Re: Animations on iOS

2015-12-15 Thread EED-wp Email
Anything wrong with putting each animated object's image states in a group and showing/hiding each figure in some kind of sequence? Then move the group to move the character. Obviously I'm thinking of character animation. Seems this would be pretty easy. Haven't tried it. Bill William Prothero

Re: Animations on iOS

2015-12-15 Thread EED-wp Email
single image as a viewer. You only need one command -- set the text > of img "display" to -- instead of using two (hide and show). > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > > > > > On 12/15/15, 8:22 AM, &qu

Re: Take a look back through 2015

2015-12-18 Thread EED-wp Email
+1 I'm really excited to see V8 at full potential! Great work so far. 😎 Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Dec 18, 2015, at 9:55 AM, Steven Crighton > wrote: > > There was a lot of code written, and plenty tea to keep us fueled. > > > > Take a look back through 2015 her

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread EED-wp Email
I wonder if a set of screen templates for a range of ui configurations might not be a product folks would be willing to pay for. It sounds like it might save some folks a lot of time. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > Don’t

Re: Sending emails, with attachments, on your server

2016-01-27 Thread EED-wp Email
Tom, You're welcome. Seems php isn't very popular here, but I find it very convenient and fast, and already integrated into most server situations. Of course, since I've programmed in numerous other languages, it isn't a big deal, and avoids some of the issues with Livecode that are a result of

Re: Error: Unable to open the database file

2016-04-06 Thread EED-wp Email
Ray Good idea. I just get bug reports emailed to me. That's why I send the email by accessing a php mail system on my server. That way the user doesn't have to have email installed. William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Apr 6, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Ray wrote: > > Richard - thanks for th

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-01 Thread EED-wp Email
Any market researchers out there who could actually begin to answer this? Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On May 1, 2016, at 4:23 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > No, it's not an Apple problem - they're not losing any money over it, and > they're certainly not losing any sleep ove

Re: Definite Bug

2016-05-26 Thread EED-wp Email
Bob I assumed that since the group disappeared from the card that it was deleted. Perhaps it was put in an invisible group. I'll have to check. Best Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On May 26, 2016, at 8:09 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > This was happening to me. I determined that

Common cartridge

2014-12-17 Thread EED-wp Email
Folks I just heard about "Common Cartridge" which is supposed to be the new way of interfacing learning objects (apps, web modules, whatever) to learning management systems. I'm curious if anybody has used this or looked into it. Seems like it would be an interface that would be important for th

Re: Common cartridge

2014-12-17 Thread EED-wp Email
t; >> On 12/17/2014 2:00 PM, EED-wp Email wrote: >> Folks >> I just heard about "Common Cartridge" which is supposed to be the new way of >> interfacing learning objects (apps, web modules, whatever) to learning >> management systems. I'm curious if any

Re: Common cartridge

2014-12-17 Thread EED-wp Email
Here is a link to the sponsoring org http://www.imsglobal.org/cc/alliance.html Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Dec 17, 2014, at 9:04 AM, Ray wrote: > > Bill - is this in some way related to SCORM standards? > >> On 12/17/2014 2:00 PM, EED-wp Email wr

Re: Politically correct . . .

2014-12-21 Thread EED-wp Email
Richmond and all, The one I like, in this case is: "Seasons Greetings" which is kind of a generic "Hello". Anyway, I send my thanks to all who have helped me with my LC project and best wishes for health, happiness, and success for the Mew Year and beyond. Not to mention "inner peas" for all veg

Re: problems with 5.5, 6.6, 6.7. 7.0

2014-12-28 Thread EED-wp Email
Bernard Don't know if this will help, but when I get this kind of inexplicable failure sequence, I start by rebuilding, testing the system disc drive. I'm on OS X and. LOVE Disk Warrior. It fixes disc corruption problems the the Disk Utility reports as unfixable. Don't know about Windows os's.

Re: What icon editor do you use?

2015-01-16 Thread EED-wp Email
Paul You're right! Mixed it up with another one. $29.95 Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Jan 16, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Paul D. DeRocco wrote: >> From: Earthednet-wp >> >> I've looked at icofx and they want a monthly fee. I guess I >> could sign up for a month, make all my icons,

Re: Question re destroyStack

2015-02-18 Thread EED-wp Email
Richard Tnx for the suggestion. I guess debugging would go the same. It could make things much easier and cleaner. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Feb 18, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > > I’m setting up my app. It consists of va

Re: Stacks and livecode server?

2015-04-21 Thread EED-wp Email
Peter I think it would be very hard to justify the effort required for a livecode book, given all of the changes in livecode on the horizon. Keeping it up to date would be a huge effort, too. Best Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Apr 20, 2015, at 10:08 PM, Peter Bogdanoff w

Re: Stacks and livecode server?

2015-04-21 Thread EED-wp Email
With so much being done with electronic books these days, i would thing there could be a system where individual chapters could be kept reasonably up to date. But i also find a printed book to be really nice and i often prefer it. The advantage of a book rather than docs of commands is that you

Re: question re mobilePick

2015-04-30 Thread EED-wp Email
Ahhh, thanks, Ralph. Got it. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Apr 30, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > > I believe that you must use a style of "checkmark" for initialIndex to work. > > 1-based means if: > line 1 is "picked" then 1 is returned. > line 2 is "picked" th

Re: Standalone Build Problem

2015-06-02 Thread EED-wp Email
I find it very convenient to use substacks for my main stack module to keep code required by that module together. The mainstack gets a list of the substacks and does a start using for each of them. When i get thousands of lines of code , it is convenient to divide scripts by function, into stac

Re: Invalid iOS SDK Bundle

2015-06-13 Thread EED-wp Email
Ray, I'm on the road for a few days, so this is from memory. But, I am using livecode 7.5 with latest version of xcode. I only load my app to my personal iphone. I had a problem when i tried to name the provisioning profile as a wildcard version that would work with other apps. Lc seems to want

Re: Invalid iOS SDK Bundle

2015-06-13 Thread EED-wp Email
on this. > > I thought setting the path to the Xcode bundle under Preferences/Mobile > Support came /before /setting anything like the provisioning profile and and > specifying a device, but I'll try experimenting with being more specific. > >> On 6/13/2015 6:45 PM

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-24 Thread EED-wp Email
I've found DiskWarrior to be an indispensable tool on my Mac. It fixes disc corruption that diskutil can't and optimizes the directory. It might be worth a try. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:50 AM, JB wrote: > > 10% might work for you but it definitel

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread EED-wp Email
Sri It may be bad practice to use the word "field" in the name of a field. However, i suspect there's more to it.😏 Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Sri wrote: > > The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the > order of co

Re: revBrowserSet

2015-07-28 Thread EED-wp Email
I wonder about this. I had an issue with closing revbrowsercef. I used it to dosplay a youtube video and some straight html. It works fine in recent versions of lc. Be aware tho, that using it will add about 65mb to the app (if my memory serves). Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org

Re: Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-31 Thread EED-wp Email
Mark, I got it. Haven't seriously used it yet, but will very soon. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 31, 2015, at 3:48 PM, Mark Schonewille > wrote: > > Hi Bill, > > I just noticed the second paragraph of your message. I trust you have > received the license by now. If

Re: Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-31 Thread EED-wp Email
Tom, Great call! I'll check it out. Dtill on the road, so it will take a couple ofdays. Thanks, Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jul 31, 2015, at 3:35 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > Bill, > > I’ve just read the following explanation from RG relating to another snapshot > pro

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-12 Thread EED-wp Email
Harrumph! As an Indie license holder, I'm not "serious"? Hmm. Bad choice of words, probably. I'm glad Richmond is stimulating this discussion. Lots of other good comments in this thread. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Aug 12, 2015, at 1:15 PM, Richmond wrote: > > Kev

Re: Describing LiveCode

2015-08-13 Thread EED-wp Email
This is a great way to learn programming, but there are a few caveats that might be considered. As I learned to program, i could never get thru more than one lecture (pascal). Ungodly boring! I needed a project and the docs. However, other folks may have different learning styles. Some may be

Re: Rectangle detection

2015-09-04 Thread EED-wp Email
Peter, I think you are going to have to analyze the pixels of the image using the byte values. Look in the sample stacks for image processing code. I am on the road until mid next week and if you haven't gotten started by then I will send you some code that can get you started. If the rectangl

Re: A modest proposal

2015-09-29 Thread EED-wp Email
Alejandro, Thanks for the offer. I liked the idea and wanted to offer it in case somebody could use it. I don't even begin to have the time to develop and promote such an app. So please feel free to develop it if you are interested and it could be profitable for you. Best, Bill William Prother