mergExt $49 on RunRev Marketplace

2012-08-22 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders I've just been informed by a mergExt customer that the RunRev store has massively marked down the price on mergExt Complete from $149 to $49. When you consider the individual components add up to a whopping $415 this could be the deal of a lifetime. I didn't know about the deal

Re: mergExt $49 on RunRev Marketplace

2012-08-22 Thread Monte Goulding
OK, that was the shortest sale ever. Apparently a coupon went on a destructive rampage. It's all over now but still a good deal at $149. Cheers Monte On 22/08/2012, at 4:06 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi LiveCoders I've just been informed by a mergExt customer that the RunRev store has

Re: Mobile mapping with native browser control

2012-08-22 Thread Scott Rossi
The way your message reads, it *sounds* like they're complaining about a (bogus) screenshot issue, not an app issue. Maybe if you change the map in your screenshot to be something more map-ish than what you have now... I realize this is absurd, but given that you've been fighting with Apple for

RE: Mobile mapping with native browser control

2012-08-22 Thread John Dixon
Are you using the Google Maps API version 2 to make a static map or version 3 that lets you make a map where you can then wander all over the place ? I just wondered if that might be an issue as version 2 has been deprecated for a while now, even though it still works... Dixie Date: Wed, 22

Any pointers on my ZIP script on iOS?

2012-08-22 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Can anyone give me some pointers on using revZip on iOS? I have a folder with subfolders (containing .TXT files) in Documents that I would like to have zipped. The structure is like this: Documents/names/name1/name1.txt Documents/names/name2/name2.txt etc This scripts does create a

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
if this means me, I am definitely not promoting any other products. I am simply drawing attention to the implications and incentives of the marketing positioning of LiveCode for the Linux market. I clearly state each time that LiveCode is my preferred solution. I am just pointing out that for

Re: The inmates have been let loose!

2012-08-22 Thread François Chaplais
Le 21 août 2012 à 08:42, Richmond a écrit : Documents being saved by default in the 'Cloud' . . . To have your default save location on your mac, type in terminal defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSDocumentSaveNewDocumentsToCloud -bool false To revert to the iCloud default, type defaults write

Re: The Owner of a background group

2012-08-22 Thread dunbarx
Jacque. Whew. Exhaustive presentation. Thanks. I will keep this in my scrapbook. But my veiled point is that groups, for all their power and advantages, are just slightly a kluge, and have to manage odd and disparate issues due to the simple fact that they are an object that contains lower

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chip Thomas wrote: *Would anyone here venture an opinion whether libURL or cURL has advantages over the other in terms of downloading via HTTP? Is one more reliable? More robust? More better?* cURL is not available by default on some OSes LiveCode supports including (IIRC) Windows, but with

Re: The Owner of a background group

2012-08-22 Thread Devin Asay
Jacque, This is a great overview of how groups work. I am so saving this in my notes. With attribution, of course! Devin On Aug 21, 2012, at 10:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/21/12 10:23 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: And so a group, being an object that contains other objects, has no

Dictionary Troubles

2012-08-22 Thread David C.
Howdy folks! The last time I used LC on my laptop, I apparently had a second monitor installed, but do not have that setup any longer. Now when I try to open the dictionary, I can see that it opens, but the location is off-screen and un-viewable. Will someone please tell me if there is a simple

Re: Dictionary Troubles

2012-08-22 Thread David C.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: David C. wrote: The last time I used LC on my laptop, I apparently had a second monitor installed, but do not have that setup any longer. Now when I try to open the dictionary, I can see that it opens, but the

New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Nigel Soden
I think I sent the this to the wrong address... hopefully this is the correct one. I'd like to thank Kevin for in-lighting us on the new pricing structure. I think we may have all jumped the gun somewhat. I must say it's not bad at all. I'm relieved as i'm just getting into LC and hoping to

Re: Older versions. Was New Pricing.

2012-08-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richmond, Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote I would like it if Runrev offered all previous whole-number versions from 2.0 onwards with a rider that NO SUPPORT is offered The only way in which I find this acceptable is: Bundling these previous versions with ebooks that teach how to program in

Re: The inmates have been let loose!

2012-08-22 Thread François Chaplais
There is a discussion on the original post http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20120820003211714 It seems the terminal commands does not disable the iCloud saving, while using the system prefs does. Best, François Le 22 août 2012 à 18:58, J. Landman Gay a écrit : On 8/22/12

RE: Mobile mapping with native browser control

2012-08-22 Thread Ralph DiMola
Dixie, I just create a browser control and load this url==http://www.google.com/maps?q=some+address; Sometimes it's just easier to go with the wind. I got Mergext and will do a native map on iOS and continue using the browser control for Android(Until Monte writes the Android version). This will

Re: Dictionary Troubles

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Haworth
I've had similar issues from time to time with only a single monitor. Somehow, the dictionary window starts at the top of the screen and extends below the bottom of the screen by enough pixels that I can't get to the resize handle, haven't nailed down how it gets into that state. Usually closing

Re: The inmates have been let loose!

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Okay so the system prefs disable or enable iCloud syncing in totality, whereas this script only changes the default save location, but still allows you to save to iCloud? The latter is what I am going to use then. Bob On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:15 AM, François Chaplais wrote: There is a

Re: Dictionary Troubles

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
David, I wonder what would happen if you used Detect Displays from the Displays System Prefs with Livecode running? It would be difficult for me to reproduce your condition, so you will have to test it if the condition still exists. Bob On Aug 22, 2012, at 10:38 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, I had misunderstood. It seems that the situation is that Linux is in fact on a par with Mac+Windows. You buy either Android or IOS, and then you pick one included desktop, which can either be Linux or Mac+Windows, and the price seems to be the same: $500. This is a reasonable answer to

Omegabundle (for LiveCode) Linked In and Facebook Groups Info

2012-08-22 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hello all, The Omegabundle Vendors (the guys who brought you Omegabundle for LiveCode 2012 2011) have Facebook and Linked In pages set up. It's a great place to see news on updates to the products you purchased. http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Omegabundle-4586019

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/22/2012 02:29 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: Yes, I had misunderstood. It seems that the situation is that Linux is in fact on a par with Mac+Windows. You buy either Android or IOS, and then you pick one included desktop, which can either be Linux or Mac+Windows, and the price seems to be

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
You're quite right, apologies. No, not very intuitive, but its there. Thanks. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/New-Pricing-tp4654167p4654179.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/22/12 4:30 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: You're quite right, apologies. No, not very intuitive, but its there. It's like clicking the Start button to shut down. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Haworth
I remember a couple of months back someone came up with a way to switch off what I find to be the intensely annoying feature of some Apple programs of automatically opening the document I was working on every time I start them up in Lion. I can't find the message with the solution so I would be

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh that is just crazy talk! No one in their right mind would make an operating system like that!! And no one would buy it either oh wait NEVER MIND! :-) Bob On Aug 22, 2012, at 2:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/22/12 4:30 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: You're quite right,

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Peter, Control Panel - General - Close Windows when quitting app Sorry, i have here a german Mac OS X, so i am not sure if i translated it correctly. Regards Matthias Am 23.08.2012 um 00:11 schrieb Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I remember a couple of months back someone came up with a way

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/22/12 5:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I remember a couple of months back someone came up with a way to switch off what I find to be the intensely annoying feature of some Apple programs of automatically opening the document I was working on every time I start them up in Lion. System Prefs -

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Colin Holgate
Here's the answer for Lion, but there doesn't seem to be an exact matching option in Mountain Lion: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/21112/in-lion-how-can-i-configure-to-not-automatically-re-open-recent-files-that-were To save going to that page, you choose System Preferences, General,

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder what we would have if we took every new feature in Lion that bothered a significant number of people and disabled it? I wonder how close we would get to being Snow Leopard again? On Aug 22, 2012, at 3:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I remember a couple of months back someone came up

Re: LibURL vs. cURL

2012-08-22 Thread Monte Goulding
On 22/08/2012, at 9:34 AM, Chip Thomas wrote: *Would anyone here venture an opinion whether libURL or cURL has advantages over the other in terms of downloading via HTTP? Is one more reliable? More robust? More better?* I think it would be a no brainer that curl would be more robust

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Matthias, I think you mean the restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps checkbox right at the bottom of the General Prefs? If so, that is unchecked on my computer but Pages still opens the previously opened files when I run it. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Wed, Aug

Re: OS X Auto Open

2012-08-22 Thread Kay C Lan
I wander what we would have if we took Leopard and added every feature a young freckled FaceBook late Tweeter, early thirties, head always in the iCloud impatiently expecting everything to be delivered to them on a pdf having automatically started itself, run itself, Googling them the Wiki link to

Re: New Pricing

2012-08-22 Thread Roger Eller
Ah, like in iOS where you use the same button to turn OFF wi-fi as you do to turn it ON. So one could say they are STARTing the process of shut down. Perfectly logical, right? :) ~Roger On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Oh that is just crazy talk! No one in their right

Printing an image - How to?

2012-08-22 Thread David C.
Howdy folks! In the can I do this? type app I'm working on, I'm taking a snapshot of several data items (fields) and/or images that I've assembled together in a group, so to create a new image to be used for printing all works great so far. My trouble it seems is that I cannot seem to figure

Re: Dictionary Troubles

2012-08-22 Thread David C.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 1:00 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: David, I wonder what would happen if you used Detect Displays from the Displays System Prefs with Livecode running? It would be difficult for me to reproduce your condition, so you will have to test it if the condition still