Re: Happy Robbie Burns Night

Calvin- Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 5:20:10 PM, you wrote: > Hi Mark, > I am not familiar with "Burn's Night." I could do a search on the web > for information, but I like the personal touch. :) > Could you provide a brief explanation or at least a link to what *you* > are referencing? > Also,

Re: Happy Robbie Burns Night

On 01/26/2011 03:13 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- What are you doing to celebrate Burns Night? I made a vegetarian haggis (with neeps and tatties, natch) and will be reciting "To a Haggis" at a dinner this evening. Nothing! While Burns' poetry was, on the whole, not unduly bad; his politics wer

Re: Answer file with type BMPf?

Hi Jacqueline, I forget to mention that this works for all images except for .bmp files. I'm on OSX 10.6 and the file is shown in Finder. Is this related to OSX? Greetings, William - Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPhone! Op 26 jan. 2011 om 06:14 heeft "J. Landman Gay" het volgende geschreven: >

Re: RevBrowserPrint Problems

--- On Tue, 1/25/11, Ray Horsley wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm printing a stack of 10 cards.  Cards 2, 4 and 6 > display a URL via the > revBrowser commands while the others do not.  The > following script does not > work since each time the revBrowserPrint command is called > the script > continue

Re: Answer file with type BMPf?

On 1/25/11 12:19 PM, William de Smet wrote: Hi there, Why doesn't this work for BMP files? answer file "Kies een foto:" with type "All Images|jpg,gif,png,bmp|JPEG,GIFf,PNGf,BMPf" on mouseup answer file "Choose:" with type "All Images|jpg,gif,png,bmp|JPEG,GIFf,PNGf,BMPf" if

Re: Chopping Up A Paragraph into chunks

On 1/25/11 9:57 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: This should be done with the wordoffset function, using the "words to skip" to advantage. Except that wordOffset looks for a string match, and we're looking for a number of words instead. Your actual example works. It wasn't clear to me whether th

Re: Chopping Up A Paragraph into chunks

On 1/25/11 6:20 PM, John Patten wrote: I'm trying to divide a paragraph into random chunks, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. Here's what I'm thinking: With some minor revisions your script will work but it isn't as efficient as it might be. put the text of cd fld "paragraphContainer"

Re: Chopping Up A Paragraph into chunks

This should be done with the wordoffset function, using the "words to skip" to advantage. But this more readable. I had a field "source" with some text, and a fld "theResults". In a button script: on mouseUp put "" into fld "theResults" put fld "source" into temp repeat while the num

Re: Happy Robbie Burns Night

Here's a snippet from my friend in Scotland that might balance out the terrible thought of vegetarian haggis! "Whilst I’m here I’d like say ‘Happy Rabbie Burns Day’. Every hospital in every country of the World has a Burns unit thanks to our National bard… Unlike our US counterparts, us Scots ar

Re: Student Observations on Weekly Presentations

Hi Mark, No need to to apologize since you are expressing your thoughts and opinions as I did mine. I take them for who you are and as a way to learn you better, but it doesn't follow I will necessarily agree. ;) "RULES" Who said anything about "RULES?" I certainly didn't! I took pains t

Re: Happy Robbie Burns Night

Hi Mark, I am not familiar with "Burn's Night." I could do a search on the web for information, but I like the personal touch. :) Could you provide a brief explanation or at least a link to what *you* are referencing? Also, I am equally lost about "haggis (with neeps and tatties, natch),"

Re: $PATH

David- Tuesday, January 25, 2011, 4:03:33 PM, you wrote: > AFAIK - the way $PATH works (at least on OSX / Linux) is not the same as you > get when you open your terminal... essentially because it is not using your > .profile or equivalent settings when the shell is initiated. I am not sure > wher

Happy Robbie Burns Night

All- What are you doing to celebrate Burns Night? I made a vegetarian haggis (with neeps and tatties, natch) and will be reciting "To a Haggis" at a dinner this evening. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: Student Observations on Weekly Presentations

Hi David, I am glad you chimed in that "presenting" is not only for the favored few, but for everyone! Looking forward to the "new" stuff! Calvin David Bovill Tuesday, Januar

RevBrowserPrint Problems

Greetings, I'm printing a stack of 10 cards. Cards 2, 4 and 6 display a URL via the revBrowser commands while the others do not. The following script does not work since each time the revBrowserPrint command is called the script continues to execute without waiting for the user to dismiss the pr

Chopping Up A Paragraph into chunks

Hi All... I'm trying to divide a paragraph into random chunks, but I'm not quite sure how to do it. Here's what I'm thinking: put the text of cd fld "paragraphContainer" into tParagraph put the number of words in tParagraph into tWordCount put random(10) into tRandomGroup --determinesh

Re: File naming convention

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 4:26 PM, David Bovill wrote: > Thanks for the notes everyone > > > - Renaming source files (documentation "link" now broken) > > - Moving of source files to a new location ("link" broken) > > > > These are the headaches. One thought I've had is to use the revision > con

$PATH

AFAIK - the way $PATH works (at least on OSX / Linux) is not the same as you get when you open your terminal... essentially because it is not using your .profile or equivalent settings when the shell is initiated. I am not sure where it gets it's initial setting? What do people do to ensure comman

Re: Student Observations on Weekly Presentations

Hi Calvin, Thanks, I appreciate your comments and I'm glad that the presentations are useful for you. Unfortunately, we can't and don't want to tell people how to present and we don't want them to follow any kind of rules. There is only one rule: THERE ARE NO RULES!!! I am afraid that your e-m

Re: Student Observations on Weekly Presentations

Thanks for the comments Calvin! The encouragement and constructive comments are very motivating. The sessions are certainly informal - in my view the lower and more fun the expectations the more it will encourage other people to give it a go - really everyone has something to show that others can

Re: File naming convention

Thanks for the notes everyone On 25 January 2011 18:50, Calvin Waterbury wrote: > The first thing to understand about Windows® file names you can't use the > following... > > \ / : * ? " < > | > :( I thought the pipe character was OK nowadays? Hmmm... so it seems "." is fine for folders..

Re: revision control software

We are considering http://www.syntevo.com/smartcvs/index.html as the best multi-platform choice. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://

Re: revision control software

William, Here at Simple Solutions we've been using Chipp Walter's Magic Carpet. I could not find a specific link, but this may help: http://altuit-inc1.software.informer.com/ Paul Looney On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:04 AM, william humphrey wrote: What's the best revision control software to use when

Re: usb driver problem

They could very well be related. I have asked Heather is this could be a Support Ticket item for the team to look into. Waiting patiently -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jan 25, 2011, at 11:05 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Tom- > > Is this possibly related to

callbacks and looping players.

heya folks, Just tried to implement some callbacks based logic from a player object playing a LOOPING video. Seems that the callbacks are registered OK for the first run, but cannot hear boo from them after that inside a looping playback moment. Any pointers? Can i construct some sort of time

Re: Linux standalone distibution

Just checked the latest download of 4.5.2 and that comes with no obvious icons. There is one machine I sometimes use with gnome on it, and I seem to recall downloading the graphic, then creating the desktop launcher, and then linking to the graphic to inconify it. So yes, a considerately provided

Re: File naming convention

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:11 AM, David Bovill wrote: > I have the need for an ugly file name hack. I need to store documentation > about arbitrary files (.html, .png, .livecode etc files) in a separate > folder (called "docs"). These files will be served by a web server - and > map > directly to t

Re: Linux standalone distibution

On 1/25/11 1:24 PM, David C. wrote: I don't think I want to mess with a desktop file for the icon. Do apps ever just ship with a jpg or a png in the folder? Then the user can choose that if they want to customize. It's pretty commonplace for apps that are not handled by some form of package man

Student Observations on Weekly Presentations

Hello, First off, "BRAVO!" to all who take their time and knowledge to make these presentations! They have been extremely helpful in my learning of LiveCode and in being introduced to the programming world outside of Windows®! I also wish to convey my comments herein are not intended as cri

Re: File naming convention

On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 11:01 -0800, Bob Sneidar wrote: > To further complicate matters, in a server share environment, it is possible > to copy files with bad characters to a server, and then have the server > complain that it cannot find the file, or the file doesn't exist. > > So follow the m

Re: Linux standalone distibution

> I don't think I want to mess with a desktop file for the icon. Do apps ever > just ship with a jpg or a png in the folder? Then the user can choose that > if they want to customize. It's pretty commonplace for apps that are not handled by some form of package manager, to not have any kind of ico

revision control software

What's the best revision control software to use when you have one developer (in the Bahamas say) working on the Windows version and another working on the Mac version? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: File naming convention

To further complicate matters, in a server share environment, it is possible to copy files with bad characters to a server, and then have the server complain that it cannot find the file, or the file doesn't exist. So follow the mantra, NEVER use ANY special characters in a file name. If fact,

Re: Linux standalone distibution

On 1/25/11 6:03 AM, Robert Lawrence wrote: Jacqueline: Under Linux, to preserve the permissions, you will need to use a "compressed tar ball" (*.tgz or *.tar.gz) file is the normal way. Thanks, very helpful. I don't think I want to mess with a desktop file for the icon. Do apps ever just shi

Re: File naming convention

Hi David, The first thing to understand about Windows® file names you can't use the following... \ / : * ? " < > | Please take a look at this page... http://www.portfoliofaq.com/pfaq/FAQ00352.htm ... highlight the word "period" in your browser. Here is the word straight from the horse's mout

Answer file with type BMPf?

Hi there, Why doesn't this work for BMP files? answer file "Kies een foto:" with type "All Images|jpg,gif,png,bmp|JPEG,GIFf,PNGf,BMPf" on mouseup answer file "Choose:" with type "All Images|jpg,gif,png,bmp|JPEG,GIFf,PNGf,BMPf" if it = empty then

Re: [ANN] TimeMachine

...indeed, you might get someone's back-up (sorry) On 25 Jan 2011, at 17:07, Richmond wrote: > On 01/25/2011 06:42 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> I had one for a pet once! >> >> Bob >> >> >> On Jan 24, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Roger Guay wrote: >> >>> I apologize if my TimeMachine stack provokes controve

Re: [ANN] TimeMachine

On 01/25/2011 06:42 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I had one for a pet once! Bob On Jan 24, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Roger Guay wrote: I apologize if my TimeMachine stack provokes controversy. Since I am a scientist and a humanist, TimeMachine reflects the current scientific understanding of our universe

Re: How to narrow SQL search with multiple criterias?

Sometimes, SQL failure that I am, I just dump it all in a variable and look through it using LiveCode. It depends how big although LiveCode is pretty quick. On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > I have seen this feature before, but have no idea what approach is be

Re: [ANN] TimeMachine

I had one for a pet once! Bob On Jan 24, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > I apologize if my TimeMachine stack provokes controversy. Since I am a > scientist and a humanist, TimeMachine reflects the current scientific > understanding of our universe and events. I welcome anyone to tailor

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

> connect to application "A" on port 5674 tell application "A" > "doSomethingCool" You had me right up to "cool". Then I was gone. For the really scared of trying to do this with sockets, you can of course also simulate semaphores and IP comm just using some shared text files. -- On the firs

Re: usb driver problem

Tom- Is this possibly related to bz #1708? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.run

Re: usb driver problem

Have you tried adding about 100 milisec wait before and/or between writes? -Original Message- From: "Thomas McGrath III-3 [via Runtime Revolution]" Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2011 06:42:33 To: xfratboy Subject: Re: usb driver problem Playing with Applescript communicating with the Arduino

Re: usb driver problem

Playing with Applescript communicating with the Arduino Uno I noticed an issue that might be related to the LiveCode problem of hanging during a connection. In the Applescript that works I close the port first and then return the result as in: set tSerialReturn to serialport read portRe

Re: File naming convention

Yes - there is is a docs folder - it's called "docs" :) There is an apps folder called "apps" and inside the apps folder are files and folders for instance "app/hello.txt" or app/images/hello.png". Inside the docs folder I want to document things about these files, and a file naming convention tha

Re: File naming convention

why don't you make a docs folder? 4. docs/docs/hello text.html On 25 Jan 2011, at 14:11, David Bovill wrote: > I have the need for an ugly file name hack. I need to store documentation > about arbitrary files (.html, .png, .livecode etc files) in a separate > folder (called "docs"). These files

File naming convention

I have the need for an ugly file name hack. I need to store documentation about arbitrary files (.html, .png, .livecode etc files) in a separate folder (called "docs"). These files will be served by a web server - and map directly to the original source code files so that a file "hello.txt" with co

How to narrow SQL search with multiple criterias?

Hello, I have seen this feature before, but have no idea what approach is behind the scenes since I am not that deep in SQL. I have a SQL select with multiple search criterias. After selecting a criteria, I get the resulting records and can go on narrowing my search with selecting one or multiple

Re: Feature support by deployment type - the state of the art?

Thanks Andre - good advice. I wasn't aware that the revlet player was quite that immature. Fortunately, my immediate requirements are for demonstration purposes only - and demos are supposed to break, aren't they? ;-) However, if the demos prove successful, I'd definitely need a robust browser

Re: Linux standalone distibution

Jacqueline: Under Linux, to preserve the permissions, you will need to use a "compressed tar ball" (*.tgz or *.tar.gz) file is the normal way. Say you have a directory of /home/jacqueline/mynewapp and you want to distribute the contents on the mynewapp folder, you could issue the following com

Re: Feature support by deployment type - the state of the art?

Keith, be aware that revlet player is not over beta stage right now. Double test everything on multiple configurations before delivering anything. If possible, way for newer versions. Cheers andre On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > ...th

Re: Linux standalone distibution

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Peter Alcibiades < palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Jacque, I never did either of these things, but it looks like you can > preserve execution bit attributes using tar with the mode option. > > > http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_tool_guides/tar

Re: [OT][ANN] TimeMachine

Dear List Members, Sometimes we make a joke of this, but it is essential to the useful operation of this list that *everyone* on the list respects the rules, which have been imposed for very good reason. Clearly you are all aware of the no politics and religion rule, but some of you may hav

Re: Linux standalone distibution

Jacque, I never did either of these things, but it looks like you can preserve execution bit attributes using tar with the mode option. http://www.linuxtopia.org/online_books/linux_tool_guides/tar_user_guide/Option-Summary.html Then, to set the icon programmatically, it seems you have to create