Re: Button Names on top of their icon?

2015-08-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Bramanatha: iconGravity is documented -- the property isn't part of the inspector, but you can look it up in the Dictionary (I see it was introduced in 6.7). Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/28/15, 8:17 PM, "Brahmanathaswami" wrote: >@ Scott:

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ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.17

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
I have released a new version of PowerDebug. It's been two years since it's needed an update, but it's revision time, due to some minor incompatibilities with LiveCode 7.x and 8.x. This release fixes a problem when quitting on OSX after a debugging session. Apparently frontscripts are now remo

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
Oh, and just a slight tangent. I've seen it mentioned before but it hadn't really registered until I was playing with LC8 yesterday, but the new 'Script only Stack' would seem to be the perfect beast to offer up as a guinea pig for Text Editor integration. If my assumptions* are correct (unlikely)

Re: Button Names on top of their icon?

2015-08-28 Thread Brahmanathaswami
@ Scott: iconGravity: wow... undocumented feature and this really should be exposed in the button inspector.. it works. @ Paul: setting the pattern works. So far so good, but but the issue is also the vertical alignment of the button name: Solution: Set the pattern to the image... set the re

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:46 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Kay C Lan wrote: > > a better mechanism to track the changes and transfer those back and >> forth - that improvement can only be done from the mothership. >> > > What's needed? > > Let's make it so. > Love the positive attitude :-) >From

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 08/28/2015 09:31 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: on MouseUp get "A" & CR & "B" constant embedCRInConstant = it end mouseUp No. You can't do that. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pl

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 08/28/2015 07:47 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: constant embedCRInConstant = "a"&CR&"b" throws an error. Suggestions? I first logged this as a bug in 2004. (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1241) The current bug number is 12802, and the other reports (1241, 3680, 8737, 13955) have been "

Re: LC8 IDE publish-and-subscribe

2015-08-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 08/28/2015 02:31 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: Oops, didn't see the Q part of the message! Yes, your assumption is correct. Great! That's exciting! (and that's the first time I've said that about LC8) -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecod

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
LOL... I understand. I have sent a few emails over the past few days... Usually I get a ticket in my email within 10 minutes of submitting problems in the past... This time..? Nothing. I just sent one through the the link that Matthias sent and I received a trouble ticket so all is well (sort

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-28 22:47, PystCat wrote: Thanks Matthias. I know the Mother Ship is usually up on things so I never like to bother them with stuff I don't consider THAT urgent. I do use the email address for more business issues but since I am receiving email I am (somewhat) fine with just letting t

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Thanks Matthias. I know the Mother Ship is usually up on things so I never like to bother them with stuff I don't consider THAT urgent. I do use the email address for more business issues but since I am receiving email I am (somewhat) fine with just letting them know... I think I will use (an

Re: LC8 IDE publish-and-subscribe

2015-08-28 Thread Ali Lloyd
Originally we had the check to prevent us making typos and such. As I have previously said, it is exactly designed to be extensible. Once 8.0 reaches GM, you can rely on that handler being a no-op. If you have any suggestions about improvements to the system it would be good to hear them. I think

Re: LC8 IDE publish-and-subscribe

2015-08-28 Thread Ali Lloyd
Oops, didn't see the Q part of the message! Yes, your assumption is correct. On Fri, 28 Aug 2015 at 22:29, Ali Lloyd wrote: > Originally we had the check to prevent us making typos and such. As I have > previously said, it is exactly designed to be extensible. Once 8.0 reaches > GM, you can rely

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Paul, did you sent your support request with URGENT in the subject line? Use your email address which is set in cPanel for communication. You could also use the contact form at http://www.on-rev.com/support/contact-us/ to send such a request. Select “Emergency support request” for the subjec

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Thanks Andy. I've sent a few tickets and one to Heather.. I don't like sending to her about On-Rev stuff but I figured she would forward on. My problem is I haven't heard back from anyone... And I'm still out on the water without a paddle. > On Aug 28, 2015, at 3:54 PM, AndyP wrote: > >

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread AndyP
Hi Paul, I've had problems on sage sending and mail forwarding for a while now. Contacted support 2 days back and have received a reply today saying that work has been carried out on the server ?? However the problems seem to have been fixed for me so hopefully the server changes will also have a

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Mike Bonner
You could put things together with a urlencoded cr, but then any time you use the constant you'd have to urldecode it, which is kinda silly when you can just use a property instead. constant myConst="test%0D%0Aing" on mouseup put urldecode(myConst) end mouseup output: test ing On Fri, Aug

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Thanks Howard. I'll try resending to the support at on-rev again. > On Aug 28, 2015, at 1:26 PM, Howard Bornstein wrote: > > I've seen that and supp...@on-rev.com. > > I'm on Sage but I don't use their SMTP server so I can't help you out there. > >> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:01 AM, PystCat

Re: Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread Howard Bornstein
I've seen that and supp...@on-rev.com. I'm on Sage but I don't use their SMTP server so I can't help you out there. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:01 AM, PystCat wrote: > Is anyone else having a problem sending email from Sage..? I can suddenly > receive mail but I can't send it... I keep getting t

LC8 IDE publish-and-subscribe

2015-08-28 Thread Mark
The new LC8 IDE implements the publish-and-subscribe pattern, but it looks like it isn't designed to be extensible. It's extensible right now because revIDEMessageIsValid() always returns true. Q: assuming that the validity check was an interim test to make sure the IDE didn't fall on its face, ca

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread dunbarx
This may be a new instance of LC requiring two levels of evaluation, like "do" is used for in certain cases. Try this on MouseUp get "A" & CR & "B" constant embedCRInConstant = it end mouseUp Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Mike Kerner To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Fri,

Re: embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Peter Haworth
It's been my experience that constants won;t accept any sort of expression as a value, only string literals or numbers. On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 7:48 AM Mike Kerner wrote: > constant embedCRInConstant = "a"&CR&"b" > > throws an error. Suggestions? > > -- > On the first day, God created the heave

Re: Quick Challenge

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Stop showing off Richmond! ;-P Bob S > On Aug 27, 2015, at 08:39 , Richmond wrote: > > Lots of clever answers . . . > > Now try with this text: > > Քրիստոնէութեան սկիզբը Հայոց համար եղաւ նաեւ մտքի լուսաւորութեան > սկիզբնաւորութիւնը. Մեր մէջ առաջին դպրոցները Լուսաւորչի աշխատանքով > հաստատու

Re: screen readers

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have a bin like that. Mine is more like those tiny little circular cans under most people's desk. Yours is probably the size of New York. Bob S On Aug 26, 2015, at 13:14 , Trevor DeVore mailto:li...@mangomultimedia.com>> wrote: For me it is one of those things that I would like to have but

Re: Set Variable or CustomProperty Names with and expression

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I knew that once, forgot it, and am now reminded of it again. One of the many great reasons this list is the bomb. Bob S > On Aug 12, 2015, at 13:16 , Mike Bonner wrote: > > You can use a custompropertyset using array notation too. > > set the myproperty["uName"] of button 1 to "Fred is dea

Re: SFTP support [was: Re: Distribute beta versions of iOS app]

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
It is also , unfortunately, the abbreviation for Simple File Transfer Protocol: Simple File Transfer Protocol Simple File Transfer Protocol (the second protocol abbreviated SFTP), as defined by RFC 913, was proposed as an (unsecured) file transfer protocol with a level of complexity intermediat

Re: What is this - is anyone making money?

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have not commercially distributed anything I have written. I have however written apps for the work I do for my company. They recently decided to adopt my Forms Generator in their workflow, which makes me somewhat of a needed commodity for them. I'm not sure how to put a price on that. I have

Re: Choosing a database and LC tools

2015-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
If you use mySQL, (and perhaps others) there is an attribute for binary data. You should be able to safely store image data in such a column. Bob S On Aug 10, 2015, at 20:44 , PystCat mailto:pyst...@gmail.com>> wrote: I read that storage of images in a mySQL database isn’t recommended. But, I

embed CR in constant

2015-08-28 Thread Mike Kerner
constant embedCRInConstant = "a"&CR&"b" throws an error. Suggestions? -- 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: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Kay C Lan wrote: The problem though, was that stsMLXEditor was a bit of a patch job which needed a better mechanism to track the changes and transfer those back and forth - that improvement can only be done from the mothership. What's needed? Let's make it so. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth Worl

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-28 Thread Ali Lloyd
Hi James, The format is indeed not straight markdown but more like YAML. The Description element is the only part of it which is straight markdown. You can find a complete description of the format in the Extending Livecode guide in the dictionary, in the Specifications section. On Fri, Aug 28, 2

Mail and Sage - Problem sending

2015-08-28 Thread PystCat
Is anyone else having a problem sending email from Sage..? I can suddenly receive mail but I can't send it... I keep getting the standard "Mail Delivery Failed - Will Try Again" message. This happens with ALL email I send from Sage. Does anyone know the support email address for On-Rev..? I k

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-28 Thread James Hale
I too was interested in helping with the documentation but am a tad confused about its format. It is not quite straight markdown, at least as far as any markdown editors I have put it through. Also I had a look at the viewer.html and was blown away at how complicated it was. Not that we need to

Re: A question about differences in performance between Mac and Windows

2015-08-28 Thread jbv
> Are the machines equal in CPU, network card, connection speed, etc.? Is > the PC real or virtual on the Mac? What is the database type? > On Aug 28, 2015 5:34 AM, wrote: > yes, the machines are pretty similar in terms of hardware, and in my tests both the iMac and the PC (real) are connected

Re: A question about differences in performance between Mac and Windows

2015-08-28 Thread Roger Eller
Are the machines equal in CPU, network card, connection speed, etc.? Is the PC real or virtual on the Mac? What is the database type? On Aug 28, 2015 5:34 AM, wrote: > Hi list > > I have a standalone used as a frontal for requests to a DB. The results > are compressed and base64encoded by a LC

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 01:30 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Richmond wrote: I would be most interested to see a *coherent and numbered list* of these "issues" rather than a chorus of people saying how awful the scriptEditor is. Off the top of my head: 1) copy & paste via ke

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: I was bored one evening (in my "spare" time) and decided to explore adding > new syntax highlighting rules to Atom. > Now wonder the story isn't more exciting. You really need to get out more ;-) _

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Richmond wrote: I would be most interested to see a *coherent and numbered list* of these > "issues" > rather than a chorus of people saying how awful the scriptEditor is. > Off the top of my head: 1) copy & paste via keyboard How many times have you copied

RE: iOS scrolling groups problem?

2015-08-28 Thread John Dixon
Would you post your resizeStack script > From: alanstenho...@hotmail.com > Subject: iOS scrolling groups problem? > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:06:08 +0200 > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > I have a problem with an iOS scroller on a group. > > It seems to somehow make the app non-reactive (l

iOS scrolling groups problem?

2015-08-28 Thread Alan Stenhouse
I have a problem with an iOS scroller on a group. It seems to somehow make the app non-reactive (locked up) after some resizeStack messages where I change the layout from portrait to landscape. I *suspect* that it may be when setting the vScroll of the group - but not totally sure and so far ha

A question about differences in performance between Mac and Windows

2015-08-28 Thread jbv
Hi list I have a standalone used as a frontal for requests to a DB. The results are compressed and base64encoded by a LC script on the server, and the standalone displays them in a table field after base64decode and decompress. On Mac, the process takes 0.25 second to 1 second (when the amount of

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 28/08/2015 10:28, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by fol

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 12:28 PM, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by following this https://help.github.com/ca

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 28/08/2015 10:11, Richmond wrote: On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: You can make better use of Git by downloading the repository onto your own machine. I was able to do that quite easily by following this https://help.github.com/categories/bootcamp/

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 10:28 AM, Peter W A Wood wrote: On 28 Aug 2015, at 15:15, Richmond wrote: Well: as an almost complete newcomer to Github, I would be grateful if you could outline a way to edit the documents at https://github.com/runrev/livecode-ide/tree/develop/Documentation/guides

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 28/08/2015 09:17, Kay C Lan wrote: I don't use Atom but from some recent posting it appears that some kind of LC/Atom connection has been made. I wonder if that may have been driven by the amount of time the LC Team spend at Github and Atom is the Github team developed Text Editor? Guess I b

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-28 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:49 PM, RunRevPlanet wrote: > > One of the promoted strengths of LiveCode is that it is "live coding". In > other > words I can make a change in my script and immediately see the effect. > > Now while I understand the virtues of using the external text editor of > your >

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Peter W A Wood
> On 28 Aug 2015, at 15:15, Richmond wrote: > > Well: as an almost complete newcomer to Github, I would be grateful if you > could outline a way to edit > the documents at > https://github.com/runrev/livecode-ide/tree/develop/Documentation/guides >

Re: Documentation [was: Re: v8 DP3]

2015-08-28 Thread Richmond
On 08/28/2015 09:27 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-08-28 08:20, Richmond wrote: On 08/27/2015 11:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/27/2015 2:33 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Since it's so desperately in need of improvement, and you have such a good idea of how it can be made better, perhaps you