Motion Graphic in LiveCode

2014-08-21 Thread Brahmanathswami
If one wanted to do some very short, but high quality motion graphics in LifeCode, what are the options? I assume that all we have is the ability to play small video clips in a player object. But then Quicktime is required -- or have we gone beyond Quicktime now... I'm not sure where media

Back to Stacks! New Text Properties

2014-08-21 Thread Brahmanathswami
After several years of being lost in the web world and LiveCode on the server (script only universe) I'm finally going to get back into building stacks. But I'm way behind... Is there a comprehensive doc on all the new text properties? like listStyle? These are not exposed in the IDE

Re: Why doesn't menupick work

2014-08-21 Thread Brahmanathswami
I had a very obscure bug some time back where the style of the button was causing the pull down not to work... some GUI property of the button made if failtry the same thing in a different button.. J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/20/2014, 8:08 PM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote:

Sparkles at the end of a pencil point

2014-08-21 Thread Brahmanathswami
I was looking at some apps for Kids with a lady who may assist with creating functional specifications for edutainment apps. A lot of the do all kinds of swirly stuff with amazing colors. I haven't the faintest idea how to being to doing something like this in LiveCode and even if you create

AW: Massiv performance difference between LC 6.5.2 and 6.6.2

2014-08-21 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello Fred, no, I'm on Windows 7 and my issue seems to be related to a windows shell operation, changing a file flag. But not yet verified. Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Fred Moyer Gesendet:

Re: PPC G5

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/08/14 02:47, Gregg Flora wrote: Hi Richmond, I have been following your adventures with a G5 computer on the Livecode forum and in fact you got me interested enough that I picked up a G5 system myself. Dummy me I didn’t even think about what OS their was and ended up with 10.4. The

Re: Sparkles at the end of a pencil point

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/08/14 10:26, Brahmanathswami wrote: I was looking at some apps for Kids with a lady who may assist with creating functional specifications for edutainment apps. A lot of the do all kinds of swirly stuff with amazing colors. I haven't the faintest idea how to being to doing something

Re: Sparkles at the end of a pencil point

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/ITCHY/sparks.livecode.zip The code is in the group GreenDOG. Enjoy! Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Why doesn't menupick work

2014-08-21 Thread revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com
On 8/20/2014, 8:08 PM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote: Why doesn't this code work? on menuPick pItemName go card pItemName end menuPick where the comboBox has a list of card names. Set a breakpoint at the go line and when it pauses, see what's in pItemName and whether

Re: Why doesn't menupick work

2014-08-21 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 21, 2014, at 5:02 AM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote: On 8/20/2014, 8:08 PM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote: Why doesn't this code work? on menuPick pItemName go card pItemName end menuPick where the comboBox has a list of card names. Set a

Re: Why doesn't menupick work

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, card is part of the name, but not of the short name. A correct card reference is card The short name This would be the complete name of the card and you can use it directly in a script: go card The short name put (there is a card The short name) There are a few things I would not do:

Re: Sparkles at the end of a pencil point

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/08/14 13:12, Richmond wrote: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/ITCHY/sparks.livecode.zip The code is in the group GreenDOG. Enjoy! Richmond. Just uploaded an updated version of this: the 'dog' on the left uses the animated GIF I downloaded from the internet, the 'dog' on the

Re: Sparkles at the end of a pencil point

2014-08-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi, Could you use a button for the sparkle effect? Scott Rossi or Colin Holgate surely have an specific and definitive answer :D Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Sparkles-at-the-end-of-a-pencil-point-tp4682253p4682262.html Sent from the

Re: Back to Stacks! New Text Properties

2014-08-21 Thread Peter Haworth
They're documented in the release notes for 5.5.4. I'm working on a mum word processing stack that implements them all but not quite ready for prime time yet. Pete lcSQL Software On Aug 20, 2014 11:56 PM, Brahmanathswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: After several years of being lost in the web world

Re: Motion Graphic in LiveCode

2014-08-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi, Besides frame by frame animation, using bitmaps or vector graphics, consider employing this kind of animation used in games: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletal_animation In this website (and it's forums) you could find some outstanding examples of every creative and expressive

Re: Massiv performance difference between LC 6.5.2 and 6.6.2

2014-08-21 Thread Neil Roger
Hi Fred, I too have been expericning this issue for the past month and its been driving me crazy :) (sometimes taking 15 seconds for a save/open dialog to appear but after this, it appears almost instantly). I had a quick look at my Accessibility ---Allow the below apps to control your

Re: Motion Graphic in LiveCode

2014-08-21 Thread Martin Koob
Forgot to say. I have been testing exclusively in 6.7.0 to this point as I want to release my app using 6.7.0 when it goes GM.I am planning to do testing in LC 7.0 as well but it would be good if people can test out the player object in both on the Mac to see how it is working in various

Re: Motion Graphic in LiveCode

2014-08-21 Thread Martin Koob
One of the Kickstarter goals was Upgraded Player control using latest native video libraries on all platforms (Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android). The first step in implementing that goal is happening in LiveCode 6.7.0 and 7.0 here is a new player object for the Mac Platform which is based

[ANN] Installer Maker 1.8.7b04

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi everyone, A new beta version of Installer Maker has been released. Installer Maker 1.8.7b04 is not available on Economy-x-Talk's homepage yet but can only be downloaded from the following link: http://qery.us/c5e Installer Maker 1.8.7 is going to contain many bug fixes, enhancements and

Re: Back to Stacks! New Text Properties

2014-08-21 Thread BNig
Hi Brahmanathaswami, I while ago I uploaded a stack Ben Beaumont made available around the release of 5.5 that shows the new text handling http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7t=11686hilit=beaumont#p55064 Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context:

Re: Back to Stacks! New Text Properties

2014-08-21 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hey, thanks, Bernd. I was looking for documentation a couple of days ago, but this is even better. On 21 Aug 2014, at 10:55 AM, BNig bernd.niggem...@uni-wh.de wrote: Hi Brahmanathaswami, I while ago I uploaded a stack Ben Beaumont made available around the release of 5.5 that shows the new

Re: Sparkles at the end of a pencil point

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/08/14 15:01, Richmond wrote: On 21/08/14 13:12, Richmond wrote: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/ITCHY/sparks.livecode.zip The code is in the group GreenDOG. Enjoy! Richmond. Just uploaded an updated version of this: the 'dog' on the left uses the animated GIF I downloaded

Linux (Ubuntu mainly) Installer

2014-08-21 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Does anyone have any suggestions for packaging an app for Linux release. Im a total Linux newbie, I have it on a couple of machines and my app runs fine but I wouldn’t have a clue where to look for the best installer, or how to package it up so it can use the software manager. Does anyone

Re: Linux (Ubuntu mainly) Installer

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/08/14 19:25, Andrew Henshaw wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions for packaging an app for Linux release. Im a total Linux newbie, I have it on a couple of machines and my app runs fine but I wouldn’t have a clue where to look for the best installer, or how to package it up so it

Re: Back to Stacks! New Text Properties

2014-08-21 Thread Peter Haworth
Very useful stack. One thing that's missing is that you can now define tabstops for a paragraph as well as for a field, although I'm guessing that's part of the simple table example. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and

Re: Blow her away with your gigantic weapon.

2014-08-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote [snip] Now the question comes as to whether I should develop it in Livecode 7 with a view of going straight to HTML5 when it is delivered or sticking with a pre-7 version using the sort of code I am used to. Use Version 7, of course. and post about all bugs that

Re: Blow her away with your gigantic weapon.

2014-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/08/14 21:14, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote [snip] Now the question comes as to whether I should develop it in Livecode 7 with a view of going straight to HTML5 when it is delivered or sticking with a pre-7 version using the sort of code I am used to. Use Version 7,

speed

2014-08-21 Thread Beat Cornaz
A while ago I did a test for speed with 'repeat for'. It turned out that with items it worked the fasted. Chars were slower and words even more so. Now I redid the test with 'LineOffset'. To my surprise: with chars was considerably faster. A long list with lines like 'aabcbcax' (chars) OR

Re: speed

2014-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
It'll be hard to give specific guidance without seeing your current code you tested with, and a representative data sample. There are many ways to parse text in LC, and some are better with certain types of data than others. Total line length, number of items in each line, average length of

Re: Blow her away with your gigantic weapon.

2014-08-21 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote At which point we may all be blown away. That is fundamental part of bug hunting. Catch them All... :D Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Blow-her-away-with-your-gigantic-weapon-tp4682195p4682279.html Sent from the

iOS option button with cancel like mobilePick

2014-08-21 Thread Scott Morrow
To create a pickwheel in iOS that supports unicode I am using (rather than mobilePick) a button with the style of “menu” and menuMode set to “option”. This works well but I was wondering if there was any way to include the standard “Cancel” button feature with this method like can be done

Re: Linux (Ubuntu mainly) Installer

2014-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Thursday, August 21, 2014, 9:27:59 AM, you wrote: I just let them download the Linux standalone. They probably have to set the executable bit :( If you're packaging into a zip file, the executable bit should survive intact. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This