Re: catching pasted text and forcing unicode

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/2015 7:48 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I think the pasteKey message is what you want. Note that the IDE traps it, so you won't receive it there but it works in a standalone or when you suspend the development tools. That would let me

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/2015 8:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: I didn't even realize dehilite was a word in the dictionary. Me either. It must be a typo: set de hilite of btn 1 -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: Keep Selection Focus When Switching to Substack

2015-10-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
7.1 I am definitely losing my selection on touching the palette stack BR ( from my mobile ) On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 12:14 AM -0700, "Paul Hibbert" mailto:p...@livecode.org>> wrote: On Oct 23, 2015, at 19:51, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > I think I asked this before, > > but… is the

Re: Print stack as PDF

2015-10-24 Thread stephen barncard
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 7:50 AM, Rob Cozens wrote: > - Charles Reich, The Greening of America > ___ > This is so spooky. At this very moment, I was passing along the email of Charles Reich to a crew that's working on a new GD documentary. Charles did a

Re: recursion limit when creating file list of harddrive

2015-10-24 Thread JB
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > > If that's not it, then you need to change to a serialized rather than a > recursive treewalk - I'm sure that's been posted on the use-list some time > ago (if you can't find it, let me know and I'll dig one up) > > -- Alex. I would li

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/24/2015 02:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: You must mean the derivatives; "highlight" has always been available. But "highlightedIcon" is not. Or was not. Yeah, that was the whole problem - trying to remember where it was available and where not. Now it'll be consistent. I didn't even re

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
Well you've got a lot more experience with the engine and open language plans than me so if you say it's feasible and the cost benefit is sufficient to apply the resources rather than just working on the control structures in the engine then who am I to argue. Are the LCB control structures defi

Re: parentheses within string break value()

2015-10-24 Thread Scott Rossi
Is 123 a function? If yes, I believe you need to remove the quotes surrounding it. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Oct 24, 2015, at 5:46 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > I am finding that parentheses within strings break value() > > put value ("Abc" & 45 &

Re: catching pasted text and forcing unicode

2015-10-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I think the pasteKey message is what you want. Note that the IDE traps it, > so you won't receive it there but it works in a standalone or when you > suspend the development tools. That would let me trap it, and I'm resigned to that (just

parentheses within string break value()

2015-10-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I am finding that parentheses within strings break value() put value ("Abc" & 45 & "123(def)") produces Script compile error: Error description: local: not a valid variable or constant name If I escape it as put value ("Abc" & 45 & "123\(def\)") it produces Abc45123 I don't think tha

Re: recursion limit when creating file list of harddrive

2015-10-24 Thread Alex Tweedly
Are you sure you are actually hitting a recursion limit ? Another (perhaps more likely) problem is that you are hitting a protected directory, or one which you cannot access (e.g. because of strange character in name). I would (at a minimum) put in a check that you have moved to the folder:

Re: recursion limit when creating file list of harddrive

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Matthias Rebbe wrote: long time ago i created a program which creates a list of files of backup cds or dvds and stores that listings in a database with some additional information like cd name/number. So if the customer needs to know on which cd/dvd a needed fileis, the database can be searc

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-10-25 00:19, Monte Goulding wrote: On 25 Oct 2015, at 9:05 am, Geoff Canyon wrote: The beauty of open language (in my dreams, perhaps not the spec) would be that: 1. No one would have to dig into the engine to implement something like this. 2. You could release your "counter" versi

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
Well I'd certainly like to see the cost benefit analysis on it ;-) Sent from my iPhone > On 25 Oct 2015, at 10:52 am, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > I think the reward could be so great. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vis

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 6:19 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > On 25 Oct 2015, at 9:05 am, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > > > The beauty of open language (in my dreams, perhaps not the spec) would be > > that: > > > > 1. No one would have to dig into the engine to implement something like > > this. > > 2.

recursion limit when creating file list of harddrive

2015-10-24 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi, long time ago i created a program which creates a list of files of backup cds or dvds and stores that listings in a database with some additional information like cd name/number. So if the customer needs to know on which cd/dvd a needed fileis, the database can be searched. This worked fi

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread JB
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Monte Goulding > wrote: > > >> On 25 Oct 2015, at 9:14 am, JB wrote: >> >> Do you have a link >> for the OS X externals you are selling? > > Everything is at mergExt.com > > The externals available for OS X are: > - mergJSON > - mergAV >

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 25 Oct 2015, at 9:14 am, JB wrote: > > Do you have a link > for the OS X externals you are selling? Everything is at mergExt.com The externals available for OS X are: - mergJSON - mergAV - mergAWS - mergBLE - mergGoogle - mergNotify - mergBonjour (OX Build in

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 25 Oct 2015, at 9:05 am, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > The beauty of open language (in my dreams, perhaps not the spec) would be > that: > > 1. No one would have to dig into the engine to implement something like > this. > 2. You could release your "counter" version, I could release my "index" >

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread JB
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 3:02 PM, Monte Goulding > wrote: > > >> On 25 Oct 2015, at 8:43 am, JB wrote: >> >> As for Monty I am not sure if you are talking about his >> externals for mobile apps. I do not have a mobile yet >> but when I get one I will definitely buy his externals. > > Yay, not

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Well it doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t implement the additional > variable in repeat. It just means you would need to do so directly in the > engine. Out of interest I just took a look ant it wouldn’t be that tricky > to do and at the s

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 25 Oct 2015, at 8:43 am, JB wrote: > > As for Monty I am not sure if you are talking about his > externals for mobile apps. I do not have a mobile yet > but when I get one I will definitely buy his externals. Yay, note that a number of my iOS externals are also available for OS X and I a

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread JB
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 2:25 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > JB wrote: >> If you do get Open Language what will it do to the >> speed? They said LC8 would be good because it >> will make it easier for developers to write code in >> LC which needed to be and external before. >> >> Then after rel

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
Well it doesn’t necessarily mean you can’t implement the additional variable in repeat. It just means you would need to do so directly in the engine. Out of interest I just took a look ant it wouldn’t be that tricky to do and at the same time you could support a repeat index variable on all the

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread hh
What is open language? A purely descriptive contribution: 250 most frequent words of the discussion from R.G. over R.M to M.G. [TagCloud] http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=25687 Unfinished [last post of use-list included: Sat Oct 24 22:52:10 CEST 2015] _

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: If you do get Open Language what will it do to the speed? They said LC8 would be good because it will make it easier for developers to write code in LC which needed to be and external before. Then after releasing it they said it is slower to use than a external written in C. I would

Re: catching pasted text and forcing unicode

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/2015 3:24 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Is there a civilized way to catch incoming text pasted into a field and cover it properly? I think the pasteKey message is what you want. Note that the IDE traps it, so you won't receive it there but it works in a standalone or when you suspend the de

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-10-24 22:43, Richmond wrote: On 24/10/15 23:07, Geoff Canyon wrote: The Wayback Machine never forgets: http://web.archive.org/web/20130301041400/http://blog.runrev.com/blog/bid/265511/Open-Language (takes some time to load) Thank you very much for fossicking that out! "The key piece

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/2015 3:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 10/24/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: * hilite -> highlight Actually I filed a bug report on that six years ago. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8211 It got confirmed and ignored. I just submitted a pull request. Figured I might as

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/2015 3:29 PM, Richmond wrote: On 24/10/15 23:04, J. Landman Gay wrote: I know Mark Waddingham pretty well, and I've never heard him propose anything that he didn't already have a good idea how to accomplish. I'm not entirely sure why you equate my "someone" with Mark Waddingham; who

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
That would be disappointing. On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > > On 25 Oct 2015, at 7:07 am, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > > > repeat for each line L in someText with index i > > I can’t help wondering if open language will allow for new (or variations > on existing) control

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread JB
If you do get Open Language what will it do to the speed? They said LC8 would be good because it will make it easier for developers to write code in LC which needed to be and external before. Then after releasing it they said it is slower to use than a external written in C. I would prefer bette

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 25 Oct 2015, at 7:07 am, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > repeat for each line L in someText with index i I can’t help wondering if open language will allow for new (or variations on existing) control structures. My impression is the intention is to allow for new command syntax only but I could b

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/24/2015 01:34 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: I expect there will be natural boundaries. Most syntax will still be defined by the core team. Some third party vendors will implement english like syntax for their stuff. Most folks just wanting to get the job done will continue with functions an

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/24/2015 12:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: * hilite -> highlight Actually I filed a bug report on that six years ago. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8211 It got confirmed and ignored. I just submitted a pull request. Figured I might as well fix this myself. -- Mark Wieder ahs

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 23:07, Geoff Canyon wrote: The Wayback Machine never forgets: http://web.archive.org/web/20130301041400/http://blog.runrev.com/blog/bid/265511/Open-Language (takes some time to load) Thank you very much for fossicking that out! "The key piece of this project is a tailored parsing

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 25 Oct 2015, at 7:25 am, Richmond wrote: > > So, while the design philosophy of LiveCode may be that there may be several > ways to achieve something, there do still have to be constraints. I expect there will be natural boundaries. Most syntax will still be defined by the core team. Som

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 23:04, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/24/2015 1:51 PM, Richmond wrote: as people are NOT computers, not vice-versa, I cannot see how an "Open Language" = with Human-like logic and endlessly extensible in a human-like fashion is ever going to be possible. Funny you bring that up, I jus

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 22:21, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-10-24 19:40, John Dixon wrote: Oh dear... it smacks of pidgeon english... with words like 'innit', 'blood' and 'bling' being included... to maintain a standard, perhaps there should be an 'Oxford English publication of acceptable words to be used

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 22:10, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-10-24 18:53, Richard Gaskin wrote: 2. Isn't the goal so that we can have 10,000 different, often incompatible and sometimes confusing, custom syntax options for doing basic things like setting the rect of a button? To quote Gilbert & Sullivan:

catching pasted text and forcing unicode

2015-10-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
There is not a circumstance in which I will need to use multi-byted. ASCII would be fine, but it is missing the section (§) symbol, and the occasional ñ in a name. I do, however, have to deal with the mac/windows/unix character set split. Particularly, I need to watch for things being pasted in, b

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
The Wayback Machine never forgets: http://web.archive.org/web/20130301041400/http://blog.runrev.com/blog/bid/265511/Open-Language (takes some time to load) This is the main thing I have been looking forward to for the past several years. The goal was to allow the addition of truly new syntax and f

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/24/2015 1:51 PM, Richmond wrote: as people are NOT computers, not vice-versa, I cannot see how an "Open Language" = with Human-like logic and endlessly extensible in a human-like fashion is ever going to be possible. Funny you bring that up, I just read this article minutes ago:

Re: Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread François Chaplais
wrong. LC does not have a multicore optimized solver for linear equations, the basis of numerical analysis. I want it. François Le 24 oct. 2015 à 20:37, hh a écrit : > Probably you don't need an external because LC has everything available. > I made a simple stack in 2014 that is kind of an inte

RE: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-10-24 19:40, John Dixon wrote: Oh dear... it smacks of pidgeon english... with words like 'innit', 'blood' and 'bling' being included... to maintain a standard, perhaps there should be an 'Oxford English publication of acceptable words to be used in liveCode syntax'... Yes, many of the

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > as people are NOT computers, not vice-versa, I cannot see how an > "Open Language" = with Human-like logic and endlessly extensible > in a human-like fashion is ever going to be possible. One could argue it never has, at least with some commands. My favorite example is the "ex

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-10-24 18:53, Richard Gaskin wrote: 2. Isn't the goal so that we can have 10,000 different, often incompatible and sometimes confusing, custom syntax options for doing basic things like setting the rect of a button? To quote Gilbert & Sullivan: "Well, yes, that's the idea." Not too dif

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 22:02, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond write: > The sticking point is this bit: > > "to enable everyone to write programs that use any aspect of a > computer or device." > > Well: I still cannot talk to my USB robot or my USB footpedal set > with LiveCode . . . I agree it would have

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond write: > The sticking point is this bit: > > "to enable everyone to write programs that use any aspect of a > computer or device." > > Well: I still cannot talk to my USB robot or my USB footpedal set > with LiveCode . . . I agree it would have been clearer to have specified "or computi

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 19:53, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Waddingham wrote: > Simply put, Open Language is a technology that will mean that LCB > libraries and widgets will be able to define english-like syntax > rather than being limited to function call / command call / property > access syntax. > > It is

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
I was just going to post that link when I read your reply. It's my favorite too and I hope it never goes away. On October 24, 2015 1:17:40 PM CDT, Richard Gaskin wrote: >That said, I admit I'm rather enamored of this request: > -- Jacqueline L

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/10/15 19:10, Richard Gaskin wrote: I was looking for a clear definition of LiveCode's proposed "Open Language", but I've come up empty. The original Kickstarter page says only: We will introduce a new technology called “Open Language”. With Open Language, the more technical members

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread David Bovill
Good find. Unfortunately it is out of date. I think the best solution is to get the devs that make releases to include this information in the Release notes - a script culd then pull all this information out into a table? On Saturday, 24 October 2015, Simon wrote: > I thought this was a good sol

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread Simon
I thought this was a good solution; https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/ Simon -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Keeping-up-to-date-with-tp4697882p4697914.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _

Re: Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread hh
Probably you don't need an external because LC has everything available. I made a simple stack in 2014 that is kind of an interface to Mathematica/Wolfram (so you can use one copy of Mathematica locally as 'serving'). Runs on Mac/Win/Linux/RaspberryPi. It is even fast enough on a RaspberryPi (Ras

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Dixon wrote: >> Simply put, Open Language is a technology that will mean that LCB >> libraries and widgets will be able to define english-like syntax >> rather than being limited to function call / command call / property >> access syntax. >> >> It is a key piece that will not only mean 'thi

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

2015-10-24 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, I see what you mean now and yes I've seen that and yes, it's annoying. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 11:12 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: >

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

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/24/2015 09:47 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Interesting, I haven't seen that problem, at least not in regards to indentation. Try this: /* * this is indented six spaces for emphasis * but the script editor will reformat it for you * to a single space */ -- and it will als

RE: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread John Dixon
Oh dear... it smacks of pidgeon english... with words like 'innit', 'blood' and 'bling' being included... to maintain a standard, perhaps there should be an 'Oxford English publication of acceptable words to be used in liveCode syntax'... > Simply put, Open Language is a technology that will m

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: >> On Oct 24, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >>> I found this definition of open language, which might be on >>> the right lines too: >>> >>> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=609766 >> >> A good reminder for us all to

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread JB
> On Oct 24, 2015, at 9:45 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > > I left her behind for you. > > > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscri

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Roger Eller
if "she" ain't in the fld then look in the barn else if she is among theCows then come back home fer supper end if end if On Oct 24, 2015 12:45 PM, "Mark Wieder" wrote: > On 10/24/2015 09:39 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > It is a key piece that will not only mean 'third

Re: Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread François Chaplais
+1 Le 24 oct. 2015 à 18:07, JB a écrit : > That would be a good book. Put in some really > good code from simple to advanced samples > that would cover different methods of using the > data in the C code in a stack. > > I would buy it! > > John Balgenorth > > >> On Oct 24, 2015, at 8:10 AM,

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Waddingham wrote: > Simply put, Open Language is a technology that will mean that LCB > libraries and widgets will be able to define english-like syntax > rather than being limited to function call / command call / property > access syntax. > > It is a key piece that will not only mean 'thir

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I don’t know what ACM is! Google found that page for me. > On Oct 24, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > >> I found this definition of open language, which might be on the right lines >> too: >> >> http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=609766 >>

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

2015-10-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Interesting, I haven't seen that problem, at least not in regards to indentation. I have seen the script editor fairly frequently highlight code outside a block comment in green as if it were inside it. The code still executes OK but a bit scary the first time I saw it happen. Pete lcSQL Software

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

2015-10-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Monte. I agree with your choice. FYI, the LC module for Textmate does it per your first example with the case, and all the statements under it at the same indent level, not pretty. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/24/2015 09:39 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: It is a key piece that will not only mean 'third parties' can define english-like syntax but also mean the all the current engine syntax can be very easily evolved and augmented. Cool. I'm looking forward to finally resolving ambiguities like I

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

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/23/2015 08:13 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: I find the IDE editor's auto-indentation behaviour pretty obnoxious (it regularly screws up the formatting in my comments), so I'll be happy to *not* have it in the Atom package. that's actually a problem with the script editor, not with the auto

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: I found this definition of open language, which might be on the right lines too: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=609766 A good reminder for us all to keep our ACM memberships current. But alas mine has lapsed, and before I spend US$15 to download the 2001 article to se

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Waddingham
Simply put, Open Language is a technology that will mean that LCB libraries and widgets will be able to define english-like syntax rather than being limited to function call / command call / property access syntax. It is a key piece that will not only mean 'third parties' can define english-lik

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

2015-10-24 Thread Mark Wieder
On 10/24/2015 02:02 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Anyone have any thoughts on this? My first thought is... thank you! And my second is I agree with your latter choice. Those are three icky choices, but I'm with Kay on this. -- Mark Wieder a

Re: What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Colin Holgate
I found this definition of open language, which might be on the right lines too: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=609766 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subsc

Re: Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread JB
That would be a good book. Put in some really good code from simple to advanced samples that would cover different methods of using the data in the C code in a stack. I would buy it! John Balgenorth > On Oct 24, 2015, at 8:10 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote: > > Howdy, > > I’d like to try my hand a

What is "Open Language"?

2015-10-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
I was looking for a clear definition of LiveCode's proposed "Open Language", but I've come up empty. The original Kickstarter page says only: We will introduce a new technology called “Open Language”. With Open Language, the more technical members of our community can create English-li

Externals for Dummies

2015-10-24 Thread Gregory Lypny
Howdy, I’d like to try my hand at creating externals from C code exported from Mathematica but not sure how to go about it. Anyone have a basic example of external building that they are willing to share? Mathematica produces beautiful graphs, and I’d like to create a front-end in LiveCode for

RE: Why there is a difference between the gps timestamp and "the seconds"?

2015-10-24 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Looks like a 1 hour offset, plus a bit of lag. Hugh Senior FLCo > Hello, > > With mobilecurrentlocation() we can get the timestamp : "the time at which > the measurement was taken, in seconds since 1970." > if the same time i get "the seconds" ("The seconds function returns the total > number of

Why there is a difference between the gps timestamp and "the seconds" ?

2015-10-24 Thread Ludovic THEBAULT
Hello, With mobilecurrentlocation() we can get the timestamp : "the time at which the measurement was taken, in seconds since 1970." if the same time i get "the seconds" ("The seconds function returns the total number of seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 GMT.), I do not get back the same

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

2015-10-24 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Oct 24, 2015 at 2:58 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Anyone have any thoughts on this? > > My first thought is... thank you! And my second is I agree with your latter choice. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Monte - will take a look. On Saturday, 24 October 2015, Monte Goulding wrote: > The release notes are generated from lots of tiny little markdown files in > the repo/docs/notes. One for each PR. > > Cheers > > Monte > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 24 Oct 2015, at 7:32 pm, David Bovill w

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
The release notes are generated from lots of tiny little markdown files in the repo/docs/notes. One for each PR. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Oct 2015, at 7:32 pm, David Bovill wrote: > > Can we not use GitHub for release notes, and use a script to > create the PDF's? __

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Peter. The release notes section works with me. Why are the Release Notes PDF files that you have to manually search through? Can we not use GitHub for release notes, and use a script to create the PDF's? On Saturday, 24 October 2015, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 2015-10-24 09:28, David B

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-10-24 09:28, David Bovill wrote: I just upgraded Xcode to 7.1 - and again I get the issue that Livecode does not recognise this version. I think this has happened every time I upgrade for the last 6 months. Is there a better way to keep things in sync here? I think it would be good to

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread David Bovill
Thanks - Pierre. - So Xcode 7.0.1 (7A1001) + LC 6.7.6 play well well - Seems like Xcode 7.0 or Xcode 7.01 does not play with iOS 9.1 - However you can use Xcode 7.01 with Livecode 7.1 - and then use Xcode 7.1 to install the app on iOS 9.1 I think the thing to do is not to upgrade Xco

Re: Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello David, Xcode 7.0.1 (7A1001) + LC 6.7.6 are, at least, working together … -- Pierre Sahores mobile : 06 03 95 77 70 www.sahores-conseil.com > Le 24 oct. 2015 à 09:28, David Bovill a écrit : > > I just upgraded Xcode to 7.1 - and again I get the issue that Livecode does > not recognise thi

Keeping up to date with

2015-10-24 Thread David Bovill
I just upgraded Xcode to 7.1 - and again I get the issue that Livecode does not recognise this version. I think this has happened every time I upgrade for the last 6 months. Is there a better way to keep things in sync here? I think it would be good to have a place where it is documented which ver

Re: Keep Selection Focus When Switching to Substack

2015-10-24 Thread Paul Hibbert
On Oct 23, 2015, at 19:51, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > I think I asked this before, > > but… is there a way to keep the selection when switching to a substack that > is set to palette? > > The goal is to have buttons that operate on selected text, but in a separate > stack. > > Br

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

2015-10-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 24 Oct 2015, at 2:25 am, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > Urgh, this is pretty broken in the 0.6.0. I'll file an issue and try to make > sure it's fixed for the next release. I’ve submitted a fix for this and the indenting issues. There’s still a bit of a quirk with switch indenting because th