On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
EVERYONE has that problem. I used to think the mouse was responding to my
thoughts, but after years of fighting with it I finally noticed that when I
reach for the mouse my finger might barely brush one of the
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:43 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
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I usually create a separate handler to do the task (which it sounds like
you've done) and call that at the end of a preOpenCard or openCard handler.
But you have to give the IDE enough time to finish loading and
On 3/14/2015 5:00 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
(The whole point of the stack being invisible is to mimic the standalone
behavior on the mac . . .)
Leave it visible. When you want to test how the standalone will work,
choose Suspend Development Tools from the Development menu. That's
exactly what
I do know what you mean. I guess I've learned to be careful. It could (should)
be better.
I must say that I hope the new script editor has smooth scrolling. My old tired
eye loses track when things jump-scroll. I find it too cumbersome to use an
external editor. Maybe I could learn to ...
I just can't find the property being set or unset by set as stack
menubar in the menuBuilder.
I build a menu, and set that property.
I then clone the stack, and my mac shows the menu in the cloned stack (I
need to clone them dynamically for generating output).
livecode set as stack menubar
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 11:34 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
On 3/14/2015 12:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight.
Advice I received early on is that if your stack will have menus, develop
for Windows first
Paul
Have you tried submitting your emergency request via the on-rev website? I
don’t know if it is any different from sending an email but it may be worth a
try.
Just in case you don’t have the url - http://www.on-rev.com/support/contact-us/
http://www.on-rev.com/support/contact-us/
Regards
Thanks for that suggestion PeterI'll do that now!
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I'm getting better after years of practice, but then there's that thing
where you're trying to select some text and your finger isn't exactly
dead-still on the mouse, it rocks a fraction of a nano-inch while you're
dragging, so the page or field that contains the text goes
up down up
Interesting, hadn't thought about the speed aspect, thanks Ralph.
I've taken to using PRAGMA table_info to get column names these days
although if you're caching the names, probably doesn't matter. But the
problem I found had to do with using revDatabaseColumnNamed on a cursor
that didn't
I just came across http://magicprefs.com/ - sounds like ti has a lot of
customization settings for the MM, including restricting the are which is
active for scrolling which I think would probably cure my inadvertent
scrolling issue.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:51 PM stephen barncard
You've never had that thing happen where you brush up against the mouse
and your very long script goes madly scrolling at top speed off into the
ether in a direction you can't pinpoint because it happens so fast,
careening completely out of control and losing your place, causing you
to forget
On 3/14/2015 5:04 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
OK, so the dictionary*is* wrong about menubar being only on mac?
Interesting. I could be (probably am) wrong. Like you, I work mostly on
Mac and only test on Windows. Since I've never developed for Windows
alone (always cross platform) I have never
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:24 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
How come apple can make a quad-core i7 laptop with a 15 retina screen that
lasts 7-9 hours, yet can't make wireless keyboards or mice that last more
than two weeks on good alkaline batteries???
It does help to turn off the
Would anyone know if on-rev support 'urgent' system might be down? I've
sent 4 emails with the subject 'urgent' and have yet to hear from them. I
have indeed generally heard from them in an hour in the past, but no go for
over 18 hours now. Is there some other way to get them a message if their
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 3:20 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
On 3/14/2015 4:42 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I just can't find the property being set or unset by set as stack
menubar in the menuBuilder.
It's the menubar, and is a property of a stack.
Hmm. It's definitely
On 3/14/2015 8:18 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 3:20 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
On 3/14/2015 4:42 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I just can't find the property being set or unset by set as stack
menubar in the menuBuilder.
It's the menubar, and is a
On 3/14/2015 10:21 PM, Gerry wrote:
You've never had that thing happen where you brush up against the mouse and
your very long script goes madly scrolling at top speed off into the ether in a
direction you can't pinpoint because it happens so fast, careening completely
out of control and
I think I'm gonna stick with my USB keyboard/mouse now, just seems so much
more predictable and I don;t have to worry about changing batteries.
Plus, I really like the convenience of being able to plug things into the
spare USB port on the keyboard so I don't have to scrabble around the back
of
On 3/14/2015 4:42 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I just can't find the property being set or unset by set as stack
menubar in the menuBuilder.
It's the menubar, and is a property of a stack.
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On 3/14/2015 3:16 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I seem to remember you have to put your mouse handlers in the menubar group
not the menu buttons?
Right, mostly because of the Mac system menu bar. The item selected is
only returned to the group.
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On 3/14/2015 9:15 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I can easily fix the issue by setting the defaultStack to the stack my
preOpenCard handler is on (I think) but shouldn't any control references
refer to the card the preOpenCard handler is executing on unless the
default stack has been changed to
You've never had that thing happen where you brush up against the mouse and
your very long script goes madly scrolling at top speed off into the ether in
a direction you can't pinpoint because it happens so fast, careening
completely out of control and losing your place, causing you to
I seem to remember you have to put your mouse handlers in the menubar group
not the menu buttons? There used to be a problem with that because you
couldn't tell which menu button had been clicked, or perhaps that was just
on OSX. It's been a while since I used menubars though so it may have
I like it too. Every once in a while it does something I don't want when I'm
careless about the edges.
I don't think I'd recommend it to a newbie, though - I'd have to teach them how
to use it. The Apple alternative, the one with the tiny little rollerball, is
easier to teach but the ball gets
In a preOpenCard handler, I have an unqualified reference to a field on the
card which causes a no such object runtime error. The reference is
correct, no typos, and the control exists on the card.
If I qualify the reference with of me, the runtime error goes away.
This card is opened by a
Nope. Not I. I find the Apple wireless mouse to be a fantastic device.
Gerry
On 15 Mar 2015, at 5:40 am, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
EVERYONE has that problem.
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On Mar 14, 2015, at 9:09 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
You've never had that thing happen where you brush up against the mouse and
your very long script goes madly scrolling at
I'm completely mystified. I've never had a single problem with any of the 4-5
wireless mice I've used. perhaps it's a northern-southern hemisphere thing?
Magnetic fields, perhaps? ;-\
g
On 15 Mar 2015, at 2:29 pm, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
Maybe if I typed in shorter
The XML command I use mostly is sometimes referred to as XPath. In Livecode it
is:
revXMLNodeContents(3,/Book/Chapter/Section”)
What this is is the direct address in the XML tree of the node data you are
looking for. In this case /Book/Chapter/Section gives me the node data for
Section, inside
I use XML in my application and it works well. I use the xPath functions
revXMLEvaluateXPath revXMLDataFromXPathQuery which were added in LiveCode
6.5 as well and find they are very powerful.
I have sent you Sarah's tutorial stack off list.
Martin Koob
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Thanks to help from this list, I’ve used Trevor’s ‘ConvertXMLtoArray’ to
convert an XML file into a multidimensional array. Looks good in the IDE, but I
can’t understand how to access its elements by following the scraps of advice
in the User Guide. The IDE says that my array (say ‘myArray’)
Fantastic! Seems to do the job admirably, and the small tweaks I needed in my
particular case actually worked. What an excellent collection!
Thanks also to all others who replied - I have a kind of scepticism about XML
that perhaps I shall never overcome, but I do feel now that I can tackle my
I registered on the new site, following suggestion of Kevin on the front
page. First time I clicked I got direct to set of 5 videos, and watched
first by Eleanor, showing how to make simple App. Now I go in and even when
I sign in I cannot find those videos. Where are they?
And, being grumpy, why
I recently purchased a new 27 iMac and very happy with it except for
the wireless mouse.
It seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to scrolling. I'll be
happily typing away and reach for the mouse and suddenly the window I'm in
scrolls before I even touch the thing. Makes using the
I already had LC 8.0.0 DP1 installed and lcTaskList worked fine.
When I opened LiveCode today the auto updater wanted to update to what appears
to be the same LC 8 DP1. When I open the updated version and then open
lcTaskList, LiveCode IDE crashes. They must have changed something.
I've
I'm also getting a blue updater (over and over), which I would assume is LC
commercial 8. When I run the updater, I get an error.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote:
I already had LC 8.0.0 DP1 installed and lcTaskList worked fine.
When I opened LiveCode today
I have a similar problem with a Logitech Performance MX mouse. The
scrolling can be a little touchy.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:43 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
I recently purchased a new 27 iMac and very happy with it except for
the wireless mouse.
It seems to have a mind of
Inspector?
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5t=23615
Richmond.
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Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight.
(Hey, I'm not a GUI kind of person. My general reaction is that they're
for displaying arrays of xterms . . . )
So for mac, I set the defaultMenuBar, which can hang around in the main
stack. For substacks with custom menus,
From your post, it looks like trk is on the same level as gpx? So, you
would have myArray[trk] Then the next level.. it looks like your trkseg
and trkpt[] are on the different levels. (hard to see from the email, but
they pretty much have to be) So, you would have myarray[trk][trkseg],
and could
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
No errors on that. Subsequently I use revDatabaseColumnNames to get the
column names followed by a loop using revDatabaseColumnNamed to get the
column values. The latter returns an error indicating that printf('%6.2f'
and
On the Mac, instead of being in the top left of your window, it will
display at the top of your display.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight.
(Hey, I'm not a GUI kind of person. My general
when my stack loads, the mainstack detects the development environment, and
uses a send openMcp2 to me in 0 to cause the script editor to open a
couple of main scripts and position that window
I've tried putting open stack mcp and send open stack mcp to me in
0 at the end of that script, but
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
It seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to scrolling. I'll be
happily typing away and reach for the mouse and suddenly the window I'm in
scrolls before I even touch the thing. Makes using the script editor
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com
wrote:
On the Mac, instead of being in the top left of your window, it will
display at the top of your display.
I've got that :) I primarily develop on that, and only have windows as a
leftover on a FreeBSD laptop.
But
Your first problem is that you used mcp and not MCP.
End of line.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
when my stack loads, the mainstack detects the development environment, and
uses a send openMcp2 to me in 0 to cause the script editor to open a
couple of
annd, there's me, not bothering to understand the entire message.
Going back to my hole, now.
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com
wrote:
On the Mac, instead of being in the top left
If found that revDatabaseColumnaNames() is beyond all belief extremely
slow(better part of a second). A SQLite update program sped up better than
10 times when I cached the column names.
SQLite
Windows XP
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
On 3/14/2015 12:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
Before I blow off another limb, I need to see if I have this straight.
Advice I received early on is that if your stack will have menus,
develop for Windows first (even if you're on a Mac.) It's good advice.
It allows you to see how the layout should
On 3/14/2015 12:43 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
It seems to have a mind of its own when it comes to scrolling. I'll be
happily typing away and reach for the mouse and suddenly the window I'm in
scrolls before I even touch the thing. Makes using the script editor
interesting!
Anyone else have this
I use the Apple Magic Trackpad, it’s a great way to work. I can use various
gestures to do things.
Not sure if the mouse has the same setting, but with trackpads you can set it
to tap to click. I hate that setting and have it turned off. If it was turned
on and you’re trying to scroll a
On 3/14/2015 12:54 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
when my stack loads, the mainstack detects the development environment, and
uses a send openMcp2 to me in 0 to cause the script editor to open a
couple of main scripts and position that window
I've tried putting open stack mcp and send open stack mcp
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