Recently, Judy Perry wrote:
> If you had a month, meaning, 4 long sessions or 8 shorter sessions, to get
> an absolute Joe Public to make something small but semi-interesting in LC,
> i.e., something they couldn't do in PowerPoint, what are the top 5 things
> you'd want them to learn about program
I'll check out the executionContexts.
The reason for the architecture is to make it as easy as possible for users
of the utility to start using its library, install its front scripts, get
its behavior scripts recognised and open it's internal files. With this
architecture, the only statement they
Looks like 2 issues here. First getting the cursor to stick; second getting
the correct cursor display.
Lock/Unlock cursor should resolve the first; importing and using your own
cursor image should resolve the second.
local cHand=999100
local cArrow=999101
on mouseEnter
if "button" is word 1 o
On 08/12/2011 01:01 AM, Judy Perry wrote:
I have a vague notion of a hands-on assignment for my classes next
term involving having them use the 30-day demo and making something
semi-interesting (to them) in LC.
Apparently I did a really sucky job of articulating this to the first
person I ask
On 08/11/2011 11:49 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 8/11/11 12:16 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
The issue of payment and distibution is far more varied
and complex than most of you seem to be aware of or willing to
consider. As consumers your interests only reflect a very limited
perspective.
When fa
Pete-
Thursday, August 11, 2011, 9:41:49 PM, you wrote:
> The dispatch methodology works fine but I'm finding that using "the target"
> or "me" in the external stack's handler resolves to the external library
> stack file not the stack that issued the dispatch command. I can, of
> course, includ
I have a situation where I want to dispatch a message from a preopenstack
handler to a stack in an external library stack which, at the time of the
dispatch, has not yet been loaded into memory. The handler for the message
in the external stack carries out various initialization functions,
includi
Many kind thanks to all who have thus far replied :-)
Tim:
The usual hyperCard tutorial stacks included address books, index your CDs (now
DVDs or MP3s). These were good learning experiences that could produce truly
useful stacks.
--This was another matter I was pondering: exactly what k
Maybe interactive tutorial or flash-card type projects that will help your
students succeed in their other subjects.
When my kids were grades 1-2-3 I used hypercard to write a number of really
cool phonics instruction stacks. Kept adding features. Text-to-speech. Rhyming.
English-like phonics c
Having some trouble changing the cursor, and hope someone can help shed some
light on the topic.
I have a "mouseEnter" script on the main card that checks if the target is a
"button". If it's a button, it sets the cursor to hand. If not, it sets it
to arrow.
I've tried implementing this in two
You know you've been coding too long in LiveCode, when you go over to
your word processor to type a letter and you tap the enter key twice to
save and close . . . ! (Or am I the only one?)
Marty K
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I've had to build screen capture capabilities into a number of projects over
the last few years and generally have a lot of fun doing it. Perhaps not the
easiest task to begin with but broken down into a series of lessons should be
doable. A simple tool could allow the user to drag out a selecti
Hmmm off the top of my head I would say first long session take them through
the same kinds of things that real developers go through. Ask them at the
beginning to write down their favorite thing, something that interests them
most.
The first session should be about the user interface. Show th
I have a vague notion of a hands-on assignment for my classes next term
involving having them use the 30-day demo and making something
semi-interesting (to them) in LC.
Apparently I did a really sucky job of articulating this to the first
person I asked, so, here I try, try again, this time in
I'm thought musical works entered the public domain after some number of
years (I forget how many) following the composer's death. One of the
problems is that there is no international definition of public domain, all
countries have their own. It's possible the publishing companies (not the
compo
Hi Ralph,
Ralph DiMola wrote:
>
> There's at least one other person who told their friends
> to stay away from Napster.
>
Interesting enough, I learned first about Napster
from Computer Magazines and never liked the idea.
Digital stores like Amazon or iTunes and streaming audio
on demand like
I agree wholly.
However -- it's worth noting AGAIN that Steamboat Willie is STILL under
copyright. If IP law continues in this direction, it and anything
produced afterwards may NEVER enter the public domain.
Also -- there's some controversy that the popular song, "Happy Birthday",
is under
On 8/11/11 12:16 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
The issue of payment and distibution is far more varied
and complex than most of you seem to be aware of or willing to
consider. As consumers your interests only reflect a very limited
perspective.
When faced with a decision like this, I substitute "my
I agree with you here Bob. Your previous post seemed to me to focus on
the individual "talent" who shouldn't make money because it was a
"god-given talent." But my post was also a response to those who excuse
taking from someone because they think they are rich (which usually
means someone who
As a working musician, I heartily agree with Stephen. There is a miniscule
percentage of musicians who actually manage to make a reasonable living for
their profession, the rest of us (no matter how good or bad we are) make do
with the crumbs and leftovers. There is no justification for stealing
Indeed, this can be true; two sound-alike singers were hired directly from
their YouTube performances as replacement singers for the prog rock band
Journey and Dennis DeYoung from Styx for their respective tours.
Judy
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Roger Eller wrote:
I agree. In fact, I witnessed the
There's at least one other person who told their friends to stay away from
Napster.
"I cannot speak for others, but I certainly do not. When Napster first came
out and all my friends were going crazy over it, downloading everything they
could get their hands on, I told them all it was stealing,
On 08/11/2011 09:11 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I cannot speak for others, but I certainly do not. When Napster first came out
and all my friends were going crazy over it, downloading everything they could
get their hands on, I told them all it was stealing, no matter how they looked
at it, because
On 08/11/2011 08:55 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
. Once again I've started a controversy.
Lovely; where would we be without you? Probably considerably more bored
. . . :)
My original point, which perhaps I did not make terribly clear is that there is
a huge corporate machine that has grown up ar
I cannot speak for others, but I certainly do not. When Napster first came out
and all my friends were going crazy over it, downloading everything they could
get their hands on, I told them all it was stealing, no matter how they looked
at it, because they were taking something without the owner
. Once again I've started a controversy.
My original point, which perhaps I did not make terribly clear is that there is
a huge corporate machine that has grown up around copyright protection, that is
the main entity actually making the money, and often is operating contrary to
the original ar
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:09:47 PM Roger Eller wrote:
> I agree. In fact, I witnessed the rise of a YouTube artist, and bought his
> very first CD because 1) he was that good, and 2) I wanted to be supportive
> of the hundreds of songs he posted on YouTube (and I enjoyed for free).
> THAT is
Cool! So now all I need to do is figure out who has god-given talent (as
opposed to atheistic talent or agnostic talent???) or who is "rich" and
I can take what I want!!! My brother is an airline pilot - makes way
more money than me. Has 5 cars, including a red '73 Chevy convertible.
Maybe I'll
I feel your pain warren as I am also a musician. But I am not making the
argument that people should not profit from their gifts. God knows none of the
very talented people who use Livecode would lift a finger if that were the
case! I am saying that when Christians need a corporate machine to ek
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:53:33 AM Bob Sneidar wrote:
> But the very thought of having people pay royalties on what we consider to be
> a "gift from God" namely the talent and the inspiration for the music seems
> to be... well "quenching". The moneychangers in the temple comes to mind.
>
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> As usual it's the middle man that is getting rich. But there ARE ways to
> distribute now that can bypass them. Unfortunately, it's hard to rise above
> the noise of mediocrity in that soup, if the artist really is exceptional.
>
> I have idea
I went to purchase an audio book of The Hobbit off Audible (or iTunes same
provider) and was informed that I could not purchase it from where I was,
because it wasn't allowed. Who refuses to sell an audio book in another
country, especially the US where there is a huge market for it? But that sh
As usual it's the middle man that is getting rich. But there ARE ways to
distribute now that can bypass them. Unfortunately, it's hard to rise above the
noise of mediocrity in that soup, if the artist really is exceptional.
I have ideas for a website that had some kind of voting system, where t
Years ago the large Church I work for had a recording studio and a record
label, so that we could produce "religious" music and not have to deal with the
secular industry and the exorbitant prices they charged for use of their
studios. Some artists because quite successful in their careers, as t
I'll pitch in. That is a great idea! Get a list of names who will pitch in and
we can divvy it up. Make sure the people who did the original story know it,
and it can get some exposure for Livecode.
Bob
On Aug 10, 2011, at 5:50 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Jacque-
>
> Wednesday, August 10, 2011
OK. This touched a nerve.
*"I used to record off the air and it was OK" , "everybody does it" ,
"the music today sucks anyway", "the music business is corrupt"*
All excuses used to justify the stealing of music. Not very funny to me, a
40 year music business worker. This was a profession f
Arrays are easy. To create one, simply put something into the first element:
put "~/Music/GrooveBox/groovyarp.wav" into arps["track1"]. If instead, you want
a multidimensional array containing all your categories: put
"~/Music/GrooveBox/groovyarp.wav" into aTracks[arps]["track1"].
If you need
or you use a serialized array. E.g.:
-- to save your preferences
global gPrefs
on mouseUp
put the loc of this stack into gPrefs["Stackloc"]
put the rect of this stack into gPrefs["StackRect"]
put the backcolor of this stack into gPrefs["StackBCol"]
put arrayencode(gPrefs) into ur
Correct. It has to be a separate file - either a separate stack or text file.
Bill Vlahos
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On Aug 11, 2011, at 7:29 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My apologies in advance for the lame question but I need a little refresher
> as it has been ages since I’ve d
Hello everyone,
My apologies in advance for the lame question but I need a little refresher as
it has been ages since I’ve deployed standalone apps. To save data in them,
and that would include custom props, I need to do it in stack files that are
not sub-stacks of the main stack. In other wo
Ok, then it's the difference between Win and Mac
Tiemo
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> Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
> boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von G. Wolfgang Gaich
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 11. August 2011 16:06
> An: How to use LiveCode
> Betre
Hello Tiemo,
my test was with a 26GB folder with many, many subfolders. it took 24
minutes and the script was hold until all folders and files were copied.
Best
Wolfgang
Am 11.08.2011 14:34, schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB:
Thanks Mark, I will give it a try.
@Wolfgang, perhaps the issue, why revCo
Strange version problems could come up with any technology. It actually makes a
nice change that a BBC clip is viewable in the US! For what it's worth, it's a
3 min 52 sec review of the new planet of the apes film, and I stopped it soon
because it gives away too many plot details.
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On Thursday, August 11, 2011 08:32:51 AM Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475250
>
> Firefox 6, Ubuntu 11.04
No probs here in Opera on openSUSE
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Well, I for one (along with Saint Steve) would be glad to see the back
of Flash.
Looking at this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475250
Firefox 6, Ubuntu 11.04
I get this message:/
/"Cannot play media.You do not have the correct version of the flash
player. Download the
Thanks Mark, I will give it a try.
@Wolfgang, perhaps the issue, why revCopyFolder didn't waited in my case
(Mac) is the duration. The copying in my my case lasts about 10 min (8GB).
Perhaps applescript (which is probably wrapped by the rev command) returns
the result already after a certain amount
Hi Tiemo,
Actually, LiveCode waits until the AppleScript returns a value, indicating
successful compilation or failure, but it returns this value before the copying
has finished. So, it is a combination of AppleScript returning a value early
and LiveCode not reading additional results from Appl
Hello Tiemo
from my experiences I can say that revcopyfolder is a blocking command.
If I have in a script:
revcopyfolder "myFolder","myCopyFolder"
answer the result
then the dialog pops up when the copy-process has ended
I'm on Windows 7, may be on Mac it is not blocking (Can't test that)
Bes
Hi Mark,
thanks for your quick answer, I will give it a try.
Because you have another approach I assume that it is a standard behavior
with rev commands, that they don't wait?
Up to know I presumed that every command is waiting up to it's end of
execution. Are there more commands, which are not wa
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 3:17 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> This whole thing seems laughable:
>
> When I was 13 my Mum and Dad bought me a radio-cassette recorder, and
> I merrily recorded all the songs on the radio that I liked, and recorded
> quite a few songs from gramophone records that belon
Tiemo,
Here's a sample AppleScript.
try
tell application "Finder"
set myFile to POSIX file "~/desktop/file.txt"
set myNewFile to POSIX file "~/desktop/file2.txt"
copy myFile to myNewFile
end tell
on error myErr number myNr
s
Hello,
I want to copy a big folder by script and wait for the result to prompt an
appropriate message.
But after fireing revCopyFolder my script runs on without waiting for the
execution of revCopyFolder.
Is this a normal behavior? Anything I can do to wait for the finish?
Thanks
Tiemo
Hello,
in the livecode ide preferences/Compatibility there is an option to Use
Legacy Drivers.
Is there any detailed documentation, when to use the Legacy Drivers and
when it is not necessary.
I detected some anomalies using odbc with MS SQL Server and Ingres.
Any information would be appr
Hello Mark,
thanks for the info.
If you need help, webspace, suggestions contact me offline.
I guess it could be important to push the communication in a german
livecode community.
Best regards
Wolfgang
Am 11.08.2011 10:34, schrieb Mark Schonewille:
Hi Wolfgang,
I will install a new board
Hi Wolfgang,
I will install a new board and will announce it on this list.
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Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer
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What does that error mean? Buy LiveCodeE
Hello german livecoder,
today I tried to go to revolutionboard.de.
I got this:
"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server."
Revolutionboard doesn't exist anymore?
Best regards
Wolfgang
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This whole thing seems laughable:
When I was 13 my Mum and Dad bought me a radio-cassette recorder, and
I merrily recorded all the songs on the radio that I liked, and recorded
quite a few songs from gramophone records that belonged to friends of
mine who could afford that sort of thing.
At n
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