Re: Multiple key firings

2016-04-24 Thread RM
you tap it, does it run once? But held down it runs multiple? You might look at "flushEvents()" and see if it helps. On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:23 AM, RM wrote: I wonder why this: on rawKeyDown RKD if RKD = 65432 then put item 1 of the loc of img "LB" in

Re: Bugs in 8.0.0 RC1 and trying to convince a colleague that LC is *not* flaky

2016-04-25 Thread RM
I must be stupid, but this makes no sense to me at all: "Open the script editor and search for some text that doesn't exist" The thing that surprised me was when, on opening the script editor for a button LiveCode (err . . . RunRev) went from nothing to "on mouseUp". And the fact that a scrip

Re: OT: Who can convert 3.5" diskettes with Hypercard stacks for me?

2016-04-26 Thread RM
I'm perfectly happy to transfer Hypercard stacks from floppy disks to a CD-ROM as I have 2 functioning Macs (a G3 iMac and a G5 iMac) and an external (USB) floppy drive. However, I wonder why you don't just buy yourself an external floppy drive: http://www.amazon.de/CSL-Externes-Diskettenlaufw

Re: Windows Media

2016-04-28 Thread RM
Great News if you are only developing for Windows. I am well aware that Windows represents the Lion's share of installed desktop operating systems,. However, clever and super as this is, it does mean that the idea of developing on one platform and then deploying to many without any platform-spec

Images in Tabs

2016-04-28 Thread RM
Um, well, votes? http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27143 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.

Re: AW: Windows Media

2016-04-28 Thread RM
[mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von RM Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. April 2016 09:12 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re: Windows Media Great News if you are only developing for Windows. I am well aware that Windows represents the Lion's share of installed desktop operat

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-04-29 Thread RM
54 and loving it! Richmond. On 29.04.2016 08:43, Erik Beugelaar wrote: For who it may concern... (I am 49...;-) Adrian Kosmaczewski destroys any concerns you may have about becoming an older developer (19 minute read): http://bit.ly/1qWJy53 Have a nice day! Erik ___

Multiple find and replaces across a whole, monster stack

2016-04-29 Thread RM
It looks as if I will have to movethe codebase of my Devawriter from Livecode 4.5 to Livecode 7.0 or later to leverage high plane unicode characters. To do this will involve converting all the numToChar stuff to numToCodePoint stuff, and I have no great urge () to do the thousands and thou

Re: Nelly the Elephant

2016-04-29 Thread RM
I installed my latest version of my "Devawriter" font that has a compliment of Grantha glyphs in the Unicode slots allotted for them. Livecode pre-7.0 displays NO warning, it just truncates Unicode numbers over 12536 (Hex 30F8) and then produces the unicode character that is in that numbered s

Re: Sorting a list

2016-04-29 Thread RM
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10505 Richmond. On 29.04.2016 22:25, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: acoustics acoustic acoustical acoustically ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Re: Nelly the Elephant

2016-04-30 Thread RM
And, now, at last, I really begin to appreciate the hard work done by Fraser Gordon et al: https://livecode.com/examining-unicode-part-i-the-dissection/ https://livecode.com/examining-unicode-part-ii-digesting-text/ AND, soes anyone know of a desktop programs (Win/Lin/Mac) to calculate surrog

Re: Nelly the Elephant

2016-04-30 Thread RM
Thanks; I've been using that one for some time. Now I'm trying to work out the underlying Maths . . . Richmond. On 30.04.2016 15:07, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 30 Apr 2016, at 19:47, RM wrote: soes anyone know of a desktop programs (Win/Lin/Mac) to calculate surrog

Re: Nelly the Elephant

2016-04-30 Thread RM
Hey, the things I do to get my kicks: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27162 Richmond. On 30.04.2016 15:07, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 30 Apr 2016, at 19:47, RM wrote: soes anyone know of a desktop programs (Win/Lin/Mac) to calculate surrogate pairs? Dorry I d

Re: Nelly the Elephant

2016-04-30 Thread RM
Cop this: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27162 Richmond. On 30.04.2016 15:56, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 30 Apr 2016, at 20:15, RM wrote: Thanks; I've been using that one for some time. Now I'm trying to work out the underlying Maths . . . Richmond.

Re: Nelly the Elephant

2016-04-30 Thread RM
So I found out after I'd had some lunch :) R. On 30.04.2016 16:18, Colin Holgate wrote: The calculations are explained lower in that page. On Apr 30, 2016, at 8:15 AM, RM wrote: Thanks; I've been using that one for some time. Now I'm trying to work out the u

Hexier and Hexier

2016-04-30 Thread RM
That's me, the ultimate Hex-object of 2016. However, as it is that time of the month I'm not really feeling Hexxy at all, so I wrote a little something for those, who like me, while not needing a cold shower could do with the odd Decimal number here and there: http://forums.livecode.com/viewt

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-04-30 Thread RM
I feel refreshingly young at 54, and having done my first programming in 1975, and seen my first computer that I could actually program directly (rather than by punching holes in cards) in 1976. Good on you chaps. Richmond. On 30.04.2016 19:55, Graham Samuel wrote: Keep going Francis! You bea

Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-04-30 Thread RM
I have just been informed that an end-user is unable to get the Intel Mac build of my Devawriter Pro running on el Capitan (Mac OS 10.11). Currently Devawriter Pro is developed using Livecode 4.5. I will try this out on my wife's el Capitan MacBook tomorrow. However, I should be grateful for f

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-04-30 Thread RM
On 1.05.2016 00:07, Paul Dupuis wrote: On 4/30/2016 4:48 PM, RM wrote: I have just been informed that an end-user is unable to get the Intel Mac build of my Devawriter Pro running on el Capitan (Mac OS 10.11). Currently Devawriter Pro is developed using Livecode 4.5. I will try this out on

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-01 Thread RM
Please do not mention my roof: I was up there after a few really violent April showers messing around with a blow torch on the tar-paper - and I'm scared of heights. Nobody is going to spin me the vast amount required to RENT Livecode Commercial. AND I really DON'T want to RENT anything: I wa

Doing Maths in Hex

2016-05-01 Thread RM
Is it possible for Livecode to do Mathematics in Hexadecimal? Or, am I going to have to shove Hex numbers through a Hex-to-Decimal meat grinder, do the Math(s) and then shove the result through a Decimal-to-Hex meat grinder . . . . . . all going to be a pain-in-the-b quite frankly (especially

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-01 Thread RM
Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of RM Sent: zondag 1 mei 2016 09:41 To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Standalones on el Capitan? Please do not mention my roof: I was up there after a few really violent April showers messing around wi

The opposite of 'mod'

2016-05-01 Thread RM
It must be somewhere on the sunny side of 40 years since I did anything like this: probably with Mrs Whitaker when I was about 10 (1972) . . . and she, poor woman, has probably been gathered to the Great Primary Maths Classroom in the sky. So: here I am mucking around trying to convert Decimal nu

Re: The opposite of 'mod'

2016-05-01 Thread RM
And before somebody mentions 'numberFormat" it turns 843285.6875 into 843286 because it rounds the 0.6875 up: fioch! R. On 1.05.2016 12:59, RM wrote: It must be somewhere on the sunny side of 40 years since I did anything like this: probably with Mrs Whitaker when I was abou

Re: The opposite of 'mod'

2016-05-01 Thread RM
Hey; My old friend Nelly the Elephant: trunc R. On 1.05.2016 13:08, RM wrote: And before somebody mentions 'numberFormat" it turns 843285.6875 into 843286 because it rounds the 0.6875 up: fioch! R. On 1.05.2016 12:59, RM wrote: It must be somewhere on the sunny side of 40 yea

Re: Hexier and Hexier

2016-05-01 Thread RM
I've just bought myself some Leopard-skin posing briefs; if you don't believe me; go and have a look: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27163&p=141874#p141874 Love, "I'm just too much" Richmond. On 30.04.2016 18:18, RM wrote: That's me, the

Re: The opposite of 'mod'

2016-05-01 Thread RM
Thanks Dick and Monte, but I'm sure that isn't what Mrs Whitaker used :) I have already found a way using 'trunc'. Richmond. On 1.05.2016 13:19, Monte Goulding wrote: div ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: The opposite of 'mod'

2016-05-01 Thread RM
Phone On 1 May 2016, at 9:01 PM, RM wrote: I have already found a way using 'trunc' ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pr

Re: Hexier and Hexier

2016-05-01 Thread RM
in Base 16 (to say nothing of my own limitations in that respect). Richmond. On 1.05.2016 13:57, RM wrote: I've just bought myself some Leopard-skin posing briefs; if you don't believe me; go and have a look: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27163&p=141874#p1418

Re: Hexier and Hexier

2016-05-01 Thread RM
No. On 1.05.2016 20:02, Jerry Jensen wrote: Have you seen the baseConvert() function? In the dictionary. On May 1, 2016, at 8:58 AM, RM wrote: I have now included a "catcher so that when you try to decode a Hexadecimal number of the form "123WP2A" it will catch you out and

Re: Hexier and Hexier

2016-05-01 Thread RM
ote: Have you seen the baseConvert() function? In the dictionary. On May 1, 2016, at 8:58 AM, RM wrote: I have now included a "catcher so that when you try to decode a Hexadecimal number of the form "123WP2A" it will catch you out and point out that that isn't a Hex number.

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-01 Thread RM
I'm getting there, slowly: my beard is about 50% white now: Hey, wait, that must mean I'm 50% of a programmer! There's hope for me yet. Richmond. On 1.05.2016 20:25, stephen barncard wrote: On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 11:05 AM, wrote: I don't feel so old anymore. I thought everyone on this li

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-02 Thread RM
Blast, I said I wouldn't write any more: but this one really "takes the biscuit". I don't think this is solely Apple's or Livecode's problem, I think it is a general tendency where "programming" (and there is a contentious word) has polarised into 2 camps: 1. The "Hard Chaps" (at the risk of

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-02 Thread RM
On 2.05.2016 11:40, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 02/05/2016 09:36, RM wrote: My spending has now stopped, and will not start again as I simply do not have $999 for any software whatsoever. Maybe you should have purchased a subscription during one of the _many_ "$299/year forever" o

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-02 Thread RM
On 2.05.2016 13:31, Lyn Teyla wrote: Stephen Barncard wrote: obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately. More white hair and ponytails on old folks than an AES convention. The cool geeks club. I’ve got nothing against younger or older people at all, but: Whenever I come across photos of

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
That's a very well constructed bit of text and I tend to agree with you re "the best way to get the resources required for maintaining and improving the Open Source edition of LiveCode is actually to add Business-only features." I don't know whether RunRev's "goods and services" section is attra

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-02 Thread RM
On 2.05.2016 15:46, John Dixon wrote: Subject: Re: Standalones on el Capitan? To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com From: peter.br...@livecode.com Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 09:40:32 +0100 On 02/05/2016 09:36, RM wrote: My spending has now stopped, and will not start again as I simply do not have

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing

2016-05-02 Thread RM
On 2.05.2016 15:56, Paul Dupuis wrote: This really is a pointless discussion and I know people will find that comment offensive and it is not intended to be. No, I cannot see how that is offensive. BUT, water does wear away stones, and while water does not wear away stones overnight, it does

Re: Standalones on el Capitan?

2016-05-02 Thread RM
ode@lists.runrev.com From: richmondmathew...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 16:34:43 +0300 On 2.05.2016 15:46, John Dixon wrote: Subject: Re: Standalones on el Capitan? To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com From: peter.br...@livecode.com Date: Mon, 2 May 2016 09:40:32 +0100 On 02/05/2016 09:36, RM wro

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
fferentiation, and I understand your rationale), so paying $999 for a year for something whose single difference fron the FREE version is the ability to protect ones' code really does not seem justifiable. Richmond. On 2.05.2016 18:06, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 02/05/2016 14:31, RM

Re: How does one determine screen resolution with LiveCode?

2016-05-02 Thread RM
If either sysemPixelScale or screenPixelScale is anything other than 1 you have a high res monitor. R. On 2.05.2016 18:56, David Beck wrote: Thanks very much, Scott! -- Message: 25 Date: Sun, 1 May 2016 13:41:26 -0700 From: Scott Rossi To: How to use LiveCode S

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
I am well aware that the Free (GPL) version is amazingly valuable - I use it every day. All I am making a noise about is the vast difference between GPL and Commercial. R. On 2.05.2016 19:15, Richard Gaskin wrote: RM wrote: > ...paying $999 for a year for something whose single differe

The Open Source version of Livecode

2016-05-02 Thread RM
is a treasure which has to be protected, but how it is protected is a difficult question to answer. It never ceases to amaze me (especially after I got 32-bit Livecode working on 64-bit Linux) the advances in Livecode 8, and . . . . Richmond. ___ us

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
I was rather hoping the signal would come from the Mothership. R. On 2.05.2016 20:20, Richard Gaskin wrote: RM wrote: > All I am making a noise about is the vast difference between GPL and > Commercial. I agree that "noise" is a good word there. Perhaps it may be useful t

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-02 Thread RM
I'm not slobbering yet (well, except in anticipation at the first stable release of Livecode 8.0), nor is my father who is pushing 84, nor my mother who should be 86 this summer. However there are a fair few slobberers round the streets of Plovdiv; some of whom are younger than me. Whether t

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
I don't know about "clever Richmond", but what I do know about is lots of clever Primary and Secondary school kids (pace Grade/Middle/High) who come along, listen to my "wibble", watch me move chess pieces around the table, move beans around a mancala board, and then sit right down and dig into

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-02 Thread RM
No, can't match that, I'm running at only 40 years. Congratulations. Richmond. On 2.05.2016 22:22, Jerry Jensen wrote: On May 2, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittnay, Richard, nor to the 60-85 year old crowd (I'll become a slobbering old, senile whatsit

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
The Scots have been running the world for at least 300 years. Why do you think that about 50% of all Canadians, and a very large number of Americans have Scots names? After all, just look at Naomi Campbell! Richmond. On 2.05.2016 22:46, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On May 2, 2016, at 3:44 PM, Pe

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
Um: think very closely about "look at Naomi Campbell" :) Richmond. On 2.05.2016 23:16, Peter M. Brigham wrote: Richmond, as soon as I wrote that I just knew it would be a set-up line for you. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com On May 2, 2016, at 4:05 PM, RM wrote: The

Re: [OT] Atkinson Interview, Pt 2

2016-05-02 Thread RM
Aah, maybe that's why I have so much creative block : I don't drop LSD. Maybe they could add LSD tablets to the Commercial version of Livecode as an extra incentive . . . Richmond. On 3.05.2016 00:58, Jim Lambert wrote: I like that Atkinson revealed he got the idea for HyperCard while dropping

Re: [OT] Atkinson Interview, Pt 2

2016-05-02 Thread RM
On 3.05.2016 05:48, Lynn Fredricks wrote: I like that Atkinson revealed he got the idea for HyperCard while dropping LSD. Thirty years later we're still using a descendant of that idea. Are we experiencing a perpetual flashback? Nah, Flash is something else! Flash is somewhere between PCP and

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-02 Thread RM
Brazil or Bulgaria (Now why would I pick those 3 countries, I wonder?) they might look at you fairly blankly. "Private joke" for Andre: Hey, let's phone up Dilma Rousseff and ask her for a quick $2,000 to fund our startup. Richmond. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-03 Thread RM
From a purely selfish point of view (what, me, surely not?) I stated I wanted to PAY for something PERMANENT because I develop ONLY for desktop (and possibly HTML%) deployment. This is where we might need to discuss the sort of folowing scenario: 1. Permanent version that deploys standalones o

Re: drawing tools in LC 8

2016-05-03 Thread RM
Quite honestly I don't think they have been touched for donkey's ages, and they are not much use as they are at present. Richmond. On 3.05.2016 20:51, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I’m looking forward to a small coloring/drawing module for our big app. Little hacking today: Today I tried

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

2016-05-04 Thread RM
To this I would just like to point out that in my "other" email I have been offered the chance to PAY Livecode to fix THEIR bugs: https://livecode.com/services/priority-bug-fixes/ That seems a bit odd. Richmond. On 4.05.2016 09:53, Terence Heaford wrote: It seems to me as a “community” user t

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-04 Thread RM
Congratulations. Richmond. On 4.05.2016 17:12, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0, the first stable release of LiveCode 8. Read more about LiveCode 8 here: https://livecode.com/introducing-livecode-8/ Getting the Release ==

Re: Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

2016-05-04 Thread RM
I would suppose the ideal thing would be both something that allows one to render a PDF document, and extract all or part of an embedded text layer (if one exists in the original PDF). Richmond. On 4.05.2016 17:22, Richard Gaskin wrote: Tim Bleiler wrote: > The Livecode PDF viewer is an exam

Re: livecode.org [was: Release 8.0.0]

2016-05-04 Thread RM
Whacko! Richmond. On 4.05.2016 18:07, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 04/05/2016 15:28, jameshale wrote: Great news! Congrats to the team, well done. But as Colombo would say, there's just one more thing. Looking at the pricing page on the website you need to scroll to the bottom to see the op

Re: LiveCode 6.7 and 7.1 end of live [was: Release 8.0.0]

2016-05-04 Thread RM
Be happy; over at Richmond's place those releases will live on for an extended time; especially the last release of version 7 as it offers the perfect teaching interface without the "distractions" of what version 8 offers. I hope, however "end of life" version 7 is the ability to download it w

Re: Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

2016-05-04 Thread RM
I don't quite know where you got that idea from. I would be very much surprised if Kevin Miller had actually stated that; it might be that you concluded that on the basis of something he said; which is not the same thing at all. I would be extremely interested if you could post a link to that

Re: livecode.org [was: Release 8.0.0]

2016-05-05 Thread RM
le"? Err, sorry, that was just too hard to resist. Richmond. On 5.05.2016 20:58, Bob Sneidar wrote: As in Whack-a-mole as in you nailed it? Bob S On May 4, 2016, at 09:16 , RM mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: Whacko! Richmond. __

Props Palette 8

2016-05-07 Thread RM
I won't say anything about releasing Beta quality stuff as 'stable' because it has already been said loads of times, and . . . But there is a "more niggly thing", which many may regard as simply cosmetic, and I suppose it is, but it does seem a bit symptomatic . . . http://forums.livecode.com/v

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

2016-05-07 Thread RM
NBG: Stack here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27225 on arrowKey AWK switch AWK case "left" put item 1 of the loc of img "eight" into IT1 put item 2 of the loc of img "eight" into IT2 put (IT1 - 10) into IT1 move img "eight" to IT1, I

Getting text into a Livecode field

2016-05-07 Thread RM
So, I was mucking around trying to reduplicate/solve John Patten's problem with Arrow Keys in Livecode 8 (I reduplicated them: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27225), and thought I'd do what I usually do: enter some text in a field and do a quick "import snapshot" to get a label

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

2016-05-07 Thread RM
I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed, and what justifies such change. Richmond. On 7.05.2016 21:56, Scott Rossi wrote: If you want to recreate the behavior of previous versions of LC, you can do something like this: on arrowKey theKey if the selObj is

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

2016-05-07 Thread RM
Sat, May 7, 2016 at 1:24 PM, RM wrote: I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed, and what justifies such change. Richmond. On 7.05.2016 21:56, Scott Rossi wrote: If you want to recreate the behavior of previous versions of LC, you can do something like

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

2016-05-07 Thread RM
veCode Ltd. (at least, I hope it is). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/7/16, 12:24 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of RM" wrote: I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed, and what justifies such change. Richmond. O

Re: LC 8 speed advantages??

2016-05-08 Thread RM
Speed advantages are like many things; they depend on a large number of variables. I can imagine a test that runs much faster in 7 than in 8, and the other way round. I do have a feeling that the Livecode people have shifted their attention to slightly different goals with 8 than they were focus

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

2016-05-08 Thread RM
More: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27232 R. On 7.05.2016 21:38, RM wrote: So, I was mucking around trying to reduplicate/solve John Patten's problem with Arrow Keys in Livecode 8 (I reduplicated them: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27225), and t

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

2016-05-08 Thread RM
s Peter On 8 May 2016, at 15:44, RM wrote: More: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27232 R. On 7.05.2016 21:38, RM wrote: So, I was mucking around trying to reduplicate/solve John Patten's problem with Arrow Keys in Livecode 8 (I reduplicated them: http://forums.liv

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

2016-05-08 Thread RM
Picture indicating how inferior the new 'content' thing is: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27232 R. On 8.05.2016 12:43, RM wrote: Thanks for that, although a single line 'thing' does not "Do for me" what the previous field did. R. On 8.0

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

2016-05-08 Thread RM
2016 17:17, Randy Hengst wrote: Have you tried resizing the property palette window? When I have multiple lines entered into a field, I can see up to nine lines of the field in the “Content” tab. be well, randy Randy Hengst www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com On May 8, 2016, at 4:43 AM, RM wrot

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

2016-05-08 Thread RM
You have made me an extremely happy person! Thanks, Ali. Richmond. On 8.05.2016 17:37, Ali Lloyd wrote: The old style 'contents' pane will be reinstated in (probably) the next RC: https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/1159 On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:31 PM RM wrote: If

Re: Webinar

2016-05-09 Thread RM
Unfortunately I was at work, so couldn't watch the webinar. I would be most grateful if there were a link available for later viewing. Richmond. On 9.05.2016 21:40, Mark Talluto wrote: I am equally excited about 8. The webinar was very informative. -Mark On May 9, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Dar Sc

Re: Webinar

2016-05-10 Thread RM
http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=8404b344b09103bf489dd8a9a&id=6b47d04b9e&e=30cf6c38b4 R. On 9.05.2016 22:30, Jim Kanter wrote: They said it would go up on the blog soon. On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 3:25 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Mon, May 9, 2016 at 12:22 PM, RM wrote: I would

Wildcard?

2016-05-10 Thread RM
Well, here I am reading my "Revolution 1.1.1" User Guide because when I was soaking in a nice hot bath (an excellent location for thinking about Livecode) I suddenly thought of a "problem", which, on reflection congealed around the term "Wildcard". Now in the "Revolution 1.1.1" User Guide, page

Re: Wildcard?

2016-05-10 Thread RM
comment,à l'anglais). Richmond. On 10.05.2016 23:33, RM wrote: Well, here I am reading my "Revolution 1.1.1" User Guide because when I was soaking in a nice hot bath (an excellent location for thinking about Livecode) I suddenly thought of a "problem", which, on reflection co

Tiling games & custom props

2016-05-12 Thread RM
At last . . . http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=27268 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.co

Raising Money

2016-05-12 Thread RM
I really wonder about asking people for donations when one hasn't fulfilled all the promises one made last time people gave you money. R. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and ma

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread RM
This, oddly enough, excites me, for 2 reasons: 1. The "Stable" release version 8.0.0 is not feature complete, and is "quite wonky" on Linux 64-bit. 2. I am endlessly hopeful, naive and optimistic. I am looking forwards to some sort of in-built Dictionary in the Linux 64-bit build (and,

Re: Raising Money

2016-05-13 Thread RM
s not "American Politics". R. On 13.05.2016 18:13, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well then, you must be completely confounded with American Politics! ;-) Bob S On May 12, 2016, at 23:11 , RM wrote: I really wonder about asking people for donations when one hasn't fulfilled all the promise

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-14 Thread RM
On 14.05.2016 00:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/13/2016 2:02 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: My first gut reaction was "So, I and the other 24% minority of people paying for licenses are funding an awesome development tool that some 76% of you folks out there are using for free. What follows does no

Re: SVG Widgets Work Well -- User Contributions - Screen Casts

2016-05-14 Thread RM
Just one small addendum to Brahmanathaswami's good posting. On 14.05.2016 01:19, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… Go to iconfinder.com… download what you want as s

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-14 Thread RM
On 14.05.2016 02:06, Bob Sneidar wrote: On May 13, 2016, at 16:05 , Bob Sneidar wrote: Well you know, there are lies... and then there are damnable lies... and then there are detestably damnable lies... And then there are statistics! (roughly a quote of Mark Twain) Who I just discovered

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-14 Thread RM
-05-13 14:43 GMT-03:00 RM : I am looking forwards to some sort of in-built Dictionary in the Linux 64-bit build ​The 32-bits LC on 64-bits Linux call the default browser, instead stuck like 64-bits LC. With Chromium, the dictionary load fast and perfect.​ With Firefox, load erraticaly

Re: Defaults for groups

2016-05-14 Thread RM
Yes, this is a nuisance, on all versions of Livecode. When I combine a background image that is, say, 128 by 128 pixels with various front images to do either an "import snapshot" or an "export snapshot" (something I do on average about four times a day), I would love to end up with an image th

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-14 Thread RM
On 14.05.2016 11:40, Monte Goulding wrote: I'm not overly fond of the direction this conversation is going. Us v them is unproductive and there are many benefits to the platform for going open source. AND, as to "complaining"; I often wonder where one draws the lines between "complaints" po

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-14 Thread RM
I admit you are right. Richmond. On 14.05.2016 17:01, Richard Gaskin wrote: RM wrote: > AND, as to "complaining"; I often wonder where one draws the lines > between "complaints", positive criticism and negative criticism. I'd venture that filing a bug repor

[OT] Politics

2016-05-14 Thread RM
I'd just like to state that I'm sorry I made a political statement a few messages back (pace Donald Trump). Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscripti

Re: Defaults for groups

2016-05-14 Thread RM
I have just posted a solution to this problem here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27280 Richmond. On 14.05.2016 11:31, RM wrote: Yes, this is a nuisance, on all versions of Livecode. When I combine a background image that is, say, 128 by 128 pixels with various front im

Re: LC on VMWare?

2016-05-16 Thread RM
All I can tell you is that I run Livecode in VMWare running Windows 7 and have never had a problem with it running. I run standalone builds of mine (both locally generated, and generated on the host system [Linux]) without a blink. Admittedly this does not happen every day as I don't use Windows

Daft "text Editor" question

2016-05-18 Thread RM
Does anyone know of a word-processing type program that can open .rev and .livecode files so that one can see ALL the scripts of ALL the objects in one long document? This may sound a bit daft, but I am considering "refactoring" the code-base for my Devawriter Pro from pre version 7 to post ve

Re: Bullet • Mac/Win

2016-05-18 Thread RM
Dear Klaus, As Macintosh and Windows versions of Livecode, and the 2 operating systems, are Unicode compliant as long as you use the Unicode compliant bullet-point symbol [Hex 2022, Decimal 8226] there should be no reason why it should not cross from Mac to Windows without going "funny". htt

Re: Daft "text Editor" question

2016-05-18 Thread RM
es, save the thing, and reopen it in Livecode, and "Bob's yer Uncle". I wonder why Livecode is "so stuffy"? Richmond. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On May 18, 2016 5:05:02

Re: Bullet • Mac/Win

2016-05-18 Thread RM
chmond, Am 18.05.2016 um 17:45 schrieb RM : Dear Klaus, As Macintosh and Windows versions of Livecode, and the 2 operating systems, are Unicode compliant as long as you use the Unicode compliant bullet-point symbol [Hex 2022, Decimal 8226] there should be no reason why it should not cross f

Re: Daft "text Editor" question

2016-05-18 Thread RM
option to "This stack and its stack files". Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/18/16, 10:05 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of RM" wrote: So am really wondering how to go about this. In a perfect world (bloody silly thing to say really, as

[OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

2016-05-19 Thread RM
Over on the Yahoo group "Discussion Group for Hypercard" there is this topic. This seems to be a seasonal phenomenon, which never comes to much, and I cannot help wondering why it keeps coming up. One thing that does cross my mind is that maybe (?) some of these people haven't heard about L

Another Q from the Yahoo HC group

2016-05-19 Thread RM
Sorry, but got caught by this. "Op 10-May-16 om 14:38 schreef Andrew Ferguson andrewferguson500@... [HyperCard]: > > > A modernised UI was one of the stated goals of the kickstarter project. > This hasn't been started yet, though, and I can't find any mention of it > in the LiveCode roadmap. > >

Stupid Q number 999

2016-05-19 Thread RM
How do you open a stack using a script? Richmond. ___ 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-liveco

Re: [OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

2016-05-19 Thread RM
I'm on it: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=27328 Richmond. ___ 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/ma

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