datagrid table: NOT sorting by column?

2012-08-14 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi friends, I can UN-check Sort by column... for some columns in the inspector until my wrist gets numb, but still can happily click the headers and these columns get sorted? Is this a bug or am I missing something obvious? Thanks a lot in advance! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major

Re: revOpenDatabase - can't connect

2012-08-14 Thread Martin Koob
Also with on-rev and cPanel when you enable remote access you specify the IP address you will be connecting from. If your service provider changes your IP address then you have to go into cPanel and change the IP address for remote access to the new one. Martin -- View this message in

Re: datagrid table: NOT sorting by column?

2012-08-14 Thread dunbarx
Klaus. I had this very same issue in a project a few months back. The only way out of it was that I placed this in the group script: on SortByColumn end SortByColumn Craig -Original Message- From: Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.com To: How to use LiveCode

Re: datagrid table: NOT sorting by column?

2012-08-14 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think it's actually working like an option button in the inspector: this column is sorted _right now_. So to disable sorting you need to add a handler to your datagrid, to catch the sortdatagridcolumn message: See also the lesson on disabling sorting:

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-14 Thread Michael Kann
James, Can you give us the skinny on what you are trying to do? What do you want your output to look like? Mike --- On Tue, 8/14/12, James Hale ja...@thehales.id.au wrote: From: James Hale ja...@thehales.id.au Subject: word counts - what is going on? To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date:

Re: datagrid table: NOT sorting by column?

2012-08-14 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Dunbar and Björnke, Am 14.08.2012 um 15:04 schrieb Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com: I think it's actually working like an option button in the inspector: this column is sorted _right now_. AHA! Thanks for this info! So to disable sorting you need to add a handler to your datagrid, to

Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread John Dixon
I have some apps in the iTunes store... lately, well this weekend one of them, 'TickerTape' started to get some reviews posted on its page... I was talking to a friend earlier today who lives in America ( I live in England, that funny little island north of mainland europe.) and he told me

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dixie, Reviews are only visible in the store for which they were written. I don't think you can change this. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
John Dixon wrote: I have some apps in the iTunes store... lately, well this weekend one of them, 'TickerTape' started to get some reviews posted on its page... I was talking to a friend earlier today who lives in America ( I live in England, that funny little island north of mainland europe.)

RE: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread John Dixon
John Dixon wrote: I have some apps in the iTunes store... lately, well this weekend one of them, 'TickerTape' started to get some reviews posted on its page... I was talking to a friend earlier today who lives in America ( I live in England, that funny little island north of

Re: revOpenDatabase - can't connect

2012-08-14 Thread Matthias Rebbe
If i remember right in that case you could enter %.%.%.% as a wildcard ip address, but this would accept connections from every ip address. Regards, Matthias Am 14.08.2012 um 14:30 schrieb Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com: Also with on-rev and cPanel when you enable remote access you specify

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Dixon wrote: I have some apps in the iTunes store... lately, well this weekend one of them, 'TickerTape' started to get some reviews posted on its page... I was talking to a friend earlier today who lives in America ( I live in England, that funny little island north of mainland

Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

2012-08-14 Thread Rick Harrison
Greetings fellow coders, I want to find or search for a particular word in an iOS Scroller text field and to have the field jump/scroll immediately to that found word. This is not looking to be as easy as it sounds. Has anyone done this, or can you please point me to the correct direction on

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Henshaw
As others have said, reviews only get seen in the store they were left in. Just to add, if you have not seen it already there is quite a good (free) online tool called App Annie. You should set up a separate account on iTunes connect if you do try it so they can only view sales and not give

RE: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread John Dixon
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:11:41 -0700 From: ambassa...@fourthworld.com To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Reviews on the iTunes store... John Dixon wrote: I have some apps in the iTunes store... lately, well this weekend one of them, 'TickerTape' started to get some

Re: revOpenDatabase - can't connect

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
You can also enter wildcards. If you figure out the provider's subnet, just set it for a likely range, or get a fixed IP from your provider if they provide it. Frankly though, I think using remote SQL makes sense only for development. Knowing what I know, I don't think I would ever deploy an

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Dixie, congratulations on your success! That is inspiring! =D On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:19 PM, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:11:41 -0700 From: ambassa...@fourthworld.com To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

How to switch two popovers ?

2012-08-14 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Hi all, I'm developing an application for iPad for my own use. For selecting data, I want to use a popover view and a second popover view for the sub data. I imagine creating two groups, one for each popover. What is the best practice to switch a popover view to another: - Use two cards, each

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
We were just having a discussion on this. Can you hilite token 2 of word x of line y when you detect quoted text? Alternately you can hilite char 2 to -2 of word x of line y. Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 12:07 AM, James Hale wrote: Hi, I am processing a body of text and identifying each word

Re: datagrid table: NOT sorting by column?

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
It's like driving to work everyday in a school bus! You rarely need something that big, but boy when you do, you are glad you have it! Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Damn what a nasty beast, this datagrid :-) ___

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-14 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 14, 2012, at 12:07 AM, James Hale wrote: …. After a bit of to'ing and fro'ing I think I see the problem. Word boundaries. For example, quoted text is considered 1 word. Removing the quotes is ok to find the included words within the quoted text but from then on the word number is out

Re: revOpenDatabase - can't connect

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right, and if your data has any value at all I would not do that. Something like 10.45.2.% might do the trick, but provider subnets are rarely classful, meaning the mask is either 255.0.0.0, 255.255.0.0, or 255.255.255.0. There is actually a bit more to it than that, but this is the general

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
HAR! Bob On Aug 13, 2012, at 5:31 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: So, how many words could a word chunk chunk, if a word chunk could chunk words? Jim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

2012-08-14 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 14, 2012, at 9:12 AM, Rick Harrison wrote: I want to find or search for a particular word in an iOS Scroller text field and to have the field jump/scroll immediately to that found word. This is not looking to be as easy as it sounds. Has anyone done this, or can you please point

Re: Word chunk includes punctuation

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
From the dictionary: 1. Each of the following characters is a token: =, +, -, *, /, [, ], (, ), {, }, , , and comma (,). 2. Each of the following characters is a token delimiter: ; (semicolon), space, return, and tab. So no, a question mark is NOT a delimiter. In this the dictionary speaks

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
There was certainly no shortage of rocks in the area! Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:35 AM, John Dixon wrote: I blame that Italian contractor Hadrian, for meddling in Albions' affairs... as he should have either built his damn wall a lot higher, or not bothered at all !... :-)

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Chipp Walters wrote [snip] I was hired as a consultant at Apple and knew a bunch of employees, and most every one of them had a real entitlement issue-- so much so they thought they didn't have to do their work and hired folks like me to do it for them. That sounds like the exact

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Randy Hengst
Andy, I was just wondering about this kind of thing over the weekend and noticed AppAnnie… and a couple others I can't recall at the moment. Didn't know about making a separate account on iTunes connect. Do you go to the Manage Users tab to create the account? What access does AppAnnie get to

Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Finding available memory on Linux is easy using the shell command free. But free isn't available on OS X, and although alloc is listed as an equivalent at some sites it isn't available on any of the Macs I have here. I could use top -l1 -n0 to get just the overview stuff from which I can

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Yes, you just set up a user in the manage users area and restrict their access just to the lowest level, thats all they need. If you give them full access they could in theory change anything, your apps, your bank details to theirs etc. Im not that trusting so I just give them access to

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Bob Sneidar wrote: There was certainly no shortage of rocks in the area! Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:35 AM, John Dixon wrote: I blame that Italian contractor Hadrian, for meddling in Albions' affairs... as he should have either built his damn wall a lot higher, or not bothered at all

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I could use top -l1 -n0 to get just the overview stuff from which I can parse out the memory info, but it's not a very fast command to execute, taking more than a second to return the result to LiveCode. When I execute

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, Maybe one of the keys output from: sysctl -a | grep mem will help you. On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Finding available memory on Linux is easy using the shell command free. But free isn't available on OS X, and although alloc is

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I could use top -l1 -n0 to get just the overview stuff from which I can parse out the memory info, but it's not a very fast command to

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, Maybe one of the keys output from: sysctl -a | grep mem will help you. Nice - 38ms for that here. I was impressed with your other post noting 36ms for the top call, thinking maybe there's something odd about my system making it take longer. But this syscntl

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
About a second. Interesting then that the shell command contains some latency to it. It makes sense because it has to open a shell, then communicate with the shell, then close it. From an already opened terminal, it doesn't have those restrictions. Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:26 AM, Richard

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well i'll be dayamed! That works almost instantaneously in the message box! Nice one Andre! Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, Maybe one of the keys output from: sysctl -a | grep mem will help you. ___

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I get 26. HAH! My CPU is faster than yours! Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:26 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: On Aug 14, 2012, at 10:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I could use top -l1 -n0 to get just

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: Maybe one of the keys output from: sysctl -a | grep mem will help you. While I was initially impressed with the speed, I'm not sure the free mem is among the output - here's an example: hw.physmem = 2147483648 hw.usermem = 1420754944 hw.memsize = 2147483648

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
On a Mac, free memory is not the same thing as available memory. If you open the Activity Monitor utility, you will see in the chart green and blue memory. All of this is available to any application. The blue section is memory that was recently used by an app that it may want again if it's

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 10:11 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just be glad you've had any reviews at all. Yup. But even if you do get downloads, most people won't bother to comment. My app has been downloaded several times, but only one person wrote a review. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
AHAH! vm_stat will give you what you want. (page size * pages free) + page size * pages inactive). Again correct me if I am wrong. Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 11:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: Maybe one of the keys output from: sysctl -a | grep mem will help you.

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Looks like hw.memsize is total memory. hw.usermem is available memory. Somebody correct me if I am wrong. I had thought so too, but after opening a LOT of applications and seeing avail. mem. drop in Activity Monitor, that number remained unchanged in subsequent calls.

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/14/12 10:11 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Just be glad you've had any reviews at all. Yup. But even if you do get downloads, most people won't bother to comment. My app has been downloaded several times, but only one person wrote a review. However, on MacUpdate I

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-14 Thread Chipp Walters
Ugh. Didn't know that. And I expect it to go up with the baby boomers retiring soon... On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.comwrote: when Social Security, Medicare and unemployment benefits are included, nearly half of the nation lived in a household that

Re: Shell commands to find available memory

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I also read this: You can use the following commands: sysctl -a | grep hw.usermem sysctl -a | grep hw.physmem here: http://superuser.com/questions/197059/mac-os-x-sysctl-get-total-and-free-memory-size Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: Looks like

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I know. I feel like I am the cheated one because I work. But (and at the risk of inviting someone's ire) any politician who tries to fix this will find HIMSELF on welfare and out of a job pretty soon. Crazy, huh? Bob On Aug 14, 2012, at 1:44 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Ugh. Didn't know that.

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Nice. :-) On Aug 14, 2012, at 3:14 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Bob, slylabs13 wrote I know. I feel like I am the cheated one because I work. But (and at the risk of inviting someone's ire) any politician who tries to fix this will find HIMSELF on welfare and out of a job pretty soon.

Re: Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 11:12 AM, Rick Harrison wrote: Greetings fellow coders, I want to find or search for a particular word in an iOS Scroller text field and to have the field jump/scroll immediately to that found word. This is not looking to be as easy as it sounds. Has anyone done this, or can you

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Rossi
For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Should have written more early Mac reminiscing... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, I wrote: For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director

revxxx messages in plugins

2012-08-14 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm confused about the purpose of these messages. As an example, consider the revPreOpenStack and its equivalent preOpenStack If I register my plugin to receive revPreOpenStack messages, then I get that message when any stack is opened in the IDE which is great but is there any advantage to

Re: How to switch two popovers ?

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Jerome, If it is a small amount of data I would use a group and hide and show it. If it is much more than I would go the next card. There are actually two different things going on. One is should this be done in a popover and if so than it should follow standard popover behavior if not than

RE: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Mark Smith
John Dixon wrote sales in iTunes connect... sales of 'Tickertape' have gone from 1 or 2 a day to the hundreds... in fact todays figures show sales of 558 Very inspiring, thanks for letting us know John. Well deserved I'm sure!! -- View this message in context:

Re: revxxx messages in plugins

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 8:23 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm confused about the purpose of these messages. As an example, consider the revPreOpenStack and its equivalent preOpenStack If I register my plugin to receive revPreOpenStack messages, then I get that message when any stack is opened in the IDE which

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Remember the dogcow? Miss that critter. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Autodesk for 3D printing etc free

2012-08-14 Thread Thomas McGrath III
For any 3D printer enthusiasts out there Autodesk has a few free programs for the Mac which in my opinion are incredible. Autodesk Inventor Fusion http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/autodesk-inventor-fusion/id529580720?mt=12 123D Make http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/123d-make/id515318186?mt=12

Re: HC 25 years old today

2012-08-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Aug 14, 2012, at 7:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/14/12 6:44 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: For the folks that gotta have more cowbell, er, Hypercard: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTtQ0l0ukvQ Remember the dogcow? Miss that critter. Moof! ___

Re: Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

2012-08-14 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Peter Jacqueline, The field is a native iOS control field so I don't think formatted height is going to get me out of this one so easily. What I've come up with thus far is that I'm using a mirrored approach with a LiveCode field as my test subject. I set the font and text size to the same

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-14 Thread James Hale
Well, lots of suggestions and attempts at humour. Nice. The problem with using the word chunk boils down to not being able to get quoted text seen as multiple words as in selecting a word within the quoted block using the word chunk command to say hilite it. Certainly I could replace the

Simulate key pressed (arrow key)

2012-08-14 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
How do I simulate a key pressed... in particular, an arrow key? SKIP ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Livecode/iOS Find and Scroll To

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 10:05 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: Hi Peter Jacqueline, The field is a native iOS control field so I don't think formatted height is going to get me out of this one so easily. What I've come up with thus far is that I'm using a mirrored approach with a LiveCode field as my test

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-14 Thread Peter Haworth
James, The sqlite library is compiled into your Livecode application, it doesn't need to be installed anywhere on your users' computers. The sqlite library supplied with Livecode includes fts3 and fts4. I'm certain that the sqlite fts module will give you the results you want in a fraction of

Re: revxxx messages in plugins

2012-08-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Jacque. The problem is, I'm probably going to need a front script anyway because plugins don't get revxxx messages for all the events I need to know about (e.g., the creation/deletion of a control). Not sure why the revxxx messages are quite so selective. I'm also running into issues

Re: word counts - what is going on?

2012-08-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/14/12 10:39 PM, James Hale wrote: The problem with using the word chunk boils down to not being able to get quoted text seen as multiple words as in selecting a word within the quoted block using the word chunk command to say hilite it. Some random thoughts: Put a copy of the text into

Re: The Story of Steve Jobs - An Inspiration or a Cautionary Tale

2012-08-14 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I know. I feel like I am the cheated one because I work. But (and at the risk of inviting someone's ire) any politician who tries to fix this will find HIMSELF on welfare and out of a job pretty soon. Crazy, huh? There are other ways of