Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness
Yes, its sound great!!! I think it would take me slightly more than an hour Andy On 30 Jul 2011, at 01:47, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/29/11 7:25 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Friday, July 29, 2011, 1:58:48 PM, you wrote: It works with any server and with Dropbox, and you don't even need to leave LiveCode to use it. Sweet! Want. No sweat. Give me the weekend to fix it up. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?
Kay C Lan wrote: I look in my wallet an there are a couple of notes and a couple of plastic cards. The notes represent about 0.01% of iMoney I have in my account. I can use those plastic cards to access the BankCloud and if the strangers at the Bank are willing, the machine will give me more real money on a 1 to 1 reduction of my iMoney. Sometimes I don't even have to change iMoney into real money, I just go to the shop and transfer iMoney from my account to their iMoney account which all resides in the same BankCloud. Of course I have to pay a 'rental' fee for the privilege of being able to access my iMoney at virtually any time or shop. But then again, if a stranger at the bank goes all Nick Leeson on me, the bank will collapse and my iMoney in the BankCloud will disappear like the early morning stratocumulus, leaving me without any real money. Strange what we think we'd never do. Or even stranger, we could trust our money to so-called professional money managers who mishandle it so badly that the world economy is brought to the edge of collapse. ;) For all of our concerns about online security, one of the most common methods is still the most old-school: Every day millions of us go to restaurants where we hand our credit card to a stranger who takes it out of the room for several minutes. Ostensibly they're merely processing the transaction, but of course we have no way to know exactly what happens while the card is out of the room. I do a lot of online banking, but the only instance of identity theft I've experienced was from numbers stolen off a card I only use in the physical world. Further irony: most old-school modems used at restaurants and retail stores transmit without encryption over standard phone lines. While those lines aren't exposed to the Internet, they are vulnerable to any physical interception of traffic, such as tapping the local trunk. And here in the States we have a growing problem with fake or modified ATMs that skim card data. Remember: just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?
Bruce, Not sure about the path, but there is one other item to consider. If your web page is good_page.irev then the old 3.5 engine will be used, so you aren't going to connect to the stack no matter where it is. Try file: good_page.lc within that page you can use either ?lc put good stuff here ? or ?irev put good stuff here ? The file name seems to be the determining factor. Mike --- On Fri, 7/29/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:41 PM If the stack and irev HTML page are in the same folder, what is the path to the stack for the start using command? Is it simply: start using stack Test_Stack.livecode Or is it something more complicated than that? I am testing by putting a simple function called respond in the stack file's stack script, but so far no response in the .irev page when it is supposed to run the command put respond(). Am I missing something completely? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?
On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:42 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: I look in my wallet an there are a couple of notes and a couple of plastic cards. The notes represent about 0.01% of iMoney I have in my account. I can use those plastic cards to access the BankCloud and if the strangers at the Bank are willing, the machine will give me more real money on a 1 to 1 reduction of my iMoney. Sometimes I don't even have to change iMoney into real money, I just go to the shop and transfer iMoney from my account to their iMoney account which all resides in the same BankCloud. Of course I have to pay a 'rental' fee for the privilege of being able to access my iMoney at virtually any time or shop. But then again, if a stranger at the bank goes all Nick Leeson on me, the bank will collapse and my iMoney in the BankCloud will disappear like the early morning stratocumulus, leaving me without any real money. Strange what we think we'd never do. Or even stranger, we could trust our money to so-called professional money managers who mishandle it so badly that the world economy is brought to the edge of collapse. ;) I've always wondered why they're called brokers ... I think if I were in that line of work I'd find another way of describing it. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?
A little mistake in the last post: ?irev IS WRONG --- change to ?rev --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 10:16 AM Bruce, Not sure about the path, but there is one other item to consider. If your web page is good_page.irev then the old 3.5 engine will be used, so you aren't going to connect to the stack no matter where it is. Try file: good_page.lc within that page you can use either ?lc put good stuff here ? or ?irev put good stuff here ? The file name seems to be the determining factor. Mike --- On Fri, 7/29/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:41 PM If the stack and irev HTML page are in the same folder, what is the path to the stack for the start using command? Is it simply: start using stack Test_Stack.livecode Or is it something more complicated than that? I am testing by putting a simple function called respond in the stack file's stack script, but so far no response in the .irev page when it is supposed to run the command put respond(). Am I missing something completely? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: Where does survive the inventive user ?
:-) I've always wondered why they're called brokers ... I think if I were in that line of work I'd find another way of describing it. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Where does survive the inventive user ?
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: I look in my wallet an there are a couple of notes and a couple of plastic cards. The notes represent about 0.01% of iMoney I have in my account. I can use those plastic cards to access the BankCloud and if the strangers at the Bank are willing, the machine will give me more real money on a 1 to 1 reduction of my iMoney. Sometimes I don't even have to change iMoney into real money, I just go to the shop and transfer iMoney from my account to their iMoney account which all resides in the same BankCloud. Of course I have to pay a 'rental' fee for the privilege of being able to access my iMoney at virtually any time or shop. But then again, if a stranger at the bank goes all Nick Leeson on me, the bank will collapse and my iMoney in the BankCloud will disappear like the early morning stratocumulus, leaving me without any real money. Strange what we think we'd never do. Or even stranger, we could trust our money to so-called professional money managers who mishandle it so badly that the world economy is brought to the edge of collapse. ;) This video is a very informative explanation of where money 'actually' comes from. It's shocking if you've not seen it before. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2550156453790090544# ˜Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: LC Summer Academy
The Summer Academy was incredibly useful (and hats off to Elanor for being such a great presenter). A ton of information was presented in the 7 weeks, so much so that I had trouble keeping track of it all and definitely wanted a way to be able to go back and review it later. So I created the Summer Academy '11 Index... over 600 topical entries covering all of the material presented, including references to many livecode commands and tutorial links, and all keyword searchable. I've posted it to the RevOnline user samples (I think you can find it by searching for Index or Academy). Here are a couple of tips to help get you started: if you want to search for everything presented in a given week type Wk followed by the week number. If you want to know just what was presented in the Webinar portion, type Wk?w and replace ? with the week number you are interested in. This gives a kind of minute by minute overview of the webinar presentation. Interested in knowing what links where discussed? search for http. For those of you who attended, and for those of you interested in knowing what was covered I hope this tool is useful. Cheers, -- Mark From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Colin Holgate [co...@verizon.net] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:19 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: LC Summer Academy On Apr 21, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: I don't know what we're talking about, anyone can provide a link? http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/april/issue109/newsletter1.php ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [ANN] LiveCode.tv event #34
One hour to go... approximately. Remember that John Caig was so kind to step up as second presenter. see you in chatrev. On 29 Jul 2011, at 14:57, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Tomorrows event will be of reduced scope due to a lack of volunteers. All applicants welcome. I will introduce the release of BvG Docu 2. Join chatrev at 20:00 CET. Go to http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/ or enter in the message box: go stack URL “http://bjoernke.com/chatrev/chatrev1.3b3.rev” Sat. 22:00 Moscow Sat. 14:00 New York Sat. 11:00 Los Angeles Sun. 2:00 Beijing See http://livecode.tv/ for more info. Mail me to do your presentation, it doesn't matter if you do one in 4 months or right now. Björnke ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?
Mike, thanks very much. Changing the HTML file's extension from .irev to .lc worked. The web page is now displaying the result of the function that is in the stack script of my test stack file. I had not seen anything about the file extension being critical to functionality on On-Rev. However, here is another mystery. Now that my HTML file has the .lc extension, the On-Rev app does not recognize it! I have to use a text editor to edit it, or keep it as .irev and change it to .lc at deployment. Do you know why that should be? Regards, Bruce On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Michael Kann wrote: A little mistake in the last post: ?irev IS WRONG --- change to ?rev --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 10:16 AM Bruce, Not sure about the path, but there is one other item to consider. If your web page is good_page.irev then the old 3.5 engine will be used, so you aren't going to connect to the stack no matter where it is. Try file: good_page.lc within that page you can use either ?lc put good stuff here ? or ?irev put good stuff here ? The file name seems to be the determining factor. Mike --- On Fri, 7/29/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:41 PM If the stack and irev HTML page are in the same folder, what is the path to the stack for the start using command? Is it simply: start using stack Test_Stack.livecode Or is it something more complicated than that? I am testing by putting a simple function called respond in the stack file's stack script, but so far no response in the .irev page when it is supposed to run the command put respond(). Am I missing something completely? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?
Bruce, I'm not sure why the on-rev app doesn't approve of .lc yet. There is probably a line in a preferences file somewhere that hasn't been changed yet. Mike --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 12:22 PM Mike, thanks very much. Changing the HTML file's extension from .irev to .lc worked. The web page is now displaying the result of the function that is in the stack script of my test stack file. I had not seen anything about the file extension being critical to functionality on On-Rev. However, here is another mystery. Now that my HTML file has the .lc extension, the On-Rev app does not recognize it! I have to use a text editor to edit it, or keep it as .irev and change it to .lc at deployment. Do you know why that should be? Regards, Bruce On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Michael Kann wrote: A little mistake in the last post: ?irev IS WRONG --- change to ?rev --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 10:16 AM Bruce, Not sure about the path, but there is one other item to consider. If your web page is good_page.irev then the old 3.5 engine will be used, so you aren't going to connect to the stack no matter where it is. Try file: good_page.lc within that page you can use either ?lc put good stuff here ? or ?irev put good stuff here ? The file name seems to be the determining factor. Mike --- On Fri, 7/29/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:41 PM If the stack and irev HTML page are in the same folder, what is the path to the stack for the start using command? Is it simply: start using stack Test_Stack.livecode Or is it something more complicated than that? I am testing by putting a simple function called respond in the stack file's stack script, but so far no response in the .irev page when it is supposed to run the command put respond(). Am I missing something completely? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
User Interface Question
Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
For dragging, I'd go with handles on the left side of the datagrid that have hand icon when you hover over them. They've become pretty ubiquitous on webpages. For an example of what I mean: http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ As for a context menu, you be okay with just a tool-tip. People generally try and right-click a lot for things they expect to be there. Otherwise, again, go with something common to show that actions are available. For example, and disclosure triangle on the far right of a UI widget is typically clickable and will bring up a menu. Left-click will bring up your context menu, and r-click anywhere will bring it up as well. Jeff M. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
Thanks Jeff. I'm trying to implement the cursor change and running into some weirdness. In the script of the datagrid, I have these two handlers: *on* mouseEnter *lock* cursor *set* the cursor to hand *end* mouseEnter *on* mouseLeave *unlock* cursor *end* mouseLeave This changes the cursor as expected and most of the time, it returns to the correct cursor when I move the mouse away from the datagrid. However, if I move the cursor above the datagrid, the cursor stays as the hand and does not return to any other image no matter where I move the mouse to. This is the first time I've attempted to control the cursor so no doubt I'm doing something wrong! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: For dragging, I'd go with handles on the left side of the datagrid that have hand icon when you hover over them. They've become pretty ubiquitous on webpages. For an example of what I mean: http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ As for a context menu, you be okay with just a tool-tip. People generally try and right-click a lot for things they expect to be there. Otherwise, again, go with something common to show that actions are available. For example, and disclosure triangle on the far right of a UI widget is typically clickable and will bring up a menu. Left-click will bring up your context menu, and r-click anywhere will bring it up as well. Jeff M. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
Hi Pete, After unlock you have to set the cursor to arrow, Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 30 jul. 2011 om 21:58 heeft Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com het volgende geschreven: Thanks Jeff. I'm trying to implement the cursor change and running into some weirdness. In the script of the datagrid, I have these two handlers: *on* mouseEnter *lock* cursor *set* the cursor to hand *end* mouseEnter *on* mouseLeave *unlock* cursor *end* mouseLeave This changes the cursor as expected and most of the time, it returns to the correct cursor when I move the mouse away from the datagrid. However, if I move the cursor above the datagrid, the cursor stays as the hand and does not return to any other image no matter where I move the mouse to. This is the first time I've attempted to control the cursor so no doubt I'm doing something wrong! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: For dragging, I'd go with handles on the left side of the datagrid that have hand icon when you hover over them. They've become pretty ubiquitous on webpages. For an example of what I mean: http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ As for a context menu, you be okay with just a tool-tip. People generally try and right-click a lot for things they expect to be there. Otherwise, again, go with something common to show that actions are available. For example, and disclosure triangle on the far right of a UI widget is typically clickable and will bring up a menu. Left-click will bring up your context menu, and r-click anywhere will bring it up as well. Jeff M. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
I tried that - didn't make any difference. The cursor returns to arrow automatically with the code I have, except when I move the mouse above the datagrid. Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:05 PM, William de Smet williamdes...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Pete, After unlock you have to set the cursor to arrow, Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 30 jul. 2011 om 21:58 heeft Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com het volgende geschreven: Thanks Jeff. I'm trying to implement the cursor change and running into some weirdness. In the script of the datagrid, I have these two handlers: *on* mouseEnter *lock* cursor *set* the cursor to hand *end* mouseEnter *on* mouseLeave *unlock* cursor *end* mouseLeave This changes the cursor as expected and most of the time, it returns to the correct cursor when I move the mouse away from the datagrid. However, if I move the cursor above the datagrid, the cursor stays as the hand and does not return to any other image no matter where I move the mouse to. This is the first time I've attempted to control the cursor so no doubt I'm doing something wrong! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: For dragging, I'd go with handles on the left side of the datagrid that have hand icon when you hover over them. They've become pretty ubiquitous on webpages. For an example of what I mean: http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ As for a context menu, you be okay with just a tool-tip. People generally try and right-click a lot for things they expect to be there. Otherwise, again, go with something common to show that actions are available. For example, and disclosure triangle on the far right of a UI widget is typically clickable and will bring up a menu. Left-click will bring up your context menu, and r-click anywhere will bring it up as well. Jeff M. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
Hi Pete, Never offer a popup menu as the only way to access a feature. Put your popup menu into the menubar and enable the menu items in those situations when the user might as well click on the objects to show the popup menu. Show the same menu, or the essential menu items of it, in the optional popup menu. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeErrors for iPhone now http://qery.us/v4 A must-have for LiveCode programmers. On 30 jul 2011, at 20:42, Pete wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
Hi Mark, Yes, that sound like good advice. In fact, I just read the Apple HIG about contextual menus and they recommend the same approach, except they recommend the use of the standard Apple Action menu rather than a menubar entry. Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:13 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Pete, Never offer a popup menu as the only way to access a feature. Put your popup menu into the menubar and enable the menu items in those situations when the user might as well click on the objects to show the popup menu. Show the same menu, or the essential menu items of it, in the optional popup menu. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeErrors for iPhone now http://qery.us/v4 A must-have for LiveCode programmers. On 30 jul 2011, at 20:42, Pete wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
[ANN] Data Grid Helper 1.3.5 Update
Dear LC and DGH users, A new update for DGH is available. This new version has the following fix and changes: Fix: After opening the behaviors or the columns topics, some others properties values could appear locked and with an inappropriated tooltip. Changes: 1. All the DGH's substacks are now prefixed by DGH_ to insure compatibility with possible existing projects. 2. A new window allows you to send us any unexpected errors. 3. Navigation and selection of a property value is now possible by using the keyboard: - Hit tabkey to edit the next text property. Use the shiftkey modifier to edit the previous text property. - Hit return or enter for editing a property, or for opening the content of a menu. - Hit esc to cancel the edition. 4. Column builder preview: selecting a column will now select the column header and it's content. If you have not tried DGH yet, a trial version free for 30 days can be downloaded here: http://www.aslugontheroad.com/index.php?option=com_phocadownloadview=categoryid=12:trialItemid=63 You can also reach the Data Grid Helper plugin on the LiveCode Marketplace: http://www.runrev.com/store/product/data-grid-helper-1-2-0/ Remember, LiveCode has a special THREEFORTWO offer, which will be closed very shortly: http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/july/issue115/newsletter2.php?a=NWS115 Best regards, -- -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best! 8) http://www.aslugontheroad.co.cc ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
using stacks with on-rev
Now that on-rev's engine is upgraded to 4.6.3 I thought I would try the 'start using stack' command. I created a simple stack with a couple of functions in it and I uploaded to the directory where my index.irev page is. I put the following command in my index.irev file start using stack libstackmain.rev When this page loads it stops at the above line, it displays no error message. I also tried using a different extension for the stack file start using stack libstackmain.livecode I got the same result. Are stacks supported on on-rev? If so do I have the path to stack wrong? What is it relative to? Any other ideas how to get this working? Thanks Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/using-stacks-with-on-rev-tp3706864p3706864.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
Hello all, I need to figure out someone's age. I have their date of birth and I have today's date. How do I get the end result. My math skills SUCK. Here's my code (loaded in from the database with a SELECT statement): put item 7 of myLine into dobMonth put item 8 of myLine into dobDay put item 9 of myLine into dobYear put chartonum(dobYear) into dobYearNum put the long system date into field TodayDate I figured I would subtract this year from the dobyear and get the age - am I right? How would I do this if I am? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: carrying a global variable from stack to sub stack
Hello all, How do you carry a global variable from one stack to a substack? I have this set of commands on every page of every stack in my project: on opencard --Create a global variable for the db global dbID global curUserID global UN put numtochar(39) into SQ I then proceed to login to the database (works fine normally) and then access whatever data I need. I just created a substack called CV with three pages - pgCV1, pgCV2 and pgCV3 I need the login credentials of the user to carry over so the fields on these pages can be populated with the existing data on the database. The important variable is dbID and curUserID What do I need to do, other than the global command, to make this happen? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: carrying a global variable from stack to sub stack
How do you carry a global variable from one stack to a substack? If you set a global variable in the main stack: on preOpenStack global gMyName put Mike into gMyName end preOpenStack then in any card in any substack you can retrieve the value like so: on openCard global gMyName answer gMyName --you will see Mike end open Card In other words, nothing needs to be done to carry a global variable from one stack to another. All you have to do is declare it with the word global in front. S. I have this set of commands on every page of every stack in my project: on opencard --Create a global variable for the db global dbID global curUserID global UN put numtochar(39) into SQ I then proceed to login to the database (works fine normally) and then access whatever data I need. I just created a substack called CV with three pages - pgCV1, pgCV2 and pgCV3 I need the login credentials of the user to carry over so the fields on these pages can be populated with the existing data on the database. The important variable is dbID and curUserID What do I need to do, other than the global command, to make this happen? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?
I remember there was a setting in the client for that. Look in preferences (the gear icon upper right) sqb On 30 July 2011 11:34, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: Bruce, I'm not sure why the on-rev app doesn't approve of .lc yet. There is probably a line in a preferences file somewhere that hasn't been changed yet. Mike --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 12:22 PM Mike, thanks very much. Changing the HTML file's extension from .irev to .lc worked. The web page is now displaying the result of the function that is in the stack script of my test stack file. I had not seen anything about the file extension being critical to functionality on On-Rev. However, here is another mystery. Now that my HTML file has the .lc extension, the On-Rev app does not recognize it! I have to use a text editor to edit it, or keep it as .irev and change it to .lc at deployment. Do you know why that should be? Regards, Bruce On Jul 30, 2011, at 11:21 AM, Michael Kann wrote: A little mistake in the last post: ?irev IS WRONG --- change to ?rev --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Kann mikek...@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 10:16 AM Bruce, Not sure about the path, but there is one other item to consider. If your web page is good_page.irev then the old 3.5 engine will be used, so you aren't going to connect to the stack no matter where it is. Try file: good_page.lc within that page you can use either ?lc put good stuff here ? or ?irev put good stuff here ? The file name seems to be the determining factor. Mike --- On Fri, 7/29/11, Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net wrote: From: Bruce Pokras bruc...@comcast.net Subject: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev? To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Friday, July 29, 2011, 8:41 PM If the stack and irev HTML page are in the same folder, what is the path to the stack for the start using command? Is it simply: start using stack Test_Stack.livecode Or is it something more complicated than that? I am testing by putting a simple function called respond in the stack file's stack script, but so far no response in the .irev page when it is supposed to run the command put respond(). Am I missing something completely? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using stacks with on-rev
Martin, I couple posts after yours stephen barncard put the cherry on top of the Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev thread. Check it out. Good luck. Mike --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: From: Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com Subject: using stacks with on-rev To: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 4:08 PM Now that on-rev's engine is upgraded to 4.6.3 I thought I would try the 'start using stack' command. I created a simple stack with a couple of functions in it and I uploaded to the directory where my index.irev page is. I put the following command in my index.irev file start using stack libstackmain.rev When this page loads it stops at the above line, it displays no error message. I also tried using a different extension for the stack file start using stack libstackmain.livecode I got the same result. Are stacks supported on on-rev? If so do I have the path to stack wrong? What is it relative to? Any other ideas how to get this working? Thanks Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/using-stacks-with-on-rev-tp3706864p3706864.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using stacks with on-rev
stacks work, only with some limitations. These have been tested by me: Custom properties work. Create and name stacks works. Reading fields sometimes works. Can't write back to them, and no htmltext. Think of stacks for storage, not layout or graphics. I just tried out Mark Smith's excellent id3 mp3 tag library stack, installed with no changes and it works (on my custom livecode installation at Dreamhost) just like the desktop. The scripts had failed before, because they depend on custom properties. Be sure to use the .lc suffix if you want version 4.6.3 running the script , this is how I guess how On-rev determines which version of the server will be utilized. On 30 July 2011 14:08, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: Now that on-rev's engine is upgraded to 4.6.3 I thought I would try the 'start using stack' command. I created a simple stack with a couple of functions in it and I uploaded to the directory where my index.irev page is. I put the following command in my index.irev file start using stack libstackmain.rev When this page loads it stops at the above line, it displays no error message. I also tried using a different extension for the stack file start using stack libstackmain.livecode I got the same result. Are stacks supported on on-rev? If so do I have the path to stack wrong? What is it relative to? Any other ideas how to get this working? Thanks Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/using-stacks-with-on-rev-tp3706864p3706864.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Admin wrote: Hello all, I need to figure out someone's age. I have their date of birth and I have today's date. How do I get the end result. My math skills SUCK. Here's my code (loaded in from the database with a SELECT statement): put item 7 of myLine into dobMonth put item 8 of myLine into dobDay put item 9 of myLine into dobYear put chartonum(dobYear) into dobYearNum put the long system date into field TodayDate I figured I would subtract this year from the dobyear and get the age - am I right? How would I do this if I am? Mike Hey Mike, put this into a new button object. on mouseUp put the date into tToday ask Enter the date of birth as dd/mm/yy put it into tBorn convert tToday to seconds convert tBorn to seconds put (tToday - tBorn) into tAge -- in seconds -- now do the math in tAge -- to determine how many years that is answer The age is tAge seconds old. cr cr \ You didn't expect me to do all of the math, now did you? :) end mouseUp ˜Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: User Interface Question
I never do mouse cursor changes in controls. I do all of them in the card. on mouseMove px,py if px,py is within the rect of ... then -- cursor A else if px,py is within the rect of ... then -- cursor B else -- put the cursor back to normal end if end mouseMove This makes it *much* easier to control what's shown when. Jeff M. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Thanks Jeff. I'm trying to implement the cursor change and running into some weirdness. In the script of the datagrid, I have these two handlers: *on* mouseEnter *lock* cursor *set* the cursor to hand *end* mouseEnter *on* mouseLeave *unlock* cursor *end* mouseLeave This changes the cursor as expected and most of the time, it returns to the correct cursor when I move the mouse away from the datagrid. However, if I move the cursor above the datagrid, the cursor stays as the hand and does not return to any other image no matter where I move the mouse to. This is the first time I've attempted to control the cursor so no doubt I'm doing something wrong! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Jeff Massung mass...@gmail.com wrote: For dragging, I'd go with handles on the left side of the datagrid that have hand icon when you hover over them. They've become pretty ubiquitous on webpages. For an example of what I mean: http://jqueryui.com/demos/sortable/ As for a context menu, you be okay with just a tool-tip. People generally try and right-click a lot for things they expect to be there. Otherwise, again, go with something common to show that actions are available. For example, and disclosure triangle on the far right of a UI widget is typically clickable and will bring up a menu. Left-click will bring up your context menu, and r-click anywhere will bring it up as well. Jeff M. On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Wondering if anyone has any thoughts on a couple of user interface questions. I'm providing a popup contextual menu when the user right-clicks on a datagrid. I'm also providing the ability to re-order rows in a datagrid by dragging and dropping them. The common thread between these two functions is that there is no on-screen indication that they exist. Popup menus are invisible until they are invoked and drag and drop is equally invisible until someone initiates it. Are there any common methods for indicating to users that features like this are available to them? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Admin wrote: I figured I would subtract this year from the dobyear and get the age - am I right? How would I do this if I am? Mike I gotta start reading the whole message before I reply... If you already have two 4-digit year values in variables, you can simply put their difference into another variable (or container). put (largYear - smallYear) into tAge You can also say: subtract smallYear from largeYear answer largeYear -- which now becomes the age ˜Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: carrying a global variable from stack to sub stack
Thank you. The only place I did not have it was in my stack's script with the openstack handler. Duh! Mike On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:34:58 -0400, Slava Paperno wrote: How do you carry a global variable from one stack to a substack? If you set a global variable in the main stack: on preOpenStack global gMyName put Mike into gMyName end preOpenStack then in any card in any substack you can retrieve the value like so: on openCard global gMyName answer gMyName --you will see Mike end open Card In other words, nothing needs to be done to carry a global variable from one stack to another. All you have to do is declare it with the word global in front. S. I have this set of commands on every page of every stack in my project: on opencard --Create a global variable for the db global dbID global curUserID global UN put numtochar(39) into SQ I then proceed to login to the database (works fine normally) and then access whatever data I need. I just created a substack called CV with three pages - pgCV1, pgCV2 and pgCV3 I need the login credentials of the user to carry over so the fields on these pages can be populated with the existing data on the database. The important variable is dbID and curUserID What do I need to do, other than the global command, to make this happen? Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [1] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [2] Links: -- [1] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [2] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
Thank you. I am sure that will do it! Mike On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:16:44 -0400, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Admin wrote: Hello all, I need to figure out someone's age. I have their date of birth and I have today's date. How do I get the end result. My math skills SUCK. Here's my code (loaded in from the database with a SELECT statement): put item 7 of myLine into dobMonth put item 8 of myLine into dobDay put item 9 of myLine into dobYear put chartonum(dobYear) into dobYearNum put the long system date into field TodayDate I figured I would subtract this year from the dobyear and get the age - am I right? How would I do this if I am? Mike Hey Mike, put this into a new button object. on mouseUp put the date into tToday ask Enter the date of birth as dd/mm/yy put it into tBorn convert tToday to seconds convert tBorn to seconds put (tToday - tBorn) into tAge -- in seconds -- now do the math in tAge -- to determine how many years that is answer The age is tAge seconds old. cr cr You didn't expect me to do all of the math, now did you? :) end mouseUp ˜Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [1] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode [2] Links: -- [1] mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com [2] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: running an exe from a web server
Hi all, How to I run a .exe file or a mac executeable from a button - the file of which is on a web server (http://www.campstaffusa.com/newdb/upcc.exe)? I want to run a self-extracting zip file that opens up a live code program to allow the user to upload their picture to the database, since it will not allow you to do that in the revlet online player. I have the program all zipped up and it is now a self-extracting zip that will run the .exe file upon automatically extracting. All I need to do is have the person click the button and run the .exe file. I wish you could do that with a live code app - compress everything into one file that can be run - instead of needing the externals folder and any other .dll's. Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
Hi all - another one: I have a path stored in a MySQL database to an image file. I have a page with a image control I know how to SELECT the imagepath info and bring it into a variable, but how do I then load that image into the image control (with proper proportions)? I tried the obvious ways and nothing worked for me. The image control is named imgCandidatePic (just a small 140x140 square). A sample path would be http://www.server.com/userfiles/bear_harry/mypic.jpg for example I need to get that picture into the image control when the card loads (so in the card script using opencard). Thanks for your help everyone. Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
The following works: put http://fake.com/fake.jpg; into k set the filename of img 1 to k To get the correct dimensions I guess you would have to find the dimensions of the online jpg, then make you img the same dimensions. Just a thought. Mike --- On Sat, 7/30/11, Admin ad...@mfelkerco.com wrote: From: Admin ad...@mfelkerco.com Subject: Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Saturday, July 30, 2011, 7:38 PM Hi all - another one: I have a path stored in a MySQL database to an image file. I have a page with a image control I know how to SELECT the imagepath info and bring it into a variable, but how do I then load that image into the image control (with proper proportions)? I tried the obvious ways and nothing worked for me. The image control is named imgCandidatePic (just a small 140x140 square). A sample path would be http://www.server.com/userfiles/bear_harry/mypic.jpg for example I need to get that picture into the image control when the card loads (so in the card script using opencard). Thanks for your help everyone. Mike ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using stacks with on-rev
Thanks Mike and Stephen So the answer is that the file has to have the .lc extension for the 4.6.3 engine to process it. Once I had the correct extension the line start using stack libstackmain.rev worked and I was able to call a function in the stack. That is interesting that .irev files are processed with the 3.5 engine .lc files are processed with the 4.6.3 engine I guess that keeps old sites from breaking. I was afraid with the transition to 4.6.3 that it may break an on-rev website that I have. It has been working fine though so I guess it is still running on the 3.5 engine. Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/using-stacks-with-on-rev-tp3706864p3707069.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?
Yes I found the setting to add lc as an irev type which allows me to edit it in the on-rev client but when I select a file with the .lc extension the 'View online' and 'Debug' buttons are disabled. It seems to treat the file as other plain text files except for the colourization. Is debugging supported for 4.6.3? Why would 'View online' not work? Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Android-Why-so-quiet-Who-s-developing-Android-apps-tp3656291p3707074.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Admin wrote: Hi all - another one: I have a path stored in a MySQL database to an image file. I have a page with a image control I know how to SELECT the imagepath info and bring it into a variable, but how do I then load that image into the image control (with proper proportions)? I tried the obvious ways and nothing worked for me. The image control is named imgCandidatePic (just a small 140x140 square). A sample path would be http://www.server.com/userfiles/bear_harry/mypic.jpg for example I need to get that picture into the image control when the card loads (so in the card script using opencard). Thanks for your help everyone. Mike As long as your image size is not locked, the image container will adjust to the proportions of the original image. on mouseUp create img bear_harry set the filename of img bear_harry to http://www.skcastle.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/bearharry.jpg; end mouseUp ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using stacks with on-rev
Those guys in the engine room are pretty darn clever. I wondered how they were going to handle two versions. sqb On 30 July 2011 18:18, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: Thanks Mike and Stephen So the answer is that the file has to have the .lc extension for the 4.6.3 engine to process it. Once I had the correct extension the line start using stack libstackmain.rev worked and I was able to call a function in the stack. That is interesting that .irev files are processed with the 3.5 engine .lc files are processed with the 4.6.3 engine I guess that keeps old sites from breaking. I was afraid with the transition to 4.6.3 that it may break an on-rev website that I have. It has been working fine though so I guess it is still running on the 3.5 engine. Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/using-stacks-with-on-rev-tp3706864p3707069.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
lack of Mac OS X intuition: system menu
I've been learning LC in Windows, and have now switched to Mac OS X, where everything is just so intuitive and easy... can someone please tell me how to remove my application menu from the system menu bar and restore the LC menu so I can do some work? My intuition fails on this point. I know I've seen this mentioned somewhere but can't find it now. Thanks! Slava ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
revBrowser and Unicode on Mac OS X
Short version: revBrowser does not display Unicode characters in Mac OS X (PPC/Tiger and Intel/Snow Leopard). LC 4.6.2 and 4.6.3. Long version: I finished writing and testing my Russian dictionary application in Windows and started testing it in Mac OS X. My first surprise is that revBrowser does not display Cyrillic (Unicode) characters--neither on a PPC (Tiger) nor on an Intel (Snow Leopard) machine. The English portion is rendered fine, including styles and everything, but Cyrillic is rendered as if every double-byte character is interpreted as a sequence of two single bytes. The source (the HTML text that is assigned to revBrowser as its htmltext property) comes from a local html file or from a database record. The result is the same. When the same text is assigned to the unicodeText property of a field, everything looks fine. The usual character set meta tag in the html is present and indicates UTF-8. Works fine in Windows. Is there something about displaying UTF-8 in revBrowser in Mac OS X that I need to know? The browser that is used by LC is probably part of the Mac setup, right? All browsers on those two Macs display the same Web page fine. I'll be grateful for any solution. I hope it's something I'm doing wrong--or not doing. Thanks, Slava ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year
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 Windows. Don't do this if you are going to need this to work in Windows! Under Windows, you need to subtract the birthyear from the current year and determine if the current month/day is later than the birth month/day and subtract one year if necessary. Conveniently, this methods does work on all platforms. Best, Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
revBrowserCallScript() not working in Mac OS X
My application (LC 4.6.3) does this:
revBrowserSet(sBrowserID, htmltext, tMyHTML)
tMyHTML is a fully-formed Web page that includes this function:
function SetFontSize(FSizeStr) {
document.body.style.fontSize = FSizeStr;
}
A button on the same card as the revBrowser instance does this:
revBrowserCallScript(sBrowserID, SetFontSize, 16 px)
This works fine in Windows, but now that I started testing in Mac OS X
(10.5.8. on PPC and 10.6.8 on Intel), the line above returns execution
error at line n/a (External handler: exception) near *** [WebUndefined
cStringUsingEncoding:]: unrecognized selector sent to instance
This is my second major revBrowser surprise since I started testing in Mac
OS X. Am I on the wrong track? Does revBrowser work the same in Windows and
Mac OS X? I realize the underlying browser comes from the OS. Do I need to
do anything differently for revBrowser in Mac OS?
Thanks,
Slava
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Re: lack of Mac OS X intuition: system menu
What is the Application menu? What things are in the LC menu. On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: can someone please tell me how to remove my application menu from the system menu bar and restore the LC menu so I can do some work? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: lack of Mac OS X intuition: system menu
My stack has a menu bar built with the Menu Builder in the Tools menu. It is essentially a group of buttons use as a menu bar. When I open the stack in the IDE on Mac OS X, that menu replaces the standard LC IDE menu. No matter which mode I am in (Browse or Run), I cannot see the LC IDE menu in the Mac OS system menu bar. So nine of the IDE commands are available. I know this is a trivial situation in Mac OS, and there is a secret handshake that returns the IDE menu where it belongs. I even remember reading about this somewhere. But I can't find that now. Thanks, Colin, Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Colin Holgate Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2011 12:41 AM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: lack of Mac OS X intuition: system menu What is the Application menu? What things are in the LC menu. On Jul 30, 2011, at 10:54 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: can someone please tell me how to remove my application menu from the system menu bar and restore the LC menu so I can do some work? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
