Re: BrowerLoadRequest

2014-01-26 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Jaqcueline, I asked this already on the 15th october last year "How to trap a clicked link in browser control under Android" and never got an answer. So it seems this is not supported. Regards, Matthias Am 27.01.2014 um 05:48 schrieb J. Landman Gay : > The dictionary says that browserLoa

Re: How to Reset ID's of Controls

2014-01-26 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Mark hi, You can set the id of any control. But be very careful... That’s why I didn’t want to do it manually, it doesn’t seem to me as a good idea to meddle with the internal routines of Livecode. What I understand from your answer, there isn’t any built-in command like *reindexControls* How

Re: How to Reset ID's of Controls

2014-01-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Ender- You can set the id of any control. But be very careful... ids have to be unique within a stack. The stack will generate new ids for controls sequentially. If you query the id of the stack you will see what the next control will be. You can set the id of the stack higher, but not lower, than

Re: OT: Mr. Macintosh

2014-01-26 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:50 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Ah, now we know who The Talking Moose really was. > > Bill I still love the dogcow. I laughted hysterically for about 10 minutes the first time I heard the sound sample: MOOF! I think it was on one of the earlier developer CDs. -- Stephen Ba

How to Reset ID's of Controls

2014-01-26 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Hi all, I have an app which is been developed for a very long time. Many controls; including buttons, field, images, etc,; have been added and deleted countless times. Thus, the id’s of objects are now in 6 figures: 107620. It worries me somehow; because of int16 thing. You know, no object’s size

Re: RQCC - how do you submit a bug report ?

2014-01-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Sunday, January 26, 2014, 8:56:41 PM, you wrote: > On 1/26/14, 7:39 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: >> i.e. if the field contains only 1 line, then setting liststyle of line 2 >> to -1 also sets the value for line 1. > I'm not sure this is a bug as much as it's the way line numbering works. > I

Re: OT: Mr. Macintosh

2014-01-26 Thread Bill Vlahos
Ah, now we know who The Talking Moose really was. Bill Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:23 PM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > > You mean to say… he’s not real??? Then who the hell have I been talking to > all these years? > > Bob > > >> On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder wr

Re: RQCC - how do you submit a bug report ?

2014-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/26/14, 7:39 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: i.e. if the field contains only 1 line, then setting liststyle of line 2 to -1 also sets the value for line 1. I'm not sure this is a bug as much as it's the way line numbering works. If there is only a single line in a field, getting line 2 to -1 of i

BrowerLoadRequest

2014-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
The dictionary says that browserLoadRequest works on iOS but doesn't mention Android. Does anyone know if that's a documentation error, or if it really isn't supported? If anyone knows, it would save me the trouble of setting up tests. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactive

Re: OT: Mr. Macintosh

2014-01-26 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Didn't Microsoft have a little annoying guy named BOB? -- Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words __

Re: OT: Mr. Macintosh

2014-01-26 Thread Robert Sneidar
You mean to say… he’s not real??? Then who the hell have I been talking to all these years? Bob On Jan 26, 2014, at 8:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > -- > -Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > >

OT: Mr. Macintosh

2014-01-26 Thread Mark Wieder
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Re: RQCC - how do you submit a bug report ?

2014-01-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Alex- Submitted as bug 11713. And verified on linux as well. Here's the htmlText of the field before setting the liststyle: line one line 2 And afterwards: line one line 2 And with only one line you get: line one And after setting the liststyle: line one PS: the "Desktop OS" field is

SQLite and FTS in LC 6,5x

2014-01-26 Thread James Hale
Hi, Has anyone else had problems with the FTS module of SQLite in the current LC? I have a program that uses FTS and once I opened it in 6.5 I started getting SQL errors. To try and track this down I regenerated a new version and imported my text. Everything seemed to work fine except when I tr

RQCC - how do you submit a bug report ?

2014-01-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
I've been trying to submit a bug report, but RQCC won't let me. It complains "Must set a value for Desktop OS field", but the form has no such field. Is there some hidden way to set this ? Or is it just me (happens with both Chrome and Safari). Anyway - here's the problem report for any kin

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

2014-01-26 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Roger (and Jaque) J. Landman Gay wrote > Addendum: I wasn't accounting for mobile. Both my first or second method > will likely pop up the keyboard briefly which would not be good. I think > you'll have to use the third method, which will eliminate the engine's > attempt to focus on any fie

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

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
Scott, I thought the new graphics engine was supposed to fix all the graphics speed problems. I also considered throwing everything into a scroller, but I'm too invested in what I've built so far to change it now. On my next project, perhaps I'll try that. ~Roger Roger EllerGraphics Systems A

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

2014-01-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Roger: Unfortunately, the built-in transitions always seem laggy. I don't know for sure what's going on under the hood (bonnet?) but I imagine LC is essentially creating screenshots of the current screen and destination screen before executing the transition, and then generating the transition

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

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
This is what I ended up doing (in the card script of each card): One card has 20 editable fields. The others contain fewer than 10 fields. This works to prevent the mobile keyboard from popping up automatically, and performance is "ok". *on* closeCard *set* the traversalOn of fld "flThis" to

Re: fullScreenMode causes clipped fonts on Ubuntu Linux

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 21:14, Alejandro Tejada wrote: This Zip file (1.12 MB) contains a Folder with One Stack and Two PNG images showing bug. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3834621/LiveCode_Clipped_Text_in_FullScreenMode.zip 1) Open the attached stack "Learn_Hiragana.livecode" 2) Click the checkbox

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

2014-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/26/14, 2:16 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/26/14, 12:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote: They are all offending me. ;-) TraversalOn (focusable) is checked for all fields the user needs to fill in. I simply don't want any field to activate the on-screen keyboard as soon as the card opens. I want t

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

2014-01-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/26/14, 12:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote: They are all offending me. ;-) TraversalOn (focusable) is checked for all fields the user needs to fill in. I simply don't want any field to activate the on-screen keyboard as soon as the card opens. I want the user to have a chance to see the whole sc

fullScreenMode causes clipped fonts on Ubuntu Linux

2014-01-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
This Zip file (1.12 MB) contains a Folder with One Stack and Two PNG images showing bug. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3834621/LiveCode_Clipped_Text_in_FullScreenMode.zip 1) Open the attached stack "Learn_Hiragana.livecode" 2) Click the checkbox button "Full Screen" (at the right side of s

Testing stacks in LiveCode 6.5.x

2014-01-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, How many of you are testing stacks from your archives in LiveCode 6.5.x? I have a lot of stacks in my backups (published by all of you) and have found that some issues raised and demostrated in previous LiveCode versions have simply vanished in the most recent version. For example: Recen

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

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
They are all offending me. ;-) TraversalOn (focusable) is checked for all fields the user needs to fill in. I simply don't want any field to activate the on-screen keyboard as soon as the card opens. I want the user to have a chance to see the whole screen and choose which field they wish to ed

Re: "Snapping" method

2014-01-26 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thanks Bernd. I'll look at GridDrawer. I didn't even know about the grid until I started messing with this problem--didn't know why when you drag controls around they seemed hard to position exactly--they were snapping to the default 2-pixel hidden grid. And Ender--this is great. Thanks I

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Fraser, I had just started to understand this myself by browsing the actual Unicode Standard (6.2). The obvious objection that a bit-twiddler like me would make - "how do you know how many bytes are being used to represent a particular character in UTF-8?" - is answered by the fact (as I

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 20:02, Fraser Gordon wrote: On 26/01/2014 17:31, Richmond wrote: I'm not sure that ALL Unicode chars are double-byte ones; possibly the first 255 are not. It depends on the encoding. In UTF-16 encoding, all characters are either 2 bytes or 4 bytes. In UTF-8, they can be 1 (for the f

Re: IOS and Android Settings

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
Jim Lambert shared his wonderful time saving stack, "Scalini", which creates all the sizes of your images required by Apple. However, you need to start with retina sized images (for best results). The quality is always best when scaling down rather than up. http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 26/01/2014 17:31, Richmond wrote: > I'm not sure that ALL Unicode chars are double-byte ones; possibly the > first 255 are not. It depends on the encoding. In UTF-16 encoding, all characters are either 2 bytes or 4 bytes. In UTF-8, they can be 1 (for the first 128 characters), 2, 3 or 4 bytes lo

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

2014-01-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Roger, Roger Eller wrote > [snip] > I opened demoMC27_no_sounds.livecode in LC 6.5.2 RC1 and added a > preOpenStack containing set the fullscreenmode of this stack to > "ExactFit", > then I clicked Test. It opened fine on my tablet > [snip] > Speed was ok for a demo, but for an interactive >

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

2014-01-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Roger Eller wrote > [snip] > I didn't mention that my buttons are "Option groups" (acting as > buttons), so I replaced the hilite part with: > send "mouseDown" to group "Option1" > -- only changes which option in a cluster is selected > Overall, it feels a bit faster than before, but still laggy co

Re: IOS and Android Settings

2014-01-26 Thread Colin Holgate
Android apps don’t have a splash screen. As for screenshot images needed by the different stores, those are shown to you in the app information page when you’re submitting. The sizes are more flexible for Google Play, you’ll be able to use the same screenshots as you’ve used with iPad for iTunes

Re: Using live Code in English primary Schools

2014-01-26 Thread Alejandro Tejada
And this: http://livecode.com/community/teaching-with-livecode/schools/ http://www.runrev.com/downloads/StandardGradeProgrammingLiveCode.zip http://www.runrev.com/downloads/Intermediate2ProgrammingLiveCode.zip http://www.runrev.com/downloads/HigherProgrammingLiveCode.zip Have a nice week! Al

OT: English web page building

2014-01-26 Thread Mike Bonner
Looks pretty interesting actually. http://jenglish.org/gui/ ___ 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/mailman/listinfo/us

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

2014-01-26 Thread Dave Kilroy
Roger, check whether the offending field has 'TraversalOn' set to false - "Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them." - William Shakespeare & Hugh Senior -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Go-to-card-with

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 19:23, Graham Samuel wrote: The first 255 characters on Unicode will occupy double the number of bytes as the first 255 characters of ascii: this means that a transformation has to take place, however trivial (the extra byte in each case is perhaps all zeros - I have not looked at

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Graham Samuel
The first 255 characters on Unicode will occupy double the number of bytes as the first 255 characters of ascii: this means that a transformation has to take place, however trivial (the extra byte in each case is perhaps all zeros - I have not looked at this yet). This is what I call 'promoting'

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

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
I have a crazy new thing happening. After arriving on a new card, a field (not a native field) is receiving focus, and the keyboard pops up, which is quite annoying. I have "focus on nothing" in the go to card X script, but that doesn't seem to help. ~Roger On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Rog

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 17:09, Graham Samuel wrote: The recent discussions under 'Character Encodings' and other related subjects brought me back to some questions: 1. Is there an actual property of an LC field that can be examined programmatically to show whether the field works as a Unicode string or no

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

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
Scott and Jacque, I have combined parts of both of your advisements, plus one from the MobGUI forum. I didn't mention that my buttons are "Option groups" (acting as buttons), so I replaced the hilite part with: send "mouseDown" to group "Option1" -- only changes which option in a cluster is sele

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

2014-01-26 Thread Roger Eller
Al, I first tried Demo.apk, and it refused to install at all on Android 4.1.1. I opened demoMC27_no_sounds.livecode in LC 6.5.2 RC1 and added a preOpenStack containing set the fullscreenmode of this stack to "ExactFit", then I clicked Test. It opened fine on my tablet, and when I got to the scre

Re: Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 17:09, Graham Samuel wrote: The recent discussions under 'Character Encodings' and other related subjects brought me back to some questions: 1. Is there an actual property of an LC field that can be examined programmatically to show whether the field works as a Unicode string or no

IOS and Android Settings

2014-01-26 Thread Vaughn Clement
Hi I am getting ready to submit my first LC apps to IOS and Android and have a question about the standalone settings: On the settings is there a LC web page that describes the image sizes for the submittal graphics for IOS and Android apps. These are the splash image and the other images that ar

Character Encodings and Livecode fields

2014-01-26 Thread Graham Samuel
The recent discussions under 'Character Encodings' and other related subjects brought me back to some questions: 1. Is there an actual property of an LC field that can be examined programmatically to show whether the field works as a Unicode string or not? (I know there 'unicodeText', which is

Re: Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
http://www-archive.mozilla.org/projects/intl/chardet.html Open Source methinks. http://code.google.com/p/chardetsharp/ Somebdoy worked out how to do things: http://i-tools.org/charset The drop-down menu of source charsets is SERIOUSLY frightening. Richmond. _

Re: Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 15:59, Martin Baxter wrote: On 26/01/14 13:47, Richmond wrote: On 26/01/14 15:43, Martin Baxter wrote: On 26/01/14 11:01, Richmond wrote: - This: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php Looks "dead sexy", and I wonder if somebody cannot roll that into Live

Re: Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Martin Baxter
On 26/01/14 13:47, Richmond wrote: > On 26/01/14 15:43, Martin Baxter wrote: >> On 26/01/14 11:01, Richmond wrote: >>> - >>> >>> This: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php >>> >>> Looks "dead sexy", and I wonder if somebody cannot roll that into >>> Livecode >>> >>> -

Re: Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 15:43, Martin Baxter wrote: On 26/01/14 11:01, Richmond wrote: - This: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php Looks "dead sexy", and I wonder if somebody cannot roll that into Livecode Richmond. iconv is a command line utility, PHP j

Re: Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Martin Baxter
On 26/01/14 11:01, Richmond wrote: > - > > This: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.iconv.php > > Looks "dead sexy", and I wonder if somebody cannot roll that into > Livecode > > > > Richmond. iconv is a command line utility, PHP just has an interface to

Re: Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 12:44, Richmond wrote: http://kunststube.net/encoding/ It's not "Indian Jones and the Holy Grail", but it might just be one of those tiles in the cave leading to the grail that doesn't crumble away under foot and plunge our hero into everlasting something-or-other. Richmond. "W

Character Encodings

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
http://kunststube.net/encoding/ It's not "Indian Jones and the Holy Grail", but it might just be one of those tiles in the cave leading to the grail that doesn't crumble away under foot and plunge our hero into everlasting something-or-other. Richmond. ___

Re: Desktop Externals

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 12:30, Thierry Douez wrote: http://livecode.com/developers/guides/desktop-externals/ Err . . . only Windows and Macintosh? What chance instructions for Linux? Please, check: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18781&p=95326#p95326 Thierry Thank you very much. Richmond.

Resolution independance not working in Win Vista; solved (?)

2014-01-26 Thread Ruediger Wilhelm
On carefully rereading the dictionary on "fullscreen" I found: "Note: The fullscreenmode only takes affect when a stack is full screen. This is the case on mobile platforms where stacks are always full screen, or on the desktop when the fullscreen property of the stack is set to true." So on pr

Re: Desktop Externals

2014-01-26 Thread Thierry Douez
>>> http://livecode.com/developers/guides/desktop-externals/ >>> Err . . . only Windows and Macintosh? >>> What chance instructions for Linux? >>> >> Please, check: >> >> http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18781&p=95326#p95326 >> >> Thierry > > Thank you very much. > > Richmond. I did e

Re: Desktop Externals

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/01/14 12:19, Thierry Douez wrote: 2014-01-26 Richmond : http://livecode.com/developers/guides/desktop-externals/ Err . . . only Windows and Macintosh? What chance instructions for Linux? Richmond. Please, check: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18781&p=95326#p95326 Thier

Re: Desktop Externals

2014-01-26 Thread Thierry Douez
2014-01-26 Richmond : > http://livecode.com/developers/guides/desktop-externals/ > > Err . . . only Windows and Macintosh? > > What chance instructions for Linux? > > Richmond. Please, check: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18781&p=95326#p95326 Thierry

Desktop Externals

2014-01-26 Thread Richmond
http://livecode.com/developers/guides/desktop-externals/ Err . . . only Windows and Macintosh? What chance instructions for Linux? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe a