Re: SPAM Square Up

I have a wireless credit card terminal and they all want at least this level of personal info if not more. Not saying if it's right or wrong, just that if you want a credit card account, that's what's required. I got the terminal for free in exchange for signing up for a 2-year contract, so ye

use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Hi All... I have a card with four fields. The field can be dragged around by the user. I want to get the contents of each field and put them all in one container. My attempt is below. I attempted to sort the list of fld locations but that is susceptible to the y coordinate being above the prev

Re: SPAM Square Up

Yeah that's why I put spam in the subject cause I got the same feeling at first. But after researching awhile I realized that that was how they keep people honest with the thing. Still the process was a bit creepy. So they are legit BUT I don't know how much info a normal credit card company re

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Martin- Friday, January 28, 2011, 2:12:50 PM, you wrote: > I was looking at the documentation for DropBox and it has shared > folders but can it have links to individual files. https://www.dropbox.com/help/16 -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

Re: SPAM Square Up

yeah, I did the same thing - I just closed the browser abruptly before it got too personal. On 28 January 2011 17:24, Mark Wieder wrote: > Thomas- > > Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:05:51 PM, you wrote: > > > FYI -- I am not connected with these guys at all. I just got my > > credit card reader fro

Re: SPAM Square Up

REALLY?? Gah!! On Jan 28, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Thomas- > > Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:05:51 PM, you wrote: > >> FYI -- I am not connected with these guys at all. I just got my >> credit card reader from squareup.com for free and can now accept >> credit card payments for my

Re: SPAM Square Up

Thomas- Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:05:51 PM, you wrote: > FYI -- I am not connected with these guys at all. I just got my > credit card reader from squareup.com for free and can now accept > credit card payments for my work (American Express too.) Very cool > and free. They send you the reader a

Re: Project Madness

Bob- Friday, January 28, 2011, 3:38:17 PM, you wrote: > Someone sent me an email with a bunch of math questions that I > was supposed to answer as quickly as I could and then at the end it > asked me to name a color and a tool. I randomly (I thought) picked > red hammer. > I scrolled down to th

Re: Alternating Column Colors?

Oh cool! Then you could make a chess or checkers game! I get it! I read the API and none of the properties suggests you can do this. I think you will have to find the part of the parent script that draws the cells and change the background color on each one individually for odd or even rows.

RE: Resizing text field with line of text and Dragging Objects in Group?

To answer your first question... set the width of fld 1 to the formattedWidth of fld 1 > Hi All! > > I have two questions I've been struggling with. The first is related > to text fields. Is there a way to resize a text field that has a > single line of text in it so that it is as wide as

Re: Project Madness

Someone sent me an email with a bunch of math questions that I was supposed to answer as quickly as I could and then at the end it asked me to name a color and a tool. I randomly (I thought) picked red hammer. I scrolled down to the end and to my horror and disbelief the email said, "You picke

Resizing text field with line of text and Dragging Objects in Group?

Hi All! I have two questions I've been struggling with. The first is related to text fields. Is there a way to resize a text field that has a single line of text in it so that it is as wide as the text inside it? My attempts have been to determine the number of characters in the field a

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

One other thing. I noticed from the Amazon S3 docs about the signature of the request should be "The URL encoding of the Base64 encoding of the HMAC-SHA1 of StringToSign." http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/index.html?RESTAuthentication.html so instead of return urlencode(_

SPAM Square Up

FYI -- I am not connected with these guys at all. I just got my credit card reader from squareup.com for free and can now accept credit card payments for my work (American Express too.) Very cool and free. They send you the reader after signing up for the app. It works on iPhone, iPad and Androi

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Another good one is box.net. You get 5gigs free with them but there is a 25meg(?) limit on individual file size. Pete Haworth On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:28 PM, François Chaplais wrote: > Have you tried Dropbox on local/cloud storage and syncing? They have a free 2 > gig account and it is very, very

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

I am looking at AmazonS3 because of the ability to have time limited authenticated URLs to specific files. I was looking at the documentation for DropBox and it has shared folders but can it have links to individual files. With AmazonS3 should be able to generate authenticated URLs on the fly us

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

I just realized I forgot one function that is in the s3auth.irev file ##from Mark Smith's LibS3 function makeObject pBucket, pKey replace "/" with empty in pBucket put "/" & pBucket into tObject if pKey is not empty then if char 1 of pKey is not "/" then put "/" after tObject

Alternating Column Colors?

Hi List: The data grid nicely incorporates alternating line colors. But does anyone know if it's possible to make alternating column colors or cell colors? I'm building a control that has a horizontal scrolling data grid with only one row. I'd like to be able to set alternating colors for cells

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

I use dropbox for syncing my entire Livecode folder. Plugins, Remo settings, etc. 2011/1/28 François Chaplais > Have you tried Dropbox on local/cloud storage and syncing? They have a free > 2 gig account and it is very, very convenient. It has Windows, Mac, Iphone, > IPad (and Linux I believe),

Re: Project Madness

*They* know what you are doing! That's exactly why one will not see *fade to black scene transitions* on commercial TV any more, and will see random ads tacked on other random spots during commercial breaks, with a hard cuts and no black. This makes for some interesting juxtapositions, as the huma

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Have you tried Dropbox on local/cloud storage and syncing? They have a free 2 gig account and it is very, very convenient. It has Windows, Mac, Iphone, IPad (and Linux I believe), and it can also be used from an internet browser. It syncs local dropbox folders on your PC/device; you can also sen

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #8

;-} The elusive ice fish floats right under the surface and is very slippery to catch. The only true way to catch them is to use string and salt and sit and wait. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jan 28, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Tom- > > F

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Hi Andre I have tried to combine a suggested bit of code from you to do HMACSHA1 and some of the handlers from Marksmith's LibS3. It generates a signature but it is not accepted by AmazonS#. It gives the error: "SignatureDoesNotMatchThe request signature we calculated does not match the sign

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Hi Andre I have tried to combine a suggested bit of code from you to do HMACSHA1 and some of the handlers from Marksmith's LibS3. It generates a signature but it is not accepted by AmazonS#. It gives the error: "SignatureDoesNotMatchThe request signature we calculated does not match the signat

Project Madness

So, after coming up with the Flow Control for serial communications and playing with the Arduino Uno for a couple of days I now have added the ability to present Commands and Arguments from LC to the Arduino Uno. This could have been where we were a few weeks ago if the read until EOF worked wit

Web Plug In - Audio Options

Since the developer list is totally focus on iOS and the full web-plug in is deferred for, now, I posted this but got no response. Anyone here on the Use List actively using the web Plug in as is? I want to keep pushing it and do testing... Can anyone share their experience with audio? I kn

Re: [OT] Friday morning humor

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:52 PM, Richmond wrote: > On 01/28/2011 03:28 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > >> so true, so true! >> >> Today I need to code facebook integration, I wish I had some lagger here, >> it >> is 40C outside, marvelous day to go to the beach and I am here coding... >> anyway, I will

Re: [OT] Friday morning humor

On 01/28/2011 03:28 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: so true, so true! Today I need to code facebook integration, I wish I had some lagger here, it is 40C outside, marvelous day to go to the beach and I am here coding... anyway, I will settle for some fruit thing. * ALERT * From the EFL man * ALERT *

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #8

Tom- Friday, January 28, 2011, 5:40:24 AM, you wrote: > Thanks for taking this on this saturday Mark. I hope to be there > again this week (unless I'm out ice fishing) Dude - you shouldn't have to go fishing for ice. It's everywhere. I'll email you some when I get a chance. -- -Mark Wieder mw

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

Enviado via iPhone Em 28/01/2011, às 17:10, zryip theSlug escreveu: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: > > Andre, > >> Those entries are valid only for PHP and I believe no sane hosting company >> will ever allow you to set those in a .htaccess file. > > Hmmm, > > I co

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Andre, > Those entries are valid only for PHP and I believe no sane hosting company > will ever allow you to set those in a .htaccess file. Hmmm, I could say I'm doing this all the time, but.. no comment 8-) Best regards, -- -Zryip TheSlu

[Semi-OT] some images from our upcomming iOS LiveCode built game

Folks, Following the friday spirit, I share with you guys some images from our upcoming LiveCode built iOS Game. Be aware that all this is still work in progress. Our game is a unique twist on code breaking + adventure game. (our development phase main screen) http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1340110/img_

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: > Hi Andre, > > Thanks for the clarification!  I'll keep the 64/32 info in mind when the > time comes.  :) from what I've seen, 64bit linux is able to run and load 32bit executables and libraries but in practice, I could never make RevServe

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

Hi Andre, Thanks for the clarification! I'll keep the 64/32 info in mind when the time comes. :) Calvin ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefer

Re: Send In Time

I don't know about the "idle" part, but yes, it isn't parallel. It's easy enough to test... see if helloWorld ever happens: on mouseUp send "myInfiniteLoop" to me in 5 seconds send "helloWorld" to me in 10 seconds end on myInfiniteLoop put "About to hose LC..." repeat forever

Re: Send In Time

not parallel processing but wishful programming, you use a send in time and hope that no other command block the engine long enough for its scheduling thing to go bananas. since you control everything, when you program with send in time, you keep your code out of blocking situations so that the en

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Martin, right now there are no libraries for AWS usage for RevServer but I suspect that if you simply copy the stackscript of Marks libraries to a text file and use it with the require command, it might work, better check with him. :-D On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Martin Koob wrote: > > Hi

Send In Time

So correct me if I am wrong, but send in time is not really a parallel process is it? It just means that given a send in time of 5 seconds, that after 5 seconds the engine will wait for the first idle message and then execute, and while it's executing nothing else can occur till it's finished?

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Hi Andre The files would be about 100 MB movie files. Are the libraries you are referring to the ones from Mark Smith which seem to be intended for stack use or are there ones that are more geared for on-rev. I am looking at Mark Smiths libAWS and libS3 to try and put together a library for

Re: Nearly: bash spawn expect and dns-sd

David, I, Andre Alves Garzia, Bailiff of Hacks give you the following solution: for registering: use tempname() to obtain a safe file. Output bash script into tempfile. Chmod +x tempfile and then execute it. for listening: same trick as before but redirect all output of the command to text file

Nearly: bash spawn expect and dns-sd

Not quite able to get this cross platform command line to work for Bonjour - it hangs around waiting for input. I've tried open process and that nearly works, but think this is the way to go: set expectCode to " > spawn -noecho dns-sd -B _ssh._tcp > expect -timeout 5 eof {} > " > do shell script "

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: > Hi, > > If "VPS" is not an abbreviation for "Virtual Personal Server," please > advise. > Virtual Private Server If getting one for RevServer development, don't pick 64bits. it is easier to deal with 32bits due to library hell. (at leas

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

Hi, If "VPS" is not an abbreviation for "Virtual Personal Server," please advise. Thank you, Calvin Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Andre Garzia Sender: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 15:15:11 To: How to use LiveCode Repl

Re: On-rev Rename quotes work. Vars don't!

Hi Guys, Ok, so I wanted to track down that "file not found error". It turns out that my variable which came from a database was declared as 80 in length, so it was padding the variable with invisible spaces. Hence the "file not found" message. Getting rid of the spaces to leave just the name of

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:05 PM, zryip theSlug wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Martin Koob wrote: >> >> Hi Roger. >> >> I tried adding those two lines to the .htaccess files and the server really >> did not like that.   I got a 500 server error when I tried to load the site. > > Martin,

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

Dear Slug et al, I think we're mixing a lot of things in here right now. First the OP asked about Rev Online which is not RevServer. Rev Online is the little underused network sharing stack we all love that lives inside LiveCode IDE and we use to pick other people stacks. RevServer (aka LiveCode

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Martin, How big are those files? I am not one to tell other people about their design or business, but uploading huge files over HTTP is not wise. When I say huge, I am not saying 20 mb, I am saying stuff like 300 mb or things like it. If you're uploading stuff the size of a CD or DVD, you might w

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Martin Koob wrote: > > Hi Roger. > > I tried adding those two lines to the .htaccess files and the server really > did not like that.   I got a 500 server error when I tried to load the site. Martin, In the .htaccess file of the httpdocs directory? Hm, the Rev O

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

Hi Roger. I tried adding those two lines to the .htaccess files and the server really did not like that. I got a 500 server error when I tried to load the site. Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Rev-Online-Upload-Problems-tp3230860p3244942

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Hi David I have those libraries. They are on his on-rev site: http://marksmith.on-rev.com/refstuff/index.html I have tried using a few of the S3 functions from the AWS library in a stack such as list buckets etc to try and learn how to use them but I am not sure how I would include these in an

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

On Jan 28, 2011, at 7:59 AM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Jeffrey Massung wrote: > >> >> Coroutines have absolutely no advantage over what's already provided by LC. >> There's zero difference between saying "yield()" and "wait 0 ticks with >> messages". >> > > I

[Semi-OT] SoCal Linux Expo: Feb 25-27

SCaLE 9x is coming next month: If any of you live in the San Gabriel Valley or downtown LA and are planning to attend, let me know and maybe we can work out a carpool. I'm signed up and very much looking forward to it. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Martin Koob wrote: Hi Roger and Martin, I have no experience with the rev online server however you can try adding these two lines in the .htaccess file of your domain: php_value post_max_size 20M php_value upload_max_filesize 20M where 20M (20 MBytes) is the n

Re: on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

Mark Smith made some S3 libraries - trying to get hold of him is a little futile :) I'm not sure where you can find them online - but I can send a copy off list - I've not used them - this is from the README: s3.setSecure > command > > s3.setSecure true|false > > If set to true, https connections

on-rev upload limits and Amazon S3 as an alternative

I have been testing uploading via post to on-rev and have found the limit is about 10.1 MB. I was using movie files of various sizes and the largest I could successfully upload was 10.1 MB. If I tried one of 10.2 Mb it would write a Quicktime file that had no data in it, it was 0 MB file. If I

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:16 AM, Jeffrey Massung wrote: > > Coroutines have absolutely no advantage over what's already provided by LC. > There's zero difference between saying "yield()" and "wait 0 ticks with > messages". > I realized that, apart from the fact that this isn't true, it's also ki

Re: Rev Online Upload Problems

Roger Guay writes: > > I know that there has been some discussion about the unreliability of > uploading to > Rev Online, but does > anyone know if there is size limit? > > Thanks and cheers, > > Roger Guay > Hi. I have just done some testing and the largest file I can get to upload to

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #8

Thanks for taking this on this saturday Mark. I hope to be there again this week (unless I'm out ice fishing) -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jan 28, 2011, at 6:25 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi everybody, > > This Saturday, 29 January 2010 at 19:00h GM

Re: [OT] Friday morning humor

so true, so true! Today I need to code facebook integration, I wish I had some lagger here, it is 40C outside, marvelous day to go to the beach and I am here coding... anyway, I will settle for some fruit thing. On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Malte Brill wrote: > http://xkcd.com/323/ > >

Re: [OT] Friday morning humor

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[OT] Friday morning humor

Folks, Since it is friday and we're all tired and deserving some refreshment, I share with you the following mock cover for the upcoming O'Reilly book: http://www.angryduck.com/pictures/2010_11/Coding_Drunk.jpg This could be a new methodology, while it may lack the momentum of agile and scrum-st

Re: [OT] Re: [ANN] TimeMachine

On 01/28/2011 03:34 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Surely a purist would prefer the original, i.e. the radio series. Well; that is like purists preferring Hypercard over Metacard (no colour, no cross-platform); one can carry one's purity too far . . . :) -- Alex. On 27/01/2011 16:45, Richmond

Live LiveCode Code Event #8

Hi everybody, This Saturday, 29 January 2010 at 19:00h GMT (Sat. 22:00 in Moscow, Sat. 20:00 in Paris, Sat. 14:00 in New York, Sat. 11:00 in Los Angeles, Sun. 04:00 in Tokyo, Sun. 3:00 in Beijing), the 8th edition of the Live LiveCode Event will go live. Björnke will be unavailable and I'm taki

Web PlugIn Install Fails because it thinks a browser is active (not)

I doing some testing of the web browser plug in here among our small group of 20. This is all on Mac OS X 10.6.6 The good news is, someone was prompted that they had an old version of the browser plug in and they need to update. The bad news is, when they clicked OK, the installer did somet

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

Hi Chris - I'd agree with this way of thinking about things for multi-threading. I think it is intuitive, I don't think that restricting any threaded code to it's own stack will cause any real limitations, and is probably good practice. I do think conceptually it gives us a solid visual metaphor of

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

The example given at wikipedia makes it obvious that this isn't true. Coroutines are inherently stateful. Managing that by hand using wait 0 ticks with messages is a disaster. I've done it. As one brief example, suppose you have two lists that need to be processed simultaneously. With coroutines y