Re: 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-22 Thread Richmond
On 03/22/2014 06:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I think that what you must mean by, "wrong" is, "presently inconvenient to me", Actually, I mean it as in, "driving on the left side of the road is wrong" (unless you're in Britain, or . . . )

Re: Request to makers of add-ons

2014-03-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
James Hale wrote: > I really enjoy looking at software and appreciating the work > the authors put in to their products. > The same goes for all the helpful add-ons that are written for > Livecode. > I have quite a few and really appreciate their utility. > But I have one request for authors of a

Re: Request to makers of add-ons

2014-03-22 Thread Richmond
. This raises a question for an option that may be useful to add to the Standalone Builder: Currently the SB allows us to specify external stacks, and at build time it'll copy those into a folder accompanying the app. On OS X those files are copied into the bundle, but on Windows and Lin

Re: [OT][[TL/DR] 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-22 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:49 PM, PystCat wrote: > One of my two favorite beers... Any ice cold Belgian beer and Guiness. > Nothing else will do. > American Pale Ale, or IPA. Most of what I brew is dry stout or pale ale. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: [OT][[TL/DR] 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/03/14 17:51, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:49 PM, PystCat wrote: One of my two favorite beers... Any ice cold Belgian beer and Guiness. Nothing else will do. American Pale Ale, or IPA. Most of what I brew is dry stout or pale ale. "Kozel" (= goat), a fairly low al

Re: [OT][[TL/DR] 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-22 Thread Peter M. Brigham
Our daughter brews a really fine chocolate porter. (No actual chocolate in the brew, it's just what it's called.) She and her husband brewed the beer for their wedding last year. This is wandering far afield now. But at least I didn't mention "cheese." :-) -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gm

Re: [OT][[TL/DR] 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-22 Thread PystCat
Cheese..? A nice extra sharp cheddar. > On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:16 PM, "Peter M. Brigham" wrote: > > Our daughter brews a really fine chocolate porter. (No actual chocolate in > the brew, it's just what it's called.) She and her husband brewed the beer > for their wedding last year. > > This

Re: [OT][[TL/DR] 6.6 RC2 Release

2014-03-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/03/14 19:15, PystCat wrote: Cheese..? A nice extra sharp cheddar. A good chunk of Stilton or French blue. On Mar 22, 2014, at 12:16 PM, "Peter M. Brigham" wrote: Our daughter brews a really fine chocolate porter. (No actual chocolate in the brew, it's just what it's called.) She a

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-22 Thread BNig
BNig wrote > I noticed that plug-ins in 5.5 format save in 7.0 format when opened in > 7.0 and the plug-in is saved. > This happens in spite of the the preference to save in legacy format. Upon further inspections this seems due to the fact that if one issues a "save this stack" on "closeStack"

multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-22 Thread Dr. Hawkins
RSA keys, as generated, are multiple lines, like "-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-" "ABC123" "DEF456" "-END PUBLIC KEY-" I'm trying to do something like constant mykey= "-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-" \ & "ABC123"\ & "DEF456"\ & "-END PUBLIC KEY-" but it appears that you can't concatenat

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/03/14 21:21, Dr. Hawkins wrote: RSA keys, as generated, are multiple lines, like "-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-" "ABC123" "DEF456" "-END PUBLIC KEY-" I'm trying to do something like constant mykey= "-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-" \ & "ABC123"\ & "DEF456"\ & "-END PUBLIC KEY-"

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Bernd, Which preference setting are you using? The only one I could find is titled "Preserve stack file format on stacks saved in legacy format" on the Files and Memory tab. No matter how I set that, if I save a stack in LC from the File menu, I can't open it in versions prior to v7 ( get "fil

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-22 Thread BNig
Peter Haworth wrote > Hi Bernd, > Which preference setting are you using? The only one I could find is > titled "Preserve stack file format on stacks saved in legacy format" on > the > Files and Memory tab. No matter how I set that, if I save a stack in LC > from the File menu, I can't open it in

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-22 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: > Where are you getting your RSA key from? > > I'm generating it externally; it is to create the license keys for purchasers. I suppose putting it into a constant instead of a variable really doesn't accomplish anything . . . -- Dr. Richard E.

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Confirmed. Seems that the bug is that the Preference doesn't take effect until next time you run Livecode. I took a look at the Save As... dialog too. It lists "Livecode Stack", "Legacy Livecode stack (2.7)", and "Legacy Livecode Stack (2.4)" which are the same settings as I see when running v6.

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 22/03/2014 19:21, Dr. Hawkins wrote: RSA keys, as generated, are multiple lines, like "-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-" "ABC123" "DEF456" "-END PUBLIC KEY-" I'm trying to do something like constant mykey= "-BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-" \ & "ABC123"\ & "DEF456"\ & "-END PUBLIC KEY-

import snapshot

2014-03-22 Thread John Dixon
I have been using the following in LC 6.5.2 to take a snapshot of an area of a map, hiding the map and replacing it with the snapshot... set the margins of the templateImage to 0 import snapshot from rect (0,40, the width of card "map", the height of card "map" -40 ) set the name of the last ima

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Bernd- Saturday, March 22, 2014, 11:58:33 AM, you wrote: > That does affect e.g. plug-ins that save their state to themselves, as > lcStackBrowser does. This, by the way, is a very bad idea. Stacks, especially plug-in stacks, should save their state variables into a preferences file and not try

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-22 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 5:35 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > constant doesn't allow any form of expression, you can't even do > constant mykey = "abc" & "def" > *sigh* I was hoping that was doing something wrong. > > A "clean" solution ? > - assign to a variable instead > This is what I've been

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/22/14, 6:57 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I also think the descriptions of the stack formats should echo the Livecode versions they apply to, not some other cryptic number. How do I know what versions of LC will work with 2.4 or 2.7? I don;t recall when stack file version 2.7 was introduced Th