Re: object beneath mouseLoc?

2011-07-05 Thread Dick Kriesel
On Jul 4, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Didn't work well, though. The target object's id got returned, but the mouseMove wouldn't exit. Nicolas, The mouseMove in that old example was just to demonstrate how to invoke the core code, and to show that the result of executing it

What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTML a links within a LiveCode field. The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the link a/ tag itself and 'set the linktext to uri' provides the 'href' parameter. But is there an equivalent of the HTML link title parameter at the field/text level?

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 5, 2011, at 4:41 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTML a links within a LiveCode field. The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the link a/ tag itself and 'set the linktext to uri' provides the 'href' parameter. But is there an equivalent of the

Re: Pinch Zooming an image in iOS

2011-07-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
I imagine you could display the image in a browser. Web pages and .pdfs in browser controls are pinch-zoomable - can't see why a .jpg wouldn't be too. What is currently the best version of OSX iOS which to work with? Um, what? :) Gerry On 04/07/2011, at 1:35 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

Re: [TEASER] Google OAuth 2.0 demo screencast

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
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Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks for the steer Jim. Just to be clear, I'm not looking for HTML compatibility - I was using the a link description as an analogy to describe the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know that this is not a standard

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
Chipp, I will add bullet support there, I decided against it on the first version because bullets were not displaying correctly on my linux machine. I will add a little switch the platform there. :-D On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Thanks Andre and Ken.

Re: Pinch Zooming an image in iOS

2011-07-05 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:59 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Gerry Orkin wrote: What is currently the best version of OSX iOS which to work with? Um, what? :) Gerry Um, meant to say XCode iOS. Version requirements for mobile development can be found

ANN: Search List Lib

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I made an alternative to the combobox, containing everything I miss in the default combobox. You can find it here http://qery.us/ua . It is free and open (but not open-source). -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Confirm this bug using the Remo script editor?

2011-07-05 Thread Tereza Snyder
I’m seeing a serious bug that seems connected to using the Remo script editor. I made a test stack that behaves the same as the original stack that lives in my personal development environment. You can access the test stack: go stack url http://dl.dropbox.com/u/582343/CFX_TestMain.livecode;

Re: ANN: Search List Lib

2011-07-05 Thread stephen barncard
Thanks Mark. However the 'Download' link at the bottom of the page is just underscored, but not a link. sqb On 5 July 2011 07:47, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.comwrote: Hi, I made an alternative to the combobox, containing everything I miss in the default combobox. You can

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Tuesday, July 5, 2011, 7:08:06 AM, you wrote: I will add bullet support there, I decided against it on the first version because bullets were not displaying correctly on my linux machine. I will add a little switch the platform there. I tried something similar a little while back and

Re: ANN: Search List Lib

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Click on the word here. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 5 jul

Re: Pinch Zooming an image in iOS

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Yeah, that show Xcode 3.2.6. I believe the most recent version is XCode 4, and then there's iOS 5 something or another. I'm just trying to understand what works best for RR devs currently. On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:08 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:59

Re: Confirm this bug using the Remo script editor?

2011-07-05 Thread stephen barncard
Tereza, 4.5.2 works 4.6.2 works 4.6.3 works no crash here on these versions in the IDE. Repeated use indicated the existence of the substack. Remo Build 332 Mac OSX 10.6.8 Mac Pro 12 core 6gb ram sqb On 5 July 2011 07:51, Tereza Snyder ter...@califex.com wrote: I’m seeing a

Re: Confirm this bug using the Remo script editor?

2011-07-05 Thread Tereza Snyder
Hmmm, now I’m stumped! It must be based on some other characteristic of my system. I’m still using 10.6.7 (Mac Pro Quad-Core 6 GB). I’m going to upgrade and see what happens. On Jul 5, 2011, at 10:24 AM, stephen barncard wrote: Tereza, 4.5.2 works 4.6.2 works 4.6.3 works no

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 6:41 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Hi folks, Trying to replicate HTMLa links within a LiveCode field. The docs describe 'set the textStyle to link' to create the linka/ tag itself and 'set the linktext touri' provides the 'href' parameter. But is there an equivalent of the HTML link title

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Keith Clarke wrote: I was using the a link description as an analogy to describe the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know that this is not a standard thing that I have simply overlooked). I've tried the message

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 11:22 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/5/11 11:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Keith Clarke wrote: I was using the a link description as an analogy to describe the required behaviour. It's the effect of a tooltip on text within a field that I want to create (and it's good to know that

Re: ANN: Search List Lib

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Hey Mark, why don't you convert it to a droptool? Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc On Jul 5, 2011, at 9:47 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi, I made an alternative to the combobox, containing everything I miss in the default combobox. You can

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-05 Thread Nonsanity
I see what you are doing there Pete, and why you went the way you did. It what you've got will work and is a decent solution to the problem as you defined it. The loop does the mapping that you can't do with the engine. the problem is the fact that the %m or %M is coming from an outside source

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I will add bullet support there, I decided against it on the first version because bullets were not displaying correctly on my linux machine. I will add a little switch the platform there. I hope your luck with making bullet chars in Linux is better than mine:

Re: command group fails when objectList is a string

2011-07-05 Thread Nonsanity
Might want to put a select empty at the top too, or the end group might be a bit bigger than you think. (Or better yet, save off the current selection(s), and restore them afterwards. Bonus points.) ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Klaus on-rev

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Andre Garzia wrote: I will add bullet support there, I decided against it on the first version because bullets were not displaying correctly on my linux machine. I will add a little switch the platform there.

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Nonsanity
Or to embed the tooltip with the link: a href=tooltip:Some text to displaySome text/a on mousemove x,y set itemdel to : get the linktext of the mousechunk if item 1 of it = tooltip then set the tooltip of me to item 2 to -1 of it else set the tooltip of me to

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread stephen barncard
Ive done that and it works, but still make the underlying text something else - on slow machines the text may get revealed for an instant. On 5 July 2011 10:19, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Richard, I was going to try with a bullet PNG using the imagesource property, have you

Re: What is the LiveCode equivalent property for the HTML a title=some hover text parameter?

2011-07-05 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Jaque, Jim and Richard for the insights - you've given me the necessary ingredients for a workaround. I'm surprised that such measures are necessary for a net-aware development environment - and I can't find any requests on the QA forum to address this issue. So, I've added this

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread Roger Eller
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:26 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Ive done that and it works, but still make the underlying text something else - on slow machines the text may get revealed for an instant. On 5 July 2011 10:19, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Richard, I was going to try

Re: [ANN] aagPasswordField DropTool

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 1:54 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: I will add bullet support there, I decided against it on the first version because bullets were not displaying correctly on my linux machine. I will add a little switch the platform there. I hope

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-05 Thread Pete
Ken, Thanks for this. I've been trying it out and all seems to work great. I notice there are less characters (26) in tReplaceChars than there are items in tFormatWords (28) and the handler code suggests that there should be the same number of characters. I'd like to add a couple more formats

Re: chasing the focus

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/4/11 10:49 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: I'm trying to figure out why a field is losing focus and I don't know which tools to use for the hunt. At the very end of a mouseUp handler of a button I have this: on mouseUp . focus on field SearchTarget put the name of the focusedObject cf

Re: chasing the focus

2011-07-05 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/05/2011 09:44 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/4/11 10:49 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: I'm trying to figure out why a field is losing focus and I don't know which tools to use for the hunt. At the very end of a mouseUp handler of a button I have this: on mouseUp . focus on field

IOS

2011-07-05 Thread David Brooks
On many iPad applications the user can enlarge the image by placing two fingers on the pad and moving them apart. Once expanded, the opposite motion has the effect of shrinking the 'screen' back. Has anyone implemented this in a livecode app? Thanks in advance. Dave B.

Re: IOS

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
David, I've asked this same question twice in the past couple of days. I guess the answer is, 'apparently not.' On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, David Brooks dbro...@unlserve.unl.eduwrote: On many iPad applications the user can enlarge the image by placing two fingers on the pad and moving

create a blurred box 'drop shadow' grc?

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Does anyone know if you can create a blurred box using a grc and blend/effects settings which overlays another image correctly? For instance, http://altuit.on-rev.com/testOverlay.png where there's a blurred black box overlaying a background. Thanks. -- Chipp Walters CEO, Shafer Walters Group,

Re: IOS

2011-07-05 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi guys, Am 05.07.2011 um 22:58 schrieb Chipp Walters: David, I've asked this same question twice in the past couple of days. I guess the answer is, 'apparently not.' On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, David Brooks dbro...@unlserve.unl.eduwrote: On many iPad applications the user can

Re: IOS

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
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RE: chasing the focus

2011-07-05 Thread Slava Paperno
Yes! That was it. Thank you, Jacque (now I even know how to pronounce that :) Slava -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 2:45 PM To: How to use LiveCode

default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Kee Nethery
On Mac OS X I think the default textsize is 10 and the default textfont is Lucinda Grande. If someone wants to give me the defaults for Windows, (and confirm my guess for the Mac) I'll add it as a note to the livecode documentation. If there is some script command to see what it actually is,

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Kee Nethery
Actually I think on the Mac it is textfont=Lucinda Grande textsize = 11 On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: On Mac OS X I think the default textsize is 10 and the default textfont is Lucinda Grande. If someone wants to give me the defaults for Windows, (and confirm my guess for

Re: chasing the focus

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 4:31 PM, Slava Paperno wrote: Yes! That was it. Thank you, Jacque (now I even know how to pronounce that :) :) You can call me anything. Everyone does. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

create a blurred box 'drop shadow' grc?

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Stuart
on Tue Jul 5 16:06:20 CDT 2011, Chipp Walters wrote: Does anyone know if you can create a blurred box using a grc and blend/effects settings which overlays another image correctly? Sure. BTW, isn't that what you created already in the image? In the end it depends on what your final result is,

Re: delete array element

2011-07-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
I was going to say, I didn't know you could declare a global in the message box. Bob On Jul 4, 2011, at 6:05 AM, Ken Ray wrote: When I try to use that command in the Message box, I get an error: global myVariable; put A into myVariable[1]; put B into myVariable[2]; delete global

Re: interesting custom property behavior...

2011-07-05 Thread Bob Sneidar
I tried to set my recursionLimit to 1 but it didn't work. I tried to set my recursionLimit to 1 but it didn't work. ;-) Bob On Jul 3, 2011, at 9:04 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Isn't there the property: the recursionLimit? Seems like an easy fix. ___

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Terry Judd wrote: Can't you just query the effective textFont and textSize of a 'virgin' stack? On OSX this returns Lucinda Grande and 11 as it should. It would be nice if the engine's default matched the current OS system font default, but alas AFAIK the engine's default is Helvetica 14.

Re: create a blurred box 'drop shadow' grc?

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Thanks Mark, I didn't mention that I wanted it to be transparent as well. Please look at the URL again: http://altuit.on-rev.com/testOverlay.png I seem to always have a more 'defined' version (that image created in Pshop) On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:05 PM, Mark Stuart mstu...@adaptcrm.com wrote:

Re: create a blurred box 'drop shadow' grc?

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
You can see the difference by entering into the msg box: go stack URLhttp://altuit.on-rev.com/testBlur.livecode; On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:11 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Thanks Mark, I didn't mention that I wanted it to be transparent as well. Please look at the URL again:

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Terry Judd
On 06/07/2011 10:04 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Terry Judd wrote: Can't you just query the effective textFont and textSize of a 'virgin' stack? On OSX this returns Lucinda Grande and 11 as it should. It would be nice if the engine's default matched the current OS

Re: create a blurred box 'drop shadow' grc?

2011-07-05 Thread Chipp Walters
Actually, Mark. I think your solution will work with a few tweaked settings. Thanks :-) On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: You can see the difference by entering into the msg box: go stack URLhttp://altuit.on-rev.com/testBlur.livecode; On Tue, Jul 5, 2011

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Terry Judd wrote: On 06/07/2011 10:04 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: It would be nice if the engine's default matched the current OS system font default, but alas AFAIK the engine's default is Helvetica 14. In the LiveCode IDE a new stack will take on the settings of

Re: interesting custom property behavior...

2011-07-05 Thread Mark Wieder
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Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Terry Judd
On 06/07/2011 10:41 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Terry Judd wrote: On 06/07/2011 10:04 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com wrote: It would be nice if the engine's default matched the current OS system font default, but alas AFAIK the engine's default is

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-05 Thread Ken Ray
I notice there are less characters (26) in tReplaceChars than there are items in tFormatWords (28) and the handler code suggests that there should be the same number of characters. I'd like to add a couple more formats (ordinal day number and 3-char time zone) and want to make sure I

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-05 Thread Pete
Thanks Ken, I figured that's what it was. I can send you the changed handler if you're interested n the ordinal day and timezone (timezone will only work on a Mac). Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: I

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Pete
There's a free program called TinkerTool, available at http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html, which will change the system text font/size as well as a lot of other hidden settings. I haven't used it extensively but it has worked OK so far (I haven't tried changing the system font). They

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 7:58 PM, Terry Judd wrote: OK - I think we're going around in circles. All I was trying to say was that for me getting the effective textFont and textSize of a new stack returns the appropriate values for the system font and size on OSX. Given that you can't (easily) change the system

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/5/11 5:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But unfortunately, that only works if you have Jacque's time machine: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5190 That's pretty old. :( But the docs say if a font doesn't exist, then the system font will be substituted. In fact, I thought you had

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Terry Judd
On 06/07/2011 02:50 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 7/5/11 7:58 PM, Terry Judd wrote: OK - I think we're going around in circles. All I was trying to say was that for me getting the effective textFont and textSize of a new stack returns the appropriate values for the

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/6/11 12:18 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Really? I just created a new stack, dragged a field onto it, typed in some text, saved it and created an OSX standalone - no fonts or sizes set anywhere. When I launched the standalone the text displayed in Lucinda Grande 11 point. I think the IDE