Re: iPad Retina Splash Screen in LC6.1.1

2013-09-18 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Randy I wonder if this is bug 10517 coming back? http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10517 http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10517 If I remember correctly there was nothing I could do at the time but wait for RunRev to issue a fix (which they did pretty quickly) - have you

NAPP Drawer and blurred backgrounds and overlays

2013-09-18 Thread Erik Beugelaar
Hi All, Has anyone of you experience how to setup a NAPP Drawer (e.g. Current stack window moves out of the screen to the left and the new stack window will slide in from the right) in LiveCode? The same question for blurred backgrounds and overlay. Any example is welcome. Regards, Erik

Re: Converting Python

2013-09-18 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'm on Waddinghams side here. Do as other language is integrated with the alternateLanguages. If something isn't in the alternateLanguages, it does not belong into do as other language. So what you'd probably need to convince him (and me) of, is to find a reliable way to get available languages

Re: NAPP Drawer and blurred backgrounds and overlays

2013-09-18 Thread William de Smet
Hi Erik, The only way I can think off for now is that you have to work with groups to make this happen. You slide them left or right. greetings, William 2013/9/18 Erik Beugelaar ebeugel...@gmail.com Hi All, Has anyone of you experience how to setup a NAPP Drawer (e.g. Current stack

PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Ray Horsley
Sorry to bring this topic back up again but it seems there's no solution for this. Installing QuickTime on Windows does not display PDF's in a player object. This is odd since this works wonderfully on a Mac. Yrying to display PDF's in a browser object opens Adobe's Reader which, in Windows'

Scorm

2013-09-18 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, Has anybody made SCORM compliant livecode modules? It would be wonderful to find a template or helper app to create one. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Andrew Kluthe
In the past I have used pre-rolled command line utilities for that. I am not sure if this is the specific one I use, but I used imagemagick before to accomplish this as well. http://www.pdftron.com/pdf2image/ That particular utility is cross platform i believe. Andrew On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at

Re: Dropbox Library Update

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Kerner
In case anybody is having troubles with the library, Trevor found a bug - when Gugliermo and I were going back and forth with this version, he wound up with an intermediate version that had a couple of extra encoding lines (whoops, my bad). If you can wait, he's going to release the update

MDM and LC

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Kerner
I WANT this: http://www.csoonline.com/article/739938/mobile-device-management-companies-get-more-app-control-on-ios-7?source=CSONLE_nlt_salted_hash_2013-09-18 We are writing apps for mobile for ourselves and our business partners. MDM would make everyone feel better about all of it. -- On the

determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
If selectedLine() is 1, I am in the first line of a field. I can't tell, though, what the last line is--the number of lines relies on CR, not how the field is actually formatted. I've looked for other line entries in the dictionary, but without any luck. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702)

A possible improvement of Livetalk

2013-09-18 Thread jbv
Hi list, In an old app I am modifying, I use several arrays and one of them is 2-dimensional, and I actually forgot that... So I kept trying put myArray[b] but it returned empty every time. I should have written put the keys of myArray[b] of course. So that made me think that it would be nice,

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Sep 18, 2013, at 9:22 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: If selectedLine() is 1, I am in the first line of a field. I can't tell, though, what the last line is--the number of lines relies on CR, not how the field is actually formatted. I've looked for other line entries in the dictionary, but

Re: Scorm

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, I looked into Scorm years ago and concluded that the format isn't too difficult to figure out. That is the only advantage. We'd have to write a complete library to read and write Scorm files, because currently there is nothing available for LiveCode that can do this. -- Best

Re: Dropbox Library Update

2013-09-18 Thread Roger Eller
Mike, Thanks for the update. I believe this is what was making my image files not viewable after writing to Dropbox. I've removed the line in my copy of the lib. ~Roger On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: In case anybody is having troubles with the

Dropbox Library update 1.07

2013-09-18 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Thanks to *Trevor DeVore*, a new version (*1.07*) of the phxDropboxLib, solving two URLencoding problems and adding a new nice function (phx_DropboxCreateLinkToFile), is available. You can download the new version still from the same link :

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure what you mean, how the field is actually formatted. If you are talking about possibly having empty lines following the last text in the field, then the number of lines of (word 1 to -1 of fld myField) would

XML Newbie Woes

2013-09-18 Thread Graham Samuel
I have been asked to do some work on some GPX files: these files originate from GPS devices, and are in XML format. I've never had to deal with XML before, so I have been trying to learn how to do so from the LC user manual - from about page 189. There is a sample XML file and a discussion of

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread dunbarx
Try this: answer the formattedText of fld yourField It wraps unwrapped text with hard returns, and that will give the last line Craig -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Wed, Sep 18, 2013 11:23 am

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, There are probably many ways to do this, Here's one: put number of lines of the formattedText of \ char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of me -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com

Re: RevMail

2013-09-18 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I believe I solved this issue. Instead of using commas in-between the quotes, use semi-colons, just as Outlook would so it would read like this: revMail te...@test.com;te...@test.com,te...@test.com;te...@test.com, Subject here, This is my message Having said that, I think I have abandoned

Re: XML Newbie Woes

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Graham- Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 9:19:50 AM, you wrote: metadata / ... The file seems to be well-formed, apart from the fact that the first child node is found by revXML to be gpx/metadata, and I can't see the closure for the metadata tag at the other end of the document. In fact

standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Colin Holgate
I’m doing a demo tonight, and will be showing LiveCode. I wanted to show how you can publish to Windows and Linux, and I can open the exe in Windows 8 ok. But in Ubuntu it seems to be trying to interpret it as a zip file. Is there something I have to do to the application before using it on

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Roger Eller
You have to turn on the executable bit. Look at properties, permissions. Or use chmod. ~Roger On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: I’m doing a demo tonight, and will be showing LiveCode. I wanted to show how you can publish to Windows and Linux, and I can

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: I’m doing a demo tonight, and will be showing LiveCode. I wanted to show how you can publish to Windows and Linux, and I can open the exe in Windows 8 ok. But in Ubuntu it seems to be trying to interpret it as a zip file. Is there something I have to do to the

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Where is properties? It’s not in the contextual menu. On Sep 18, 2013, at 2:35 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: You have to turn on the executable bit. Look at properties, permissions. Or use chmod. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Found it. The icon had deselected and I was seeing the Desktop menu. Thanks, the change fixed the issue. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 11:35:06 AM, Roger wrote: You have to turn on the executable bit. Look at properties, permissions. Or use chmod. And how are you getting the file onto the linux system? If you zip the file on your native system and then unzip it on the linux target the

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: This software can be controlled by LiveCode using shell commands to its command-line interface. http://www.softinterface.com/Convert-PDF-To-Image/Convert-PDF-To-Tiff.htm Windows only. -- Stephen Barncard

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Drag and drop. The wonders of Parallels… On Sep 18, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: And how are you getting the file onto the linux system? If you zip the file on your native system and then unzip it on the linux target the executable bit should be preserved

Weird script problem where can I find a Livecode developer?

2013-09-18 Thread Lars Brehmer
I have an interesting problem. But I must first say that I have often experienced a script that doesn't work properly at first but then after going through it once in debugging mode with no errors it subsequently DOES work without making any changes whatsoever. I don't know if anyone else has

iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread John Dixon
After downloading iOS7 onto my iphone and looking at it for a while... I am afraid that I have come to the conclusion that it is not good... it looks like a child in first year art class has designed the look and feel... Ive might have designed some nice hardware but he should have left the

Re: iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi John That's not to good, they said they were going to tone down the interface. It sounds like to me that it might be a case of the OS being overloaded and not able to manage the older interface. Thank you Vaughn Clement Apps by Vaughn Clement (Support)

Re: iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Kerner
I've been using 7 since the first beta, and it's sort-of grown on me. The parts that make me roll my eyes are countered by new features. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: After downloading iOS7 onto my iphone and looking at it for a while... I am afraid

Re: determining if cursor is in last line of a field

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: put number of lines of the formattedText of \ char 1 to (word 2 of the selectedChunk) of me Ah. Obvious now that you mention it :) Thank you. And to make me feel *really* sheepish: I was

Re: Weird script problem where can I find a Livecode developer?

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
Lars- Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 12:37:27 PM, you wrote: Besides that, I thought I remembered on an older version of the RunRev site a place where Runrev developers could make their paid services available and people like me needing help and are willing to pay for it could find them. Or

Re: standalones and Linux...

2013-09-18 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: Drag and drop. The wonders of Parallels… Well, no wonder. g On Sep 18, 2013, at 3:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: And how are you getting the file onto the linux system? If you zip the file on your native system and then unzip it on the

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: This software can be controlled by LiveCode using shell commands to its command-line interface.

Re: A possible improvement of Livetalk

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
jbv- Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 8:28:46 AM, you wrote: So that made me think that it would be nice, like in php, that Livetalk would return Array in the 1st case... That would have saved me some precious time looking for a bug. What do you think ? if myArray is an array then ... --

Re: A possible improvement of Livetalk

2013-09-18 Thread jbv
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:28 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: What do you think ? If it's a two-dimensional array, myArray[a] should return a one-dimensional array. If you're getting empty, than there's another issue . . . I think I wasn't clear enough : I used put myArray[a] to

Re: A possible improvement of Livetalk

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:28 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: What do you think ? If it's a two-dimensional array, myArray[a] should return a one-dimensional array. If you're getting empty, than there's another issue . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 7:56 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: In the past I have used pre-rolled command line utilities for that. I am not sure if this is the specific one I use, but I used imagemagick before to accomplish this as well. Also, imageMagick is under a non-viral license,

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread stephen barncard
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: Yep. That would seem to meet the requirement of the request by the OP: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8. my reasoning was to include that info in the archives to save someone time in a search for Mac or x-platform

Re: A possible improvement of Livetalk

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Wieder
jbv- Wednesday, September 18, 2013, 1:36:52 PM, you wrote: I think I wasn't clear enough : I used put myArray[a] to display the content in the message box, and since nothing was displayed I thought there was a bug or a coding issue. For that reason having Array displayed instead would

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:48 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Yep. That would seem to meet the requirement of the request by the OP: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8. my reasoning was to include that info in the archives to save someone time

Re: iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi Does anyone know if LiveCode is IOS 7 ready? Or do we have to wait for LiveCode updates? Thank you Vaughn Clement Apps by Vaughn Clement (Support) *http://www.appsbyvaughnclement.com/tools/home-page/* Skype: vaughn.clement https://secure.join.me/appsbyvclement FaceTime: vclem...@gmail.com

Re: iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread Colin Holgate
I found out today that it doesn’t seem to like Xcode 5, which may mean it will be hard to use iOS 7 specific features. But LiveCode apps do work if put onto an iOS 7 device using Xcode 4.6. On Sep 18, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Vaughn Clement vclem...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Does anyone know if

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Ray Horsley
Many thanks for these suggestions! With PDF's being used so broadly does anybody else feel that this would be a worthwhile addition to Livecode? Imagine simply being able to read a PDF file into an array, or being able to write an array out to a file to create a PDF. On Sep 18, 2013, at 4:52

Re: iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread Monte Goulding
On 19/09/2013, at 7:11 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: I found out today that it doesn’t seem to like Xcode 5, which may mean it will be hard to use iOS 7 specific features. But LiveCode apps do work if put onto an iOS 7 device using Xcode 4.6. You will need to wait for RunRev

Re: iOS 7

2013-09-18 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi Monte Thanks for the update on the availability to IOS 7. Thank you Vaughn Clement Apps by Vaughn Clement (Support) *http://www.appsbyvaughnclement.com/tools/home-page/* Skype: vaughn.clement https://secure.join.me/appsbyvclement FaceTime: vclem...@gmail.com LogMeIn also avaialble Call on

Re: Scorm

2013-09-18 Thread proth...@earthednet.org
Mark, For educators whose students use an LMS, like Moodle, a SCORM library would be very useful. I don't know how many livecode folks would need it, but for college education apps, it seems this capability could be pertinent. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Sep 18,

Re: PDF's to PNG's on Windows 8

2013-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 2:22 PM, Ray Horsley r...@linkit.com wrote: Many thanks for these suggestions! With PDF's being used so broadly does anybody else feel that this would be a worthwhile addition to Livecode? Imagine simply being able to read a PDF file into an array, or being able to

Re: Scorm

2013-09-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, I've had several requests, but when I reply that hiring a developer costs money, educators are suddenly no longer interested. Not that this surprises me. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com