RE: [OT] Copyrighting games?

> > Copyright registration is not required to be afforded some > protections > > under copyright law, but it affords _additional_ protection > under US > > law that makes your rights easier to enforce. > > > > Most notably, the eligibility for statutory damages. If > memory serves, there are

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

I think patents and copyrights have a time limit. John Balgenorth On Aug 21, 2015, at 5:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/21/2015 7:29 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Lynn Fredricks < >> lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: >> >>> Copyright registration is not re

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

On 8/21/2015 7:29 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: Copyright registration is not required to be afforded some protections under copyright law, but it affords _additional_ protection under US law that makes your rights

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Lynn Fredricks < lfredri...@proactive-intl.com> wrote: > Copyright registration is not required to be afforded some protections > under > copyright law, but it affords _additional_ protection under US law that > makes your rights easier to enforce. > Most notably,

UTF8 encoding error in moving data from SQLite to Postgres?

I am getting the error revdberr,ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding "UTF8": 0xca 0x27 I think this is coming because I pasted data from a web browser into live code, which in turn put it into the memory SQLite db, and then choked with another command copying that data to Postgres. I'm no

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Sorry Richmond, but don't let us stop you from asking questions. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Rick Harrison wrote > ... break up > the pieces if they are very different from each other and farm > each piece out to a different producer so that no one gets the > whole picture... Chortle :-) Nukes? Manhattan project? Richmond what are you making? Simon -- View this message in context: h

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

Wold it be possible or even practical to use the atom editor passing info back and forth to LC thus separating LC from the editor so only one instance of the engine is required to be running ? No idea how to do this, just throwing it in for discussion. - Andy Piddock My software never h

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Lynn Fredricks wrote: Patents are a glue-huffing, frog in a blender nightmare. Get help. LOL I guess that would make design patents the equivalent of a meth-head's teeth. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web _

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

Malte Brill wrote: > Ali Lloyd wrote: > >> I don't think that the current script editor should be neglected > > I think that depends on when 7 will be EOLed. If you plan to have 8 > stable by the end of the year and you plan to have a new Script > editor there, wasting resources might be indeed a

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

Ali Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 at 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> With the IDE things are even better: it's already written in a >> high-level scripting language. Why not use LiveCode Script? >> >> If we can't build a good text editor in LiveCode, what are any of us >> doing here? > >

Re: JSON, URL-encode, and UTF-8

On 8/21/2015 3:06 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: Instead of removing the httpHeaders setting, what if you set it to this? set the httpHeaders to "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded" This is normally the default for post, but if you had set it to something else earlier, I was wondering whet

Re: Two great tips, one fantastic source...

That’s cool! I didn’t know that… > On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:53 AM, Devin Asay wrote: > > allows you to copy/paste the RGB values or a color swatch. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscri

Re: Two great tips, one fantastic source...

> On Aug 21, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > > Bob, are you suggesting that Digital Color Meter in OS X does something more > or other than the Color Palette in LC? It’s configurable for one (magnification, RGB profiles, number format, etc.), shows more information, and allows you to c

Re: Two great tips, one fantastic source...

> On Aug 21, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Earp Robert J. wrote: > > I’ve benefitted from the LC lists so many times over the years whilst > (embarrassingly) not being able to contribute much due to other far more > capable bods than me answering questions almost instantly. To all of those, > many thank

RE: Two great tips, one fantastic source...

On screen RGB does not tell you what's in the image file. The monitor's color profile(gamma and such) will modify the image for viewing on the screen. It's a great tool to see what is rendered on screen but not to examine the raw content of a displayed image. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Inf

Re: Two great tips, one fantastic source...

Bob, are you suggesting that Digital Color Meter in OS X does something more or other than the Color Palette in LC? Cheers, Roger > On Aug 21, 2015, at 7:33 AM, Earp Robert J. wrote: > > The second is finding out there is a fantastic built-in app called Digital > Color Meter in OS X residing

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Dear Mark and Lynn, had I realised my question would have ended up like this I would not have asked it. So, please, chill . . . I am now in touch with someone who has already registered 9 physical (i.e. non-software) games and am waiting for his low-down on the topic (which I intend to pass

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Someone mentioned websites where you can register your copyrights and my point is not to do this. So, yes, there is definitely an argument to be made. I will not get tempted to discuss trademarks. I said there are patents for algorithms. I didn't write they're easy to defend and that's not the

Re: STACKLE - RSRC for LC Stacks - Are U Interested?

FYI: Andre encouraged me to learn GIT... I already bought the GIT book.. went all the tutorials... was merrily pushing, fetching, pull, branching looking at diffs, what fun! for our LC server side (text only LC world) Very cool I actually enjoyed it... Hours later: no content is coming out t

RE: [OT] Copyrighting games?

> Lynn, you twist my words. I don't like that. > > I didn't say "do nothing". I said: you can do a few things > that don't cost you money and those copyright registration > websites don't provide you with any additional protection > whatsoever, so don't pay for their services. You are also cre

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Lynn, you twist my words. I don't like that. I didn't say "do nothing". I said: you can do a few things that don't cost you money and those copyright registration websites don't provide you with any additional protection whatsoever, so don't pay for their services. -- Best regards, Mark Sch

Re: Copy and Paste from LiveCode text fld in Mobile

Hmmm... I'm using a LiveCode field. OK... Understood... I'll look into that. Swasti Astu, Be Well! Brahmanathaswami Kauai's Hindu Monastery www.HimalayanAcademy.com Scott Rossi wrote: Are you using a native mobile input control (text field)? A LiveCode field by itself won't offer this.

RE: [OT] Copyrighting games?

> I didn't say "do nothing". I said: don't spend your > money on something that's essentially free. Copyright registration is not required to be afforded some protections under copyright law, but it affords _additional_ protection under US law that makes your rights easier to enforce. The basic

Re: Two great tips, one fantastic source...

Very useful. Thank you, Bob! Regards, Sri -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Two-great-tips-one-fantastic-source-tp4695475p4695476.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Two great tips, one fantastic source...

I’ve benefitted from the LC lists so many times over the years whilst (embarrassingly) not being able to contribute much due to other far more capable bods than me answering questions almost instantly. To all of those, many thanks, but you hold a secret I cannot find an answer to, how the hell

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

On Aug 20, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Ali Lloyd wrote: >> I doubt we will be writing a whole new script editor from scratch in one >> go. > > Wise, for all the reasons Joel talks about here (good link, Scott): > This is

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

Ali Lloyd wrote: > I don't think that the current script editor should be neglected I think that depends on when 7 will be EOLed. If you plan to have 8 stable by the end of the year and you plan to have a new Script editor there, wasting resources might be indeed a waste. Mike Kerner wrote: >

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

There are SO MANY things that can, and, in my opinion, should happen with a/the script editor, that I often wonder if instead of working on one, effort should instead be spent on a BBEdit/TextWrangler plugin or some method for leveraging someone else's text editor. Bootstrapping is an unbelievably

Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 at 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: > With the IDE things are even better: it's already written in a > high-level scripting language. Why not use LiveCode Script? > > If we can't build a good text editor in LiveCode, what are any of us > doing here? > > That is a false dichotom

Re: [OT] Linux 32-bit to 64-bit

I have often done a fresh install of a new distribution while leaving the /home partition as was and only had minor issues. The issue is that the menu will probably need some manual adjustment as lots of uninstalled packages may be linked to. But this was very minor. The nightmare with upgrade

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

I've been playing around with IDE and have built a simple wrapper stack which just pulls in the existing LC IDE stacks into the wrapper, copies the LC IDE menu and has a few extra buttons to turn the standard LC Tools and Menu pallets on and off. No mods are required to the existing IDE stacks and

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

Hi John, That "article" just makes a statement without any explanations. Terms like "actual expression or execution", "software concept" and "program logic" are rather vague. You can't copyright those, simple because you can't define them. A user interface, however, can be copyrighted if it

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

On 21/08/15 10:38, Paul Richards wrote: Not a CMS builder, but a drag & drop webpage builder - to quote "No coding & free" http://mobirise.com/ Paul :-) All a bit too complicated for simple folk like me, I stick with KompoZer: http://kompozer.net/ Richmond. ___

Re: JSON, URL-encode, and UTF-8

Hi Charles > On 21 Aug 2015, at 16:07, Charles Warwick > wrote: > > HI Peter, > > I did some testing with Jacque and found that her LC7 was sending the wrong > content-type when posting to the PHP script. > > In case anyone is interested: > > It was using a content type of 'application/json

RE: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

:-( Thanks Scott, PageCloud certainly looks a great tool Paul -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: 21 August 2015 08:51 To: LiveCode Mail List Subject: Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card That should

Re: JSON, URL-encode, and UTF-8

HI Peter, I did some testing with Jacque and found that her LC7 was sending the wrong content-type when posting to the PHP script. In case anyone is interested: It was using a content type of 'application/json’ which would have made sense if the PHP script was written to accept the json data d

Re: JSON, URL-encode, and UTF-8

> On 21 Aug 2015, at 02:27, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 8/20/2015 6:45 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: >> What happens if you remove the httpHeader setting and also UrlEncode >> tData? > > Still errors I'm afraid. Instead of removing the httpHeaders setting, what if you set it to this? set the httpHea

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

That should have read "...ISN'T even out of beta..." Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/21/15, 12:46 AM, "Scott Rossi" wrote: >Sorry Paul, Mobirise is even out of beta and it's already obsolete: >https://vimeo.com/127926346 > > >Admittedly, it's not free

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

Sorry Paul, Mobirise is even out of beta and it's already obsolete: https://vimeo.com/127926346 Admittedly, it's not free. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/21/15, 12:38 AM, "Paul Richards" wrote: >Not a CMS builder, but a drag & drop webpage builder

RE: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

Not a CMS builder, but a drag & drop webpage builder - to quote "No coding & free" http://mobirise.com/ Paul :-) -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Scott Rossi Sent: 19 August 2015 16:42 To: LiveCode Mail List Subject:

Re: arrow keys in datagrid

Hmmm… Windows 10 might be the difference, I don’t have that version to test against. I usually use Mac, and only have an old Win XP box that I test with. Both LC 6.7.6 and LC 7.1rc1 act the same way for me. > On 21 Aug 2015, at 3:34 pm, Mike Bonner wrote: > > 7.0.6 on windows 10 here. > > O

Re: JSON, URL-encode, and UTF-8

> On 21 Aug 2015, at 10:59, Peter W A Wood wrote: > > Jacque > >> On 21 Aug 2015, at 10:13, J. Landman Gay > > wrote: >> >> Here's a test. This posts just fine in LC 6.x but fails in 7.0.6 and 7.1rc1. >> >> Make a field with this in it: >> >> [{"Meals":"Yes