Long-term Planning UI Ideas

Not sure how many people are both here and on the forum, so if this is a dup for you, I apologize. Looking for a little brainstorming, and maybe best practices for an interface for a long-term planner/calendar. This is basically a Yearly Calendar view rather than a Monthly or Weekly view. Ye

Re: how-to link to a video

On May 4, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > If I had a standalone or revlet, and I wanted it to be able to play an > online vide -- say, one hosted on YouTube -- how could that be done? Getting the URL of the video is one challenge, though it is possible to scrape through the page sourc

Re: how-to link to a video

So long as no one recommends The Final Solution. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-to-link-to-a-video-tp3497131p3497269.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-l

how-to link to a video

Hello All, Just looking for some general advice. If I had a standalone or revlet, and I wanted it to be able to play an online vide -- say, one hosted on YouTube -- how could that be done? All I can conceive of now is a player object with its filename set to an url or something. But while I begi

Finding tips (was:Staying on a field)

Pete. I see what you are saying, and I know you are an experienced user. But what you are asking may be beyond the scope of any dictionary. Searching for "date" gives, well, "date", and also "dateItems", "dateTime", "dateFormat" and others. It does not seem appropriate that methods of date val

Re: can't copy off a text field in a standalone

Well, Thomas, make sure to attend the Live LiveCode Code Event next time ;-) http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12034326 http://livecode.tv In short, I think that a commandKeyDown handler in your field will solve the problem, but a complete Edit menu would be much more elegant. -- Best regards, Ma

Re: GLXFramework

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > The final argument against an official framework is that people would tend > to use it without understanding the underlying concepts involved. Once you > have those, building an app isn't really that difficult. > Hi Jacque, I am not real

can't copy off a text field in a standalone

Dear List In a standalone created with LC 4.6 I can't no longer copy text out of a field, paste works though. Did I miss a new property of a text field? Cheers Thomas ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: GLXFramework

On 5/4/11 2:17 PM, william humphrey wrote: Tod - you're comments about Framework are excellent. I too wish that LiveCode chose Framework as the fully supported way to work with applications. I integrate a Valentina database into my application and find it truely difficult to make stand-alone buil

Re: Staying on a field

I was searching for "date", not "is a". I guess what I'm saying is that the way the dictionary search works, you kinda have to know the answer before you search. In my case, I was trying to find if there was a way to validate a date so my first instinct was to do a search for "date". The diction

Re: GLXFramework

Tod - you're comments about Framework are excellent. I too wish that LiveCode chose Framework as the fully supported way to work with applications. I integrate a Valentina database into my application and find it truely difficult to make stand-alone builds for Windows and MacOS although I find the

Re: Staying on a field

Checking the dictionary for "is a" returns that operator. Are you sure you were in the "All" mode when you searched? Also, the search is ala "chars" so that if you search for "is", you get lots more. I find this easy to use, despite its breadth. Craig Newman -Original Message- Fro

Re: Staying on a field

The whole area of data validation is pretty interesting, lots of different ways to indicate errors. There seem to be at least two different types of validation: the integrity of each field and cross field relationships. You can sometimes do the former with keystroke captures (numeric only for exa

Re: GLXFramework

Hello, I haven't needed to do updates yet. So I can't really tell you if that works yet. I have a lot of other non Framework code to write, first :>) But this thread makes me thing of a related topic. Why is it so hard to build an application in Live Code? Not a stack, but an actual applicatio

Re: Staying on a field

Chris, Interesting idea. I hadn't thought of it before. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On May 4, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Nonsanity wrote: > Just a comment on user interfaces, have

Re: LiveCode tutorials or guides in french?

Thanks Pierre. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-tutorials-or-guides-in-french-tp3495077p3496283.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: Staying on a field

Thanks Bill. I had tried searching for "date" before starting on my own date validation function but didn't find the "is a" reference - I now realise searching the dictionary only looks for things in the Keyword column. Are there any utilities out there to search the dictionary on something othe

Re: Staying on a field

Rather than validate on closeField, I enter an edit mode in the form where all navigation buttons or commands are disabled, and the only thing the user can do is save or cancel. The Save button calls a global validate command that cycles through all the editable fields, checks for the existence

Re: Staying on a field

Is all this because you cannot focus on something in the middle of a closeField? Bob On May 3, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > On 04/05/2011 02:14 PM, "Bill Vlahos" wrote: > >> on closeField >> if me is not a date then >> answer error "Not a valid date. Retry?" with "No" or "Yes"

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

Perhaps there should be: delete folder delete empty folder ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Yes, if really needed but about the unability of "delete folder" and/or > revdeletefolder, to work against non empty folders, does this need to be

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

Yes, if really needed but about the unability of "delete folder" and/or revdeletefolder, to work against non empty folders, does this need to be seen as a bug or as a feature ? My vote would go to the second purposal... Best, Pierre Le 4 mai 2011 à 16:13, Mike Bonner a écrit : > In this case

Re: Staying on a field

Just a comment on user interfaces, have you thought about using the common technique of coloring a field's background red if it doesn't contain a valid string? Move the test function into a handler that triggers on each key press. This way the right/wrong state of the field is visible to the user a

Re: Trouble-shooting non-resizable stack/card size creep?

Thanks Mark - changing the lockLoc from the group to the image did the trick. Best, Keith.. On 4 May 2011, at 15:07, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Keith, > > > Try setting the margins of the group to 0. You might want to turn off the > lockLoc of the group and set the lockLoc of the image to true.

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

In this case a (potentially dangerous) shell call is probably the best option. shell("rm -r directoryname") On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: > Pierre, > > thanks for your answer. > > delete folder... unfortunately only deletes empty folders. If a folder > contains files or o

Re: Trouble-shooting non-resizable stack/card size creep?

Keith, Try setting the margins of the group to 0. You might want to turn off the lockLoc of the group and set the lockLoc of the image to true. Set the loc of the image, not the group. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://econo

Re: LiveCode tutorials or guides in french?

Hi Josep, Frederic Rinaldi use to translate the Rev 1.1 or 2.0 version of the Runrev official documentation. Should be still available somewhere. About the concepts : ISBN 2-10-000199-X HyperCard 2 - Jean jacques GREIF Edition P.S.I / DUNOD dans la collection MémoMac. Dunod/PSI "HyperTalk" by

Re: Staying on a field

There have been several threads on the list over the last few years about the inaccuracy of 'is a date' to truly trap errors. The best source I know is the free stack done by Sarah Riechelt at http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Also try clicking on the 'ALL' se

Re: Staying on a field

Try using closecard or preopencard to test for the 'dialog' condition and if true, remain on the same card On May 4, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Terry, Thanks this works. I also discovered that I can replace "focus on me" with "select the text of me" in my script and that works

LiveCode tutorials or guides in french?

Hi, I would like to know if exist some information about how to begin to program with LiveCode but in french. Any idea? Salut, Josep M -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-tutorials-or-guides-in-french-tp3495077p3495077.html Sent from the R

Trouble-shooting non-resizable stack/card size creep?

Hi folks, I have a non-resizable stack (1024 x 768) with a common background group for all cards, including a 1024 x 768 background image. Suddenly, whilst adjusting control positions on one card, I noticed that aligning its loc to 512, 384 no longer centralised the control - and a border of 4

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

Pierre, thanks for your answer. delete folder... unfortunately only deletes empty folders. If a folder contains files or other folders one has to use revdeletefolder. At least that´s what the dictionary says. Regards, Matthias Am 04.05.2011 um 00:05 schrieb Pierre Sahores: > Matthias, > >

Re: weird system global name is crippling LC!

I restarted my machine and this problem went away. I thought that only worked on Windows! ;-) Phil On 5/3/11 10:06 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Help! Apparently Google Chrome defined a global on my Mac that is crippling all my versions of LiveCode. LC can't do ANYTHING that requires dealing with

Re: Staying on a field

Terry, Thanks this works. I also discovered that I can replace "focus on me" with "select the text of me" in my script and that works too. If the closeField message comes as a result of going to another card then I get the dialog but it still goes to the new card anyway so the dialog doesn't r

Re: Staying on a field

Pete, It is in the dictionary under "is a" and "is not a". Date is one of the many options. * date if it is in one of the formats produced by the date or time functions Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information