LiveCode 8 Global Jam

2015-09-19 Thread Peter W A Wood
After reading the announcements, I am looking forward to the LiveCode 8 Global Jam and helping to prepare LiveCode 8 for release through reporting bugs. As I’ve already reported a handful of bugs relating to LiveCode 8, I thought I’d take a look and see how many LiveCode 8 bugs there are in tota

Re: tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack > > model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about setting a > customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes? > My mainstack stays hidden, and launches another stack from tim

Re: tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Assuming you follow the splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about setting a customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes? Then you just track repeat for with z = 1 ot the number of substacks # do stuff here with the # the

Re: tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 11:08 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > In this case, it would make sense to use separate files. I bet users who > are in one jurisdiction don't want to load all the stacks for all other > jurisdictions into memory. So, make the stacks separa

Software Freedom Day

2015-09-19 Thread Mark Wieder
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LiveCode Fields - Mac Roman ANSI Characters and Unicode

2015-09-19 Thread Brahmanathaswami
bottom line question: Is LC automatically transforming all the 128-255 ANSI chars to their unicode equivalents? as per this chart: http://www.alanwood.net/demos/macroman.html ?? Back story: For years I have struggled with getting MacRoman ANSI characters like Curly quote(s) and MDashes wh

Re: LiveCode for the rest of us

2015-09-19 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
> On 9/19/15, 1:59, R.H. wrote: > > Why not there is a field that can easily be set to display > > international date and time formats and automatically would default to > > local standards without having to script a lot and redoing the same > > work over and over again? Why not a field can be de

Re: tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, In this case, it would make sense to use separate files. I bet users who are in one jurisdiction don't want to load all the stacks for all other jurisdictions into memory. So, make the stacks separate files and load only the required files into memory. That will allow you to track

tracking change dates for substack

2015-09-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Is there a practical way to automatically track the change dates for substacks? I'm about to end up with something like 100 of them (one for each judicial district) At the moment, I have routines that step through all of my cards every time I bump the revision, but it would be nice to be able to

Re: names of other machines on local netwrok.

2015-09-19 Thread william humphrey
No one answered your question. I have noticed there are differences in the way you ping an address when on windows or when on mac or unix. Livencode has a nice hostAddressToName("127.0.0.1") and hostNameToAddress(*domainName, [callback]*) Write something to ping it first before connecting too.

Re: LiveCode for the rest of us

2015-09-19 Thread tfabacher
Thanks Roland for the email. What you have described was exactly what Visual Basic programmers were saying in the early 90s. The solution to the VB problem was the ability to create COM objects. What you described as your primary frustrations will evaporate with LC8. You will be able to enjoy

Re: ANN MasterLibrary Version 45 now available.

2015-09-19 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
As always, thank you Michael! SKIP KIMPEL On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > I made some adjustments to take into account the new reserved words of 7.1 > and 8.0. You can find the current version here: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wpwn3hfbmpl7sk/MasterLibrary.livecode?d