Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Hi Jacque, I had to buy a new MBP last month along the one i used mainly until yet. Some remarks in mind : The new MBP i5 2.4 Ghz 13 inches works as fine as the MBP i7 2.66 Ghz 15 inches one for all my needs with no quantifiable difference about visible speed. Lion (10.7.3) did't give me any d

how to read/write data on Android?

Apologies for reposting this under a different subject but just cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Having read about "specialFolderPath" in the Android release notes, here is the script from my Android test app that I thought would return the "Hello world" contents of "file1.txt": -- p

Multiple offenders

Oh Dear, its that time of the month again. Yes it is; Richmond's error trawl.. read "SDLC" and other acronyms that cover up incredibly time-consuming exercises. So, here I am merrily going through some 50 objects changing 57620 to 57618 and 57768 to 57769; very, very tedious indeed. Of cou

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

In the locked down Apple future, companies who do what those folks did might find themselves locked outside the building. Mountain Lion isn't in beta, though... the current release is Developer Preview 2. Beta comes next. And there can be big differences between developer preview and beta. I

Serious Question about the list...

Here's my serious question. Why do so many people "in the know" use the list instead of the official RunRev LiveCode forums? Forums have so many advantages over mailing lists - they're easier to read, they're easier to search, you can access them from anywhere, I could keep going. I'm just cu

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Hi Richard, This mailing list is exactly as official as the forum. This mailing list exists on my own computer and can be searched off-line, which means I can access it from anywhere (I take my computer everywhere). Using MIME, iCloud or other mail services, you can synchronise your e-mail on

Re: Serious Question about the list...

I meant IMAP, not MIME >> Using MIME, iCloud or other mail services, you can synchronise your e-mail >> on all your machines and have it available everywhere, even if you don't >> always take your computer with you. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engi

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Hi Richard, this question/discussion pops up from time to time. Everyone has other preferences. But for me it is the easiness to read the list. I have downloaded and archived the list emails since 2005. I can search and read off-line. And for me the other big adavantage of the list is. I can r

Re: queryregistry problem win

Hi Thunder, Am 17.03.2012 um 16:05 schrieb Thunder: > Do you have read permission ? > > Check this : > Start regedit.exe > Right click DefaultProductKey > Click on permission Ah, OK, thanks, will check this! I thought ADMINISTARTOR would have direct access to everyting?! But if it does not wor

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I don't want Lion. Apparently that's moot. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com Really, Lion isn't so bad after you adjust its insane

Re: Serious Question about the list...

It's sequential. One stream. (or two, if one is also on the 'improve' list.) On 18 March 2012 06:32, Richard MacLemale wrote: > Here's my serious question. Why do so many people "in the know" use the > list instead of the official RunRev LiveCode forums? Forums have so many > advantages over m

Re: Serious Question about the list...

I'm certainly not among "the best LiveCoders" or "in the know" but I prefer the mailing list because of TIME. The topics and issue that affect LC developers come to me (via email) and I can delete, skim, archive, or read as I see fit faster than it would take me to select the forum from a bookmark

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

The re-open thing and some other UI malfunctions can be fixed (app by app) using Tinkertool. On 18 March 2012 08:25, Roger Eller wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > > > > I don't want Lion. Apparently that's moot. > > > > -- > > Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Matthias Rebbe < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > this question/discussion pops up from time to time. Everyone has other > preferences. But for me it is the easiness to read the list. I have > downloaded and archived the list emails sin

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 03/18/2012 05:48 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: I'm certainly not among "the best LiveCoders" or "in the know" but I prefer the mailing list because of TIME. The topics and issue that affect LC developers come to me (via email) and I can delete, skim, archive, or read as I see fit faster than it would

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 3/18/12 8:32 AM, Richard MacLemale wrote: Here's my serious question. Why do so many people "in the know" use the list instead of the official RunRev LiveCode forums? This comes up periodically. I hate the forums. I ignored them for years, now I make myself go there once a day when I remem

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/18/12 4:47 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Apologies for reposting this under a different subject but just cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Having read about "specialFolderPath" in the Android release notes, here is the script from my Android test app that I thought would return the "Hell

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Stephen- Saturday, March 17, 2012, 7:57:56 PM, you wrote: > checked the logs... at the top was a reference to the 'Free' DAZ software. > perhaps it's that global again. Apply Ken Ray's patch to the debugger. That *should* fix it. Not that I've tried the ML beta myself, but I guess I'll have to

Re: Multiple offenders

On 3/18/12 5:04 AM, Richmond wrote: Oh Dear, its that time of the month again. Yes it is; Richmond's error trawl.. read "SDLC" and other acronyms that cover up incredibly time-consuming exercises. So, here I am merrily going through some 50 objects changing 57620 to 57618 and 57768 to 5776

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Jacque- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:03:37 AM, you wrote: > This comes up periodically. I hate the forums. I ignored them for years, But how do you *really* feel about them? > now I make myself go there once a day when I remember and when there's > time. It's tedious and slow to navigate and requ

Re: Serious Question about the list...

The forum offers a fromat making it much easier to view the entire thread history, and has the advantage of displaying code sections in separate scrolling fields. It seems more natural, to me, to tackle questions that require back and forth comments from several people, these issues developing

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On 3/18/12 10:25 AM, Roger Eller wrote: On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 10:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Roger, Pierre, etc., thanks, but I know Lion works with LiveCode. I just don't like how Lion works in general. I have collected many pages of tips on how to change its behaviors so I can work with

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 3/18/12 12:21 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Set up an RSS feed. That way you don't have to go spelunking to find threads. You miss stuff that way when it expires from the RSS feed, but I find that to be a bonus. I did that ages ago. It misses stuff. It also shows messages that I never saw when I

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Mark- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 6:51:01 AM, you wrote: > The reasons why people choose to use mainly one or mainly another > source of information can be very subjective and discussing such > subjective matters make little sense. Amen to that. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Craig- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:27:06 AM, you wrote: > The forum offers a fromat making it much easier to view the > entire thread history, and has the advantage of displaying code > sections in separate scrolling fields. It seems more natural, to me, Both Nabble and gmane offer nice threaded

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Jacque- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:37:29 AM, you wrote: > I did that ages ago. It misses stuff. Yeah. I like that. I find that an RSS feed is just enough involvement for me in the web forum. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Jacque- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:03:37 AM, you wrote: > It's a pain. I only reply when I have time. ...and then there are the folks on the web forum who expect that the runrev engineers are monitoring the board and/or think it's a support board. I've never understood what the "feature requests

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 3/18/12 12:55 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: I've never understood what the "feature requests" thread is for other than to give people a chance to vent. I do have to admit that some of the venters make good entertainment if you're in the right mood. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On Mar 18, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Jacque- > > Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:37:29 AM, you wrote: > >> I did that ages ago. It misses stuff. > > Yeah. > I like that. > > I find that an RSS feed is just enough involvement for me in the web > forum. I tried it once, but I didn't in

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

I am ashamed to mention how many expletive-laced tirades I've had over this recent 'upgrade' to Lion. It all started last month with wanting to sync the calendars and contacts with all my devices after I replaced my barely functional 3g iPhone with a 4s, and finding out that this iClod stuff only

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Also they have basically de-balled two included apps that I depended on - Preview and TextEdit - due to the removal of the Save As feature, requiring a totally new non-intuitive dance to change a document (requiring many more steps), and the loss of some of the graphic features in the earlier versi

Re: Multiple offenders

On 03/18/2012 07:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/18/12 5:04 AM, Richmond wrote: Oh Dear, its that time of the month again. Yes it is; Richmond's error trawl.. read "SDLC" and other acronyms that cover up incredibly time-consuming exercises. So, here I am merrily going through some 50 ob

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 03/18/2012 07:38 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Mark- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 6:51:01 AM, you wrote: The reasons why people choose to use mainly one or mainly another source of information can be very subjective and discussing such subjective matters make little sense. Amen to that. And the ans

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 03/18/2012 08:03 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: On Mar 18, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 10:37:29 AM, you wrote: I did that ages ago. It misses stuff. Yeah. I like that. I find that an RSS feed is just enough involvement for me in the web forum. I tried

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On 3/18/12 1:13 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Also they have basically de-balled two included apps that I depended on - Preview and TextEdit - due to the removal of the Save As feature, Apparently all apps will follow suit eventually:

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

More file bloat and needless BS, if you ask me... more dumbing down... On 18 March 2012 11:29, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/18/12 1:13 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > >> Also they have basically de-balled two included apps that I depended on - >> Preview and TextEdit - due to the removal of the Sa

RE: outputting Unicode text fields to Unicode text files

If I could save a UNICODE text file it would allow me to use LC for all my text processing. Is there a way to do this? -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 12:24

Re: Scott

On Mar 13, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: > Thanks Scott and Colin, > > LiveCode and this list make it sooo easy. It is almost embarrassing. > > Does anyone know what program, if there is ONE, that opens when you double > click on a jpg or png image in Windows? > > What happens when you

Re: outputting Unicode text fields to Unicode text files

On 03/18/2012 09:08 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: If I could save a UNICODE text file it would allow me to use LC for all my text processing. Is there a way to do this? -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of

[OT] Running old PPC apps on Lion

Hi Folks, In the other thread about Xcode and Lion, there's mention of the apps that no longer run in Lion. Good new - you can still install Rosetta and things return to normalcy for those of us with old app (Final Cut, Logic, AppleWorks, etc.). You will need to have the Snow Leopard install d

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RE: outputting Unicode text fields to Unicode text files

Hey,, Thanks for the rapid response!!! Sorry I was not clear. The file will never be coming back to LC. It will be on its way a high end composition system never to see LC again. I currently use VB6 and would like to move more into the LC realm because of its chunk processing philosophy. Thanks!

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Interesting perspectives. Pretty much answered my question. --- Richard MacLemale Music = http://www.richardmac.com Programming = http://www.macandchee.se ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Stephen, More dumbing down, yes, I agree... but you would be stunned at the number of people who, even though it's 2012, still don't know the difference between Save and Save As. For that matter, I still see people double-clicking in instances where you are supposed to single click, such as la

Re: [OT] Running old PPC apps on Lion

Good to know. Thanks Tim. -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.spimsco.net : la première solution saas open source et commerciale de développement sémantique préprogrammé Le 18 mars 2012 à 20:19, Tim Jones a écrit : > Hi Folks, > > In the other thread about Xcode and Lion, there's ment

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

I just don't think making it "goof-proof" for the lowest common denominator at the expense of obliterating time proven methods that worked for the experienced the last 30 years is progress. It will just make them more dependent. Was this stuff really that broken? Maybe there should be a "Dumbass" o

Re: outputting Unicode text fields to Unicode text files

On 03/18/2012 09:22 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Hey,, Thanks for the rapid response!!! Sorry I was not clear. The file will never be coming back to LC. It will be on its way a high end composition system never to see LC again. I currently use VB6 and would like to move more into the LC realm because

Re: Serious Question about the list...

De gustibus non disputandum est On 2012-03-18, at 1:33 PM, wrote: > Mark- > > Sunday, March 18, 2012, 6:51:01 AM, you wrote: > >> The reasons why people choose to use mainly one or mainly another >> source of information can be very subjective and discussing such >> subjective matters make li

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On 03/18/2012 09:51 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I just don't think making it "goof-proof" for the lowest common denominator at the expense of obliterating time proven methods that worked for the experienced the last 30 years is progress. It will just make them more dependent. Was this stuff reall

Re: outputting Unicode text fields to Unicode text files

Hi Richmond, At about the same time as your VB6 sojourn, I was doing a commercial Educational Game for youngsters that I had prototyped in HyperCard. I was doing the Mac Version using FutureBasic; thus doing the Window's Version was VERY easy since FB and VB6 were/are amazingly compatible. I co

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Ha ha ha! Yes, a Dumbass mode would be very nice. I agree with you - I was just pointing out that there are a lot of, um, dumbasses out there. :) I do have a concern that Apple is going to slowly make OS X look like iOS. Hopefully that doesn't happen. --- Richard MacLemale Music = http://w

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Richard- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:15:22 PM, you wrote: > Ha ha ha! Yes, a Dumbass mode would be very nice. I agree with > you - I was just pointing out that there are a lot of, um, dumbasses > out there. :) I do have a concern that Apple is going to slowly > make OS X look like iOS. Hopeful

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Then I'm on my way to Alaska to become a professional bear hunter tour guide. Sent from my iPad On Mar 18, 2012, at 1:41 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Richard- > > Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:15:22 PM, you wrote: > >> Ha ha ha! Yes, a Dumbass mode would be very nice. I agree with >> you - I was ju

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, . I didn't even know that there was a forum Nobody tells me nothing (I know - it's a double-negative) ! -Francis "Progress is a series of monumental f**k-ups !" ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Serious Question about the list...

Thanks, Jacque. I am definitely "out of the loop" as opposed to "in the know," but I have always preferred the mail list, perhaps because I am lazy and it comes to me instead of my remembering to go to it and check every board. Also, email is faster and only requires remembering one password. Al

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

Bob- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:53:19 PM, you wrote: > Then I'm on my way to Alaska to become a professional bear hunter tour guide. Whoa! There are professional bears? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On Mar 18, 2012, at 3:05 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Bob- > > Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:53:19 PM, you wrote: > >> Then I'm on my way to Alaska to become a professional bear hunter tour guide. > > Whoa! There are professional bears? Those are the ones that: "some days the bear gets you". _

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

You're right (IMHO) - the original reason I struggled to understand this was not the trailing delimiter issue, but rather the incorrect handling of 'inverted' ranges in a chunk expression. There are a variety of possible valid interpretations of a inverted range (my opinion is that these are,

Re: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

On Mar 14, 2012, at 3:56 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > I have a stack, which the user may resize and all objects are resized and > positioned dynamically. This works fine. Up to now, I kept the size of the > buttons with assigned icons locked, because I didn't find an approach, how >

What should an undo/redo mechanism do ?

The question here is not about how to implement undo/redo (that's relatively straightforward), but rather about the *idea* of undo/redo. I see a few issues that I'd like to hear opinions about : 1. the result (if any) of doing a 'save'. Should the undo history get wiped when the user saves a

Re: What should an undo/redo mechanism do ?

On 3/18/2012 8:13 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > 4. Should I stop worrying about this and just do any one of the above > - users are grateful for any system that let's them undo multiple > times and will get used to it :-) Some Undo/Redo is better than no Undo/Redo and most people will get used to or ad

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

On 3/18/12 5:05 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Bob- Sunday, March 18, 2012, 1:53:19 PM, you wrote: Then I'm on my way to Alaska to become a professional bear hunter tour guide. Whoa! There are professional bears? In the stock market. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.c

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

On 3/18/12 6:52 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: You're right (IMHO) - the original reason I struggled to understand this was not the trailing delimiter issue, but rather the incorrect handling of 'inverted' ranges in a chunk expression. There are a variety of possible valid interpretations of a inverted

Re: What should an undo/redo mechanism do ?

On 3/18/12 7:13 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: 1. the result (if any) of doing a 'save'. Should the undo history get wiped when the user saves a document ? (i.e. I can undo back as far as the last save, and no further) Or should I be able to undo all the way to the start of this session ? Or, indeed, s

Re: Serious Question about the list...

I like mailing lists because 1) using a gmail account, not only do I get my own searchable archive of all the messages, but I can keep that online and not worry about ever running out of space 2) I do #1 not just for LC but for every development tool I use. I have one account that gets every messa

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

Thanks, Jacque, but still no luck. I followed your suggestions to the letter, including the Copy Files pane, and triple-checked all my typing (including quotation marks), but still getting a false for "file1.txt exists". (Actually, "file1.txt" is named "titleAndUniqueIDindex.txt".) Thinking maybe

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

Misery loves company. I saw your posting this morning so I tried to save settings in my app. No Luck. I seem to be having the same problem. -= Mike Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Nicolas Cueto Sender: use-livecode-boun...@l

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/18/12 9:22 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: put ("file:"& specialFolderPath("engine")& slash& "titleAndUniqueIDindex.txt") into tPath answer "File in engine exists:"&& there is a file tPath -- confirms existence I'm sorry, I told you wrong. I didn't mean to put you through that. There

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

Further to this puzzle. Running this script from the tablet: set the folder to specialFolderPath("engine") put "Engine files:" & cr & the files into tResult will list the txt file I selected in Copy Files of standalone settings. So, the txt file is there, but the path I'm using for "put url

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

I am trying a binary file. Is there any thing special about the type of the file? I would not expect so. -= Mike Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: "J. Landman Gay" Sender: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com Date: Sun, 18 Mar

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/18/12 9:35 PM, miked...@gmail.com wrote: Misery loves company. I saw your posting this morning so I tried to save settings in my app. No Luck. I seem to be having the same problem. Here's working code from Casey's Solitaire, built on Android, which reads and writes a text file. I don't

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/18/12 9:54 PM, miked...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying a binary file. Is there any thing special about the type of the file? I would not expect so. Instead of "file:" you need to use "binfile:". Otherwise the paths will be the same. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperac

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

I'm not sure but I don't think you have to set the default folder to specialfolderpath("engine") pretty sure thats the default on start. And since you area already pointing there you don't need a path to get to the file, you might just try it as a relative file. put URL ("binfile:" & "myfile.txt"

RE: how to read/write data on Android?

I use this to copy a PDF and use it later. You can't write to the engine folder. put specialFolderPath("engine") & slash into FileSrc put specialFolderPath("documents") & slash into FileDest if there is not a file (Filedest&"10Minutes on the CEO agenda.pdf") then --only copy firs

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

> Sorry again, you're probably pretty frustrated by now. Pretty. But not with you or your advice. Still most thankful for that. Because now, thanks to your help, I finally got it all working. And not only for reading but for writing data too. Again, thank you! P.S. Since my app's files don't see

Re: Serious Question about the list...

On 03/18/2012 08:51 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: I am automatically notified of any new message on this mailing list. I don't know of a way to do this with the forum messages (unless I'm already participating in the discussion) RSS works, although it's not quite as nice as a properly threaded

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/18/12 10:47 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: P.S. Since my app's files don't seem to get listed in the Android file explorer, can I assume that'd only work with unrooted Android devices? I don't have a rooted device either so I can't look in the /data/ directory. Someone else may know what LiveC

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the "line" chunk

So from a consistency standpoint, you are certainly correct; putting something into a negative range should behave the same whether the chunk involved is characters, items, words, or lines. But I'd still argue that the use of "into" instead of "before" or "after" demands that the target resolve to

[Android] how to include folders and files

More hand-holding, please. I read the release notes about Copy Files, but can't find an explanation on how to do the following. Given these two directories: gazou1 oto1 and given each of these two directory holds various files (jpg, au), what must I do to ensure that those directories and their

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

You need to root to see these files. The engine folder is a virtual folder that looks into the .apk that gets loaded on the device. That is why you cant write to it. An .apk is in zip format. If you want to look at a .apk... create a standalone app. Find the apk and rename it to .zip. when yo

Re: [Android] how to include folders and files

See my previous post. The copyfiles file list goes into the assets folder in the apk that becomes the engine folder. Any files that are not in the folders below the stack location got to the engine folder if the file in a sub directory of the stack then a sub folder is created in the assets/e

Re: [Android] how to include folders and files

On 3/19/12 12:14 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: what must I do to ensure that those directories and their contents get placed on my Android tablet during either "test" in the IDE or when building an apk to export for an install from the tablet. Add them using the Copy Files pane. Click the Folder bu

Re: how to read/write data on Android?

On 3/19/12 12:36 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Now if you are rooted you can look into the elusive data folder. the apk is located at data/app. The documents folder is located at data/data/com.reverse.dns/files where com.reverse.dns is what you entered in the standalone application settings. Thanks.