Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/11/14, 10:54 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 1:54 AM, J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: Dr Raney always advised that we should create the menu bar first and position all objects relative to that. That way, everything just works. It wasn't until I followed this

New Visual Editor ?

2014-04-12 Thread Richmond
After rather more than a year this is quite fun to look at again: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode However, one quite significant question pops up: We will introduce a *new visual editor* designed around today's

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 127, Issue 22

2014-04-12 Thread bernd . gottwald
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Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 127, Issue 22

2014-04-12 Thread Dave Kilroy
Thanks for telling us Bernd :) have a nice trip! - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context:

Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel
Jacque, you're never wrong (I say that sincerely), so sorry to be dumb, but suppose my cross-platform app was designed to emulate a TV screen (16:9 is the current ratio), how would that 'just work'? Graham On 11 Apr 2014, at 19:54, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: You have a

Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Mark Yes, I think I see - the defaultMenuBar ensures that the app controls the Mac menu line and not the IDE or anything else. BTW the form of these statements that set the menuBar and the defaultMenuBar seem to be strange, don't they. I mean, one writes set the menuBar to myGroup

Re: 6.6.1GM Corrupted License

2014-04-12 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 12.04.2014 at 12:17 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this. This is repeatable about 90% of the time. If I Quit 6.6.1 and restart it I've never got the corruption message. If on the other hand I start an earlier version of LC and then start 6.6.1

lineoffset question

2014-04-12 Thread larry
I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) on XP Service Pack 3 I have the following line in my script: set the hilitedline of field myGames to lineoffset(field myShort,field myGames) The line works just fine. However, if I add the optional Lines to Skip, like this: set the hilitedline of field myGames to

Re: lineoffset question

2014-04-12 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Larry, Am 12.04.2014 um 16:38 schrieb la...@significantplanet.org: I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) on XP Service Pack 3 I have the following line in my script: set the hilitedline of field myGames to lineoffset(field myShort,field myGames) The line works just fine. However, if I add the

Re: lineoffset question

2014-04-12 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Larry oops, please replace OFFSET with Skippy in my example ;-) Am 12.04.2014 um 16:44 schrieb Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de: Hi Larry, Am 12.04.2014 um 16:38 schrieb la...@significantplanet.org: I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) on XP Service Pack 3 I have the following line in my script:

Re: lineoffset question

2014-04-12 Thread larry
Thanks so much Klaus! I was doing a workaround, but your answer is really what I needed!! Larry - Original Message - From: Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2014 8:46 AM Subject: Re: lineoffset question Hi

catching closeField and keyUp type events in regular table

2014-04-12 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I want to catch the tabkey and closefield equivalents in a regular table to manipulate it, and perform some calculations. As I understand from other posts, there are frontscripts in button revTable of group revLibraries of stack revLibrary But what do I need to do to catch these (and not to

Re: catching closeField and keyUp type events in regular table

2014-04-12 Thread Richmond
On 12/04/14 19:06, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I want to catch the tabkey and closefield equivalents in a regular table to manipulate it, and perform some calculations. As I understand from other posts, there are frontscripts in button revTable of group revLibraries of stack revLibrary But what do I

Re: catching closeField and keyUp type events in regular table

2014-04-12 Thread Richmond
And consider dropping this into your plug-ins folder: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=6t=20003 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/14, 7:35 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: suppose my cross-platform app was designed to emulate a TV screen (16:9 is the current ratio), how would that 'just work'? The critical piece that isn't always clear is that the menu bar doesn't count as part of your display area; think of it in the

Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/14, 7:49 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: BTW the form of these statements that set the menuBar and the defaultMenuBar seem to be strange, don't they. I mean, one writes set the menuBar to myGroup there is no scoping here - what if there are lots of groups called myGroup in different parts of

Keydowner

2014-04-12 Thread Richmond
Better version: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=6t=20003p=101252#p101252 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: catching closeField and keyUp type events in regular table

2014-04-12 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: wait a minute; scrub that . . . let's go for rawKeyUp: on rawKeyUp RUP I'll give this a look when I can be at a machine; thanks I suppose you would have to have this sort of script in the field's script: on

Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel
OK, you win, kind of. I was just following what it says in the LC dictionary. By the way, on my Mac - set the menubar of stack myStack to grp myMenu of cd 1 of stack myStack gives an error ('source is not a container'), even though put exists(grp myMenu of cd 1 of stack myStack) returns

Re: the menuBar and the EditMenus

2014-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel
Jacque, you are endlessly patient. I understand everything you say about the PC menu and thanks for the handler. My last word on this is that I think perhaps just now and then the menu bar (on PC) **can** count as part of your display area - it might be no more intrusive than the station logo