Re: adjacent objects

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 3:33 AM, Richmond wrote: > > If we imagine a chessboard . . . > > ... > > Of course, the main criticism about my idea of using a field to store prop > details is that looking up info in it > will be significantly slower than using an array. > > As the base game of Carcasson

Re: sorting words ?

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 6:17 AM, wrote: > but I actually have multiple lines with multiple items in each, > and multiple words in each item... so working with arrays will do > the sorting trick. > Yes it will but for those who are array adverse here's a way to do it using 'itemDel' and another us

Re: sorting words ?

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 8:35 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > Basically the answer to your question is simply that: > > a) It is not entirely obvious what 'sort the words of' should do. > Then why is it obvious to LC when you have this: 4 the quick brown foxjumped over the lazy dog

Re: sorting words ?

On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > The "word" chunk is not loosely implemented - it does precisely what it is > meant to do. > > Which of course is the reason why the sort container command has no problem if you sort by word on the right side of the equation - 'by word x

Re: sorting words ?

On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 7:24 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > > I don't think I do agree with 'trying to do something sensible with the > > whitespace' as I don't really see why that would be useful. > > ​I agree that "sensible" is difficult to define here. OK, quickly off the top of my head I can

Re: sorting words ?

Thanks. Much appreciated. On Sat, Dec 12, 2015 at 9:43 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2015-12-12 13:48, Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> 1) Find the ranges of the things you want to sort in the string. >> >> 2) Compute the new order of the substrings (from the ranges) based on >> the requested sort.

Re: tracking down freeze based on timing, maybe?

Does the Message Watcher indicate there are messages being sent after your own handlers have completed? Or are their any 'unexpected' messages being sent in the middle of your handlers being executed? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: Script Indenting?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > OMG, Jeanne DeVoto! It really is Christmas! Now all we need is a post from Dan Shafer and it will prove there really is a Santa Claus :-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run

Re: Release 8.0 DP 12

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:24 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > On 12/22/2015 11:56 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I remember the Pink Variables back in the day. They once opened for the >> Blue Meanies. >> > > I believe that may have been Pink Noise. > > Pink Noise are to split up again, according to their

Re: Take a look back through 2015

On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 4:25 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I'd also like to point out that it's not just Mark, but also Ali, Panos, > Peter, Fraser, et al, have been very helpful on the lists and forums, and > your presence is much appreciated. > > Yes!!! Whilst the stats are very impressive and ind

Re: Checkboxs

Hi Joel, This might help you. For the script of your checkbox put this: on mouseUp if the hilite of me = true then set the label of me to "Ticked" else set the label of me to "Un-ticked" end if end mouseUp If on the other hand you want to change the appearance of the √ to a

Re: Question about "that thing you key in that's not a user name when you're logging in"

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Richmond wrote: > one thing that is very odd is 'mcEncrypt'; > > firstly because it maybe the only thing in LiveCode that > betrays LiveCode's ancestry in MetaCard, > > along with mcLicense. I think they are cousins. If you want to trace the ancestry tree further

Re: Beyond POSIX time

On Sat, Jan 9, 2016 at 7:21 PM, FlexibleLearning.com < ad...@flexiblelearning.com> wrote: > > If you got a Saturday for 14 October 1066, all good. Otherwise the > algorithm > is not accounting for the 1582 or 1752 calendar changes. > > Yes, often forgotten, as is the particular country you you may

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 7:51 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > I use “cmd F” to find documents on my computer > (never got round to using Spotlight). > Absolutely love Spotlight, use it hundreds of time a day and it saves me an incalculable amount of time and effort. Have successfully weened m

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

Straying off topic, On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:32 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I'd use Spotlight more too if it would show the file path to each of > duplicate copies of a file. Unfortunately it involves using the mouse but if you press the Option + cmd keys whilst mousing over any Spotlight re

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 1:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Every build I do is in a named folder with all build files inside, > including the LiveCode source stack. I end up with dozens of source stacks > with the same names. > > Ahh, now I understand why the path is so important to you. > If you

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > I can't get either to work in El Capitan . . . > This seems to suggest it's the same as Yosemite (cmd+option is for mavericks and prior) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21907?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US Have you changed the default keyb

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 4:39 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > I use a utility called Alfred on my Mac... > It allows you to search for files whose name contain , and also > allows you to search for files whose contents contain . This is the default way Spotlight works, it searches both for name

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 8:55 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > I love > programming. Whether I get apps which work is not a prerequisite !! > > Brilliant! Made me smile from ear to ear... it's going to be a good day:-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 12:44 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > > > > Plus a whole lot more. > > for instance, summon Alfred, type ">" then enter a shell command, and it > sends the command to Terminal. \ Oh, now you're talking! I love the way I can look up a Dictionary definition or do a quick ari

Re: Message watcher in LC 8

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 8:49 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > Do you (anyone) have any idea where I can get hold of 4WFlightRecorder ? > I see Devolution is currently undergoing 'radical enhancement' so maybe this old link from a previous List message wont work:

Re: Does user have network connection?

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I wonder if there is a way to get Apple Mail to bottom post... https://github.com/robertklep/quotefixformac ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: putting binary data into a mySQL database

Look up revExecuteSQL in the Dictionary. Of particular interest: To pass binary data in a variable in the variablesList, prepend "*b" to the > variable name. The *revExecuteSQL* command strips the binary marker "*b" > and passes it to the database as binary data, rather than text data. Basically

Re: putting binary data into a mySQL database

On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:51 PM, John Dixon wrote: > > Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong here ? > I guess you've figured it out by now, but just in case: > >put "INSERT INTO" & tTableName & "(" & tFields & ") VALUES(:1,:2)" into > tSQL > = INSERT INTOthenamer(thename,thechat) VALU

[BUG] write to file

The Dictionary says that if I open a file for 'update', then 'read from file' to a specific position that when I 'write to file' it will occur at the position I've read to but that's not what I'm seeing in 6.6.5GM, 7.1.1 rc4 and 8.0 dp13 - OS X 10.9.5. In the msg box: set the defaultFolder to spec

Re: [BUG] write to file

Folks, Richard has confirmed he's not seeing this on Linux. Jacque has confirmed the Bug on OS X. If I can just get a Win user to check I'll then add a Bug report. So please Win users can you, in the msg box: >> >> set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath("documents") >> put "trash this file.

Re: [BUG] write to file

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > > > put "Log entry data" after URL ("file:" &> > specialFolderPath("documents") & tLogFileName) > > When using the statement above, is the engine clever enough to use an > append operation for that, or does it seek to the end of th

Re: [BUG] write to file

I've gone ahead and added a Bug report 16761. When a Windows user report back I'll add it - or they can add to the report themselves. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage y

Re: [BUG] write to file

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Good find. How did you come across that bit of archaeology? Not that good, what you really need to know is whether the enhancement request was ever actioned. I was searching the QCC DB to ensure I wasn't duplicating a Bug report when,

Re: [BUG] write to file

Thanks Mike, Yes, that is all correct. Panos at the mothership has confirmed that this is a bug that effects OS X only. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscript

Re: [BUG] write to file

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:34 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> I would prefer if if people wouldn't use "the mothership" to describe the > core dev team. > > Sorry, no disrespect intended. I basically failed English and it's not the first time I've used a turn of phrase on this List which I thought

Re: match a parenthesis literal in a lived regex?

You're missing something :-) If you are using the matchText function you must remember you still need your capturing parenthesis \( will find a single opening parenthesis [(] will find a single opening parenthesis [\(] will find a single opening parenthesis or back slash in the msg box - change t

Re: match a parenthesis literal in a lived regex?

typo --in all cases '(' should end up in the msg box I originally tested: if (matchText(tStore,"(\(\w+)",tFound) = true) then so it was finding: (text but your request was for a single opening parenthesis so I removed the \w+ bit On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 10:18

Re: [BUG] write to file

On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 8:58 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > but by someone with actual qualifications, credibility and who's in a > position to take on 'Darth Bug' and save the day for all of us. :-) > > I've just added a comment to a different Bug and had a response back

Re: launch document problem

OSX 10.10.5 LC 7.1.1 launch "/Users/kclan/Documents/test.html" with "/Applications/Firefox.app" launch "/Users/kclan/Documents/test.html" with "/Applications/Safari.app" launch "/Users/kclan/Documents/test.html" with "/Applications/Google Chrome.app" All resulted in the file opening successfull

Re: launch document problem

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > > Given that Kay observed that 'launch document with' works, but 'launch > document' does not > Just to clarify, the Dictionary states the correct syntax as launch FILEPATH with APPLICATIONPATH or launch document FILEPATH 'document'

Re: launch document problem

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 1:06 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > The only issue I have now is avoiding hard coding the browser to use. Does > anyone know of a way to find the default browser setting in OSX (this > program will only be running on Macs). > > Poking around in User level /Library/Preferen

Explicit Variables

Not a discussion about the pros and cons, or a discussion on arrays, I just need a simple answer. put "apple,orange,banana" into tFruit repeat with x = 1 to the number of items in tFruit do "put item x of tFruit into tVar" & x --create a dynamic variable name end repeat put tVar2 I assume creat

Re: Explicit Variables

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> Heh - no - I misread Kay's post... Whenever I see 'explicitVariables' > mentioned I tend to think of 'Strict Compilation Mode'. > But you read my mind. I also see one and think the other. Thanks all for responses, they're perfect for t

AppleScript vs VBScript

Took up Ali's invitation to give amending the LC Dictionary via GitHub a go. With regard to - do as The OS X explanation of 'the result' is quite straight forward and easy to demonstrate. On OS X systems any result returned by the script language is placed in the > result. do "6 / 2" as Appl

Re: AppleScript vs VBScript

Ah, just the person I was hoping would answer. I see in the last script how you've declared in VBScript, but I believe this below script is also your script and is not declared, you simple check LC's own 'the result'. (line wraps are probably all over the place) ## put the uActiveS

Re: AppleScript vs VBScript

6 at 12:59 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2016-02-03 16:25, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> So again this leave me wonder as to the real situation with Windows? Can >> it >> be like OS X where you simply check LC's 'the result' ? On Windows how do >> y

Re: How to create a hyperlink within a text field?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Peter Brigham wrote: > Two ways to do it. The first and simplest is to lock the screen and do 2 > finds in succession, as you suggested. It's not that simple. If your chapter is called 'Opinions' or 'LiveCode' or something else that may frequently appear in your

Re: Release 8.0 DP 14

At first, I've got to say I was thoroughly underwhelmed... but then discovered I hadn't updated at all. I normally always use the link provided to grab the download but for some reason this time I just used the 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu. I should have realised something was up when the

[BUG] Standalone Application Settings

OS X 10.9.5 LC 8.0 dp 14 Building a Windows app I get a message saying that the generic app icon isn't available and the path is this: LiveCode Indy 8.0 (dp 13).app/Contents/Tools/Runtime/Windows/x86-32/Support/Sample Icons/genericapp.ico Note the mention of dp 13. If I retrieve my copy of dp 13

Re: Black icons in LC 8 DP 14

On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Democracy is useful for many things, but I'm not sure UI is among them. > In fact, I'd argue squarely against it for several reasons: > > How many in our audience are specialists in UI design? > > IMO this has nothing to do with design an

Re: Free BasicClock desktop clock for OSX

On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > Is your clock open source? At the moment it has "All rights reserved" in > the copyright... > > I don't have a Community Edition of LC in front of me but I know for the other editions: All rights reserved worldwide is the default entr

local and do - what NOT to do

The Dictionary entry for 'local' has this Example: -- To make a numbered list of variables: repeat with x=1 to 20 do "local tVar_" & x & "; put empty into tVar_" & x end repeat Which 'apparently' runs fine if you copy and paste it into the msg box. For the purposes of this discussion and so we

Re: local and do - what NOT to do

On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 7:52 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> Okay so this kind of code pattern originates from HyperCard which did not > have arrays. > > Upshot: There's no reason to use 'local' in do if you are initializing the > variable at that point. Indeed, one could argue that it is better

Re: Finding UTC

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I don;t have the link to hand but there's a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscrib

Re: leap to future

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Shawn Blc wrote: > I purchased a lifetime license on the kickstarter campaign... Cheated! > > How have you come to that conclusion. Didn't you receive an email on or about 23Jul14 from Kevin stating: As you know, you will receive a HTML5 license as per the agreem

Re: Free BasicClock desktop clock for OSX

Enhancement Request: 17017 On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 6:11 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 16/02/2016 03:23, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 7:47 PM, Peter TB Brett > > >> wrote: >> >> >>> Is your clock open source? At the moment it h

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 9:24 PM, jameshale wrote: > > Tried it but no change. > When you say you added some Beeps, was this to the mainstack handler or the updateme handler in the splash stack? If it wasn't in the updateme what happens if you move the beep to there? If you put a breakpoint imme

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

Welome Jim, What happens if you forget your first test stack and start a fresh. Start LiveCode, create a New Stack. Have you got the Pointer Tool back? Can you drag buttons and fields onto your new stack now? If you can reproduce your first problem it would be worth submitting a bug report with r

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:56 AM, jameshale wrote: > > So from all this I can see that the messages are being passed, the screen > is > simply not updating. > Which of course is why everyone else responded as they did; it happens. Now test some 'descending' wait after the text has been placed in

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: That worked, thank you very much. >> > > And just in case you are wondering how it got that way, as you didn't type any commands. My guess is that this property can be set within the Property Inspector - typically accessed via the Object menu via

Re: Math question

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > How would one modify this to return tOffset as a smaller change when tData > is near zero, and the opposite when tData is near the maximum? > If I run your handler for values of -5 to 5 I get this: -220 -160 -100 -40 20 80 140 200 260

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

Strange. If your mainstack handler is in preOpenStack have you tried it in preOpenCard or vice versa? Or try this kludge. Move your mainstack handler to 'openCard'. Change your current preOpenStack/Card script to simply move the stack off screen, that's it. At the end of your mainstack's new open

Re: Math question

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:18 PM, [-hh] wrote: > > Yes K.C., that's my proposal too. > Allow me to write this a little more math-like. > Very nice, but Peter explained that he's 'seriously math deficient'. I wrote mine so he might understand whats going on and be able to amend it if it doesn't qu

Re: Math question

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > I tried both solutions, and I’m going with K.C.’s solution at the > present—it was easy to understand :) > > Hermann’s seems to allow for more flexibility, and I might need that after > user testing. > > My suggestion is you understand my

Re: Is this a dictionary error?

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: > Comments: > It is convenient to use the revDataFromQuery function, instead of > revDatabaseQuery,... > Which version are you using? When I check the LC 8.0 dp15 Dictionary it says under Description: It is convenient to use the revDataFromQue

Re: A possible messaging and modal dialog bug...

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:32 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > I what seems to me is a "bug" related to messages and model dialogs in > LiveCode. Sorry I do not know how to link old post but if you search the list for: What is wrong with this Script logic? dated 1/11/13 You will find a recipe (tested

Re: LiveCode for the Hobbyists

OK I'm completely confused. I'd like to suggest it's my inability to grasp the English language but I read some of these post over and over and I can't just come to any other conclusion the world has turned upside down. Way back people were complaining that Revolution was too expensive. The compan

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

James, Hmm, I thought I'd read you'd been advised to test if the screen was locked, and you reported that it wasn't. Must have misread that. Mark brings up a very good point. In your case, if it just so happened that the were a couple of incremented lock screen, let's say 3, then a single unlock

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

oops, hit Send accidentally. the above prevents me accidentally stacking lock screen and means I'm only ever 1 unlock screen away from screen updates. I think the preOpenStack/Card messaged automatically locks the screen for you so their purpose can be achieved - positioning and preparing your st

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 2:48 PM, jameshale wrote: > > As an aside when reading the dictionary on lockscreen it states that its > setting has no effect in the IDE with script debug enabled. > I have script debug mode enabled. > I am also doing all this testing in the IDE. > If lockscreen has no eff

Re: Apple Automator

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > Is it possible to launch Apple Automator shell scripts from LC app? If by shell script you mean Workflow, then the answer is yes. Try this: Open up Automator, create a new workflow, go to the iTunes actions and drag 'Start iTunes Playing' int

Re: Looking for parser for Email (MIME)

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Roland Huettmann wrote: > > I was searching for "file", "detailed file", "detailed files". You can't be using LC8dp15 or greater because all I have to do is type in 'detaile' and the list of hits is reduced to 3 with the one you are looking for quite visible. If

Re: Would love to see this blog with 1,001 Uses stay FRESH

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: > The first is that people are not submitting possible entries. The second is > I don't have time... If you are on OS X you can create an Automator application (not workflow) that will auto Quit after it's sent out an email to this List ask

Re: Mac App Store Submission

Wouldn't a better option be for this to reside here: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/community-docs/docs/guides The guide would then be readily available via the Dictionary, a logical place to look rather than just another URL one has to find. It would also mean the guide is available o

Re: Looking for parser for Email (MIME)

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 6:03 PM, Roland Huettmann > I find it VERY convenient since the actual file creation > date is not of importance. The content of the file is important. For > example, a Word document has a date of the Content (a letter for example, > or a contract). Why should this not be re

Re: LC8 DP16

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:41 AM, William Prothero wrote: >If you have two stacks open, then try to create a new card in the stack in the >front, it creates doesn’t create a card in the selected stack. It appears at >the top of the Project Browser, on a line by itself or in the other stack. > Not

Re: Delete the first entry of an array.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 3:33 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: > delete pList[“numbers”] 1 ## Is this > the correct syntax? No. Shouldn't it be: delete variable pList["number"][1] At least that works for me, although in your case I think, if I understand it corre

[OT] KickStarter - OLO 3d Printer

For anyone interested in 3D printing, or just a runaway KickStarter campaign: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/olo3d/olo-the-first-ever-smartphone-3d-printer Where will technology take us tomorrow? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: [OT] KickStarter - OLO 3d Printer

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I ordered mine in the first half-hour after it went live. > Well you could have shared that,... or did I miss the email. All the cheap pledges have long since gone... although seriously, the price to cool ratio is still way awesome and I thi

Re: [OT] KickStarter - OLO 3d Printer

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > ...and I completely missed the fact that there were a couple hundred $99 > dual printer sets being offered as an easter egg. > Not only that, I've since read that as a lead up to the KickStarter Solido3D ran a competition where the winners wer

Re: Preferences file

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Don't know why it wasn't there earlier today. > Took the cats to the vet, came back, and there it was. > Mountain Lion was the last cat friendly OS X. ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > That's precisely why I advocate maintaining the Dictionary as an essential > reference (as in "essence"); it should be easy to link to relevant tutorials > and guides for more complete discussion when desired. > Could you give me an example

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 9:45 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > How do we do that. Via Git hub? we pull the entry edit and then push back > with changes? > Those who want to contribute will find Ali's guide essential: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/community-docs/docs/contributing

Re: Why isn't isoToMac anymore needed with LC 8 custom props?

On Fri, Apr 1, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Am I right, that the text now is stored in Unicode in the > custom property, when I save the file on windows and therefore I don't have > to translate it anymore on Mac, If by file you mean LC stack file then you're OK. If by file you me

Re: File exists

On Sat, Apr 2, 2016 at 4:48 PM, JB wrote: > If I open a file for read or write and the file does > not exist it will be created. Just to clarify, that statement is incorrect. If you open a file for 'write' and the file does not exist, it will be created. if you open a file for 'read' and the fi

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 3:36 PM, Charles Warwick wrote: > > There will be limitations on what I can do depending on the volume of > requests that come through..., please > feel free to contact me directly. > Charles, THANK YOU so much for offering, but can I suggest that instead such requests are p

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Yeah, not my favorite either. Whilst I don't wish to kerb anyone's enthusiasm to contribute to Max's or anyone else's Wiki, I do have two concerns. Clearly, the spare time of this Community to contribute to any community effort (be it bug r

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 3:27 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >posting requests to the list will > add too much irritating noise; That's why I suggested prefixing the subject with [DOC] so as people can quickly filter out subjects they are not interested in. Thank you those who use [ANN] [BUG] and [OT] -

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Mark Wieder wrote: >But I do want to say that there's fascinating reading in >https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3518#issuecomment-205199749 If you've had a look at that thread you'll see some of it is related to the Instructions for using the Web Interface to access the Docs on Github. As

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Just to be clear, you don't need to use gitHub, etc. to work on any of the > files. The web interface is easy enough to use. You just have to get to > the file you want to edit, Hit the edit button, make your changes, explain > them, and you

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 2:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Monte's already pointed you to Ali's Web Interface Instructions. > Why are the doc files in the *engine* category? Wouldn't one logically > look in the IDE category? When you use the Web Interface the docs are logically located in the comm

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Another thing to do would be to go through a pre-8 dictionary and look at > entries with user notes. Those aren't included in the LC 8 dictionary and > if you see some that are useful, add them to the main description. > > Monte, are you

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:54 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/11/2016 6:58 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > >> instead use the community-docs >> branch athttps://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/community-docs >> and make edits there. Maybe that is obvious to others; it wasn’t to >> me. >> > > There's n

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:08 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> If there's a community branch, it's another secret link. >> > > Found it, it's buried under all the bug fixes. Basically you have to know > it exists and type it into the combo box field to get there. > > After the very first visit, kno

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

rlier post. On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:08 AM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > >> >>> If there's a community branch, it's another secret link. >>> >> >> Found it, it's buried under all t

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 10:31 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I think it says "object" should only be used for glossary entries: > > No that is not what it's saying. You will find that there are 3 separate lcdocs relating to fields: keyword, object and glossary - you can tell from the URL without c

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

> > On Apr 11, 2016, at 8:31 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > > > > I think it says "object" should only be used for glossary entries: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > Well, okay, but this confuses me. > > Devin > > In LC8 dp16 Dictionary, type in 'do state' and click on t

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Great! ___ 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

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Don't worry about being rude, you weren't really. Well inconsiderate and lacked empathy. Everyone reads things differently and their eyes catch something else on a web page. As Monte said, it's great that this is gathering a bit of mome

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:30 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > - A markdown previewer. I know Ali made a stab at this, but I wasn't able > to get it to work. > Do you have Ali's latest version of the preview.livecode stack? Sorry I tried to find a link to it but I can only find one to the previous versi

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 6:13 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I’ve thought about this and yes it would be feasible to do however there > are two things we know exist: > - good git gui’s - I like and often use SourceTree which is available for > Windows and Mac > - good text editors - I use Atom th

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > There’s no productivity gains in using a LC docs specific git gui only a > slightly reduced learning curve. I my LC Heaven there would be both :-) In the LC Dictionary you notice an error There is an Edit button to click on It retrieve

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > That sounds complicated. Getting to Heaven is never going to be easy... especially when it's my LC Heaven ;-) > > I’m not sure if it is easy to determine which doc is currently being > viewed in the dictionary. > When I visit the LC

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Don't you hate it when you hit Send and immediately realise there is a simpler solution. Don't need to ask for your fork name, I can just use the / livecode/livecode/ fork to demonstrate the same thing: on mouseUp put the htmltext of widget 1 of stack "revDictionary" into tText filter lines

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >