6.7.2 and Yosemite

Hello, I read in LiveCode 6.7.2-rc-1 Release Notes 1/8/15, page # 4 : The Mac engine supports: 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) on Intel 10.7.x (Lion) on Intel 10.8.x (Mountain Lion) on Intel 10.9.x (Mavericks) on Intel What about Yosemite ? No compatible ? Tristement de Paris (sadly from Paris) René

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

> Le 13 janv. 2015 à 18:07, René Micout a écrit : > > Hello everybody, > Macintosh Yosemite. > When I construct a standalone with LiveCode 6, I choose “Move substacks into > individual stackfiles” (for saving data in substack) > this works with LC 6.6.3 > In the /Contents/MacOS/ of my applicati

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

> Le 14 janv. 2015 à 10:19, René Micout a écrit : > > >> Le 13 janv. 2015 à 18:07, René Micout a écrit : >> >> Hello everybody, >> Macintosh Yosemite. >> When I construct a standalone with LiveCode 6, I choose “Move substacks into >> individual stackfiles” (for saving data in substack) >> th

Re: [OT] I'm going to go live in a cave

A good keyboard is like a good piano. I still use my original Gateway keyboard, c1995 vintage (remember them?). Never found a better one and still works as good as new. I did clean it once when I could no longer read some of the keys but it's back filthy again. Time for the next 10-year spring clea

Re: Player object

On Jan 13, 2015, at 9:27 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I've got the track/playlist management stuff in place and I figured out a > way round the original problem too that seems to work. The fast > forward/reverse buttons do work (at least in 6.6.2/OSX 10.7) although they > don't move things along ve

Re: [OT] Print to PDF

Install CutePDF Writer. (requires ghostscript) Both are free, and links are provided on this page: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp Afterwards, it will appear as a Windows printer. I've used this for decades. Sent from my Android tablet On Jan 12, 2015 6:53 PM, "Kay C Lan"

Re: 6.7.2 and Yosemite

Must have been a mistake. I have run it on Yosemite. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Jan 14, 2015, at 12:32 AM, René Micout wrote: > > Hello, > I read in LiveCode 6.7.2-rc-1 Release Notes 1/8/15, page # 4 : > > The Mac engine supports: > 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) on Intel > 10.

Re: Debugging plugins

Thanks to those who suggested Script Debug Mode and breakpoint. In plugins, neither of those allows setting a breakpoint that will work. global gRevDevelopment;put true into gRevDevelopment enables breakpoints in plugins, but in 6.7 at least seems to completely break the variable panel in the debu

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > We are planning to do some webinars. I am looking for a liveCode script that > can read a time value on our web server and output a little array like: > > Honolulu: 1:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 > San Franscisco 4:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 > Chicago 6:

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

Dear Tristement de Paris What you are experiencing sounds similar to what led me to file this bug report: (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295) - "Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare & Hugh Senior -- View th

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

> Le 14 janv. 2015 à 17:26, Dave Kilroy a écrit : > > Dear Tristement de Paris > > What you are experiencing sounds similar to what led me to file this bug > report: (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295) Thank you Dave… I put a commentary (14295) René

How to show the Windows 8 on screen keyboard in LiveCode?

Shouldn't the on screen keyboard of Windows 8 tablets pop up automatically on touching a text input control? A client who installed a standalone built with LiveCode 6.7.1 on a Toshiba tablet reports that the soft keyboard doesn't show up tapping a text input field. Thought that, as a workaround,

Re: Player object

Thanks Peter, I'll see if I can track it down. I also just remembered Bernd's very useful custom slider control that will definitely make my life easier. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

On 1/14/2015 3:19 AM, René Micout wrote: Le 13 janv. 2015 à 18:07, René Micout a écrit : Hello everybody, Macintosh Yosemite. When I construct a standalone with LiveCode 6, I choose “Move substacks into individual stackfiles” (for saving data in substack) this works with LC 6.6.3 > In the /C

Re: Debugging plugins

On 1/14/2015 10:26 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Thanks to those who suggested Script Debug Mode and breakpoint. In plugins, neither of those allows setting a breakpoint that will work. global gRevDevelopment;put true into gRevDevelopment enables breakpoints in plugins, but in 6.7 at least seems to co

Re: Player object

Been searching for libITS without any luck. The URL in some older forum posts doesn't work any longer. It's also on rev Online I believe however rev Online seems to be broken - when I open it, it hangs with a message "retrieving stack data". Anyone have another location to find it? Pete lcSQL

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

Jacque I filed this report http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 and another related one on Christmas eve J. Landman Gay wrote > LC 6.7 changed where it stores files (as you know) because Apple has new > rules about that. The release notes say that file paths in scripts > should autom

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

On 1/14/2015 10:27 AM, Devin Asay wrote: In your .lc script do this: put "US/Mountain" into $TZ # or whatever time zone you want to show put shell("date") into tDTstring Setting the $TZ variable right before called the date command returns the date/time the specified timezone.

Re: OT: Tacoma

Mike, Email or call me if you will be in Seattle. Jim littlejamesw at mac dot com (206) 547-7061 On Jan 13, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Mike wrote: > I'm flying in to Seattle tonight, but will be going straight to my hotel in > Tacoma. Won't have my own car, but might be able to figure out something

Livecode 7 - Unicode - items not the same as pre-7?

In the pre-Unicode days, this code: set the itemdelimiter to tab put empty into theData put “jumbo” into item 4 of theData would produce something that looked like this (in your mind replace “” with the blank spacing of a tab) jumbo In the Livecode 7 Unicode world, this is producing an output

Re: Player object

Here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/61pwux0d51niarg/LibITS%20accessing%20iTunes%20in%20Livecode.zip?dl=0 Peter Bogdanoff UCLA On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Been searching for libITS without any luck. The URL in some older forum > posts doesn't work any longer. It's a

Re: Debugging plugins

Geoff- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 8:26:15 AM, you wrote: > global gRevDevelopment;put true into gRevDevelopment enables breakpoints in > plugins, but in 6.7 at least seems to completely break the variable panel > in the debugger. Yeah. What Jacque said. The downside of setting gRevDevelopment

Re: Player object

Thanks Peter, got it. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > Here it is: > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/61pw

Re: Debugging plugins

If I understand this correctly, if a stack name begins with rev and gRevDevelopment is false, any runtime errors in it are ignored? That's any stack, not just IDE stacks? I don't suppose this would also enable some way to trap runtime errors and report info about them, would it? Pete lcSQL Softwa

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

Oh good, thanks for that. I just ran up against this problem yesterday for the first time. On 1/14/2015 11:24 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: Jacque I filed this report http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 and another related one on Christmas eve J. Landman Gay wrote LC 6.7 changed where i

[semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

Hi list A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room to another, or on various objects and furnitures in the room in order to display infos about the

Re: Livecode 7 - Unicode - items not the same as pre-7?

To quote Gilda Radner’s Saturday Night Live character “Oh, nevermind.” In my code I’m using the XML Xpath function to grab data out of a bunch of XML and insert it into items on a line. Problem is that the Xpath function either adds stuff to the end of the data it returns or that stuff is invisi

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

On 14/01/15 21:07, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room to another, or on various objects and furnitures

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

ponga.com > On Jan 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: > > Hi list > A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses > and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include > various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room > to another,

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

Apparently on Windows the "date" command is used to SET the time. The result is: The current date is: Wed 01/14/2015 Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 1/14/2015 10:27 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> In your .lc script do this: >> >>

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

Actually I forgot to mention that ideally the virtual visit should be similar to google street view : users should be able to "move" around the appartment in 360° (like on google street view), not just with a serie of static photos with clickable spots... Best jbv > Hi list > A client of mine wan

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

On 1/14/2015 1:22 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Apparently on Windows the "date" command is used to SET the time. That's too bad. I briefly looked for an equivalent but couldn't find one. I did find this though, which applies to Linux-based systems: Valid locations for $TZ can be found here: /usr/s

Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box put (1.884955 is a number) I get true, as expected, but if I put put (1.884956 is a number) I get Script compile error: Error description: Expression: unquoted literal This result was derived from some complex code

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

LC 7.0 on Debian, both give true. And the second one, if you change it to 'is not a number', gives false. Dunno! Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Possible-insanity-or-is-it-LC-7-0-1-tp4687816p4687817.html Sent from the Revolution - User ma

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

Try on the multi-line option in the message box: put (1.884956 is a number) into tIsNum put tIsNum On Jan 14, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box > > put (1.884955 is a number) > > I get true, as expected, but if

Re: Debugging plugins

Pete- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 10:18:46 AM, you wrote: > If I understand this correctly, if a stack name begins with rev and > gRevDevelopment is false, any runtime errors in it are ignored? That's any > stack, not just IDE stacks? That is correct. > I don't suppose this would also enable s

Re: Debugging plugins

Thanks Mark. What I mean is, if errors in the revxxx stack are ignored (I assume that means runtime errors?), is there some other way that the stack can determine that they happened so they can be handled more gracefully? Kinda like an error in a try/catch loop. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

Graham, I get true in both cases, same setup. Roger > On Jan 14, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > > Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box > > put (1.884955 is a number) > > I get true, as expected, but if I put > > put (1.884956 is a number) > >

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

Thanks to those who replied. So, I am going crazy! I suppose it is something very particular about my setup. I did find one other way to show the anomaly, which was to put put 1.884956 into it; put value(it+0) this gives me the error "Message execution error: Error description: value: error e

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

Check out the krpano web solution at krpano.com It runs both as a Flash plugin and in HTML5. Embeds panoramas with programmable hotspots. Works only in a web browser, but also works within the revBrowser in LiveCode, which may be a way to incorporate the panoramas within a LiveCode app. Best, Dan

Re: [OT] Print to PDF

Thank you gentlemen. I had hoped that there would be a way with their set up as is, these folks are old and techno-shy, but the Chrome or CutePDF + ghostscript seems doable. I'll pass it on. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Plea

Re: [OT] I'm going to go live in a cave

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:24 PM, FlexibleLearning.com wrote: > where did I put those cotton swabs? > Cotton swabs? I've tried micro nozzle attachments that connect to your vacuum cleaner but by far the most effective way of cleaning all the nooks and crannies of anything, not just electronic equ

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

You're not going totally crazy, unless I am too. This fails here in LC7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.10.1… on mouseUp put 1.884956 into tVar put value(tVar + 0) end mouseUp …With the following error; button "A": execution error at line 3 (value: error executing expression) near "1.884956", char 1 Bu

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

Such strange goings-on! I get Paul's results when I do it Paul’s way, but I don’t get Graham’s results when I do it his way via the message box!! Does that make me half crazy? > On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > You're not going totally crazy, unless I am too. > > This fa

How to solve "can't find stack" error

Hi all. Looking for some insight here... I have a desktop program built in LC 6.5.1 that uses LC stacks as user files for storing user data in fields and cprops. Mostly this works well. However, I get occasional Error Reports when a few users have tried to reopen a file they created. Error type is

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > > I get Paul's results when I do it Paul’s way, but I don’t get Graham’s > results when I do it his way via the message box!! > Same here and I'm on Mavericks. And just to confuse the matter even further: put 1.884956 into tVar put isNumber(t

Re: How to solve "can't find stack" error

Would seem easy enough to test your theory. Insert the second line of code, the one that reads the cprop, in a try statement. If it catches an error wait 5 seconds (just to really test your theory) and issue the command again. For those not having the problem they are not burdened with a wait, thos

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

Devin: thanks! "set the $TZ" a perfect little gift on this Happy Makara Sankranti/Thai Pongal. Big feast day in India today, sun moved into Capricorn, celebrate the post monsoon harvest. Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. see: http://dev.himalayanacademy.co

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

Brahmanathaswami- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 6:15:07 PM, you wrote: > Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. OK - I have to say that sequence of words totally blindsided me. Did not see that coming. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be u

Re: Debugging plugins

Pete- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 1:50:53 PM, you wrote: > Thanks Mark. > What I mean is, if errors in the revxxx stack are ignored (I assume that > means runtime errors?), is there some other way that the stack can > determine that they happened so they can be handled more gracefully? Kinda >

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

ha! I meant new Jersey cows. We retired all our crazy Holsteins to our 200 acres of guinea grass across the river. I say "crazy' because "Deepti" was indeed a little wild... quite ready to chase you in a little Ranger and 2,000 pounds of white bovine rushing at you because she thinks you

Re: Debugging plugins

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The simplest thing might be to temporarily rename your plugin without the > "rev" prefix while you're working on it. This gives me the opportunity to use my favorite phrase from an Apple commercial: "What, was I in thinking jail?" Apart

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

You are not crazy and it's not just your machine confirmed here Yosemite 10.10 LC 7.0.1 on mouseUp put 1.884956 into tVar put value(tVar + 0) end mouseUp button "Button": execution error at line 3 (value: error executing expression) near "1.884956", char 1 BR Graham Samuel wrote:

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

I experimented a little further and found that, on my set up, I got the same results as Roger. I ran this in the multi-line message box: put "version:" && the version & return into tReport put "os:" && the platform & the systemVersion & return after tReport put isNumber(1.884956) & return after

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

On January 14, 2015 8:56:27 PM CST, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Years ago we had one >Jersey that was so gentle that I could take a nap in the field with my >head on her neck (she was also laying down) and when i would sing to >her, her ears would perk up and tears would roll out of her eyes. P

Re: How to solve "can't find stack" error

On January 14, 2015 7:01:20 PM CST, tbodine wrote: > I have a desktop program built in LC 6.5.1 >that uses LC stacks as user files for storing user data in fields and >cprops. Mostly this works well. However, I get occasional Error Reports >when >a few users have tried to reopen a file they creat

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

On January 14, 2015 9:06:26 PM CST, Peter W A Wood wrote: >It seems dividing the number was sufficient to stop it being one! For some reason this sounds to me like the SANE library is acting up again. Which doesn't make us crazy but would imply we're in SANE. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

So that's where the old saying, "your singing would bring a jersey cow to tears" comes from. Sent from my Android tablet On Jan 14, 2015 9:56 PM, "Brahmanathaswami" wrote: > ha! I meant new Jersey cows. > > We retired all our crazy Holsteins to our 200 acres of guinea grass across > the rive

Which version...

Why are there different versions of liveCode being updated.. LC 7.0- updated 23 October 2014 LC 7.0.1 - updated 18 December 2014 LC 6.7.0 - updated 18 December 2014 LC 6.7.1 - updated 9 January 2015 Which one is considered to be the 'one' to use ? Dixie

Re: Which version...

Hi John I do know that on the 5th of January Frazer put out community 6.7.1 for Windows again because the installer wasn't working properly - and I could add LC 6.7.2 to your list which also is dated on the 9th... - "Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upo

RE: Which version...

Hi Dave, Yes, but my question really is.. 'What is the reason for having all theses different versions being updated more or less at the same time ?'... Life was much simpler when you knew the version with the largest number stuck on the end of it was the one to use and the rest, as they say,