Re: revOnline down again?

2013-02-14 Thread Kevin Miller
I assume this is some sort of test, to see how patient I really am first thing in the morning before coffee. [Snip sarcastic remark. Do I pass the test?] Mark, the team have responded on 33 bug reports this week. If you have a problem with some aspect of our software or services, please file one.

How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Graham Samuel
I realise this is a fairly dumb question, but I couldn't find anything in the usual RunRev docs: in a desktop app which will run on Mac or Windows, and maybe on Linux too, how do I offer the user some form of a system palette for choosing colors (or indeed colours, as we Europeans say)? I see

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
answer color On 14/02/2013, at 8:15 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: I realise this is a fairly dumb question, but I couldn't find anything in the usual RunRev docs: in a desktop app which will run on Mac or Windows, and maybe on Linux too, how do I offer the user some form of a

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Graham, Have you checked : answer color ? HTH, Thierry 2013/2/14 Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com I realise this is a fairly dumb question, but I couldn't find anything in the usual RunRev docs: in a desktop app which will run on Mac or Windows, and maybe on Linux too, how do I offer

teaching LiveCode?

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi I happened to see a tweet from RunRev to code.org so I posted my AppIsle course there. Anyone teaching LiveCode should post their course on code.org. Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that!

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Monte, How many fingers do you have ? Quicker than me :) Regards, Thierry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Aha... my answer was shorter though.. maybe it was as polite as yours it would have come in second ;-) On 14/02/2013, at 8:20 PM, Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com wrote: How many fingers do you have ? -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Thierry and Monte. Knew it was a dumb question, but I didn't guess that I'd get two answers in two minutes! Graham On 14 Feb 2013, at 10:20, Thierry Douez wrote: Hi Monte, How many fingers do you have ? Quicker than me :) Regards, Thierry

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Graham, 2013/2/14 Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com Thanks Thierry and Monte. Knew it was a dumb question, but I didn't guess that I'd get two answers in two minutes! Pledge at KickStarter, and later, you'll have answers in 2 seconds :) Thierry ___

Re: text file import charsets - whats wrong

2013-02-14 Thread Marek Niesiobedzki
Check uniEncode and uniDecode functions in Dictionary. They will convert file encoding from/to internal UTF-16 used in LC. Marek ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Campaign update

2013-02-14 Thread Kevin Miller
Yes, we tried to connect it to the RunRev page but it doesn't let you. It can only be connected to a person, which is not what we want to do. I guess its easy enough to find our FB page if you look for it. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode:

Re: Campaign update

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks, Kevin. Any ideas of what we could do to get more coverage outside the LC community, besides what is already listed? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK:

Re: Campaign update

2013-02-14 Thread René Micout
Le 14 févr. 2013 à 00:06, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com a écrit : As promised, here is a summary of the coverage so far: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmyCYc1cXUZodGMxbExYNVVsVDVkcU k2aTZPdHV5Qmcusp=sharing There should be lots more to come. Kind regards, Kevin

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-14 Thread Mike Kerner
like, like, like The grammar is amazing and anybody who's ever written a parser or a compiler will know how hard this can be, but will also recognize how awesome it is. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:18 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Lol... I guess you'd want to be careful

Re: How do I invoke a system color palette?

2013-02-14 Thread Graham Samuel
I've pledged. And other stuff. I regret I can't find other people to pledge outside of this list, tho I'm still trying. Looking forward to the two-second response! G On 14 Feb 2013, at 10:34, Thierry Douez wrote: Hi Graham, 2013/2/14 Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com Thanks Thierry and

Re: Campaign update

2013-02-14 Thread Kevin Miller
Thanks for this. If you know any editors or bloggers you can continue to message them about us. I don't mean spam them, I just mean gentle pressure. Some of these folks are incredibly busy and need a little followup. We will also be releasing a new news story shortly (this one is about education

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 1:18 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Lol... I guess you'd want to be careful not to bloat the engine with syntax for edge cases but I get your point. I like: From a technical standpoint, if I understand how RR is planning to handle language

Re: Campaign update

2013-02-14 Thread Roger Eller
Here's a RAD idea. Most local printed newspapers have an editorial column where anyone can just write about their interests. If many of us could submit articles about the possibility of regular folk being able to learn programming FOR FREE, it may encourage at least a hobbyist uptake. Of

KS related Google search tip

2013-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
In checking for any news about LiveCode you might go to Google and type in something that is likely to get a lot of results. For example: livecode kickstarter give 385,000 results, most of which are not so new. But, if you click on Search Tools, and select Any Time/Past 24 hours, there are

Re: revOnline down again?

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Kevin- Thursday, February 14, 2013, 1:04:48 AM, you wrote: I assume this is some sort of test, to see how patient I really am first thing in the morning before coffee. [Snip sarcastic remark. Do I pass the test?] Mark, the team have responded on 33 bug reports this week. If you have a

Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Sneidar
I can tell you why I haven't pledged. I am out of work! Now if someone wants to hire me as an in house developer, why that is a different story... Bob On Feb 13, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 14/02/2013, at 7:48 AM, Pierre Sahores s...@sahores-conseil.com wrote: Less than

about the GPL version, and password protection...

2013-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Some questions came up on the call about why the GPL version can't have the password protection code in it. It seems obvious to me why that would be the case, but maybe there's a complication I'm not seeing? The value of password protecting a stack is that you can produce proprietary code that

Re: LiveCode has a new eye on the earth

2013-02-14 Thread Robert Sneidar
I don't think the world needs less bitchers, I don't think that is possible. What the world needs is far fewer people who listen to them. :-) Hey! That is going on my Facebook page! Bob On Feb 13, 2013, at 2:24 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: Lotus Notes was basically destroyed by professional

Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
A future world where everyone is using LiveCode is also one where more people will be hired to program in LiveCode. You could invest in your own future. On Feb 14, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Robert Sneidar slylab...@me.com wrote: I can tell you why I haven't pledged. I am out of work! Now if someone

Re: about the GPL version, and password protection...

2013-02-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/14/13 12:11 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Some questions came up on the call about why the GPL version can't have the password protection code in it. It seems obvious to me why that would be the case, but maybe there's a complication I'm not seeing? No, I think you understand it. I seems

Re: about the GPL version, and password protection...

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Is there a transcript anywhere for those of us that were sound asleep? -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?

2013-02-14 Thread Judy Perry
Thank you, Peter. This gets me closer. Oddly enough, my Amtrak train wifi connection filter is blocking out the site, so I'll have to check out the rest of it when I get to work ;-) Judy On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Peter W A Wood wrote: This probably isn't what you're looking for but it may help

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
On 15/02/2013, at 3:11 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: From a technical standpoint, if I understand how RR is planning to handle language extensions, this would be more of a library thing than an engine thing. You'd be able to load grammars selectively. It's an interesting point. I

£310 deal is a steal for any commercial user (was Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode)

2013-02-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 13/02/2013 20:53, Monte Goulding wrote: On 14/02/2013, at 7:48 AM, Pierre Sahores s...@sahores-conseil.com wrote: Less than 70 peoples to pledge at least for £ 640 ? Seems reasonably impossible, is't ? Do we all needs to act now to encourage confident new pledges along the two for coming

Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?

2013-02-14 Thread Judy Perry
Thank you, Devin. On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, Devin Asay wrote: 2. If and where the 30-day free trial went (link). It appears to be a 60-day trial now: http://www.runrev.com/Get-Started/ Devin ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: about the GPL version, and password protection...

2013-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
They were debating where to post the recording. It was recorded thought. On Feb 14, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Is there a transcript anywhere for those of us that were sound asleep? ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Name of UK Tech Initiative?

2013-02-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/02/2013 05:19, Judy Perry wrote: I seem to recall that in the last year or so, there was a UK STEM initiative to introduce programming in the schools but I've lost the link and was wondering if any of you possibly had it? I'm afraid that initiative is a bit optimistic - after years in

Re: £310 deal is a steal for any commercial user (was Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode)

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
On 15/02/2013, at 7:09 AM, Ben Rubinstein benr...@cogapp.com wrote: On 13/02/2013 20:53, Monte Goulding wrote: On 14/02/2013, at 7:48 AM, Pierre Sahores s...@sahores-conseil.com wrote: Less than 70 peoples to pledge at least for £ 640 ? Seems reasonably impossible, is't ? Do we all

Re: about the GPL version, and password protection...

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
OK, interested to see it. On 15/02/2013, at 7:14 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: They were debating where to post the recording. It was recorded thought. -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that!

KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks to a generous £2,147 that just appeared. 29.13%. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Kickstarter £100K milestone reached!

2013-02-14 Thread Devin Asay
The Kickstarter campaign just topped the £100K mark. Congrats, RunRev, on a significant milestone. Let's all redouble our efforts (and pledges) to reach the goal! Regards, Devin Devin Asay Office of Digital Humanities Brigham Young University ___

Re: Kickstarter £100K milestone reached!

2013-02-14 Thread Heather Laine
Hear Hear!! We can do it. Heather On 14 Feb 2013, at 20:41, Devin Asay wrote: The Kickstarter campaign just topped the £100K mark. Congrats, RunRev, on a significant milestone. Let's all redouble our efforts (and pledges) to reach the goal! Regards, Devin Devin Asay Office of

PowerTools push to KickStarter

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Wieder
I think Mark S. has a great idea, and I'll see his contribution and raise it a level. We're in the final two weeks of the KickStarter push now. I've had the PowerTools plugin at the introductory price of $30 for a while, so it's about time to raise it to its regular price. I'll do that on 1 March

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin Holgate coiin@... writes: Thanks to a generous £2,147 that just appeared. 29.13%. OMG - Lifetime commercial license for a £2400 contribution. That should get some adrenaline pumping. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___

bug check

2013-02-14 Thread Mike Kerner
Could someone else please confirm these for me? I'm building an ios app 1) Edit a script of an object 2) Hit the Test button.without first hitting enter or saving the change to the script. The indicator for the script status should be yellow LC doesn't ask to save the stack, it seems, and runs

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-14 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: Planned Open Source Contributions ENGINE - Mobile sockets - engine (Monte) - Nested behaviors so you can set the behavior of a behavior (Monte) - Getting the long id of an icon/pattern given the context of the object it's

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
On 15/02/2013, at 8:16 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Thanks to a generous £2,147 that just appeared. 29.13%. OMG - Lifetime commercial license for a £2400 contribution. That should get some adrenaline pumping. 3 already pushing us very close to 30% -- M E R Goulding Software development

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Andre Garzia
If I had that amount of money, I would buy it in a heart beat but so far, all I could sum up was 702 GBP. :-/ On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:31 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 15/02/2013, at 8:16 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Thanks to a generous £2,147 that just appeared.

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
LIBRARIES + Make SQL Yoga available under a dual license (maybe what Jan did for PDF?) and implementing a readable syntax using Open Language once it is available. (Trevor) Awesome... I'm very seriously considering the same for mergExt or at least some of it but with apple not allowing GPL

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
On 15/02/2013, at 8:32 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: If I had that amount of money, I would buy it in a heart beat but so far, all I could sum up was 702 GBP. :-/ If everyone did what you did Andre the target would be a walk in the park. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Monte Goulding monte@... writes: 3 already pushing us very close to 30% That's 3 per hour. At that rate we'll easily make the goal. Every KickStarter project I've contributed to so far as been successfully funded, and I'm not looking to break the mold now.

Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Bernard Devlin
Peter, this came up on another thread here in the past few days, and it I think the guy who wrote it was fairly new to LiveCode. If you follow the discussion on the forum, he didn't know about things like repeat for each optimisations.

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:39 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Monte Goulding monte@... writes: 3 already pushing us very close to 30% That's 3 per hour. At that rate we'll easily make the goal. Every KickStarter project I've contributed to so far as been successfully

Re: What do you want to contribute?

2013-02-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: In my example I used each line OF x rather than each line IN x. I often get caught on repeat for each line X IN y when I write OF. Could I add OF to the repeat syntax so it didn't matter? It seems natural to me

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre Garzia andre@... writes: I've been successful with my backings too http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/746206830 oo... LightTable... I could have sworn that was on my list as well... must have gotten distracted... -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: revOnline down again?

2013-02-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Kevin Miller kevin@... writes: The team are working on this now. I can assure you this was queue in response to your ticket and not simply because you posted on here :) ...and I suppose it's also just coincidence that 5.5.4 was released today? g Seriously, though, revOnline has been down

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 8:40 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Andre Garzia andre@... writes: I've been successful with my backings too http://www.kickstarter.com/profile/746206830 oo... LightTable... I could have sworn that was on my list as well... must have gotten

Which Windows 7 Version

2013-02-14 Thread Marty Knapp
I'm wanting to get Windows 7 to install in Parallels on my Mac - mostly for testing LC apps that I'm building. Any recommendations as to which version I should get? Thanks for any input. Best regards, Marty Knapp Knappster Solutions LLC --- www.CheckBuilderPro.com

Valentine's Day 2013: Paradigma Releases Free Valentina Studio 5; Valentina 5 Enterprise Reports Server

2013-02-14 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hey all, Scroll down for the full monty press release, and yes, it really has been 15 years :-) Here's the short form, first for FREE stuff: - We've released Valentina Studio 5 for free. It's received a year of polishing, and now works with MySQL, Postgre, SQLite and of course, Valentina. Yes,

Re: bug check

2013-02-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/14/13 3:18 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Could someone else please confirm these for me? I'm building an ios app 1) Edit a script of an object 2) Hit the Test button.without first hitting enter or saving the change to the script. The indicator for the script status should be yellow LC doesn't

30%

2013-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
30.01%, thanks to another of those £315 pledges. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: bug check

2013-02-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Oh yeah. That's an old one. Gerry On 15/02/2013, at 8:18 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: LC doesn't ask to save the stack, it seems, and runs the stack in the simulator without the changes. That seems like a bug. ___ use-livecode

Re: KS: £100K

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
30% wohoo! On 15/02/2013, at 8:31 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: 3 already pushing us very close to 30% -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external for that! ___

Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Peter W A Wood
Bernard I need the creator of the app to write the posts, I can't tell the story behind them from a screenshot. I merely edit them so that the have a common look and feel. Peter On 15 Feb 2013, at 05:57, Bernard Devlin wrote: Peter, this came up on another thread here in the past few days,

Re: 1001 things you can do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Peter W A Wood
Bob Good luck with the job hunting. It wold be great if you could get a new one by the end of the month. Perhaps you could think about contributing a screen shot of something you've written in LiveCode. I'm sure the 1001 things you can do with LiveCode blog can help interest others in

Please can you help increase the number of visitors to 1001 things to do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Peter W A Wood
On Wednesday, there were 301 page views of 1001 things to do with LiveCode'. Yesterday, it went up to 500. I hope that the number of page views will increase every day until at least the end of the LiveCode Open Source Kickstarter campaign. I'd really appreciate any help you could give me in

Re: Please can you help increase the number of visitors to 1001 things to do with LiveCode

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
I just facebooked it. You should probably put the kickstarter widget on there. On 15/02/2013, at 4:04 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: On Wednesday, there were 301 page views of 1001 things to do with LiveCode'. Yesterday, it went up to 500. I hope that the number of page views will increase every

[ANN] mergExt - iOS 6.1

2013-02-14 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders I have just uploaded new versions of all 23 of my externals to include device and simulator builds for iOS 6.1. I have also updated my builds of the RunRev externals available (along with mergMicrophone my open source version of rremicrophone and mergAnswerColor) under a free