Re: iOS: Setting defaultFolder seems to be broken - missing project folders in app package

Just to clarify: setting the defaultFolder seemingly not working relates to the fact that folders are not copied to the app package. Of course, setting the defaultFolder to a nonexistent folder does nothing. So, the question is what could be the reason for missing folders in iOS standalones? R

Re: Interesting wordOffset behavior

try put word 2 of ("one"& tab& "two"& tab& "three") What you are getting is word 2 of "one" followed by tab& "two"& tab& "three" -- Alex. On 04/12/2012 03:34, Peter M. Brigham wrote: Yeah, it doesn't really behave properly. If you do put word 2 of "one"& tab& "two"& t

Re: Interesting wordOffset behavior

Ah! Caught again by not using parens. Evaluation order is one of the things that I miss sometimes. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 4, 2012, at 5:33 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > try > > put word 2 of ("one"& tab& "two"& tab& "three") > > What

Re: a new book idea...

Colin Holgate wrote: > I'm talking with Packt about another LiveCode book. I don't have > the time, or the knowledge, to cover all that it needs to be, but > I could organize the chapters, if they are written by other people! > > In theory the nature of the book would be to have a set of chapters

Re: Interesting wordOffset behavior

Peter M. Brigham wrote: > Probably Richard Gaskin can tell us the history behind this, > clearly a leftover from HC. No doubt. I got nothing on this one specifically, other than the precedence order Alex noted. While this is a common side-effect of a flexible left-to-right parser, easily mad

Re: Interesting wordOffset behavior

How about the topLeft, which is actually the left followed by the top. Pete On Dec 4, 2012 8:04 AM, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: > > My personal favorite example is allowing property syntax for functions > (e.g., "the acos of " vs. "acos()"), but LiveCode is not > without its own unique anomalies, li

Re: Running Livecode apps on Microsoft Surface

Hi, If you are after an alternative to the suface which is multiplatform you should check out www.multitaction.com we have one of their tables and I previously worked on a project where one was installed in the middle of Helsinki for some years - including during the rather cold winter there. In g

[Reminder] SoCal LUG Thursday

LiveCode Users, The December Southern California LiveCode User Group meeting will be held this Thursday at 7:00 PM. Directions and additional information: http://forums.runrev.com/viewforum.php?f=50 For this meeting we ask all attendees to bring one "Tip, Trick, or Trap" learned from using Liv

[OT] Sailfish - Mobile Alternative

This won't affect LiveCode any time soon, thus the OT, but as a point of mobile development interest, folks might be interested in taking a look at startup Jolla (http://www.jolla.com) who is creating an open source mobile OS called Sailfish (https://sailfishos.org/wiki/Main_Page). The company (mo

Re: Stack Save As issue

I've entered this into the QCC as bug# 10581. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > Pete, > > Same Here. I have resigned to closing then re-opening LC whenever I do a > Save As, > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Ser

Re:

This is spam (of course). Please banhammer this guy. Bob On Dec 4, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Rosli Hassan wrote: > http://memorableapps.com/blog/travel/26nmvcj9.php ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

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On 12/04/2012 08:44 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: This is spam (of course). Please banhammer this guy. Bob On Dec 4, 2012, at 6:39 AM, Rosli Hassan wrote: http://memorableapps.com/blog/travel/26nmvcj9.php Quite clever Spam, as, when I opened that page it craftily inserted the name of the to

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On 12/4/12 1:23 PM, Richmond wrote: Anyway, it would be rather nice if Heather could exclude 'Rosli Hassan' from the list. It's more likely that he got a virus that is sending the spam and he is unaware of it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Soft

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On 12/04/2012 10:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/4/12 1:23 PM, Richmond wrote: Anyway, it would be rather nice if Heather could exclude 'Rosli Hassan' from the list. It's more likely that he got a virus that is sending the spam and he is unaware of it. I wonder how often Rosli Hassan

Re: spam

On Dec 4, 2012, at 12:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/4/12 1:23 PM, Richmond wrote: > >> Anyway, it would be rather nice if Heather could exclude 'Rosli Hassan' >> from the list. > > It's more likely that he got a virus that is sending the spam and he is > unaware of it. Yet another yaho

Re: a new book idea...

Perhaps they would allow that on a chapter basis? That is, for anyone who wanted to write a chapter that was public domain, it would be in the book and also online somewhere. For anyone hoping to get enough money to pay for the time it takes, that chapter would just be in the book. I've had one

Re: a new book idea...

Colin Holgate wrote: > Perhaps they would allow that on a chapter basis? That is, for anyone > who wanted to write a chapter that was public domain, it would be in > the book and also online somewhere. I like it. Good thinking, Colin. I'd be up for a chapter on general performance optimization

Microsoft Database Structure

Anyone have any experience in importing a Microsoft Works Database (WDB) file? My father has a number of these files, and wants to try to move to a Macintosh workstation, but his ball and chain is a number of works databases that apparently there is no OS X application that will open/convert in

Re: Microsoft Database Structure

On 05/12/2012, at 1:57 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > Anyone have any experience in importing a Microsoft Works Database (WDB) > file? My father has a number of these files, and wants to try to move to a > Macintosh workstation, but his ball and chain is a number of works databases > that apparen

GLX2 3.0.13 now available

All- 2012.12.04 GLX2 3.0.13 is now available for download at https://bitbucket.org/mwieder/glx2/downloads new features Version control can now be disabled on an individual stack basis. This sets the stack's custom property uRIP["glx2VersionControl"] to "never". If you change your mind and wan

Re: Microsoft Database Structure

According to this you can export the data to Excel - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/78792 Hope this helps Peter On 5 Dec 2012, at 10:57, Robert Sneidar wrote: > Anyone have any experience in importing a Microsoft Works Database (WDB) > file? My father has a number of these files, and wants t

Re: Microsoft Database Structure

Thanks Monte. I could do that easily, but as is my wont, I usually think beyond the present problem to a more universal solution. I was hoping to write a utility that could read ANY WDB file and produce an sqLite database equivalent. That may be too ambitious if google searches on WDB data defin

Re: Microsoft Database Structure

Yup. I was envisioning a one stop shop approach. Bob On Dec 4, 2012, at 5:22 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: > According to this you can export the data to Excel - > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/78792 > > Hope this helps > > Peter > > On 5 Dec 2012, at 10:57, Robert Sneidar wrote: > >> Anyon