipe out your bank account. S

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Wieder
J. Landman Gay writes: > Not al> If my password is "parrot", then I can either store that word and > risk its discovery, or I can use "ask password" to encrypt it so that it's > obscured. After encryption "parrot" becomes: =h`//q . That's the string > you store in the stack for later comparison

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
;-) Bob On Feb 28, 2012, at 12:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > J. Landman Gay writes: > >> Not al> If my password is "parrot", then I can either store that word and >> risk its discovery, or I can use "ask password" to encrypt it so that it's >> obscured. After encryption "parrot" becomes: =h`

Re: Ask file: can I force the user to use an extension?

2012-02-28 Thread Ken Ray
> Now say there is already such a file in the directory. Of course I can detect > it (by 'there is a') and warn the user, but only in a separate, home-grown > dialog (an 'ask' dialog) after the Save dialog has been dismissed. This is > clumsy and odd as a user experience. Is there any way I can

Re: Mr. Thierry's debugger gadget

2012-02-28 Thread Ken Ray
On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:12 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > > > I just upgraded to v.5, > > > There was a great modification of the script in the debugger that allowed one > to hide system globals, those starting > with either "gRev" or "$". This seems to have changed with the latest > version, a

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Devin Asay
On Feb 28, 2012, at 9:38 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/28/12 10:16 AM, Devin Asay wrote: >> It appears that the ask password form in iOS does not encrypt the >> string the user enters into the dialog as it does on the desktop. >> >> 1. Do I have this right? >> >> 2. Is this documented? (I ca

Re: iPhonePickMedia .m4p

2012-02-28 Thread Todd Little
Hi Tom, Thanks for articulating this catch-22. It's something that I had a gut sense of, but am now slightly reassured that there are others with similar issues. We will keep you updated if we get any new ideas. -Todd > -- > > Message: 24 > Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 0

SimplifiedChinese

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Could someone please tell me the official name of the SimplifiedChinese encoding used by LiveCode? Is this GB2312? When I convert to SimpleChinese, I don't get anything that looks like the GB2312 samples I have. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engi

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks Jaqi and Mark. Too bad it is just as I thought it was; but since anything like that can still be hacked by someone evil enough to want and be willing to do it, why bother! I say, we just do our own hacking - where it hurts. When we stopped spanking our kids is when stuff started going w

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Ken Ray
> Why are strings encrypted? I "vaguely" understand the concept, but the > expression is bandied about so freely that I figure someone must know > something that I don't know. Unless it serves a purpose beyond what I think > it does, it seems to me to just overly complicate things that are alrea

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Out of context those words cause me to shudder. Bob On Feb 28, 2012, at 1:19 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > When we catch someone doing something we don't want them to do, hack it off > at the next joint. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Ask file: can I force the user to use an extension?

2012-02-28 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 28 Feb 2012, at 14:41, Graham Samuel wrote: > Is there any way I can hack into the conventional Save dialog so that it > thinks it is being asked to save a file with an extension in spite of my user > not typing one? > > I haven't thought of a workaround but maybe it will be obvious to someo

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/12 2:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Since today much software is parroted, encrypting strings, passwords, other user information, or even entire stacks can help prevent software parrocy and data theft. I'm going to sic my bird on you for that. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac..

revBrowser system browser detection

2012-02-28 Thread Chip Thomas
I am trying to detect what browser version is being used when someone uses the browser instance in my stack. Upon initiating the browser instance, we're going to a page that will prints to screen the browser information. Strangely, on Windows, the few machines I've tested this on so far all seem

Re: SimplifiedChinese

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Apparently it is. Got it working now. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/

revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-28 Thread Chip Thomas
[Sorry in advance if this is a double posting!] I am trying to detect what browser version is being used when someone uses the browser instance in my stack. Upon initiating the browser instance, we're going to a page that will prints to screen the browser information. Strangely, on Windows, the

Re: Running LiveCode and Quicktime as virtual applications

2012-02-28 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Bernard, Bernard Devlin-2 wrote > > Alejandro, thanks for sharing this with us. > I'm sure it will come in useful for me too. > I will send to your email the download link to another 92 Mb executable file created with evalaze. (http://www.evalaze.de/) After running both versions, please t

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
go to whatsmyuseragent.com and see what you get from those browsers. It may be that IE8 reports IE7 as the user agent. Bob On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Chip Thomas wrote: > [Sorry in advance if this is a double posting!] > > I am trying to detect what browser version is being used when someo

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Also google the subject. There is a WEALTH of info there about things like this. Bob On Feb 28, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Chip Thomas wrote: > [Sorry in advance if this is a double posting!] > > I am trying to detect what browser version is being used when someone uses > the browser instance in my s

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-28 Thread Chip Thomas
But that's the funny thing . . . In the revBrowser, the user agent detected is MSIE 7.0. I open Internet Explorer and go to the same URL. The user agent detected is MSIE 8.0. I go back to revBrowser and go to that URL again. The user agent detected then is MSIE 8.0. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at

Re: Mr. Thierry's debugger gadget

2012-02-28 Thread dunbarx
Ken. THANK YOU!! I cannot imagine living without this, once you get used to it. If anyone else is interested, replace this function in the stack script of the revDebugger stack with: function revDebuggerValidGlobalNames local tGlobalsRaw put the globals into tGlobalsRaw repla

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Haven't a clue then. The Revbrowser has been quite the odd duck for me in the past so I avoid it like the plague. I think for it to be correctly implemented there should be a web browser object, like a field or button. The idea of defining an area of the stack and turning it into a web browser r

Re: Mr. Thierry's debugger gadget

2012-02-28 Thread Pete
There is a "Show Globals" checkbox on the Script Editor tab of the Preferences dialog but it doesn't seem to make any difference whether it's set or not. This is LC 5.0.2 Pete On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 3:50 PM, wrote: > This should be a preference setting. > > > > Craig Newman > -- Pete Molly

Re: Mr. Thierry's debugger gadget

2012-02-28 Thread dunbarx
This was a thread last year. Goes back to 3.X at least. It seems like it is exactly what is is called for, but has no effect. I don't think anyone had anything good to say about it, or knew exactly what it was for. And, of course, a proper one should not effect globals in ones own handlers. C

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 2:26:41 PM, you wrote: > I'm going to sic my bird on you for that. Oh noes... I've seen what Casey does to playing cards... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
I read an article recently that said developers who submit apps to Amazon's Android app store make more money than the same apps submitted to the Android Market. So I thought, what the hey, and submitted Casey's Solitaire on Friday. Submitting to Amazon is very easy if you've already got Andro

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Just looked at it on amazon store. Congrats on getting it in to another venue! Mind if I ask what base android version and features it requires? (because i'd like to get it and try it on my fire but its not listed as compatible for the fire) On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread Tim Jones
Congrats on getting this done. Now, to quote ye olde bard - "The proof is in the tasting of the pudding." Let's see where you end up in a month or so. I have heard the same thing about the success rates between the two stores. Tim On Feb 28, 2012, at 8:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I read

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Just remember to never substitute powdered creamer for milk in the pudding or it will never set. FWIW -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:23 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > Congrats on getting this done. > > Now, to quote ye olde bard - "The proof

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/12 9:22 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Just looked at it on amazon store. Congrats on getting it in to another venue! Mind if I ask what base android version and features it requires? (because i'd like to get it and try it on my fire but its not listed as compatible for the fire) It needs And

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/12 9:23 PM, Tim Jones wrote: Let's see where you end up in a month or so. I have heard the same thing about the success rates between the two stores. I'm curious myself. So far I am not going to be able to buy an island and retire on my income from the Android Market. :) A lot of my

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/28/12 9:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/28/12 9:22 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Just looked at it on amazon store. Congrats on getting it in to another venue! Mind if I ask what base android version and features it requires? (because i'd like to get it and try it on my fire but its not listed

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread Mike Bonner
Ah k gotcha. I'll add patience to my to-do list. On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 8:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/28/12 9:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 2/28/12 9:22 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: >> >>> Just looked at it on amazon store. Congrats on getting it in to another >>> venue! >>> >>> Mind i

Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-28 Thread Cal Horner
Over the years I have created a lot of plug-ins. Some templates are for the interface and many templates are for scripts. An example would be the ask/answer dialog template. I have always cut and pasted the scripts into the script editor. Simply because I didn't have the knowledge(expertise) to in

RE: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread Ralph DiMola
Jacque, Nice, congrats! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2012 10:16 PM To

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-28 Thread Colin Holgate
Kindle Fire is Android 2.3.4, and its screen is 1024x600, so, it's beyond what you need. On Feb 28, 2012, at 10:40 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >It needs Android 2.3 or higher because of the OpenGL black-screen-on-launch > >glitch, and a display resolution at least 480 pixels wide. There isn't

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-28 Thread dunbarx
The script of an object is a property of that object. It is not a container. I'll explain. If you want to change the data in a container, like a field or a variable, you do things like "put" data into (or after, whatever) that container. But if you want to change the data in a script, being a

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-28 Thread DeeCee
Maybe the other Chip (Chipp Walters) can answer this correctly since he did the initial development work on the original revBrowser external, but several of the browser controls that I've seen in use with other development tools, require the presence of the ATL.dll to function. -and- there may be d