Glassware?
Do we expect Livecode to be able to make glassware at some point? Just another android-linux system? Stack=timeline, card=card? Walton Sumner ___ 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
Weighted Random Number
This seems to work: Make a stack with a button having this script, then click the button. It will bounce around in a normal distribution in H and V coordinates. on mouseUp local tSD,tMean,tPoint,tStartPoint put the loc of me into tStartPoint put the width of this window div 6 & comma & the height of this window div 6 into tSD put the width of this window div 2 & comma & the height of this window div 2 into tMean put BoxMullerDist(tMean,tSD) into tPoint set the loc of me to tPoint wait 1 second set the loc of me to tStartPoint end mouseUp function BoxMullerDist pMean,pStdDev local tU,tV,tX,tY put random(100)/100 into tU put random(100)/100 into tV put sqrt(-2*ln(tU))*cos(2*pi*tV) into tX put sqrt(-2*ln(tU))*sin(2*pi*tV) into tY return item 1 of pMean + tX*item 1 of pStdDev & comma & item 2 of pMean + tY*item 2 of pStdDev end BoxMullerDist You can tweak the range by setting tSD to div 4 to hit the edges more often. You can tweak the center point by shifting the mean, but you will go off the edges sometimes if you shift too far. Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_distribution#Generating_values_from_normal_distribution Walt Sumner ___ 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
Apology for 'Challenging new property inspector'
Hi, folks, I clearly posted a message to the wrong list last week, starting a bit of a storm. I'd like to follow up with a public word of thanks to Richard Gaskin for gentle, private redirection; also to Richmond Mathewson and Bob Sneider for similar corrections, and to Jacqueline for trying to calm the storm. It is a friendly and helpful community, which is nice if you're having a particularly clumsy week. I'll slink back under my rock now and try to avoid causing any more trouble. Thanks, Walt ___ 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
Challenging new property inspector in LC6 dp4
Rather than get any real work done this evening, I've been dutifully trying to describe a bunch of issues with the property inspector in LC6.0 dp4 through the quality control center. However, the last straw was the QCC demanding in bold letters on a blood red background that "A value must be set for the 'Desktop OS' field." when there was no such field on the preceding form, try as I might to find it. And if that data is missing, why can't it ask, "What is your desktop OS?" It's not like there are that many required fields. And I had already recorded that info in my report. If anyone knows where to enter my desktop OS, please let me know. I looked in a lot of places in the QCC, didn't see it. So, here's my list of problems with the PI. If anyone knows how to circumvent them, please share. Anyone who can get this to RunRev's attention please feel free, I need to invest my time elsewhere at this point. And please, RunRev, can the feedback loop be a little more gracious? The LC 6.0 dp4 new property inspector is practically unusable for me in multiple regards: 1. Any object selected with the pointer tool changes content of the new property inspector, but I cannot use the pointer tool to browse or adjust anything in the new property inspector, I just wind up selecting objects in the inspector. So I try switching to the browse tool, and the new property inspector immediately changes focus to inspect itself: stack "idePropertyInspector". It seems to work to pointer-click an object in my stack, pointer-click a field in the inspector, and then choose the browse tool. The inspector then displays information about the last selected object in my stack (even though that object is now deselected), and it is possible to browse. 2. If it is closed, the new property inspector pops up with every object selection using the pointer tool, and gets in front of the stack I am trying to edit. In fact, if I point at an object in my stack so that the new property inspector comes to the fore, and then go to the tools palette and double click on a button, the newly created button will appear in the property inspector, not my stack. This is extremely unexpected and disconcerting, especially given how hard it is to get the inspector out of the way for any length of time. Shouldn't it be acting more like a palette and less like a stack in development? 3. I have not found a way to suppress the new property inspector: it appears, in front of my stack, with any double click of the pointer tool, and with any single click of the pointer tool if the inspector has been closed. If this is going to be released, opting for the old property inspector needs to be an setting, IMO. 4. On one occasion that I cannot reproduce yet, turning on suppress messages and then clicking on an object caused a function call to ideMessagesSuppress() to hang with an effective freeze of Livecode - unresponsive to command-period, quit, escape, etc. I had to force-quit LiveCode, although it was still "responsive" in the opinion of the Activity Monitor. I often have freezes that appear related to browsing the documentation or manipulating the new property inspector but that can be escaped with control-period to abort some script. This was different. 5. A lot of the text settings in the new prop inspector change the settings of all of the fields in the prop inspector, which is very effective visual feedback, but I don't know that I want all of the labels and contents in the new PI struck through just because I want the field in my stack to display struck through text, for instance. These behaviors were not an issue for me with LC 6 dp1, the version I had been using until today. There are still issues with forcing custom property saves after manual edits of the old property inspector. Computer: Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier: MacBookPro4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz Number Of Processors: 1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache: 3 MB Memory: 2 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version: MBP41.00C1.B03 SMC Version (system): 1.27f3 Serial Number (system): W8823. Hardware UUID: E39105FB-.. Sudden Motion Sensor: State: Enabled OSX 10.5.8 Thanks, Walt Sumner ___ 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
Voice recognition in Livecode
Has anyone tried using voice recognition on a Livecode mobile application? I would like to use voice recognition to identify concepts that are then manipulated with gestures on a mobile device. The ability to swap dictionaries used by listening algorithms would be a huge plus. Thanks, Walton Sumner ___ 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: Get number of occurrences of one string in another
Here's a small speed increment, still no repeat loops except for 3 or 4 hidden
within Livecode. Counts "pp" as 3 "pp", not 5.
on mouseUp
local timer1, timer2,pChunk, tCount1, tCount2
put
"asdfewoaevewppaafaeppaeafpntsrnpspsppsrhbsbppsbsargaregppsbrahargagbafpp" into
pChunk
put the ticks into timer1
repeat 10
put substringCount1("pp",pChunk) into tCount1
end repeat
put the ticks - timer1 into timer1
put the ticks into timer2
repeat 10
put substringCount2("pp",pChunk) into tCount2
end repeat
put the ticks - timer2 into timer2
put "dividing:" && timer1 & CR & "filtering:" && timer2 & CR & tCount1 &&
tCount2 && (tCount1=tCount2)
end mouseUp
function substringCount1 pString, pChunk
local tLengthBefore
put length(pChunk) into tLengthBefore
replace pString with empty in pChunk
return (tLengthBefore-length(pChunk)) div length(pString)
end substringCount1
function substringCount2 pString, pChunk
replace pString with cr & pString & cr in pChunk
filter pChunk with pString
return the number of lines of pChunk
end substringCount2
OUTPUT
dividing: 35
filtering: 56
6 6 true
Walt
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Message: 22
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:46:23 -0800
From: Bob Sneidar
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: Get number of occurrences of one string in another
Message-ID: <00eedc47-b386-4bec-9bcc-0e51671dc...@twft.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
only works for single characters.
function substringCount pString, pChunk
replace pString with cr & pString & cr in pChunk
filter pChunk with pString
return the number of lines of pChunk
end substringCount
Bob
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:44 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote:
>
> > The offset() function has a third parameter: chars to skip. So if you
> call offset in a loop with the third param set to the previous result, and
> count loops until it returns 0, Bob's your uncle.
> >
> > On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:37 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote:
> >
> >> function substringCount pChar, pString
> >>put 0 into theCount
> >>repeat for each char theChar in pString
> >> if theChar is pChar then
> >> add 1 to theCount
> >> end if
> >>end repeat
> >>return theCount
> >> end substringCount
> >>
> >>
> >> Would work out nicely if there is not built in function for this.
> >>
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RE: Determine 180 degree turn using compass
Tim, Does a lap potentially include a figure 8? You will be on the same heading twice per lap in a figure 8, but you could monitor the sweep of headings to capture that possibility. Maybe a lap requires a reasonable progression through southern, eastern, northern, and western headings. --WS Message: 3 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 13:08:18 -0500 From: Thomas McGrath III To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Determine 180 degree turn using compass Message-ID: <3b55c011-6a6a-4529-9d17-e218155e2...@mac.com> Content-Type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII OK, this is for the math experts here. Using a working Compass app I would like to determine when the phone is turned around from an initial starting point. So I am working out the best ways to do this. 1. Start by capturing the start heading 2. Store that in a global 3. Store that the start heading has been set 4. Using headingChanged capture the currentHeading at intervals 5. Check the new currentHeading against the start heading 6. If enough of a difference is detected then count that as a lap 7. Set the new currentHeading as the global heading 8. Using headingChanged capture the currentHeading at intervals 9. Repeat until stopped 10. return total lap count So this seems straight forward (if I haven't missed anything) And if I start at 10 degrees and turn right 170 now I am at 180. Good. I just subtract 10 from 180 and I know I have turned at least 170 degrees and can count that as a lap (give or take) BUT then the new starting point may not be right since I might be mid turn when the interval fires. And if the starting point is say 10 and I turn left 170 degrees and now I am at 200 and 10 - 200 is -190 but I have not really turned -190 but only 170 and again this may be incorrect based on when the sample interval was fired. So, It looks to me like I need to come up with a better way to estimate the general direction I am starting from and a better way to set the intervals. As well as figuring out the right way to handle the compass degrees when they pass 0/360. I have never had to do this before and would like some advice and feedback on what/how to get there. So far I started with this code after starting the compass heading capture: global myLapCountNumber on headingChanged put iphoneCurrentHeading() into tHeading lapCount tHeading["heading"] end headingChanged on lapCount pNum if pNum is not "" then if myLapCountNumber is not "" then if pNum > myLapCountNumber then if pNum - myLapCountNumber > 150 then answer pNum && "-" && myLapCountNumber && "= Lap Right +" put pNum into myLapCountNumber end if else -- pNum is less than myLapCountNumber if myLapCountNumber - pNum > 150 then answer myLapCountNumber && "-" && pNum && "= Lap Left -" put pNum into myLapCountNumber end if end if else put 0 into myLapCountNumber -- Needs changed to a sampling of the general direction end if end if end lapCount -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net ___ 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
