MSG command line use bug in 6.X ?

2013-10-12 Thread Christer Pyyhtiä
There is a difference between 5.5..4 and 6.1.1 (have not tested the -rc versions) as follows. I have a function in the code, which I call from the MSG box command line, works fine in 5.5.4. In 6.1.1 get an error message 'Can't find handler'. This applies all the functions. However, if I add

Re: MSG command line use bug in 6.X ?

2013-10-12 Thread Richmond
On 10/12/2013 10:35 AM, Christer Pyyhtiä wrote: There is a difference between 5.5..4 and 6.1.1 (have not tested the -rc versions) as follows. I have a function in the code, which I call from the MSG box command line, works fine in 5.5.4. In 6.1.1 get an error message 'Can't find handler'.

Trapping for mouseDown on the desktop on a Mac

2013-10-12 Thread Ray
On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the current stack window goes inactive, thus triggering the suspendStack message. I use this to create a field which then accepts dragDrops. However, this is different on a Mac. The current stack window on a Mac waits until the

Play mp3 on linux ?

2013-10-12 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, I work on an multi platform open source stack that need to play wma or mp3 (voices memos from an dictaphone). Even with dontuseQT true, nothing happen under linux (ubuntu 12). What i missed ? Thanks ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Trapping for mouseDown on the desktop on a Mac

2013-10-12 Thread Phil Davis
Have you tried using 'suspend' instead of 'mouseDown' and 'suspendStack'? Should work the same on both platforms (famous last words!). Phil On 10/12/13 6:31 AM, Ray wrote: On Windows the instant there is a 'mouseDown' on the desktop the current stack window goes inactive, thus triggering the

Re: Trapping for mouseDown on the desktop on a Mac

2013-10-12 Thread Ray
Phil - thanks for the suggestion but I just tried it and no-can-do. For some reason, and this is a Mac-only behavior, when I mouseDown on the desktop I can't see any messages at all which are sent to Livecode. The suspend message is sent if I mouseDown on another stack, but not on a file on

Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Richmond
Why do I feel that RunRev have been scraping the barrel recently? I wonder if the, unintended, result of their open source initiative is that their income has dropped considerably; hence the rather childish adverts. My e-mail inboxes (I have 2 e-mail addresses that are personal and one for

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Ray
I don't know Richmond - I kind of disagree with you, albeit respectfully so. You've apparently taken some time to write down your concerns here and that's to be respected. I'd just create a junk mail filter and be done with it. Actually, I'd kind of like to see the masses get into scripting

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Richmond
On 10/12/2013 09:56 PM, Ray wrote: I don't know Richmond - I kind of disagree with you, albeit respectfully so. You've apparently taken some time to write down your concerns here and that's to be respected. I'd just create a junk mail filter and be done with it. That will block out the

Re: MSG command line use bug in 6.X ?

2013-10-12 Thread Devin Asay
On Oct 12, 2013, at 1:35 AM, Christer Pyyhtiä wrote: There is a difference between 5.5..4 and 6.1.1 (have not tested the -rc versions) as follows. I have a function in the code, which I call from the MSG box command line, works fine in 5.5.4. In 6.1.1 get an error message 'Can't find

Re: Play mp3 on linux ?

2013-10-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: Hello, I work on an multi platform open source stack that need to play wma or mp3 (voices memos from an dictaphone). Even with dontuseQT true, nothing happen under linux (ubuntu 12). What i missed ? Thanks Are you using the player object?

Re: Play mp3 on linux ?

2013-10-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: linux (ubuntu 12). What i missed ? Thanks One additional note; you may find that you have to take special precautions to terminate your app and the mplayer process. Closing the app window may not actually end one or both of the processes.

Re: MSG command line use bug in 6.X ?

2013-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: It turns out that you can still call functions directly from the message box, but the form you have to use has changed. Prior to 6.x you would do this: put myFunction(foo) Now you don't have to (indeed you cannot) embed the function in a put statement:

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Walt Brown
Richmond, Maybe they just hired an enthusiastic, fresh-out, naïve marketing person, for whom we should cut some slack :-) Or maybe the Scottish Valley Girls need to do SOMETHING to justify their expense to Inland Revenue... Walt On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Richmond

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi I would be more concerned that they were not trying to do ads and did not watch the cash flow. It sounds like they are doing the things they need to do to be a business. My one thing is that they treat everyone equal. For example I paid for training that was $100.00 to learn things that should

Re: The LifeCode of LiveCode

2013-10-12 Thread ha...@exformedia.se
The movie is built with a program called gource (another open source app) that builds the movie out of the git commit log. There isn't actually much I did to make the video just called gource from within my clone setting some parameters and piping it to ffmpeg that created the movie. The music

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/12/13 2:18 PM, Richmond wrote: I'm all in favour of more people learning how to program computers. What I am not in favour of is giving people the false impression that it does involve quite a bit of time adf effort. You mean doesn't involve I think. I can only think of all those

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/12/13 4:53 PM, Vaughn Clement wrote: Now 2 weeks after I paid for the programs one of them is now offered for free. Most companies would check back a refund the fees for any user who paid within the last 30 days. Now I feel that I am not being treated equal to the people who are getting

RE: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Lynn Fredricks
RunRev produce a fantastic product; a product that can produce simple Powerpoint-like slideshows to incredibly complicated stuff (my Devawriter being about 25% along that line); so advertising Livecode like this is just doing RunRev a disservice. I have noticed an uptick in email

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Phil Davis
I love real love stories. On 10/12/13 4:01 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Like me. One of the best gifts my husband ever gave me was a pocket protector as acknowledgement that I'd arrived. ;-) -- Phil Davis ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Roger Eller
On Oct 13, 2013 7:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I can only think of all those people who didn't know they could program, and who never in a million years thought they'd want to, back when HyperCard came out. Suddenly everyone was a programmer, even the morons. Must you be so harsh as you

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2013 7:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I can only think of all those people who didn't know they could program, and who never in a million years thought they'd want to, back when HyperCard came out. Suddenly everyone was a programmer, even

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Roger Eller
Really, mine too! Although I used a HyperCard clone called Foundation on my Amiga 500. ~Roger On Oct 13, 2013 9:07 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: On Oct 13, 2013 7:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I can only think of all those

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Mike Kerner
Anybody CAN learn how to program with many languages (BASIC is another one that comes to mind), but that doesn't mean you can learn to do it well. We used to have this same sort of debate on the HC usenet group 20+ years ago. Here's what frequently happens, though: someone new comes to the

Re: MSG command line use bug in 6.X ?

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: I would call it a bug, since both forms should work. It's definitely a bug. Has it been entered yet? I can enter the fix into the bug's comments if so. Unfortunately, the team still isn't accepting pull requests for the IDE (this is October), so I can't fix

Re: Be This Guy

2013-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: Anyone can write a novel, too, by the way. That doesn't demean the knowledge of folks who are experts using it. That's a typewriter usability issue. Once typewriter designers care enough about end-users to improve things, we'll all be Steinbecks. :) -- Richard Gaskin

Re: set cursor to busy

2013-10-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike Kerner MikeKerner@... writes: In case you didn't understand, the way you get the busy cursor (beachball) to animate is to set it. Each time you set it, it moves. Thus repeat 100 times set the cursor to busy end repeat You can rotate it or not rotate it as much as you want.

Re: Play mp3 on linux ?

2013-10-12 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 12 oct. 2013 à 21:53, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.us a écrit : On 10/12/2013 08:35 AM, Ludovic Thébault wrote: linux (ubuntu 12). What i missed ? Thanks One additional note; you may find that you have to take special precautions to terminate your app and the mplayer