There are complex metrics in text fields. Not sure if you get the same
situation in LiveCode as in Flash, but look at this article, see if any of the
values add up to an extra 6:
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/FlashPlatform/reference/actionscript/3/flash/text/TextLineMetrics.html
Interesting, I did not realize that livecode included the return character as
part of the line chunk.
Both of following work as long as you delete the last character. I tested
this on both 5.5 and
5.0.2.
on mouseUp
put URL http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43797494/LiveCode/LoadLinks; into list
On 17/02/2012 07:31, Malte Brill wrote:
So what about source control, any applicability here. Are Diffs possible?
Not easiely. The binary nature of a stack makes this incredibly difficult. It
is possible to write a little plugin that exports all scripts to plain text
and, to a certain
This seems pretty cool!
Am I correct in assuming that if Apple would reject an app that tried to
use this technique in actual app submitted to the app store?
Thanks
Todd
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On Feb 18, 2012, at 9:57 AM, Michael Doub wrote:
Interesting, I did not realize that livecode included the return character as
part of the line chunk.
Both of following work as long as you delete the last character. I tested
this on both 5.5 and
5.0.2.
on mouseUp
put URL
function roundUp x
return trunc(x) + char itemoffset((x mod 1 0),true,false) of 10
end roundUp
VERY clever, Peter!
That's a great one-line variant to:
function roundUp x
put trunc(x) into tRetVal
if x mod 1 0 then add 1 to tRetVal
return tRetVal
end roundUp
:D
Ken Ray
Sons of
HI Craig,
I'm not sure what I did, but it is now working for me too.
Pete
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 1:06 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Pete,
I don't see this at all. I set up a simple condition that either sets the
toolTip of a button to some text or empty. If the condition is met, I get
the
True Ken, but w/o comment it is much more difficult to know what is going on.
If you're going to use one liners like this, you'd better add some commentary.
One of the weaknesses I see in LC coding is the shortage of comments. I realize
that is a strong-point of LC; it is almost
Recently, Michael Chean asked about the possibility
of using svn for version control of livecode stacks.
http://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-guide-to-version-control/
But, checking the mail list, I found that many developers
have created code to save stacks as xml.
Now, my question
I have a stack which is used to show information in a display only mode,
the user is not allowed to change any of the displayed values. I want to
use checkboxes in some cases. How can I prevent the user clicking the
check box and changing its state?
I've currently got them disabled to achieve
Pete,
Maybe I'm missing something, but could you just turn off the auto-hiliting?
Marty K
I have a stack which is used to show information in a display only mode,
the user is not allowed to change any of the displayed values. I want to
use checkboxes in some cases. How can I prevent the user
Hi Marty,
No, you're not missing something, I am!! That works fine, thanks.
Pete
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:52 AM, Marty Knapp martykn...@comcast.net wrote:
Pete,
Maybe I'm missing something, but could you just turn off the auto-hiliting?
Marty K
I have a stack which is used to show
Hi Al,
as of LiveCode version 5 (maybe 4.6.4) this is possible (with the limitation of
embedded audioClips and embedded videoClips, as I do not see a way to get the
binary data from them). The engine was changed to allow the setting of IDs for
any control for exactly that reason. Basically now
I saw a post earlier in this thread that perhaps Mark Wieder might be
working on something along these lines. Mark, can you comment?
Pete
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Malte Brill revolut...@derbrill.dewrote:
Hi Al,
as of LiveCode version 5 (maybe 4.6.4) this is possible (with the
I'm curious what you think of this, which is what I try to do regularly when I
create one-liners (which I favor).
function roundUp x,i -- rounds x up to the next i
On Feb 18, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote:
If you're going to use one liners like this, you'd better
Pete-
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 11:33:51 AM, you wrote:
I saw a post earlier in this thread that perhaps Mark Wieder might be
working on something along these lines. Mark, can you comment?
If revOnline ever comes back (hello rev team?) I'll post a stack that
does the translations.
I've currently got them disabled to achieve this but I'd prefer them to
have their enabled appearance, just not allow them to be changed. I've
considered making images of the checkbox in its checked and unchecked
state, disabling the checkbox and assigning the appropriate image as its
Certainly better than nothing; but, if you put it in the function definition
instead of the calls, you only have to do it one time.
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:04 PM, gcanyon+rev wrote:
I'm curious what you think of this, which is what I try to do regularly when
I create one-liners
On 2/18/12 2:07 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
If revOnline ever comes back (hello rev team?)
I haven't been able to view, log in, or anything else on revOnline for a
while now. Last night I figured it out. It works normally with LiveCode
4.x, it breaks completely with LiveCode 5.x.
--
Jacqueline
On 18/02/2012 17:42, Pete wrote:
I have a stack which is used to show information in a display only mode,
the user is not allowed to change any of the displayed values. I want to
use checkboxes in some cases. How can I prevent the user clicking the
check box and changing its state?
I've
Hi Mark,
Thanks for the update. Like several other people, I'm really frustrated by
the non-opertaion of revOnline. I understand that the team has a lot on
their hands right now but the thing has been broken for months as far as I
can tell. Maybe we should open a community Dropbox or Box.net
Thank you for your thoughts, Ken and Ken.
I did think about the ui aspects of this and all the points you raise.
The stack in question is very clearly defined in the application as one
where all the information on it is display only and cannot be changed in
any way. There are clearly labelled
I use a Green / Gray 8x8 button to display on or off status where user choice
is not considered. This has worked well for over 8 years and there's never a
point of confusion on the user's end.
Tim
On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Pete wrote:
I have a stack which is used to show information in
On Feb 18, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Michael Doub wrote:
...
on mouseUp
put URL http://dl.dropbox.com/u/43797494/LiveCode/LoadLinks; into list
repeat for each line x in list
delete the last char of x
put x into StacktoLoad
exit repeat
end repeat
go URL StacktoLoad
end
Thanks for the advise Peter. In this case I was just experimenting to see if
the return character was being passed in as part of the line chunk. Using a
repeat in this case was just to test another case of the line construct.
-= Mike
Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless
Thank you Tim, good to know there's a tried and tested way of doing this.
Pete
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote:
I use a Green / Gray 8x8 button to display on or off status where user
choice is not considered. This has worked well for over 8 years and
there's
Hi,
am testing command line features, following some samples got from list, but
can't get output to the console in Windows. Am installing right now in a Mac to
check if there is any difference.
Tried in this way:
on startup
hide this stack
local tCommandLine
put using put hello2
I did think about the ui aspects of this and all the points you raise.
The stack in question is very clearly defined in the application as one
where all the information on it is display only and cannot be changed in
any way. There are clearly labelled buttons on the stack that are used to
I think the real intent is to get a livecode application into a format where
you can use standard configuration management tools to store versions and track
differences. In theory if the components were broken out separately, then you
could have multiple people working on the same app at the
I have to say, the issue of returns in lines has always been confusing to
me. I've kinda resolved it by thinking of them as separators rather than
terminators. So if the last line in a list does not have a return, it's
still treated as a line because it's separated from the previous line by
the
PS. That also explains why the repeat loop isn't affected by deleting the
last char - it's not a return so doesn't affect the placement of lines in
the original list.
Pete
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote:
I have to say, the issue of returns in lines has
Good point Mike. I think the db approach might provide some added benefits
but as you say, standard cvs systems require text to work from. Could get
the best of both worlds by providing the ability to create XML from the
database if there are, in fact, any benefits from using a db.
Pete
On Sat,
Thanks for this interesting thread. In thinking about my question, I
realized that the lack of a LC to script
export, thus limiting the ability to use the many fine source controls out
there is a real no-go for multi
developer teams. Fortunately there is just one of me, so it's not an drop
dead
Jose-
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 2:27:05 PM, you wrote:
If comment or remove write lines, both switch cases work, but still not
sending
any output to the console.
What's wrong?
Windows has its own definition of what writing to the console means.
All your output is indeed going to
Mike-
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 2:43:07 PM, you wrote:
I think the real intent is to get a livecode application into a
format where you can use standard configuration management tools to
store versions and track differences. In theory if the components
were broken out separately, then
Let's say I have a numeric field and a button to increase the value and
a button to decrease the value. When I click the increase button, I want
it to increase to the next highest value that is evenly divisible by 20.
So if the field has a value of 19, a click will set the value to 20. If
the
Michael-
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 3:16:33 PM, you wrote:
I've used propietary source code repositories, and I think that
there is no good argument for them in the small developer shops
considering the many existing systems out there.
Having rolled my own in the past, I would never go
Hi Marty,
Just create a repeat loop that increases or decreases the value by 1 until it
reaches a value where mod 20 of the value = 0; then exit the loop and your
value will be divisible by 20. I'll let you code this. This would be very fast
and quite simple.
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 18, 2012, at
On 18/02/2012 23:39, Marty Knapp wrote:
Let's say I have a numeric field and a button to increase the value and
a button to decrease the value. When I click the increase button, I want
it to increase to the next highest value that is evenly divisible by 20.
So if the field has a value of 19, a
My way doesn't work for 0 so ignore it and go with Geoff
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Ken Corey k...@kencorey.com wrote:
On 18/02/2012 23:39, Marty Knapp wrote:
Let's say I have a numeric field and a button to increase the value and
a button to decrease the value. When I click the
Isn't this the same problem that Geoff Canyon just solved with a delightfully
opaque one line solution in a recent thread:
function roundUp x,i -- rounds x up to the next i
return x div i * i + item itemoffset((x mod i 0),true,false) of (i,0)
end roundUp
On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:39 PM, Marty
IN CASE YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE WITH IT, TRY THIS:
put ?? into theValue
repeat with theValue = theValue+1 to theValue +100
IF theValue mod 20 = 0 THEN EXIT REPEAT
end repeat
put theValue
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 18, 2012, at 3:55 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
Hi Marty,
Just create a repeat loop
Hmm, 0 and negatives aren't handled properly either way, starting to think
the proposed loop method might be the easiest method.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote:
IN CASE YOU'RE HAVING TROUBLE WITH IT, TRY THIS:
put ?? into theValue
repeat with
Ruslan:
As Bernard mentions above Python has classes. From the standpoint of
developers it is a very popular
language. If you believe the Tiobe index it is the fastest growing
language
http://www.infernodevelopment.com/python-becoming-most-popular-programming-language
It has many popular web
I would prefer something that is easily human readable. Xml might work as long
as the scripts and object properties are presented in a clear and readable
enough fashion.
I know that my teams have spent many hours going thru diffs in different
version of software looking to find exactly what
I didn't follow all of that other thread, but I think it had some
additional complexity. For the straightforward case of adding to the
value until a multiple of 20, you can just do
put 20*( (i+20) div 20) into i
-- Alex (whose old Fortran habits insist on using 'i' as a variable here
:-)
Negative numbers aren't a concern. But I also need to round down in the
same fashion (and would bail out at 0).
Thanks guys,
Marty
Hmm, 0 and negatives aren't handled properly either way, starting to think
the proposed loop method might be the easiest method.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 5:11 PM,
On 18.02.2012 at 13:28 Uhr -0800 Pete apparently wrote:
In spite of all that, I share your concerns. Using the autohilite property
was a very easy way out of the original question but perhaps the image
approach might be better and not a lot more work if I use a behavior
script. If I make it
Hi Joe,
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote
True Ken, but w/o comment it is much more difficult to know what is going
on.
If you're going to use one liners like this, you'd better add some
commentary.
One of the weaknesses I see in LC coding is the shortage of comments.
I realize that is a
Jacque-
Saturday, February 18, 2012, 12:48:43 PM, you wrote:
On 2/18/12 2:07 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
If revOnline ever comes back (hello rev team?)
I haven't been able to view, log in, or anything else on revOnline for a
while now. Last night I figured it out. It works normally with
Not exactly one line, but this works for all the combinations I could think
of:
function incTo x,i -- increments x to the next i
if i = 0 then
return x
else if x mod i 0 and x * i 0 then
return x div i * i
else
return x div i * i + i
end if
end incTo
Here's my
Alex,
I'm sure that one of the problems that faces most new LC coders is that they do
too much before they try it out. By the time I have something done I've
already debugged it dozens of times. It just works. Of course I don't stretch
LC to its limits very often. When I do something, I've
I picked this trick up from someone along the way, on this list I believe, I've
lost track of where it came from, so credit goes to someone else. You're right,
Joe, commenting something as opaque as this (at least at first glance) is
advisable, especially when you're sharing code. I can only
You're forgiven, Peter.
Joe Wilkins
Architect
On Feb 18, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:
I picked this trick up from someone along the way, on this list I believe,
I've lost track of where it came from, so credit goes to someone else. You're
right, Joe, commenting something
Cool. Thanks everyone for your responses, I think I'm good to go.
Marty
Not exactly one line, but this works for all the combinations I could think
of:
function incTo x,i -- increments x to the next i
if i = 0 then
return x
else if x mod i 0 and x * i 0 then
return x
Hi Robert,
Still trying different things here to see which seems to work best in these
circumstances. I have put a separate label, as you suggest, I think that
works well.
Pete
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote:
On 18.02.2012 at 13:28 Uhr -0800 Pete
Hi Geoff,
Many Thanks for sharing this gem!
http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/6o9b/
Geoff Canyon Rev wrote
http://www.inspiredlogic.com/mc/ripper.html
I created mcRipper oh so many years ago. MC = MetaCard
gives you some idea how long ago. As I recall it handled
just about everything, but I
? That is the definition (and not a call).
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote:
Certainly better than nothing; but, if you put it in the function
definition instead of the calls, you only have to do it one time.
Joe Wilkins
On Feb 18, 2012, at 12:04 PM,
Hi Joe,
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote
I'm sure that one of the problems that faces most new LC coders
is that they do too much before they try it out. By the time I have
something done I've already debugged it dozens of times.
It just works. Of course I don't stretch LC to its limits very often.
No Al,
In the early days, even with HC, when most of us were using Assembler, Pascal
and Basic, it was not in the lease uncommon to comment every line of code so we
knew what we were doing; particularly with Assembly language. Of course using C
it was an absolute must; and, if I were working
Kind of true Geoff, but the call would have arguments in place of parameters,
whereas
function roundUp x,i isn't the function's definition either. Not intending to
nit-pick.
Joe Wilkins
Architect
On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:01 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
? That is the definition (and not a
This is the entire function definition, with the comment in place:
function roundUp x,i -- rounds x up to the next i
return x div i * i + item itemoffset((x mod i 0),true,false) of (i,0)
end roundUp
I only included the first line in my original question because it's the
only line with a
That's great. I understand. Sometimes we get a bit too cryptic for our own
good. (smile)
Joe Wilkins
Architect
On Feb 18, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
This is the entire function definition, with the comment in place:
function roundUp x,i -- rounds x up to the next i
return
On 2/18/12 7:41 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote:
I picked this trick up from someone along the way, on this list I
believe, I've lost track of where it came from, so credit goes to
someone else.
It may be from something I posted to the HyperCard list eons ago. I got
it from Paul Foraker, who
On 2/18/12 7:26 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Glad it's working for you. Here's the error it throws in 4.6.4:
Error in system stack:: handler=revOnlineDecodeArray
line=802
char=1
error info= 141,802,22
671,802,7
465,802,1
253,802,1
353,0,0,stack C:/Program Files/RunRev/LiveCode
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote:
Guys I thought I'd speed test these.
Given that we're dealing in seconds (and therefore integers), the very
clever itemoffset idea Peter came up with is unnecessary. Here's a
comparison of the three options, with mine
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:57 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
function whichOne var,fld1,fld2
-- from a handler by Tony Root
-- Handles a case where you need to return one value if your key is empty,
another if not.
return (item offset(char 1 of (var = empty),tf) of
I just tested with Rev 4.0 -- exact same issue.
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1000 pages per hour, and as gentle as you can turn the pages.
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
Someone needs to make a machine something like a cat scanner but that can
take a 3D image of an entire book so that the pages can be
I didn't store the ID because when I wrote it (and for long after that) the
ID was immutable, so there was no need to store it because it couldn't be
set.
That said, I'm guessing that a monolithic XML file is not the way to go
here. Someone who knows git better than I will correct me, but it
On 2/18/12 10:32 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 9:57 PM, J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
function whichOne var,fld1,fld2
-- from a handler by Tony Root
-- Handles a case where you need to return one value if your key is empty,
another if not.
return
On 2/17/12 11:05 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:
The answer to life may be 42, but my question is: 6?
The setup: I create a new scrolling field, fill it with a bunch of text, and
drag the scrollbar all the way down, setting the field to its max vertical
scroll. When I compare the formattedHeight of the
I turned it off -- no change. Same with the actual border.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:25 PM, J. Landman Gay
jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote:
Not a clue. Could it be due to the focusborder? We can toggle the
visibility, but the engine may still be counting it whether it is showing
or not.
Hi All...
I'm looking to use the Flickr API search routine to return the latest images
for a specific tag. I will probably limit it to the 10 or 20 most recent
images. I can create the resulting URL to the images from the resulting XML,
and set the file name of an image to that URL, looping
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev gcanyon+...@gmail.comwrote:
(and to return hours, so it matches the output of the other
two).
OK, now I see where I was getting confused. I was focused on decimal hours
as per the OP, but you were outputting seconds.
I've tweaked your
On 2/18/12 11:35 PM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
I turned it off -- no change. Same with the actual border.
I was wondering if the engine counts it regardless of its visibility.
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 11:25 PM, J. Landman Gay
jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote:
Not a clue. Could it be due to the
On 02/19/2012 06:53 AM, Geoff Canyon Rev wrote:
http://www.diybookscanner.org/
1000 pages per hour, and as gentle as you can turn the pages.
Really fascinating stuff..now how can I find the free time?
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidarb...@twft.com wrote:
Someone
As per the Dictionary:
set the toolTipDelay to 0 -- no tooltip
HTH
On Sat, Feb 18, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote:
I have some code that sets the tooltip of a control to either some text or
empty depending on a condition. If the code to set the tooltip to empty is
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