Re: accessing database table on iPad

2014-09-17 Thread Dave Kilroy
Frantz You are putting the result from revOpenDatabase() into tConID, but later on with revdb_querylist() you are using g_ConID - does g_ConID hold the same value as tConID? Dave - "Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare &

Re: LiveCode syntaxhighligthing and autocomplete for Ultraedit available

2014-09-17 Thread Skip Kimpel
Hmmm. Tried adding that in the beginning but still the same result. SKIP > On Sep 16, 2014, at 11:48 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > Hi Skip, > If you're using the revigniter bundle, the files have to have ? start. It can be in --comment line. > > Pete > lcSQL Software >> On Sep 16, 2014 7:32 P

[ANN] Scrolling images

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
image thumbnails scrolling vertically endlessly. -- http://www.berndniggemann.on-rev.com/scrollingimages/scrollingImages_0_1_0_centralLoop.livecode -- watch out for linebreaks in url scroll can be triggered with mouse by pressing and dragging, works also on mobile

[ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
here a version of modifiedTableField that makes use of the new LC7 RC1 feature of text aligning columnar data. You can now right align a column. Columns can be hidden. Works with 6.13 up, best with 6.6.2. Obviously columnar text alignment needs LC7. http://ww

Re: Unwanted 'Pulsing' when Changing an Image's Angle

2014-09-17 Thread Ray
Terry - thanks for shedding light on this. It's actually starting to make sense now. On 9/16/2014 10:58 PM, Terry Judd wrote: On 17/09/2014 11:40 am, "Ray" wrote: Fantastic! Setting LockLoc to false did the trick. I wonder why lockLoc set to false creates this pulsing effect (the image i

Re: Unwanted 'Pulsing' when Changing an Image's Angle

2014-09-17 Thread Ray
Alejandro, Between you and Terry I've eliminated the unwanted pulsing as long as the image's size doesn't change. However, there's a conflict in that setting the lockLoc to false which also (for some reason) disallows the changing of the image's size. So, if I want my spinning beach ball to

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread Devin Asay
On Sep 17, 2014, at 6:28 AM, BNig wrote: > here a version of modifiedTableField that makes use of the new LC7 RC1 > feature of text aligning columnar data. You can now right align a column. > > Columns can be hidden. > > Works with 6.13 up, best with 6.6.2. Obviously columnar text alignment ne

Re: Unwanted 'Pulsing' when Changing an Image's Angle

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Ray Horsley-2 wrote > Do you think Jim Hurley's solution, below, holds the promise of > resolving the issue of rotating and changing size simultaneously? I think that the answer is no. But I would like to be proven wrong! :) Every time that an image rotate, it's size changes... No way to avoid t

Re: Unwanted 'Pulsing' when Changing an Image's Angle

2014-09-17 Thread Ray
Al, I'll experiment with it some and let you know if this is possible. Thanks, Ray On 9/17/2014 1:09 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Ray Horsley-2 wrote Do you think Jim Hurley's solution, below, holds the promise of resolving the issue of rotating and changing size simultaneously? I think that

Tab Panel Highlights Not Appearing Correctly?

2014-09-17 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hi All, I think i must be using the Tab Panel object incorrectly. The tabs do not highlight correctly when clicked on. Tab Panel consists of: “Info, Create Account, Preferences, Minimize,” four panels. Here’s the script I have in my Tab Panel object: on mouseUp get the selectedText of me i

Re: Listing & Filtering files

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Hibbert
John, It maybe useful for you to inform RR that their site is difficult for you to navigate successfully, I'm sure you're not the only one who struggles with the light colours, but your personal experience should help them make informed decisions in future. I know there were several complaints

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Haworth
+1 from me. This is a great middle ground between the standard LC table and the datagrid. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:28 AM, BNig wr

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
Hi Devin, thank you for your kind words. If you have a feature request I am open to add functionality to modTableField (on or off list) Colorization is in the works, currently LC7RC1 removes colorization when sorting, will be fixed in 7.0RC2. Kind regards Bernd Devin Asay wrote > On Sep 17, 201

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread Devin Asay
On Sep 17, 2014, at 11:01 AM, BNig wrote: > Hi Devin, > thank you for your kind words. > If you have a feature request I am open to add functionality to > modTableField (on or off list) One feature of dataGrids which I didn’t notice in your table field: the ability to hide columns. Is that som

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
Devin, there is a button in the red rectangle "setWidthOfOneColumn" it sets currently the width of column 3 to 0. That hides the column. Alternatively you can drag a vertical divider all the way to the left and it will set the column width to 0. Kind regards Bernd Devin Asay wrote > One feature

Re: Tab Panel Highlights Not Appearing Correctly?

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Haworth
I think by resetting the text of the tab, it loses the info on which tab was clicked. I would save off the tab number that was clicked (I think that's the menuhistory for tabbed buttons but not sure) then reset it after you set the text. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackB

Re: accessing database table on iPad

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Good catch, missed that. I think, though, that if you specify an invalid connection id, you get a runtime script error rather than the database error he's getting back. That's another thing that really should be changed so it returns an error in the connection id instead of a run time error. Pete

Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi, i created from scratch a Coda 2 mode file for LiveCode. It just supports the LC command. No HTML syntax highlighiting. What is working so far: Auto complete Syntax highlighting for commands, control structures, functions, keywords, messages, objects and properties and comment blocks What

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Andrew Kluthe
After this and the highlighting for ultraedit, I might just have to figure out how to make a package for sublime text that does this. In the past, for small scripts, I have just done without. Hmmm. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Am 17.09.2014 um 21:27 schrieb Andrew Kluthe : > After this and the highlighting for ultraedit, I might just have to figure > out how to make a package for sublime text that does this. > > In the past, for small scripts, I have just done without. > > Hmmm. > Don´t count on me. ;) > On Wed,

Re: New XAMPP security concept

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Today, I installed XAMPP in Lubuntu Linux 13.10 http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xampp/XAMPP%20Linux/1.8.2/xampp-linux-1.8.2-6-installer.run and following exactly the same steps as in Windows now I have Livecode Server working in Lubuntu Linux! :D Of course, file locations are different a

Re: New XAMPP security concept

2014-09-17 Thread Roger Eller
I have only done a Windows install in IIS, not Apache. I am assuming you also used Apache in Windows. Correct? ~Roger On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Today, I installed XAMPP in Lubuntu Linux 13.10 > > http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/xampp/XAMPP%20Linux/1.8

Re: New XAMPP security concept

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Yes, I installed XAMPP in Windows and Lubuntu Linux. Following the same steps in both platforms (with the differences of file locations and setting permissions) I could install Livecode Server in both platforms. :) Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble

HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Richmond
Having what my wife, all too accurately, terms "A crawl through your sh*t" [meaning digging through my self-reproducing piles of computer components, converters, second-hand hard drives and so on] I came upon [buried very deep indeed] a little book called 'HyperCard Basics'. How that booklet man

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread dunbarx
Richmond. -- Both HC and LC allow sorting cards with a sortKey: sort cds by word 2 of the short name of this cd -- It is true that there is no "go" menu, and you have to script your own find. What has replaced it, with cmd-F, is the find and replace gadget. Much more flexible and powerful,

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > Sorting Cards > > The Sort by Name command in the Utilities menu lets you arrange cards > alphabetically by either > first or last name. > -- > I wonder how one does that in Livecode? > -

Re: Tab Panel Highlights Not Appearing Correctly?

2014-09-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:26 AM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: I think i must be using the Tab Panel object incorrectly. The tabs do not highlight correctly when clicked on. On 9/17/2014, 12:44 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I think by resetting the text of the tab, it loses the info on which tab was clicked.

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/17/2014, 2:56 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote: Am 17.09.2014 um 21:27 schrieb Andrew Kluthe: >After this and the highlighting for ultraedit, I might just have to figure >out how to make a package for sublime text that does this. > >In the past, for small scripts, I have just done without.

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
If only someone would do a plug-in for Geany. I know, dream on Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Coda-2-Syntax-highlighting-for-LC-now-working-tp4683352p4683363.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richard, thank you so much for that link to a wise, amusing and charming article. Yes, you are right. The charm of it was youth. Which we only realise when we look back on it as you did there. It is the experience some of us will have had - of returning home after a long absence to a place who

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Interesting enough, LiveCode had more power than all XTalk software created before... but there are just a few of us who actually knows how to use fully all this power. Some years ago, I ask in this mail list: Where are the new Livecode learners? Why they do not participate more in this mail list

Re: [ANN] Scrolling images

2014-09-17 Thread Jim Lambert
Bernd, Nice! Viele Danke. Jim Lambert ___ 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

share in-memory SQLite db with other apps

2014-09-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm assuming that the answer is, "of course not!", but is it possible to share an in-memory SQLite db with other applications (particularly, LibreOffice)? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: ios8

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Kerner
I think we might have a common thread: my bug is 13446. Riccardo reported 13474 - in his, he has push enabled, and gets the same crash as me. I have push enabled in mine. On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 8:59 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > I do an OTA update for my iOS app. After I put iOS 8 on my iPad 2 I

Re: share in-memory SQLite db with other apps

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Don't think that's possible since the memory used in your application's memory space. There is a shared cache setting but I think that only applies to multiple sqlite dbs open in the same application and it needs to use the URI file format which LC doesn't fully support yet. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-) On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 8:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Interesting enough, LiveCode had more power than all XTalk software created before... but there are just a few of us who actually knows how to use fully all this power.

iOS 8 & XCode 6

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Does anyone know when we can expect LC to work with XCode 6? Updated my development iPad to iOS8 for testing a few things and of course now XCode 5.1.1 doesn't like it. regards alex ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

[ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Link does not work here... I see the text of your stack displayed in my browser. Maybe you can upload a zip file, so it downloads as expected? Hugh Senior FLCo BNig wrote... here a version of modifiedTableField that makes use of the new LC7 RC1 feature of text aligning columnar data. You can

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Alain Farmer wrote > Is it time for an upgrade of FreeGUI to LiveCode ? ;-) Actually, I have show LiveCode to many people and their answer is: I will use LiveCode if it works and looks like the software that I already use... (I understand that they mean that LiveCode should have the interface and

Re: [ANN] Scrolling images

2014-09-17 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Wonderful! :D Excellent work, Bernd. Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-Scrolling-images-tp4683337p4683374.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode

Re: Listing & Filtering files

2014-09-17 Thread JB
Thanks for the advice and info. Since Richard Gaskin already pointed out the problem and even told them it is color blindness related I won’t bother them. What is more important is the release of Swift and how they are working it into the ability to program externals for LiveCode. Hopefully they

Re: ios8

2014-09-17 Thread Mike Kerner
CONFIRMED: Disabling push stops the crash. On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 9:40 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > I think we might have a common thread: my bug is 13446. Riccardo > reported 13474 - in his, he has push enabled, and gets the same crash as > me. I have push enabled in mine. > > On Sun, Sep 14,

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Peter Haworth
If only RunRev would come up with a script editor that had code folding, auto-complete, etc, we wouldn;t need to be messing with these other editors. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

Re: HyperCard Basics

2014-09-17 Thread Alain Farmer
No, n-o-t microsoft-office! No-o! ;-) HyperCard had LOTS of keyboard shortcuts. Recent-cards was a cool feature, but I didn't use it much. It would be easy to recreate it with LiveCode. Only the thumbnails were missing in the MetaCard version (aka FreeGUI). OTOH i don't think there is much-inte

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
Here is a zipped version of modTableField - http://www.berndniggemann.on-rev.com/modTableField/modTableField_0_2_9New.livecode.zip - watch for linebreaks FlexibleLearning.com wrote > Link does not work here... I see

Re: ios8

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Colin Was that with LC 6.6.2 or pre-release 6.7 or 7.0? regards alex On 10/09/2014 4:48 am, Colin Holgate wrote: I used Xcode 6 to get the app onto my iPad. On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:41 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Compiling from LC? The last time I read, we couldn't use the latest XC, yet. On

Progress Bar

2014-09-17 Thread JB
How do I set the end value of a progress bar by code instead of the inspector? John Balgenorth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Andrew- Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 12:27:32 PM, you wrote: > After this and the highlighting for ultraedit, I might just have to figure > out how to make a package for sublime text that does this. Please do. I'd love to be able to use Sublime as an external editor. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw

Re: [ANN] Scrolling images

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
Jim, Alejandro, thank you. what made me post this is not only the nice "moving images" but also how to optimize animating multiple objects at the same time. You might want to have a look of the "great loop" in the card script, where the three objects register/unregister to get their trigger with

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_9

2014-09-17 Thread BNig
here is a zipped version of modTableField in case there are problems of downloading the unzipped .livecode file http://www.berndniggemann.on-rev.com/modTableField/modTableField_0_2_9New.livecode.zip watch fo

Re: Coda 2 Syntax highlighting for LC now working

2014-09-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Wednesday, September 17, 2014, 9:29:57 PM, you wrote: > If only RunRev would come up with a script editor that had code folding, > auto-complete, etc, we wouldn;t need to be messing with these other editors. I doubt it. Everyone wants something different out of a script editor. Having hook

Re: iOS 8 & XCode 6

2014-09-17 Thread Gerry
I've upgraded both my iPhone and iPad to iOS 8 and that version of xCode works fine for me - I can install apps on both devices.. g On 18 Sep 2014, at 12:50 pm, Alex Shaw wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone know when we can expect LC to work with XCode 6? > > Updated my development iPad to iOS8 fo

Re: Progress Bar

2014-09-17 Thread JB
It does not really matter. I realize the best way is to set the end value at 100 and use the percent value of how much has been processed since there are limits on how large the end value number can even be. John Balgenorth On Sep 17, 2014, at 10:03 PM, JB wrote: > How do I set the end value

Re: iOS 8 & XCode 6

2014-09-17 Thread Alex Shaw
Thanks Gerry. Will update xcode now. regards alex On 18/09/2014 3:38 pm, Gerry wrote: I've upgraded both my iPhone and iPad to iOS 8 and that version of xCode works fine for me - I can install apps on both devices.. g On 18 Sep 2014, at 12:50 pm, Alex Shaw wrote: Hi Does anyone know wh

Re: PDF Files - Is there a way to read them in LiveCode?

2014-09-17 Thread Kay C Lan
OCR is the last thing you want to use. Far too many errors. If you are on Mac you can use Applescript to open, Select All and Copy and this will result in 100% of the text being available, no OCR errors. Unfortunately, depending on your document the output might not exactly match the input. This w

Re: LiveCode syntaxhighligthing and autocomplete for Ultraedit available

2014-09-17 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote: > > i used Bjoernke´s BvG Docu Plugin. > That's what I thought. So it also lacks reference to all the undocumented keywords - which the Script Editor does correctly colour. Always living in hope that some new command will come out tha

Re: Progress Bar

2014-09-17 Thread Paul Hibbert
You almost wrote it in your email! set the endValue of Scrollbar "myProgressScrollbar" to myValue If you look at the very first item in the LiveCode Preferences, you'll see that you can change the "Property Labels" to show the "Name of the LiveCode Property" instead of the "Description of th

Re: Progress Bar

2014-09-17 Thread JB
Thank you for that information! John Balgenorth On Sep 17, 2014, at 11:22 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > You almost wrote it in your email! > > set the endValue of Scrollbar "myProgressScrollbar" to myValue > > If you look at the very first item in the LiveCode Preferences, you'll see > that y