AW: ANN: GLX2 3.05

2012-06-12 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
FYI I still/again get the malware warning on this site: http://mwieder.on-rev.com/WordPress/?incsub_wiki=glx2-documentation Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von stephen barncard > Ge

Re: iOS 6

2012-06-12 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yup, confirmed on an iPod touch. g On 12/06/2012, at 8:40 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Any LC based apps I have, including ones from the App Store, quit on launch. > But then, so do some non-LC apps. Flash based apps seem ok. > > > > ___ > use-livec

Re: iOS 6

2012-06-12 Thread Colin Holgate
By the way, the sheep herder app works ok. So, something that later LiveCode is doing seems to bother iOS 6. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefere

Re: Live WWDC keynote feed

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi Richard > >> One step closer to a "scale card" command > > Are you referring to http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6589 > > A scaleToFit stack property would be simpler than a command wouldn't > it? Easier still to not provide anything at all. :) > As long

mergDataGridScroller Control?

2012-06-12 Thread Ken Corey
Hi All, In one of my projects, I was looking to create a DataGrid that works under iOS. I managed to do it, and the performance was fine in the simulator, and at 320x480 on my iPad 2, but at full 1024x768 resolution on the iPad 2 the performance was abominable. When I asked the list, nobod

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richmond, Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > > It wouldn't be difficult at all. But RunRev have demonstrated their > attitude towards this quite adequately already. > Actually, RunRev is working on the Educational side of their business, but I am not aware about the most recent developments on t

An iMac Screen Problem …..

2012-06-12 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from "Here", This is ever-so-slightly a non LiveCode problem, but I know that a lot of you guys have Macs, so here we go : I have a two year old iMac 20 inch, flawless since I bought it. Today, my screen suddenly went haywire, as if I had changed screen resolution (which I didn't). 1 - I can

Re: An iMac Screen Problem …..

2012-06-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Sounds like the iMac thinks that the screen is bigger then it actually is. If a reboot doesn't help, i suggest to reset the pram or.. what's the newfangled BIOS replacement called again? anyway, you want this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US http://support.apple.

Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread Tereza Snyder
The application I’m working on needs to store possibly confidential client info on the user’s hard drive. It's asking for an optional password. (The password is optional because it’s up to the user whether they want the extra protection). If they DO input a password, and subsequently forget it,

Re: An iMac Screen Problem …..

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Bonner
Since you mentioned a second display, you might try a couple things. Disconnect the second display long enough so that your mac has to re-configure its settings. Might force it to reset the imac screen. Then plug the external back in and wait for it to re-config things again. Also might simply se

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Tereza Snyder wrote: > The application I’m working on needs to store possibly confidential client > info on the user’s hard drive. It's asking for an optional password. (The > password is optional because it’s up to the user whether they want the extra > protect

Re: Live WWDC keynote feed

2012-06-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richard, Richard Gaskin wrote > > [snip] > Here's what I'm thinking: > > Resolution independence is no longer an option, but truly a requirement. > To pull that off RunRev would need to abstract the screen metrics so > that the units we work with aren't specifically pixels per se, but a >

Re: An iMac Screen Problem …..

2012-06-12 Thread Keith Clarke
...you haven't accidentally done a Control + Mouse scroll-up and just zoomed the display? Easily solved by Control + Scroll-down? Best, Keith.. On 12 Jun 2012, at 16:43, Mike Bonner wrote: > Since you mentioned a second display, you might try a couple things. > Disconnect the second display long

Re: An iMac Screen Problem …..

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah what keith said, check that first! On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > ...you haven't accidentally done a Control + Mouse scroll-up and just > zoomed the display? Easily solved by Control + Scroll-down? > Best, > Keith.. > > On 12 Jun

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread Tereza Snyder
On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 8:41 AM, Tereza Snyder wrote: >> The application I’m working on needs to store possibly confidential client >> info on the user’s hard drive. It's asking for an optional password. (The >> password is optional because it

Re: [OT] Disappearing Disk Space Under Lion

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
OmniDiskSweeper is a really good tool as well. Bob On Jun 11, 2012, at 5:46 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Also wanted to pass on a nice tool for analysing disk space on Macs - > GrandPerspective. Shows a visual representation of all the files on a disk > as a kind of patchwork quit with each pat

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
For an application I think the only way to maintain security in this situation is to tell people to NOT FORGET THEIR PASSWORD or else they will lose access to their data. They will need at that point to create a new account and password. But a password may not be necessary. Is this a single us

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread dunbarx
That old trick, setting a hint might work. Usually when one gets the hint, so to speak, the password is resurrected. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 12:26 pm Subject: Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope

iOS - indicating 'delete' in a list

2012-06-12 Thread Graham Samuel
I'm showing a list of items - in effect an index - in an iOS app. Up to now, when you touch a line, the app moves on to a more detailed display for that particular entry: several cards (screens) are associated with each line. I now want to introduce the idea of deleting one of the items in the l

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread FlexibleLearning
One way that comes to mind is to store the data in a password-encrypted stack (data is then gibberish) that also needs their password to be viewed or a master password that you can use if they send you the data stack. Fee chargeable. :) Hugh Senior FLCo On Jun 12, 2012, at 10:44 AM, Dr. Hawkins

Re: [OT] Disappearing Disk Space Under Lion

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
I did find one source of the disappearing disk space. Apparently Lion creates A partition on your system disk named Recovery HD. As you'd expect from the name, it provides some sort of recovery options for serious OS problems. On my disk, it took 650megs of space, don't know what determines its

Re: iOS - indicating 'delete' in a list

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Graham, The approach I like the best (as a user, not a developer) is to have a checkbox next to each line. When one or more lines are selected via the checkboxes, icons for various actions to be carried out are made active. The single touch still brings up the detailed view, but the checkbox a

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2012 06:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Richmond, Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote It wouldn't be difficult at all. But RunRev have demonstrated their attitude towards this quite adequately already. Actually, RunRev is working on the Educational side of their business, but I am not awar

Re: Live WWDC keynote feed

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Does users, software developers and PC makers believe that Ultra High resolution displays are part of the future of computing??? I think the safest answer is also the most complete: we can assume that computing devices will continue to diversify, in both form and func

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think large companies like MS or Apple can have educational programs that they can write off as charity, but it becomes a much more difficult thing to do with small to mid sized companies. It's tempting to think that exposing students to something like Livecode would enhance learning in gene

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hello Richard (sorry, couldn't resist). :) Richmond wrote: I have repeatedly raised the possibility of either a feature-reduced version of Livecode or a re-release of an earlier version of Livecode (say 2.0) at an extremely cheap rate if not free. This has been ignored. "Ignored"? On the co

ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hi List, I don't post here very often, but I wanted to share this little plugin tool I've made and have been using. The timing seems right, what with all the discussion of screen resolutions and such. ResTool is a small palette for resizing your stack to a number of standard screen dimensions.

Re: [OT] Disappearing Disk Space Under Lion

2012-06-12 Thread stephen barncard
I'm happy to announce that I've finally been able to install the 4th dev preview of *Mountain Lion* successfully and it seems to play nice with *Livecode 551 rc3*. First observations 1. Install took about 40 minutes (after the installer download). about 10 minutes or less for actual install of

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Richmond
On 06/12/2012 10:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Hello Richard (sorry, couldn't resist). :) Richmond wrote: I have repeatedly raised the possibility of either a feature-reduced version of Livecode or a re-release of an earlier version of Livecode (say 2.0) at an extremely cheap rate if not free.

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richmond, Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > > I have repeatedly raised the possibility of either a feature-reduced > version of Livecode or a re-release of an earlier version of Livecode > (say 2.0) at an extremely cheap rate if not free. > > This has been ignored. > > Free RevMedia, as we are

Re: AW: ANN: GLX2 3.05

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Tiemo- Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 2:14:37 AM, you wrote: > FYI > I still/again get the malware warning on this site: > http://mwieder.on-rev.com/WordPress/?incsub_wiki=glx2-documentation You might try refreshing your browser cache. Shift-click the refresh button. That should do it. -- -Mark Wiede

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Richmond
Actually, RunRev should specifiy which Linux versions they support. It's impossible to support every Linux distribution available... [Where is LiveCode for Puppy Linux?] ;-) Al If RunRev do not support Ubuntu they are probably excluding a very large number of current and potential clients

Re: [OT] Disappearing Disk Space Under Lion

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for the report Richard. I may have over-reacted to the Google Maps issue. The heading on the story I saw was "Apple Kicks Google Maps Off iPhone". Google Maps is currently a core app on the iPhone meaning it can't be deleted but Apple plans to replace it with an equivalent app of their ow

Re: Geography based game?

2012-06-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi dunbarx, dunbarx wrote > > [snip] > Why not import a nice map or two as a jpeg, and place > transparent buttons over key locations? > > The game could then take many forms, where clicking on > a country or city could answer a question posed, and > a correct answer (or not) would be registere

Re: ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles E Buchwald wrote: Hi List, I don't post here very often, but I wanted to share this little plugin tool I've made and have been using. The timing seems right, what with all the discussion of screen resolutions and such. ResTool is a small palette for resizing your stack to a number of s

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond, in this mail list, you and Nicolas Cueto are English teachers. If you want to test the premise that learning LiveCode could help you students in their process of learning the english language, What kind of specific tasks would you assign to them, to prove or disprove this hypothesis? :-)

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Actually, RunRev should specifiy which Linux versions they support. It's impossible to support every Linux distribution available... [Where is LiveCode for Puppy Linux?] ;-) Al If RunRev do not support Ubuntu they are probably excluding a very large number of current and pote

Re: ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread Colin Holgate
It works well enough. Would it be possible for the menu to read in three different ways? That is, the strange letters that are used for a given resolution (QVGA and so on), the width and height, or a list of example devices? In some cases you do mention a device next to the letters, but I had n

Re: ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
If he didn't lock it I bet you could get in there and have your way with it. Then share it with us of course. ;-) Bob On Jun 12, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > It works well enough. Would it be possible for the menu to read in three > different ways? That is, the strange letters th

Re: English language learners and LiveCode

2012-06-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: I don't suppose any business is going to feel good about the free-as-in-beer idea. But what RunRev have not done to my knowledge is some sort of outreach to try to reel teachers in. I have demonstrated RR/LC to a fairly large number of programming teachers and heads-of-staff at s

Re: ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hi Bob and Colin, The button labelled "Ref" opens a stack with a table of common devices, their resolutions and pixel densities. (Note that it's 2 cards, not just one.) I figured that devices are changing so fast that it was easier to list video standards than device names But I didn't lock i

LiveCode Meeting Sunday 17 June

2012-06-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Beste LiveCoders in Nederland en andere geïnteresseerden, Op zondag 17 Juni 2012 zal de European HyperCard User Group (eHUG) een bijeenkomst organiseren. Het thema van de bijeenkomst is specifiek gericht op LiveCode-gebruikers. Ben je een doorgewinterde LiveCode-programmeur, ben je net begonnen

Re: AW: ANN: GLX2 3.05

2012-06-12 Thread Mike Bonner
I still get it too, cache refresh doesn't seem to affect it. This is using chrome. Firefox works dandy though. You might need to go here http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ and request a re-review of the site, but not sure. On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Tiemo- > > Tu

Re: ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Thanks very much for this stack!!! =) On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: > Hi Bob and Colin, > The button labelled "Ref" opens a stack with a table of common devices, > their resolutions and pixel densities. (Note that it's 2 cards, not just > one.) > I figured that device

Re: ResTool Plugin

2012-06-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/12/12 4:41 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: Hi Bob and Colin, The button labelled "Ref" opens a stack with a table of common devices, their resolutions and pixel densities. (Note that it's 2 cards, not just one.) I figured that devices are changing so fast that it was easier to list video sta

Re: Live WWDC keynote feed

2012-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> Pixelation is a byproduct of raster images, and the Android dev guides > already provide a good system for supplying an app with four sets of raster > images to handle the four main categories of display types - extra bonus > points if the engine could handle dynamic swapping of image sets acc

Re: mergDataGridScroller Control?

2012-06-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Ken > So, the obvious questions: > 1) Is this better than my putting a datagrid into an iScroller on iOS? It's the same. mergDataGridScroller is a convenience wrapper group that sets up the scroller for you. > 2) does Android have its own native scroller now in LC5.5? I believe I'm required

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-12 Thread Kay C Lan
Tereza, If I remember correctly you are on Mac? If so there is a command line option, cryptically called 'Security' you can use to store the password in Keychain Access, and recover it, if need be. This link (below) goes to an AppleScript site that uses this option. I send you there rather than d