Re: very, very slow on Mac Mini

2014-03-31 Thread Richmond
On 01/04/14 03:12, Dr. Hawkins wrote: My application performs snappily on my iMac and powerbook, both with 16gb. On the mini, though, it turns to molasses. As in taking several seconds to turn a from one fairly simple card to the next, which is instantaneous in either the IDE or a standalone on

Re: LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Richmond
On 31/03/14 23:00, Terence Heaford wrote: Forgive my scepticism. I have just followed your link and noted the following under the Cocoa stretch goal. Despite this we are NOT getting native Cocoa controls. "Upgrade our Mac OS X platform support to fully use Cocoa. This will ensure seamless sup

Re: points vs rect of a graphic

2014-03-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Heh, I thought that graphic looked familiar. :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 3/31/14 10:09 PM, "Geoff Canyon" wrote: > >> On Mar 31, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Scott Rossi >>wrote: >> >> If your point list really has spaces in it like below, you've >>ess

Re: points vs rect of a graphic

2014-03-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
> On Mar 31, 2014, at 11:27 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > If your point list really has spaces in it like below, you've essentially > got a bunch of disconnected points. No extra returns, that's just gmail borking the formatting. :-/ I should also mention this is in a palette. In a regular stack

RE: HTTPS Proxy and PAC files

2014-03-31 Thread Nakia Brewer
For what it's worth, I have also noticed today that LiveCode is unable to complete an Activation automatically through my work network...Have to do a manual activation. Nakia Brewer | Technology & Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions t: (02) 49645051 | m: 0458 713 547 | i: www.wes

Re: points vs rect of a graphic

2014-03-31 Thread Scott Rossi
Geoff: If your point list really has spaces in it like below, you've essentially got a bunch of disconnected points. If you set the linesize to a higher number, you'd see the points come into view. I seem to recall back in the day you were the one who discovered the spaces-in-a-list-of-points as

points vs rect of a graphic

2014-03-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
I have a graphic that doesn't want to be visible. Its visible is true. Its backColor is black. It is the topmost object. Its lineSize is 1. I've tried everything I can think of, and it still doesn't show up. Here's the weird part: put the rect of grc id 1557 of stack "revnavigator 1" & cr & the po

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread Jerry Jensen
I also learned from Jacqui that to scramble the lines of a field: sort lines of field "stuffToScramble" by random(9) Neat trick, that. On Mar 31, 2014, at 8:41 PM, wrote: > Yes, but you pointed me in the right direction. Jacqui's is good and I'm sure > I'll use something like that one d

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread larry
Yes, but you pointed me in the right direction. Jacqui's is good and I'm sure I'll use something like that one day. Yours was 1 line of code and very adequate for my current needs! Thanks again! (plus with yours I learned about being able to sort by char and word within the same line of code.)

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread Jerry Jensen
Oops. So much for not testing. I like Jacqui's the best. Passing each to a function opens a lot of doors. .Jerry On Mar 31, 2014, at 8:28 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: > Jerry, > Yours was the simplest solution. Thanks very much! FYI, I had to leave out > "the" to make it work. > So

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread larry
Jerry, Yours was the simplest solution. Thanks very much! FYI, I had to leave out "the" to make it work. So my script is: sort lines of field "myStuff" numeric by char 2 to -1 of word 4 of each Larry - Original Message - From: "Jerry Jensen" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Monday,

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread larry
Thank you everyone for your quick response to my question! - Original Message - From: "Geoff Canyon" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 9:06 PM Subject: Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount No fair, Jacque, I *just* finished testing: function dollarsAsNumber

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread Geoff Canyon
No fair, Jacque, I *just* finished testing: function dollarsAsNumber D if char 1 of D is "$" then return char 2 to -1 of D else return D end dollarsAsNumber gc On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/31/14, 9:03 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: > >> I can sort t

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/31/14, 9:03 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I can sort the lines of the field just fine on word 1 (date), word 2 (name) and word 3 (number) But when I try to sort on word 4, I don't know how to get it to come out right because the $ in front makes it a string and not a number. You

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread Paul Hibbert
If the $amount is always the last column in the field… set the itemDel to "$" sort lines of fld "myField" ascending numeric by item 2 of each Paul On 2014-03-31, at 7:03 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: > I have a field with a date, name, number and finally a dollar amount such as

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread Jerry Jensen
If you can really really count on the $ always being present, you could do: sort the lines of field "myStuff" numeric by char 2 to -1 of word 4 of each On Mar 31, 2014, at 7:03 PM, wrote: > I have a field with a date, name, number and finally a dollar amount such as > $10 - in each line of the

Re: how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread stephen barncard
I would employ a dual-system where the displayed values are just a display and the 'real' values to be sorted would be in a custom property of the field. The "display field" could be refreshed as needed after calculation. LC is so fast one shouldn't worry about speed issues with this. another way

how to sort lines with a $ amount

2014-03-31 Thread larry
I have a field with a date, name, number and finally a dollar amount such as $10 - in each line of the field. I can sort the lines of the field just fine on word 1 (date), word 2 (name) and word 3 (number) But when I try to sort on word 4, I don't know how to get it to come out right because

Re: very, very slow on Mac Mini

2014-03-31 Thread Kay C Lan
On all three have Activity Monitor available and see what the numbers are for CPU and Memory; not just the raw numbers but also the relative ranking. Is the Mac Mini only occasionally used, is there a possibility that Spotlight was in the middle of a massive index - process mdworker - which was no

very, very slow on Mac Mini

2014-03-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
My application performs snappily on my iMac and powerbook, both with 16gb. On the mini, though, it turns to molasses. As in taking several seconds to turn a from one fairly simple card to the next, which is instantaneous in either the IDE or a standalone on the other two. It's a slower machine,

Re: setProp fuvction and field text in livecode 7

2014-03-31 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 30, 2014, at 10:04 AM, Muaadh Salih wrote: > 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,

Re: LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 31, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Terence Heaford wrote: > Forgive my scepticism. I have just followed your link and noted the following > under the Cocoa stretch goal. Despite this we are NOT getting native Cocoa > controls. > > "Upgrade our Mac OS X platform support to fully use Cocoa. This wil

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-31 Thread Mark Wieder
Nakia Brewer writes: > 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 d

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

2014-03-31 Thread Mark Wieder
James Hale writes: > Two questions I guess. > 1. Anyone had this error message when not doing anything with rotations? > If so, did you discover what it meant? > > 2. anyone had luck on loading extensions to SQLite? 1. That's definitely the wrong error code for what you're trying to do. 2

Re: LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Terence Heaford
Forgive my scepticism. I have just followed your link and noted the following under the Cocoa stretch goal. Despite this we are NOT getting native Cocoa controls. "Upgrade our Mac OS X platform support to fully use Cocoa. This will ensure seamless support of all the latest Mac OS X features. Cr

Re: Sorting issue in a datagrid

2014-03-31 Thread Dave Kilroy
Yes I'm with Marek in wondering about the data you have in column 2 - also - could there be anything in name of column 2 which might confuse the engine? And one last thing, do you have any other data grids in your app? If so what are they (and their columns) called and do they also exhibit any stra

Re: LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Devin Asay
On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > Hear, hear. > > Peter > >> On Mar 31, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Terence Heaford >> wrote: >> >> >> When can Mac Users have a Tab Panel that does not display the selected tab >> with black text on a dark grey background? >> >> I am a new us

Re: Sorting issue in a datagrid

2014-03-31 Thread Marek Niesiobedzki
What is the kind of data and kind of sort for this column? Marek ___ 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/listi

Re: LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Hear, hear. Peter > On Mar 31, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Terence Heaford > wrote: > > > When can Mac Users have a Tab Panel that does not display the selected tab > with black text on a dark grey background? > > I am a new user of LC and find this rather off-putting. > > I believe, not 100% sure,

Re: LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Terence Heaford
When can Mac Users have a Tab Panel that does not display the selected tab with black text on a dark grey background? I am a new user of LC and find this rather off-putting. I believe, not 100% sure, that this has been requested 2 years ago? Thanks Terry On 31 Mar 2014, at 18:47, Benjamin

LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1

2014-03-31 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.6.1 RC1. This is a maintenance release for the 6.6 series and contain 4 bug fixes. The most notable bug fix is 12010 which resulted in quite a number of bug reports on Windows. It caused applications to stop redrawing correct

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

2014-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/30/14, 10:02 PM, James Hale wrote: I am starting to get this error when running my scripts: compile error "rotate: error in angle description" Since you're getting that error while using a new feature, it sounds to me like the engine has linked it to the wrong error code. I'd bug repo

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-31 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/31/14, 10:10 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: It was my impression that the mainstack gets*glued* together with the runtime engine and is not accessible in the same way the substacks are, which are merely included in a subfolder or in the case of OS X, in the package. Is this no longer the case? Or h

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

2014-03-31 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi James, I haven't seen that error but I have successfully loaded and used an SQLite extension. The extension is available at http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/SQLiteExtension/ and has a bunch of new string and math functions in it. It's not free but has a demo version. The only difference betw

Re: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-31 Thread Chris Sheffield
Odd. Yes, this does work just fine. Not sure what I did earlier. All is well again. Thanks. On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:49 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: > That's odd, I tested it earlier on a Windows machine, and again just now on a > Mac, with LC 6.6 > > Here's my recipe: > - create a new stack > - dra

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-31 Thread Bob Sneidar
Really? Has this changed? I remember a thread some time ago where it was stated that a substack can be extracted as is from a compiled project and run in the IDE. Granted, if the stacks are password protected, it would be very difficult to get to the code, but they are not “compiled” the way the

Re: POST command question

2014-03-31 Thread Andrew Kluthe
See if it works with the non SSL endpoint. Might be a certificate thing. Sorry for the short response. Regards, Andrew Kluthe On Mar 30, 2014 1:11 PM, "Michael Doub" wrote: > Is there anything different about using the post command on live code > server as compared to a mac desktop? I am tr

Sorting issue in a datagrid

2014-03-31 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour, I have a data grid (table) with 3 columns, forty lines (currently). When clicking on the header of column 1 or column 3 all is working well (the lines are sorted as expected) But, when clicking on the header of column 2, only the 8 first lines remain (correctly sorted). All the other l