Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I see. That sounds like either the card or the stack has cantModify set to > true. > But I'm having no problem changing the custom properties of groups on that page (in fact, the script is setting custom properties that are unset to custo

Re: any use of pass by reference breaks any omitted variable?

On Nov 22, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Pass by reference *should* be something useful, but it seems half done. > > I have various handlers with optional parameters. > > It seems that if *any* parameter is passed by reference, omitting any > variable causes a runtime error Hmm. I tes

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On 11/24/2014, 7:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I haven't used cantModify but shouldn't there be some sort of warning when you try to make any changes in cantModify mode? I wouldn't think so, no more than setting locLock on an object. The original HC purpose was to allow users to temporarily make

RE: Need help with Indiegogo, Twitter, Facebook etc.

> Ok, so you are recommending an upfront paid advertising > approach on FB and Twitter then where my ads appear somewhere > without my having any links anywhere to anyone. > > Is this approach going to cost me a small fortune? I haven't done any advertising on Twitter other than our own home gr

Re: LC Script in PHP File

Simon FastCGI support would be excellent from my point of view as it would allow LiveCode to be run behind a web server acting as a load balancer. Regards Peter > On 24 Nov 2014, at 21:34, Simon Smith wrote: > > Would supporting Fast CGI not be a better way forward? > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014

openControl and the Message Path

I've been using openControl to handle initalisation of controls within groups and curious about what the dictionary says about it: "For nested groups, the *openControl* message is sent to the parent group first, if it is passed or not handled by the parent group, then it passes though each child g

Re: Need help with Indiegogo, Twitter, Facebook etc.

Hi Lynn, Ok, so you are recommending an upfront paid advertising approach on FB and Twitter then where my ads appear somewhere without my having any links anywhere to anyone. Is this approach going to cost me a small fortune? Thank you Lynn for your opinion on this. Rick > > These link /frien

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I see. That sounds like either the card or the stack has cantModify set to > true. I haven't used cantModify but shouldn't there be some sort of warning when you try to make any changes in cantModify mode? Pete lcSQL Software

RE: Need help with Indiegogo, Twitter, Facebook etc.

> I've noticed that I'm already getting bugged by people trying > to sell me on Likes, and getting Followers for Twitter, and > re-tweets advertising packages etc. > > What do people do to manage this? > I'm having to ask myself questions like, do I really want to > be associated/liked/linked

Re: using Vimeo API (OAuth2) from a desktop app

Thanks David - I'll take a look. Phil On 11/24/14 3:38 PM, David Simpson wrote: Phil, Andre had a posting earlier this year where he stated that he used OAuth2 for his FaceBook Lib: https://www.mail-archive.com/use-livecode@lists.runrev.com/msg49456.html And his FaceBook Lib is located her

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On Nov 24, 2014, at 4:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/24/2014, 4:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:44 AM, J. Landman Gay >> wrote: >> >>> The symptoms sound like the button(s) aren't really in a group, they are >>> at the card level. Or alternately, there are copies

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On 11/24/2014, 4:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:44 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: The symptoms sound like the button(s) aren't really in a group, they are at the card level. Or alternately, there are copies of the group on different cards rather than a single group being place

Re: using Vimeo API (OAuth2) from a desktop app

Phil, Andre had a posting earlier this year where he stated that he used OAuth2 for his FaceBook Lib: https://www.mail-archive.com/use-livecode@lists.runrev.com/msg49456.html And his FaceBook Lib is located here: http://andregarzia.com/pages/en/facebooklib/ David Simpson www.fmpromigrator.com

Re: reopen app from background iOS 7 and 8 / multitask

On Nov 24, 2014, at 2:06 PM, Alain Vezina wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anybody knows if it is possible to go back to an app that was pushed in > the background by using the home button on iPad without the app reopens with > the splash screen but showing the state it was before pushed back? Hi A

using Vimeo API (OAuth2) from a desktop app

Hey folks - I need to write a Vimeo code lib so my desktop app can do stuff in a single Vimeo account - see a list of videos (with thumbnails), upload a video, get a video URL, etc. The API endpoints themselves are not a problem for me, but I'm stumbling on the initial OAuth2 handshake. My ap

RE: keyboards & chinese

I am now starting to understand how to use multiple keyboards within a mobile app and how to tap on the globe icon at the bottom of the software keyboard to change between them... Does anyone know how to set a keyboard to say English or Chinese depending on which card you are on, or depending o

OT: Need help with Indiegogo, Twitter, Facebook etc.

Dear Fellow LiveCoders, I just started an Indiegogo.com campaign to make my second music CD Album. I’m doing some side advertising of my Apple Apps along with the project. (We might be able to use this to help push LiveCode too as I can add perks to my campaign to encourag

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:44 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The symptoms sound like the button(s) aren't really in a group, they are > at the card level. Or alternately, there are copies of the group on > different cards rather than a single group being placed on multiple cards. > If either case is

reopen app from background iOS 7 and 8 / multitask

Hi all, Does anybody knows if it is possible to go back to an app that was pushed in the background by using the home button on iPad without the app reopens with the splash screen but showing the state it was before pushed back? Thanks Alain Vézina, directeur Logilangue www.logilangue.com ___

Re: any use of pass by reference breaks any omitted variable?

that's mt On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Bob Sneidar > wrote: > > > I think he means that if you have two arguments, one passed by reference > > and you only provide one argument, it throws an error. > > > Yes. Or if you provide "", or e

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

On 11/24/2014, 11:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I have a group in one of my stacks that the user will never see for maintenance. It has a slider to slip through pieces of forms, and a couple of maintenance buttons. I tried to change a script on a button a couple of times yesterday, and it kept goin

Universities teaching programming through Livecode?

Does anybody know of any Universities teaching programming using LiveCode? And, more specifically Germany or Austria, as have several kids I teach English to, who are also semi-fluent in German who would like to go this way. Failing that; which are the best Uni's in Germany or Austria to study

shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

I have a group in one of my stacks that the user will never see for maintenance. It has a slider to slip through pieces of forms, and a couple of maintenance buttons. I tried to change a script on a button a couple of times yesterday, and it kept going back to the prior form, or even *using* the

Re: any use of pass by reference breaks any omitted variable?

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I think he means that if you have two arguments, one passed by reference > and you only provide one argument, it throws an error. Yes. Or if you provide "", or empty as the argument to the other. Hmm, I suppose I could make a global variab

Re: Stack Menu Mystery - Disappointing Documentation (Long, sorry)

Hi Bob I was just trying to find out what a stack menu IS. I don’t know whether you can build one with the menu builder or not, but what I was looking for was an explanation as to the what, the why and the how. I suppose the how might have included menu builder. When I start a new project I do

Re: Stack Menu Mystery - Disappointing Documentation (Long, sorry)

Why aren’t we using the menu builder again? Bob S On Nov 22, 2014, at 06:45 , Graham Samuel mailto:livf...@mac.com>> wrote: I’ve been using LC for a long time but I’ve never used a stack menu. I now find that I can’t understand the documentation of the stack menu in the LC User Guide. I have

Re: any use of pass by reference breaks any omitted variable?

I think he means that if you have two arguments, one passed by reference and you only provide one argument, it throws an error. Bob S On Nov 22, 2014, at 22:01 , dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richard. Not sure what you mean. In this (variant from the user guide example):

Need list of books available for LiveCode

Hey Friends, I know some of the books available about LiveCode but I am sure I am missing some more recent endeavours. Can you folks provide me with replies listing the current and future books available? I own livecodebooks.com and I want to set it up like I did for firefoxosbooks.org Cheers -

Re: Syntax anomaly

In the first example click is being used as a noun as in “it took 5 clicks to get to where I wanted to go.” But I think it matters not. Livecode script is “english like” (for those using English) not the english language itself. And English is filled with so many anomalies, you might say that L

Re: the weight of an app

Now I understand. My app is a one to help people in french spelling and grammar. So I have a lot of words lists in several fields hidden to the user. I don’t want to use Internet to bring information when it is useful; it is very important that my app can be used anywhere, anytime. A data base

Re: [OT] Android Material Design

Dave, Do not count brick in the same box as material design. Material Design is the new HIG for Android, Web and ChromeOS properties of Google. It can be used from Java and from HTML5. On HTML5 it uses Web Components which can be used in Browsers that do not support Web Components thru the Polymer

Re: Sheet stack bug in 7.0

I did not know as sheet acted as modal in the first place. That’s good to know. Bob S On Nov 21, 2014, at 11:30 , Peter Haworth mailto:p...@lcsql.com>> wrote: If you are using the sheet stack command with the "in stack" option, it's broken in 7.0 and 7.0.1. The sheet stack is not displayed as

Re: Comparison of Speed of LiveCode with PHP

Hi Peter, Thanks for your testing! I think we're approaching this performance issue wrong. Most webapps will be I/O bound and not CPU bound. Calculations are not the most common thing going on but I/O in the sense of reading and writing from database and files are. Also the only way to deal with

Re: Comparison of Speed of LiveCode with PHP

My PHP is weak, but if the memory access test is a regular array, then comparing it to a livecode array is somewhat apples and oranges, since LC is really a hash. But on the other hand, there's no way to do a simple array in LC, so it's not like you can do better. For the file access test, your te

Re: LC Script in PHP File

Would supporting Fast CGI not be a better way forward? On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > On 24 Nov 2014, at 3:29 pm, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > > What would it take to make an Apache module for LiveCode? > > > Apache modules themselves don't look all that complicated.