Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread Simon
Wow, on Win 7 lots of funny stuff. On going to next card it moves the stack to the main monitor. Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Release-8-0-0-DP-6-tp4696826p4696852.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
I agree that it may not be totally LC, but LC 5/6/7 all work fine, the only problems I’m seeing are with LC8, I haven’t tried earlier versions of 8 on this Mac just yet, although I'm not seeing problems with any other software so far. I’ll download and try dp5 next. Paul > On 2 Oct 2015, at 21

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread stephen barncard
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > I’m seeing similar and worse results on a MacBook Pro Retina with El > Capitan (OS X 10.11). > It might not be Livecode. There's a lot of new crap on El Capitan. Methinks it needs a couple updates, and a LOT of other developers are not ready

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread Paul Hibbert
I’m seeing similar and worse results on a MacBook Pro Retina with El Capitan (OS X 10.11). Just downloaded DP6 Community tonight and already it’s crashed several times. I can’t close a script. When I try to compile a script the indicator button stays yellow, then when I try to close the script

Re: scheduling

2015-10-02 Thread Mike Bonner
Probably the easiest way would be to have a send loop running, and see if any jobs (whatever you want to call it) are due yet. If you keep the jobs sorted you can check the next one in queue, and if its not time for it to fire yet, none of them are, so loop. If it IS time, keep checking the list

Re: scheduling

2015-10-02 Thread Mike Kerner
oh, wow. Sorry, Bob, that wasn't what I meant. I meant scheduling messages like as in pendingMessages, like a CRON subsystem On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 1:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I did some work in this regard in an app I called Conference Scheduler > Lite. The big thing with date and time calc

Re: Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Roger Guay
Good point . . . thanks! > On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > >> I’m wondering if and why I should continue using 6.6.x instead of going to >> 6.7.x. >> >> One reason would be if you are supporting old OS X installs. I think 6

Re: IPV6...

2015-10-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/02/2015 03:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Almost everything these days is running IPV6. Heh. Now *that* is wishful thinking. I assume it's a typo and you meant ipv4. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

Re: list etiquette

2015-10-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Another issue is that some people use the digest while others do not. This > seems to create a new thread named the same thing when replying from the > digest. So far as I have been able to ascertain, nothing can be done about > this other than

Re: Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 5:44 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > I’m wondering if and why I should continue using 6.6.x instead of going to > 6.7.x. > > One reason would be if you are supporting old OS X installs. I think 6.6.5 is the last one to run on Leopard (10.5.8) and PPC. The Release Notes would confir

Re: IPV6...

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Almost everything these days is running IPV6. I don't have a problem with that. I have a BIG problem with Apple excluding IPV4 from their devices. Behind my gateway I want to use what I want to use. Apple is basically saying, "No, you can't." I don't like a company taking something away from a p

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread Martin Koob
Oh Mac Mini is running Yosemite if that makes a difference. Martin -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Release-8-0-0-DP-6-tp4696826p4696841.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread Martin Koob
I downloaded DP6 to try my application on it for Global Jam I tried it on My MacBook Pro retina. In Mac OS X 10.11 I opened my application to see if it would run. It opened but when I clicked on an object with the pointer tool the object would receive a mouseUp. Sometimes I would click on an

Re: Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > Thanks Colin and Richard. I knew that, but I was hoping for an easier > way, like “what’s new in ….”. Every Release Notes document includes a section called "Engine Changes" and another for "IDE Changes", each details specific new features and bug fixes in summary form, ofte

Re: Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks Colin and Richard. I knew that, but I was hoping for an easier way, like “what’s new in ….”. I’m wondering if and why I should continue using 6.6.x instead of going to 6.7.x. BTW, the reason I don’t yet use 7.x.x is performance. I think 7.x.x is getting better but there still is much bett

Re: LC Memory Leak

2015-10-02 Thread William Prothero
The same behavior occurs in dp6 as well. Bill > On Oct 2, 2015, at 12:21 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > I may have found a related problem. With LC8 dp5, Berndt’s BvG Docu 2 plug-in > fails when trying to create the sql lite library of docs. If you just load > the plug-in stack, it will try t

Ask me about LiveCode Builder during the Global Jam!

2015-10-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, I'll be doing an "Ask Me Anything" session on reddit during the global jam. It'll be on Monday 5th October from 15:00 to 22:00 BST (or your regional equivalent), and you'll be able to find the discussion thread in the LiveCode subreddit on Monday after

Re: LC Memory Leak

2015-10-02 Thread William Prothero
I may have found a related problem. With LC8 dp5, Berndt’s BvG Docu 2 plug-in fails when trying to create the sql lite library of docs. If you just load the plug-in stack, it will try to create the sql db and will fail. When that happens, I think it is also corrupting the engine in some way beca

Re: LC Memory Leak

2015-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
We're late into the RC cycle, so please submit a reproducible to the bug queue recipe ASAP. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld

LC Memory Leak

2015-10-02 Thread Ralph DiMola
I think there is a serious memory leak using SQLite. LC 6.7.7 Windows XP SP3 SQLite DB 4Mb, 1,900 records, 80 columns Stackè1 Card with several buttons with one field for status updates. I am running an update(one of the buttons) from a tab delimited file of the entire 1,900 records. I r

Re: IPV6...

2015-10-02 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 10/2/2015 2:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > Seriously, we were told the world would run out of IP addresses 10 > > years ago. It hasn't. > > True. At the moment there are still some places (most in Africa) with > available IPv4 addresses, while North America and others h

Re: Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > Can someone tell me what the basic differences are between LC 6.6.x > and LC 6.7.x? And, an easy way to find this sort thing in the future? See the Release Notes accompanying the newer version. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the

Re: IPV6...

2015-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Seriously, we were told the world would run out of IP addresses 10 > years ago. It hasn't. True. At the moment there are still some places (most in Africa) with available IPv4 addresses, while North America and others have completely depleted available supply: APNIC

Re: Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Colin Holgate
The downloads page: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ has a column for release notes. You can go back in time quite a way, and read the 6.7 notes to see what had been fixed. It’s a long list. ___ use-l

Differences between LC Versions

2015-10-02 Thread Roger Guay
Can someone tell me what the basic differences are between LC 6.6.x and LC 6.7.x? And, an easy way to find this sort thing in the future? Thanks, Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsu

Re: scheduling

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
I did some work in this regard in an app I called Conference Scheduler Lite. The big thing with date and time calculations is understanding that an event scheduled for 08:00 - 10:00 does NOT conflict with one from 10:00 to 12:00. Also, someone staying in a room from the first to the third does N

Release 8.0.0 DP 6

2015-10-02 Thread Sebastien Nouat
Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 6. Warning: this is not a stable release. Please ensure you back up your stacks before testing them. You can find the list of bug fixes in the menu Help > Release Notes, or from the download page referenced below. *Ge

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2015 edition)

2015-10-02 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 3:16 AM, David V Glasgow wrote: > Well, Trevor, since I have your attention, > David, You can always get my attention (and others at the company) by emailing supp...@screensteps.com :-) > Pleased you’ve managed to get into software as a service to big business, > but ev

Re: IPV6...

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
EFF iOS development then and EFF Apple to the lowest parts of heck. This might be the thing that pushes me over the edge and makes me switch to (ick) ANDROID! RRRGGG! Seriously, we were told the world would run out of IP addresses 10 years ago. It hasn't. We were told the world would

Re: list etiquette

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Another issue is that some people use the digest while others do not. This seems to create a new thread named the same thing when replying from the digest. So far as I have been able to ascertain, nothing can be done about this other than rounding up all the digest users and flogging them with w

Re: Setting Props of Multiple objects with behavior?

2015-10-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
If all the buttons were in a group you could get and set "the of the parent of me". Bob S > On Sep 24, 2015, at 23:46 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > When in the design process… I frequently want to sync all the buttons on the > UI (or fields) to a new size, color, look and feel

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2015 edition)

2015-10-02 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Oct 2, 2015, at 3:16 AM, David V Glasgow wrote: > 3/ I would like a numbered graphic to insert in the text to match the number > blobs on the screenshot. Currently I use a numbered list, but the text > doesn’t always want to follow a list format. The alternative is to keep > typing “marked

Re: Apple Color Picker is Screwed Up in El Capitan!!

2015-10-02 Thread Roger Guay
I built colorPiquer because of these problems I encountered in Yosemite, with lots of help from Eric's work and others. Thanks, Roger > On Oct 1, 2015, at 7:28 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > Roger: even on Yosemite, the apple color wheel invoked by LC does not give > you the co

RE: use-livecode Digest, Vol 145, Issue 2

2015-10-02 Thread John Dixon
I will be so 'happy' when you do eventually get back into your office so I don't receive this message 'every day ' !!! > From: bernd.gottw...@outrange.com > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 145, Issue 2 > Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 12:00:13 +0200 > > Bis zum 1

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 145, Issue 2

2015-10-02 Thread bernd . gottwald
Bis zum 12.10.2015 bin ich nicht verfügbar. Ich werde meine Emails nicht lesen. In dringenden Fällen erreichen Sie mich über mein Mobiltelefon. I will be out of office until 12.10.2015. I won't read me emails. In urgent matter please call me on my mobile.

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2015 edition)

2015-10-02 Thread David V Glasgow
Well, Trevor, since I have your attention, 1/ My old eyes now struggle with the fixed on-screen display size, 2/ Distinguishing between font styles is similarly difficult 3/ I would like a numbered graphic to insert in the text to match the number blobs on the screenshot. Currently I use a num