Re: Typography for Mobile -- Best Practices Guidance

> On Mar 20, 2016, at 3:21 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: I'm not sure there are best practices at this point, but here are a few responses, FWIW. > 1) Assuming we want to avoid loading fonts into LC Why? This the only way to display non-resident fonts on a device/system. > If

Re: OT iOS updates on iPad

I couldn’t find an installer for 7.1. I’ve kept an iPad at 6 because I was still building for that OS. Now I want to build 7.1 and up, so I had a machine to test on… anyway, thanks for your response. be well, randy Randy Hengst www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com > On Mar 20, 2016, at 5:53 PM, C

[ANN] rsIsValid 0.1.0 LC8 library extension

Hi All, I'm please to announce the first pass of rsIsValid. It is a livecode 8 library widget and has been built and tested with LC 8.0 DP16. It contains functions that help validate data like credit card numbers, emails, URL’s, etc. The functions included in this release are listed on the firs

Re: OT iOS updates on iPad

iPad 1 could only go to 5.1.1, so if you’re on iOS 6, I think whatever iPad you have can be updated to iOS 9. If you only want to update to 7.1 I’m not sure where you would get that. One possible problem is that Apple would stop signing out of date versions, which would mean that if you found th

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

What I meant with two windows or sections (call then "windows") to a script is as follows. Within IDE, I have two windows both displaying sections of the same (for example long stack) script. I can go to both windows, click one, scroll one, do edits in one, save the script, click on the other

Typography for Mobile -- Best Practices Guidance

As our new app hits the interface design stage we have endless discussions on the "eye candy" side of the design. Good news is that one of our inhouse team who has been designing for print for 30 years, finally set up a document in InDesign to 736 px X 414px. Yay! Big break through because it me

Re: Standalone settings

Not over here on the Linux 64 bit side: although, for some odd reason all the texts such as "Mac OS X 32-bit" are now displayed in white so hellishly difficult to see against the grey of the standalone builder stack. Richmond. On 20.03.2016 23:52, John Dixon wrote: Make a stack with LC 7.1.3...

Standalone settings

Make a stack with LC 7.1.3... save it... choose iOS in standalone settings... no problem Make a stack with LC 8.0.0 (DP 16)... save it... all the deployment options are greyed out, so am unable to choose one...:-( Do the same however with DP14 and there is no problem.. Anyone else seen this ?

Re: RevBrowser in 8.0.0 DP 15

On 20/03/2016 20:26, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/20/2016 2:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Yes, some of it does. The file loads into the browser either way but subsequent navigation causes the browser content to go blank. It's because when queried, the URL the browser returns is "about:blank" instea

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

> On 21 Mar 2016, at 7:52 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Try: go cd x OF stack y That just presents the card in its stack. The object was to present it in a different stack wasn’t it. I misremembered the “in window ” syntax. Not enough coffee consumed yet this morning. Cheers Monte _

Re: OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

I've used Kagi for years. Excellent, experienced service. Kai was or is a Rev user, used to post to this list. sims -- On Sunday, March 20, 2016, Graham Samuel wrote: > Camm, that is really good info! It makes a cast-iron case for using > someone like KAGI, as far as I can see. The whole syste

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

On 3/20/2016 2:51 PM, RM wrote: I did name my card "3" (slight lack of imagination there). Naming an object or a card with only a number will make LC treat it as a position rather than a name. Always include at least one alpha character: "c3". -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

Try: go cd x OF stack y On 3/20/2016 2:52 PM, RM wrote: That didn't work in LR 7.1 just now. Richmond. On 20.03.2016 21:33, Monte Goulding wrote: From memory you can: go card X in stack Y It just takes over the window. Is that what you want? Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone On 21 Mar 2

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

> On 21 Mar 2016, at 6:52 AM, RM wrote: > > That didn't work in LR 7.1 just now. Ah, sorry. It’s go card X of stack Y in window (windowID of stack Z) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsu

Re: RevBrowser in 8.0.0 DP 15

On 3/20/2016 2:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Yes, some of it does. The file loads into the browser either way but subsequent navigation causes the browser content to go blank. It's because when queried, the URL the browser returns is "about:blank" instead of the file path. Revising this too, it

Hypercard

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Re: RevBrowser in 8.0.0 DP 15

On 3/20/2016 3:34 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Do the problems with the #-component in revBrowser go away if you use an RFC 1738 file URL? Yes, some of it does. The file loads into the browser either way but subsequent navigation causes the browser content to go blank. It's because when queried,

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

That didn't work in LR 7.1 just now. Richmond. On 20.03.2016 21:33, Monte Goulding wrote: From memory you can: go card X in stack Y It just takes over the window. Is that what you want? Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone On 21 Mar 2016, at 2:25 AM, RM wrote: put card "3" of stack "STAK"

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

Indeed: I did name my card "3" (slight lack of imagination there). Your script did work. Thanks. Richmond. On 20.03.2016 21:29, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you really did name your card "3" then that could be the reason. This works: copy card 3 of stack "STAK" to stack "SUBB" If you meant yo

Re: Hypercard

The PDF version appears to be a sequence of photographs. R. On 20.03.2016 21:14, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the epub version (1.5 mb) and noticed too many errors in the text. :( Hopefully, PDF version (575 MB) does not show all these errors... :o For the tittl

Re: Hypercard

Just out of curiosity, I downloaded the epub version (1.5 mb) and noticed too many errors in the text. :( Hopefully, PDF version (575 MB) does not show all these errors... :o For the tittle, this book sounds promising too :D https://archive.org/details/Hyper_Card_Power Al -- View this messa

Re: Interactive Tour

Hi, RM wrote > [SNIP] unfortunately, if I open a new stack so that > I can copy some of the stuff during the tour, > the tour stack closes and vanishes. > Xubuntu 64 bit. > Is this a bug, or is this intentional? In Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit, the Tour Stack close and crash LC IDE when the Tutorial re

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

>From memory you can: go card X in stack Y It just takes over the window. Is that what you want? Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Mar 2016, at 2:25 AM, RM wrote: > > put card "3" of stack "STAK" into card "1" of stack "SUBB" ___ use-liveco

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

If you really did name your card "3" then that could be the reason. This works: copy card 3 of stack "STAK" to stack "SUBB" If you meant you want to replace the contents of the SUBB card with the copied one, then just delete the "replacement" card in SUBB. If you want to set the position of t

Re: OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

Camm, that is really good info! It makes a cast-iron case for using someone like KAGI, as far as I can see. The whole system seems to me to be bureaucratic and obstructive, but there it is. Thanks for this link. Graham > On 20 Mar 2016, at 17:40, Camm wrote: > > All , > > Just to be clear t

Re: Looking for parser for Email (MIME)

Hi, Check if WordLib could help you with this particular task: http://curryk.com/wordlib.html Does Unicode handles all different encodings? http://livecode.byu.edu/unicode/unicodeInRev.html By the way, some years ago, I posted a Mailbox reader, check this stack just in case that you find somet

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

The scriptEditor threw a wobbly with copy. Richmond. On 20.03.2016 20:05, Scott Rossi wrote: You probably want "copy card..." instead of "put card..." Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design On Mar 20, 2016, at 8:25 AM, RM wrote: This is probably hugely irrelevan

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

You probably want "copy card..." instead of "put card..." Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Mar 20, 2016, at 8:25 AM, RM wrote: > > This is probably hugely irrelevant, but I wonder why I cannot do this: > > put card "3" of stack "STAK" into card "1" of sta

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26847 Richmond. On 20.03.2016 19:55, RM wrote: I wonder what you mean about editing the same script in two windows; do you mean: 1. The ability to see 2 different parts of a long script in two windows. 2. The ability to look at the same section

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

Ha! from 2013 and marked as "Confirmed" I could not make the requirement statement any more simple than Mark did himself, "This is something we've talked about internally for a while - in particular to enable an easier way to compose interfac

Re: Version 8, DP16 Tutorial Runthrough

Hi All, Using Ubuntu 14.04 for 64-bit, this Tutorial crash and close LiveCode v8 DP16 when I reach the Browser section. Later, today I will test it on Windows. Overall, the Tutorial is really well done. Congratulations! :D Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

I wonder what you mean about editing the same script in two windows; do you mean: 1. The ability to see 2 different parts of a long script in two windows. 2. The ability to look at the same section of a script in two windows. If you mean the first then that makes a lot of sense, if you mean th

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

Another way of improving the productivity in development would be to develop the IDE so that you can edit the same script in two windows or separately scrollable sections. This kind of capability is available in some development environments, even in applications like Excel. Christer Pyyhtiä ch

Re: Separate Widget palette

On 20.03.2016 18:54, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/20/2016 05:15 AM, RM wrote: I should at this point out that LC 4.5 does not function on my Xubuntu box, but I use it extensively on my G5 Macintosh . . . That's a bit strange. LC 4.6.4 is my workhorse on Mint 17.2, which has a ubuntu core.

Re: Separate Widget palette

Thanks: I've just tried that. Richmond. On 20.03.2016 18:47, J. Landman Gay wrote: On March 20, 2016 7:17:17 AM RM wrote: I want a way to hide the Widgets in such a way that a kid opening LIveCode won't see them at any point during his/her programming class with me. You can hide the widge

Re: Separate Widget palette

On 03/20/2016 05:15 AM, RM wrote: I should at this point out that LC 4.5 does not function on my Xubuntu box, but I use it extensively on my G5 Macintosh . . . That's a bit strange. LC 4.6.4 is my workhorse on Mint 17.2, which has a ubuntu core. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Separate Widget palette

On March 20, 2016 7:17:17 AM RM wrote: I want a way to hide the Widgets in such a way that a kid opening LIveCode won't see them at any point during his/her programming class with me. You can hide the widget panel using the settings/gear icon. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@h

RE: OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

All , Just to be clear the EU VAT change Jan 2016 applies to even 1 download if sold to any EU member state customer at their current VAT rate. It applies to any digital product that is downloaded with no physical fulfilment , its defined by "minimal user input to obtain download" so even if yo

Re: Separate Widget palette

Folks, Some of the software I use has a "views" menu that shows a list of "columns" or items that appear on a specific palette or screen. I wonder if such a menu might be convenient in this case. The user could choose "basic", "extended", "All" or whatever. I can sympathize with Richmond's desir

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-8948114/hypercard-2-0-a-closer-look "HyperCard 2.0, however, will not allow you to have two or more windows open that show cards from the same stack. The members of die HyperCard Development Team had planned such a feature, but dropped it from the final rel

Hypercard

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Re: Separate Widget palette

Richmond wrote: On 20.03.2016 17:41, Richard Gaskin wrote: Has Adobe's patent on dockable tabbed palettes expired yet? http://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-wins-macromedia-patent-suit/ "a feature that allows users of design software to rearrange the work space on the PC screen." Ha, Ha, Ha: I real

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

Richmond wrote: "In HyperCard 2.x, you can have only one stack open but many card windows open" http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~pinto/hc2.html Mind you, I cannot for the life of me remember how to code that. Calhoun's description there hints at how we could do this in LC: In HyperCard 2.x

Re: Separate Widget palette

"a feature that allows users of design software to rearrange the work space on the PC screen." Ha, Ha, Ha: I really wonder how that can be patented. Every time I open Livecode on a small monitor I rearrange the work space by, for instance, moving revTools palette somewhere other than where it

Re: Separate Widget palette

If LC can’t afford the licence :) then do it like Apples’ interface for Numbers & Pages but in a separate window. All the best Terry > On 20 Mar 2016, at 15:41, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Has Adobe's patent on dockable tabbed palettes expired yet? ___

Re: Separate Widget palette

Terence Heaford wrote: ... Then if required each group can be dragged to another part of the main palette or dragged off to create a palette of their own. Has Adobe's patent on dockable tabbed palettes expired yet? http://www.cnet.com/news/adobe-wins-macromedia-patent-suit/ -- - Richard Gaskin

Re: Separate Widget palette

Why not have a palette where the user can relocate items to suit themselves? In a common palette where all items are grouped according to their function, Core objects, painting, drawing, widgets. Then if required each group can be dragged to another part of the main palette or dragged off to cr

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

This is probably hugely irrelevant, but I wonder why I cannot do this: put card "3" of stack "STAK" into card "1" of stack "SUBB" where stack "SUBB" is a substack of stack "STAK". I have a very, very vague memory of being able to do that sort of thing somewhere (HC ???). Richmond. On 20.03.

Re: Separate Widget palette

How about making the sections of the Tools pallette dockable? Allow the users to stack them according to their workflow. I know the dev team wants the shiny new things at the top, but that doesn't compel me to put widgets into all of my projects. ~Roger __

Re: Separate Widget palette

On 20.03.2016 16:43, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: Hence my recent suggestion that they could be moved to the bottom of the revTools palette rather than the top. The core team says Widgets should be at the top. You say they should be at the bottom. I wonder why the core team has

Re: ≠ or not equal

On 03/17/2016 07:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > "!=" is a good solution (as it is one out of the ASCCI 7-bit range). Agreed. I was very impressed Mark Wieder implemented that as quickly as he did - thanks Mark! @mwieder: Thanks for your contribution. Unfortunately, though, we don't feel

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

Hello Elanor & Peter There is a misunderstanding :-( ! I did not ask how I can download stack, I know very well of the existence of the webpage and I have seen Download Buttons before - thanks ?! My question was if the download environment within LiveCode wich is now gone in the 8 line, will ret

RE: server difficulties coming from LC7, or new host?

David Simpson said >I have found LiveCode to be very responsive. I agree. The LC support was magnificent during the move and I received responses to my requests in minutes. Be sure to use the emergency support option when reporting problems that are blockers. Between Heather's coordination of the

Small regex project for pay

I have a small outsource coding project. Given a variable tContent which contains a bunch of text and a variable tString which contains a search string and a function that: 1) searches tContent using matchChunk(tContent,tRegex,tStart,tEnd) repeatedly building a cr delimited list of start and end

Re: Open 2 Cards in same stack side by side

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Am I the only one who ever wished you could open card 3 and card 10 at the same time? side by side, like a split screen in a text/code editor? having the PB open to one card "A" and the actual stack open to card B works pretty well, but some not so well. This

Re: Separate Widget palette

Richmond wrote: Hence my recent suggestion that they could be moved to the bottom of the revTools palette rather than the top. The core team says Widgets should be at the top. You say they should be at the bottom. I wonder: Why are controls grouped by implementation method? Why should that

OT iOS updates on iPad

Hi All, I’ve been searching the list archives and the Apple developer portal, but haven’t found an answer…. Is it possible to update an iPad from iOS 6.x to iOS 7.1? be well, randy Randy Hengst www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com ___ use-livecode mai

Release 6.7.10 / 7.1.3

Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7.10 Stable and 7.1.3 Stable. By "Stable", we mean that no reported regressions have been introduced in 6.7.10 / 7.1.3, compared to the previous Stable release. Both 6.7.10 / 7.1.3 are a promotion of 6.7.10 RC-1 / 7.1.3 RC-

Re: Separate Widget palette

Pretty picture here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=26785&p=139872#p139872 On 20.03.2016 14:15, RM wrote: On 20.03.2016 13:46, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:03 AM, RM wrote: Well, how about having the widget section at the bottom of the revTools palette ra

Re: Separate Widget palette

On 20.03.2016 13:46, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:03 AM, RM wrote: Well, how about having the widget section at the bottom of the revTools palette rather than above the section that is most likely to be used the most often? Richmond, You may find that you use widgets mor

Re: Separate Widget palette

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 4:03 AM, RM wrote: > > Well, how about having the widget section at the bottom of the revTools > palette rather than above > the section that is most likely to be used the most often? > Richmond, You may find that you use widgets more than you think. I've been working on

Looking for parser for Email (MIME)

Hello all Something else. I managed to download all my mail from last years in MBOX format from Gmail. The file size is over 38 GB, and there are more than 120,000 messages. There is no way of just opening and reading such last file into memory, at least not on my computer with limited RAM. Usual

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

I didn't look into the scripts. There is another stack "revonlinelibrary". Is it also needed and then found? J. Landman Gay wrote > On 3/18/2016 9:24 AM, -hh wrote: >> I prefer also the "old" stack (of Elanor?), so I use on LC 8 the >> following, what is at least 10 times faster than 'livecodesh

Re: RevBrowser in 8.0.0 DP 15

On 20/03/2016 05:43, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/19/2016 5:11 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Oh.. wait.. if I paste that URL in to the widget it goes bonkers.. to be more precise presents a small rect about 40x tall and 150 px wide with scroll bars. Is that the bug you are seeing? I

Re: RevBrowser in 8.0.0 DP 15

On 20/03/2016 04:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: Not exactly. I tried a similar file path when I was testing a widget but it wouldn't load at all, nothing happened. I just now realized that the file path has spaces in it. If I remove those (or encode them) it does load, so the widget works after all. T

Error in DG row behaviour crashing LC?

(Sorry if this is a second post - not sure first went to the right place) While modifying the Fillndata handler in the row behaviour I managed to crash LiveCode (LC7.1.3rc1). After a few crashes where I selectively commented out my recently added lines of script I traced it to my setting a prope

Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

In LiveCode 8 I can no longer download Stacks (click Sample Stacks) from the online sample stack portal, the download/upload stack called „Sample Stacks“ is replaced with a link to http://livecodeshare.runrev.com. Will that stay, or is a better or different download Stack, for the final version i

Re: Separate Widget palette

Aha. Well, how about having the widget section at the bottom of the revTools palette rather than above the section that is most likely to be used the most often? Richmond. On 20.03.2016 01:43, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2016-03-19 19:50, RM wrote: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&