Re: Mobile devices and barcodes

I was intrigued by this topic, so did a little research myself. First of all, I'm not particularly inclined to jump through Apple's hoops when it comes to installing applications on a phone I own. So, I only looked into doing this for Android. I came across this 6 line piece of code for reading

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

What do you have in the button that will give you a handle as to which row you are looking for? Are you always looking for the row in a curtain position? -= Mike On 2011-12-08, at 12:27 AM, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) wrote: > Hi All, > > The LiveCode_Data_Grid.pdf manual states: > “You

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

try either send or dispatch for this. dispatch "messageyouwantsenttodatagrid" to group "your datagrid" or send, or call which is a synonym. On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > What do you have in the button that will give you a handle as to which row > you are looking for? Ar

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

Hi. Why not just: on mouseUp get the dgDataOfLine[2] of grp "yourDG" combine it with return and tab answer it end mouseUp Craig Newman Top -Original Message- From: Mike Bonner To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Thu, Dec 8, 2011 4:36 am Subject: Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

Hey cool. Didn't occur to me to ignore the built in function and grab it directly. Haven't tried it but would sure simplify nicely. Thx! On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:41 AM, wrote: > > Hi. > > Why not just: > > on mouseUp > get the dgDataOfLine[2] of grp "yourDG" > combine it with return and tab > a

Re: LiveCodeServer: redirecting with 'put header'

Matthias, This will sound crazy ok... but try the script with an extra put with content, like this: > > put "http://www.google.com"; into tURL > put header "Status: 301" > put header "Location:" && tURL > put "redirecting..." > ?> And tell me if it works. -- http://www.andregarzia.com -

Re: LiveCodeServer: redirecting with 'put header'

Hi, thank you Piere and Jim, that works, although it is not very easy to read. I will use that solution until i found out, why "put header" does not work. Regards, Matthias Am 08.12.2011 um 04:17 schrieb Jim Ault: > This is a version of the 'get' command that I use > it requires less cha

Re: Tab Order Property?

> Also I discovered a bit of a flaw in my code. If I click on a field that is a > part of a group then I will likely throw an error, because you cannot set a > fields layer to something higher than the layer of the highest layered object > in the group. In other words, you have to change the lay

Re: LiveCodeServer: redirecting with 'put header'

Hi Andre. while answering to the other replies i oversaw your one.. Tried it now out. It works ! ! ! But why do i have to put the "redirecting…"? Is this an on-rev specific thing or is this additional put also needed when using LiveCodeServer on other systems? If the 2nd, then RunRev would do r

Re: Creating an Undo palette

On Dec 7, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi All, > > I am trying to create an Undo function > for one of my stacks. > > Not sucessful at all. Everything seems so simple, > but it failed everytime. > > The model that I am using for this task is the > "History palette" used in Photo

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

This presumes you "know" what the line should be. If you want the data from a selected line, use the dgHilitedLine(s) to get the line number(s), or as I always like to do, use dgHilitedIndex because they remain constant even after a sort. dgHilitedLine refers to the visible rows (plus a couple b

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

Not to be a problem, but 'call' is NOT a synonym of 'send' from the docs: *Comments:* The *call* command sends a handler message to the object. If the script of the object doesn't trap the handler message, the message is passed to the next object in the object's message path. When executing a h

Re: Tab Order Property?

On Dec 8, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Ken Ray wrote: >> Also I discovered a bit of a flaw in my code. If I click on a field that is >> a part of a group then I will likely throw an error, because you cannot set >> a fields layer to something higher than the layer of the highest layered >> object in the

Re: Creating an Undo palette

If there were a property that contained all of the standard properties of an object, you could simply store the array for that object in another array with 4 keys: The first being the version of the undo (for multiple undo's), the long id of the object, the defaultProperties (??) of the object,

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

On Dec 8, 2011, at 8:30 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > Not to be a problem, but 'call' is NOT a synonym of 'send' > from the docs: > > *Comments:* > > The *call* command sends a handler message to the object. If the script of > the object doesn't trap the handler message, the message is passed t

Re: Creating an Undo palette

In this situation - undoes over a period of time - would not a time/date stamp within the array provide such a temporal key order? Best, Keith.. On 8 Dec 2011, at 16:40, Bob Sneidar wrote: > If there were a property that contained all of the standard properties of an > object, you could simply

When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

Ive been working on a port of an iOS app I wrote earlier in the year to see if for me and my level of programming skills, the Android part of Livecode is up to the job. Ive got an app working now, but only on phones, not tablets yet. Its slightly less functional that the iOS version as th

Re: Creating an Undo palette

I thought this over, and there would be problems. First, the ID of an object is part of the default property set. I can imagine there are a number of read only properties that only the engine can write to, so it would not be as simple as storing the entire property set and then restoring it. S

Re: Creating an Undo palette

I think you could use a timestamp as a key of the array. The issues of accessing the elements of the array in time sequence order can be solved by putting the keys of the array into a variable, sorting the variable, using each line of the variable as an array key as needed. Just to complicate thi

RevOnline

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crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Has anybody ever created a crossword puzzle application in LC? I'm having to make one, and I'm kind of at a loss. Not really sure how to proceed. If anyone has some pointers or sample code they'd be willing to share, I'd be most grateful. My idea right now is to have some kind of a grid that wo

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Hi Chris, One of the cards in my San Diego Coloring Book is a Crossword Puzzle. I did it pretty much by brute force. Nothing fancy but it works quite well. Would you like to see a screen shot? I'll send it to you directly if you would like. Joe Wilkins On Dec 8, 2011, at 9:51 AM, Chris Sheffie

Re: Creating an Undo palette

Trevor's "GLX Framework" has undo functionality, though I've not used that particular feature - perhaps that would be a good reference for you. Marty K ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

Thank Pete - I'll play around with that. As to my second question, I know that dealing with data in a field is slower than in a variable and I'm wondering if the same is true when it comes to custom properties? So which is better (in a read only situation): repeat for each line pLine in the

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

I give you http://www.crossdown.com/howtomake.htm It occurs to me that this cannot be entirely done by code. You would need a large library of words and their associated clues. The clues are quite arbitrary in nature, and so cannot be developed programmatically. Using a thesaurus could get you

Re: Creating an Undo palette

Just off the top of my head... couldn't you clone the current card, so the cards of the stack containing the object who's properties are being altered would represent the history of changes. What would be required of the palette stack then would be some kind of timeline interface to the stack of c

Apple Photo (media) Picker

I wonder has anyone used LiveCode to emulate a media picker for the Mac platform such as Apple uses for Pages etc.? In its simplest form it is a browser for the iPhoto library, showing indexing and thumbnails for the pictures - OK, it does audio and movies too, but I'm most interested in the pi

Re: Apple Photo (media) Picker

Hi Graham, Why emulate it? Use AppleScript/Automator to use the real one. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Become our partner in sales http://qery.u

AUTO: Mark Hausmann/jl1 ist außer Haus. (Rückkehr am 09.12.2011)

Ich bin bis 09.12.2011 abwesend Ich werde Ihre Nachricht nach meiner Rückkehr beantworten. In dringenden Fällen wenden Sie sich bitte an meinen Kollegen Horst Strohkirch, email: horst.strohki...@pdap.de Hinweis: Dies ist eine automatische Antwort auf Ihre Nachricht "Re: Using the GetDataOfLine

[OT] an Android milestone

http://techcrunch.com/2011/12/06/android-market-10-billion-apps-served-so-far-and-another-1-billion-each-month/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefe

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

I am not sure you can even do it the way the first example allows. It is my understanding that the repeat for each form creates an internal array of pointers to the delimiters in the actual memory location for the variable, and that is why you cannot change myVariable inside the repeat loop. Cha

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Chris Sheffield writes: > Has anybody ever created a crossword puzzle application in LC? I'm having to make one, and I'm kind of at a > loss. Not really sure how to proceed. If anyone has some pointers or sample code they'd be willing to share, I did one of these a few years back. Jacque was kin

RE: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

No Bob... not 'pun-ny'... the word you are looking for is cryptic...:-) > Using a thesaurus could get you a long ways towards that end, but good > crossword puzzles use well thought out clues that often have no relation to > the word itself. Often they are "pun-ny". > > If it's just the creat

Re: RevOnline

Yes, been trying for weeks to upload a stack with no success. On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, René Micout wrote: > Good evening everybody, > I have some difficulties to upload a stack on RevOnline... > Have you the same experience ? > > ___ > use-liveco

Re: RevOnline

Not to mention that finding stuff there is problematic. On 8 December 2011 10:52, Pete wrote: > Yes, been trying for weeks to upload a stack with no success. > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, René Micout >wrote: > > > Good evening everybody, > > I have some difficulties to upload a stack on R

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

cop a look at this: http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/hc/ Hi Chris, One of the cards in my San Diego Coloring Book is a Crossword Puzzle. I did it pretty much by brute force. Nothing fancy but it works quite well. Would you like to see a screen shot? I'll send it to you directly if you would like.

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Hi Joe, Yes, a screenshot would be great if you don't mind. Trying to gather together all ideas and information. Thanks, Chris On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Hi Chris, > > One of the cards in my San Diego Coloring Book is a Crossword Puzzle. I did > it pretty much

Re: RevOnline

Hi, did someone already inform supp...@runrev.com about that problem? Regards, Matthias Am 08.12.2011 um 19:52 schrieb Pete: > Yes, been trying for weeks to upload a stack with no success. > > On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:44 AM, René Micout > wrote: > >> Good evening everybody, >> I have some d

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Thanks to all who have responded so far. One benefit is that I already have all the content required (words and clues). And these are fairly simple crosswords. They'll be used by children as a review tool after reading a series of stories. The words in the crossword will all be vocabulary words

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

Thanks Bob, I did a brief test using my first form and though it seemed to work, I was concerned that I was doing a no-no. So Bob, how DO you know?!! Thanks for the prayers! (and any cheese you may have . . .) So I'll keep on putting the cp into a variable first. Marty I am not sure you can

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Hmmm, is that really true? There's a free puzzle builder at http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/tour.html On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Keep in mind that crossword puzzles are symmetrical diagonally > -- Pete Molly's Revenge ___

Re: RevOnline

Yes, that too! On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > Not to mention that finding stuff there is problematic. > > On 8 December 2011 10:52, Pete wrote: > > > Yes, been trying for weeks to upload a stack with no success. > > > > On Thu, Dec 8

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

On 12/08/2011 09:14 PM, Pete wrote: Hmmm, is that really true? I don't think so: http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/01/08/winner300.gif Quod erat demonstrandum. There's a free puzzle builder at http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/tour.html On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

On 12/8/11 1:05 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: My idea right now is to have some kind of a grid that would get created at run-time. Not sure yet whether to use square graphics or just use actual fields. So the application would be fed the max number of spaces across and then the max number of spaces

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

That would be a great anagram clue! On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Richmond wrote: > Quod erat demonstrandum -- Pete Molly's Revenge ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

I aced the easy one :-) Bob On Dec 8, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Richmond wrote: > cop a look at this: > > http://aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/hc/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

I think there are actually "rules" about crossword puzzles, or so the first link I posted seemed to indicate. I think this "violates" the "rules". not that I really "care". ;-) Bob On Dec 8, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 12/08/2011 09:14 PM, Pete wrote: >> Hmmm, is that really true?

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

There may be performance issues with accessing the Cp in a repeat loop but I don't think there is any danger of breaking things, unless you change the contents of the cp within the repeat loop. I've definitely run into issues like that. I had one instance where I deleted lines from the "in" varia

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

On 12/8/11 11:25 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: Ive been working on a port of an iOS app I wrote earlier in the year to see if for me and my level of programming skills, the Android part of Livecode is up to the job. Ive got an app working now, but only on phones, not tablets yet. Why won't it w

Datagrid tooltips

I know the datagrid has a dgTooltip property that displays when the user hovers over a column header but has anyone come up with a way to have a tooltip unique to each row? For example, let's say I have a column that uses the datagrid truncateTail function so the data in the column is abbreviated

Re: Creating an Undo palette

Bernard Devlin wrote: I'm puzzled by Ken's remark about running out of IDs. What is the upper limit to the number of IDs? About 2 billion, which seems like a lot but think about: Suppose you create and delete and recreate complex objects like a dataGrid, each of which contains hundreds of ob

Re: LiveCodeServer: redirecting with 'put header'

Matthias, I have no answer for that but I noticed that redirections with 301 with RevServer just work if you output some content as well, any content. I usually go with "redirecting..." or with a link to where I am redirecting them. =) On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Matthias Rebbe < matthias_li

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

Cool. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar Sent: Thursday, December 08, 2011 10:24 AM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path? This presumes you "know" what the line should be. If you want the data from a selected line, use

Re: Using the GetDataOfLine function out of the message path?

Hmm, both a typing error and a misunderstanding on my part. (call, vs send vs dispatch) I had been thinking dispatch and call were the synonyms, (and they're similar) but not identical. Thx for the clarification. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Creating an Undo palette

But isn't this is only an issue if the stack is saved? Don't IDs start numbering themselves from the last saved state of the stack? Assuming your data isn't saved in the stack with the data grid, it doesn't seem like ID numbers would be an issue (unless I'm missing something). Regards, Scott Ro

Re: Creating an Undo palette

Scott Rossi wrote: But isn't this is only an issue if the stack is saved? Don't IDs start numbering themselves from the last saved state of the stack? Assuming your data isn't saved in the stack with the data grid, it doesn't seem like ID numbers would be an issue (unless I'm missing something)

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

Yes, ive just not designed it for the tablet size yet. I used MobGUI for all the android layouts, so its a case of dragging the controls around as I want them for each screen size. It sounds a pain, but its actually very quick and seems quite reliable where scaling, especially if it involve

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Pete, this looks promising. Might be able to use some of this for my needs. Thanks for the link. -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com On Dec 8, 2011, at 12:14 PM, Pete wrote: > Hmmm, is that really true? > > There's a free puzzle builder at http://www.eclipsecrossword.

Re: [OT] an Android milestone

I just started drinking the Android green koolaid via a Galaxy S II and am really liking it. The UI is not as polished as iOS, but ironically the freedom and customization options make Android like what iOS could have been. :-) And the 10 cent apps are great :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative

Re: connecting to MySQL database thru SSH tunnel

Thanks, Bob. I have to confess that I'm not well educated in networking. I'm a regular guy who uses livecode to facilitate tasks I perform at work. Here's a wikipedia article (yeah, know its limitations as a reference source) that includes an explanation of SSH tunneling. http://en.wikipedia.org/

Re: connecting to MySQL database thru SSH tunnel

In the past, when I was creating a php database and needed to test it, but did not want to open the floodgates and allow any IP address in, or if I was moving around from place to place and my IP would change depending on where I was, tunnelling was an option with some software. Essentially

Re: [OT] an Android milestone

On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > I just started drinking the Android green koolaid via a Galaxy S II and am > really liking it. The UI is not as polished as iOS, but ironically the > freedom and customization options make Android like what iOS could have > been. :-) > > And t

Re: Creating an Undo palette

Whoa! There needs to be a way to reset the stack id to start re-using id's that are not in use anymore! Bob Sneidar IT Manager Calvary Chapel CM Sent from iPhone On Dec 8, 2011, at 13:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Scott Rossi wrote: >> But isn't this is only an issue if the stack is saved? Don

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Hi there, I had to deal with such a project in the past. The simplest way i found went to handle the gird as a collection of rectangle buttons driven as an array and all works fine. The button's label is used to display the letter under the control of the grid builder engine (or typed from the

Re: Creating an Undo palette

On Dec 8, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I thought this over, and there would be problems. First, the ID of an object > is part of the default property set. I can imagine there are a number of read > only properties that only the engine can write to, so it would not be as > simple as

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Le 8 déc. 2011 à 19:15, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > I give you http://www.crossdown.com/howtomake.htm Handy. Thanks for the link, Bob ! -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Creating an Undo palette

On Dec 8, 2011, at 4:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Whoa! There needs to be a way to reset the stack id to start re-using id's > that are not in use anymore! Not currently - you can "set the id" of a stack to start at a specific ID, but it can't be a number any earlier than the last ID in use th

Re: connecting to MySQL database thru SSH tunnel

Are you sure that your tunnel is working? I'm assuming that for some reason SSL is not an option, neither is a VPN. You should be able to tunnel a database connection through a SSH tunnel. I've done it many times with different kinds of databases and servers (although never with MySQL). Can you p

Touchpad firesale coming

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Re: Creating an Undo palette

Right. Now imagine all kinds of imported images, and all the buttons or backgrounds that use them in a complex app. Ick! You would have to relink all the objects with their new image ID's. This at least is a great reason to update how Livecode accesses images and icons. A button ought to be able

Re: LiveCodeServer: redirecting with 'put header'

The clue is in the "Internal Server Error" (presumably error 500). RevServer gives that at various time, including any time a script produces no output. It seems that any headers output by "put header" don't count as being output :-( So if I copy/paste your script *exactly* to my on-rev accou

Re: [OT] an Android milestone

On 12/8/11 3:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: I just started drinking the Android green koolaid via a Galaxy S II and am really liking it. The UI is not as polished as iOS, but ironically the freedom and customization options make Android like what iOS could have been. :-) And the 10 cent apps are gr

Re: [OT] an Android milestone

Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/8/11 3:35 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> I just started drinking the Android green koolaid via a Galaxy S II and am >> really liking it. The UI is not as polished as iOS, but ironically the >> freedom and customization options make Android like what iOS coul

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Pierre Sahores writes: > I had to deal with such a project in the past. The simplest way i found went to handle the gird as a collection of > rectangle buttons driven as an array and all works fine. The button's label is used to display the letter > under the control of the grid builder engine (o

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

Pete writes: > > Hmmm, is that really true? Properly formed ones, yes. Check out a syndicated crossword in any major paper. There are "accepted" sizes as well - 15x15 is the most common for daily crosswords. Somewhat larger for Sunday crosswords (and note that it has to be odd numbers for diago

"do not back up" attribute iOS

Hi, Is there a way to set the file attributes of files in iOS to "do not back up". Thanks, Debdoot ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: ht

Re: Datagrid tooltips

Pete- Thursday, December 8, 2011, 11:43:37 AM, you wrote: > I know the datagrid has a dgTooltip property that displays when the user > hovers over a column header but has anyone come up with a way to have a > tooltip unique to each row? > For example, let's say I have a column that uses the data

Re: LiveCodeServer: redirecting with 'put header'

On 12/8/11 5:31 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: The clue is in the "Internal Server Error" (presumably error 500). RevServer gives that at various time, including any time a script produces no output. So *that's* it. It isn't just Rev server. I found out the hard way that if an old-style CGI exits to