Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, I've installed the android SDK. It's works. i've create an virtual device. It's works. I've set the mobile configuration in prefs to put the path of the sdk. I've the jdk path displayed. But in the Test target menu of livecode (461), i've nothing about Android... What is wrong ? I can

Re: ChartMaker server-side

2011-06-19 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Hugh, Thanks for your message. I will investigate ChartMaker against the PHP graphs solutions as soon as the stack's support will be available for revServer and be back to you in the same time :D Kind regards, Pierre Le 18 juin 2011 à 16:29, FlexibleLearning a écrit : Hi Pierre, Have

Re: Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ludovic, I have noiced this problem too. Sometimes, the Android simulator appears in the Development menu and sometimes it doesn't. Maybe it helps if you start the simulator before your start LiveCode? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

Re: the mouseText and Unicode: CONCLUSION

2011-06-19 Thread BNig
Hi Slava, Congratulations. It works very nicely and fast. If you add a lock screen/unlock screen you shave off a couple of milliseconds which would pay off hugely in the long run for the days you had to spend solving that... :) Of course I still don't understand unicode so the HTML version I

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread Mike Bonner
This might be easier to do with merge. As an example: *function resolveValue mySillyVar* * repeat until mySillyVar contains [[ -- when merge can't replace the value inside brackets they are left* * put mySillyVar into mySillyTmp -- mySillytmp is the working var* * put [[ before

the mouseText and Unicode: CONCLUSION

2011-06-19 Thread Slava Paperno
Доброе утро, Бернд! An article from Pravda? I like your sense of humor. The ultimate tolerance test for a LiveCode script. Thanks for the lock-screen idea. Nice touch. Yes, I think I will file this with the Quality Control Center--as you say, just a reminder: давай работай! I've already posted

Re: Thanks for DropTools.

2011-06-19 Thread Ken Ray
As usual, I'm riding the tail end of the wave, but I too want to thank Ken Ray and all of you who are contributing to his Drop Tools plugin. Just a very minor nit, Ken: LiveCode Preferences is found in the LiveCode Menu and not in the Edit menu as indicated in your DropTools User Guide.

Re: the mouseText and Unicode: CONCLUSION

2011-06-19 Thread Pierre Sahores
Thanks for your fantastic work, Slava ! I had to hack the LC htmltext features to build recent web apps and it's yet sure that i will become able to replace all this stuff with your UNICODE way to go. In using your method, it become simple to store data in UTF8 format inside PostgreSQL and

Re: the mouseText and Unicode: CONCLUSION

2011-06-19 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 19 juin 2011 à 17:24, Slava Paperno a écrit : Glad to hear that, Pierre. I, too, think that html entities are an abomination. I use SQLite for my bilingual texts in LC (dictionary entries), and it's working very well. Haven't used PostgreSQL yet. For my onlne databases I use MS SQL

Re: Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Jacque, I think you mean ./adb devices and this command doesn't show any of the virtual devices, even if LiveCode does see these virtual devices. The question is about the simulator, not about an actual tablet. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: [OT] MultiMailer software

2011-06-19 Thread Bob Earp
I had a similar requirement but also a problem in that my ISP put a limit of 20 recipients per message on outgoing mail, I suspect to stop spamming. In any event, I wrote a simply stack to solve this and would be happy to share it with you/anybody that would find it of value. Sorry, I

Re: Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/19/11 11:54 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Jacque, I think you mean ./adb devices Right, sorry. and this command doesn't show any of the virtual devices, even if LiveCode does see these virtual devices. The question is about the simulator, not about an actual tablet. I see. That

Re: Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/19/11 1:44 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: Hello, I've installed the android SDK. It's works. i've create an virtual device. It's works. I've set the mobile configuration in prefs to put the path of the sdk. I've the jdk path displayed. But in the Test target menu of livecode (461), i've

Re: Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ludovic, I think that's normal if you have no real device connected to your computer. Have you tried to start the simulator before starting LiveCode? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: Test on android simulator

2011-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/19/11 2:36 PM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: Le 19 juin 2011 à 19:44, J. Landman Gay a écrit : I see. That wasn't clear, since he said the virtual device worked. But yes, the emulator must be up and running first before LiveCode will list it. The OP seemed to indicate that was the case though.

image load problem

2011-06-19 Thread Glenn E Fisher
All, When I try to use Import as Control a PNG image file named Stop, I get the following error: An error occured when trying to import the image file: /Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 263,3088,1,/Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 253,3082,1 253,3062,1 490,3058,1 I am using LC 4.6.2 rc-2

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread Timothy Miller
Aha! Didn't know about the merge function. Useful information. Thanks, Mike. I'm still wondering about the question at the top of my original message. I'm trying to understand the do command better. Is it true that the do command and the value function perform about the same tasks in different

Re: image load problem

2011-06-19 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/20/2011 12:09 AM, Glenn E Fisher wrote: All, When I try to use Import as Control a PNG image file named Stop, I get the following error: An error occured when trying to import the image file: /Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 263,3088,1,/Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 253,3082,1

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread Mike Bonner
I don't know much about *do*, (I have been able to mostly avoid it so far) but there are cases where it does seem to be the right tool for the job. The example of one of the more useful possibilities with do would be the creation incremented variable names. The example in the dictionary though,

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi Mike, Thanks again. On Jun 19, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: I don't know much about *do*, (I have been able to mostly avoid it so far) but there are cases where it does seem to be the right tool for the job. The example of one of the more useful possibilities with do would be

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 20 Jun 2011, at 00:58, Timothy Miller wrote: Are there things you can do with do that you can't do with value? Yes. for example these things can't be done with value: do delete graphic 1 repeat for each item myOtherVar in a,b,c,d,e do put myVar into myOtherVar end repeat generally,

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread Mike Bonner
Put value(x) into tNumberOfRecords ? isn't exactly what the example I mentioned does. (and this is where my dictionary docs seem to be wrong) Say you have an unspecified number of things you want to put into their own variables (yeah, I know, use an array, but for example purposes arrays don't

Unicode text in custom properties

2011-06-19 Thread Slava Paperno
I was advised to store my Cyrillic constants in custom properties of stack objects. I forget if it was a personal recommendation or something I read in a forum. But when I type a Russian word in a custom property box of Property Inspector, then close and reopen Inspector, my text becomes

offset() functions and Unicode: SOLUTIONS

2011-06-19 Thread Slava Paperno
I thought I would broadcast some good news for a change. Good News 1) I was prepared to see that the offset() function is useless with bilingual text (i.e. a mix of Roman and non-Roman, double-byte characters) for the same reason as mouseCharChunk(), but no, it works fine. I guess the

Re: image load problem

2011-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/19/11 4:09 PM, Glenn E Fisher wrote: All, When I try to use Import as Control a PNG image file named Stop, I get the following error: An error occured when trying to import the image file: /Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 263,3088,1,/Users/gef/Desktop/testImages/Stop 253,3082,1

LC error messages

2011-06-19 Thread Slava Paperno
Where are the LC error messages listed, please? S. Error 263 is import: can't read file, mask file or display. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: do statements and value function

2011-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/19/11 4:10 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Is it true that the do command and the value function perform about the same tasks in different ways? I.e., is it true that you can avoid do by judicious use of value? They are for different purposes and not really interchangeable. The value function

Re: LC error messages

2011-06-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/19/11 10:21 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: Where are the LC error messages listed, please? See errordialog in the dictionary, where it says: *** Comments: Standard error descriptions are stored in the cErrorsList of the first card of stack revErrorDisplay. The error-code refers to the line

RE: LC error messages

2011-06-19 Thread Slava Paperno
Thanks a million, Jacqueline! S. -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2011 11:55 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: LC error messages On 6/19/11

Re: Unicode text in custom properties

2011-06-19 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Slava, custom properties are binary, so it should work. What I suspect not to be working is using the Inspector to set it (I am highly suspicious that it uses the TEXT of the field, not the UnicodeText and so you lose some bytes). Try a different field called myInput. Then in a button: