Open Monthly online Webinars on LiveCode

Here is the Google Hangout On Air. Thursday @ 13:00 New York time est. I will be putting the Presentation and the code on Google Drive. The video is posted to YouTube automatically for instant viewing after the hangout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVJd2h9Ht_M Create a LiveCode Cloud Server in

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

@ Fraser > Am 01.09.2015 um 17:47 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: > >> I am asking this because I could not get it to work form my Desktop OS >> using it without a WebServer. > > Some browsers (Chrome in particular, but all of them to some degree) have > restrictive policies in

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > > >>> Did you install and enable the revIgniter theme? > >>> > >>> Ralf > >>> > >> > >> No. Where do I get it? > >> > > > > I have downloaded the zip of v0.1.2, but it's not obvious to me how to > > install a theme. > >

LC 8, Clor Swatch

Hi friends, can someone give me a hint on how to use the new „Color Swatch“ widget? The dictionary only shows some Copyright notes. I must be missing something, thanks for any hints! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de

Re: LC 8, Clor Swatch

I'm not sure that it has much general utility really, but nevertheless the fact that it is missing docs is a bug, thanks! It has only one property, swatchColor, which takes a three or four item RGB(A) string for its color (each between 0 and 255), or 'empty' for no color in which case it shows a

SEND x TO in y list

Is there any way to see which events I've scheduled with SEND? -- 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: SEND x TO in y list

pendingMessages not just the one you've sent, all pending ones - so you need to filter through them for the one(s) of interest -- Alex. On 01/09/2015 19:51, Mike Kerner wrote: Is there any way to see which events I've scheduled with SEND? ___

Re: Using Social Media

Alan, Yes, mergSocial would probably work, for iOS. Monte has no solution for Android. Clients needs both iOS and Android. Probably need some type of server side process to handle this? -Dan > Hi Dan > > For FB + Twitter I use one of Monte’s externals (mergext.com) - either >

Re: HTML5 test

On all my Systems I only get the -hair- cursor, no arrow or hand cursor ! Does anyone see other cursors ? Cheers Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Does anyone feel like updating the LiveCode page on Wikipedia?

Updating the versions section now. I noticed that none of the release notes for the latest versions (6.7 and higher) say Mac Yosemite is supported, although I know lots of people, including me, are using LC on Yosemite. Is this just an oversight in the docs, or is Yosemite not officially

Re: SEND x TO in y list

Hi. Do you mean the "pendingMessages"? Craig -Original Message- From: Mike Kerner To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tue, Sep 1, 2015 2:52 pm Subject: SEND x TO in y list Is there any way to see which events I've scheduled

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

Kay C Lan wrote: On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:50 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What is your favorite Text Editor? BareBones' BBEdit, but it's FREE little brother TextWrangler would filfill all LC Script Editoring tasks. OS X only I'm afraid.

Re: AW: Installer maker window keeps blank on OS X

Have you contacted the installer maker author? It sounds like it is aborting a script or can't load data, or something similar. On 9/1/2015 7:54 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I am still completely puzzled, what is going on that Mac. I have never seen such a behavior. The first window of the

Re: LCB API's

There are at least three bug reports on the dictionary size, geometry, and behavior on resizing, and they have been accepted. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:11 PM, BNig wrote: > Klaus major-k wrote > > Hi Peter, > > > >> Am 01.09.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Peter W A Wood > > >

Re: HTML5 test

The color change is consistent in all Browsers on OS X. I did quite a lot of testing today and found that Graphic Objects created with LiveCode have correct colors, but imported pictures (any kind gif,png etc.) are all wrong. > Am 01.09.2015 um 17:47 schrieb

Re: LC 8, Clor Swatch

Hi Ali, > Am 01.09.2015 um 20:34 schrieb Ali Lloyd : > > I'm not sure that it has much general utility really, but nevertheless the > fact that it is missing docs is a bug, thanks! > It has only one property, swatchColor, which takes a three or four item > RGB(A) string

Re: SEND x TO in y list

the pendingMessages is your friend ;-) On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM Mike Kerner wrote: > Is there any way to see which events I've scheduled with SEND? > > -- > On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth > On the second day, God created the oceans. > On

Re: Goodbye stsMLXEditor

Entered bug report 15849 for this. On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:44 PM Peter Haworth wrote: > Will do, should have it in there tomorrow. > > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:07 PM Kay C Lan > wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Peter Haworth

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

> On 01.09.2015, at 19:02, Roger Eller wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > >> > Did you install and enable the revIgniter theme? > > Ralf > No. Where do I get it? >>> >>> I

Re: LCB API's

Klaus major-k wrote > Hi Peter, > >> Am 01.09.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Peter W A Wood > peterwawood@ > : >> >> Peter >> >>> On 31 Aug 2015, at 23:40, Peter TB Brett > peter.brett@ > wrote: >>> If you go into the dictionary in the IDE, there's a drop down menu at >>> the top left. >> Not

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:26 PM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > > Assuming you did choose the revIgniter theme from > the "Syntax Theme" dropdown in the "Themes" section > of the preferences I have no clue what's going on. > > Ralf > > It wasn't working for a mouseUp handler, but when

Re: [ANN]SoCal LiveCode Meeting, Sept 3

On 08/31/2015 09:29 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote: Can I come to your SoCal meeting virtually? Hmmm. I like that idea. Is there enough bandwidth? How about if someone sets up a Google+ login? I'll bring my own beer. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: [ANN]SoCal LiveCode Meeting, Sept 3

On 08/31/2015 11:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: PS: As for virtual meetings, I've been thinking our community might benefit from monthly online get-togethers vis Google Hangouts, and it turns out Todd Fabacher has been thinking alone the same lines. We're working together to arrive at a schedule

Re: LCB API's

Have to agree with Mike on this. I too find the LCB APIs confusing in having "names" of things that are not part of the syntax. The fact that the example for the localdate doesn't actually include "local date" is even more confusing. Just looking at some entries is see "ListIsList" which is an

Re: [ANN]SoCal LiveCode Meeting, Sept 3

On 08/31/2015 07:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: But if optimization techniques are your thing, this is perhaps the best thread on optimization I've seen in our community yet: ...and not just about optimization techniques. This is the best

Re: [ANN]SoCal LiveCode Meeting, Sept 3

Dick Kriesel wrote: > On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:36 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Dick Kreisel's contribution was the fastest. > > I stood on the shoulders of giants. You and Bernd provided the > breakthroughs in speed. Thanks for your code and your constructive > influence. > > Can I come to your

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:59 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > > 3) I can't get rid of the navigation pane down the left side of the > window. > > Try cmd+\ it’s under the view menu right at the bottom. Thanks Paul, that did it. Sweet! I had tried View menu - Panes - Close pane

Re: Disable combobox item

Peter. The issue is with combo boxes. The user guide says the tags and control characters do not render in Windows. They also do not render on a Mac. If you play around with any of those things, "!c", your "(" or whatever, in a pulldown. They all work fine. Craig -Original

Re: SEND x TO in y list

On 09/01/2015 01:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you don't want to script something, an easy way is to click the pending messages icon in the message box (fifth icon from the left.) Huh. TIL the message box has a pending messages. Any idea what the Edit Script button does? ...and yeah, I know

Re: Goodbye stsMLXEditor

Hah, thanks for that Mark. You are correct, now I see the errors. Did I miss that somewhere in the thread? Going back to the original issue, I guess I should track down the code in the stsMXLEditor plugin that sets the script and set explicitvars before and after it. That will work for me

Re: Disable combobox item

Thanks, I was afraid of that. I specifically wanted to use a combobox so users can key in new values, but I'll find some other way round it. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 6:18 PM wrote: > Peter. > > > The issue is with combo boxes. The user guide says the tags and control >

Re: Goodbye stsMLXEditor

Peter Haworth writes: >Did I miss that somewhere in the thread? Nope. Just part of the oral history of the IDE. > Perhaps the right way to do it would be to set explicitvars to the value of > the strict compile mode option or provide an option within stsMXL itself. > Unfortunately,

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

Fraser and Rolf wrote: I am asking this because I could not get it to work form my Desktop OS using it without a WebServer. Some browsers (Chrome in particular, but all of them to some degree) have restrictive policies in place that prevent JavaScript (like the LiveCode engine) from

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

Thanks, Bob. Very informative to this total JS noob. .Jerry On Sep 1, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Bob Warren wrote: > > Please allow me to elucidate a little on the question of file I-O in the > local file system using Javascript, in the hope that it will be useful to > some of

Disable combobox item

It appears that the "(" character before an item in a combobox does not disable it. I couldn't find any reference to that being the case so is this the intended behavior? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: SEND x TO in y list

thanks, y'all On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 3:39 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: > the pendingMessages is your friend ;-) > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 7:51 PM Mike Kerner > wrote: > > > Is there any way to see which events I've scheduled with SEND? > > > > -- > >

Re: SEND x TO in y list

Mike Kerner wrote: Is there any way to see which events I've scheduled with SEND? If you don't want to script something, an easy way is to click the pending messages icon in the message box (fifth icon from the left.) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Goodbye stsMLXEditor

Peter Haworth writes: > Entered bug report 15849 for this. Thanks for filing that. What's going on is that the editor preference for 'Strict Compilation" doesn't do what you think it does. It only allows checking for errors in the IDE's script editor (which is why it's in the script

Does anyone feel like updating the LiveCode page on Wikipedia?

Hi all, We've noticed that the LiveCode Wikipedia page is a little bit out of date. Actually, it's not a little bit out of date -- it's **very** out of date! Due to Wikipedia's "Neutral Point of View" rules

Re: HTML5 test

Hi Colin, seeing your example I just took a stack I posted on livecodeshare http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/445/Colorpuzzle and knowing nothing about HTML I just made a HTML5 standalone It worked surprisingly well. Amazing, just converting it to HTML5 was only compile time. The stack lets

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

Hi Kay, thanks for your thorough description just wanted to add that from what I understand the Livecode builder and revigniter functionality was added by Peter Brett https://github.com/peter-b/atom-language-livecode He is welcomes community based input to the project

Re: Project Browser in LC8

On 01/09/2015 10:03, Charles Warwick wrote: I’ve just been tracking down a bug in the LC8 project browser, and have noticed that the code for the project browser for LC8 is quite different to what used to be there in LC7. While I am happy to send through some fixes for the issues I have

Re: [ANN]SoCal LiveCode Meeting, Sept 3

I'd certainly be up for a monthly hangout - even if time zones mean I'll need to use matchsticks to keep my eyes open... Kind regards Dave - "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein -- View this message in context:

Re: LCB API's

The fact that the example for the localdate doesn't actually include "local date" is indeed confusing, and a bug. I wonder if a judicious choice of parameter name would help with the multiple entries for the same syntax. If we had *LeftList *is *RightList*, etc. would that be ok? The reason they

Project Browser in LC8

I’ve just been tracking down a bug in the LC8 project browser, and have noticed that the code for the project browser for LC8 is quite different to what used to be there in LC7. While I am happy to send through some fixes for the issues I have found, some of it is related to references to code

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

This looks rather promising! I tested a couple of AE things zesterdaz, but unfortunatelz mz Laptop died a horrible death. As I am currentlz on the road, I can not upload the stuff I tried, but it was really ok. :-) A question though. Peter mentionened no external support. Does that mean no XML?

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

On 01/09/2015 12:16, derbrill IT-Service wrote: This looks rather promising! I tested a couple of AE things zesterdaz, but unfortunatelz mz Laptop died a horrible death. As I am currentlz on the road, I can not upload the stuff I tried, but it was really ok. :-) A question though. Peter

AW: Installer maker window keeps blank on OS X

I am still completely puzzled, what is going on that Mac. I have never seen such a behavior. The first window of the installer program just keeps empty, no control/button is shown, neither the text field, which usually is there. I am almost sure, that it is any wired thing on the customers Mac,

Re: Does anyone feel like updating the LiveCode page on Wikipedia?

I have a few comments there, though I have quite a bit in the HC page. The problem is that I am still using v.6.7, so though I am excited about v7 and v8, I have not used them. But anyone can be an "editor" for Wikipedia. -Original Message- From: Peter TB Brett

Re: LCB API's

OK, now I understand my confusion. I have been comparing the NEW dictionary to the OLD (V7 and before) where the listing of terms was BETTER presented (at least in my opinion). In the OLD dictionary the listing of items was a table with three columns the first of which was termed "Keyword" This

Re: SEND x TO in y list

On 9/1/2015 9:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Huh. TIL the message box has a pending messages. Any idea what the Edit Script button does? ...and yeah, I know I should just rtfm. In the frontscript and backscript panes, you can select a line and when you click "edit script" it opens that particular

HTML5 test

on Tue Sep 1 2015 Fraser Gordon wrote: > I’d be curious to hear if anyone has had a go > with Opera or the Android browser? On Ubuntu Linux, works fine Firefox Chrome and Opera shows this message: Exception thrown, see JavaScript console Opera shows this line too: TypeError: Expected object as

Re: SEND x TO in y list

On 9/1/2015 11:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/1/2015 9:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Huh. TIL the message box has a pending messages. Any idea what the Edit Script button does? ...and yeah, I know I should just rtfm. In the frontscript and backscript panes, you can select a line and when you

Re: Using Social Media

Hi Dan For FB + Twitter I use one of Monte’s externals (mergext.com) - either mergSocial or mergPop I think. Can post both pic + text. Would be keen to hear of any Instagram solution! cheers Alan On 1 Sep 2015, at 5:47 pm, Dan Friedman wrote: > 3) Post that photo

Re: Does anyone feel like updating the LiveCode page on Wikipedia?

Hi Peter, I'm willing to do some work on it. Is there anything in particular which should be priority? email me at m...@andypiddock.co.uk - Andy Piddock My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Copy the new cloud space, get your free 15GB space now: Get Copy

Re: LCB API's

Probably instead of dots we would just display the whole syntax then, since delete element *Start* to *Finish* of *Target * would be just as illustrative but showing the parameter names as well. I guess ideally it would be something snappier, in the same way that in the script dictionary we have

Re: HTML5 test

On 1 Sep 2015, at 15:23, Colin Holgate wrote: > Same color error in Safari, Chrome, Firefox on Mac, Chrome and Firefox under > Windows 10, and Safari on iPad. Edge and IE 11 give Javascript errors when > trying to load the page. Thanks for the info. Consistently-wrong

Re: HTML5 test

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:36 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: > > I’d be curious to hear if anyone has had a go with Opera or the Android > browser? > > Fraser > > My preferred browser if Dolphin for Android. I like that (especially on a tablet) you can edit an advanced

Re: LCB API's

In the .mlc file an example syntax definition is of the form: "delete" "element" "of" where the verbs, for want of a better term, are quoted. Why can't these be the name that is shown in bold at the top of the entry? So in the above example the entry would have at the top *delete

Re: HTML5 test

I just tried the Silk browser on Fire HDX, it gives the Javascript error that Edge and IE 11 give. The Opera browser on Mac shows the same color issues. As an aside, Opera and Chrome are the worst performance. Safari and Firefox are better. > On Sep 1, 2015, at 10:36 AM, Fraser Gordon

AW: AW: Installer maker window keeps blank on OS X

Hi Paul, thanks for your interesting experience. I already asked for an anti virus at the first contact, which was negated, but now I will ask again a bit more detailed. Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Paul

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

You are right, I use custom packages, mainly to keep revIgniter stuff separat from LiveCode server syntax. But I disabled my packages, enabled the one provided by Peter Brett, restarted Atom and the snippet was there. So, assuming you use the latest version (0.5.1) I am at a loss. Ralf > On

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

Does “get URL“ work from everywhere or only on a Server when I am hosting the LCWebApp ? > Am 31.08.2015 um 18:55 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: > > - no networking except ?get url? I am asking this because I could not get it to work form my Desktop OS using it without a

Re: HTML5 test

Same color error in Safari, Chrome, Firefox on Mac, Chrome and Firefox under Windows 10, and Safari on iPad. Edge and IE 11 give Javascript errors when trying to load the page. > On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:58 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: > > > On 1 Sep 2015, at 14:44, BNig

Re: HTML5 test

Colin Holgate-3 wrote > Do your colors look as intended? I don't know what you see but on my desktop Mac running 10.9.5 and Safari 7.1.8 they look as intended. Those are all graphics filled on the fly. I can not get this to work on my iPad 3 running iOS 8.1 Kind regards Bernd -- View this

Re: AW: Installer maker window keeps blank on OS X

On 9/1/2015 8:54 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > I am still completely puzzled, what is going on that Mac. I have never seen > such a behavior. The first window of the installer program just keeps empty, > no control/button is shown, neither the text field, which usually is there. > I am almost

Re: HTML5 test

On 1 Sep 2015, at 14:44, BNig wrote: > Colin Holgate-3 wrote >> Run the stack in LiveCode, do the colors look exactly the same as when you >> look at the HTML5 one in Safari? >> >> It could be that the color errors only affect bitmaps. > > I ran the stack and the

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

> On 01.09.2015, at 16:08, Roger Eller wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Roger Eller > wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Ralf Bitter wrote: >> >>> On 01.09.2015, at 15:44, Roger Eller

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

> On 01.09.2015, at 05:44, Kay C Lan wrote: > > 6) Boilerplates. If you type 'if' or 'repeat' you are offered up an > autocomplete. For some reason 'switch' is not included but then again in my > TE I had to manually add the if and repeat boilerplates, Atom comes with

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Bernd, yes Peter B and Andy P do deserve the credit for some excellent > work. > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > > > > > actually there is a snippet for "switch", so > >

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

Bernd, yes Peter B and Andy P do deserve the credit for some excellent work. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:09 PM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > > actually there is a snippet for "switch", so > typing "s", "sw", "swi" etc. followed by a tab > should work, really. > Sorry Ralf, not

Re: LCB API's

Peter > On 31 Aug 2015, at 23:40, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > If you go into the dictionary in the IDE, there's a drop down menu at the top > left. Not in LiveCode 8 DP 4 it seems. Regards Peter ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: HTML5 test

Colin Holgate-3 wrote > Run the stack in LiveCode, do the colors look exactly the same as when you > look at the HTML5 one in Safari? > > It could be that the color errors only affect bitmaps. I ran the stack and the browser version of the stack side by side and the colors are identical. So it

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

> On 01.09.2015, at 15:44, Roger Eller wrote: > > I just typed swi (tab) and it gave me: >switch switchExpression > case caseValue ># code... > break > default > # code... >end switch > > Colorization is not working though. Did

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > >> >> > On 01.09.2015, at 15:44, Roger Eller >> wrote: >> > >> > Colorization is not working though. >> >>

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

On 1 Sep 2015, at 15:14, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: > Does “get URL“ work from everywhere or only on a Server when I am > hosting the LCWebApp ? > >> Am 31.08.2015 um 18:55 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: >> >> - no networking except ?get url? > > I am

Re: HTML5 test

Do your colors look as intended? > On Sep 1, 2015, at 6:10 AM, BNig wrote: > > Hi Colin, > > seeing your example I just took a stack I posted on livecodeshare > http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/445/Colorpuzzle > and knowing nothing about HTML I just made a

Re: HTML5 test

Run the stack in LiveCode, do the colors look exactly the same as when you look at the HTML5 one in Safari? It could be that the color errors only affect bitmaps. > On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:13 AM, BNig wrote: > > Colin Holgate-3 wrote >> Do your colors look as

Re: [OT] Atom Text Editor for Script Editiing - First Impressions

On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Ralf Bitter wrote: > > > On 01.09.2015, at 15:44, Roger Eller > wrote: > > > > Colorization is not working though. > > > Did you install and enable the revIgniter theme? > > Ralf > No. Where do I get it?

Using Social Media

I have a client who want their mobile app (for iOS and Android) to: (1) Take a picture (a selfie). (2) Put a watermark on the photo. (3) Post that photo to the user's Facebook, Instagram and/or Twitter account with a specific hashtag. Step 1 and 2 are easy. Step three, on the other hand... not

Re: LCB API's

Hi Peter, > Am 01.09.2015 um 15:23 schrieb Peter W A Wood : > > Peter > >> On 31 Aug 2015, at 23:40, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> If you go into the dictionary in the IDE, there's a drop down menu at the >> top left. > Not in LiveCode 8 DP 4 it