Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a « Terms of Use » problem with LiveCode. I bought into Livecode several years ago, using it every day for my private use. I have stopped buying the new versions of LiveCode as they become available, because I am happy with 5.5, I can’t afford to upgrade, and

Re: Script Indenting

2015-12-13 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Some time ago, Mark Schonewille kindly showed me his HTML colorizer, which I use regularly (Thanks Mark !). I would not be against having a Script Colorizer (with indents, of course), as I find it difficult to review even my own coding when I return to it some time late

Getting Finder results into LiveCode

2016-01-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful (but wet) Brittany, A tiny problem. I use “cmd F” to find documents on my computer (never got round to using Spotlight). Is there a way to get the results of such a “Find” inside a Rev stack ? Anybody done this ??? I am a buggar for backups, and for one original, I have copies o

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

2016-01-13 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to all for your responses, especially to Martin Koob and Klaus Major. I have all I need. I had tinkered with the idea of using AppleScript, but apart from simple scripts, I find AppleScript excessively impenetrable, even after 50 years of programming in many lang

Modifying Drop-Down Menus on the fly

2016-02-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Sunny Brittany (at least it was this morning !), After many years of using buttons in my stacks, I am discovering the joys of using “Pull Down” menus (and about time too !). I can change the script “cases” with the “set script” command, but I also want to know how to change the value of t

Re: Modifying Drop-Down Menus on the fly

2016-02-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from sunny Brittany, Thanks to Eric, Phil, Beda and especially Tore. I was so used to using keywords in button definitions to modify button parameters, that I didn't even look up "Menu" in the dictionary (Can't see the wood for the trees ?) Tore gave me little script routines which I can adap

Activating tabs in a liveCode field

2016-03-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a Word file containing tab characters. I want to drop it into a liveCode field, and have the tabs respected (all texts lined up) Can I do this ? Thanks for any ideas. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-03-31 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’m confused - I want to create a PC version of a stack which plays videos (external) on demand. The files are either .mov or .mp4. The stack works perfectly on my Mac, but when I run it on a PC the video display will not work (no QT). So I have questions : If I insta

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

2016-04-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to Mark and Jacqueline, and especially Panos for adding AVI clarification, and again to Stephen for completing the PC issue. I now know how to solve all elements of this problem ! If QT (V7) works on XP PC versions, that solves my immediate problem, but the res

Beeing a developer after 40

2016-04-29 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, It all depends on what you mean by "developer" : 1 - You write apps for your own use ? 2 - You sell your apps for money, or give them away to anyone who wants them ? 3 - You spent several years with a software house developing for them ? 4 - You create apps because you

Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittnay, Richard, > nor to the 60-85 year old crowd > (I'll become a slobbering old, senile whatsit in > my own good time anyway). I think I should take umbrage on the insinuation that the 60-85 "crowd" are just "slobbering old, senile whatsits" ! Whenever it is your time,

LiveCode throwing compile errors for a stack which previously worked

2016-06-30 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
All Computers Mac OS-X 10.9.5 - LiveCode 5.5 (I know, I'm obsolete, but I'm a poor, retired Computer Engineer who "liveCodes" for FUN !) Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I develop my Livecode stacks on several computers, and copy all my stacks to my laptop. Sometimes I “clean up” a stack which works p

RE: LiveCode throwing compile errors for a stack which previously worked

2016-07-01 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany (when it rains, I just LiveCode !) Malte - Thanks a million - problem solved ! I wonder who set that flag - must have been me after a few whiskeys (progress is a series of monumental F**k-Ups) Brilliant 10 second solution to a pain in the butt ! Best Regards -Francis

Backspace unrecoverably deletes an object ....

2016-07-20 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Mac OS X 10.9.5 - LiveCode 5.5 Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’ve just done it again !!! I created a button, loaded it up with thoughtful script, and, instead of hitting return to continue writing the script, , I wanderered around the stack, checking names, etc,, and later, without thinking, I hi

Re: Backspace unrecoverably deletes an object ....

2016-08-06 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, to Bob Sneidar "Like it" - Will Use ! Thanks -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runr

OT: Switch it off and back on

2016-08-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I've always been in favour of this practice, without questioning why ! I run an old version lof LiveCode (5.5). Quite often, I save a modified version of my stack, and then try to Quit LiveCode. I get the same message asking me to Save or Cancel, and LiveCode is now to

Re : open stack

2016-08-24 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Britanny, Try replacing words "stack" with "file" . There should be no problem opening a liveCode stack with open file Mystackname.liveCode Now, I haven't tried this with a stack, but I never had any problems opening a file (why should suffix "liveCode" be any di

Subject - LiveCode - I'm not a very happy Bunny

2017-01-04 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I am obviously in a physical and technological backwater. With my 4 Macs, I spend happy 8 hours a day - every day of the week. I run Mac OS 10.9 (can’t see why I should keep updating to later versions) With LiveCode, ’tis the same - I’m on 5.5.4, happy as a pig in shi

Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi, from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t believe it - I must be Psychic !. Today, at 12:00 I sent my mail, “Where, How, and with Who ?” and at 16:04, I got an officicial LiveCode mail, saying “Who Are You” ?, obviously under preparation for some time. Well, Heather, I am gabberflasted ……… ….. and I

(OT) Yosemite and the immediate future ....

2014-11-26 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful (but wet) Brittany, I know where Apple is trying to lead us, AND I DON’T WANNA GO ! I have 4 Macs, with 3 versions of OSX. 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 I like my Macs as they are, although 10.9 seems to be squeezing me, just a tad. Now, on all my OS-X versions, I get encouragements to u

I love my Colour Picker

2014-12-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful (but cold) Brittany, I wrote my own Colour Picker many years ago I didn’t tell anybody about it ……… -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your s

Re: [Rant] Really annoying posts

2015-02-24 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’ve been programming for more than 40 years, and I will certainly not give you a list of the programming languages that I have used. I have used all sorts of mechanisms to help me program quickly and efficiently. My latest system is to write my scripts using comments “

Displaying a jpg photo larger than my liveCode window ?

2015-06-19 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a tiny problem (otherwise I wouldn’t ask for help) ! I have a stack window of a reasonable size, but I want to display a jpg (or other) file in this window, but it is much larger. I want to be able to “click and slide” on my displayed photo, in much the same way

Displaying a jpg photo larger than my liveCode window ?

2015-06-20 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, To Mike Bonner and Brahmanathaswami, Many thanks to you both - two radically different approaches !! I will try them both and let you know which one I use. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.c

Re: how to check for unnecessary local declarations?

2015-07-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany (where it is raining, and there is a cool breeze, while the rest of France is in the high 30’s :>)) In the same vein, I declare all my variables “global" in two ways ; the first which will remain when testing is finished (i.e.. passing info outside the script); the oth

[OT] Leaving Bulgaria?

2015-07-17 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, After 10 years, you either return home, or you never return home. After 45 years, I must admit that I am solidly entrenched in France - children and grandchildren make it hard to go back - and why indeed would you go back, ……. unless ..., I remember what it w

Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

2015-07-18 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I was brought up in the era of IBM 360/370 main-Frame computers, where the Operating Systems used a dynamic CPU allocation, based upon the the CPU requirements. For the novice, in this era, it seemed strange to allocate CPU time in an “apparent” reverse order of logic,

Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

2015-07-19 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Colin Holgate wrote : > In the Unix world you would be talking about renice. It works for Mac OS too: Thanks Colin Thought for the day : “Windows is a pane ! ……." ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Two great tips, one fantastic source

2015-08-22 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from beautifu lBrittany (where the holiday crowds are leaving in droves) To Bob Earp, Thanks for the info about the “Digital Colo(u)r Meter, Didn’t know that it existed ! Must take a trot around “Utilities” to see if there are any more gems. Automator has also helped me a lot ! I could have u

From any button script, how can I reset the scrollbar of a field to the "top" ?

2015-10-14 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, This is a beginners question (except that I am not a beginner) I've tried everything I know to do this, but all the commands I tried came up with an error. Sounds stupid, don't it ? Is there a soul to help me out ? -Francis ___

Re: From any button script, how can I reset the scrollbar of a field to the "top" ?

2015-10-15 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > The scrolled amount of a field is defined by the vscroll (vertical) and > hscroll (horizontal) properties, so to set the scrollbar back to the top, > do this: > > set the vscroll of field "myField" to 0 Thanks David ! I tried everything I knew, but have never

Looking further than the end of your nose - Was “Toolin’ Around”

2014-05-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, That’s one hell of a rant against ToolBook. I think it fair to add a few comments. Making choices about the software that you find, like and use is based upon …… those three words ! Find : Sometimes you use the wrong software for solving your problems, q

Using an internal file for PDF for manual

2014-08-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, FAO Charles Szasz, I hate Adobe Reader, and don’t really go for Preview (except for its useful options). I use SKIM (unfortunately this app is Mac Only), great appleScript interface, and as user friendly as you get. I open files from a LiveCode script like this :

Loading clips into a player

2014-09-15 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Beat, Although it is your choice to include the videos in the stack, it all depends on how many, and their sizes. Your stack could get “rather” large, and you have to recompile and save for each addition. I put my video clips in an external sub-folder that my stack ca

Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

2014-09-18 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany (where, finally, it is raining), I have a list in a field, with backgroundcolor of some lines red, some yellow. Does anybody know how to sort the lines to separate out the two colours ? I can do it using a shuffle mechanism, but it’s not elegant enough (:>) !! The sort

Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

2014-09-19 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to all you guys (and Jacqueline) for the wealth of suggestions to solve my little problem. That’s a lot of brain power out there. I had thought of tacking the colour code onto each line, sorting by the normal way, and then stripping off the code. But I knew tha

Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

2014-09-20 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from beautiful Brittany, Jacqueline, I was already in a repeat loop to colour lines which contained certain field names, so I just tacked in the addition of the RGB, and then sorted the field. Then I added a three line repeat loop to remove the RGB data, and got what I wanted. So I found, f

Re: Mavericks

2014-10-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, LiveCode 5.5.4 - Build 1502 Mac OS Intel only - Windows (not tested - Haven’t got a PC !) On Mavericks 10.9.5 No problem for building standalones ! Strange - Seems to loop forever in : “Removing development properties and setting profile options” but I

How to I flatten a Hypercard stack (now Livecode) from cards and backgrounds to just cards?

2014-10-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’m confused ! Kee Nethery says that he wants to remove backgrounds in a stack “to bring it into the modern era” Can anybody explain this statement ? What does this mean ? Is the background mechanism dying, or even being dropped ? I understand that many stacks (an old

Card ID not valid

2014-11-01 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, After more than 15 years with Hypercard and more than 10 with LiveCode, I have NEVER used the reference Card ID. If I want to sort my cards (in dozens and dozens) of my data stacks, I have a field in each card which is an ID which I use to control card positioning my st

LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

2014-11-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” I don’t know whether Company Policy would prohibit divulging such delicate information, but I would love to know the impact of LiveCode on the computer

Re: download and save a file

2011-05-27 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Nicolas, You didn't say whether you insisted on using LiveCode for the download. I have been bashing my head against the wall, trying to get the wrinkles out of a liveCode stack to do this. In fact, when we have Cyberduck (Mac Only) and FileZilla (Mac and PC), both p

Re: download and save a file

2011-05-28 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Now I am confused ! As Richard says : It's fun to do it in LiveCode, so, even though I use CyberDuck regularly (what a beautiful app !), I thought it would be fun to write a little stack in LiveCode for Upload and Download. After all, "LiveCoding" IS fun !. I found d

Re: "do" statements and value function

2011-06-21 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I agree with Tim. Firstly, I use "Do" functions every day, and run up "Do" statements of many lines (building it up in a variable). effectively making mistakes in the generation until I get it right ! Couldn't do without the "Do" statement, but I guess that many Live

Setting up Mac LiveCode apps on an iPad ?

2011-07-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, When the iPad came out, I thought "WOW", with the idea of carrying my LiveCode apps with me. Then I found out that (of course), I had to pay for this facility (OK - Business is Business !). I don't really want to develop new apps on an iPad, but move existing LiveCode

Re: defining and using globals in an application

2011-07-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I think Scott has the right attitude. Use globals if you need them, Use custom properties if you don't like the power/scope/limitations of globals. In addition, I use Do "global xyz" and delete "global xyz" to have rigorous dynamic control over global variables. Duri

Re: Setting up Mac LiveCode apps on an iPad ?

2011-07-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mark wrote : To make apps for your own iPad and keep them running, you need to pay for the Apple dev programme every year unfortunately. My bog mindles, Mark. Are you saying that : I BUY an iPad (at least $500) I BUY a software which enables me to install iOS ap

Re: defining and using globals in an application

2011-07-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Andre Garzia wrote : I will have a global called gRecipeAppA and that will be an array, values will be inserted, queried for and deleted from this single shared array and collision will be avoided by naming it something almost unique. H ! - Never thought o

Re: defining and using globals in an application

2011-07-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi From Beautiful Brittany, Thanks Chipp, I suspect what Andre does is create globals thusly: global gMyGlobalA put "red" into gMyGlobalA["color"] put "Francis" into gMyGlobalA["name"] etc.. Make things much clearer, and much more useful. I will ponder on that "modus operandi". ... Tha

Re: defining and using globals in an application

2011-07-09 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi again from Beautiful Brittany, Andre, Yes, I do like Chipp said but I go further and create multilevel arrays, all with string keys like: put "go back" into gMyGlobalA["menus"]["left side menu"]["label"] Wow ! That opens a whole new avenue of research .. I will endevour to "grab" th

Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-07-27 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Alejandro asks some potent questions . Question 1 - Is programming so easy . ? I think we should ask the question "Is programming a niche occupation ? During my early career, practically everybody I knew was a programmer (birds of a feather flock together ?) Now I am out of the industr

Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?

2011-07-27 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi, Craig said : who might fall in love with LC if they only were simply exposed to it Amen to that ! This was my point - Who IS exposed to LiveCode ? Maybe we can get some input from the LiveCode Commercial Department. How do you go about tickling a non-LiveCode-User ? Certainly not on

Re : two really neat pdf tools

2011-08-16 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Peter, take a look at SKIM ! I junked Adobe Reader and I now use SKIM for all my pdf work. Great Open Source program. - Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re : two really neat pdf tools

2011-08-16 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mac only! try pdfedit for Linux and Windows You mean . you mean that there is another world, out there . which is not .. aware about REAL COMPUTING ??? You mean that . there are some .. who haven't .. b

Re: How does compiling work?

2011-09-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, My understanding of the under-the-hood mechanics is very limited, but that won't stop me from trying. :) Thanks Richard ! I think you did very well !! Best Regards -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

how to not display the card number in the stack title bar?

2011-09-20 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Hi, maybe this is a dumb question, but how can i avoid that the card number is shown in the stack title bar? Maybe remove the title bar . ? (set the decorations of this stack to empty) or some options which do not include "title". HTH -Francis "Nothin

Re: [MAC OS GRIPE] editing filenames in MacOS finder

2011-09-27 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, So you are up to your eighth Mac, and began back in the heroic times when the screen was so small, that you wouldn't even consider it today. And you think that you kow everything about the Mac, and don't even bother to read the "What's New" section when the new System

Re: Object Naming Conventions

2011-10-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Pete, there has been a thread on this subject several times, but I'm not against seeing it again. Whatever you do, use a prefix to define ALL your objects, but find a rule that suits you. Don't use a suffix, I'm sure you will regret it. I use a two-letter indicator (

Re: What does 'shadows' mean?

2011-10-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from beautiful Brittany, Shadows is a bit of a misnomer, and is confusing. I think the term "occult" would be better :>) OCCULT "Referring to the event in which one celestial body passes in front of another, blocking it from view" . and I rather like the idea of global variables being

Re: What does 'shadows' mean?

2011-10-12 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Keith wrote : ...did you mean 'eclipse', Francis? Keith, "occult" has three forms : 1 (noun) 2 (adjective) 3 ( verb) As "shadows" was used in the VERB form, I suggested replacing it with the VERB form of occult , which means what I said it means. Latin occultus,

Re: What does 'shadows' mean?

2011-10-13 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Keith, I am sure we can come to an agreement about the beauty (and complexity) of the English Language, and its banana skins . and also the wonderful depth of the music of Pink Floyd. (although I do have a weak spot for "Wish You Were Here") As each language ha

Re: how to read an specific page into pdf document?

2011-10-18 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from beautiful Brittany, Graham wrote : Where does the PDF page appear? I mean is it in a stack window, and could it be manipulated by a LiveCode program ? The answer is YES ! I may be a little late on this thread, 'cos I've been trying to solve the problem myself. I appear to have mad

Re: how to read an specific page into pdf document?

2011-10-19 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from beautiful Brittany, To Graham, Peter and Ken Graham, Apparently Skim is not (yet) available for PC ! Sorry, I got your hopes up ! As an answer to your question, I build the AppleScript because I have variables coming from globals that I must incorporate into the script. I must admit th

Re: how to read an specific page into pdf document?

2011-10-20 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to Ken Ray for his "close to a one-liner". put char 1 to 3 of field "MyPagesC" into GVPage put "tell app " & quote & "Skim" & quote & cr & \ "set " & LVDeskTop & " to path to desktop as string" & cr & \ "open (" & LVDeskTop & " & " & quote & "SkimTest1.pdf"

Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-10 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi to any culpritsl, Sorry to any of you who include past mails within their new mail ... BUT . You are wasting space ! Some of you go up to 6 or 7 levels, without thinking that we don't need to see the same information 6 or 7 times. If anybody wants to follow whatever was

Re : Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-10 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi to any out there who agree, or who don't agree. I have better things to do than scan down repeated messages. I thought that some of you may agree ! (previous threads on this subject got better responses, and I thought that a reminder was a good idea ). It is your prerogative to fill the forum

Re: Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-12 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi to all who may have had problems understanding my very bad English, You are correct, I did mention 6 and 7 levels, I felt sure that many of you would think that this is a little excessive. Of course, Mark, I agree that one level is perfectly acceptable, IF the mail is counsel, or an answer to

Re: Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-17 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard, May we please consider this topic thoroughly examined, and move on to LiveCode discussion? Please accept my apologies for having started this thread. I didn't realize that it would go so far. My Fault !! I hoped to save space on the forum and not waste i

Re: Image Cropping Tool for Livecode

2011-12-06 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Alejandro wrote Some years ago, I created this stack: Mask bitmap 02 http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/mask_bitmap02.zip Great Stuff ! Thanks a million ! -Francis "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"

Re: French Ears

2011-12-14 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany. Michael wrote : I'm not interested in the translations, just the quality of the French accent. Michael, it's the best French speech I have ever heard (I have 45 years of French, in France, under my belt !) However, computer speech is monotonous (great difficul

Re: French Ears

2011-12-15 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Tim wrote : But the voice can rise in pitch, stay flat, or drop in pitch for each syllable. To foreign ears, it is a very, very slight change There you have it Tim - a tonic accent, slight, but vital to many languages. I imagine that each speech synthesizer, to do

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 99, Issue 26

2011-12-15 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful (but very windy) Brittany, Michael wrote : Sorry to be a pest. Would it be a bother to compare these two websites and let me know which one sounds better? (1) http://www2.research.att.com/~ttsweb/tts/demo.php#top (2) http://imtranslator.net/translate-and-speak/ Michael,

Re: French Ears

2011-12-15 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from a very French Brittany, Thierry wrote : I hadn't heard the expression "tonic accent" before either. I've always used the expression "sentence stress" (or word stress), In French we call it: "Accent tonique" So, guess it was a word to word translation. Merci, Thierry pour m'avo

Dates displayed for On-Rev Server files

2011-12-22 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I upload files to my on-Rev server, and note a time difference of - 7 hours against my French time. I assume that this is a US East-Coast time zone. This is only a very, very minor bitch, but is there a way of getting the server to display my time-zone values ? Can I

Subject: While Bome Rurns.........

2012-01-18 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Richard, From an Irish man to a Scots man . So I thought " What a load of Bcks", and then poured myself a Jameson. Things looked a bit better, so I poured myself a second Jameson. This time, I thought "This is totally useless". "I wonder why he tasted my wime !" Then I had another Jame

Find string "xxx" in field yyy OF THIS CARD

2012-02-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have been having problems with the "find" command. In a stack with multiple cards, I want to find specific strings on a card of my choice (the card currently displayed), and NO other. If I code "find string xxx in fld yyy of this card" .. doesn't work. If I look i

Re: Find string "xxx" in field yyy OF THIS CARD

2012-02-02 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from beautiful Brittany, Thanks to all for suggestions. I finished up by trying my own workaround. BUT, I don't know why the syntax "of this card" and "of card xx" is accepted in the find command, but doesn't work. Would that be a real bug ? Secondly, the string I am looking for is in pract

Re: Find string "xxx" in field yyy OF THIS CARD

2012-02-03 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from BeautifulBrittany, Merci André, Je n'avait pas pensé à utiliser "DontSearch" ! J'aime !! Bob, I hadn't heard this before, and I haven't the faintest idea what SQL is. But I will look into it ! It seems that my knowledge is sadly lacking . Thanks ! -Francis "Windows is a pa

Re: Find string "xxx" in field yyy OF THIS CARD

2012-02-04 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Bob, I kid thee not ! SQL be a mystery to me. Methinks I miss an element of profound truth. But, shall it be known, there is so much truth to imbibe, that infinite truth be at arms length. ... And short are my arms .. -Francis Notwithstanding - Windows is

HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-12 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, . and who has ever heard of Doug Engelbart ? - Francis "Windows is just a series of panes" ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your sub

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-26 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Geoff wrote : I remember (near 50 here as well) learning how to derive a square root. That skill is also useless. I agree with you that "It is far more IMPORTANT that kids learn to think logically and coherently," but that doesn't at all mean that they learn a

Re: Master Class Question

2013-10-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, When you are unsure about the future, when all before you is bleak, when all questions loom ahead and no answers are forthcoming, when you do not know which way to turn, then Google it !! I remember zapping the IDE (some years ago) to accept .rev AND .li

Re: "Be This Guy" - or Publicity - Business and Turnover

2013-10-13 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, where the boats are bobbing uselessly in the swell. Hi Richmond, and anybody interested in the recent Livecode publicity. I know somebody who sends and receives a handful of mails in a "good" week (THAT is expensive !) I know somebody who has a golf bag full of expe

Re: "Be This Guy" - or Publicity - Business and Turnover

2013-10-14 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Pete Wrote : > The tag could be something like "Practice makes perfect, but LC makes it > easier to get there." I like that. Kevin should pick up such sayings and quote them in LiveCode publicity mails. -Francis "Nothing should ever be done for the first time !" _

Inserting Text, photo or video into a circle ?

2014-03-07 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I would like to know if it is possible to insert text, a photo or a video clip into a circle. Somebody out there must have wanted to do this …. Thanks for pointers. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Inserting Text, photo or video into a circle ?

2014-03-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi (from you know where) …... (and we have sun for at least a week - Yippee !!) Thanks to Scott for his input - I can work with that ! Richmond must be feverish : > 1. Why don't you just do this sort of thing in GIMP, Photoshop or some > other graphic program? > > 2. Why do you want to do thi

Inserting Text, photo or video into a circle ?

2014-03-21 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I recently asked for help on displaying video clips in a circle. Scott Rossi put me on the right track, and I managed to get a stack up and running. Thanks Scott ! If anybody is interested, you can find the stack at : http://www.nugent.fr/Round1.htm I hope you

Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t want to quibble, but the request in this e-mail would seem to me to be highly dangerous, totally subversive, and irrevocably suspicious. Maybe somebody would like to graft into a developing LiveCode program, an automatic spy mechanism. I suggest that nobody an

Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, On 3 Mar 2012, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: the ultimate Sanskrit input system; and working hard towards the finishing line. Colonel Pickering would be proud of you! The rain falls mainly on the plain. "I think he's got it ! By George, he's got it !" -Francis

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins

2012-03-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard wrote : don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Richmond. I hope you don't mind if I pass on that statement ! However, it reminds me of the definition of Real and Virtual Memory on the IBM computers of the 70's. 1 - If it's t

Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-11 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond* wrote : Interesting to see that you, Francis, have the same name as His Majesty the King : Oh, I can do better than that, Richmond ! The future King of England is descended from my family (although a very, very distant cousin). http://www.nugent.fr/doc/

Cyberduck versus Flow

2012-03-13 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Maybe a little outside LiveCode discussions, but I want the best app to upload my files to my On-Rev server. I was happy with FileZilla, then I found Cyberduck which really makes me happy, now I see "Flow" which seems to beat all the FTP apps hands down (cheap at $4.9

Re: Cyberduck versus Flow

2012-03-14 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to all (to numerous to mention) for your input. I am happy that many use and like CyberDuck, surprised that nobody appears to use Flow, when it seems to have rave reviews (maybe the developers wrote the reviews :>). Looks like I will stick with CyberDuck. I nev

Re: Serious Question about the list...

2012-03-18 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, . I didn't even know that there was a forum Nobody tells me nothing (I know - it's a double-negative) ! -Francis "Progress is a series of monumental f**k-ups !" ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Translation s'il vous plait/por favor :-)

2012-03-23 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Klaus, I would hate to be pedantic, but I can't miss adding my 2 cents. Dictionnaries exist to clearly define the meaning of a word or phrase in another language. But the translations, based upon the etymology of the terms in these languages are often betrayed by the

Re: Translation s'il vous plait/por favor :-)

2012-03-23 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Rene (without an accent) I never put French accents in my mails ; 1 - Accents are a pane (almost as much as Windows !) For I have an English International keyboard 2 - French accents usually give us strange results when interpreted in forum lists (usual

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, For Pete, Michael, Colin . et alia ! I think we have been down this road before ! This is not a completely internal display of pdf files within a LiveCode stack, but it's the closest I could get, and it solves all my needs. I have a library of pdf files. I have

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs

2012-04-23 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond wrote : Blast! I am trying to find a way so that I don't have a file "floating about" on somebody's system that they can just flush away to reset the 30 day limit on my DEMO. Richmond, forgive me if I am being obtuse, but I don't see the problem. Create a

Re: Time-Stamping Demo programs #2

2012-04-25 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, OK, so we wandered off the subject just a little ! Jecqueline wrote, talking about Graphic Converter : He just inserts a 10 second wait after every launch before the program becomes useable. Like most people, I used the free version for a couple of years until th

Re: Economy-x-Talk's fabulous Error Parsing Service down?

2012-04-25 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, This is also just a little bit off the subject .. Jacqueline wrote : I don't know, but you could use this in the mean time: I don't like time any more than you do (because today is first day of the rest of my life !), but to call it "mean" is pushing it just a

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