Re: Opening documents with Quick Look on iPad?

2010-12-13 Thread As_Simon
Hi Andre, Thanks but no joy using launch url on the iPad. Going through the iOS 4.2 docs xCode developers seem to have to tell the app which types of docs it can open. I hope we wont have to do that with LC. Regards, Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nab

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Giuseppe Le 13 déc. 2010 à 11:45, Giuseppe Luigi Punzi a écrit : > Hi all, > > I asked some question in forums, but before buying Destop ISV package, I > would > like to get a little more generic information. > > I will start a personal project for a customer, and I'm searching a new > ID

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Pierre, I think Giuseppe is probably building desktop apps because as far as I know REALStudio does not build server side stuff. Giuseppe, I think LiveCode can do anything REALStudio can. I am a former REALBasic user (long ago, 2002 or something) and while I think their product is great, I decided

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread Giuseppe Luigi Punzi
Yes, for the moment, I will buy (when solved some question about my card, because they don't accept Maestro) Desktop ISV and I will buy Server and mobile licenses later once this project is delivered and charged. I'm very interested in server side development, but as I say, this for another moment

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread Pierre Sahores
Andre, Giuseppe, Andre is right, is't ? In this case, LiveCode just push us to do anything we need at the speed of tough ;-) Here are some charts out of a PostgreSQL backend as directly requested and displayed by a LiveCode RIA standalone client in using only standard build-in commands (no s

ANN: Installer Maker Plugin 1.5

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Dear folks, Economy-x-Talk is pleased to announce a big update of the now well-known Installer Maker Plugin for LiveCode. The Installer Maker Plugin is the easiest way to wrap your LiveCode standalones in an installer. Just create your standalones and drag them into the Installer Maker Plugin

Serious problems with command keys

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
I'm not much for posting bugs that just hang around for years, but there are some serious flaws in how command keys are currently implemented. If anyone of substance "cares" enough to follow this through I'd be happy to work with them. I've been a beta tester for many years with some of the soft

Dictionary back

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Incidentally, after downloading and installing 4.5.2, my missing dictionary is back. So far, some of the command keys seem to be working a bit better as well. Is there a list of fixes in 4.5.2 that I can check out somewhere? Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI

Re: Serious problems with command keys

2010-12-13 Thread Martin Koob
I have had good experiences of late with bug reporting thru the Revolution Quality Control Center. I have posted bugs recently and Runrev staff have been actively engaged in trying to figure out what is going on and resolving them. The place for most of the discussion on the bug has been throug

Re: Serious problems with command keys

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks for the info Martin. I have yet to post anything, so there is no bug ID# as yet. I'm still checking out things with 4.5.2 first. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:37 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > > I have had good experiences of la

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread AndyP
Hi Giuseppe, I think a quick answer to your all of your questions is Yes. LiveCode works very well with databases with libraries included from the outset. Presenting data is now very definable thanks to the datagrid. The datagrid at first glance may look simplistic but stick with it and you wil

Re: RevServer set-up on OSX Server

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
If it is not completing post, I would start by opening it up and reseating the ram. If you have spare ram, try replacing that. But over all if it is under Applecare, then it is best to let them look at it so that you don't void the warranty. Bob On Dec 12, 2010, at 8:57 AM, Keith Clarke wrot

Re: Dictionary has stopped working

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Joe. I suspect you have a menu assigned to the card. There is a long standing issue with custom menus. Livecode treats the height of the card as the actual height minus the menu (were it visible). Odd I know, but I think they do this to maintain compatibility with Windows, which puts a menu o

Re: Dictionary has stopped working

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think this could be easily resolved by changing the engine. On Macs, the engine should move the menu bar to a location above the actual window, instead of change the size of the window, which is completely unintuitive. Backward compatibility be damned I say. It's like rotating the earth every

Re: Dictionary has stopped working

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Joe. On preopencard lock the screen, then call your resize function. That should smooth things out. Bob On Dec 10, 2010, at 5:46 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Thanks Jacque, I figured it had to be something like that, but your > suggestions are a big help. Methinks this whole method of h

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. These events take place at a time where I am unavailable. Still, I would love to help out on the GLX project where I can. I would like to watch the videos after the fact if I may. Is there a link for them? Bob On Dec 11, 2010, at 10:23 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > The Live LiveCode C

Re: Dictionary has stopped working

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Bob, I've resorted to an openStack handler in each of the different stacks. It's a little jumpy under the IDE, but I expect that will improve in the standalone. I gave up on Windows a long time ago. I keep hoping it'll disappear, but no such luck to date. M$ is much weaker without Gates' inv

Re: How to select image object instead of group

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Instead of cloning the card, which has it's own nuances, I would simply trap the newCard message in the stack script and create the image object, set it's script, size and position it, then send a mouseUp to it. That way your background group will work as expected. Bob On Dec 11, 2010, at 4:

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-13 Thread Andre Garzia
and now live from livelivecode event... On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi all. These events take place at a time where I am unavailable. Still, I > would love to help out on the GLX project where I can. I would like to watch > the videos after the fact if I may. Is there a

Re: Dictionary has stopped working

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Bob, That makes sense. I've rarely used any of the preopen gizzmos. If I need to i'll give this a try. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:34 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi Joe. On preopencard lock the screen, then call your resize func

Re: [Semi-OT] [ANN] Sqwerly Chat

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well that's curious. I listen when no one is talking. Maybe we should chat sometime? ;-) Bob On Dec 11, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Jeffrey Massung wrote: > >> In preparation, I've already created a LiveCode chat room on Sqwerly: >> >> http://www.sqwerly.com/room?q=12027

Re: Dictionary has stopped working

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Good idea, though any off-screen stuff sometimes makes changing things later a bit difficult. Like - where is this thing? Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I think this could be easily resolved by changing t

Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-13 Thread Jeff Reynolds
The eames version was the grand daddy and still holds up decades later http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0 shows the true genius of the eames that their work is just as solid and gorgeous today as it was when it came out. they still amaze me. cheers jeff On Dec 13, 2010, at 7:25 AM

Re: glx2

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
heh heh. On Dec 11, 2010, at 8:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mark Wieder wrote: > >> Friday, December 10, 2010, 2:42:08 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Is there any documentation for glx2 anywhere? I already like some of >>> the obvious features in it but I'm guessing there's other stuff I >>> don;t k

Re: RevServer set-up on OSX Server

2010-12-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...thanks Bob but it's an early Intel Mini. It turns out that (for some unknown reason) this box doesn't check the new, low profile aluminium wired keyboard before selecting its boot media. I then discovered that the IR remote's menu key acts as the 'alt' key and so, was able to intercept the st

Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-13 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 13, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Jeff Reynolds wrote: > The eames version was the grand daddy and still holds up decades later One bit of trivia, the powers of ten idea was sent to the Natural History Museum on the 1920s, and the one I did was based on that original suggestion. I'm not sure if Ea

Re: Suffixes Rename_Anomaly - Renaming batch files in Livecode

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
This all reminds me of a file naming problem I had with Windows. If a Mac copies files with illegal characters to a Windows share (illegal to Windows that is) Windows will happily accept and copy the files, complete with bad characters, then later inform you that it cannot find the file you are

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
For my Mac, it's shift-backslash. Bob On Dec 11, 2010, at 9:04 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > Bonjour, > > In a Pulldown Menu (among others), one can have sub-Items for an item (doing > tab in the text of the menu) > but when ask for it in the message box, it is coded as something like > "Cho

Re: How to write the "|" char in a script

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Bob On Dec 12, 2010, at 3:09 AM, André Bisseret wrote: > I had tried that but, on my MacBook Pro (french) shift backslash does not > work (return backslash!!) Here backslash is next to last in the fourth row! > > Thanks you Joe for your attention > > André ___

Re: How do you compare negative numbers with positive numbers?

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I had, after 25 minutes of heavy thought, worked out that it actually was relevant! That's scary! Bob On Dec 12, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > > For anyone slightly confused by that, I was telling a colleague about changes > in Google Docs for iPad, and pasted the reply into t

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
There is a third party plugin for charts that someone wrote. Quartum Reports I believe it is. Datagrids are pretty easy to work with, especially if simply displaying and trapping for lines clicked. zryip wrote DataGrid Helper to make that process a great deal less cumbersome even still. For form

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
DOH! Thanks. I did begin to look at the event, but methinks you will need to at least double the resolution of the video stream if you want the type to be readable. If youstream limits you, then you may be at an impasse. Bob On Dec 13, 2010, at 9:47 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > and now live fro

OT: Problems with Inserting Odd Characters into PostGreSQL

2010-12-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
I'm a dbase - sql newbie when it comes to actually writing a web front end for capturing and inserting data into a database. I can do code to read and use data, no problem, but this is my very first project where I actually all on my own without Andre's help, write a front end to accept input

RE: Dictionary back

2010-12-13 Thread Walt Brown
Joe, check out Menu->Help->Release Notes. -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Joe Lewis Wilkins Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:33 AM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Dictionary back Incidentally, af

Re: Dictionary back

2010-12-13 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Thanks Walt. With my poor vision things like that escape me. Joe Lewis Wilkins Architect & Director of Product Development for GSI On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Walt Brown wrote: > Joe, check out Menu->Help->Release Notes. > > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.

Re: OT: Problems with Inserting Odd Characters into PostGreSQL

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
If I am not mistaken, your database columns need to be defined as UTF16 or something along that order. I don't believe UTF8 will support foreign characters. I may be mistaken on the type of formatting (I never need to use "foreign" characters so I have no actual experience) but I think the princ

Re: OT: Problems with Inserting Odd Characters into PostGreSQL

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
A search of the LiveCode dictionary for encode reveals the uniEncode function. This might be what you are looking for. BTW (and please nobody hate me for saying so) (and this is not directed at the poster or anyone in particular) a LOT of enquiries on this list I find the answers for by doing

Re: Dictionary back

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
That's what the SQL statement said. Bob On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:27 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > things like that escape me ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: OT: Problems with Inserting Odd Characters into PostGreSQL

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
BTW, Trevor, does sqlYoga resolve this issue internally? If so it would make a really great selling point for sqlYoga! Bob On Dec 13, 2010, at 12:00 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: > I'm a dbase - sql newbie when it comes to actually writing a web front end > for capturing and inserting data into a

Re: OT: Problems with Inserting Odd Characters into PostGreSQL

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I also found this. Of particular interest is the section on double dollar sign quoting: 4.1.2.4. Dollar-Quoted String Constants While the standard syntax for specifying string constants is usually convenient, it can be difficult to understand when the desired string contains many single quote

Post Facto Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi LiveCoders, Past Saturday, 11 December, we had another successful Live LiveCode Code Event. While a dozen of code monkeys chitchatted about everything LiveCode and many other subjects, we enjoyed 2 interesting presentations. This time, Björnke was unavailable and Mark took the challenge of o

iOS apps not getting past review due to crashing

2010-12-13 Thread Brian Meriaho
Hi, Has anyone else had a problem getting past the review step with iTunes Connect when submitting an app for Apple's App Store? I've built an app that runs on several iPhones, checked the certificates, checked the launch times, but still get rejected with a simple "it crashed". Not sure what is l

Re: iOS apps not getting past review due to crashing

2010-12-13 Thread Harald Müller
Same here. No idea what more to try. Best regards, Harald Müller. Am 14.12.2010 um 00:05 schrieb Brian Meriaho: > Hi, > > Has anyone else had a problem getting past the review step with iTunes > Connect when submitting an app for Apple's App Store? I've built an > app that runs on several iPho

Re: iOS apps not getting past review due to crashing

2010-12-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Brian Meriaho wrote: > Has anyone else had a problem getting past the review step with iTunes > Connect when submitting an app for Apple's App Store? I've built an > app that runs on several iPhones, checked the certificates, checked > the launch times, but still get rejected with a simp

Re: savingStandalone Problem

2010-12-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/12/10 7:08 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I have the following code in a savingStandalone handler in the script of my main stack: go to card "FieldPrompt" of stack "Prompts" as modal if the dialogData is not "Cancel" then set the BandTrakVersion of stack "BandTrak" to the dialogData end if The

Drag and Drop between Data Grids

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ok I thought I understood this pretty well but this one has me baffled. I am trying to drag and drop between two data grids. The source data grid has one column. The destination has 3. But that's not important right now. When I drag out of the source data grid I get an error and when I click th

Re: iOS apps not getting past review due to crashing

2010-12-13 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Brian, I had the same comment from Apple. The email indicated the splash launched then nothing. The app I submitted works on an iPhone 3GS running 4.0 and several iPods running 4.1. I've not tried it on an iPhone 4 nor with 4.2.1. I don't have access to the iPhone 4, but will try using

datagrid: sharing grid templates

2010-12-13 Thread JosepM
Hi folks, I have a doubt about the use of the datagrid templates. I have two stack with the same datagrid, copied and pasted from one stack to other stack. The template is in the stack one. The question is: opening the stack two force to open the stack one if this isn't open yet? Using the data

Extra Datagrid Columns

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Haworth
It seems that if you inadvertently set the dgText of a datagrid with values that have more columns than have been defined, the extra columns are arbitrarily added to the datagrid. Does anyone know of a way to prevent this behaviour either by ignoring the extra columns or by issuing some so

Re: savingStandalone Problem

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Jacquie. It's possible to change the version property? The dictionary makes it sound like that is the version of LC, not a user- defined standalone app version. Pete Haworth On Dec 13, 2010, at 3:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/12/10 7:08 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I have the foll

Re: Drag and Drop between Data Grids

2010-12-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Whoops! Looks like you use some kind of anonymous proxy. A lot of content filtering software blocks access to these because they are also used by some to bypass content filtering! DOH! I can get past it okay, but I thought you should know that although using web proxies is a common practice th

Re: savingStandalone Problem

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Jacquie, I'm certain the prompt handler is returning the correct value - I put an answer information in it right before the set statement and it showed that the dialogdata had the value I keyed into the prompt form. Pete Haworth http://www.mollysrevenge.com http://www.sonicbids.co

Re: savingStandalone Problem

2010-12-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/13/10 7:07 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Jacquie. It's possible to change the version property? The dictionary makes it sound like that is the version of LC, not a user-defined standalone app version. Right, the built-in "version" function returns the engine version. You can store your

Re: savingStandalone Problem

2010-12-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/13/10 7:51 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Jacquie, I'm certain the prompt handler is returning the correct value - I put an answer information in it right before the set statement and it showed that the dialogdata had the value I keyed into the prompt form. Ask and answer dialogs change the

Re: OT: Powers of Ten

2010-12-13 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Colin, yes the idea has been around for a long time and done quite a bit in all sorts of ways. The eames version was commissioned by IBM as part of a traveling exhibit at the time and based on the 1957 book by Kees Boeke. yours is a very nice interactive, and i think i may have played with

Re: Various newbie doubts about LiveCode

2010-12-13 Thread RunRevPlanet
Hi Giuseppe, While it is not a database application, the Mac OS X version of the software at this site: http://www.teacherspersonalmarkbook.com/ is 100% LiveCode and was developed with a fraction of the code required for the Windows version (that was developed in Delphi). It is not be the

Re: datagrid: sharing grid templates

2010-12-13 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:29 PM, JosepM wrote: > > I have a doubt about the use of the datagrid templates. > > I have two stack with the same datagrid, copied and pasted from one stack > to > other stack. > The template is in the stack one. The question is: opening the stack two > force to open t

Re: Extra Datagrid Columns

2010-12-13 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > It seems that if you inadvertently set the dgText of a datagrid with values > that have more columns than have been defined, the extra columns are > arbitrarily added to the datagrid. Does anyone know of a way to prevent > this behaviour eit

Getting a public IP address when connected to a router

2010-12-13 Thread Terry Judd
Does anyone have a LC routine (or tips on how to write one) that will enable me to get a public IP address rather than the local one assigned by a router? Terry... -- Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Education Unit Melbourne Medical School The University of Melbourne

Re: Getting a public IP address when connected to a router

2010-12-13 Thread Sarah Reichelt
put URL "http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp"; into tMyPublicIP Cheers, Sarah On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > Does anyone have a LC routine (or tips on how to write one) that will enable > me to get a public IP address rather than the local one assigned by a

Re: OT: Problems with Inserting Odd Characters into PostGreSQL

2010-12-13 Thread Sivakatirswami
On 12/13/10 11:04 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: A search of the LiveCode dictionary for encode reveals the uniEncode function. This might be what you are looking for. BTW (and please nobody hate me for saying so) (and this is not directed at the poster or anyone in particular) a LOT of enquiries on

Re: Getting a public IP address when connected to a router

2010-12-13 Thread Kee Nethery
I agree with Sarah and to explain why ... When your computer is inside a firewall or gateway or router that does Network Address Translation (NAT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation) there is no way to know what your external address is because all your computer knows is i

Re: Getting a public IP address when connected to a router

2010-12-13 Thread Terry Judd
OK - thanks Kee (and Sarah). Terry... On 14/12/10 4:06 PM, "Kee Nethery" wrote: > I agree with Sarah and to explain why ... > > When your computer is inside a firewall or gateway or router that does Network > Address Translation (NAT > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation)

Re: Extra Datagrid Columns

2010-12-13 Thread Peter Haworth
Great, thanks Trevor. Pete Haworth On Dec 13, 2010, at 7:38 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: It seems that if you inadvertently set the dgText of a datagrid with values that have more columns than have been defined, the extra columns are arbi

Re: Post Facto Live LiveCode Code Event #3

2010-12-13 Thread Chipp Walters
Mark, This sounds really cool. Thanks for taking it on. I look forward to reviewing the videos. On Monday, December 13, 2010, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi LiveCoders, > > Past Saturday, 11 December, we had another successful Live LiveCode Code > Event. While a dozen of code monkeys chitchatted