Re: Code Documentation on steroids

I like that idea. Maybe something as simple as just hiding comment lines might work. Pete On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 6:45 PM, wrote: > I wish that each line in the script editor could have a tooltip associated > with it. Annotation takes up so much room if done right, that it is hard to > separate

Code Documentation on steroids

I wish that each line in the script editor could have a tooltip associated with it. Annotation takes up so much room if done right, that it is hard to separate the code from the comments. Or maybe a secondary parallel scrolling field that is attached to the editor? I like my code to be written

Re: Name of control in a given group

> > Message: 20 > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2011 11:32:00 -0700 > From: Scott Rossi > To: LiveCode Mail List > Subject: Re: Name of control in a given group > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > > Recently, James Hurley wrote: > >> "Put the name of control 1 in group id 1

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

I tried 'import' first purely because I wanted to bring the snapshot of the unopened card into the 'home' card rather than export to file, etc. There are some notes in the dictionary about setting the absolute rectangle coordinates depending on the target object - it didn't work until I defined

Re: Code Documentation

Thanks Stewart, I'll take a look. By the way, there are actually only three types of people - those who can count and those who can't... Pete On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:59 AM, RevList wrote: > How to use LiveCode on April 1, 2011 at > 8:54 AM -0700 wrote: > >I'm at the stage in my project where

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

On Apr 1, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Okay sorry dislexia has set it. I saw 1022 and it looked like 1002. I looked at it 20 times and saw them as identical. I am so embarrassed. Bob I make stupid mistakes all the time, especially when I've just hit the send button. :-) As I get

Re: Code Documentation

How to use LiveCode on April 1, 2011 at 8:54 AM -0700 wrote: >I'm at the stage in my project where I want to produce some documentation on >the various handlers I've written - a few words about purpose, list of >parameters and what they contain, and any returned values. I've documented >all this

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

On 4/1/11 1:42 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/1/11 1:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jacque wrote: While you can take snapshots of objects that aren't open, you can't take them of cards that aren't open. Cards are not objects. I was unable to get a snapshot of another card unless I went there firs

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Jacque - I see Keith is using "import snapshot" and specifying a card. That isn't in the docs and I always got an error when I tried to specify an object with "import", I could only specify one with "export". Ah, that may be it. I almost never use "import", using "export" instead. If one suppo

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

Breathe into the pain. Chant to yourself, "This humiliation is making me a better person." It doesn't, really, but the procedure is a good distraction until you forget about it. Tim On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Okay sorry dislexia has set it. I saw 1022 and it looked like

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

On 4/1/11 1:05 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jacque wrote: While you can take snapshots of objects that aren't open, you can't take them of cards that aren't open. Cards are not objects. I was unable to get a snapshot of another card unless I went there first. I didn't know I couldn't do that so I

Re: Currently playing song on iPod Touch

Actually, now that I remember better I DID troubleshoot this a bit and found that it had to do with my using a Kensington trackball. The Kensington driver is getting in the way I think so belay my last. Bob On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Bo

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

Okay sorry dislexia has set it. I saw 1022 and it looked like 1002. I looked at it 20 times and saw them as identical. I am so embarrassed. Bob On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Hey Bob, > > This still sounds wrong. "The ID of this card" should be the same, regardless > o

Re: Currently playing song on iPod Touch

On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:44 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I will say that I have had a long staning issue in Livecode where I have to hold the mouse button a bit longer for the click to register. That may be your problem. I have not troubleshot this at all, but of course the first thing to do is remov

Re: Name of control in a given group

Recently, James Hurley wrote: > "Put the name of control 1 in group id 1005" > > doesn't work. > > Any suggestions? Best I can do is get the number of controls in a group. I > need the names. Try: put the name of control 1 *of* group id 1005 Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Me

Name of control in a given group

"Put the name of control 1 in group id 1005" doesn't work. Any suggestions? Best I can do is get the number of controls in a group. I need the names. Jim Hurley ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

I wonder if this is because export snapshot puts the stack in memory, along with the first card in the stack? Try it with the second card. Bob On Apr 1, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Jacque wrote: >> While you can take snapshots of objects that aren't open, you can't take >> them

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

Hey Bob, This still sounds wrong. "The ID of this card" should be the same, regardless of the object containing the script that retrieves it. I'm not aware that lockMessages or lockScreen would have any effect on getting the ID of this card. The problem more likely lies with "this card". If som

Re: practical size limitations?

Louis Janus wrote: A few basic questions: 1. I assume it would be best to use a database as a backend to the ultimate dictionary, but I am quite sure that I don't have the skills to set up SQLite or any other database proficiently. (I can learn, I'm sure, however) 2. If I take the easy way out

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Jacque wrote: While you can take snapshots of objects that aren't open, you can't take them of cards that aren't open. Cards are not objects. I was unable to get a snapshot of another card unless I went there first. I didn't know I couldn't do that so I tried it a long time ago and it seemed t

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

I think the difference may have been that my button was part of a background group. Also, I locked the screen but did not lock messages. Not sure if that had anything to do with it. Also, I did not go to a card number. I used go next. Bob On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Jim Ault wrote: >> On M

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

Yes, but I was not getting the ID of the group, but the ID of "this" card (note currentCard is now obsolete). What is odd is that the ID of "this card" is 1002 no matter which card you are on, (given it still exists otherwise it would be the ID of first card of the stack) and the name of "this c

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Welcome to the New World sir! Bob On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > In my case, PowerPoint was my 'IDE for non-functioning wish-list-ware' for a > couple of decades . > Best, > Keith.. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@li

Re: Currently playing song on iPod Touch

I will say that I have had a long staning issue in Livecode where I have to hold the mouse button a bit longer for the click to register. That may be your problem. I have not troubleshot this at all, but of course the first thing to do is remove all your plugins (except the one you are testing)

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

On Apr 1, 2011, at 9:43 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes I did figure it out. I was getting the ID of this card, which always seems to refer to the first card that the group the button belonged to was placed on, hence always getting 1002 for the ID. Getting the name seems to do the same thing. Bu

Re: practical size limitations?

I know databases are the grownup way to do things. But I loaded 1,000,000 words into 1,000,000 lines of a field by generating random strings of six chars. Takes no time to do that (0.6 seconds). I retrieved a random word from that field. Takes no time at all (3 ticks). If you had a million wo

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Hi Jaque, Thanks for responding. This is what I ended up with for updating a single button. I'm quite pleased with the result, because, as there are 'moving parts' on the visited cards, when I return to the home screen it is updated with thumbnails reflecting the current 'just left' view of the

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

That's worth saving in my Livecode Keepers! Someday I am going to make a stack of this stuff! Bob On Apr 1, 2011, at 10:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/1/11 11:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >> Since you are taking snapshots of other cards and the "preopen" is for >> the control, I'm not

Re: Bark Dark

I think the idea was to have multiple values to mark cards with. Mark and unmark are one dimensional. Using the alternate method that Jim proposed, there would be no limit to the values a "card" could be marked with using custom handlers. Better yet, there should be a feature addition in some

Re: Bark Dark

On Apr 1, 2011, at 9:38 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hey pretty clever. You could even trap for newCard and deleteCard to add and delete entries in the custom Property. That way you wouldn't have to repeat through all the cards again except for maintenance. Yes, to do a full implementation, you wo

Re: Currently playing song on iPod Touch

Tom McGrath put together an iTunesLibrary in LC. I can't seem to find it in my LC files, but I'm sure he would make it available to you. I used his library to make a little thing called iTunesWidget. Pop it into your plugins folder, and any time you're running in the IDE, you can open it up

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

On 4/1/11 11:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Since you are taking snapshots of other cards and the "preopen" is for the control, I'm not sure you need to wait for the control to load. I think the issue is the ID of the icon. I just tried the handler you posted and there's more wrong than just th

Re: practical size limitations?

I'm a quarter Norwegian! I'd buy that! I like the idea of using an array, given that all the data you could ever conceivably have will fit into memory snugly. For a dictionary, that may not be the case. SQLite would be the way to go if not. Lots of cards, no buenos. SQL is not that hard to lea

Re: Bark Dark

Just for my own education, what is it about the standard mark and unmark commands that doesn't achieve what Tim wants to do? I might want to use those commands in the future and if they should be avoided for some reason, I'd like to know! Thanks, Pete On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Bob Sneidar

Re: novice question re "marked" and customkeys

Yes I did figure it out. I was getting the ID of this card, which always seems to refer to the first card that the group the button belonged to was placed on, hence always getting 1002 for the ID. Getting the name seems to do the same thing. But getting the NUMBER returns the correct result. As

Re: Bark Dark

Hey pretty clever. You could even trap for newCard and deleteCard to add and delete entries in the custom Property. That way you wouldn't have to repeat through all the cards again except for maintenance. It looks like the repeat loop is getting the value of a shared field on each of the cards

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

On 4/1/11 6:31 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Thanks Mark - that's clear. I'll move my script onto the card, use 'openCard' as its base and provide something to distract the viewer whilst the thumbnails update! Best, Keith.. It still won't work unless you use the ID of the snapshot image rather than

Re: practical size limitations?

I don't have much experience using LC as a storage method but the manual recommends that if you have more than 2000 records to store you should consider using an external database. SQLite is not hard to learn and there are a lot of tutorials out on the web, plus free SQLite management tools. I'd

Re: Currently playing song on iPod Touch

Terry, please add your vote: Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Terry Vogelaar wrote: > I want to make an app that uses data from the currently playing song on my > iPod Touch, like song title, artis

Re: Code Documentation

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Pete wrote: > I'm sure I could write a script to go through all my handlers and extract > the comment block but before I start down that road, are there any code > documentation aids out there for Livecode? > I use NativeDoc and like it a lot. http://www.natives

Currently playing song on iPod Touch

I want to make an app that uses data from the currently playing song on my iPod Touch, like song title, artist, comments, etc. Is there a way to see data like that in a LiveCode app? Probably not 'out of the box'. Is there a workaround? I know Xcode can do it. So is there someone who can make a

Code Documentation

I'm at the stage in my project where I want to produce some documentation on the various handlers I've written - a few words about purpose, list of parameters and what they contain, and any returned values. I've documented all this in a comment block at the start of each handler. I know, how old

Re: practical size limitations?

Hi. I don't think you need an external database. Unlike Hypercard, LC does not handle tens of thousands of cards quickly. But it can easily and instantly handle what you have in mind. Place your data in a field or custom property and load it into a variable on openstack. You might also use a

practical size limitations?

Dear use-livecode I am beginning work on a learner's dictionary for Norwegian, and am looking into using LiveCode. A few basic questions: 1. I assume it would be best to use a database as a backend to the ultimate dictionary, but I am quite sure that I don't have the skills to set up SQLite or

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Thanks Mark - that's clear. I'll move my script onto the card, use 'openCard' as its base and provide something to distract the viewer whilst the thumbnails update! Best, Keith.. On 1 Apr 2011, at 11:49, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Keith, > > On preOpen... the control or card isn't open yet and

Re: Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Keith, On preOpen... the control or card isn't open yet and you can't get a screenshot of it yet. A stacks or card needs to load completely before you can do such things. A very clear example is e.g. the impossibility to get the dimensions of a player if the movie of that player is being loaded

Creating an auto-updating button icon thumbnail image from card snapshot

Hi folks, I'm working on a presentation stack, which has a home card with a set of buttons with thumbnail images (as the icon) that navigate to other cards in the stack. The other cards are evolving, so I'm trying to create an auto-update script to renew the navigation button thumbnail icon imag

Re: PDF Reader using LiveCode

You can't run apps in the status bar, period. Gerry -- http://gerryorkin.com On 31/03/2011, at 2:59 PM, Jesse Sng wrote: > > On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > >> Recently, Jesse Sng wrote: >> >>> No. There's a status bar at the top of the iPhone/iPad and I did notice that