Re: LC in Education

2011-05-04 Thread Terry Judd
Hi Judy - the good thing about Blackboard occasionally being unreliable is that people are more likely to be somewhat forgiving when (inevitably) one of the new systems we are developing springs a problem. We can usually put things right pretty quickly and only a few hundred users at most will

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Vlahos
Pete, It is in the dictionary under is a and is not a. Date is one of the many options. * date if it is in one of the formats produced by the date or time functions Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Vlahos
Terry, Thanks this works. I also discovered that I can replace focus on me with select the text of me in my script and that works too. If the closeField message comes as a result of going to another card then I get the dialog but it still goes to the new card anyway so the dialog doesn't

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

2011-05-04 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Pierre, thanks for your answer. delete folder... unfortunately only deletes empty folders. If a folder contains files or other folders one has to use revdeletefolder. At least that´s what the dictionary says. Regards, Matthias Am 04.05.2011 um 00:05 schrieb Pierre Sahores: Matthias, I

Trouble-shooting non-resizable stack/card size creep?

2011-05-04 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, I have a non-resizable stack (1024 x 768) with a common background group for all cards, including a 1024 x 768 background image. Suddenly, whilst adjusting control positions on one card, I noticed that aligning its loc to 512, 384 no longer centralised the control - and a border of 4

LiveCode tutorials or guides in french?

2011-05-04 Thread JosepM
Hi, I would like to know if exist some information about how to begin to program with LiveCode but in french. Any idea? Salut, Josep M -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-tutorials-or-guides-in-french-tp3495077p3495077.html Sent from the

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Jim Ault
Try using closecard or preopencard to test for the 'dialog' condition and if true, remain on the same card On May 4, 2011, at 12:17 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Terry, Thanks this works. I also discovered that I can replace focus on me with select the text of me in my script and that works

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Jim Ault
There have been several threads on the list over the last few years about the inaccuracy of 'is a date' to truly trap errors. The best source I know is the free stack done by Sarah Riechelt at http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks Also try clicking on the 'ALL'

Re: LiveCode tutorials or guides in french?

2011-05-04 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Josep, Frederic Rinaldi use to translate the Rev 1.1 or 2.0 version of the Runrev official documentation. Should be still available somewhere. About the concepts : ISBN 2-10-000199-X HyperCard 2 - Jean jacques GREIF Edition P.S.I / DUNOD dans la collection MémoMac. Dunod/PSI HyperTalk by

Re: Trouble-shooting non-resizable stack/card size creep?

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Keith, Try setting the margins of the group to 0. You might want to turn off the lockLoc of the group and set the lockLoc of the image to true. Set the loc of the image, not the group. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

2011-05-04 Thread Mike Bonner
In this case a (potentially dangerous) shell call is probably the best option. shell(rm -r directoryname) On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:49 AM, Matthias Rebbe runrev260...@m-r-d.dewrote: Pierre, thanks for your answer. delete folder... unfortunately only deletes empty folders. If a folder

Re: Trouble-shooting non-resizable stack/card size creep?

2011-05-04 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Mark - changing the lockLoc from the group to the image did the trick. Best, Keith.. On 4 May 2011, at 15:07, Mark Schonewille wrote: Keith, Try setting the margins of the group to 0. You might want to turn off the lockLoc of the group and set the lockLoc of the image to true. Set

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Nonsanity
Just a comment on user interfaces, have you thought about using the common technique of coloring a field's background red if it doesn't contain a valid string? Move the test function into a handler that triggers on each key press. This way the right/wrong state of the field is visible to the user

Re: [revServer] should revdelete work

2011-05-04 Thread Nonsanity
Perhaps there should be: delete folder delete empty folder ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Pierre Sahores psaho...@free.fr wrote: Yes, if really needed but about the unability of delete folder and/or revdeletefolder, to work against non empty folders, does

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Is all this because you cannot focus on something in the middle of a closeField? Bob On May 3, 2011, at 9:40 PM, Terry Judd wrote: On 04/05/2011 02:14 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: on closeField if me is not a date then answer error Not a valid date. Retry? with No or Yes

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Rather than validate on closeField, I enter an edit mode in the form where all navigation buttons or commands are disabled, and the only thing the user can do is save or cancel. The Save button calls a global validate command that cycles through all the editable fields, checks for the existence

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Pete
Thanks Bill. I had tried searching for date before starting on my own date validation function but didn't find the is a reference - I now realise searching the dictionary only looks for things in the Keyword column. Are there any utilities out there to search the dictionary on something other

Re: LiveCode tutorials or guides in french?

2011-05-04 Thread JosepM
Thanks Pierre. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-tutorials-or-guides-in-french-tp3495077p3496283.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Bill Vlahos
Chris, Interesting idea. I hadn't thought of it before. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. On May 4, 2011, at 7:52 AM, Nonsanity wrote: Just a comment on user interfaces, have

Re: GLXFramework

2011-05-04 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, I haven't needed to do updates yet. So I can't really tell you if that works yet. I have a lot of other non Framework code to write, first :) But this thread makes me thing of a related topic. Why is it so hard to build an application in Live Code? Not a stack, but an actual

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread Pete
The whole area of data validation is pretty interesting, lots of different ways to indicate errors. There seem to be at least two different types of validation: the integrity of each field and cross field relationships. You can sometimes do the former with keystroke captures (numeric only for

Re: Staying on a field

2011-05-04 Thread dunbarx
Checking the dictionary for is a returns that operator. Are you sure you were in the All mode when you searched? Also, the search is ala chars so that if you search for is, you get lots more. I find this easy to use, despite its breadth. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bill

Re: GLXFramework

2011-05-04 Thread william humphrey
Tod - you're comments about Framework are excellent. I too wish that LiveCode chose Framework as the fully supported way to work with applications. I integrate a Valentina database into my application and find it truely difficult to make stand-alone builds for Windows and MacOS although I find the

Re: GLXFramework

2011-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/4/11 2:17 PM, william humphrey wrote: Tod - you're comments about Framework are excellent. I too wish that LiveCode chose Framework as the fully supported way to work with applications. I integrate a Valentina database into my application and find it truely difficult to make stand-alone

Re: can't copy off a text field in a standalone

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Well, Thomas, make sure to attend the Live LiveCode Code Event next time ;-) http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/12034326 http://livecode.tv In short, I think that a commandKeyDown handler in your field will solve the problem, but a complete Edit menu would be much more elegant. -- Best regards,

Finding tips (was:Staying on a field)

2011-05-04 Thread dunbarx
Pete. I see what you are saying, and I know you are an experienced user. But what you are asking may be beyond the scope of any dictionary. Searching for date gives, well, date, and also dateItems, dateTime, dateFormat and others. It does not seem appropriate that methods of date validation

how-to link to a video

2011-05-04 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello All, Just looking for some general advice. If I had a standalone or revlet, and I wanted it to be able to play an online vide -- say, one hosted on YouTube -- how could that be done? All I can conceive of now is a player object with its filename set to an url or something. But while I

Re: how-to link to a video

2011-05-04 Thread Andrew Kluthe
So long as no one recommends The Final Solution. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-to-link-to-a-video-tp3497131p3497269.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: how-to link to a video

2011-05-04 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 4, 2011, at 8:12 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: If I had a standalone or revlet, and I wanted it to be able to play an online vide -- say, one hosted on YouTube -- how could that be done? Getting the URL of the video is one challenge, though it is possible to scrape through the page source

Long-term Planning UI Ideas

2011-05-04 Thread David Glass
Not sure how many people are both here and on the forum, so if this is a dup for you, I apologize. Looking for a little brainstorming, and maybe best practices for an interface for a long-term planner/calendar. This is basically a Yearly Calendar view rather than a Monthly or Weekly view.