Re: LiveCode uses in Science

2014-05-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Wonderful! Later, today, I will visit each link that you posted. :) Many Thanks again! Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-uses-in-Science-tp4679390p4679436.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. __

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-12 Thread Peter M. Brigham
Someone on this list (Richard Gaskin?) once observed that the difference between a tool and a product is that a tool only has to be able to be used properly, whereas a product has to be unable to be used improperly. A well-designed application should anticipate as much as possible users' likely

Re: LiveCode uses in Science

2014-05-12 Thread Terry Judd
Hi Al - here's a selection (in no particular order)Š TerryŠ http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=XC5s6w wJ&citation_for_view=XC5s6wwJ:2osOgNQ5qMEC http://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=XC5s6w wJ&citation_for_view=XC5s6wwAA

Re: LiveCode uses in Science

2014-05-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Terry, Terry Judd-2 wrote > [snip] > I've used Livecode in some way to collect and/or analyse data for most of > the papers I've authored or co-authored over the last 10-15 years. > [snip] > There are links to the various articles via my Google > Scholar page... > http://scholar.google.com/cit

Re: "Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding"

2014-05-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Thankfully, youTube is plenty of videos of Logo programming in action! :D http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=logo+programming+language Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Reading-Writing-Arithmetic-and-Lately-Coding-tp4679411p4679432.ht

Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, LiveCode could open a socket to send and receive data from other applications. Does exists a method to create a portable LiveCode server that runs locally without installing any file in the computer? In one of my computers, every application that opens a socket must be authorized

RE: Server Scripts Editor

2014-05-12 Thread Nakia Brewer
Thanks all, I ended up downloading submlime text and it seems to be fine. Nakia Brewer | Technology & Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions t: (02) 49645051 | m: 0458 713 547 | i: www.westrac.com.au   ACN 009 342 572 -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livec

RE: Testing proxy servers in 6.6.2/6.7

2014-05-12 Thread Nakia Brewer
Hi Trevor, On the same day I tried 6.7DP3 and got the same errors... Nakia Brewer | Technology & Solutions Manager | Equipment Management Solutions t: (02) 49645051 | m: 0458 713 547 | i: www.westrac.com.au   ACN 009 342 572 -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-b

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/11/14, 7:49 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Sure. Here is a belabored example of my style of tenacious I/O. Good stuff, thanks for writing that up. I need to pay more attention to this kind of thing. It's way too easy to pop up a dialog and tell the user they're wrong, and that's not a great appro

Re: Testing proxy servers in 6.6.2/6.7

2014-05-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, LiveCode could open a socket to send and receive data from other applications. Does exists a method to create a portable LiveCode server that runs locally without installing any file in the computer? In one of my computers, every application that opens a socket must be authorized by the

Re: Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Chris Sheffield
Graham, As of my recent testing (last week) with LC 6.6.2 RC3, output to the console is alive and well. I’m not entirely sure when it was fixed, but it seems to be working again. Chris -- Chris Sheffield Read Naturally, Inc. www.readnaturally.com On May 12, 2014, at 3:30 PM, Graham Samuel

Re: Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Graham Samuel
Great, Devin - just the guidance I was looking for. I am about to read it all. I am not looking forward to brushing up my knowledge of iOS testing (I think the availability of the OSX Console as an output has disappeared hasn't it? And there's all that mumbo jumbo about certificates...) but tha

Re: Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Devin Asay
On May 12, 2014, at 2:48 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > I've been banging away at LC desktop stuff for a long time, and have not been > unduly worried about resolution issues in LC since my current apps make > pretty simple assumptions about screen sizes etc. I'm about to plunge back > into mobi

Quick query about where to look of resolution issues

2014-05-12 Thread Graham Samuel
I've been banging away at LC desktop stuff for a long time, and have not been unduly worried about resolution issues in LC since my current apps make pretty simple assumptions about screen sizes etc. I'm about to plunge back into mobile stuff (iOS, principally) and I need to start understanding

Re: Unicode

2014-05-12 Thread Richmond
On 12/05/14 06:31, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop) None of the unicode stuff works [for me]: * set the useUnicode to true * the unicodeText of field * the unicodeFormattedText of field No error messages; just empty. Can anyone give me a clue as to what to do ?

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-12 Thread Richmond
Idiot programmers. Maybe the same ones who did the Obamacare website. Grr. Peter Bogdanoff UCLA Yes; a program is only so good as its programmers have made it; so Donald Norman's anthropomorphic heresy piling all the blame on some machine is ridiculous. Nowadays we don't have bad compu

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-12 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I've been having a horrible experience with the United States Internal Revenue Service website--trying just to set up an account in order to download a pdf of a previous year's return. Every attempt (at least 6) over two days ended somewhere along the process with: "A technical problem h

Re: Unicode

2014-05-12 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Alain, Did you notice that your are using a Release Candidate? I am not an Unicode user, so just for curiosity: In which LiveCode versions does Unicode works fine? Thanks in advance! Al Alain Farmer wrote > [snip] > None of the unicode stuff works [for me]: > * set the useUnicode to true >

Re: "Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding"

2014-05-12 Thread Charles E Buchwald
There has been some interesting discussion in the forum about Turtle graphics type visual programming, and curriculum... http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=20290 http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=85 http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=20321 On 12 May 2014, at 9:26

Re: Unicode

2014-05-12 Thread Alain Farmer
Thanks Warren, Yup, this is the version I am using. I don't change often because it is not a trivial matter for me. I have only ever used this version; no other versions used so-far. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: Unicode

2014-05-12 Thread Alain Farmer
Sorry, I don't have time for bug-report, substitutions I am in a rush. On Monday, May 12, 2014 1:02:15 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Post a bug report. That is what pre-releases are for. http://quality.runrev.com/ Also, try with no plugins and a new set of preferences. Bob On May 11, 2014,

Re: Testing proxy servers in 6.6.2/6.7

2014-05-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Nakia Brewer wrote: > This is what I get > > httpproxyforurl for host 'samaritans.org.au': > Proxy for URL: > socket selected: csu.harvestapp.com:443|6927 > socket error csu.harvestapp.com:443|6927 > Error 10061 on socket > It doesn't look like LiveCode is finding

Re: "Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding"

2014-05-12 Thread jbv
Hi list In 1980/81 I was participating to an "experiment" in which a Logo system was installed full time in a classroom for 6th grade students... Back then, none of these children had seen or touched a pc and had no clue about coding. And it was amazing to see what they could achieve in very short

RE: Finding stacks on Mobile

2014-05-12 Thread Ralph DiMola
The stacks are located in the "engine folder" on mobile. I included my library stack from a subfolder "Lib" from the main stack. Here is my code. if the environment = "Mobile" then if there is a file (engine folder & slash & "Lib" & slash & "MyLibrary.livecode") then start using st

"Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, and Lately, Coding"

2014-05-12 Thread Jim Hurley
There was an article in this Sunday's NYT that should be of interest to RunRev. It describes how "coding" is taking its place beside "reading 'riting and 'ritmatic" in early education. Here is the link to the article: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/11/us/reading-writing-arithmetic-and-latel