Re: Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
"Over to another web page" Ok well that's a different game for sure and would require clipboard BR ( from my mobile ) On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 7:25 PM -0800, "Terry Judd" mailto:terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au>> wrote: So, I want to copy the formatted text from my LC HTML5 app to a text field in

Re: Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread [-hh]
> Terry J. wrote: > OK, thanks hh. It’s probably a little too clunky for my purpose > (I don’t think I can expect users to manually replace placeholder > characters with returns) but nice to know that there is a > workaround of sorts. If the webpage that receives the text (page) accepts 'styled' t

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-21 Thread [-hh]
> Peter H. wrote: > I don;t have the link to hand but there's a Youtube video that's been > posted on this list before about what a nightmare it is to handle all > the scenarios involving what date and time it is in different parts of > the world and keeping up to date with changes. Pete > Kay C.

Re: Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread Terry Judd
OK, thanks hh. It’s probably a little too clunky for my purpose (I don’t think I can expect users to manually replace placeholder characters with returns) but nice to know that there is a workaround of sorts. Great set of LC HTML5 demos BTW! Terry… On 22/02/2016 2:59 pm, "use-livecode on behalf

Re: Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread [-hh]
> So, I want to copy the formatted text from my LC HTML5 app to a > text field in another webpage that is independent of my HTML5 > app and over which I have no control. I don¹t think that¹s > possible without using the clipboard as an intermediary - is it? > Regards, Terry... Hi Terry (and BR) t

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-21 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 5:50 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I don;t have the link to hand but there's a Youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscrib

Re: Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread Terry Judd
So, I want to copy the formatted text from my LC HTML5 app to a text field in another webpage that is independent of my HTML5 app and over which I have no control. I don¹t think that¹s possible without using the clipboard as an intermediary - is it? Regards, Terry... On 22/02/2016 2:10 pm, "use-

Re: Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Until that is working, why not just set a local (or possibly you will need a global) variable and as the selections are made, append to the global variable, then when ready they user clicks a button and the global variable containing the data is inserted into the comments? You can emulate a "c

Not able to use the clipboard with HTML5 deployment

2016-02-21 Thread Terry Judd
I’m trying to create a relatively simple HTML5 ‘applet' that allows the user to select from a series of statements (an assessment rubric) to generate a basic feedback report that they can paste into an existing comments box within one of the bits of our learning management system. Seemed like a

Re: LC 8 dp 14 Browser Widget not "obeying" position instructions

2016-02-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
 February 21, 2016 at 12:59:16 PM, Ali Lloyd (ali.ll...@livecode.com(mailto:ali.ll...@livecode.com)) wrote: > I have seen something like this too, but haven't yet got a recipe - looks  > like a redraw issue though.  Indeed, I think you are right. I just now added to the ticket bug 16965(http://

Re: LC 8 dp 14 Browser Widget not "obeying" position instructions

2016-02-21 Thread Ali Lloyd
I have seen something like this too, but haven't yet got a recipe - looks like a redraw issue though. Perhaps to do with setting the rect under lock screen, or changing the tool under lock screen/messages or something like that. On Sun, 21 Feb 2016 at 03:51, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > >

Re: How do I enable scrolling of a group ?

2016-02-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 21/02/2016 14:21, [-hh] wrote: "Doing Touch scroll by rawkeyDown" will be interesting for a lot of readers. Would be great if you share your solution with a script snippet at the end of this thread ... Sure - though it turns out to be so trivial a snippet it's almost embarrassi

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-21 Thread Peter Haworth
I don;t have the link to hand but there's a Youtube video that's been posted on this list before about what a nightmare it is to handle all the scenarios involving what date and time it is in different parts of the world and keeping up to date with changes. Pete On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:10 PM [-

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-21 Thread [-hh]
Sorry, typo in link, should read http://hh.on-rev.com/html5/countUpOrDown-8.0.0-dp-9X.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://list

Re: Programmatically determine the average greyscale

2016-02-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
The buttons use a pattern so they are not transparent. Yes, we are very familiar with the drop shadow technique also... Yes, we could use field + group methods, but I would prefer to keep is simple so that I can dynamically swap out the background patterns and, eventually, dynamically add an

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-21 Thread [-hh]
> Graham S. wrote > Thanks to all those who replied - ‘the internet date’ was the > answer I needed, since I then didn’t have to get out of my > LiveCode comfort zone to do the calculation. I’m thinking of > time-stamping some interactions that are going to go through > a program I’m running on Liv

Re: How do I enable scrolling of a group ?

2016-02-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/21/2016 7:32 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: In the Message watcher, when positioned over a field, I see rawKeyDown, cRevGeneral and scrollbarDrag events But when positioned over a group - only the rawKeyDown events fire. So - am I just over-optimistic, and it is expected that any group scrolling i

BUG? console error message with send in time on LC server

2016-02-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi all, I have started to look at LC server, just for command line scripts at the moment (seems LC has got wired into my brain, and other scripting languages just don't come so readily to me any more). I wanted to do some processing, where the processing would occur at different times of days and

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-21 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to all those who replied - ‘the internet date’ was the answer I needed, since I then didn’t have to get out of my LiveCode comfort zone to do the calculation. I’m thinking of time-stamping some interactions that are going to go through a program I’m running on LiveCode Server. Right now I

Re: How do I enable scrolling of a group ?

2016-02-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Ok, reading your description, I've seen what you're talking about in browsers on iOS -- you can use two finger touch to scroll a text region independently of a web page. And I believe this works because the control is essentially a field, which is known to the browser to be scrollable, unlike g

Re: How do I enable scrolling of a group ?

2016-02-21 Thread [-hh]
Alex, sorry, I know from your posts which I read long before writing to this list that you don't need help for the scrolling per se. I just wanted to add my MOVE-TO-SCROLL-FACTOR as a whole. inside of a working script. I don't like to scroll with 5 long moves until the targeted loc is reached and

Re: How do I enable scrolling of a group ?

2016-02-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thanks to you , and Scott R. However, I guess I need to explain myself better :-) If I have a field which - is enabled - has a formatted size that exceeds the actual size - has scroollbars enabled THEN - the field will respond to the user scrolling (in this case by using two finger touc