Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I have an old Mac SE, which I can connect to the serial port of an old Performa, which has ethernet, and which lets me surf the net on my SE. It is kind of a hassle and I didn't think it was that interesting. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Move the clock hands with fingers

2015-03-26 Thread Astghik Salnazaryan
Hello :) I am new here :) i am learning livecode and I found clock code in livecode,where you can move the clock hands with scrollbar, i tried to move the minute clock hand with touch but something is wrong, i couldn't do it in the right way. please can you look at the code? i wrote the code in

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Marian Petrides MD
Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. And, of course, my 512K Enhanced Mac (Fat Mac), which also works. And a bunch of newer Macs, LC 2,

Suggest a USB device.

2015-03-26 Thread Richmond
While I am waiting for my turtle to be delivered I am getting pretty cheesed-off as I would like a USB device I could hook up to my various computers running various operating systems . . . Certainly I feel it is pretty pointless working on open to read and open to write stuff if I don't have

Re: Suggest a USB device.

2015-03-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/03/15 22:14, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Richmond, If the scanner is an HID device, you won't get very far. You would probably need a driver to communicate with, via open driver etc. And even then you would have to have info about the driver's data formats. Am I being naive? or if one uses

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/26/2015 2:09 PM, Richmond wrote: If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or one of those USB-to-ADB+SCSI for iMac things . . . Sorry, those I don't have. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

RE: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Erik Beugelaar - Gmail
This will help maybe: http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-2001-ADB-iMate-Universal-adapter/dp/B67V8L https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290.0 Cheers, Erik -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: donderdag

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. On 3/26/2015 12:55 PM, Marian Petrides MD wrote: Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/03/15 19:38, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/03/15 20:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or

Re: Movie problems in LiveCode

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/26/2015 8:47 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: Richard and Jackie, does your reluctance to use relative paths also extend to the distribution of standalones, or is it just stacks that present the problem? I do it mostly for the reasons Richard outlined -- more control over playback and media

Re: Suggest a USB device.

2015-03-26 Thread Phil Davis
On 3/26/15 1:26 PM, Richmond wrote: On 26/03/15 22:14, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Richmond, If the scanner is an HID device, you won't get very far. You would probably need a driver to communicate with, via open driver etc. And even then you would have to have info about the driver's data

Movie problems in LiveCode

2015-03-26 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
Regarding the problem of the LC 6-7 series not allowing relative paths on the Macintosh: On 3/24/2015 10:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've always been wary of shipping things that rely on relative paths, since any other script can change the default directory out from under me at any time. In

Re: Suggest a USB device.

2015-03-26 Thread dunbarx
Richmond. Buy the Bonig and Kallenbach gadget already. You will love it. I have four. Craig -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Suggest-a-USB-device-tp4690650p4690658.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Suggest a USB device.

2015-03-26 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Richmond, If the scanner is an HID device, you won't get very far. You would probably need a driver to communicate with, via open driver etc. And even then you would have to have info about the driver's data formats. I tend to see USB as a large black hole. I haven't looked at it since

Re: Suggest a USB device.

2015-03-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond richmondmathewson@... writes: Am I being naive? Quite, I think. If the scanner is that old your chances of finding a recent driver are miniscule. If you *do* find a driver for it, you'll still have to figure out how to use the driver. USB device manufacturers don't normally publish

LC 7.03 ff Crashing on larger text blocks

2015-03-26 Thread R.H.
I am trying in varying ways to process large chunks of text data, actually in this current application trying to read my Gmail contact data (cvs export) and converting such data to lists / arrays. Using lists I want to exchange commas and returns inside quoted text and keep records as lines to be

Replace existing notification

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
Does anyone know a trick to replace an existing Android notification with new content? I need to repeat a notification periodically if it isn't dismissed and I don't want more than one in the notification bar. Android OS allows this but I'm not sure if we can do it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: LC 7.03 ff Crashing on larger text blocks

2015-03-26 Thread Alex Tweedly
Suggestion 1. Is it feasible for you to avoid the problem ? i.e. rather than something like (I assume what you currently have) put URL (file:inputdata.txt) into myVar replaceText (...) put myModifiedVar into URL(file:output.txt) do the processing within a read / write loop,

revDataFromQuery Selecting Files

2015-03-26 Thread JB
I am working on the sort, search and find in SQL lite with revDataFromQuery in a single database with a single table. I know this is simple for people who already are able to do it but for those who are new to working with database selecting records here are a couple of steps to help. To return

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-03-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Marian Petrides MD mpetri...@earthlink.net wrote: Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. Well, that's not

compress decompress

2015-03-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
In my attempts to provide backups of databases, I have a sequence that gathers the commands and executes open file outfile for binary write write compress(theData )to file outfile Another routine has put url infile into theData switch case infile ends with .gz put

Re: compress decompress

2015-03-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/26/2015 8:31 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: In my attempts to provide backups of databases, I have a sequence that gathers the commands and executes open file outfile for binary write write compress(theData )to file outfile Another routine has put url infile into theData switch

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_2

2015-03-26 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
Hello Bernd Your new TableField looks very clean and very tidy, thanks for it ! Everyone who doesn’t like DataGrid should have a look at it ! Cheers Rolf Dear list, here is a new version of modTableField. It is a way to display tabular data in a table view. --

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_2

2015-03-26 Thread BNig
Bill, Rolf thank you. modTableField is at its core just two fields that are used for display. All data lives in these two fields. It is not as powerful as the dataGrid which I think is an ingenious piece of code. modTableField can be easier because of its simpler structure and might suffice in

Re: Workaround on the inability to create relative paths in the LC6-7 series Movie Player

2015-03-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Stephen, have you verified that VR playback works with QuickTime Player 10 on Windows? My guess is that the Windows system you're looking at has QuickTime Player 7 installed (which is also capable of playing VR movies on OS X, but is out of date). It seems unlikely that Player 10 would work

Re: Workaround on the inability to create relative paths in the LC6-7 series Movie Player

2015-03-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
stgoldberg wrote: 2. Create the standalone on Windows. In Windows, LC 7.0 does maintain the relative path, and standalones built on Windows for Mac will keep the relative path and display the Quicktime movies on Mac, even when using the LC 6-7 series. Are the movies files stored within

Re: Movie problems in LiveCode

2015-03-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
stgoldberg wrote: On 3/24/2015 10:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've always been wary of shipping things that rely on relative paths, since any other script can change the default directory out from under me at any time. In apps where the media I'm playing resides in a single folder. I often

Workaround on the inability to create relative paths in the LC6-7 series Movie Player

2015-03-26 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
The LC 6-7 series for Macintosh will not allow the creation of a relative path for the movie player. I understand that Apple has deprecated Quicktime and QTVR. While the LiveCode team works to resolve the issue, I find several temporary workarounds for the problem: 1. On Macintosh, create

Re: Move the clock hands with fingers

2015-03-26 Thread Michael Doub
Astghik, Contact me off list and I will try to help you. Please send a copy of your stack. Regards, Mike On 3/26/15 7:59 AM, Astghik Salnazaryan wrote: Hello :) I am new here :) i am learning livecode and I found clock code in livecode,where you can move the clock hands with