Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thank you to all that replied to my question--my learned and esteemed colleagues! I got an education, and got the job done! Thanks again, Peter Bogdanoff UCLA On Jul 25, 2015, at 11:49 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 7/25/2015 9:22 AM, Sri wrote: The parenthesis

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Sri
Hi Thierry: It does exactly the same as my example - whether you put it in a button or from the message box. It refers to the field object without the parenthesis, and to the button object with parenthesis. This is due to the fact that the parenthesis is evaluated before the rest, as I had hinted.

Re: Calendar Picker

2015-07-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: Has anybody done a calendar picker? I want to add something to an ios app. mobilePickDate? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Sri
Wprothero wrote Sri It may be bad practice to use the word field in the name of a field. However, i suspect there's more to it. Hi Bill: This is just a quick example I contrived to prove a point. I never use field for a field's name; I give (very) descriptive names to my objects! Regards,

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Sri, Try this: on mouseUp put the width of field Field1 put the width of (field Field1) end mouseUp but put this script in a button, not the message box! This should give you the trick. HTH, Thierry Thierry Douez -

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread Sri
The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the order of command processing. For example: 1. Create a button Test1 of width 82 (say) 2. Create a field Field1 of width 168 (say) containing the text: /button Test1/ 3. Type into message box put the width of field Field1

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread EED-wp Email
Sri It may be bad practice to use the word field in the name of a field. However, i suspect there's more to it. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Jul 25, 2015, at 8:22 AM, Sri sri...@gmail.com wrote: The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the

Re: Calendar Picker

2015-07-25 Thread Paul Hibbert
Not to sure how iOS friendly these are, but there’s one by Bob Cole on LiveCode's share site: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/452/Calendar-Picker There’s also a (£49.00) commercial one available from Flexible Learning: http://www.flexiblelearning.com/datepicker/ - I think this one

Re: [ANN] mergExt support for iOS 8.4

2015-07-25 Thread Scott Morrow
Great News! Thanks — Scott Morrow On Jul 24, 2015, at 7:49 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Hi LiveCoders I’ve just uploaded new builds for all my externals that support iOS 8.4 so you can build your apps against Xcode 6.4 using the latest versions of LiveCode.

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Would something like this work? I set up a pixel sized graphic and have it follow the mouseloc. Set the visible of it to false so you don't see a little dot trailing after the mouse, then use intersect to check when the pixel is over a non-transparent part of a graphic. on mousemove set the

Calendar Picker

2015-07-25 Thread Mike Kerner
Has anybody done a calendar picker? I want to add something to an ios app. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good.

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Added some tweaks to make it function better, it works pretty well now, Try re-downloading for the newest version. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11957935/mouseover.livecode On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Terry, heres a working example of the

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread Mike Bonner
Hey Terry, heres a working example of the method I mentioned if you'd like to try it. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11957935/mouseover.livecode On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 12:44 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 7/25/2015 5:41 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: I want to only

Re: Referencing a control name

2015-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/25/2015 9:22 AM, Sri wrote: The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the order of command processing. For example: 1. Create a button Test1 of width 82 (say) 2. Create a field Field1 of width 168 (say) containing the text: /button Test1/ 3. Type into message box

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/25/2015 5:41 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: I want to only receive a mouseEnter mouseLeave when the mouse leaves the coloured segment not the overall rect used in creating the segment. This happens automatically if the graphic is a filled, opaque polygon. It also works with an oval if the

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread Terence Heaford
On 25 Jul 2015, at 19:44, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Or you might be able to do something fancy by faking a pie slice using a freehand graphic with lots of points along the curved edge, but that's more math than I can do. I have been giving this a little thought and

Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread Terence Heaford
When I draw a graphic segment with something like below how do I use mouseEnter mouseLeave. I want to only receive a mouseEnter mouseLeave when the mouse leaves the coloured segment not the overall rect used in creating the segment. private Command drawASegment

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread dunbarx
There were a couple of threads on this, detecting only the actual visible graphic instead of its bounding rect. I remember suggesting using the mouseColor function with the mouseMove message, which probably works,, but there were more clever handlers offered, that took another tack using

Re: Drawing a Graphice Segment

2015-07-25 Thread Terence Heaford
Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried it and sometimes it works but on other occasions not. When I display the mouseColor against the check colour sometimes they are different. I have assumed they are different because all the pixels in a given segment on the screen are not the same colour?