Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

> what is the equivalent of > > set the behavior of tNewGroup to the long id of button "Widget" of card > "Behaviors" > > where "the long id of button" points instead to a script only stack? I think it is simply... set the behavior of tNewGroup to stack "myScriptOnlyStack" If you chec

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Another contribution to this thread from the past. and Stacks from 2009: The first one is a result of a longer discussion and experimentation with Bernd Niggemann showing different approaches to create and use masks, the second is a short example stack demonstrating round-corner-buttons

LC 8.0 DP16 Failed to load external

Hello, after a long break I am testing LC 8.0 DP16, because I wanted to answer the latest LC survey, if I still need LC 6 I am using two externals, which work in the IDE. For building the standalone, these externals are selected in the standalone settings under "script libraries" and the external

Re: LC 8.0 DP16 Failed to load external

For standalone builder support you need to add externals to the runtime folder for each platform. The standalone builder won’t pull the external from the externals folder. http://lessons.livecode.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/6347-how-to-install-3rd-party-externals-for-use-in-the-ide-and-standalone-bu

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

if you want to get round corners on an image, that does not make use of alphaData, like jpg or png without alpha you can round the corners by setting the alphaData as Alejandro has shown. here is an example of setting the alphaData of an image to get round corners on the fly -

AW: LC 8.0 DP16 Failed to load external

Yes, I know. I am developing on a windows 64 Bit machine. The externals and the externals.txt are located at: C:\Users\\Documents\My LiveCode\Runtime\Windows\x86-32\Externals The files& memory\user extensions preference is: C:\Users\\Documents\My LiveCode Up to LC 6.7.8 this option worked for the

Are there any cumulative release notes?

Hello, I have this "failed to load external" failure and am searching, what might have changed between LC 6 and 7/8, because all settings are the same between my versions, but with LC 7/8 I can't load my externals anymore. I am sure there must have been changed something very obvious, what I don'

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Let's say we have a series of fields that have just a few words of > text in them we want to center vertically. Text varies. Our designers > may want to change the words over time. I don't want to have to go > in and manually adjust the top and bottom margins t

Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

Hi all, before I file a bug on this, I would like to enquire about your opinion. If in a behavior you have before resizeControl — do some stuff end resizeControl should this trigger if you send resizeControl to the control from somewhere else? If yes, it does not seem to work in a standalone

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

So everything worked out and I was able to resize all images as needed to fit within the bounds of the field they were displayed in. The script I used was: a couple of things of interest. importing paint does not fail helpfully. Sometimes you get an error, sometimes nothing, but if it does fail

Re: Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

On 3/30/2016 10:27 AM, Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: > Hi all, > > before I file a bug on this, I would like to enquire about your opinion. > > If in a behavior you have > > before resizeControl > — do some stuff > end resizeControl > > should this trigger if you send resizeControl to the control from

Re: Are there any cumulative release notes?

Tiemo Hollmann wrote: > I have this "failed to load external" failure and am searching, what > might have changed between LC 6 and 7/8, because all settings are the > same between my versions, but with LC 7/8 I can't load my externals > anymore. > > I am sure there must have been changed somethin

Re: Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

Paul Dupuis wrote: An argument could be made that a before handler SHOULD NOT execute, but an after handler SHOULD since the message was sent directly to the object (i.e. skipping the normal path and hence the before handler. I believe an argument could be made in the other direction as well,

Re: Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

Yes, I think it should work. Is the error saying that the actual `on resizeControl` handler is not found? On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:27 PM Malte Pfaff-Brill wrote: > Hi all, > > before I file a bug on this, I would like to enquire about your opinion. > > If in a behavior you have > > before resiz

Just for the anecdote

Hello list We were competing for an app for iOS & Android (with quite a lot of client/server communication, photo uploads, QR code reading, etc), and today we learned that we lost the competition and that the client finally choosed another agency, mainly because they use React framework/library, wh

Re: Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

Malte Brill wrote > Hi all, > > before I file a bug on this, I would like to enquire about your opinion. > > If in a behavior you have > > before resizeControl > — do some stuff > end resizeControl > > should this trigger if you send resizeControl to the control from > somewhere else? > > If

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

NB the behavior entry in the dictionary has been rewritten and will be correct in the next release of 8.0. You can check out the raw text of it here if you want: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/develop/docs/dictionary/property/behavior.lcdoc On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 2:53 PM Richard Gaskin

Re: Just for the anecdote

jbv wrote: > We were competing for an app for iOS & Android (with quite a lot of > client/server communication, photo uploads, QR code reading, etc), > and today we learned that we lost the competition and that the client > finally choosed another agency, mainly because they use React > framework

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

Hi Jim. Nice script! I am exploring a project that would have a similar need to embed images in fields, so I have a couple of questions for you... 1) What method are you using to embed those images in your field? 2) For smaller images, are you able to inset them within the text and have text

7.1.3 installer failure

When using 7.1.2, I am getting a prompt to upgrade to 7.1.3. Fine, do it, I say. The download completes, then I get error that the image failed to mount (this is OSX). When I click retry, apparently wrong image is mounted since I get an offer to install 7.1.2 not 7.1.3. If I say to proceed, 7.1

line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

I am having a problem when pasting text from pdf and .doc into fields. There are some properties that I can't find documented in livecode that survive the paste. Particularly, I'm seeing line number attributes and line spacing separate from textHeight survive. >From pdf, I seem to be able to cle

Re: line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

Hi Richard, It sounds like you want the pasted text to leave behind any source document-based properties and use those of the field you're pasting into. Right? During the paste, have you tried putting the clipboardData["text"] into a variable, then putting the variable into the field? (Or se

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Hi Bernd, Your script to restore the original alphadata is very useful. Many Thanks for sharing! :D Just noticed that you used: export snapshot instead of import snapshot Why? Is import snapshot buggy in some LiveCode versions? Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revol

LiveCode and Virtual Reality (VR)

Side by side video, 2 frames showing the same content in perfect sync with each other... Is it possible with LiveCode? Not only video, but having LC graphics and buttons duplicated without losing frames. Have any of you considered making apps for VR on a phone? ~Roger __

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Alejandro Tejada wrote > Just noticed that you used: export snapshot > instead of import snapshot > Why? Is import snapshot buggy in some > LiveCode versions? > Alejandro I guess it is a habit from times when the paintcompression default was "RLE" in the IDE and you can define the export format us

Preferences file

Having finally taken the plunge and upgraded to El Capitan, I'm having trouble locating the LC8 livecode7.rev preferences file. It's not where I expected it to be. Can someone clue me in as to where to find it? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: Preferences file

Isn't it in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/RunRev/ ? On 30 Mar 2016 19:26, "Mark Wieder" wrote: > Having finally taken the plunge and upgraded to El Capitan, I'm having > trouble locating the LC8 livecode7.rev preferences file. It's not where I > expected it to be. Can someone clue me in as

Re: Preferences file

Seems to be here: /Users/colin/Library/Preferences/RunRev/livecode7.rev or maybe: /Users/mark/Library/Preferences/RunRev/livecode7.rev in your case. Bit of OS X trivia: if you select the above text and right-click on it, you can choose Reveal in Finder from the Services menu. > On Mar 30, 2

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

I’m wondering, does a script only behavior stack have to be loaded first with “Start Using stack xyz” or once the behavior is set, LC automatically loads and connects it to the control. What I’m thinking is that if a lot of behaviors are used, and the appear in the project browser as stacks, the

How to make a group scroll withut a visible scrollbar/by using one finger touch/scroll wheel on a mouse

I have noticed that it is possible to hav a datagrid objekt scroll without a visible scrollbar, if the "scroll when vscrollbar is hidden” is set to true. when doing so, it is possible to use one finger/scroll wheel to scroll up and down in a datagrid, just as you can when the mouse hovers over a

Re: line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Phil Davis wrote: > > It sounds like you want the pasted text to leave behind any source > document-based properties and use those of the field you're pasting into. > Right? > Not quite. I want to keep font, italic, bold,size, and the like, which I'm able to pr

negating in a regexp

I'm trying to filter a string to change everything but digits to spaces. It would seem that replaceText("ab26 g9", "^\d",space) should produce " 26 9", but for the live of me, I can't get ^ to work in any context. I've even tried playing with the regex builder plugin, with no success. Am

Re: negating in a regexp

Dr. Hawkins wrote > I'm trying to filter a string to change everything but digits to spaces. > It would seem that > replaceText("ab26 > > g9", "^\d",space) > should produce " 26 9", but for the live of me, I can't get ^ to work > in > any context. Use "[^0-9]" instead of "^\d". -- View thi

Re: line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

You could see if the unwanted style info appears in the htmlText ot the styledText, and delete it from there I suppose. Sounds messy. Phil On 3/30/16 12:06 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Phil Davis wrote: It sounds like you want the pasted text to leave behind an

Re: negating in a regexp

Try [^\d] ^ outside [] means start of line. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:15 PM Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I'm trying to filter a string to change everything but digits to spaces. > > It would seem that > > > replaceText("ab26 g9", "^\d",space) > > > should produce " 26 9", but for the live of me, I

Re: negating in a regexp

*put* replaceText(fld 1, "[^0-9]+", space) into fld 2 On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I'm trying to filter a string to change everything but digits to spaces. > > It would seem that > > > replaceText("ab26 g9", "^\d",space) > > > should produce " 26 9", but for the liv

Re: Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

Hi Ali, > Yes, I think it should work. Is the error saying that the actual `on > resizeControl` handler is not found? that indeed was the case. But only in the standalone (using the 7.1.3 engine) @all: thanks for your replies. I am puzzled by Bernds observations though. Need to test with 8 DP16

Re: negating in a regexp

Wasn't sure about the need for "+". The dictionary entry for replaceText says it replaces all instances of strings that match the regex. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:33 PM Roger Eller wrote: > *put* replaceText(fld 1, "[^0-9]+", space) into fld 2 > > > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawki

Re: line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

If you go the html parsing route, this blog article may prove useful: http://www.websighthangouts.com/how-to-paste-from-microsoft-word/ I found pasted text from Word carried the invisible characters linefeed (numToChar 33) and null (numToChar 0). Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: h

Re: line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

On 3/30/2016 2:06 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: Is there some way to find/parse what style info has been set on the field? Or documentation or a list of what these properties can be? The styledText property, maybe? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

@ Richard: doc on Git still leaves this use of stacks as behaviors quite opaque for someone coming to it with no background. I suspect we only need about 5 more key sentences to get us to "aha! so that's how it works!" Ditto Bill's question. I tested this: 1) create script only stack with th

Re: LiveCode and Virtual Reality (VR)

Hi Roger, I do not think the processing power is sufficient for this to be done using LC on an iPhone at this time. If someone wants to prove this informaton is incorrect for some reason, I'd gladly be all eyes and ears! Thanks, Rick > On Mar 30, 2016, at 2:14 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > > Sid

Re: How to make a group scroll withut a visible scrollbar/by using one finger touch/scroll wheel on a mouse

Tore Nilsen wrote > I have noticed that it is possible to hav a datagrid objekt scroll without > a visible scrollbar, if the "scroll when vscrollbar is hidden” is set to > true. when doing so, it is possible to use one finger/scroll wheel to > scroll up and down in a datagrid, just as you can when

Re: negating in a regexp

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > ^ outside [] means start of line. [insert head-banging here . . .] Argh. Thank you. That's exactly what I need. "[^0-9\ ]" is exactly what I'm trying to do. Thank you all so much. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 __

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Hi Bernd, BNig wrote > I guess it is a habit from times when the paintcompression default was > "RLE" in the IDE and you can define the export format using export... e.g. > as "png". > > And somehow I like to export to a container. I feel I have more control > over where the image goes instead o

Re: How to make a group scroll withut a visible scrollbar/by using one finger touch/scroll wheel on a mouse

Thank you, it worked just the way I wanted it to work. Tore > 30. mar. 2016 kl. 21.42 skrev BNig : > > Tore Nilsen wrote >> I have noticed that it is possible to hav a datagrid objekt scroll without >> a visible scrollbar, if the "scroll when vscrollbar is hidden” is set to >> true. when doing so

Re: negating in a regexp

"[^0-9]" instead of "[^0-9\ ]" is what works for me. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > "[^0-9\ ]" is exactly what I'm trying to do. > > Thank you all so much. > > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > > ___ use

Re: negating in a regexp

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > "[^0-9]" instead of "[^0-9\ ]" is what works for me. When we get down it, I want spaces, too. Then again, I guess the result is identical whether or not the space is included; there is no need to change a space to a space . . . -- Dr. Ri

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Alejandro Tejada wrote > Hi Bernd, > Did you have a reliable recipe to export (or import) > a snapshot of an image with a blend mode > (or ink effect) applied? > > Try this: > > 1) Import two images: > > a) transparent black and white png (ubuntu logo) > http://design.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploa

Re: LiveCode and Virtual Reality (VR)

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3d+sbs+videos+for+3d+glasses+ There are already quite a few pre-rendered videos for viewing in a VR headset, but if LC can play the same video (not pre-rendered SBS) in two players side-by-side, that would be pretty awesome. On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 4

Re: Preferences file

On 03/30/2016 11:37 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: Isn't it in /Users/username/Library/Preferences/RunRev/ ? Interesting. That's where I was looking, and it wasn't there earlier. Now it is. Thanks. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-live

Re: Preferences file

On 03/30/2016 11:41 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: /Users/mark/Library/Preferences/RunRev/livecode7.rev Thanks. Don't know why it wasn't there earlier today. Took the cats to the vet, came back, and there it was. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

On 03/30/2016 01:07 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I tested this: 1) create script only stack with this script (this works if run from a button on the card and a direct reference to the field name) command centerTextVertically put the formattedheight of me into tTotalTextHeight

RE: Script Only Stack Architecture

Monte: Thanks for the thoughtful response. For now, even the basics would help... in the dictionary... I had to test this morning to learn things that could all be placed on a single page of documentation 1) create a script only stack. Save to disk and leave open call it "behavior-field-text.

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

Thank Mark... I had a chat with jacqueline... yes need to understand how these behaviors are triggered. meanwhile, in lc8 dp 15 I can't get a scriptonly stack behavior to work at all. Still missing something mission critical here... see other threadon "script only stack architecture" On March

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

"start using" puts all handlers in the stack into the message path as front scripts which is why all your mouseUp messages are being caught. If your script-only stack is a separate main stack from your application's main stack, just open the script-only stack in the preOpenxxx handler of your app'

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On 03/30/2016 03:53 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: 1) create a script only stack. Save to disk and leave open call it "behavior-field-text.livecodescript) 2) create field; set behavior, aha! my new script only stack is available. 3) assign the stack to the field ... 4) lock field, click

Re: Help with legacy on-rev site tripped up on new LiveCode hosting service

Hi Martin, it sounds like you've got your problems all fixed, but I thought I should mention that there was a subtle change in 'global' behaviour at some point in LC server evolution. It affected me when one of the upgrades changed things so I was using a later version (maybe 3.5 up to 6.x ??

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

I recently wrote: NOTE: a long-standing source of confusion and frustration with behaviors is that the object holding the behavior script must be in memory when any stack containing objects subscribed to it is loaded. When behaviors are in the same stack file the engine figures it out on its own

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Hi Bernd, BNig wrote > for inks you have to make a screenshot from the system-view > > -- > on mouseUp >put the rect of image "sourceImg" into tSourceRect >put item 1 to 2 of tSourceRect into tTopLeft >put item 3 to 4 of tSourceRect into tBotRight >put

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

Tom asked > Nice script! The script was present when I previewed the post. Had it between tags. > > 1) What method are you using to embed those images in your field? The text being displayed was xhtml stripped of everything that wasn't needed as it was being displayed in a field using the h

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Richard if you are updating the dict entry on this: we need to be even more clear: e.g. if your intent is for the child control(s) to respond to "on mouseup" this will not work if you do "start using" for your script-only stack." When you use "start using" the entire main stack file becomes, i

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Richard if you are updating the dict entry on this: we need to be > even more clear: > > e.g. if your intent is for the child control(s) to respond to "on > mouseup" this will not work if you do "start using" for your > script-only stack." When you use "start

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

By the way, while looking for a script to convert a color in a mask, (for example: convert bright green color of an image to alphadata) I just found that Bernd already answer this Design Challenge, back in 2011: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=6525 >From this 5 years old thread,

RE: Script Only Stack Architecture

@ Richard: I looked at the bug 8993 . The problem is... what does "loaded" actually mean? After two days of research, study and testing and responses here... I *still* could not figure it out (until now thanks to your tip on stack files) Indeed a serious confusion/conundrum for a new comer.

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

I just tried reproducing your actions and now I'm confused. All I did was make a new stack, drag a field onto it, then put: on mouseUp put "hello" & cr after me end mouseUp When I left-click, nothing happens, even though I can double click to select words and I can left-click-drag to highlight wo

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Also note that it if you use "open" to open your script only stack > file... it is still not in the message path It doesn't need to be in the message path. It just needs to be in memory. My earlier posts offered three different ways to load a stack into me

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

For script-only stack.. what are the other two methods besides adding them as stack files? On March 30, 2016 at 4:59:45 PM, Richard Gaskin (ambassa...@fourthworld.com) wrote: Any of the three methods I mentioned earlier will work. ___

Re: Preferences file

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 5:43 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Don't know why it wasn't there earlier today. > Took the cats to the vet, came back, and there it was. > Mountain Lion was the last cat friendly OS X. ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: For script-only stack.. what are the other two methods besides adding them as stack files? AFAIK there's nothing about loading stacks that's specific to script-only stacks. Stacks are stacks, binary or script-only we work with them the same. The difference

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On 3/30/2016 9:57 PM, Matt Maier wrote: I just tried reproducing your actions and now I'm confused. All I did was make a new stack, drag a field onto it, then put: on mouseUp put "hello" & cr after me end mouseUp When I left-click, nothing happens, even though I can double click to select words

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On 3/31/2016 12:44 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If a field is editable, a right-click generates editing messages Typo. Should say "left click". Oops. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On March 30, 2016 at 6:17:20 PM, Richard Gaskin (ambassa...@fourthworld.com) wrote: Here's my post noting the other two ways (in addition to using the stackFiles property) of loading stacks into memory: