Re: LC8 Standalone field sizes.

2015-11-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
ks in advance, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscri

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
get the 'focal point' feature of SVG radial gradients working) - so hopefully this will be ready soon. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps __

Re: SQLite, keep connection open or close every time?

2015-11-26 Thread Mark Waddingham
nctly different use-case for which SQLite is intended for in terms of 'direct access'. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Setting the color of a field's border

2015-11-26 Thread Mark Waddingham
nd threeD is true then it will render it using the system theme which won't use most of the specified colors on the object as they are determined by the theme itself. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/

Re: SQLite, keep connection open or close every time?

2015-11-26 Thread Mark Waddingham
However, I suspect there might be a bit more overhead there as it would also have to lock access to any caches it might use to speed up accesses - unless it has per-thread ones. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/

Re: Death of the Application Browser

2015-11-26 Thread Mark Waddingham
p-10. This was a bug, which was quickly rectified after you pointed out its omission. So, stop writing apologia for Peter and Ali: it is so flipping obvious Richard is not writing apologia. He was merely stating facts - which he checked before posting :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark

Re: Floating Point

2015-11-27 Thread Mark Waddingham
Have a look at binaryEncode - I believe that has a formatter for an IEEE double encoding. Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Nov 2015, at 17:49, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I'm working with a third party API that requires me to supply one of the > parameter values in floating point notation. The

Re: WMVCore.dll?

2015-12-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
it is not required if no Media like audio or movies are used? We will probably have to try and weak-link that particular dependency. Could you file a bug report, and we'll look into it. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCod

Re: Fun programming challenge

2015-12-07 Thread Mark Waddingham
Although it's important to remember that shift left by n bits is the same as multiplying by 2^n, and right is the same as div by 2^n. Rotate is a little trickier, admittedly. Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Dec 2015, at 14:00, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >> On 07/12/2015 13:45, Geoff Canyon wrot

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-09 Thread Mark Waddingham
your question is simply that: a) It is not entirely obvious what 'sort the words of' should do. b) The case of sorting a list of single space separated things is already available by fiddling with delimiters and using item/line chunks. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-09 Thread Mark Waddingham
limiter' in this context. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-09 Thread Mark Waddingham
temdelimiters too, but nevertheless the sorting function works, as in >>>> this >>>> example : >>>> get "12,5,,4,10,,,11,24" >>>> sort items of it ascending numeric >>>> >>>> it returns ,,,4,5,10,11,12,24

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
les that define those are not simple - and I'm not sure there exists a choice of delimiter which would not (at least in some cases) change the set of parts you get in a recombined output string (i.e. you can probably construct examples where invariant (2) is broken). Warmest Regards, Mark.

Re: Release 8.0 DP 11

2015-12-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-12-10 19:21, Peter Haworth wrote: I've found two bugs already but the QCC does not have an option to specify DP11 in the version dropdown. Thanks for the heads up - there should now be a DP11 option. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-11 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-12-11 07:56, Kay C Lan wrote: 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 w

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
ined gives you: bar,c,c,c,foo Which breaks up as: [bar] [,c,] [c] [,c,] [foo] This breaks the proposed invariant rules. Thus, the invariant argument for determining what 'sort' is essentially useless already - it doesn't generalize to the features we've already ad

Re: sorting words ?

2015-12-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
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. 3) Rebuild the string replacing the original ranges in the original string with the reordered

Re: Licensing issues [was: Re: LC 8 DP 11]

2015-12-14 Thread Mark Waddingham
r it), then you are entitled to use it. If you find that you cannot activate a version of LiveCode which you think you should be able to, please contact supp...@livecode.com to let them know and we'll investigate. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ htt

Re: LC 7.1 possible bug

2015-12-14 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi Richmond, There's no explicit limitation on the number of objects beyond 'available memory' so it won't be anything like that. Things to check: Does the problem happen in 6.7? Does the problem happen in 8? What are the names of the images you have generated? How many images are needed to bre

Re: Stored procedures like using in livecode ..

2015-12-17 Thread Mark Waddingham
;" into tSQL revExecuteSQL ConID, tSQL Someone else had an issue working out how to do this... You can see the conversation in the thread on this quality center report: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13700 Comment #6 is probably the key one. If you want to return a result set,

Re: Player Object in HTML 5?

2015-12-18 Thread Mark Waddingham
region of +/-20ms would not be noticeable in any use-case involving sound playback being tied to visual feedback. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ us

Re: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY and El Capitan

2015-12-18 Thread Mark Waddingham
ort with the crash logs you are getting so we can take a look? Thanks in advance, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pl

Re: Ineffective backGroundColor

2015-12-18 Thread Mark Waddingham
nd setting the backgroundPixel will end up setting the backgroundColor to a non-named color with the derived RGB tripe - which is why you can use that line of code to convert named colors to their RGB counterparts. Of course, one could argue there should be a more obvious way :) Warmest Rega

Re: Licensing issues [was: Re: LC 8 DP 11]

2015-12-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
lation and licensing issues. However, I can assure you that they are entirely unrelated. We are still investigating a couple of issues in this area, but have yet got enough data to be able to determine what the problem might be. Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.li

Re: "fork" command?

2016-01-08 Thread Mark Waddingham
uot;fork" call, after I finish Love's book I may brush up on my C skills and give it a go. No need to 'brush up' on your C skills. Something along the lines of the following in LiveCode Builder should work: library module org.livecode.fork foreign handler _Fork() returns CI

Re: HTML5 update: why it is slow?

2016-01-08 Thread Mark Waddingham
n try and make non-blocking wait work. At least that way round some things become possible in the HTML5 engine, even if you have to rewrite some code to make it so. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can creat

Re: HTML5 update: why it is slow?

2016-01-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
ncelled' exception to be generated in the context of that task so it could clean itself up. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Arrays: digitally signing them

2016-01-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
Usually a digital signature is applied to a specific sequence of bytes so needing a canonical representation isn't necessary. (They are used to ensure the specific bytes are as signed). What's the reason for requiring ordered keys in this case? Note that utf-8 has multiple representations per s

Re: Multi-platform development.

2016-01-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
This isn't so much about 'multi-platform' development but about designing apps for different interaction / display combinations. I'd say the key thing is to separate your design into modelcontroller and view. In the ideal case a UI is a 'thin' layer on top of an API based model which encodes al

Re: Multi-platform development.

2016-01-20 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-01-20 16:53, Bob Sneidar wrote: On Jan 12, 2016, at 11:26 , Mark Waddingham mailto:m...@livecode.com>> wrote: Simple things like not putting code in a mouseUp, but instead just get it to call an action function in the core part of the application (independent of UI) help imm

Re: mouse button

2016-01-22 Thread Mark Waddingham
buntu the same buttons are mouse(0,1,2). Is that how mouse() is supposed to work, or is that a bug? That sounds like a bug to me - button numbers should be consistent across platforms... Could you file a report in the Quality Center? Thanks! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~

Re: launch document problem

2016-01-27 Thread Mark Waddingham
the file reference url is valid in Safari but would be nice to have a way to have the filepth not be converted to a file reference url. Given that Kay observed that 'launch document with' works, but 'launch document' does not I suspect it should be easy to figure ou

Re: Explicit Variables

2016-01-28 Thread Mark Waddingham
That should work fine. The explicitVars property is only set in the IDE around code which compiles / sets object scripts (i.e. In the script editor). It is false the rest of the time. Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 29 Jan 2016, at 02:45, Kay C Lan wrote: > > Not a discussion about the pros a

Re: Questions: Setting the borderWidth (lineSize) of a graphic through script

2016-01-29 Thread Mark Waddingham
er around the control - whether this is visible or not depends on the value of the showBorder property. The lineSize property is distinct and is specific to graphic objects - it sets the stroke width used to render the graphic's shape. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@liv

Re: Questions: Setting the borderWidth (lineSize) of a graphic through script

2016-01-29 Thread Mark Waddingham
aren't exactly synonyms, as what they are synonymous with depends on the object type! BorderWidth works fine on graphics here - you set the showBorder to true, and set the borderWidth. You'll get the original shape inset by the borderWidth with the border drawn around it. Warmest

Re: Explicit Variables

2016-01-29 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-01-29 19:34, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Waddingham wrote: Is my understanding correct, or has the engine implementation of explicitVars changed? Heh - no - I misread Kay's post... Whenever I see 'explicitVariables' mentioned I tend to think of 'Strict Compilation M

Re: Using [ Control "SomeImageName" ] VS [image "SomeImageName"]

2016-02-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
en that usage has no impact on the difficulty of having *distributed* version control in LC... -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com P

Re: Can Handler Know What Params It Should Have

2016-02-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
, and param(i) which returns the value (not converted to a string) of the i'th parameter passed to the current call. Perhaps something like a 'paramName(i)' function? Can you give more information about your use-case? Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@liv

Re: Multiple Mobile Shutdown Messages?

2016-02-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
was before it was put into the background and you need to do nothing. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

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

2016-02-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
mattedRect for this. set the vScroll of field 1 to item 2 of the formattedRect of - the top of field 1 You might have to apply a small amount of 'fudge' to take into account any margins and such... Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/

Re: AppleScript vs VBScript

2016-02-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
riable called 'result' in the snippet and set that to the return value you want LiveCode to see (in that snippet). Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _

Re: export variables to launched process?

2016-02-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
n process ... for ... Should both have the effect that the launched process will see 'somevar' as specified. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ us

Re: LC8 Save command

2016-02-05 Thread Mark Waddingham
That's correct - the stackfileversion is by default the most recent the engine understands. Saving stackfiles in a legacy version is an IDE semantic in the IDE save routines - it stores a custom property on the stack. On the other hand it is the engine which identifies whether a stackfiles is t

Re: Drag off palette

2016-02-05 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi Peter, Have a look at the tools palette code - it creates a stack and puts a control in it. Then it uses a repeat / wait loop to track the pointer and manage the stack. Warmest regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 6 Feb 2016, at 01:01, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > > Can anyone share the

Re: Printing a revBrowser

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
geData does not carry the size of the image - it is just xRGB bytes. You need to make sure you're image is the same size as the browser you are taking a snapshot of first. Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ Live

Re: Printing a revBrowser

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
ay it on the screen (with any degree of performance, at least). Indeed, this is something we need to still hook up for native widgets (the 'OnPaint' handler of widgets isn't called in the native case, so printing them will have no effect). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Wa

Re: Printing a revBrowser

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-02-10 17:06, Terence Heaford wrote: On 10 Feb 2016, at 15:57, Mark Waddingham wrote: If you look at Safari on a Mac it defaults to not printing backgrounds. On inspection of the print dialogue box you will notice a checkbox to Print Backgrounds towards the bottom of the window. On

Re: Printing a revBrowser

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
-browsers-to-print-background-images-in-css Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Printing a revBrowser

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
vecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16903 Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: AW: is find or offset with wildcards possible?

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
n use array elements too. i.e. returnMoveThanOneValue "1,2", tArray[1], tArray[2] Will work. Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-li

Re: Default font for new objects

2016-02-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
e a report in the quality center with some screen shots and details of your platform that would help immensely. For the time being, you can turn off the new native themeing feature by setting the theme property of the stack to 'legacy'. Hope this helps, Mark. -- Mark Wa

Re: Replacing Stacks in Memory

2016-02-16 Thread Mark Waddingham
the new one ditched. Now, a stack loaded with the above form will not have a filename, so 'revert' won't work. Instead, you'll probably need to do: delete stack go url ... Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode

Re: local and do - what NOT to do

2016-02-18 Thread Mark Waddingham
that it is better to do: do "put empty into tVar_" & x Rather than using 'local' as then you can mix dynamic vars with those declared at the point of compilation without issue. (As 'local' requires that the variable has *not* been previously defined whethe

Re: local and do - what NOT to do

2016-02-18 Thread Mark Waddingham
than using 'do' which is horrendously inefficient - after all it has to compile the snippet of code you want to do and then execute it... As opposed to just executing what has previously been compiled if you don't use 'do'. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingh

Re: Web Browser in LC 8

2016-02-20 Thread Mark Waddingham
The browser widget works on all platforms and should do so uniformly - any platform specific aspects will be marked in the dictionary as such in the usual way. So there is no need to do anything different for android or iOS - it should 'just work'. Mark Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Feb

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

2016-02-23 Thread Mark Waddingham
ng has changed) unless the commands are executed inside of a lock screen... Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: leap to future

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
ng as they also abide by the GPL). So whilst the Community edition is 'free' (as in beer), it also enforces freedom on any code you write with it :) Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Ever

Re: leap to future

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
7;s quite enough of that sort of thing in the world already!). If you want to use HTML5, but don't have a Indy license for deployment with - you are free to use the Community edition, but remember that you must abide by the terms of the GPL. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Wadding

Re: Hi-Res Images at Natural Size?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
t on (say) a 27" iMac is that of 51ppi. The lower the ppi, the less sharp things will appear :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode maili

Re: Hi-Res Images at Natural Size?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
size direct to the screen - and not via the number of logical pixels). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: Hi-Res Images at Natural Size?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
.com> wrote: > >> Small tip on the zooming your desktop image: The zooming feature has an >> option to do smoothing, which I imagine defaults to on. You want to turn >> that off if you are using zooming as a debug technique. With it turned >> off, zoom becomes a

Re: Players in HTML5 - ETA for Full Functionality?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
I think most modern web apps you see run ui locally (client side) and then use an http-based server API to manage the 'cloud' side. The advantage of this approach is that you end up with a good separation between client and server, meaning the client can be implemented on any platform (and usin

Re: Players in HTML5 - ETA for Full Functionality?

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
When it comes down to it, there is a direct parallel between wanting to use native html5 elements in a LiveCode html5 app and wanting to use native (system provided) controls on mobile. There are still a couple of technical hurdles to overcome to make this possible in the html5 port, but for th

Re: Players in HTML5 - ETA for Full Functionality?

2016-02-26 Thread Mark Waddingham
. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Mark Waddingham
ill pick up any files without extensions as text files. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-01 Thread Mark Waddingham
o build it (the receiver has to be able to recreate what they received); or using some sort of code obfuscation process on any of the source files which they distributed (the receiver has to be able to modify the code effectively if they wish). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m.

Re: beggars be choosers

2016-03-01 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-01 19:20, RM wrote: On 1.03.2016 20:15, stephen barncard wrote: you guys are too intellectual for me...{ducking} So, if you aren't going to let me have a tin, where's the duck? You'll be asking for a duck in a tin next! ;) Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@live

Re: beggars be choosers

2016-03-01 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-01 19:45, RM wrote: On 1.03.2016 20:44, Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2016-03-01 19:20, RM wrote: On 1.03.2016 20:15, stephen barncard wrote: you guys are too intellectual for me...{ducking} So, if you aren't going to let me have a tin, where's the duck? You'll be as

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
primitives we have yet implemented. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
When you do this you do have to take into account the fact that cards might have a vertical scroll due to menus (that mysterious 22 px) - you can get the current scroll amount by using 'the vscroll of stack ...'. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
ctually get the pixels directly out of a native layer depends entirely on what 'kind' the native layer is and whether the platform lets you do that kind of thing. See my other post for more details. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.co

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
won't be all because that simply isn't possible. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
y how each individual wants it to work ;) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
torial of that on the amCharts site), or building a web page with all that you wish to print and using the 'window.print()' method - taking LiveCode out of the equation entirely. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyo

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
: property Syntax: set the javascriptHandlers of to get the javascriptHandlers of Summary: A list of LiveCode handlers that are made available to JavaScript calls within the browser. ——— Take a look at the "do in widget" command in the dictionary. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
id=17053). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and ma

Summary: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
onable. Obviously supp...@livecode.com is always there to help answer your questions about licensing... However, please do remember that you can universally answer the 'do I need a commercial license' question yourself. If you want to give LiveCode programs you have written to

Summary: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
onable. Obviously supp...@livecode.com is always there to help answer your questions about licensing... However, please do remember that you can universally answer the 'do I need a commercial license' question yourself. If you want to give LiveCode programs you have written to

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 16:44, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer. Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to give you the perfect UI that

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
t explain what you are seeing? Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
eally it wouldn't have to rely on the same set of object manipulation messages as user stacks do (hence the current problem with palettes not updating when lock messages is in effect). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Ev

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-03 Thread Mark Waddingham
st when trying to use the mouse on the stack itself) so it might well do better in the property inspector... Perhaps under an 'advanced' tab where users won't accidentally set it and then be puzzled why Edit mode no longer works like Edit mode for that object! Warmest Regards, M

Re: Does revert command not work on palettes?

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
tp://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17061 Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
al browse mode event handling to take place - which is defined on a per-object basis. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing li

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
rely out of the question at some point. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: [Blog] Script Only Stacks

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
ript only stacks is simple, and it guarantees that there is no non-code related 'churn' in script only stack files. The latter is really important for VCS needs. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.liv

Re: [Blog] Script Only Stacks

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
so we can take a look? Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: [Blog] Script Only Stacks

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
yTest” Rather than script "MyTest" You also have paired quotes around the string in the put too... You might want to turn off this 'cleverness' of your preferred text editor when writing script-only stacks! Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com

Re: LC8 DP 15 - Lost All Selection Handles

2016-03-04 Thread Mark Waddingham
. Even after rebooting LC this behavior now persists. Any way to get them back? I'm guessing you have 'acceleratedRendering' turned on - http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16991 This will be fixed in dp-16. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@live

Re: Write to IPTC Core Data of Image Files?

2016-03-10 Thread Mark Waddingham
he_Metadata_in_JPEG_files) - although that will require a fair bit of 'bit bashing' to do. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: Trying to understand the inner workings of Resizestack

2016-03-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
elements in LiveCode being tied to mouse messages - i.e. you get mouseUp when a button has been clicked upon rather than an explicit 'action' type message). Anyway, I couldn't find any report of this in the quality center so I filed it here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_b

Re: Trying to understand the inner workings of ResizeStack

2016-03-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
ipt is not unlock screen. Without actually seeing the flash and the code it is very difficulty to diagnose what the problem is. If you file a bug in the quality center with a sample stack and recipe, we can take a look. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.

Re: Modularity

2016-03-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
point out, however, that the largest code carrying parts of the engine are already optional - that would be things like revXml, revDB and drivers, revBrowser etc. They are only included if you ask and they can be weighty because they include third-party libraries which are not necessarily modular an

Re: Trying to understand the inner workings of ResizeStack

2016-03-15 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-15 10:15, Terence Heaford wrote: On 15 Mar 2016, at 09:03, Mark Waddingham wrote: 5. Is it necessary to call lock screen in myUpdateGeometry and dispatch “refreshChart”? No - the screen is implicitly locked before the resizeStack message is sent, and unlocked afterwards. Then

Re: ≠ or not equal

2016-03-16 Thread Mark Waddingham
in MacRoman, not Windows-1252 or 8859-1 (the encodings used pre-7 on Windows and Linux) and since the engine only previously worked with the native encoding of the platform it was only ever supported on Mac. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecod

Re: RevBrowser in 8.0.0 DP 15

2016-03-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
l browser into the widget's URL property and have it do the same thing. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: server difficulties coming from LC7, or new host?

2016-03-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
es until you are ready to move forward. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: Release 6.7.10 / 7.1.3

2016-03-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
The stack rect will be whatever it was the last time you saved the stack. Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 16 Mar 2016, at 19:34, Terence Heaford wrote: > > I must be losing it, I could have swore the previous versions saved the > current size of the stack when closed > and reinstated to that s

Re: Re: ≠ or not equal

2016-03-19 Thread Mark Waddingham
area of all programming languages is up to scratch. Indeed, the general discussion internally ended up with the idea that a Script Editor feature which did an element of 'auto-correct' would be a far far better way to go. i.e. If you type "==" or "!=" in a place

Re: Give somebody something good, and they demand more.

2016-03-22 Thread Mark Waddingham
The general plan is to allow the tools palette to be more configurable in the future. As the number of widgets available to be installed grows, there will need to be an effective way for users to manage that. The first step was generalising the tools palette to display a dynamic quantity of too

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