LC8 dp9 Difficulty

get the dialog, but it is asking for a “custom property set”. I only want to enter a single custom property. Then, it never displays the property that I put in. This seems like a bug to me, or at least a very user unfriendly interface. What am I doing wrong? Bill William Prothero, Ph.D

Re: LC8 dp9 Difficulty

015, at 10:30 AM, William Prothero > wrote: > > I’m just getting used to the new object inspector in LC8 DP9. I’m trying to > set a custom property. In older versions, there was a diamond shaped button > to press, a dialog came up to name the custom property, then you put in a &

Re: LC8 dp9 Difficulty

ny form of reliability, but, on the positive side, I do like > the way LC8 is developing with new features/widgets etc.. > > Paul > >> On Nov 15, 2015, at 10:47 AM, William Prothero >> wrote: >> >> More info. When I mess around with the object inspector

Re: LC8 dp9 Difficulty

Reported bug: 145269 Seems like some of this would be found by just testing each action individually, by the developers. Bill > On Nov 15, 2015, at 1:22 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Paul: > Yeah. I have started to spend a bit more time with it. But, it still isn’t > read

Re: Feature Exchange - Find and Replace

Folks: I guess I am, perhaps like others, trying to wrap my head around what expectations are reasonable for use financed vs mother ship financed improvements to livecode. In the past, I have used commercial, purchased software, like Director, Supercard, Word, etc, where the model is that some

Re: learning resources for kids

Scott: These are great links! I’m very interested in game that teach difficult concepts. These examples will help a lot. Best, Bill > On Nov 21, 2015, at 1:36 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > Maybe you guys can try looking here: > > http://livecodegamedeveloper.com > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > C

Re: learning resources for kids

Todd: FYI: I guess I’m too old for this game, but it isn’t apparent to me how to play it. I clicked around, probably needed to pay more attention to help files. BTW: on Apple: OSX 10.11.1, the dropdown menu won’t quit the app. I had to force quit it. Best, Bill > On Nov 22, 2015, at 3:28 AM, T

BreakPoint problems in LC8DP10

stack and file a bug report if nobody has seen this. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: BreakPoint problems in LC8DP10

Thanks, Peter” That’s most likely it. I hope to get a version of LC8 that I can actually use, soon. Best, Bill > On Dec 3, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 2015-12-03 21:33, William Prothero wrote: >> I thought breakpoint problems were solved in DP10 and hoped to

Re: [OT] Free pre-loaders

Richmond: These look like animated gifs. Does Livecode support them? Bill > On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:22 PM, Richmond wrote: > > Look super to me: > > https://pixelbuddha.net/freebies/tag/animation > > Richmond. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use

Re: Release 8.0 DP 11

I’m really loving the widgets and new version 8. However, the first thing I did was make a new stack and fiddle with the widgets. Then, when I tried to close and remove the stack from memory from the file menu, it gave me the “really?” dialog, but didn’t remove the stack. It still showed. So, s

Re: Release 8.0 DP 11

Bug reported. Bill > On Dec 10, 2015, at 2:29 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > I’m really loving the widgets and new version 8. However, the first thing I > did was make a new stack and fiddle with the widgets. Then, when I tried to > close and remove the stack from memory fro

Re: Take a look back through 2015

I’m really looking forward to being able to move to Vers 8 for my development and using some of the widgets. I’m not quite there yet, given the issues that still remain. However, it is great that the mothership team is on this list and responding to questions. I do think it’s been a great year f

Weird crash when stack is in use

caps of a day of tedious coding that I thought was finished, until this problem surfaced. Livecode crashes without any dialog, error report. It just disappears. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth

Re: Weird crash when stack is in use

:50 AM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > First, Happy New Year. I’ve gotten obsessed with a very odd crash that’s > stopping my progress, so here it is. > > I am on Mac El-Capitan 10.11.2 and Livecode 7.1. I have a splash stack that > launches my main stack, which has s

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

Colin and Brahmanathaswami: When this discussion topic is finally resolved, it would be wonderful and extremely useful if a summaryof the best practice, with comments on implementation consequences, was posted somewhere. This is an important issue and will save the rest of us who haven’t faced

Re: Animation in LiveCode

Thanks, Richmond and Mike: So…. the frame rate of the animated gif is set when the gif is made? And, the movement of the gif is controlled by the movespeed command. Obviously, these two speeds would need to be coordinated, or the tiger might look like its slipping on wet grass, pawing the groun

Http Header question

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Re: Http Header question

hat might help you. > > Cheers > Dave Cragg > > >> On 19 Jan 2016, at 22:44, William Prothero wrote: >> >> Folks: >> I’m setting up a php sendmail script using phpSendmail and I’m trying to get >> the file upload for attachments part working. The ex

Re: Http Header question

, but I don’t see the file on my server and nothing seems to be getting into the $_FILES variable. Help?? thanks. Bill > On Jan 19, 2016, at 3:55 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Dave: > That’s it! I knew there was something like that, but couldn’t remember it. > Thanks! &

Re: Http Header question

I think the $_FILES array is created > as a result of the enctype setting. Not sure how you would replace all > that via LC though. > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:38 PM William Prothero > wrote: > >> Folks: >> Dave got me started, but I’m still confused, unfortunate

Re: Modifying revErrorReport

Tom: One problem with using the built-in error report feature is that if a user is operating on a public computer, it may not have local email support. For instance, I had an app that generated an error report on a Windows machine and it didn’t have outlook set up, so it didn’t happen. I’ve se

Sending emails, with attachments, on your server

. http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation <http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation> I hope this helps somebody who wants their server to send email from their app. Regards, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara,

Re: Global Warming Reader App, Recruiting Collaborators

goal of the app is and how it might educate folks more than the available info already available on the web? Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org > On Jan 29, 2016, at 1:52 PM, James Little wrote: > > > H

Re: Ken Burn's Effect Library for Livecode

> Brahmanathaswami: I like it! Have you thought about, for some of this, using those whiteboard animations? They seem to draw attention. And I’ve seen another type where a hand brings in symbols, one by one, as a narration continues. This might be more suitable for livecode. The animated drawing

Re: Ken Burn's Effect Library for Livecode

> Brahmanathaswami: I like it! Have you thought about, for some of this, using those whiteboard animations? They seem to draw attention. And I’ve seen another type where a hand brings in symbols, one by one, as a narration continues. This might be more suitable for livecode. The animated drawing

Using Imagemagick

Capitan. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Using Imagemagick

James: Yeah, I knew that. Actually, I forgot. I have Graphic. Haven’t used it much, but since Fireworks got too expensive, I got iDraw, the Graphic. It’s probably a better solution than ImageMagick because it has an actual user interface and can do drawing, Thanks for the reminder. Best, Bill

Re: connecting db sqlserver with my app livecode, how?

David: Try this link to a stack that demonstrates how to get started with an app that sends to php, which connects to mysql database. http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation The link to the sample stack is near the bottom. Good luck, Bill >

Set textfont color in IDE? LC8DP14

Folks: I notice there is no way to set the textfont color of text in a field, in the project browser in LC8Dp14. Is this intentional? I can set it in the toolbar menu, but it seems an omission in the IDE. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus

Re: Set textfont color in IDE? LC8DP14

Folks: Sorry. My Bad. I meant the Application Browser. The new LC8DP14 doesn’t have a way to set the font color of text in a field. You need to go to the toolbar menu. Sorry for the confusion. Bill > On Feb 10, 2016, at 2:39 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > I notice the

Re: Set textfont color in IDE? LC8DP14

Property Inspector, then the 4th icon from the left in Property > Inspector’s menu (under the titlebar) will allow to set the text color. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Roger > > > >> On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:32 AM, William Prothero >> wrote: >> &g

Re: Set textfont color in IDE? LC8DP14

ty Inspector, then the 4th icon from the left in Property > Inspector’s menu (under the titlebar) will allow to set the text color. > > HTH > > Cheers, > > Roger > > > >> On Feb 11, 2016, at 9:32 AM, William Prothero >> wrote: >> >> F

Re: Set textfont color in IDE? LC8DP14

x. Just me. I’m over it now.’ PS: Some things ARE truly much easier to set up in livecode, especially interface elements. Best, Bill > On Feb 11, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 11/02/2016 18:12, William Prothero wrote: >> Roger: >> Thanks, yeah, it was th

sqlite db password?

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Re: [ANN] mergExt News

Me too. Wonderful news! Thanks for your wonderful additions to livecode, Monte! Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Assigning behaviors

as integrated into the IDE as other common actions. Or perhaps I haven’t noticed an addition to the IDE that does this. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode

Re: Assigning behaviors

spector editor for > the behavior property has been 'beefed up' for 8.0 DP 15: > https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/840 > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 2:54 PM William Prothero > wrote: > >> Folks: >> This is not a really big deal, but since I starte

Re: Assigning behaviors

Dr. Hawkins: Sounds interesting. If you’re willing to share, I’d love to take a peek at it. My email: proth...@earthednet.org Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org > On Feb 17, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: >

Re: Assigning behaviors

Thanks! Bill > On Feb 17, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 10:30 AM, William Prothero > wrote: > >> Sounds interesting. If you’re willing to share, I’d love to take a peek at >> it. > > > It's very specific to ho

Script Only stacks

it looks like there might be just a bit less overhead in script only stacks. BUT, can script only stacks be substacks? Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode

Re: leap to future

Richard: By the way, I didn’t find totally transparent, how to use your link to upload a file, very transparent when it came to standalones. I did figure it out after a lot of head-scratching and posted a link on this list, to the way i did it. http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation

Re: Script Only stacks

Thanks, Richard. That clears it up. Bill > On Feb 19, 2016, at 3:04 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > > I decided to check out script only stacks. I am in LC8 (DP14). I > > noticed that there is a sub-menu item in “New Stack”, at the bo

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 DP 15

Peter: I got a notice that Monte’s externals come with Indy licenses now. Is there a link where we can download them? BTW, congrats on DP15! The widgets are going to be a game changer for LC as will the incorporation of Monte’s externals as widgets. Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 DP 15

Peter: Thanks! No big rush. Bill > On Feb 22, 2016, at 1:41 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > On 22/02/2016 18:37, William Prothero wrote: >> Peter: > >> I got a notice that Monte’s externals come with Indy licenses now. Is >> there a link where we can download th

Getting a return from a dispatch to a function

ested this in 7.1.2-r3 and 8.0.0 DP15. I’m using Mac OSX, El Capitan. Is it a bug? Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Plea

Re Topic'd. Probable LC bug getting return from a Value function

Folks: Sorry for the duplicate posting. But, the topic on my prev one was not descriptive and I need this to work. I think I’ve found a bug when trying to call a function and get a return value out of the message path. I make a stack with a group containing 2 buttons, and a 3rd button to call t

Re: Re Topic'd. Probable LC bug getting return from a Value function

te: > > It looks like you're missing the parentheses in the function name. Try: > > put value("getValue()",group "myGroup" of card "myCard") into tVal > > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Medi

Re: Re Topic'd. Probable LC bug getting return from a Value function

orks correctly) end mouseUp Thanks for all the suggestions. Note: There is still the error in the livecode lessons. I’ll post a bug report on that one. Best, Bill > On Feb 22, 2016, at 5:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 02/22/2016 05:30 PM, William Prothero wrote: > >> I had tri

Re: Send multiple variables to a URL with POST to SQLSRV + php

David: Perhaps this link will help. There is a demo stack you can download. http://es.earthednet.org/SoftwareForEducation Bill > On Feb 24, 2016, at 3:09 PM, david alfredo zuñiga soto > wrote: > > Hi all, a little help please. > in my app of Live

KML anyone? Just checking

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Re: KML anyone? Just checking

Folks: The structure of the geographical KML files that are available is quite simple (after a brief stint with a text editor). If anybody is interested on doing this, I’ll be glad to share what I create. Best, Bill > On Feb 26, 2016, at 5:45 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: &

Re: The Future of LiveCode in Education

uld be put out in front so potential new users can find it. Perhaps, in your book, there could also be a chapter that dangles the advanced applications that could be, and have been built, to inspire further study. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus

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

Richmond: I also find it hard to appreciate the seriousness of the problem. Seems like much ado about very little. Best, Bill > On Feb 29, 2016, at 11:45 AM, RM wrote: > > Whichever way one cuts things, the most widely used programming languages > such as PASCAL and C++ > are as FREE as the ai

Re: The Future of LiveCode in Education

knowledge of specific programming languages seems to be tied to employment requirements at some IT companies. That said, I think that livecode has amazing potential in education and elsewhere. I hope to support that. Best, Bill > On Feb 29, 2016, at 11:53 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: >

Re: The Future of LiveCode in Education

, I’m just apprehensive of the “crocodiles” lurking beneath the surface. Looking further into this topic is on my “to do” list though. Best, Bill > On Feb 29, 2016, at 12:16 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > > Richard; > > Agreed. Perhaps it’

Re: The Future of LiveCode in Education

Jeff: Hmm…. I am developing an app, rewritten from Director, that I am calling “Earth Explorer”. Am I infringing? I probably got hold of you CDROM in the ancient past, though. My first version of my “Earth Explorer” app (was named differently then) was actually written in Hypercard. Then porte

LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

convenient when developing, and it doesn’t seem to happen in LC8. So, I’m still on LC8, but the IDE, nice and shiny new as it is, still needs some work. Or, perhaps I just haven’t figured out all of its new options yet. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

Tnx Peter: It’s indeed a feature! Thanks. Best, Bill > On Mar 1, 2016, at 2:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > > > On 01/03/2016 22:28, William Prothero wrote: > >> The first thing I’ve noticed is that selecting objects in the Project >> Browser and stack windo

LC8 DP15 error message?

Folks: I’m getting a long list of lines in the message box when I run my app. I’m creating text boxes in code. Among a lot of the lines, there is: ERROR: Error when sending message ideNewControl: Would this be an IDE bug, or mine? My app works as expected, so ?? Bill Is this something I should

Re: LC8 DP15 error message?

Ok, back to LC 7.1.2. The IDE issue is generating a gazillion messages to my message box and I can’t get anything done in this way. So, hoping this bug gets fixed for DP16. Best, Bill > On Mar 1, 2016, at 5:07 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > I’m getting a long list of

Playing movies

least, I could play it in a browser window, but I wonder what’s the latest and greatest way? Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Playing movies

By the way, I note that the dictioary mentions Quicktime VR. I thought that was completely gone. I have some Quicktime VR movies that could be nice to include in my current work, but no use putting them in if it’sat EOL or defunct. Best, Bill > On Mar 6, 2016, at 12:42 PM, William Proth

Re: Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

Trevor: Thanks. I reported it, with a sample stack. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org > On Mar 18, 2016, at 3:08 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 9:58 PM, William Prothero > wrote:

Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

Folks: My plot routines use fields as labels. Fields are created on the fly, the plot image is captured, and the fields are deleted. In LC8 DP16, I find that the field heights are messed up. I create the field and put text in it using the following function: I know that fields work differently

Version 8, DP16 Tutorial Runthrough

d for the entry. ——— I hope this helps the dev team. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

HH, and Richard: Richard: Thanks for noticing the error in setting the textStyle. Is this a bug? Shouldn’t the formattedHeight and formattedWidth show the text? I’m content to use my margins adjustment, but hope it doesn’t need to be revisited in the future. If so, it’s a small thing, but... hh

Re: Problems creating a field in LC8 DP16

I got it working better by increasing the settings of the margins and setting the textHeight to 0. Bill > On Mar 17, 2016, at 6:58 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > My plot routines use fields as labels. Fields are created on the fly, the > plot image is captured, and

Re: Version 8, DP16 Tutorial Runthrough

.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17154 > > All the rest is very helpful feedback, thank you! > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:41 PM William Prothero > wrote: > >> Folks: >> I just downloaded LC 8 DP16 and tried out the tutorial. I suspect that the >> authors of this

LC8 DP16 oddities, dataGrid?

much more obvious. Are there any documents on how to use the new property inspector for dataGrid? Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use

iOS deployment question

some diagnostic things one could do. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: iOS deployment question

two of hair-pulling to get this set up after being away from making iOS apps for awhile. Best, Bill > On Mar 22, 2016, at 7:29 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > I’m getting an error when I try to build an iOS standalone. It is: > “Could not find a valid identity to use with the

Re: iOS deployment question

Never mind…… Got it to work. Bill > On Mar 22, 2016, at 8:17 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > I can see, after Googling around a bit, that getting the certificates signed > and set up correctly is quite complicated, with lots of ways of going wrong. > With out-dated ce

Re: iOS deployment question

go thru. > I'm not a newby anymore, but I only work with iOS occasionally and the > process seems to always be painful. > > I'll take some notes and if they seem relevant, I'll post them somewhere. > > Best, > Bill > > William Prothero > http:/

Re: iOS deployment question

l with the Livecode jargon, so it’s very difficult to tell where to go to figure out what’s going on. Not to mention that the Apple documentation doesn’t always match up with xcode screen. Bill > On Mar 23, 2016, at 12:44 PM, William Prothero > wrote: > > I’m wondering if there is a

Re: iOS deployment question

ersion" checkbox has to be used *only* with a > Distribution profile. > > Regards, > Panos > -- > > On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 9:44 PM, William Prothero > wrote: > >> I’m wondering if there is a way to smooth out this error for the user. >> >>

Re: iOS deployment question

n the > portal. > > Also make sure that you have the correct item selected in the Profile > pulldown. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > > > > > On 3/23/16, 1:54 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Wi

Re: iOS deployment question

at 2:23 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > Ok, what I got working was a profile that was named “iOS Team Provisioning > Profile”. There was a wildcard version, and a version with my app ID > attached. Both worked. The specific profiles I created for the app itself

Re: iOS deployment question

at 2:23 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > Ok, what I got working was a profile that was named “iOS Team Provisioning > Profile”. There was a wildcard version, and a version with my app ID > attached. Both worked. The specific profiles I created for the app itself

Re: iOS deployment question

; >> Hello Bill, >> >> Please please if you have any info on the steps of how to submit to the >> OSX Store. We are facing the same problems. I can find almost ZERO info on >> what needs to be done to submit the app. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tod

Can a widget be in the background?

I’m about the replace a menubar with the menubar widget in DP16. What I’m wondering is if this can be set up so it’s on every card, like objects can. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org

Re: Can a widget be in the background?

setting “Shared behavior” in the inspector? Best, Bill > On Mar 23, 2016, at 4:37 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > I’m about the replace a menubar with the menubar widget in DP16. What I’m > wondering is if this can be set up so it’s on every card, like objects can. >

LC8 DP16

Folks: I’m noticing a problem with the Project Browser in DP16. If you have two stacks open, then try to create a new card in the stack in the front, it creates doesn’t create a card in the selected stack. It appears at the top of the Project Browser, on a line by itself or in the other stack.

Re: LC8 DP16

up with a prescription, Best, Bill > On Mar 24, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:41 AM, William Prothero > wrote: >> If you have two stacks open, then try to create a new card in the stack in >> the front, it creates doesn’t create a ca

Re: LC8 DP16

up with a prescription, Best, Bill > On Mar 24, 2016, at 8:13 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 4:41 AM, William Prothero > wrote: >> If you have two stacks open, then try to create a new card in the stack in >> the front, it creates doesn’t create a ca

Re: LC8 DP16

I see similar behaviors in the IDE in DP16. It seems to forget which stack is in focus and does unexpected things. Bill > On Mar 26, 2016, at 12:17 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > I had an odd incident in a different context but similar "paradigm" i.e. as > if the IDE lost track

Re: iOS deployment question

rst; mostly I find the same problem there, so can debug it with one > less step in the chain, and when I have that working, go back to LC. > > And yes, I long for a hand-holding guide, but I think the problems keep > changing. > > My 2p > > Ben > > On 23/03/201

Deleting a Control in LC8 DP16 in the IDE

it. Best, Bill William Prothero, Ph.D. University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus proth...@earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Mar 29, 2016, at 1:58 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > >> Organizing the code in a project is really important and there are lots of >> ways to go wrong. > > Can you describe some? > > While documenting good patterns can be useful,

Re: Deleting a Control in LC8 DP16 in the IDE

Arrrggghhh! I knew about the trash can, but forgot it. Dang! In my process, I accidentally deleted a group and I thought it was just going to disappear from the card it was on, and it deleted the entire group. Fortunately, I’m just playing with the UI controls, etc, and it was quickly fixed, but

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

I’m wondering, does a script only behavior stack have to be loaded first with “Start Using stack xyz” or once the behavior is set, LC automatically loads and connects it to the control. What I’m thinking is that if a lot of behaviors are used, and the appear in the project browser as stacks, the

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Folks: Reading this kinda makes my head spin. Now I’m thinking it is going to be a heck of a lot more robust for my situation, as a single developer, to not use behaviors at all, but to have a single (possibly script only) substack that holds all of the handlers that I would normally use as beha

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Thierry: Thanks! As an afterthought, I should have added an “all of the above” choice because I visit each of those intellectual realms frequently. Best, Bill > On Mar 31, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > >> Am I wrong. misguided, foolish, or brilliant? >> > > ​You are brilliant !!! >

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

you’re in Santa Barbara. I’ll treat you to lunch. Best, Bill > On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > > Reading this kinda makes my head spin. Now I’m thinking it is going > > to be a heck of a lot more robust fo

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

handler names that are different anyway. Somehow, this seems more direct to me. It also avoids the need for a preloader stack the opens a bunch of small files that are behaviors. What do you think? Bill > On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Pr

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

gt; handler of "MyTestStack". >> >> on preOpenStack >> set the behavior of field "FieldWithBehavior" of me to > MyBehaviorStack> >> end preOpenStack >> >> This is the model used repeatedly for such things in the IDE. >> >>

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Richard and Matt: I think the salient points are the various ways of getting behaviors to instantiate properly. There have been a number of ideas that all seem to work. So what I suggest, is that a brief description of each strategy (1-2 sentences) and a bit of sample code (where appropriate) li

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Trevor: Never tried to install a widget before. I downloaded your zip folder and copied the folder with its contents to the “extensions” folder. I don’t see it in the extensions manager. I’m in dp15. Any suggestions? Bill > On Apr 3, 2016, at 2:50 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 27,

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Trevor: Very nice! Thanks for the widget. Best, Bill > On Apr 3, 2016, at 8:17 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Trevor: > Never tried to install a widget before. I downloaded your zip folder and > copied the folder with its contents to the “extensions” folder. I don’t s

Re: Error: Unable to open the database file

Peter: Glad my stack was a help. Be careful with my mySQL php scripts. The examples are meant only as starting points. They allow for injection attacks if the inputs aren’t carefully filtered in Livecode before being formed into the query. You could modify the php so that each script does only a

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