Re: How is this in the app store

2013-05-02 Thread Geoff Canyon
Sections 2.7 and 2.8: - Apps that download code in any way or form will be rejected - Apps that install or launch other executable code will be rejected Apps like Codea (and presumably this Basic!, but I'm installing it out of curiosity) cannot load code, only export it. On

Re: How is this in the app store

2013-05-02 Thread Gerry Orkin
That seems to disallow stacks that go to other stacks in the same app? My app does that :) Gerry On 02/05/2013, at 4:10 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: Apps that install or launch other executable code will be rejected ___ use-livecode

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
On 05/02/2013 12:55 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: On May 1, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: If its 6.0.1 commercial you should be able to. But of course if its 6.0.1 commercial it should have been able to open it to begin with. If its the community version the answer would be no, that part of

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
On 05/02/2013 12:57 AM, stephen barncard wrote: If it's for your own use, why do you need to protect you stacks at all? You don't trust yourself? LOL! On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 2:55 PM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: On May 1, 2013, at 2:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
On 05/02/2013 01:46 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/1/13 5:39 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 02/05/2013, at 7:57 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: If it's for your own use, why do you need to protect you stacks at all? You don't trust yourself? That was going to be

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
On 05/02/2013 02:24 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: On May 1, 2013, at 3:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: They've been pretty up-front about the omission of the security module, it was in the Kickstarter materials. Security can't be in the community version. If it was, it would be worthless; anyone

Cheapjack development for Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
Yesterday I was running off some Youtube filmettes of my software, and I found that the easiest way to do this was by running a Windows build in WINE on Linux and using 'RecordMyDesktop'. It occurred to me then that the cheapest way to develop OSS software for Windows was to use Livecode OSS 6

[OT] Devawriter Pro

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ip5lP2rIahs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RpCOp3ZNv8 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread René Micout
Le 2 mai 2013 à 09:31, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com a écrit : I donated my widow's mite having read all the small print (think Gene Wilder in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and if you didn't you, quite frankly, have only yourself to blame. Dear Richmond, This is good for

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Richmond
On 05/02/2013 11:37 AM, René Micout wrote: Le 2 mai 2013 à 09:31, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com a écrit : I donated my widow's mite having read all the small print (think Gene Wilder in 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), and if you didn't you, quite frankly, have only yourself to

how to check a entry in a statusiconmenu

2013-05-02 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, for an app in Windows i am using the StatusIconMenu feature, which works really well. But i would like to place a checkmark or an icon before an entry in that menu. Is this possible? Tried with the special character !c to get the entry displayed as checked. But that did not work. Maybe i

Re: revOpenDatabase acting differently in IDE and standalone

2013-05-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 02.05.2013, at 00:05, Peter Haworth wrote: I don't think so - standalones are the same as any other executables, they have compiled code in them, not scripts. Just want to note that this is wrong, and standalones do contain all unencrypted scripts as clear text. They also contain field

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 02.05.2013, at 02:17, Mark Wieder wrote: No. There are no script limits and the limits on the number of frontscripts etc have also been removed. Wait what? Self modifying automatic genetic code algorithm, here we come! -- Use an alternative Dictionary viewer:

Word document indexer

2013-05-02 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Good morning LC'ers, In the good old days of using Director, I did quite a bit of work with PDF files and used a product by INM that handled PDFs beautifully. Having a tool / library like that here one day in LC would be a dream for me, however, I digress. INM had a really nice little utility

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Wait what? Self modifying automatic genetic code algorithm, here we come! See the work of Dan Ashlock (Iowa State) and others; in addition to genetic algorithms, they've done work where programs evolve. -- Dr. Richard E.

Re: how to check a entry in a statusiconmenu

2013-05-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
Hi Mattias, Not too sure this will help, but I came up against a similar problem with option menus on Win, so figured out a way to do what I needed by code, maybe you can adapt this for your use… ==Code== local sHist,sMenuText,sLabel on mouseDown lock screen --

Weird script behavior

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Hi, I've started to experience some weird stuff in the script editor. Using LC 5.0 1. Adding a breakpoint shows a grey dot with a red outline instead of the fully red dot and running scripts don't stop at that point. If I turn on Script debug mode it works, but I haven't had to do that

RE: Weird script behavior

2013-05-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
Did you turn on strict compilation mode in the prefs by mistake? Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11 Cell: 518-796-9332 -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf

Re: Weird script behavior

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
YES, it was on somehow... Thanks! Peter On May 2, 2013, at 8:57 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Did you turn on strict compilation mode in the prefs by mistake? Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11 Cell: 518-796-9332

Re: Weird script behavior

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Ralph DiMola rdimola@... writes: Did you turn on strict compilation mode in the prefs by mistake? I'd hardly classify that as a mistake g -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Generating RSA pairs

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I need to generate RSA key pairs (one pair per client). I see the openssl key generation possibility, but that's still relying on my system for randomness. I'd *like* to pull random numbers (say, from random.org) and generate the keys from those. Does anyone have any experience or suggestions

Re: how to check a entry in a statusiconmenu

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Matthias I'm not familiar with the StatusIconMenu feature (is that an LC feature or WIndows?) but I'd like to expand this thread to another aspect of checkmarks and diamonds in option menu items if I may. My experience on a Mac is that if you put a check mark against an option menu item by

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Timothy Miller
On May 2, 2013, at 12:41 AM, Richmond wrote: On 05/02/2013 02:48 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: On May 1, 2013, at 4:39 PM, stephen barncard wrote: Well, here's another smart-aleck question while I'm feeling randy. Are there script limits in the Community edition? I have no idea. Don't even

Re: revOpenDatabase acting differently in IDE and standalone

2013-05-02 Thread stephen barncard
I think Mark Wieder stated that script limits are gone now. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: On 02.05.2013, at 00:05, Peter Haworth wrote: I don't think so - standalones are the same as any other executables, they have compiled code in them, not

Re: revOpenDatabase acting differently in IDE and standalone

2013-05-02 Thread Björnke von Gierke
yes, i missed that change. but my other comments still stand :) On 02.05.2013, at 21:56, stephen barncard wrote: I think Mark Wieder stated that script limits are gone now. On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: On 02.05.2013, at 00:05, Peter Haworth

Build a standalone with 6.0.1 ???

2013-05-02 Thread John Dixon
Anyone manage to build a 'standalone application' using LC 6.0.1... It seems no problem building for the simulator, all is good... but using the same settings and trying to get a standalone throws an error... Using Mountain Lion 10.8.3, LC 6.01 community, xCode 4.6.2 Dixie

What could be better ? [Was: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1]

2013-05-02 Thread Jacques Hausser
I'm reading a lot on this list - and I'm seldom writing. Usually merely because it's too late, and somebody else has already answered better than I could do. I must say that I'm - more than slightly - surprised by some of the complaints I'm reading about the new way of life RunRev is offering to

Re: how to check a entry in a statusiconmenu

2013-05-02 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Paul, thanks for your suggestions. I don´t think i can adapt this for the statusiconmenu, but thanks anyway. I will store your code for future use when i need option menus. Regards, Matthias Am 02.05.2013 um 17:04 schrieb Paul Hibbert l...@pbh.on-rev.com: Hi Mattias, Not too sure

Re: how to check a entry in a statusiconmenu

2013-05-02 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Peter, thanks for your explanations. The status icon is an experimental feature of LC (since 4.5). For more information just search for Status icon support in the LC release notes. In the meantime i received a reply in the forum from Neil from Runrev. Checkmarks/diamonds cannot be used in

Re: how to check a entry in a statusiconmenu

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Matthias, I'll take a look - I did look in the dictionary and didn;t find anything but not surprising since it's experimental. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Peter, thanks for your

User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread dunbarx
I think I asked this a few years ago. I am using 5.5.4, but certain user notes in the dictionary do not appear unless I: Quit v.5x, Open v.4x, Close v.4x, and reopen v.5x. The user notes appear in 4, if I care to look for them. But they will not appear in 5 without that rigamarole. What

Mobile (Android) orientations

2013-05-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
I'm just starting to play with Mobile builds - so this could be the first of a series of dumb questions :-) I build a stack (one button, one field, no script at all), and build for Android (following the instructions from Colin's book). The Initial orientation is set to portrait. I can't get

Re: Mobile (Android) orientations

2013-05-02 Thread Mike Bonner
can't help with the orientation at the moment, but the problem with the virtual devices is that you've most likely selected 2.2 as your build target, and are using 2.2 virtual devices. go to 2.3 or 2.3.3. The way some of the sensors are handled in the 2.2 emulator don't work right (real devices

Re: Generating RSA pairs

2013-05-02 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 03/05/2013, at 3:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I need to generate RSA key pairs (one pair per client). I see the openssl key generation possibility, but that's still relying on my system for randomness. I'd *like* to pull random numbers (say, from random.org) and generate

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Dr. Hawkins dochawk@... writes: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 3:58 AM, Björnke von Gierke bvg@... wrote: Wait what? Self modifying automatic genetic code algorithm, here we come! See the work of Dan Ashlock (Iowa State) and others; in addition to genetic algorithms, they've done work where

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:15 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: See the work of Dan Ashlock (Iowa State) and others; in addition to genetic algorithms, they've done work where programs evolve. I did some work on genetic algorithms a couple of decades ago through the Santa Fe

Re: Password protection in non-commercial 6.0.1

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Dr. Hawkins dochawk@... writes: Ashlock is more than slightly connected to the Santa Fe Institute :) OK - that got me to take a look... as a sad commentary on things, he is no longer with Iowa State. His faculty web page there says In August I will be taking a leave of absence from Iowa State

changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Just as I thought I had things under control . . . All of my tests were with me as users. I created the role dhbk, and made it the owner of the database. I created roles inside of that for myself and my assistant. It seems, though, that I am the owner of tables as they are created. I can

Re: Generating RSA pairs

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 4:08 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.comwrote: On 03/05/2013, at 3:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: Dr. Hawkins, while using online services like random.org may provide you with a higher level of randomness, it introduces the old problem of

Re: Cheapjack development for Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: It occurred to me then that the cheapest way to develop OSS software for Windows was to use Livecode OSS 6 for Windows in WINE. Why even use WINE? I've had no issue building Windows Linux standalones from Mac (ok,

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Haworth
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried BEGIN TRANSACTION; CREATE TABLE blah bla blah; ALTER TABLE blah OWNER TO dhbk; COMMIT; and also a second transaction of just the ALTER, but I still own the tables. Not familiar with postgres but maybe single

Re: Generating RSA pairs

2013-05-02 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 03/05/2013, at 10:38 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: That's a good point. However, I only need a random number once ever per customer; it's to encrypt their license keys privileges. In a licensing situation, usually the software developer will hold the private key, and will

RE: Mobile (Android) orientations

2013-05-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
Alex, Remember also that portrait upside down and landscape left are not supported on Android 2.2 or earlier. This might account for the upside down thing. Flip it the other way in the emulator and it might just work. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services

Re: revOpenDatabase acting differently in IDE and standalone

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Haworth
I guess I'm a little surprised by that. There was a thread in November last year about this and some pretty enlightened experts on this list indicated that the format of a standalone had changed within the last year and it was no longer possible (OK, it's always possible!) to get at the scripts

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Thursday, May 2, 2013, 5:33:17 PM, you wrote: I've tried BEGIN TRANSACTION; CREATE TABLE blah bla blah; ALTER TABLE blah OWNER TO dhbk; COMMIT; Are you trying to put all that into a single sql command? I don't think you can do that from LC. That is, I don't think the execute sql

Re: Mobile (Android) orientations

2013-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/2/13 8:16 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: Alex, Remember also that portrait upside down and landscape left are not supported on Android 2.2 or earlier. This might account for the upside down thing. Flip it the other way in the emulator and it might just work. That was my first thought too, but

Re: revOpenDatabase acting differently in IDE and standalone

2013-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/2/13 8:19 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I guess I'm a little surprised by that. There was a thread in November last year about this and some pretty enlightened experts on this list indicated that the format of a standalone had changed within the last year and it was no longer possible (OK, it's

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/2/13 5:51 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I think I asked this a few years ago. I am using 5.5.4, but certain user notes in the dictionary do not appear unless I: Quit v.5x, Open v.4x, Close v.4x, and reopen v.5x. The user notes appear in 4, if I care to look for them. But they will not

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:59 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Not familiar with postgres but maybe single quotes around dhbk? No, not needed--this is the command I use from psql, and that works. (I do find some of when quotes are required prohibited inconsistent . . .) -- Dr.

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 6:27 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Are you trying to put all that into a single sql command? I don't think you can do that from LC. That is, I don't think the execute sql statement supports multiple catenated statements. Do either the executeSql or

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Haworth
Good point. The dictionary is kinda confusing on this. It says do not include a semicolon at the end of the statement, then says some sql systems are capable of executing multiple statements, which presumably means terminating each one with a semicolon. I guess it means no semicolon at the end

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Good point. The dictionary is kinda confusing on this. It says do not include a semicolon at the end of the statement, then says some sql systems are capable of executing multiple statements, which presumably means

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Haworth
I assume psql is the command line interface for postgres? If dbhk is a string value, it needs delimiters around it otherwise it will be treated as an identifier. It's possible psql supplies them but lc won't. On May 2, 2013 7:11 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, May 2, 2013 at

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread dunbarx
Jacque. Sort and sort container as examples. And dang it. I wrote those. Craig -Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thu, May 2, 2013 10:11 pm Subject: Re: User notes in dictionary On 5/2/13

Re: changing table owners in postgres from livecode

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I assume psql is the command line interface for postgres? If dbhk is a string value, it needs delimiters around it otherwise it will be treated as an identifier. It's possible psql supplies them but lc won't. but a table name

Re: Cheapjack development for Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:51 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: It is recommended not to build Win and Linux on Mac because it will mean when they open a heap of MacToISOing will go on. ??? What is that? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/2/13 10:04 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Jacque. Sort and sort container as examples. And dang it. I wrote those. Yup, both are missing here. I didn't do the 4.x dance, but the notes aren't in 5.5.4 when I look. I don't know why. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Cheapjack development for Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Monte Goulding
On 03/05/2013, at 1:20 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: What is that? Character encoding. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/02/2013 10:04 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Sort and sort container as examples. And dang it. I wrote those. Craig Running Linux here. Just tried this in 5.5.4 and initially the user notes did not appear under these entries, just as you find. However, clicking on the area they should

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/2/13 10:30 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 05/02/2013 10:04 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Sort and sort container as examples. And dang it. I wrote those. Craig Running Linux here. Just tried this in 5.5.4 and initially the user notes did not appear under these entries, just as you find.

Re: User notes in dictionary

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- Thursday, May 2, 2013, 8:04:38 PM, you wrote: Sort and sort container as examples. And dang it. I wrote those. They both show up fine here. Linux mint 14, LC 5.5.4 -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list