Re: The All-Time 1001 things to do with LiveCode Top 10

2014-05-21 Thread Jim sims
Oops - sorry. Meant that for Peter and not the list :-P sims On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 7:02 AM, Jim sims wrote: > Hello Peter, > > Talking dog? I am wondering if it was my talking dog? I made one to help > advertise one of the first RevCons that was held. I hosted two of them in > Malta and then

Re: The All-Time 1001 things to do with LiveCode Top 10

2014-05-21 Thread Jim sims
Hello Peter, Talking dog? I am wondering if it was my talking dog? I made one to help advertise one of the first RevCons that was held. I hosted two of them in Malta and then Kevin took over. Was fun but a lot of work :-P I have another item that might be of interest to your list: http://ezpzapps

Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-21 Thread Nakia Brewer
Afternoon all, As I venture down the road of learning what the wonders of LC Server scripts can do I find myself wondering how safe are the content of these scripts. Being completely new to Web and Server development it's probably a silly question but for example: I have a LC Server script that

What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
In my informal tests, the max number of points in a vector graphic is 54,274. Could anyone confirm this? Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-is-the-max-number-of-points-in-vector-graphic-tp4679840.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing

Re: LiveCode Global Jam

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Excellent! :D I was afraid that Time zone differences will not allow me to participate. Hopefully, all video chats will be recorded and made available to view them later. Al Richard Gaskin wrote > The guidelines are being written now, to be posted in RevNet tomorrow. > The chat times are in R

RE: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC4

2014-05-21 Thread Nakia Brewer
Yep, disappointing as I need this fixed to continue with some testing 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-livecod

Re: [UPDATE] FacebookLib now works on Mobile

2014-05-21 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > The use case I had in mind was for example, a user downloads your new app, > and a button is included to "Like this app on Facebook". Sorry I asked for > clarity on the term 'mobile'. Not everyone means both platforms. > Roger, You can use

Re: LiveCode Global Jam

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Reading this Blog post about the LiveCode Global Jam: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/05/16/livecode-global-jam-may-23-and-24/ I found: Prior to the Global Jam we’ll be providing testing guidelines so you can test copies of your stack files safely, and if you find any err

Re: LiveCode Global Jam

2014-05-21 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Alejandro Later on in the blog post it says: "For access to the event schedule, testing support contacts, and more, you needn’t look any further than your installed copy of LiveCode: the LiveCode Global Jam is being managed via RevNet, accessed through the GoRevNet plugin included in the Devel

Re: [UPDATE] FacebookLib now works on Mobile

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Andre, Read this: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/05/21/how-to-create-an-app/ You and Steven Crighton will save many lives and more than one reputation of a fellow Beer Bro! :D Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/UPDATE-FacebookLib-now-works-on

LiveCode Global Jam

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Reading this Blog post about the LiveCode Global Jam: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/05/16/livecode-global-jam-may-23-and-24/ I found: > Prior to the Global Jam we’ll be providing testing guidelines > so you can test copies of your stack files safely, and if > you find any errors we’ll include ti

Re: [UPDATE] FacebookLib now works on Mobile

2014-05-21 Thread Roger Eller
The use case I had in mind was for example, a user downloads your new app, and a button is included to "Like this app on Facebook". Sorry I asked for clarity on the term 'mobile'. Not everyone means both platforms. Sent from my Android tablet On May 21, 2014 7:37 PM, "Andre Garzia" wrote: > He

Re: [UPDATE] FacebookLib now works on Mobile

2014-05-21 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Roger, When I say mobile I mean Android and iOS. To check more about liking stuff using the Open Graph API from FB: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/opengraph/guides/og.likes FacebookLib can be used for that type of action but the API doesn't allow "liking a page". Cheers On Wed, May

Re: [UPDATE] FacebookLib now works on Mobile

2014-05-21 Thread Roger Eller
When you say Mobile, you do mean both Android and iOS, correct? Also, can it simply apply a like to a post or a fb page? Sent from my Android tablet On May 21, 2014 7:17 PM, "Andre Garzia" wrote: > Hey Friends, > > Just to announce that FacebookLib now works with Mobile. So all you happy > mobi

[UPDATE] FacebookLib now works on Mobile

2014-05-21 Thread Andre Garzia
Hey Friends, Just to announce that FacebookLib now works with Mobile. So all you happy mobile developers can now integrate Facebook features into your application. Current customers should be receiving their update notice email shortly (courtesy of SendOwl). This means that you can create applic

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Devin Asay
On May 21, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 21/05/14 18:19, Devin Asay wrote: >> Have you tried out the prerelease of LiveCode 7? I'm really curious how your >> projects will work with it. My understanding is that all of the arcane, >> language-specific glyph munging rules are handled

Re: The All-Time 1001 things to do with LiveCode Top 10

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Peter W A Wood wrote > 1. Code an App store accepted game in a week > 2. Administer SQLite databases > 3. Manage a database of images > 4. Build mobile games > 5. Make a talking dog > 6. Build an assembly language interpreter > 7. Exercise Your Right Brain > 8. Build a virtual pet ... when y

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC4

2014-05-21 Thread Mike Kerner
Mobile encryption still broken -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." ___

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/21/2014, 1:40 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hey putting an on idle handler in the open substack then passing idle worked! Now that you have that worked out...I wouldn't use an idle handler to close a stack though. It's going to try to close that stack dozens of times per second. Maybe you've ch

Re: revfont external and start using font file

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Many Thanks from me, too! Richmond could make use of this new "start using font file..." syntax in his own programs. :) Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/revfont-external-and-start-using-font-file-tp4679797p4679824.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > You are asking a lot: for a start, my Devawriter contains > thousands of numToChar statements that have, > for version 7, to be converted to 'what-ever-it-was-I-forgot'. No. I am asking that you try this in a plain text field using the Input Method of your OS. Al -

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 21.05.2014 at 18:31 Uhr + Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: Okay well that is making a little more sense. So if I put an on idle handler in all my stacks and then pass the message, it should filter down to my mainstack. I suppose I could insert the stack-closing-code in all my substacks, but

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/05/14 21:27, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond, Looks like you should try again if font loading works for your program instead of asking users to install the required font(s). I'll have a bash at that this weekend. From this thread: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/revfo

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Okay well that is making a little more sense. So if I put an on idle > handler in all my stacks and then pass the message, it should filter > down to my mainstack. I suppose I could insert the stack-closing-code > in all my substacks, but that makes me feel dirty somehow. ;-)

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hey putting an on idle handler in the open substack then passing idle worked! Nice catch for sure Alejandro. So the lesson here is, if a handler belonging to a script anywhere in a running stack, issuing close this stack will not do so, understandably. (I know others have shown me how it works O

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Okay well that is making a little more sense. So if I put an on idle handler in all my stacks and then pass the message, it should filter down to my mainstack. I suppose I could insert the stack-closing-code in all my substacks, but that makes me feel dirty somehow. ;-) Bob S On May 21, 2014,

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond, Looks like you should try again if font loading works for your program instead of asking users to install the required font(s). >From this thread: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/revfont-external-and-start-using-font-file-td4679797.html > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Klau

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Idle command only runs on the stack when it has the mouse pointer focus... or at least this is how I understand this behavior of Idle. Good catch, Alejandro. There are a handful of messages which have this sort of "existential" behavior (mousewithin is another) - from

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Bob, Bob Sneidar-2 wrote > Okay it looks like the idle command is not getting passed > to the back script for some reason. > [snip] Idle command only runs on the stack when it has the mouse pointer focus... or at least this is how I understand this behavior of Idle. Test this stack https://w

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Not getting passed to the mainstack either. Not a back script problem. ... > On May 21, 2014, at 08:48 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Okay it looks like the idle command is not getting passed to the back > script for some reason. I have this in a back script This sounds like a job

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/05/14 18:19, Devin Asay wrote: On May 21, 2014, at 1:06 AM, Richmond wrote: On 21/05/14 05:24, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Richmond, Could you create any kind of custom text editor Yes: my PISMO program is just a (much simplified) version of my Devawriter program using a different wr

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not getting passed to the mainstack either. Not a back script problem. Bob On May 21, 2014, at 08:48 , Bob Sneidar mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote: Okay it looks like the idle command is not getting passed to the back script for some reason. I have this in a back script: _

Re: Image cache question

2014-05-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Devin Asay wrote > Do you mean all you have to do is set the filename property > of the image to empty, then set it to the external file > reference again? The dictionary ought to be updated, > or a note added, to alert users on how to do this. Maybe (just maybe) in this way: lock screen -- us

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Okay it looks like the idle command is not getting passed to the back script for some reason. I have this in a back script: on idle global theStack breakpoint try close stack theStack put empty into theStack catch theError end try end idle When script execution termi

Re: Image cache question

2014-05-21 Thread Devin Asay
On May 21, 2014, at 8:08 AM, Phil Jimmieson wrote: > Hi Ben, > thanks. That works perfectly. No complicated commands or anything. > > On 21 May 2014, at 15:01, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > >> Hi Phil, >> >> This was discussed by the team at the time. There is no special handling >> for the chan

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
In my case the stubborn stack is a regular mainstack that's not in use. A couple others are in use but for some reason they don't cause as much trouble. On May 21, 2014 10:10:09 AM CDT, Devin Asay wrote: > >Jacque and Bob, > >I've noticed that sometimes if I'm using library stacks the stack c

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks Devin, but none of my substacks are library stacks. If I use library stacks they are always standalone stacks. Bob On May 21, 2014, at 08:10 , Devin Asay mailto:devin_a...@byu.edu>> wrote: On May 20, 2014, at 11:15 PM, "J. Landman Gay" mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote: On 5/2

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
I’m running 6.6.1. I do not have 2 copies open however. The stack is a substack of my main stack. I use stacks as software modules, so to speak, in this application. I hide my mainstack window when I open a substack module. When I close the substack window, my on closeStack handler in the main s

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Devin Asay
On May 21, 2014, at 1:06 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 21/05/14 05:24, Alejandro Tejada wrote: >> Hi Richmond, >> >> Could you create any kind of custom text editor > > Yes: my PISMO program is just a (much simplified) version of > my Devawriter program using a different writing set. > > The main

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Devin Asay
On May 20, 2014, at 11:15 PM, "J. Landman Gay" wrote: > On 5/20/2014, 9:41 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> NVM my NVM. I passed all the closeStack messages as well as the >> closeStackRequest messages. Stack still will not close. > > If you are trying to not just close the stack but also remove it f

Re: Image cache question

2014-05-21 Thread Phil Jimmieson
Hi Ben, thanks. That works perfectly. No complicated commands or anything. On 21 May 2014, at 15:01, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: > Hi Phil, > > This was discussed by the team at the time. There is no special handling > for the changing of images currently referenced by the cache. I spoke to > one

Re: Image cache question

2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Hi Phil, This was discussed by the team at the time. There is no special handling for the changing of images currently referenced by the cache. I spoke to one of the engineers and he suggested unsetting the reference to the image as the cache will release images that no longer have a reference. Re

Image cache question

2014-05-21 Thread Phil Jimmieson
Hi folks, as far as I understand it, with the new image caching features of LiveCode 6 and later, images are loaded into a cache based on their full filename and then every reference to that image in LiveCode uses the cached copy. I've got an image on disk that is used in my program, and the ima

Re: revfont external and start using font file

2014-05-21 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Trevor, Am 21.05.2014 um 12:46 schrieb Trevor DeVore : > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Klaus major-k wrote: >> >> Does using the new syntax: >> ... >> start using font file "path/to/font.ttf >> ... >> still require the "revfont" external to be present? > No. thank you :-) > -- > Trevor DeVo

Re: revfont external and start using font file

2014-05-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, Klaus major-k wrote: > > Does using the new syntax: > ... > start using font file "path/to/font.ttf > ... > still require the "revfont" external to be present? > No. -- Trevor DeVore ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

RELEASE LiveCode 6.7 DP4

2014-05-21 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear LiveCode User, We are pleased to announce the preview release of LiveCode 6.7.0 DP4. The primary focus of this release is cocoa support. This required us to re-port LiveCode to the newer Mac platform API’s (cocoa). As a result, there may be some instabilities on Mac OS. THERE ARE INSTABILIT

revfont external and start using font file

2014-05-21 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi friends, short question: Does using the new syntax: ... start using font file "path/to/font.ttf ... still require the "revfont" external to be present? No word about this in the docs. Thank you! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de _

Re: Make stack close itself

2014-05-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/05/14 07:32, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Bob. Not sure what you are up against. This works fine. To test. make a new stack. Put a button in it with this in its script: on mouseUp close this stack end mouseUp ??? Craig Newman Quite! Easy-Peasy-Racist Remark . . . LOL! Richmond.

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/05/14 05:24, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi Richmond, Could you create any kind of custom text editor Yes: my PISMO program is just a (much simplified) version of my Devawriter program using a different writing set. The main difference lies in the fact that both Cyrillic and Glagolitic (th