Re: Go to card [with effects] is slow on Android

Hi Roger: One place to start might be the click. Why do you have a click occurring? Is this to trigger code or display a hilite? Both of these can be done through code without doing any kind of physical/manual click. hilite btn "xyz" wait 150 millisecs unhilite of btn "xyz" dispatch "mouseUp"

Re: Go to card [with effects] is slow on Android

On 1/25/14, 10:38 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I know that "do" is a bad idea sometimes, but in this case, my swipe code is in the background image, and that's where the swipe direction is determined, then it clicks at the loc of myButton (to show the button is being pressed). The only problem is th

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

On 1/25/14, 3:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Pete- Saturday, January 25, 2014, 12:27:29 PM, you wrote: There's a program named Richmond?!? http://app.richmondelt.com/listado Oh my, it's listed right there by Smelly Bear. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperAc

Re: Using live Code in English primary Schools

Look at the stack posted in the first message of this thread: http://ftp.runrev.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18112&sid=72aa865d15e05e6c679b1e35c77f8015 http://ftp.runrev.com/forums/download/file.php?id=2835&sid=72aa865d15e05e6c679b1e35c77f8015 >From this page: http://tlittle72.tripod.com/info.h

Re: Go to card [with effects] is slow on Android

Hi Roger, Some time ago, I made this APK for Android of the first MetaCard's demo. It includes a demo of all transition effects. You could install it on your Android tablet and share your results: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3834621/Demo.apk You can download the stack in LiveCode form

Re: Using live Code in English primary Schools

Check this website: PGCPS (Prince Georges County Public Schools) website regarding the use of LC to create Games https://sites.google.com/a/pgcps.org/livecode/home This recopilation website by Sean Shao: http://erhs.shaosean.tk/ And there are two more websites that I have bookmarked in another

Go to card [with effects] is slow on Android

I know that "do" is a bad idea sometimes, but in this case, my swipe code is in the background image, and that's where the swipe direction is determined, then it clicks at the loc of myButton (to show the button is being pressed). The only problem is that it hesitates for about a second before pl

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

Ah, yes. I forgot something. This kind of event would be possible with the collaboration of local entities that promote the use of technology in education. In every country, you will find private, public and ngo dedicated precisely to achieve these goals. Al -- View this message in context

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > [snip] > It would be perfectly possible to do all the stuff that is listed there > using Open Source and/or Free software on an Open Source > operating system today on some fairly tatty second-hand computer, and > that has to be good. > Here's a list of software which

Re: Timing oddity

gah, third time's the charm, or I'm giving up. on mouseUp repeat with arrayLog = 1 to 6 put 10^arrayLog into arrayCount put 10^(6 - arrayLog) into repeatLoopCount repeat with i = 1 to arrayCount put random(100) into X[i] put random(10) into Y[i] end rep

Re: Mac Mavericks, Xcode, iOS Development and LC

Apps on each monitor now have their own menu bars. I love this feature. Gerry On 26 Jan 2014, at 10:57 am, stephen barncard wrote: > that's pretty annoying. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subsc

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

Martin- Saturday, January 25, 2014, 2:33:16 PM, you wrote: > Not sure if you think MacWorld is any more authoritative. Sorry. That was meant to have an implied , i.e., sarcasm not requiring further thought or discussion. And not really a comment on the content of the article, which seems genuine

Re: ISAM algorithm

Richard Gaskin wrote: Data storage and display is such a broad topic - can you share some Specifics of what you have thus far? And if the data is being stored in a stack file, why ISAM over something Like delimited chunks in custom props? -

Re: Resolution independance not working in Win Vista

I'm using LC6.5.1 fullscreen (letterbox) and rez independent images in a desktop app and it's working quite well on Windows 7 and XP. All the text and controls scale up well. I'll have to dust off the Vista machine and see if it works there. I have not tried to change the background from black. -

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

I was just afraid that the posts I've been reading from Richmond were software generated. I know software can do a lot of artistic and scientific emulation these days but surely it couldn't emulate the real Richmond! Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser

Re: Mac Mavericks, Xcode, iOS Development and LC

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > from the way it repeats the menu on your second monitor even when you're > using the first one. that's pretty annoying. -- Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words ___ use-liv

Re: Timing oddity

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > Wow, the script editor's formatting came through poorly. The updated script > with no formatting is below. you still may have to send the email as text only. Gmail will send as HTML text if anything is 'styled', including quoting and links

Re: Mac Mavericks, Xcode, iOS Development and LC

I think then it works in MacOSX 10.8 but not 10.7 (Lion), which I was using before I switched to Mavericks. So far I haven't found much to annoy me in Mavericks apart from the way it repeats the menu on your second monitor even when you're using the first one. Can't see the point. Anyway I will

Re: Timing oddity

Wow, the script editor's formatting came through poorly. The updated script with no formatting is below. I realized that my earlier test had used repeat for each key K in X, which as it turns out is faster than an index, but not as fast as whole array math. So if X and Y are arrays, add Y to X --

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Martin Koob wrote: > The interview is actually in MacWorld, MacRumors was linking to it. > > http://www.macworld.com/article/2090829/apple-executives-on-the-mac-at-30-the-mac-keeps-going-forever.html > it appears that Federighi is going to keep the parts of the U

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

The interview is actually in MacWorld, MacRumors was linking to it. http://www.macworld.com/article/2090829/apple-executives-on-the-mac-at-30-the-mac-keeps-going-forever.html Not sure if you think MacWorld is any more authoritative. I know Apple is not one to telegraph their plans or have any qu

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

Pete- Saturday, January 25, 2014, 12:27:29 PM, you wrote: > There's a program named Richmond?!? http://app.richmondelt.com/listado -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

On 25/01/14 22:27, Peter Haworth wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Richmond wrote: Here's a list of software which might prove useful for school children to use [most of these have versions for Windows and Macintosh if their school/parents feel "all funny" about Linux] which cost nothing

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > If you're asking about support for 32-bit apps, yes, that works as > well. Mostly. Depends on whom you ask. And when. YMMV. > I have a lot of apps. Hmm. I hate to be a 'luddite' but…. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds No

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Richmond wrote: > Here's a list of software which might prove useful for school children to > use [most of these have versions for Windows and Macintosh if > their school/parents feel "all funny" about Linux] which cost nothing: > > Runtime Revolution Livecode > >

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.5.2 RC1

Crashing about every 3-4 minutes over here on Ubuntustudio Linux. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/m

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

Stephen- Saturday, January 25, 2014, 10:33:25 AM, you wrote: > Is Mavericks 64 bit only? Yes. It's a 64-bit kernel, and that's a major limiting factor as to why it won't run with older hardware. I believe it's possible to switch the pre-Mavericks OSXs to 32-bit mode, but AFAIK it's not possible

Re: Using live Code in English primary Schools

On 25/01/14 21:15, Michael Doub wrote: Good teaching and general good stuff here: http://livecode.com/who-is-it-for/teachers/ http://livecode.byu.edu/indexgeneric.php. -= Mike Well, Yes . . . What is not there is a general discussion as to HOW one teaches that material; mainly because the fo

Re: Using live Code in English primary Schools

Good teaching and general good stuff here: http://livecode.com/who-is-it-for/teachers/ http://livecode.byu.edu/indexgeneric.php. -= Mike On Jan 25, 2014, at 10:53 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 25/01/14 17:27, Stephen King wrote: >> Hi >> >> My wife is a teacher and is considering Live Code in a ne

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

On 25/01/14 16:08, Richmond wrote: On 25/01/14 03:39, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Well, if RunRev decided to promote among students an Award for Excellence in the creation of multimedia projects using LiveCode (like ISTE's Multimedia Mania...) would be easier to find LiveCode's evangelists. http://

Re: Resolution independance not working in Win Vista

Ruediger Wilhelm wrote: > >I am having no success with my attempts to >display my standalone app in fullscreenmode "letterbox" >in Windows Vista. Scaling only works on mobile right now. Desktop should be ready soon. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActiv

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 9:19 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Don't know. I skipped that one completely. Is Mavericks 64 bit only? *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com P

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

Stephen- Friday, January 24, 2014, 11:11:20 PM, you wrote: > On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 8:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> The UI is pretty much the same although they made some stupid UI >> decisions. >> > more than they screwed up Mountain Lion? Don't know. I skipped that one completely. -- -Mar

Re: [OT] Mavericks Auto Save and Red Traffic Light plus Back Dot

Martin- Friday, January 24, 2014, 6:14:41 AM, you wrote: > However just read an article on MacRumors Well. *That* sounds authoritative. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: Resolution independance not working in Win Vista

For the backdrop color, try it without using quotes. As for full screen scaling, the feature is new, and I haven't tried it on any desktop OS. ~Roger On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Ruediger Wilhelm < wilhelm.forchh...@freenet.de> wrote: > Hi, all, > > I am having no success with my attempts

Resolution independance not working in Win Vista

Hi, all, I am having no success with my attempts to display my standalone app in fullscreenmode "letterbox" in Windows Vista. The code is: on preOpenStack set the fullscreenmode of me to "letterbox" set the backdrop to "255,30,30" end preOpenStack The font sizes in all text fields scale

Re: Using live Code in English primary Schools

On 25/01/14 17:27, Stephen King wrote: Hi My wife is a teacher and is considering Live Code in a new Computing lesson at Primary level or more senior students at Special schools (she actually teaches at a Special school where the academic level may be equivalent to primary). Does anyone have

Using live Code in English primary Schools

Hi My wife is a teacher and is considering Live Code in a new Computing lesson at Primary level or more senior students at Special schools (she actually teaches at a Special school where the academic level may be equivalent to primary). Does anyone have any references to using Live Code in pri

Re: Timing oddity

As far as I can see you're not doing a lot, but repeating that often. In a sense I'd thing you're actually timing "repeat with = 1 to " vs. "repeat for ", instead of in what ways arrays change the math operations. Do the same test with the same math operation in the loops, does that yield the

Re: "Snapping" method

Hi Peter, reading Ender's post I realize that I misunderstood you completely. Sorry for that. Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Snapping-method-tp4675046p4675055.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabb

Re: [OT?] Bad news???

On 25/01/14 03:39, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Well, if RunRev decided to promote among students an Award for Excellence in the creation of multimedia projects using LiveCode (like ISTE's Multimedia Mania...) would be easier to find LiveCode's evangelists. http://www.ncsu.edu/mmania/ http://www.ncsu

Re: "Snapping" method

Peter hi, This is actually Bernd’s or Scott’s expertise, but I wanted to give it a shot. I don’t use dropbox, google drive or any other file sharing service. So, I uploaded a sample stack to the forums: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=18910#p95292 It’s a quick attempt and has many,

Re: Transparent menupick roller

Hi Jim, I’m using a transparent option menu button over a skinned real button. It opens native picker: the bottom picker on iPhone and pop up picker on iPad;  old one in iOS6 and new blurry-translucent one in iOS7; supports unicode as a bonus ;-) pseudocode: ~~~ on prepareCard _set the rect of b

Transparent menupick roller

Is there a combo of LC and xcode and iOS that will display the newer iPhone menupick? I refer to the newer transparent one - not the black boxy version. Sims ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

Richmond It's at http://www.rebol.org/view-script.r?script=str-enc-utils.r which I forgot to paste into my previous message. Regards Peter On 25 Jan 2014, at 17:14, Richmond wrote: > On 25/01/14 01:22, Peter W A Wood wrote: >> Richmond >> >> It is almost impossible to determine the encoding

Re: "Snapping" method

Hi Peter, in menu "View" uncheck "Grid", that lets you move controls without snapping to the grid. if you want to visualize the grid and easily control it, (including turning it off) have a look at http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/757/GridDrawer Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in

Re: Unicode, the clipboard and LC fields

On 25/01/14 01:22, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond It is almost impossible to determine the encoding of text from the contents of the text. You can take educated guesses but when even just considering four different encodings that is tricky. You can get an idea of the complexity by taking a qu

Re: Visual Effects

On 25/01/14 00:44, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Richmond, I get an error "file is not a stack when I try to open this file after downloading it. The stack was made with LC 6.5.2 Community. Richmond. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser

"Snapping" method

Hi, Before I go ahead and try to reinvent the wheel, does anyone know of a method for this: I have 2 or more buttons separated on a card. I drag one around, or resize it. When the border of that button gets close to the border of another button (like within 5 pixels), the dragged button is mag