Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

Hi Ton, Do you have the original stack which crashes still? If so could you submit it as a bug report so we can investigate? Thanks, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 22 Oct 2015, at 00:08, "tkuyp...@telenet.be" wrote: > > And thanks Mark, you got me thinking… > > Added the stack as a substac

Re: Quicktime in Windows 10?

Apologies to Phillip K. Dick. On Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Alex Tweedly wrote: > I thought it was Androids, not men, who (which?) dream of Electric Sheep. > -- Alex. > > > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

This is probably a question for any Atom experts out there but The autocomplete doesn't seem to be working as I expected. According to the Atom documentation, autocomplete should include words in the file you're editing, so for example if I have a local declaration, it should suggest the names of

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

It won't be the only submenu for long - this pull request ( https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/564) has now been merged so you will be able to switch to text instead of icons in dp 8. Can you submit enhancement requests for making the default large and adding a size larger please? That

Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

And thanks Mark, you got me thinking… Added the stack as a substack of a new stack, emptied all the fields and removed the image and the stack opens again! Now I know what to to, thanks again! Met vriendelijke groeten, Warm Regards, Ton Kuypers +32 (0) 477 739 530 Steenweg op Leopoldsburg 1

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

Ali Lloyd wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:02 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Ali Lloyd wrote: >> >> > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Mark Waddingham wrote: >> >> > >> >> > Which is precisely why you can configure the size of the tab >> >> > icons... >> >> >>

Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

Hi Mark, Tried the clean install, tried without extensions, tried LC8, all the same result. But you mention GIFs or other image controls… That might be the issue, it is a stack that downloads images from the web and when I closed it, one of them probably was showing on the stack… Met vriendel

Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

Hoi Tom, I don't have an actual solution, but I could give some suggestions. I assume you have a tried a clean install of LiveCode already, without a "My LiveCode" folder in the documents folder (usually it is the documents folder; check the preferences window for the exact location). Do you

Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

Turned off Messages, tried to open the file, same result :-( There are no pre-open or startup scripts, nothing that should cause this behavior… Any other suggestions, anyone? Met vriendelijke groeten, Warm Regards, Ton Kuypers +32 (0) 477 739 530 Steenweg op Leopoldsburg 100 • B-2490 • Bale

Re: Quicktime in Windows 10?

I thought it was Androids, not men, who (which?) dream of Electric Sheep. -- Alex. On 21/10/2015 22:53, stephen barncard wrote: On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Last night I literally had a dream in which I rapidly built a video player in Linux using LiveCode. "Some men

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

Well I'm at home as it's past 11pm. What happens when you try it on Ubuntu (in 8.0 DP 7)? On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:02 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > Ali Lloyd wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> > > >> > Which is precisely why you

Re: Datagrid Focus Messages

Bob. Er, "focusOut"? Trap this in the group (or card, or higher) script. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, Oct 21, 2015 4:21 pm Subject: Datagrid Focus Messages Is there a message that gets sent when a datagrid loses focus? Bo

Re: Quicktime in Windows 10?

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Last night I literally had a dream in which I rapidly built a video player > in Linux using LiveCode. > "Some men dream of Electric Sheep. Richard Gaskin dreams in livecode." * - anonymous 2015* -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

Ali Lloyd wrote: > On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Mark Waddingham wrote: >> > >> > Which is precisely why you can configure the size of the tab >> > icons... >> >> How? > > Cog icon top right -> Header / Footer Size -> Large What happens when you try that on Ubuntu? --

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

Cog icon top right -> Header / Footer Size -> Large On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mark Waddingham wrote: > > On 2015-10-20 19:43, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Adjusting the order of buttons prevents people from acquiring muscle > >> memory with the tool, already made surp

Datagrid Focus Messages

Is there a message that gets sent when a datagrid loses focus? Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/l

Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

This conversation is exactly why we need to develop some better instructions for the non-command-liners. On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 3:49 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Thanks Mark and Monte. I'm now up and running but have not tried to deal > with the linter/livecode server yet. > > Pete > lcSQL Softw

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Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

Thanks Mark and Monte. I'm now up and running but have not tried to deal with the linter/livecode server yet. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Wed, Oct 21, 2015

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2015-10-20 19:43, Richard Gaskin wrote: Adjusting the order of buttons prevents people from acquiring muscle memory with the tool, already made surprisingly difficult with the small target area for the tab icons. After all, the whole point of moving from the option con

Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

> On 22 Oct 2015, at 5:05 am, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Open Atom > Go to Preferences > Select Install > Make sure Packages is selected (it's the default) > Type livecode into the search box and press return > "language-livecode" should be top of the list > Press Install And you also need the lint

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

Richmond wrote: > On 21/10/15 19:03, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> This is rather like a person who drives a propane vehicle getting >> upset because there aren't just as many propane refilling stations >> as there are gas stations. Sorry Richmond. Software vendors are >> not trying to be fair. They are t

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

Take a look inside corporate America. Mostly PCs, mostly running Windows. Refine this to companies who print on flexible packaging that require precise calculations of image distortions when specific materials are run through a heat-shrink tunnel, or convolved in many ways to meet other manufactur

Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

On 10/21/2015 12:30 PM, tkuyp...@telenet.be wrote: But yesterday I saved the project, made a copy in the finder as a back-up, and now LC hans again when I try to open it… Did you try turning off Messages in the toolbar before opening the stack? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hy

Re: Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

> Le 21 oct. 2015 à 19:30, tkuyp...@telenet.be a écrit : > > I’m using LC Community 7.1 and for the second time in a week LC gives the > cursor of death when I reopen a project! > > The first time I was able to retrieve all code using Bbedit, and I was able > to continue to work, starting all

AW: Building a standalone fails under LC6.7.8rc1 and LC6.7.7, but is fine under LC6.7.6

On 10/20/2015 3:00 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > Can you file a bug report about this? > > There was a little churn in the s/b between .6 and .7. > > One thing to check is you use savingStandalone or standaloneSaved messages. > These have caused problems in the past and subtle changes in the s/b ha

Re: Resize modal stack

You're correct, this changed in 6.7. QCC Report # 16261 filed. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2015-

Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

Peter Haworth writes: > > I just downloaded the file but not having any success figuring out how to > install it in Atom. It seems their standard install only lists packages > that have been registered at atom.io. Any help would be welcome. Open Atom Go to Preferences Select Install Make sure

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

On 2015-10-21 20:03, Peter Haworth wrote: OK, thanks Mark. Was just checking whether to file a bug report or not. Someone beat you to it - http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16060 :) Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can creat

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

OK, thanks Mark. Was just checking whether to file a bug report or not. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote:

Re: there is a folder empty -- returns true. Bug?

Bob Sneidar writes: > > In the words of Mathesar of Galaxy Quest, who just grasped that the whole ideology their culture was based on > had been a "fabrication", "But... why??" LOL. It sounds like this is maybe related to the ongoing discussion at https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3073

Re: there is a folder empty -- returns true. Bug?

Hi Tiemo, On 2015-10-21 18:52, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hello, On Windows 7, since LC 6.7 (or 6.6.?): there is a folder empty returns true. Up to 6.5 it returned false, as expected for me. Is this a bug (I didn't found a file in QC) or a wanted behavior? Anybody else seeing this? Please d

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

On 2015-10-21 19:46, Peter Haworth wrote: My first post on this thread was actually regarding the lack of Geometry Manager functionality in LC8. Is this a temporary situation or is there a plan to restore it? Your post prompted a discussion between Ali and I at the time (I perhaps should ha

Re: Resize modal stack

On 2015-10-21 19:38, Peter Haworth wrote: Prior to 7.0, modal stacks could be resized by the user. From 7.0 onwards, they can't. Is this a bug or was it done deliberately for some reason? Pete Does setting the resizable property make any difference? Also, did this change at 7.0, or was it a

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > So this is an error in the translation of the previous property inspectors > structure into the new model which should be extremely easy to fix. Thanks Mark, good to hear it should be an easy fix. My first post on this thread was actua

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

On Tue, Oct 20, 2015 at 11:08 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Table Tool not available for: Label and Field > Table Tool available for: Scrolling Field, Table Field and Scrolling List > Field > That's interesting, I don't see a Table icon for an scrolling list field here. Probably doesn;t matter in view

Resize modal stack

Prior to 7.0, modal stacks could be resized by the user. From 7.0 onwards, they can't. Is this a bug or was it done deliberately for some reason? Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

Re: Updated LiveCode roadmap

On 21/10/15 20:16, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes you can Richmond. Now go back to sleep. ;-) Not asleep, but living in a galaxy far, far away. The East European EFL "scene" such as it is, is not the same sort of life form as constitutes software development west of the Danube. R. Bob S On Oct

Helpppppp, LC crashes on opening a project!

I’m using LC Community 7.1 and for the second time in a week LC gives the cursor of death when I reopen a project! The first time I was able to retrieve all code using Bbedit, and I was able to continue to work, starting all over. I could save, open, close, open again, no problems. But yesterda

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

On 21/10/15 19:03, Bob Sneidar wrote: This is rather like a person who drives a propane vehicle getting upset because there aren't just as many propane refilling stations as there are gas stations. Sorry Richmond. Software vendors are not trying to be fair. They are trying to feed their famili

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

On 21/10/15 19:42, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: As the saying goes, there are lies, there are Damnable lies, and then there are statistics. from Mark Twain The well-known computer software developer. R. _

Re: Updated LiveCode roadmap

Yes you can Richmond. Now go back to sleep. ;-) Bob S > On Oct 21, 2015, at 10:06 , Richmond wrote: > > On 21/10/15 18:53, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've updated our roadmap page, which explains the work that the core dev >> team is doing. It can be found at

Re: Updated LiveCode roadmap

On 21/10/15 18:53, Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi all, I've updated our roadmap page, which explains the work that the core dev team is doing. It can be found at . Peter Can I get that on my GPS for my car? Very helpful, thanks. Ric

Re: there is a folder empty -- returns true. Bug?

In the words of Mathesar of Galaxy Quest, who just grasped that the whole ideology their culture was based on had been a "fabrication", "But... why??" Bob S > On Oct 21, 2015, at 09:52 , Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > Hello, > > On Windows 7, since LC 6.7 (or 6.6.?): > > there is a folder emp

there is a folder empty -- returns true. Bug?

Hello, On Windows 7, since LC 6.7 (or 6.6.?): there is a folder empty returns true. Up to 6.5 it returned false, as expected for me. Is this a bug (I didn't found a file in QC) or a wanted behavior? Anybody else seeing this? Thanks Tiemo __

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > As the saying goes, there are lies, there are Damnable lies, and then > there are statistics. from Mark Twain -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

I just downloaded the file but not having any success figuring out how to install it in Atom. It seems their standard install only lists packages that have been registered at atom.io. Any help would be welcome. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

This is rather like a person who drives a propane vehicle getting upset because there aren't just as many propane refilling stations as there are gas stations. Sorry Richmond. Software vendors are not trying to be fair. They are trying to feed their families, and no one accepts good feelings as

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

These things have been debated before. The question is not how many computers are out there with operating system n, but how much software do people with operating system n purchase. As it turns out, people who purchase the cheapest PC they can find are rarely interested in purchasing a lot of e

Updated LiveCode roadmap

Hi all, I've updated our roadmap page, which explains the work that the core dev team is doing. It can be found at . Peter -- Dr Peter Brett LiveCode Open Source Team LiveCode on reddit: https://reddit.com/r/livecode ___

RE: SQLite: how to open existing database in memory

I use the attach command all the time. Among other things it makes joins across DBs possible. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar Sen

Re: SQLite: how to open existing database in memory

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > But I think your idea of using a file copy method is the best way. I used > to do that with the Spiceworks database because the Spiceworks system would > periodically open the database and since it is really a single user system > opening it d

Re: SQLite: how to open existing database in memory

On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 8:10 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Not entirely accurate. There are ways. > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75675/how-do-i-dump-the-data-of-some-sqlite3-tables > But those muse a command line tool. You could use that through shell()to get the commands to recreate the db

Re: SQLite: how to open existing database in memory

Whaa? There is an ATTACH command?? I will look into this. Sounds like something I might be able to use at some point. Bob S > On Oct 17, 2015, at 11:56 , Peter Haworth wrote: > > I assume this is a single user application? When you say you want to make > changes to the database, do you mean

Re: SQLite: how to open existing database in memory

This is a good example of how sqlYoga can help. You could create two database objects, query the disk based database for all the records in a table using the disk based object, then insert the records using the memory based object. If the databases are not very large it shouldn't take that long.

Re: SQLite: how to open existing database in memory

Not entirely accurate. There are ways. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/75675/how-do-i-dump-the-data-of-some-sqlite3-tables Bob S On Oct 17, 2015, at 10:07 , Dr. Hawkins mailto:doch...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Glen Bojsza mailto:gboj...@gmail.com>> wrote: In cre

Re: Vector images?

Oh wait, you said that. :-) Bob S On Oct 21, 2015, at 08:02 , Bob Sneidar mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote: Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Adobe products also used the previews to make rendering large documents more efficient. You could choose to render each time or use

Re: Vector images?

Not to put too fine a point on it, but the Adobe products also used the previews to make rendering large documents more efficient. You could choose to render each time or use the preview, kind of like a cache. That was back in the day when the horsepower for rendering was much less than it is to

Re: Vector images?

> On 21 Oct 2015, at 10:28, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > It is very similar to CoreGraphics (but actually has a number of features > beyond which CG offers). e.g. > MCGContextCreate(-> myContext) > MCGContextSetRGBAFillColor(myContext, 1, 0, 0, 0.5) > MCGContextAddRectangle(myContext

Re: Vector images?

On 2015-10-21 16:53, Terence Heaford wrote: On 21 Oct 2015, at 10:28, Mark Waddingham wrote: It is very similar to CoreGraphics (but actually has a number of features beyond which CG offers). e.g. MCGContextCreate(-> myContext) MCGContextSetRGBAFillColor(myContext, 1, 0, 0, 0.5)

Re: Vector images?

On 2015-10-21 16:44, Bob Sneidar wrote: I think that is the whole point behind the preview thumbnail that can be attached to the eps graphic. I suppose support for EPS would be better if we had a choice of using the preview as opposed to requiring a re-render each time the object was drawn. Wel

Re: Vector images?

I think that is the whole point behind the preview thumbnail that can be attached to the eps graphic. I suppose support for EPS would be better if we had a choice of using the preview as opposed to requiring a re-render each time the object was drawn. Bob S On Oct 21, 2015, at 06:38 , Mark Wa

Re: Vector images?

On 2015-10-21 15:18, Richmond wrote: On 21/10/15 12:48, Mark Waddingham wrote: Well, vector images are very widely used, and they do have the advantage over bitmapped ones in that they don't go "all fuzzy" when they are resized: that, at the very least, is a big plus, and IF (??) the Geom

LC 6.7.6 / 6.7.8 (rc 1) No externals.txt config file found

Hello, LC 6.7.6 and 6.7.8 (rc 1) I am using two third party externals and see the first time the following warning in the standalone builder after a successful built: "Windows x86-32 external. No externals.txt config file found for MyExternal" Is this a new "feature" or do I have to set any othe

Re: Vector images?

On 21/10/15 12:48, Mark Waddingham wrote: Well, vector images are very widely used, and they do have the advantage over bitmapped ones in that they don't go "all fuzzy" when they are resized: that, at the very least, is a big plus, and IF (??) the Geometry Manager is 'whatever' vector imag

Re: Vector images?

On 2015-10-21 10:54, Richmond wrote: I am not confusing anything: I know you can manage "the underlying ability to import and render SVG", and I am hoping you will expose that to the end-user via the menu for image import that is already in place in the GUI. Indeed - I can definitely say we wil

Re: Vector images?

On 2015-10-20 21:35, Scott Rossi wrote: Mark, what you describe sounds great. Even a subset of SVG capabilities is very welcome. But I have to ask, partly because I'm clueless when it comes to low level programming, but also because I'm curious: does it make sense to have two "realms" of gr

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Re: Vector images?

On 21/10/15 10:56, Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2015-10-20 21:49, Richmond wrote: This is a very important question to which the answer really does need to be "Yes". I think you are confusing the underlying ability to import and render SVG (which will be used by the components which are created

Re: [ANN] "language-livecode" 0.6.0 for Atom Editor

On 20/10/2015 21:53, Monte Goulding wrote: Aha! Now those of you that wanted to play with the linter after my premature announcement last month can have a go. Sorry it took me so long to make the release! ;_; Peter -- Dr Peter Brett LiveCode Open Source Team

Re: Vector images?

On 2015-10-20 21:49, Richmond wrote: This is a very important question to which the answer really does need to be "Yes". I think you are confusing the underlying ability to import and render SVG (which will be used by the components which are created to sit atop it - which the current develop

Re: Vector images?

On 21/10/15 10:27, Richmond wrote: From a fairly bitchy point of view it does seem odd that Scratch, a sort of kiddy half-cock programming thing that strikes me as just the type of dumbing down that does children ultimately no favours at all can: Import, Create, and Export SVG files, while Live

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

On 2015-10-20 19:43, Richard Gaskin wrote: Adjusting the order of buttons prevents people from acquiring muscle memory with the tool, already made surprisingly difficult with the small target area for the tab icons. After all, the whole point of moving from the option control to tab icons was fo

Re: Vector images?

From a fairly bitchy point of view it does seem odd that Scratch, a sort of kiddy half-cock programming thing that strikes me as just the type of dumbing down that does children ultimately no favours at all can: Import, Create, and Export SVG files, while LiveCode cannot (yet???). http://www.wi

Re: LC8 Geometry Manager

On 2015-10-21 08:08, Kay C Lan wrote: On Wed, Oct 21, 2015 at 4:45 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Done - 16248. I've added the following to your Bug Report: I was the one who added the List post and my comment was wrong - as I based it on a working Stack which already had populated fields. Worki