Re: please help!!

2014-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/2014, 12:41 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: Right now I am too frustrated and tired to keep going. Yeah, been there. It's normal but it's really frustrating. Learning a new language is hard, no matter which one you choose. Send me your stack if you want and I can probably tell

Re: Weird data grid behaviour

2014-06-08 Thread zryip theSlug
Gerry, 1 to 6: This is the normal behavior for all the datagrids: The template substack is composed by one card by datagrids in your project + the card id 1002 which contains the instructions as a background group shared by all the templates cards. The name of the window is set somewhere in the

Re: please help!!

2014-06-08 Thread Earthednet-wp
I've had similar problems using the snapshot command, where the engine seems to get behind. My latest problem was my own fault, though where I had locked the screen and it couldn't update. What fooled me was that when I put in a breakpoint, the breakpoint unlocked the screen and it looked as I

Book on Programming by Example

2014-06-08 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Bookmark this webpage: http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Your-Wish/ to read this mind opening book: Your Wish is My Command: Giving Users the Power to Instruct their Software Henry Lieberman, editor Media Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology Have a nice week! :D Al

Re: ScreenRect bug or not

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Thursday, June 5, 2014, 7:19:07 AM, you wrote: There is an IDE rewrite underway, and a very large-scope effort to improve overall rendering. Eh? One of the problems with being OCD about my LiveCode consumption is that I can no longer recall where I hear things, whether it was in

Open stack problem

2014-06-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Trying to track down a strange problem involving opening a stack. I have a button with a script that issues an answer file statement to get the name of a stack file to open. After getting the file name and doing a couple of checks I open the stack file then do some other stuff. This all works

Re: ScreenRect bug or not

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Thursday, June 5, 2014, 7:19:07 AM, you wrote: The IDE rewrite is AFAIK very early-stage, a logical necessity from the Open Language initiative and the implications thereof related to extensibility. I imagine we'll be hearing more about it as it begins to

Re: ScreenRect bug or not

2014-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/2014, 1:28 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: AFAIK there is no other RunRev-borne IDE in existence (the community has several), just ideas, sketches, possibilities and imaginings which may become fleshed out into some actual thing in the future The idea for a new IDE was announced two RevLives

Re: ScreenRect bug or not

2014-06-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Sunday, June 8, 2014, 11:28:28 AM, you wrote: A secret is a willful attempt to conceal, but we have no indication that anyone's doing that. So before anyone runs off to the hardware store to grab pitchforks for storming the castle over some imagined IDE conspiracy, please kindly

Re: please help!!

2014-06-08 Thread larry
Hello Jacqueline, You are incredibly kind! I did rest up and then started over this morning. I went back to my original stack before this latest problem and just rebuilt it from scratch. I don't know that I did anything differently, but now it works just fine. Every once in awhile I will get

Re: ScreenRect bug or not

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Sunday, June 8, 2014, 11:28:28 AM, you wrote: A secret is a willful attempt to conceal, but we have no indication that anyone's doing that. So before anyone runs off to the hardware store to grab pitchforks for storming the castle over some imagined IDE

Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
In another thread the topic came up about moving our open source process forward with the IDE. Let me describe some of the current options already on the table, and invite your suggestions for others: There are challenges with any open source project, and with LiveCode they're made even

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 09/06/2014 00:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: In broad terms: - Forums as a central working group resource we can use to explore ideas, assemble teams, and manage projects Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the forums mirrored (or gatewayed, or whatever the right term is) into e-mail ? I find

Copy of RevError Report

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I have a faceless application that, when it opens, is throwing up a blank dialog with an ok button. The title of the dialog it is throwing up is Copy of RevError Report. Any clues what might be triggering this? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I would much rather have new email lists than forums. Yes, some folks are forums people. I am not. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: On 09/06/2014 00:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: In broad terms: - Forums as a central working group resource we can use to

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
also, what's the difference between this forum and the Extending group? On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:15 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: I would much rather have new email lists than forums. Yes, some folks are forums people. I am not. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Alex

Re: Copy of RevError Report

2014-06-08 Thread Skip Kimpel
An application that throws up is never a good thing. A sure sign of something amiss. SKIP On Jun 8, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: I have a faceless application that, when it opens, is throwing up a blank dialog with an ok button. The title of the dialog

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I would also like to have a class on hacking the IDE, so when we are breaking things to look cool, we aren't doing something that will make our work harder to accept. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 7:31 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: In another thread the topic came up about

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the forums mirrored (or gatewayed, or whatever the right term is) into e-mail ? I find the forums impossibly slow and tedious to check, search and read. Maybe I need to do it every day, maybe I need to use some option, or some external tool,

Re: Copy of RevError Report

2014-06-08 Thread Skip Kimpel
What version are you running? On Jun 8, 2014, at 8:07 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: I have a faceless application that, when it opens, is throwing up a blank dialog with an ok button. The title of the dialog it is throwing up is Copy of RevError Report. Any clues what

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: what's the difference between this forum and the Extending group? The description for Extending LiveCode reads: Are you developing tools to extend the LiveCode environment? This is the place to talk about the nuts and bolts of extending our nuts and bolts. If

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread As_Simon
Two things Richard left out: You must be logged in to the forum to view the New Posts and there is also an Unread Posts (by you) link. Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Open-Source-IDE-and-You-tp4680349p4680359.html Sent from the Revolution

Re: Weird data grid behaviour

2014-06-08 Thread Gerry Orkin
theSlug wrote: 1 to 6: This is the normal behavior for all the datagrids: So weird. I've been using datagrids for a few years and never noticed this...in fact i've just looked at a couple of old projects and the datagrid template stacks only have 1 card in them...id 1002. - You have placed

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I've been hacking the IDE for my own purposes for years, but I just posted my first FIX a week or two ago, since our effort is now hopefully going to be more helpful. I also asked to get some more detail on INTERNAL, because I have now bounced into it several times. The problem with setting

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
Also, the emails you get when you email subscribe to the forums don't tell you anything except that there's been a message. The content is not included. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:48 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: I've been hacking the IDE for my own purposes for years, but I

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/2014, 7:03 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Can we PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get the forums mirrored (or gatewayed, or whatever the right term is) into e-mail ? You can! I hate the forum structure too and I just don't have the patience to navigate to every topic daily. But if you go to your user

Re: Copy of RevError Report

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner write: I have a faceless application that, when it opens, is throwing up a blank dialog with an ok button. The title of the dialog it is throwing up is Copy of RevError Report. Any clues what might be triggering this? Somehow it seems the Error dialog was copied into your stack

Re: please help!!

2014-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/8/2014, 4:29 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: Maybe you'll give me a rain check to look at one of my stacks in the future? Sure, provided it's a weekend when most of my clients are ignoring me, and that you've exhausted all options and are once again on the brink of suicide. ;)

Re: Open Source IDE and You

2014-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: Also, the emails you get when you email subscribe to the forums don't tell you anything except that there's been a message. The content is not included. Good catch - thanks. Ignore my instructions, and follow Jacque's instead:

Re: Copy of RevError Report

2014-06-08 Thread Mike Kerner
I know. It's really bizarre. It's also not modal. I have a timeout built into the standalone so that it will eventually just quit, and the dialog doesn't stop that. Well, more messing there will be. On Sun, Jun 8, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Mike Kerner

Flappy bird clone takes = 9 hours in Swift

2014-06-08 Thread Geoff Canyon
Apparently it was 9 hours with some interruptions. If we're talking basic functionality -- fly the bird, flap the wings, move the pillars left and count how many the user has passed, collision detection, start/end games and high score tracking -- then I'm guessing this wouldn't go much faster in