Re: Format Accented Characters for URL?

2012-09-26 Thread Malte Brill
Did you try: put binary uniEncode("ABC") ? > After getting empty values returned from the server, I tried these simple > tests: > put uniDecode(uniEncode("ABC"),"utf8");exit to top > put uniEncode("ABC");exit to top ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, I keep wanting to use hidden Data Grids, so much so that I have been considering trying to rip out the UI. The simplest use for this would be something like this. I have a group of fields on a card. And I want that group bound to something just like the DataGrid except I will never sho

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Todd, Am 26.09.2012 um 15:48 schrieb Todd Geist : > Hello, > > I keep wanting to use hidden Data Grids, so much so that I have been > considering trying to rip out the UI. > The simplest use for this would be something like this. > I have a group of fields on a card. And I want that group b

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Todd- Wednesday, September 26, 2012, 6:48:13 AM, you wrote: > The user navigates from record to record, does searches, adds new > records, deletes records, etc. ...that's a database... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailin

Android, Ubuntu, and the JDK

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Many thanks to RunRev for providing Android build support in LiveCode for Linux. I was looking forward to trying that last night, but ran into a snag: I've installed the Android SDK, with a minimum version support of 2.2. I've also installed OpenJDK for Java 6, and that much seems to be workin

keyboardActivated ... but by whom ???

2012-09-26 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Hi, anyone knows how to find out, on a card with many native text fields (created with mobileCreateControl), which control triggered the keyboard ? On the "keyboardActivated" message I have tried to test the "mobileControlTarget()" but ... return an empty value ... :-( Any suggestion ? Than

Re: artificially causing a field to be left in a script

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Do you mean click on a button? This works for me if I click on another field or on the card background. It works the way you are seeing it only if I click on a button. We just had a thread about this. Put focus on nothing in the mouseUp handler of your button. This will have the effect of sendin

Re: artificially causing a field to be left in a script

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Craig, that will work for one field. He should put that command in the nav button mouseUp scripts, or in a frontscript mouseUp handler, making sure he passes mouseUp. Bob On Sep 25, 2012, at 9:59 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Now I see. > > > put this into the field script: > > > on mouse

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sometimes I need an array with only one dimension and one element. Oh wait! That's a variable! ;-) Bob On Sep 26, 2012, at 7:04 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: > hmm, DataGrid - UI = Array > > So why not just use an array (global/local variable or even a custom > property) to keep the data? > At lea

RE: keyboardActivated ... but by whom ???

2012-09-26 Thread John Dixon
Guglielmo.. I would imagine that the focusedObject would help you here as it returns the currently focused control. Dixie > Hi, > anyone knows how to find out, on a card with many native text fields > (created with mobileCreateControl), which control triggered the keyboard ? > > On the "ke

RE: keyboardActivated ... but by whom ???

2012-09-26 Thread John Dixon
mmm... maybe not, I have just read your post a little closer... sorry, I was thinking about LC text fields.. Dixie > Guglielmo.. > > I would imagine that the focusedObject would help you here as it returns the > currently focused control. > > Dixie > > > Hi, > > anyone knows how to find o

RE: keyboardActivated ... but by whom ???

2012-09-26 Thread John Dixon
Guglielmo.. The 'editing' property of the UITextfield control will tell you whether the UITextField control is being edited or not.. > Guglielmo.. > > I would imagine that the focusedObject would help you here as it returns the > currently focused control. > > Dixie > > > Hi, > > anyone kn

Re: keyboardActivated ... but by whom ???

2012-09-26 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Hi Dixie, unfortunately no ... :-( ... focusedObject() seems to work only with LiveCode controls and NOT with the native controls (I'm on iOS) created with the "mobileCreateControl". Guglielmo On 26.09.2012 17:48, John Dixon wrote: Guglielmo.. I would imagine that the focusedObject woul

Re: Android, Ubuntu, and the JDK

2012-09-26 Thread Andre Garzia
Richard, I know this is not ideal, but have you tried with Oracle JDK? (ARGH) On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Many thanks to RunRev for providing Android build support in LiveCode for > Linux. > > I was looking forward to trying that last night, but ran into a snag:

Re: keyboardActivated ... but by whom ???

2012-09-26 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
*THANKS Dixie*, yes, the solution is to use the "inputBeginEditing" native message ! :-) Regards, Guglielmo On 26.09.2012 17:55, John Dixon wrote: Guglielmo.. The 'editing' property of the UITextfield control will tell you whether the UITextField control is being edited or not.. Guglie

Re: Android, Ubuntu, and the JDK

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: Richard, I know this is not ideal, but have you tried with Oracle JDK? (ARGH) Argh indeed. After their shenanigans with Open Office and other formerly-well-stewarded projects (along with their "Please don't program in Java" lawsuit they launched against Google, which wa

Current opinion on freemium Android apps

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Miller
I have an Android app I've been selling only from my website. It works as a free version until the user enters an email address matched to a paid-for entry in a database (meaning, they can pay for the full version from my site, when then upgrades the status of their email address in a central d

Re: Format Accented Characters for URL?

2012-09-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Malte: I tried what you suggest and get the word "binary" in the result page. ??? Any other suggestions I can try? Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 9/26/12 4:03 AM, "Malte Brill" wrote: >Did you try: >put binary uniEncode("ABC") > >? > >> After gettin

Re: How to target selected field of another stack

2012-09-26 Thread Charles E Buchwald
This is just a shot in the dark: can you use the "rev" system commands intended for plugins, as shown on page 359 of the User Guide? Would that help? - Charles On 2012-09-25, at 5:42 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > I want to add a pull down menu to a small tools palette stack (B) that acts >

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Monte Goulding
Hey Todd I think what you want is andre's SQLite db library. Cheers -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! On 26/09/2012, at 11:48 PM, Todd Geist wrote: > Hello, > > I keep wanting to use hidden Data Grids, so much so that I have been > cons

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Richmond
So my question is… does anyone else feel a need for this? Do you think it is worth trying to create a control with the same Data API as the DataGrid, but with no UI? Are there any benefits to be gained over just using a hidden DataGrid. I don't know about benefits, but using a hidden DataGri

SafeWallet

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Doesn't one of the Livecode devs make the product SafeWallet? Or was that InfoWallet? Bob ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://l

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Todd Geist
Thanks but what I am looking for is not an Array. At least not just an Array. And it is not a database, although it is probably bound to a database. I am building a data binding library. I am sick to death of wiring up databases to LiveCode controls. Its all boiler plate BS and it needs to go

Re: Android, Ubuntu, and the JDK

2012-09-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin writes: > What exactly is it looking for? I really don't have a clue. There aren't any guidelines. But... > Have any of you been able to successfully set up Android building from > LC 5.5.2 under Ubuntu? Don't know about ubuntu, but in fedora it was happy when I pointed it to /

Show/hide fixed

2012-09-26 Thread lunchnmeets
Hi, Thanks to everyone that tried to help me get through this problem. It was fixed by inserting "lock messages" into the offending script. Now, I know this is forcing a solution. However, I'd really love to know which problem script got in the way. I looked at open and close stack and card s

Re: SafeWallet

2012-09-26 Thread kee nethery
InfoWallet That would be Bill Vlahos Kee On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Doesn't one of the Livecode devs make the product SafeWallet? Or was that > InfoWallet? > > Bob > > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@l

Re: Show/hide fixed

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Seems a message is being triggered that executes a rev command that fails and exits to top. I'd like to know what that is too! Bob On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:02 PM, lunchnmeets wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks to everyone that tried to help me get through this problem. It was > fixed by inserting "lock m

Re: Show/hide fixed

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Scripts do not get blocked. Lock Messages prevents the normal messages from being automatically generated, like mouseUp, openCard, etc. You can still SEND or DISPATCH those messages yourself. It just keeps the engine from automatically sending them. Bob On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:02 PM, lunchnmee

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
I don't think so Todd. Allow me to be the naysayer here. The data structure behind a datagrid is in fact an array. Working with arrays is lightening fast, and they can be fairly large, restricted by memory. If you need bigger, there's SQL. The problem with a datagrid is that the data that is "

Windows 7 Woes

2012-09-26 Thread Cal Horner
After many years of happy use with Windows XP, I and many other users were told that it was no longer supported. But you all know that. So I opened my moth-filled wallet and purchased Windows 7. Along with an upgrade to LC 5.5.2. I can hear you all say "Aha!". I have very carefully converted t

Re: Windows 7 Woes

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
I don't know what you mean my a stand-alone engine engine. Bob On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:52 PM, Cal Horner wrote: > Then I do what I always do. I generated appropriate stand-alone engine > engines for the stacks. After the engine has been generated. The IDE locks > up and I get one of those sympat

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Monte Goulding
If you work out how to get a library to listen to changes in a datagrid (which you will need to do if you want to bind it to a table) then could you post it on the list. I have a custom control (mergDataGridScroller) that needs to know when the data is changed. At the moment it requires you to d

Re: Windows 7 Woes

2012-09-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Cal Horner wrote: After many years of happy use with Windows XP, I and many other users were told that it was no longer supported. But you all know that. So I opened my moth-filled wallet and purchased Windows 7. Along with an upgrade to LC 5.5.2. I can hear you all say "Aha!". I have very

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yup. And it wasn't used because it was difficult to get it to work right or consistently. I never did. When I first began using Revolution I thought that the database binding feature was the only way to get Revolution to work with Databases, and almost quit trying, until someone on the list told

Re: Windows 7 Woes

2012-09-26 Thread Bob Sneidar
I solved a lot of problems by disabling UAC. This is clearly NOT recommended in a corporate environment. Also it will be a hard sell for a commercial product to require users to disable security features, but there it is. You may want to do that as a test to isolate if that is the issue. Bob

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Todd Geist
On Sep 26, 2012, at 3:49 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > . A datagrid without the gui is an array and an api library. Which is exactly what I want I just want it to have the same API as the data grid when appropriate Todd -- Todd Geist http://www.geistinterac

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Todd Geist
On Sep 26, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > If you work out how to get a library to listen to changes in a datagrid > (which you will need to do if you want to bind it to a table) then could you > post it on the list. I have a custom control (mergDataGridScroller) that > needs to kno

Re: SafeWallet

2012-09-26 Thread William Vlahos
Bob, Yes InfoWallet is me. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure. lcTaskList: (http://www.infowallet.com/lctasklist/index.htm) RunRev lcTaskList Forum: (http://forums.runrev.com/viewf

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Todd, I'm not sure of your timeframe but you might be interested in a product I'm working on, liquidSQL. It will eliminate the scripting and SQL statement coding for a high percentage of the functions in an application, leaving you to deal with the more complex ones. It will bind columns (incl

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Todd Geist
On Sep 26, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > If you work out how to get a library to listen to changes in a datagrid > (which you will need to do if you want to bind it to a table) then could you > post it on the list. I have a custom control (mergDataGridScroller) that > needs to know

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Monte Goulding
How disappointing. On 27/09/2012, at 11:28 AM, Todd Geist wrote: > but I don't think it is going to help you, Monte :-(. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that!

Re: DataGrids with no UI

2012-09-26 Thread Todd Geist
Umm yeah! I will be very interested. :-) Yeah this is exactly the kind of stuff that I am looking for. I wouldn't mind paying for something like this either. I'll contact you back channel on this its sounds very interesting. Todd On Sep 26, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hi To