Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

My two cents: The ebay app has "buy now" buttons and is highly succesfull Regards, John On Sep 7, 2011, at 2:45, Chipp Walters wrote: > My guess is NO, this does not apply. Nope, wait, the wind just changed, YES > it does apply, you cannot link in anyway to any website whatsoever. OOPS, my >

Re: Blocking in iOS and libUrlDownloadToFile

You have to prevent the user from interrupting the download - I do that by showing a transparent rect over the whole screen so they can't interact with the app until the download is done. I think by "blocking" they mean you can't request another download until this one is complete. Gerry On 07

Re: Syllable OS and Livecode ?

On 09/07/2011 05:59 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond I suspect not, at least not it the short term. The Syllable Desktop OS is not a Linux distro but a whole new operating system. The Syllable Server OS is a Linux distro. I believe that it takes some effort to port a Linux application to th

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/07/2011 04:27 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: "O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" The 'wherefore' here means "why?" rather than "where?" What Juliet is asking, in allusion to the feud between her Capulet family and Romeo's Montague clan, is 'Romeo, why are you a Montague?'. Give me "

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/07/2011 12:43 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/6/11 1:38 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: back to "Application Browser" and there one can see, at the bottom of the list (ou, a fond [ excusez moi, sans accents ] as they say in France) "revPropertyPalette 1" created 'on-the-fly' as it-were, from

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/06/2011 11:23 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: The persistent mis-use of this word REALLY annoys me! 'Wherefore' is 'Why' in modern parlance, and not (nor has ever been) 'where'. Indeed, a veritable excess of curmudgeonliness Mr Chips. Back to your normal browsing. Hugh Senior FLCo _

Re: DataGrid and my headache

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Sorry, Trevor. I *did* work through the lesson before posting my > response. The code in the lesson does *not* work the way it's listed. > All it does is clear out the datagrid entries. And I just ran through > the steps again to make sure I wa

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

Hello Bob, I wouldn't have say anything on this list if it hasn't been public. Actually I found the release info on macupdate.com Best regards, ÉrIC Miclo Le 6 sept. 2011 à 21:24, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, > this is not t

Re: Syllable OS and Livecode ?

Richmond I suspect not, at least not it the short term. The Syllable Desktop OS is not a Linux distro but a whole new operating system. The Syllable Server OS is a Linux distro. I believe that it takes some effort to port a Linux application to the Syllable Desktop and would doubt that RunRev w

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

"O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo?" The 'wherefore' here means "why?" rather than "where?" What Juliet is asking, in allusion to the feud between her Capulet family and Romeo's Montague clan, is 'Romeo, why are you a Montague?'. Tim On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:23 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote:

Re: DataGrid and my headache

Trevor- Tuesday, September 6, 2011, 7:29:26 AM, you wrote: > On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> >> The example is incomplete (aka "wrong"). Try the following... the >> inserted text is from the more complete example at >> > Actually the example is not incomplete. The code sni

Re: Purchasing from an iOs App

My guess is NO, this does not apply. Nope, wait, the wind just changed, YES it does apply, you cannot link in anyway to any website whatsoever. OOPS, my bad, the coin flipped again, the answer is now NO, go ahead and try. If the reviewer's name ends in 'ski' and the review day is Tuesday, chances a

Blocking in iOS and libUrlDownloadToFile

In relation to blocking. This what the release notes say: libUrlDownloadToFile url, filename Unlike the libUrl command of the same name, this command will block until the download is complete, and will notify progress through the urlProgress message as described above. However I was able to c

Re: DataGrid: some questions

On 9/6/11 4:41 PM, Pete wrote: Great! Haven't come across that one before. The mental image of pigs climbing trees is quite disturbing! Deep within a forest, this little tortoise begins to climb a tree. After hours of effort, he reaches the top, jumps into the air waving his front legs and c

Re: urlProgress error message

Thanks Mark. I was following the iOS release notes. However i did look up urlStatus in the dictionary. I was wondering when urlProgress url, "error", errorMessage if there was a list of errorMessage Regards, Debdoot On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi, > > I think you m

Re: DataGrid: some questions

Nuts to that! Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:33 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > "You can try to teach a pig to climb trees, but it works better to hire a > squirrel." ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 9/6/11 1:38 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: back to "Application Browser" and there one can see, at the bottom of the list (ou, a fond [ excusez moi, sans accents ] as they say in France) "revPropertyPalette 1" created 'on-the-fly' as it-were, from some mysteriously hidden template . . . So, t

Re: DataGrid: some questions

Great! Haven't come across that one before. The mental image of pigs climbing trees is quite disturbing! Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Pete wrote: > > > Yes, spreadsheets are pretty

Re: [ANN] ObjectFormats plugin

Peter M. Brigham wrote: > BTW, I have just upgraded it to give the user the option of storing the > script and/or the rect of a button or field in addition to properties it > saved originally. Available at: > .dmg: http://db.tt/oid5wsX > .zip: http://db.tt/ADhYSsd Sorry, wrong links, use these

Re: DataGrid: some questions

On Sep 6, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Pete wrote: > Yes, spreadsheets are pretty complex beasts. I've never had a need to > implement one in LC but if I did, I think I'd just run Excel (or whatever > spreadsheet program is appropriate), store the filename in LC then launch it > whenever the user needed to

Re: urlProgress error message

Hi, I think you mean urlStatus and the answer is yes. Just search the LC dictionary for urlStatus. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Send me a frien

Re: [ANN] ObjectFormats plugin

Well, no current plans to expand in that direction. The way the plugin works now is it just changes the properties of an existing selected button or field. For it to replicate cards or groups It would have to be able to create a bunch of objects then set their properties. The internal storage of

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

Wherefore is "why". Juliet set the bar. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: FlexibleLearning To: use-livecode Sent: Tue, Sep 6, 2011 12:25 pm Subject: Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette The persistent mis-use of this word REALLY annoys me! 'Wherefore' is 'Why' in modern parlance

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

Beer don't know no good speaking. Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:23 PM, FlexibleLearning wrote: > The persistent mis-use of this word REALLY annoys me! > > 'Wherefore' is 'Why' in modern parlance, and not (nor has ever been) > 'where'. > > Back to your normal browsing. > > Hugh Senior > FLCo > >

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

Thanks for the heads-up, Mark. I’ll look into the plug in. Gregory On Tue, Sep 6, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Hi Gregory, > > You need to send the entire Windows folder to your users. This includes the > separate stack files, referenced files if there are

Re: [BUG] LiveCode server 4.6.3 fails to connect to MySQL UNIX socket file

It works on on-rev because they have a symbolic link in place to link from /tmp/mysql.sock to wherever the real file is. Now, if you are on a shared host such as Dreamhost, there is a big chance that this symbolic link does not exist and since you are not root, you will not be allowed to create it,

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

The persistent mis-use of this word REALLY annoys me! 'Wherefore' is 'Why' in modern parlance, and not (nor has ever been) 'where'. Back to your normal browsing. Hugh Senior FLCo ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

I have had, on many occasions, the stack property window open, the card property window open and control property window open at the same time. I have had multiple card property windows open at once as well. Mike On Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:19:09 +0300, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 09/06/201

Re: DataGrid: some questions

Yes, spreadsheets are pretty complex beasts. I've never had a need to implement one in LC but if I did, I think I'd just run Excel (or whatever spreadsheet program is appropriate), store the filename in LC then launch it whenever the user needed to access it. Horses for courses, as they say. Pete

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/06/2011 10:50 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Like when your children have grandchildren, or when you make a bunch of copies of a form, then hand out the original and have to use one of the copies next time you make more. All I can say is that if computer programming were as easy as fathering c

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

On 09/06/2011 02:40 PM, Roger Eller wrote: It looks like the announcement ONLY went to the DEV list though... Odd... :\ ~Roger Yes, I noticed that, too, but I checked the store and it's available for download in my account. Warren ___ use-livec

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

Like when your children have grandchildren, or when you make a bunch of copies of a form, then hand out the original and have to use one of the copies next time you make more. Actually, it's not like either of those things. NVM Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:28 PM, Pete wrote: > "reduplicated"?

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

If I use PowerDebug or GLX2 (not sure which one) I can have multiple palettes open for different objects. I think this is a feature, but it causes problems, like endless loop issues and I have to force quit, so I have to be careful using those tools. Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Pete wro

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

Oh sorry. I didn't get the email. I usually get 2! :-( Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 09/06/2011 02:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, >> this is not the forum for pre-release versions. Did you get

Re: DataGrid: some questions

I ran into this when I started out trying to make a datagrid operate like a simple spreadsheet. Turns out it is not a simple thing to do. You would have to trap for a returnkey in any cell in the last row, or a tabKey in the last cell of the last row, and call addLine followed by editCellOfIndex

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On 09/06/2011 02:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, >> this is not the forum for pre-release versions. Did you get an email telling >> you where to post beta issues? >> >>

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/06/2011 10:28 PM, Pete wrote: "reduplicated"? Does that mean I have to duplicate it twice? Pete Molly's Revenge Beer . . . On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Richmond Mathewson< richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: On 09/06/2011 10:14 PM, Pete wrote: I

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

On 09/06/2011 02:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, this is not the forum for pre-release versions. Did you get an email telling you where to post beta issues? Bob Final public release was announced today. Warren ___

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

"reduplicated"? Does that mean I have to duplicate it twice? Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Richmond Mathewson < richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/06/2011 10:14 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I might be dreaming but I'll swear I've run int

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/06/2011 10:21 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Richard, Very often, I have 2 or 3 inspectors open at a time. Just click the lock button and open an inspector for another object. Wow; it never ceases to amaze me how one can go on learning new things about Metacard/RunRev/Livecode even after

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, this is not the forum for pre-release versions. Did you get an email telling you where to post beta issues? Bob On Sep 6, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Éric Miclo wrote: > Hello, > > Same application built under Mac OS X Lion 10

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

Richard, Very often, I have 2 or 3 inspectors open at a time. Just click the lock button and open an inspector for another object. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogramme

Re: [ANN] ObjectFormats plugin

This would be incredibly useful to me if it worked with cards and groups as well. I make extensive use of properties to store things like datagrid column formatting and related tables for a form. Bob On Sep 4, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > I'm making available for general u

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

On 09/06/2011 10:14 PM, Pete wrote: I might be dreaming but I'll swear I've run into situations where I've had multiple inspector windows open at the same time, not for the same object of course. Unfortunately, I can't remember the circumstannces where this has happened. I've never come across

Re: Copying from MS word into RunRev 4.0

No not really. It works for you because Parallels is doing a clipboard translation itself, so the quote survives. It would be the same thing as first pasting into a Rich Text Editor, recopying, and then pasting into Livecode. That always works. Bob On Sep 3, 2011, at 12:03 AM, Keith Clarke w

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

I might be dreaming but I'll swear I've run into situations where I've had multiple inspector windows open at the same time, not for the same object of course. Unfortunately, I can't remember the circumstannces where this has happened. Pete Molly's Revenge On Tue

Re: [BUG] LiveCode server 4.6.3 fails to connect to MySQL UNIX socket file

I am using On-Rev SQL with a direct connection. I am using 4.6.3. It seem to be working fine for me. Bob On Sep 5, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Folks, > > I've updated the quality centre with a new bug report: > > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9712 > > As explained

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

Mark Schonewille wrote: In this case, the blank line is because the revPropertyPalette is a cloned stack without a stackfile on disk. The revPropertyPalettes exist in memory only, while only one original exists on disk. Ah, right: that was "the stacks", and not "the windows". Since there's o

urlProgress error message

Salutations, Is there a list of all the possible urlProgress error messages. Thanks Debdoot ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://l

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

Hi, In this case, the blank line is because the revPropertyPalette is a cloned stack without a stackfile on disk. The revPropertyPalettes exist in memory only, while only one original exists on disk. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

OK, OK; I'm behind in the race ( 4.5 ), but then, even if I had the money, I would feel a bit queer about buying things with numbers after a second fullstop: So: crack open 4.5. dp 4 and the Application browser: no revPropertypalette [and, this is extremely UNsurprising, as I have no stack ope

Re: Wherefore revPropertyPalette

dunbarx wrote: If I open a new LC session with any simple stack and call "the stacks", I see the revmenubar, revMessageBox and whatever stack I opened with (I opened the msg box by hand). If I then open the inspector for the stack and call "the stacks" I get a blank line in the middle of the

Re: DataGrid: some questions

You can tell if the user clicked in the header by checking "the dgHeader of the target" - it will be empty if the user did not click on the header, the long ID of the group containing all the column headers if the user clicked on the header. If the user clicked on a specific column header rather t

Wherefore revPropertyPalette

If I open a new LC session with any simple stack and call "the stacks", I see the revmenubar, revMessageBox and whatever stack I opened with (I opened the msg box by hand). If I then open the inspector for the stack and call "the stacks" I get a blank line in the middle of the list. I assume tha

Re: DataGrid: some questions

It is possible to determine that a click or double-click in the datagrid was not in an active row with data. Just get the dgHilitedLine(s) inside a mouseUp or doubleMouseUp handler. If it's empty the user clicked or double clicked in an empty space in the dataGrid. Trouble is, it works equally w

LiveCode 4.6.4

Hello, Same application built under Mac OS X Lion 10.7.1: - launches and works when built with LiveCode 4.6.3 - crashes upon launch when built with LiveCode 4.6.4 In the Release notes: " • Mac The Mac engine supports: • 10.4.11 (Tiger) on Intel and PowerPC

Re: revPropertyPalette, Thanks Mark

In a message dated 9/6/11 12:06:27 PM, m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com writes: > Hi Joe, > > I am having the same problem with revPropertyPalette. I don't expect it to > get fixed. In any case, don't save it :-) I don't think that saving it > makes sense, if it doesn't make things worse. >

Re: revPropertyPalette

Joe wrote: I've been having this problem for a long time, but I've just been living with it. Almost every time I open the inspector it asks me to save the revPropertyPalette. I've been doing that but it keeps coming back. What am I doing wrong? It seems that the Inspector has somehow been fla

Re: revPropertyPalette

Hi Joe, I am having the same problem with revPropertyPalette. I don't expect it to get fixed. In any case, don't save it :-) I don't think that saving it makes sense, if it doesn't make things worse. If you can't ungroup a group, that group probably contains nested groups. Select the group and

Re: revPropertyPalette

Hi. There was a thread about this years ago: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=232 I cannot find any such file, using relatively modern versions of LC (or Rev). Which version are you using? I think this was either the old name of the property inspector, or a stack associated with

revPropertyPalette

Hi, I've been having this problem for a long time, but I've just been living with it. Almost every time I open the inspector it asks me to save the revPropertyPalette. I've been doing that but it keeps coming back. What am I doing wrong? Another problem I've been having is I can't seem to ung

Re: DataGrid and my headache

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 8:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > The example is incomplete (aka "wrong"). Try the following... the > inserted text is from the more complete example at > Actually the example is not incomplete. The code snippet is from this lesson: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/data

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

Thanks everyone, I get it. Windows builds pretty much need the whole thing. I don’t like the stack files sitting there though. I think I will turn them into sub-stacks and have users save their data to text files. Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode

Purchasing from an iOs App

Referring to verse 11.13 of the holy "App Store Review Guidellines" (last edition) , "Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the app, such as a “buy" button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected" What about a "buy" butto

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

Hi Gregory, You need to send the entire Windows folder to your users. This includes the separate stack files, referenced files if there are any, and the externals folder. You might leave out the externals folder if you really want to. If you prefer to send just one file, you could use the Insta

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

On 6 Sep 2011, at 13:05, Roger Eller wrote: > As I mentioned before, an app bundle on a Mac is really just a folder filled > with subfolders. If you copy one to either Windows or Linux, you can easily > look around. On a Mac, right-click and choose 'View package content' to see the folder con

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > On 09/06/2011 09:00 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 9/5/11 10:20 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: >> >>> Björnke, >>> >>> Excuse my ignorance. I guess it's a matter of terminology. So what are >>> they called? >>> >> >> Externals are like H

Re: [ANN] ObjectFormats plugin

On Sep 6, 2011, at 3:07 AM, Joseba Aguayo wrote: > Hello Peter: > > Thank you very much for your contributions. > Using your plugin frequently. > > Un saludo. Glad it's useful! -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _

Re: iphone wallpaper image

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:18 PM, paolo mazza wrote: > Hello All, > is it possible to change  the iphone wallpaper image from an iOS > Livecode application? Apple does not provide a public API to do that even when using Xcode, so I would assume not. The work-around is to offer to save images to the

iphone wallpaper image

Hello All, is it possible to change the iphone wallpaper image from an iOS Livecode application? All the best Paolo Mazza ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscri

Re: changing object colour references from hex to rgb

Hey thanks Mark, that looks quite straightforward! Best regards, Terry... On 06/09/2011, at 05:51 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Terry, > > There might be a way, something like mouseColor for example, but it is easier > to convert them: baseConvert(char 2 to 3 of myHex,16,10) & comma & > b

Re: changing object colour references from hex to rgb

Hi Terry, There might be a way, something like mouseColor for example, but it is easier to convert them: baseConvert(char 2 to 3 of myHex,16,10) & comma & baseConvert(char 4 to 5 of myHex,16,10) & comma & baseConvert(char 6 to 7 of myHex,16,10). -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Ta

Re: newbie question about smartphone apps

> > > Apparently it's possible to make iPhone and Android apps with LC. > Apparently, there's a product called LiveCode Mobile, rather similar to LC, > for this purpose. Do I have it right so far? > Android and iOS development is possible with add-on licenses. It's the same app, just enabled for o

changing object colour references from hex to rgb

OK, I want to set the background of some objects to a hex value - easy enough - but then at a later stage I want to compare an RGB colour value with them to see if there is a match. However, if I set the colour using a hex value the queried value for the object remains as a hex value. Is there a

Re:[ANN] ObjectFormats plugin

Hello Peter: Thank you very much for your contributions. Using your plugin frequently. Un saludo. Joseba Aguayo Fernández (jagu...@telur.es) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an