Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/24/2015 05:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 10. The release notes provided with this version of Livecode Server say it requires glibc 2.3.6 or later for 32-bit Intel. This seems not to be the case. It won't run in my environment and ldd

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/25/2015 08:38 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Yes, the release notes appear to be inaccurate. We currently build against: * glibc 2.11 (released Nov 2009) or newer on x86 * glibc 2.13 (released Feb 2011) or newer on x86-64 I will make sure they are updated in time for our next releases. Out

Re: Java version

2015-11-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/28/2015 10:32 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thanks, but the link in the post there times out so I can't get to it. Could you give a brief synopsis? My main confusion is whether I have two versions installed (and can therfore uninstall 8 entirely) or whether it's version 6 that's triggering t

Re: Sound, Linux, Embedding

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/17/2016 03:06 PM, RM wrote: So, after keeping quiet on this for about 5 years . . . I was digging away in some ZIP disks I have access to via a SCSI card in the back of my Linux box [neither my G3 iMac, nor my G5 iMac having SCSI ports] and I chanced upon some "LiveCode" (i.e. Runtime Revo

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/21/2016 01:34 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Thanks to all those who replied - ‘the internet date’ was the answer I needed, since I then didn’t have to get out of my LiveCode comfort zone to do the calculation. I’m thinking of time-stamping some interactions that are going to go through a prog

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

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 03:13 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: Hello, I am trying to write the from a text field to a file and then change the file so it is executable. put field "mytest" into URL "binfile:~/race" or put field "mytest" into URL"file:~/race" The file race is created in either case but are associat

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

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 06:06 PM, Warren Samples wrote: 'get shell("chomd +x /your/new/file")' Well, that of course won't work jaja. chmod ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

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

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 06:09 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: This only works IF the file created is associated with the terminal application. The issue is creating the proper file format so when the chmod creates it as Unix executable. Are you saying that saving a file from TextMate and chmoding it works but

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

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 07:06 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: What I am trying to do is within a LC application 1. put field "mytest" into URL "binfile:~/race" This creates a file called race in the ~/ directory. The problem is that when you do a chmod +rw race the file is still recognized as textedit file and N

Re: OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

2016-03-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/17/2016 01:06 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: I have been discussing the sale of a desktop product (developed with LC, obviously) with a colleague. We’re thinking of direct sales...He’s in the US ..sell a low volume of product purely as a download with no physical fulfilment...I am not sure abo

Re: Indy Licensing

2016-04-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/13/2016 12:26 PM, John Dixon wrote: I am surprised that this list has not been flooded with questions and complaints... Have you been away? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubs

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/04/2016 09:12 AM, 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. I'm running openSUSE Leap 42.1 here and finding that Livecode 8 will not launch. The installer worked properly. Launching LiveCod

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/05/2016 04:55 PM, Warren Samples wrote: I'm running openSUSE Leap 42.1 here and finding that Livecode 8 will not launch. The installer worked properly. Launching LiveCode displays the splashscreen followed either by a rapid crash (IDE itself never displays) or a permanent hang a

Re: Running Node (or any unix cmd line program) from Shell from a LC Stack

2016-05-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/08/2016 04:07 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: It's something about LC now knowing that I have node installed when invoked via shell BR Compare what you get when you run 'echo $PATH' in a terminal to what you get when you run it in LiveCode using shell(). Make sure the directory

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/30/2016 11:02 AM, Richmond wrote: Still waiting (64-bit, Linux) for the Dictionary. Richmond. I understand your frustration, Richmond. I can't open LiveCode on my Linux machine running the current release of openSUSE (Leap). I can, however, run it under different release versions of o

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/30/2016 03:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > I can't open LiveCode on my Linux machine running the current release > of openSUSE (Leap). I can, however, run it under different release > versions of openSUSE and have it open right now in a virtual mach

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 10:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: ldd doesn't show anything missing. Getting LiveCode to run under Tumbleweed requires no head scratching or additional installation of libs, using the official installation DVD and as well the geckoLinux spin (rolling ve

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 11:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > The 64 bit LiveCode IDE fails to open for me under openSUSE Leap > 42.1. ... > The shell prints a backtrace. Would this be helpful to see? Running > LiveCode through strace using some parti

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 02:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I would suggest filing the report. If anyone complains, I'll take the heat. :) It may be that this is something we'll fix as a community effort, but at least having it in the bug DB will give us a central place to share notes and logs as we work to

Re: Intel QSV H.264 codec for AVFoundation and DirectShow

2016-07-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/04/2016 04:43 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: The x264 codec is a opensource codec and as far as I understand it is not preinstalled on any system and at least on my Mac a x264 video can't be played (perhaps there is a chance to manually install it, what I would like to avoid for my customers)

Re: What Newbies Expect

2016-07-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/07/2016 07:35 AM, Sri wrote: I am reading this thread on the web and I find two other threads (by Ray Horsley-2) entangled with this one. What is going on? Do others see this? Regards, Sri I see it in my current email client. There are several people on the list wose habit is to star

Re: SVG Editors, anyone?

2016-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/05/2016 09:57 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: Having got very interested in LC widgets at the conference, I’m about to start experimenting, but I need to create some SVG graphics based on my own designs. I can’t afford Illustrator - has anyone got any recommendations for a free, or at any rate,

Re: [ANN] lcb-mode v0.1.1: Emacs major mode for LCB source code

2016-08-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/16/2016 08:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: Emacs vim Whooboy! Fun time's a startin'! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subsc

Re: [TOT] Totally Off . . .

2016-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/23/2016 05:49 AM, Richmond wrote: My real book (The Complete . . . ) has labelled bookmarks going back to when I was gifted that book in 1999 at the UAE University in Al Ain, UAE, when they, overnight, trashed all their Mac computers and replaced them with IBM compats running Windows Me, an

widget inclusion in standalones 8.0.2

2016-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
I've looked through a number of release notes but haven't been able to find this information. Is it expected that we have to manually select widgets for inclusion when building standalones in 8.0.2? I'm running Linux, and I note that this happens automatically in 8.1 RC2. Warren _

Re: widget inclusion in standalones 8.0.2

2016-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/06/2016 09:29 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 06/09/2016 14:22, Warren Samples wrote: I've looked through a number of release notes but haven't been able to find this information. Is it expected that we have to manually select widgets for inclusion when building standalones in 8

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/04/2017 01:05 PM, Matt Maier wrote: I've got some buttons with text in them. On Windows (where I develop) they look fine. On Linux the buttons are a little bit narrower so the text is cut off. Anyone handled a similar problem? Matt, I would suggest dynamically setting the width of the

Re: Livecode Server on Dreamhost fails in Ubuntu upgrade

2014-11-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/11/2014 12:42 PM, Phil Davis wrote: One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower. I have a simple script that repeats 5000 times, adding to a counter and populating and sorting a list with seven items. It takes

Re: LC Server on DreamHost?

2014-11-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/21/2014 01:56 PM, Phil Davis wrote: the speed of loading is TERRIBLE with the 7.0.1 LC Linux server. It takes 4.5 seconds for LC to 'execute' a simple page every time. It's not about DNS and a PHP page on the same site loads immediately by comparison. Is this possibly related to other sl

Re: LC Server on DreamHost?

2014-11-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/21/2014 01:56 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I'm glad it isn't just me: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13983 Phil Davis Phil, Your desktop utility shows a difference of about 8 to 10 times using your URLs and about 4 times using mine when run under 6.6.2. Opening the URLs in a brow

Re: OT: Web Server-side ID3 Tagger

2014-12-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/16/2014 12:24 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: I need to set the ID3 tags for MP3 files that have already been uploaded to our web server. typically my approach is to create a thin desktop client, which can read our media database from the web server... then I need to send a POST back to my "Mu

Re: Server performance issues: Dreamhost only?

2015-01-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/26/2015 01:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: We've seen reports of serious performance issues with running LiveCode Server 7.x on Dreamhost. I'm working with Peter Brett at RunRev to try to resolve these, and there's one detail that would be very useful to know: While we see relatively minor s

Re: Server performance issues: Dreamhost only?

2015-01-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/26/2015 03:28 PM, Warren Samples wrote: Have any of you seen order-of-magnitude speed loss when running LiveCode Server on any host other than Dreamhost? Not at webfaction It may be relevant to note that all LC Server versions I have installed are 32bit, including LC 7. webfaction

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/23/2015 06:00 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: "Messages button in the toolbar" Where is this? Did you mean "Suppress Messages" in the menubar? Craig Under the "View" menu are options to toggle toolbar text and toolbar icons. Enable one or both of these and you will find "Messages" right

atom editor and livecode server files syntax package available

2015-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
For those of you who don't participate in the forums for whatever reason, but are interested in livecode server, forum user ghettocottage has converted the TextMate revigniter-livecode syntax module for the cross-platform Atom Text Editor and made it available to all. You can install it directl

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/26/2015 10:23 AM, Richmond wrote: Really excited, now I have a functioning 64-bit system, to dig into this 'puppy'. Richmond. Richmond, Please let me know if you can build a working standalone on your system. I can't get a standalone built in any version of LC8 to open and run on my

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/26/2015 11:54 AM, Richmond wrote: I just knocked together a standard stack with one button containing the script: on mouseUp put "HELLO" end mouseUp before I tried building a standalone, that script did NOT work . . . I built a 64-bit Linux standalone, and it *opened* (the script did

Re: HTML5 test

2015-09-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/01/2015 11:36 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: On Ubuntu Linux, works fine Firefox Chrome and Opera shows this message: Exception thrown, see JavaScript console It works here in Opera 31.0 and Chrome 44.0 (also works in Chromium) in openSUSE 13.2, 64-bit. I wonder what accounts for the diff

Re: HTML5 test

2015-09-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/02/2015 04:31 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: Opera works - it isn’t one that we’d particularly tried to support at this stage. Keep in mind that Opera now uses the Chrome/Blink rendering and javascript engines, as apparently does Vivaldi. Warren ___

Re: Linux software suggestions

2015-09-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/22/2015 03:02 PM, AndyP wrote: Photo / Raw editing - DarkTable - Linux only, I've been wanting to play with this for ages. There is also RawTherapee (this is cross platform but not well known to Win/Mac users because they don't "sell" it) http://www.rawtherapee.com/ LightZone is avail

list etiquette

2015-09-28 Thread Warren Samples
Hello all, From time to time certain issue of list etiquette have been brought up and discussed. Cross-posting to this and the dev list, top or bottom responding, succinct message copying, and whether or not to leave a message intact while responding or slicing it and responding point by poin

Re: A modest proposal

2015-09-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/28/2015 03:23 PM, William Prothero wrote: Folks: I’m putting out what I think is a fantastic idea for an app. It’s much more than I’d be willing to take on, but in the US, I think it could be very big. But, then again, perhaps it exists already. I’d like to use such an app for my aging s

Re: list etiquette

2015-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2015 02:03 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: That's exactly what you'd want isn't it? If you are not interested in the main topic why on earth would you be interested in a side issue of the main topic? You are not understanding the problem. These "side issues of the main thread" are nothing of t

Re: Release 6.7.7 / 7.1.0

2015-10-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/04/2015 12:50 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Many of the Linux releases seem to misbehave themselves well if one chooses the "Ayn Rand" option [ You Only ]; since the release of the first Community version I have found about 25% of them have "gone wonky" for 'You Only'. Ah, that's a really int

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

2015-10-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/20/2015 12:27 PM, Richmond wrote: P.S. I also use my computer to iron my socks. Maybe you should put another fan or two in it! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and man

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 8

2015-11-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/03/2015 12:06 PM, Richmond wrote: As soon as I clicked on one of the dropDown menus in revMenuBar everything locked up. Richmond. OpenSUSE 64bit with KDE Plasma5. I had no troubles opening this version, but get similar behavior to that which Richmond describes here except that it's

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/26/2014 12:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Nonetheless, backdrops are working properly in 6.7-dp2 on linux mint 14, and there are no backdrops in dp1, so it does look like the problem is fixed. Also seems to be working fine here in both 6.6.2-rc2 and 6.7.0-dp2 running openSUSE with KDE4/Kwin.

Re: Unicode

2014-05-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/11/2014 10:31 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop) None of the unicode stuff works [for me]: * set the useUnicode to true * the unicodeText of field * the unicodeFormattedText of field No error messages; just empty. Can anyone give me a clue as to what to

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:29 AM, Richmond wrote: Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. 2. Still unable to put an insertion point into the search fields in the Dictionary and RevOnline. 3. Double-clicking on a control in the toolbar does nothing. 4. Unable to switch back and forth between

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: or wait for an actual release announcement. Mark, If we assume this is a mislabeled dp4, I suppose it's possible there are problems resolved in the actual dp5 that we can't experience just yet, but the issues he's talking about here have plagued hi

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 01:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...which was also not announced... With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. The fact that there is a public link on the LiveCode site to downloads of versions which

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:31:34 PM, you wrote: With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. Ah, ok... maybe I missed something here. You're saying there was a ver

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That's what the "dp" and "rc" designations are for, but it would probably be more clear if there was a statement on the page explaining what those mean, along with appropriate caveats. Final releases should be clearly marked as stable. We're dis

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/26/2014 12:53 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: That's what I thought. This urban legend has been batted around lately. Um, what is it you thought? I didn't say "I once heard somebody say their friend's uncle told them about a neighbor..." urban legend style. It was my own (recent) observation. I

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2

2014-06-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/07/2014 12:58 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: I'm getting an error that the file isn't found. That error is typically what you get trying to run in a 64 bit environment without the 32 bit libs installed. Do you have other versions of LiveCode running on this particular computer? Warren _

Re: Nested Repeat loops

2014-06-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/20/2014 08:18 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Wondering if anyone has an elegant way of exiting all the way out of a set of nested repeat loops., e.g: repeat for... repeat for... repeat for repeat for if . then end repeat end

Re: LiveCodeServer - Prints shebang line

2014-07-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/15/2014 08:46 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Peter One of the contributions I made just prior to christmas was to handle the shebang and basically put the script into We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6. Release Contents ... * '#!' now recognised by server

Re: SHELL text encoding OS X?

2014-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/26/2014 07:44 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi friends, i am currently using some shell commands, mainly "mdfind", to get a list of files. But german UMLAUTS etc. are not correctly displayed. i thought the shell output would be UTF8, but unidecode(listoffiles) produces lots of glibberish 8-)

Re: SHELL text encoding OS X?

2014-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/26/2014 08:05 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: thank you, but my question was: >>Anyway, what can I do in LC 6.6.2? ;-) You also wrote this: "This even happens with LC 7dp7, but shouldn't right?" so it seemed you might be interested in how it's supposed to work there. ___

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2014 10:17 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Before I go ahead and submit a bug report I'd like others to test and report their findings. openSUSE, LiveCode 6.6.2 Redirected the output to files. Results are identical, except for the extra file created by running the initial 'find $PWD > pwdtest.

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/01/2014 08:09 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: But then why is this not the case with Linux? For Linux users who have installed "single user", in their HOME directory, the defaultfolder is their HOME directory.. Those who have installed for all users, in /opt, will run into these kinds of issues,

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/14/2014 04:55 AM, JB wrote: I can get a file size by listing the detailed files and I can get a list of all drives and volumes that are mounted by using the volumes function. Is there a way to get the size of a drive or volume that is returned by using the volumes function? John Balgenort

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/14/2014 10:37 PM, JB wrote: The dictionary states, This function always returns empty on Unix systems. So, is Linux a Unix OS? For LiveCode purposes, yes. The dictionary does indicated, by omission of the penguin icon, that 'volumes()' is not supported under Linux. I find the 'diskS

Re: Cleaning Exif Data from an image

2011-05-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, May 02, 2011 04:51:32 PM Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I do not know much about image manipulation in livecode or in general. But, > I am looking for a way to scrub exif data off an image easily and without > loss to the picture. There are libraries in php that let me do this, but I > would rea

Re: Cleaning Exif Data from an image

2011-05-02 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, May 02, 2011 11:00:25 PM J. Landman Gay wrote: > You can import the image, and then re-export it as jpeg. The engine will > decompress the original and strip the exif data. When you export, you > may lost some quality, but it may not be noticable. This is a really elegantly simple so

Re: Hide group on click

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 09:48:07 AM Colin Holgate wrote: > and "visible" should be removed and replaced with "visibility" Of course this would cause problems with backward compatibility, but I think the argument regarding correct English grammar is specious. "the visible" refers to a state or p

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 10:10:52 AM Todd Geist wrote: > Command-line argument variables Hi Todd, It looks as if you have to program your app to respond according to what values any such variable(s) contain, such as 'if $1 is "true" then doSomeThing' It looks af it will take some craft in ord

Re: command line examples

2011-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, May 06, 2011 03:28:14 PM Todd Geist wrote: > But it does appear in my Dock, as I > expected, but don't want. I believe this can be avoided by setting a key value in the .plist file inside the app bundle. I think you'll find this info with a google search. Good luck! Warren __

Re: OT: How does Windows handle spaces in program names?

2011-05-23 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, May 23, 2011 04:27:38 PM Graham Samuel wrote: > I tried "My spacious program.exe" since I couldn't see how to introduce a > further level of quotes. Maybe it just won't work, but did you try to use the single quote char ' ? I don't know if this is valid under Windows, but " and ' are

Re: Hash function

2011-05-30 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, May 30, 2011 10:22:04 AM paolo mazza wrote: > Hi All, > has anyone already ported the hash function to LiveCode? > > Using php is a trivial function like this: createHash("10.00","978") > > I looked in the ML archive, and I found that some years ago, > answering the same question, Mar

Re: Windows?

2011-06-04 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, June 04, 2011 05:48:55 PM Colin Holgate wrote: > I don't know if it's changed, but when I bought Windows to use under > Fusion, I had to get Ultimate. >From page 2 of the EULA for Win 7 Professional, Home Remium and Home Basic: d. Use with Virtualization Technologies. Instead of usi

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-08 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 09:50:16 AM Andre Garzia wrote: > I don't think I like it (just for personal reasons, nothing technical) > > cheers > andre *GASP* Blasphemy (snicker, snicker) - ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

Re: LIVECODE running in LION

2011-06-08 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 11:14:12 AM J. Landman Gay wrote: > On one hand, you can't immediately see > where you are in the document, but on the other hand, a quick touch > brings that up and the remainder of the time the scrollbars stay out of > the way Since we're sharing (and it does rela

Re: Distinguishing CLI from GUI

2011-06-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, June 13, 2011 07:41:32 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > As Todd Geist quoted here earlier, in the Dictionary entry for "$" it says: > > If you start up the application from the command line (on OS X, > Unix or Windows systems), the command name is stored in the > global variabl

Re: Distinguishing CLI from GUI

2011-06-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, June 13, 2011 12:54:04 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > Warren Samples wrote: > > It seems to be working here although certain letters seem not to be > > usable. For example -s does not work. I can get an answer dialog to > > return "-h" when used as a cl flag a

Re: Distinguishing CLI from GUI

2011-06-15 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 15, 2011 11:16:19 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > > seems to work as expected with and without -ui. Using this command: > > ''launchTest -ui -Q some-param -h" launches Opera and creates the file > > with this line: "launchTest -Q some-param -h". > > Thanks for that info. I've had no

Re: Thanks for DropTools.

2011-06-18 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, June 18, 2011 10:05:18 PM Roger Guay wrote: > As usual, I'm riding the tail end of the wave, but I too want to thank Ken > Ray and all of you who are contributing to his Drop Tools plugin. Just a > very minor nit, Ken: LiveCode Preferences is found in the LiveCode Menu > and not in the

Re: group name persisting

2011-06-22 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, June 22, 2011 05:09:48 PM Pete wrote: > fingers crossed Nothing wrong with crossed. Just keep them where you can see them. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and ma

Re: Enhanced QT External: Intel-Only?

2011-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 01, 2011 05:17:44 PM Shao Sean wrote: > hey.. i am still on ppc.. richard, we need to ban together against the > intel heathens :P > > you can always re-compile the external to intel-only to make doubly > sure that it is, but i think the released version is universal as it >

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 01:11:55 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > For better or worse, it seems those scrollbars are the wave of the future: Stevie was really enthuastic about his drawers, too. For a while. Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 02:37:08 PM Andre Garzia wrote: > I like drawers :-) Drawers are indispensible for certain purposes. I have many and use them every day, but hated them on my computer ;) Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@l

Re: Lion & Xcode 3.2.6

2011-07-20 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:45:58 PM Terry Vogelaar wrote: > I wanted to upgrade yesterday, but I couldn't, because it is 'Already > installed' according to the App Store. Not to make light of the problems you personally are having, Terry, but would this be the same "we provide a seamless pa

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-21 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 21, 2011 01:11:17 PM Andre Garzia wrote: > I vote for Mac OS > X 10.8 Megalomaniac Garfield Werecat? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscripti

Re: Tahoma Font

2011-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On Tuesday, July 26, 2011 05:37:14 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: > 1. ONLY use fonts common to all systems. This is fairly easy with Windows > and Apple, but becomes problematic with other flavors. 2. Create an > installer that includes the truetype fonts you use, and install them via a > shell. This of

Re: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Warren Samples
On Wednesday, July 27, 2011 01:20:05 PM Arie van der Ent wrote: > Hi Tiemo, > > It is not necessary to wait for Lion on a USB-stick. Don McAllister from > screencastsonline did the following; 1. buy Lion from App store; > 2. make a copy from the installer (in your application folder); > 3. open up

Re: AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-28 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 01:41:57 AM Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > I don't understand why they don't offer anymore any > "classic download" option for backward compatibility for users who are not > up to date every day like me. > Tiemo They're not interested in helping you to maintain your "backwa

Re: AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-28 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:13:23 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: > I think that may be harsh. Remember one of Microsoft's excuses for not > producing a really modern OS for so long was that they had to maintain > backwards compatibility for all their users. At some point this becomes a > ball and chain fo

Re: Installing iOS SDK and Xcode on Windows 7.

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 10:09:13 AM Roger Eller wrote: > it would be prohibitively slow "in a vm" Roger, Have you some disappointing experience running vms? My own experience running VirtualBox is that the guest OSs run quite snappily. I cannot recommend that one rely on a virtualized OS for

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 11:44:11 AM David C. wrote: > ...from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app > interface-wise on the whole planet on any OS) > > Absolutely on the mark! To be tied at the hip with that one piece of > software is absolutely awful and I'm doing just about all

Re: Installing iOS SDK and Xcode on Windows 7.

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 12:04:49 PM Roger Eller wrote: > running natively on brand new i7 machines with high-end > video cards. The Hackintosh is not a great secret, and indeed there is no reason for OS X not to run beautifully on non- Apple hardware once the issues of booting and certain drive

Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year

2011-07-30 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:16:44 PM Roger Eller wrote: >convert tToday to seconds >convert tBorn to seconds It's been talked about before, but this calls for a reminder: attempting to convert a date prior to Jan 1, 1970 to "seconds" returns "invalid date" instead of a number in Windo

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 10:25:18 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it > in your country on copyright grounds." This doesn't have much or even anything to do with "Censorship". This is about honoring commercial distribution agreements which wil

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:30:44 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > many people, around the world, are not supposing to watch to finish your sentence... "on youtube." I suppose you could write to Sony and ask them. While this is just speculation, it is a possibility that either some performer appea

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:45:46 PM Warren Samples wrote: > On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:30:44 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > many people, around the world, are not supposing to watch > > to finish your sentence... "on youtube." > > I suppose you could write t

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 06, 2011 12:48:04 AM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > You'll find a discussion of this in another of these clips > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPmnho7OvT8&feature=related > > > > Hmmm, There is no discussion in that page. (or anything else) > Only the message: > "This video co

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 06, 2011 01:39:13 AM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Ideally, I would like to see it. > > My curiosity arises from my contact, for many years, > with people from the Music Business. > > The stories that I heard from first hand where, at the > time, like tall tales to me... But now,

Re: [OT] Blasted Flash

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 08:32:51 AM Richmond Mathewson wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475250 > > Firefox 6, Ubuntu 11.04 No probs here in Opera on openSUSE ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:53:33 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: > But the very thought of having people pay royalties on what we consider to be > a "gift from God" namely the talent and the inspiration for the music seems > to be... well "quenching". The moneychangers in the temple comes to mind. >

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:09:47 PM Roger Eller wrote: > I agree. In fact, I witnessed the rise of a YouTube artist, and bought his > very first CD because 1) he was that good, and 2) I wanted to be supportive > of the hundreds of songs he posted on YouTube (and I enjoyed for free). > THAT is

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-12 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 12, 2011 01:44:32 PM Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was building a nice app with LiveCode the other day. It used PUT URL and > FTP to download files from my remote Mac. Worked like a charm until > yesterday when I updated the OS on the remote Mac to Lion. Now

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