Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Earthednet-wp
Nakia, On the Mac, which is the only system I've tried it on, you get a ready to go installation. You can set it to have a different port and local host IP address, so you don't need a domain name. The setup tells you how to do this. I also have an installation on a separate server that I can

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Nakia You could setup a virtual machine on your local PC using VMware or VirtualBox and install a popular linux (server) distro like Ubuntu. It's a good learning experience. regards alex On 30/03/14 6:41 AM, Nakia Brewer wrote: Hi, I want to learn how to use LC server scripts (try and

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Nakia Brewer
Okay, Thanks. I figured for testing I could install it on my local machine and I would be off. Going further forward though maybe I can install this on an old windows PC I have, buy a domain name and I have my own 'server' environment that I can use for my small programs I build.. Am I

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-30 Thread Kevin Miller
There is an alternative to command-. on Mac which will often, though not always rescue you when you¹re deep in handler stack you can¹t break out of. Get the process ID from Activity Monitor. Then run: kill -sighup processID E.g. if LC has PID 9382: kill -sighup 9382 Kind regards, Kevin

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Earthednet-wp
Nakia, That sounds reasonable. One step at a time, tho. You'll see the way clearer after you get WAMP working on your local machine. But what you suggest seems reasonable to me. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Mar 29, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Nakia Brewer

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Nakia, you only would need a domain name if you want to make your „server“ accessible from the internet. And even then you do not need a domain. If you have a static ip from your isp you could use these ip address to connect to the server. Or if you have a dynamic ip address from your isp

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-30 Thread Roger Eller
We don't want to kill the IDE, just stop the handler that is stuck in a loop. The kill command would still lose all unsaved work. ~Roger Sent from my Android tablet On Mar 30, 2014 10:00 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote: There is an alternative to command-. on Mac which will often,

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-30 Thread dunbarx
Didn't you try: wait 0 with messages ?? -Original Message- From: Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Sun, Mar 30, 2014 11:11 am Subject: Re: Kill a handler We don't want to kill the IDE, just stop the handler that is

setProp fuvction and field text in livecode 7

2014-03-30 Thread Muaadh Salih
Now we can use unicode for various text language entries and manipulation there is one ,apparent, remaining issue of setting textfont of a field : Having changed Txtalign and textfont to agree with Arabic-Hebrew language in the field, text will not be stitched until (shift-alt) is

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/29/14, 6:06 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I didn't get a hang in either case, but when the computer awoke, the ask dialog had disappeared in both cases. Thanks Pete, appreciate the test. Odd that the dialog disappears, I wouldn't have expected that. In any case, that's another reason I

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/29/14, 6:13 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I'm using 6.1.1 Community on XP Service Pack 3. I routinely have the IDE freeze up and I cannot do anything - including not being able to save. Any ideas on that? Not really, but the most stable version in the 6.1 series is 6.1.2 which I

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/30/14, 8:58 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: There is an alternative to command-. on Mac which will often, though not always rescue you when you¹re deep in handler stack you can¹t break out of. Get the process ID from Activity Monitor. Then run: kill -sighup processID E.g. if LC has PID 9382:

POST command question

2014-03-30 Thread Michael Doub
Is there anything different about using the post command on live code server as compared to a mac desktop? I am trying to send mail via postmark. On my server I have the following script: ?lc set the ErrorMode to inline put /home/ua875508/public_html/doub.com/lc/ into mainpath put

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Phil Davis
If you're planning to make your server accessible over the internet... Dynamic DNS solves the problem of the normally non-static IP addresses handed out by ISPs. I just recently signed up at http://duckdns.org/ so I can predictably ssh into my on-rev accounts without needing to have a

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-30 Thread Paul Hibbert
Pete, Sorry I didn't reply sooner, I was called away just after trying this. On 2014-03-29, at 3:12 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Thanks Paul. I'm a little concerned about what happens in your mouseUp handler if I'm understanding it correctly. If Test doesn't exist in the

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-30 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 11:42 AM, Paul Hibbert paulhibb...@mac.com wrote: Tested on Mac OS X 10.8.5 with LC 5.5.5 through to LC 7.0 (dp1) - All behaved exactly the same. Thanks for the follow up Paul. In 6.7, setting the label of an option menu is supposed to set the menuHistory to the

CanCancelTouches Kills Mobile Scroller?

2014-03-30 Thread Scott Rossi
Hey mobile dev folks: I'm wondering if anyone has come across an issue iOS issue of a mobile scroller becoming non-responsive if its canCancelTouches is set to false. I've been working with LC 6.5.2 and 6.5.1, and an xCode 7.0 build. Things run fine in the simulator. However, when run on a

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread larry
Thank you again Jacqueline for some excellent suggestions. If I install 6.1.2 and do not like it, will I have any issues going back to 6.1.1? I think it is very weird that when I install a newer version of LC, it keeps all of the old versions on my computer. But maybe that is by design for

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Larry wrote: I think it is very weird that when I  install a newer version of LC, it keeps all of the old versions on my   computer.  But maybe that is by  design for some reason I don't know  about? It's for precisely the reason we're discussing: it keeps each version separate so you can

RE: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Nakia Brewer
Okay, again.. Thanks for everyone's help! I didn't get a chance to get it installed yesterday (the grass needed mowing) so hopefully tonight.. Will let you all know how I go with the Windows install Nakia Brewer | Technology Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions t: (02)

RE: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Nakia Brewer
Thanks for this. Yes, eventually I will need to make it accessible over the internet. With this method am I true in assuming I will be able to connect to the MySQL Database on my server over the internet? Sorry if this is a dumb question. I just haven't done anything with non-local databases.

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-30 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2014-03-30, at 12:08 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Thanks for the follow up Paul. In 6.7, setting the label of an option menu is supposed to set the menuHistory to the related value while not generating a menuPick. In previous version, setting the label had no effect on the

Re: CanCancelTouches Kills Mobile Scroller?

2014-03-30 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi Scott, While I haven't had any need to set that property, I've had to use on occasion mobileClearTouches. Typically when I'm doing something with an iOS control, it can get unresponsive and the only way to get the app responding again is to use that. Not really sure why, so not sure what

RE: CanCancelTouches Kills Mobile Scroller?

2014-03-30 Thread John Dixon
Scott... Can't really answer your question as it is asked... All I can say is that I always have iphoneControlSet scrollID, delayTouches, true iphoneControlSet scrollID, canCancelTouches, true bothe 'delayTouches' 'canCancelTouches' set to true and never seem to have a problem with

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread Phil Davis
Good question! I don't know the answer but it seems plausible to me that it would work. Phil On 3/30/14, 2:15 PM, Nakia Brewer wrote: Thanks for this. Yes, eventually I will need to make it accessible over the internet. With this method am I true in assuming I will be able to connect to the

Facebook Like

2014-03-30 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello! Does anyone have a routine, or have information about how to put a Like button in your LiveCode app that will allow the user to Like your Facebook page and then return to LC that they did like you? I am looking to offer something in the app for free if they like our Facebook page. ANY

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/30/14, 4:01 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: If I install 6.1.2 and do not like it, will I have any issues going back to 6.1.1? No, it should work fine. The file format is the same. The only time reverting would cause a problem is if there is a different file format and you don't

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-30 Thread François Chaplais
If you are on the mac, I advice you to try virtualHost http://clickontyler.com/virtualhostx/ in conjunction with MAMP http://www.mamp.info/en/ this allows deployment of your website on your LAN. Excellent for testing your site on mobile devices. For a small fee, you can deploy it on the

What does compile error rotate: error in angle description mean?

2014-03-30 Thread James Hale
Hi, I am starting to get this error when running my scripts: compile error rotate: error in angle description Which if I was doing anything remotely graphical I could perhaps understand. But I am not doing anything to do with angles or rotation. The most recent example of getting this error