standalone settings vanished linux

2011-11-11 Thread Peter Alcibiades
When I try to do standalone settings (this is 4.5.2 but it is also in my other versions) it opens a file selection dialogue and not the usual settings screen. Anyone else experienced this? Or any idea what its due to? Peter ___ use-livecode

[ANN] tmCONTROL - Custom Interface Components for LiveCode Developers

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Rossi
If you've been using LiveCode for any length of time, you know that 2011 has been the year of custom controls. So in honor of 11/11/11, I'm happy to announce that tmCONTROL, a custom control suite for LiveCode, is now available from Tactile Media. tmCONTROL is a collection of interface

background color to panel tab

2011-11-11 Thread Alessandro Pisoni
how to change the background color to tab panel? thanks Alessandro Pisoni ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

background color to panel tab

2011-11-11 Thread Alessandro Pisoni
how to change the background color to tab panel? the problem is under windows xp , 7 , vista the background under windows is white and only white why this? thanks Alessandro Pisoni ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: background color to panel tab

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Alessandro, If I create a new tab button and set its backgroundColor to red in the property inspector, it changes immediately. The tabs themselves, at the top of the tab button, don't change if you're using native controls but they do if you use emulated controls (OS9, Win95 or Motif). --

Re: background color to panel tab

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Alessandro, You're right. It doesn't work. I would expect it to work but it doesn't. Btw are you using LiveCode 5 on Vista? I can't get it to run at all on Vista. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com

[ANN] LiveCode.tv event #43

2011-11-11 Thread Björnke von Gierke
This weekend, Colin will present two topics: First he will show us Adobe Director, with its an xTalk-like programming language. For an encore, he will present a beginner's Tutorial, in the form of a simple calculator. Colin Holgate has been a regular contributor for the event, and always makes

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder rote: Richard- Adobe has also killed off AIR for linux. So not only no linux development, but no linux deployment either. I'm quite happy to return the favor. :) AIR is fundamentally flawed by requiring the installation of the engine separately from the apps that use it. If

Re: standalone settings vanished linux

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hello Peter - When I try to do standalone settings (this is 4.5.2 but it is also in my other versions) it opens a file selection dialogue and not the usual settings screen. Anyone else experienced this? Or any idea what its due to? The method by which LC saves standalone build settings does

Re: [ANN] tmCONTROL - Custom Interface Components for LiveCode Developers

2011-11-11 Thread Ken Ray
On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: If you've been using LiveCode for any length of time, you know that 2011 has been the year of custom controls. So in honor of 11/11/11, I'm happy to announce that tmCONTROL, a custom control suite for LiveCode, is now available from Tactile

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: The having to install AIR engine only fully applies to the older version. Thanks for the clarification. I wonder why so many devs use the old version -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: standalone settings vanished linux

2011-11-11 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Richard, thank you. What an aberration! Yes, if you have not saved your stack, you don't get to set the standalone optionsbut once you have, back they come.Oh dear, thanks! I don't usually do standalones, I use stackrunner, because locking the source isn't an issue for me. Peter --

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Colin Holgate
The new one has only been out for two months, and it is a trade off, you're making people install yet another copy of an engine they already have, just to avoid a small amount of confusion. So not everyone will jump on that feature. On Nov 11, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I

Re: [ANN] tmCONTROL - Custom Interface Components for LiveCode Developers

2011-11-11 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Ken: Yes, I should get the details into the FAQ -- thanks for the reminder. Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Ken Ray wrote: On Nov 11, 2011, at 3:21 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: If you've been using LiveCode for any length of time, you know

Re: Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-11 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 10.11.2011 at 13:15 Uhr +0100 Mark Schonewille apparently wrote: Hi Francis, Usually I don't reply to messages that don't quote the preceding message. If you would like me to answer your questions and take part in discussions that may benefit you, quote the previous message. If you don't

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Dave Cragg
On 11 Nov 2011, at 14:29, Richard Gaskin wrote: AIR is fundamentally flawed by requiring the installation of the engine separately from the apps that use it. Richard, maybe I misunderstand what you are describing, but I like the idea of installing a single runtime engine to run much

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Cragg wrote: Richard, maybe I misunderstand what you are describing, but I like the idea of installing a single runtime engine to run much smaller and easily installed app. I'd love to see something similar for LiveCode, and then apps would just consist of the stack file. No

Re: Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Robert, No, I don't think he meant excessive quoting, I think he meant all quoting, but if I'm mistaken, I'm sure Francis can explain. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: [ANN] tmCONTROL - Custom Interface Components for LiveCode Developers

2011-11-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Scott, Seems useful and cool priced with the pickup the templates you need, at your choice option ! Thanks for delivring it. Will probably test it along a next coming project ;-) Best, Pierre Le 11 nov. 2011 à 17:23, Scott Rossi a écrit : Hi Ken: Yes, I should get the details into

Re: Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-11 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Mark, Francis spoke about 6 to 7 levels of quoting. And that is at least for me excessive quoting and makes it sometimes very hard to read and understand. Regards, Matthias Am 11.11.2011 um 19:02 schrieb Mark Schonewille: Hi Robert, No, I don't think he meant excessive quoting, I

Re: Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Matthias, True, he spoke of 6 or 7 levels, but he didn't explicitly say whether he is against quoting at all or only against excessive quoting. I got the impression he is against quoting at all, but as I said I might be mistaken and perhaps Francis could explain it. -- Best regards, Mark

Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Davis
Hey People, Do you use a command line tool of some sort on your Mac to convert .mov files to web formats? I sure would like to hear about it. I'm expecting that I need to end up with several file types as described in this piece of advice from the web: Make one version that uses WebM (VP8

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Roger Eller
On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Hey People, Do you use a command line tool of some sort on your Mac to convert .mov files to web formats? I sure would like to hear about it. Thanks for your input! My goal is to create a LC front end to manage the commandline-driven

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Phil, I use QuickTime or VLC to convert movies to web-compatible formats. VLC may also work from the command line. I have also used ffmpeg but this is ridiculously complicated. Usually, if the goal is to embed a movie on a website, I just upload it to Vimeo and embed the Vimeo movie on the

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Devin Asay
On Nov 11, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Phil Davis wrote: Hey People, Do you use a command line tool of some sort on your Mac to convert .mov files to web formats? I sure would like to hear about it. I'm expecting that I need to end up with several file types as described in this piece of

liveCode server on UBUNTU

2011-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I successfully installed liveCode on Mac Os and Windows. But on Ubuntu, for the life of me I can not get it up. I assume it has to do with the mod_action not being enabled by default here. However, for the life of me I can not find out how to do so. The installation is rather

Re: liveCode server on UBUNTU

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Bonner
I have it running here but its been a bit since I did it. I'll go back over files and stuff and see if I can dredge up some memories and help of someone else doesn't chime in first. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Malte Brill revolut...@derbrill.dewrote: Hi all, I successfully installed

Re: liveCode server on UBUNTU

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Bonner
Oh, as far as mod-action goes, there are 2 folders. One that shows all available mods and one that has active modes. The active mods are just symbolic links to the available. To do it manually use the ln command (L N lower case) And again, i'm not at keyboard at the moment, but I believe: ln -s

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Pete
Sounds great Phil. In return for me reducing the quoted text of this thread to the absolute minimum, could you please send me your web site address? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com It's named The Exporter, it is freeware now and can be found on my website - Downloads

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread stephen barncard
-- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com On 11 November 2011 11:47, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Sounds great Phil. In return for me reducing the quoted text of this thread to the absolute minimum, could you please send me your web site address? Pete Molly's

Re: liveCode server on UBUNTU

2011-11-11 Thread Andre Garzia
Malte, Can you confirm that livecode server runs from the command line? You can try executing it with a text script such as: --- begin test.lc -- ?lc put the version ? --- end test.lc -- livecodeserver ./test.lc If it can run on the command line then the problem lies with apache

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Carl, Am 11.11.2011 um 20:47 schrieb Pete: Sounds great Phil. even my closest firends aren't allowed to call me Phil! :-D In return for me reducing the quoted text of this thread to the absolute minimum, could you please send me your web site address? See below BEFORE you remove that

[ANN] Data Grid Helper 1.5.1 - iOS Date Picker and Progress Bar controls are now supported

2011-11-11 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear LiveCode DGH Users, A new update for DGH is available. What we have for you in this new 1.5.1 version? First, we have added the support of two new controls in the DGH's column and form builders: - the iOS Date Picker - the Progress Bar For more information about implementing these two

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Davis
I bet Pete's friends don't call him Carl either! ;-) This is getting too funny - Phil - the actual Phil On 11/11/11 12:01 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Carl, Am 11.11.2011 um 20:47 schrieb Pete: Sounds great Phil. even my closest firends aren't allowed to call me Phil! :-D In return for

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks everyone! Great input! I love this list. Phil On 11/11/11 11:14 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Phil, Am 11.11.2011 um 19:35 schrieb Phil Davis: Hey People, Do you use a command line tool of some sort on your Mac to convert .mov files to web formats? I sure would like to hear about it.

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Bonner
Looks like you have several answers that will work already but thought i'd toss one more out there. handbrake works pretty well for what i've done with it, not positive it will fit all your needs but .. well heres a link to its CLI info. https://trac.handbrake.fr/wiki/CLIGuide On Fri, Nov 11,

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Phil (the actual Phil), Am 11.11.2011 um 21:12 schrieb Phil Davis: I bet Pete's friends don't call him Carl either! ;-) ;-) This is getting too funny - Phil - the actual Phil On 11/11/11 12:01 PM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Carl, Am 11.11.2011 um 20:47 schrieb Pete: Sounds great

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Pete
Hi Phil, Are you the famous Scottish dentist, Phil McCavity? Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: I bet Pete's friends don't call him Carl either! ;-) This is getting too funny - Phil - the actual Phil

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Davis
Neither - I'm named after the Irish botanist, Phil O'dendron. I'm almost positive. My mother was a plant lover so it sort of makes perfect sense. On 11/11/11 1:25 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: More likely the famous gas station attendant phil rupp. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 2:19 PM,

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Marty Knapp
I would have guessed Phil Lanthropist, but perhaps I'm being too generous . . . Marty Knapp Neither - I'm named after the Irish botanist, Phil O'dendron. I'm almost positive. My mother was a plant lover so it sort of makes perfect sense. ___

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/11/2011 11:19 PM, Pete wrote: Hi Phil, Are you the famous Scottish dentist, Phil McCavity? Pete Molly's Revengehttp://www.mollysrevenge.com To whom the Chinese man went and said Two Thirty. On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Phil Davisrev...@pdslabs.net wrote: I bet Pete's friends

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/11/2011 11:34 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Neither - I'm named after the Irish botanist, Phil O'dendron. I'm almost positive. My mother was a plant lover so it sort of makes perfect sense. When I was at school I had a friend who was called Phil Thee, and another (who was aways chasing

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Richmond
...or the French Phil DeBasquette... Or the Swiss psycho-analyst called Phil Mi Uppe. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

[OT] Do you Phil these kinds of jokes are alright? Is this message Justin time?

2011-11-11 Thread Richmond
Certainly the politically correct brigade, or the PORH people (People Of Restricted Humour) will get majorly curdled milk product-off. So maybe this should be stopped, now. Or, put it another way; we should be careful what we type on this Use-List, whatever the Heather!

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Pete
Ah, so you're chloro-phil. Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:34 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Neither - I'm named after the Irish botanist, Phil O'dendron. I'm almost positive. My mother was a plant lover so it sort of makes perfect sense.

Re: liveCode server on UBUNTU

2011-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
Thank you so much for the handholding! Got it running now (even though interestingly not from the commandline) This was the missing step: cd /etc/apache2/sites-enabled # by default there is most likely 1 file, something like 000-default sudo nano 000-default I was doing stuff in httpdconf,

Re: liveCode server on UBUNTU

2011-11-11 Thread Mike Bonner
So glad its working. I think its still possible to do it from the httpd.conf but i'm not sure what kind of hoops you'd have to go through to make it work with the way things are setup with the recent ubuntus and apache2. And I didn't do it that way so couldn't tell you what to change either way.

Re: Mac video conversion from command line?

2011-11-11 Thread Phil Davis
Wow. I've been called a lot of things in my life, but... that's hilarious! This moniker sounds like a perfect ending to this thread. Thanks to all for the fun! The P-Man On 11/11/11 2:29 PM, Pete wrote: Ah, so you're chloro-phil. Pete Molly's Revengehttp://www.mollysrevenge.com On Fri, Nov

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Friday, November 11, 2011, 9:12:20 AM, you wrote: Richard, maybe I misunderstand what you are describing, but I like the idea of installing a single runtime engine to run much smaller and easily installed app. I'd love to see something similar for LiveCode, and then apps would just

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Friday, November 11, 2011, 8:22:27 AM, you wrote: The new one has only been out for two months, and it is a trade off It's not always a trade-off. I've just spent the last couple of days painfully converting our ant build scripts from linux to windows running in a VM because I rely on

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Colin Holgate
I may have misunderstood that. The fact that you can include the runtime in an application doesn't stop people from using the separate AIR runtime. If you have a case where an AIR update broke something, let me know, I'm on the AIR beta and can let them know.

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Friday, November 11, 2011, 6:06:21 PM, you wrote: I may have misunderstood that. The fact that you can include the runtime in an application doesn't stop people from using the separate AIR runtime. If you have a case where an AIR update broke something, let me know, I'm on the AIR

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Sorry, I didn't realize it we were talking about Linux in particular. I don't have any input on what happens with any Flash things and Linux, I know that Adobe have effectively handed off development of Flash Player to the Linux partners, but I don't know where that leaves AIR. I can ask.

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Friday, November 11, 2011, 8:15:48 PM, you wrote: No, I can tell you where that leaves AIR. Beginning June 14, 2011, Adobe AIR is no longer supported for desktop Linux distributions. http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/902/cpsid_90202.html -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Colin Holgate
Well, AIR 2.6, which is pretty decent, is still going to work. I'll ask whether AIR is allowed to be developed by the Linux providers, in the way that Flash Player is. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT?] ADOBE DROPS FLASH for HTML5

2011-11-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Friday, November 11, 2011, 8:47:18 PM, you wrote: Well, AIR 2.6, which is pretty decent, is still going to work. I'll ask whether AIR is allowed to be developed by the Linux providers, in the way that Flash Player is. Well, this is still OT, so I'm done venting. Been a long week. --

OK, second dumb question: revlets and revWeb for linux?

2011-11-11 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I never much needed this, but now am thinking about it again, and it is marked as it has been for years now 'coming shortly'. Is it really coming, or is this a euphemism for not coming at all? Obviously there are real questions about plugins in a public environment, but in a closed environment