Apologies in advance for the long post:
On 17/06/2012, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
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> The OS X HIG clearly notes that files in the Preferences folder is for
> user-generated data. As such, your app should never need to install anything
> there, but of course will need to write the
Hi,
Weird. Newbie alert.
With LC 5.5, within the application, I save files (LC stacks) but they
are NOT visible when I surf the computer's hard drive from outside of
LC.
Furthermore, when I create a new folder from within LC, even the new
folders are not visible when I browse the computer from ou
Peter Haworth wrote:
Surprisingly, the Mac App Store will get rejected if you put stuff in the
users home/Preferences folder.
I believe the difference there is installation vs. runtime.
The OS X HIG clearly notes that files in the Preferences folder is for
user-generated data. As such, your
Hello, Bill,
Not very long ago, I had the same question, and several users contributed their
knowledge and experience in the different platforms, helping me compile an
answer:
On 17/06/2012, at 6:28 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote:
> Where do folks put application specific preferences on Windows and LIn
On 16/06/2012 22:45, Matthias Rebbe wrote:
i am pretty sure that i am doing something wrong. But i cannot get it work to
scroll a group of buttons/fields and images with the iosScroller.
A single field works here without problems. Or is it not possible to use the
iosScroller with a group of dif
Surprisingly, the Mac App Store will get rejected if you put stuff in the
users home/Preferences folder.
Pete
On Jun 16, 2012 1:28 PM, "Bill Vlahos" wrote:
> The specialFolderPath ("Preferences") function only works on the Mac.
>
> Where do folks put application specific preferences on Windows an
Hi,
i am pretty sure that i am doing something wrong. But i cannot get it work to
scroll a group of buttons/fields and images with the iosScroller.
A single field works here without problems. Or is it not possible to use the
iosScroller with a group of different objects?
In the runrev lessons a
Hi Richmond,
While that's certainly true, I rarely do that for preferences files on Macs
because they are already put out of the way in a preferences folder.
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On 06/16/2012 11:44 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Bill,
Use specialfolderpath(26) on Windows and $HOME on Linux. You can hide the
preferences file on Linux by starting the file name with a dot.
You can also hide files and folders on Mac by starting their names with
a dot.
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Hi Bill,
Use specialfolderpath(26) on Windows and $HOME on Linux. You can hide the
preferences file on Linux by starting the file name with a dot.
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Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
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The specialFolderPath ("Preferences") function only works on the Mac.
Where do folks put application specific preferences on Windows and LInux?
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On 06/16/2012 02:53 PM, Richmond wrote:
Peter, you might update apt-get and try 'sudo apt-get install
ia32-libs' and see if that does the trick for you.
"Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate"
Richmond, are you working with a 64 bit installation? If you are, do you
find ia32-lib
On 06/16/2012 10:49 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
OK, today's kindergarten question, to which I think I knew the answer
once upon a time (but then, i thought that I used to use "send some
message to every field in this card" . . .).
I want to be able to leave a field and focus to the next field, just
a
On 06/16/2012 10:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 06/16/2012 11:51 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
Adding some 32 bit libs in the software center in Mint 13 has helped.
This is clearly the problem. Livecode is not working with the new
multiarch system implemented in Mint 13.
Ok, missing 32 bit libs
OK, today's kindergarten question, to which I think I knew the answer
once upon a time (but then, i thought that I used to use "send some
message to every field in this card" . . .).
I want to be able to leave a field and focus to the next field, just
as if tab were hit, from within a script. I'v
Several folks have asked me how I got the native field object in lcTaskList to
do those table tricks without using ListMagic or the Data Grid.
I recently discovered Bernd Niggeman's "OldTableFieldDragDividers" stack in
RevOnLine (he uploaded it in 2010 but even though it has been downloaded over
On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
> Ok, missing 32 bit libs was the problem. It's working now, but it was
> somewhat more complicated than it should have been to get the
> ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 installed using Software Manager. Software Manger
> was simply failing to inst
On 06/16/2012 11:51 AM, Warren Samples wrote:
Adding some 32 bit libs in the software center in Mint 13 has helped.
This is clearly the problem. Livecode is not working with the new
multiarch system implemented in Mint 13.
Ok, missing 32 bit libs was the problem. It's working now, but it was
I think that my problems may have had a lot to do with that I also work on
a large monitor part of the time and on the laptop alone part of the time.
I will remove the bug report I guess since all the excellent sleuthing
proved somehow that my problem was operator error. Anyway, I redesigned my
mai
I get similar results on my iMac. However that doesn"t help William.
On the face of it, he upgraded to Lion, changed nothing in his lc app and
nothing in his osx config, yet his stack size changed. I don"t know if lc
or osx caused this but we still haven't figured out why it happened.
Maybe it"s
On 06/15/2012 09:57 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
On 06/15/2012 02:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote:
I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this
should be happening?
I hosed my Debian installation (don't ask!). So not having done a new
install for many years and several new
On Jun 16, 2012, at 8:34 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Wondering why rarray is passed by reference?
In the spirit of passing by reference, the answer is:
Refer to the dictionary under "@" for a user contributed note from
oli...@runrev.com.
In the spirit of passing by value, the answer is:
Passin
Pete-
Saturday, June 16, 2012, 8:34:46 AM, you wrote:
> Wondering why rarray is passed by reference?
I wondered about that, too - my guess is that it's for speed, so that
you're working with a pointer to the array instead of a copy of it,
but I don't know if the engine works that way. I'm curiou
Wondering why rarray is passed by reference?
On Jun 15, 2012 8:21 PM, "Dick Kriesel" wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2012, at 3:21 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I am wondering if anyone has developed an Array Filter procedure that
> would give me all the rows of an array matching a certain cri
I get similar results on my iMac. However that doesn"t help William.
On the face of it, he upgraded to Lion, changed nothing in his lc app and
nothing in his osx config, yet his stack size changed. I don"t know if lc
or osx caused this but we still haven-t figured out why it happened.
Maybe it"s
William,
This is very easy to achieve, in the card script, on openCard you can
simply,
lock screen
set the height of stack "my stack" to 3456
set the width of stack "my stack" to 2345
This will override the automatic resizing that goes on. This does have it's
problems though as it may push the m
Kay C Lan wrote:
William, after some extensive testing of Lion, I conclude that Lion behaves
better than Snow Leopard in regard to the available size a stack can take
up. I can only surmise that when you upgraded to Lion your Dock settings
changed, in particular the default size prior to any mag
Hi,
Just a quick reminder. Tomorrow 17 June at 13:00, eHUG organises a meeting at
the King Arthur café, Oudegracht 101-103, Utrecht.
Ter herinnering: morgen 17juni om 13:00u. organiseert eHUG een bijeenkomst.
Hieronder volgt nog even alle info op een rijtje.
Wat: bijeenkomst omtrent LiveCode
W
If you would like to test you own set up you can use the following:
I created a new stack "Untitled 1" and placed a button in it with this
script:
(watch for line wraps)
on mouseUp
put "ScreenRect: " & the screenRect into tRec
put item 4 of the screenRect into tScrnHt
put item 3 of the s
William, after some extensive testing of Lion, I conclude that Lion behaves
better than Snow Leopard in regard to the available size a stack can take
up. I can only surmise that when you upgraded to Lion your Dock settings
changed, in particular the default size prior to any magnification effect.
John Dixon wrote:
After asking the mobGUI author to please share the source code with those
of us who have purchased his libraries, and receiving a resounding, "No!"
Well what did you expect... !?
A Curry Kenworthy-quality response. :)
With Curry's Wordlib and other nifty tools he makes, he
Klaus,
Thanks so much, I knew it had to be easy in LC :-))
On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 12:11 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote:
>
> this does work, just tested :-)
> OS X 10.7.4, Safari 5.1.7, LC 5.5
>
> > put the dragData["text"] into tStore3
> > ##-I get the file name '
> > ##http://www.emma-maersk.com/galle
Richard, thank you for the info:
On 16/06/2012, at 11:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> RunRev took the first step toward satisfying this request some years ago,
> allowing us to set the ID of any object.
>
> While potentially dangerous and not recommended for normal use, this is
> necessary to e
Richard, I do understand and appreciate your points. However:
On 16/06/2012, at 11:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> If nothing else, consider this democratically:
>
> Either multiple people must make a modest change, or one person must make a
> modest change.
I am looking at this in the most dem
Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
> As a newcomer to LiveCode, I have been a little frustrated by the
> lack of support for a version control system - like git, svn or
> the like. I have, therefore, added a feature request to the quality
> control system, here:
>
> http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.
> Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2012 03:15:08 -0500
> Subject: Re: Android/mobGUI/screen sizes
> From: ch...@chipp.com
> After asking the mobGUI author to please share the source code with those
> of us who have purchased his libraries, and receiving a resounding, "No!"
Well what did you expect... !?
Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote:
> On 16/06/2012, at 1:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>
>> If the message got here, by definition it's not a "wrong" address.
>>
>> Apparently both addresses wind up here so both are correct.
>
> I believe the old address is kept because of users that have to
> /choose
Mark Wieder wrote:
Dick-
Yay! I knew Dick would come through.
Dick always comes through, as reliably as Alex Tweedly.
Those are two people I always enjoy a moment with when I see them at the
conferences. I don't get to see them often, but each time I do I walk
away having learned something
Hi there,
I am working on an educational iOS app where the user can make wordlists.
Now I want the list to be exported and imported into the same app on
another iOS device.
I could use a simple .txt file for export (any other suggestions?) and
attach it to an e-mail (I know how to do this).
How d
Chipp,
I went to your blog and took a look at alt-button, very nice update.
One thing, In your blog under the title of the entry it states "by on June 16,
2011 in Livecode".
Is that date off by a year intentionally or is there an error in the blog
software date system?
Just curious I guess.
Ni
Further to remarks I made yesterday, I tried installing Livecode 5.5 on
my Xubuntu 12.04, XFCE 4.10 machine using the standard install,
rather than one that puts Livecode in a custom location.
Still no joy.
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Yep, Richard, I agree.
After asking the mobGUI author to please share the source code with those
of us who have purchased his libraries, and receiving a resounding, "No!",
I decided to roll many of my own mobile controls, and created dropTools for
some of them.
After talking with Jacque, it's cle
Hi all,
As a newcomer to LiveCode, I have been a little frustrated by the lack of
support for a version control system - like git, svn or the like. I have,
therefore, added a feature request to the quality control system, here:
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10275
If this is of inte
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