Re: LC 8 DP 16 - Can't Edit Script of Behavior if it is Button?

Never mind... LC8 still has this problem it remembers the location of stack windows on Monitor 2 and if you quit and open LC on Monitor 1 without Monitor 2 attached... the windows are "stuck off in space" as is the script editor in this case... I'm trying to find out what the stack is called so

LC 8 DP 16 - Can't Edit Script of Behavior if it is Button?

I was looking to pull a bahavior in a button from one stack into a script-only stack in a new stack. in the "old stack" I clicked on the field that had the behavior button id 1161 of stack "oldStack" then hit "Edit Script" --> got nothing. had it been a script-only stack, the script editor wou

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

If you want to access the app building course you should click on your name in the upper right corner of the web page (when you are logged in). You will then find a link to the app building course in the menu to the left of the new page which contains various information about your lisences. To

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

Jim, you're my new hero. Everyone has all sorts of opinions about the web site, but you took the time to document your journey through the taxonomy, noting each specific step. Well done. It may seem like basic stuff and it is. But of course the site at passed review when it was posted, so i

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

James Hale wrote: > I fail to see the inclusion of examples of the syntax to a dictionary > entry as bloat. Excellent. That makes it unanimous, as I've not seen anyone else here argue against having syntax examples in the Dictionary either. In fact, I can't think of any Dictionary entry that

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Matt Maier wrote: You keep citing the theoretically limitless number of contingencies that, if addressed, could bloat the dictionary beyond readability. There's a simple solution to that problem: don't go looking for theoretical problems. Instead, just correct, massage, or add to the dictionary

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

I fail to see the inclusion of examples of the syntax to a dictionary entry as bloat. I may be one of only a few but I find many of the dictionary entries opaque to say the least. Ali's example of how one would employ a script only stack as a behavior is a case in point. It immediately makes emp

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

You keep citing the theoretically limitless number of contingencies that, if addressed, could bloat the dictionary beyond readability. There's a simple solution to that problem: don't go looking for theoretical problems. Instead, just correct, massage, or add to the dictionary entry when someone h

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Matt Maier wrote: > I just want to chime in to disagree with the idea that we should leave > useful information out of the Dictionary. When you put it like that it sounds silly indeed. Fortunately I wasn't advocating omitting useful information, just suggesting we may want to maintain an awar

Re: PDF text extraction?

Hi Richard, Could you use command line tools like pdftk or qpdf? Check this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15058207/pdftk-will-not-decompress-data-streams and this: https://books.google.com.do/books?id=ozWeSBkPQW4C&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq=uncompress+and+save+pdf+streams&source=bl&ots=9LyTX9e

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

Depending on what you want to do, I'd suggest clicking on the Resources menu item at the top of the home page. Or you can use this link: https://livecode.com/resources/ Hope this helps. Jim On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 9:24 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: > As a new user I sometimes find Livecode.com difficu

Difficulty using Livecode.com

As a new user I sometimes find Livecode.com difficult to use. Generally speaking I find some parts of it not very intuitive. Specifically I had this problem: [1] I go to Livecode.com and click on the Get Started button. [2] That takes me here: https://livecode.com/download/. Since I have alr

Re: [OT] World Backup Day

Good question... I have only backups of Documents, not System Images. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-World-Backup-Day-tp4702892p4702908.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

I just want to chime in to disagree with the idea that we should leave useful information out of the Dictionary. There's no such thing as a document that's too big when we have networks and search. Even if we're forced to browse and read we can just put the information in order of importance so th

PDF text extraction?

I may need to extract text from a fair number of PDFs (hundreds). I can find all sorts of third-party tools to do that, many of them free and easy to use, but I'd prefer to integrate this step into some other things I need to do with the files. The format isn't as simple as Word or docx, thou

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Thanks for the comments. Very interesting. And I guess the big advantage of behaviors over a library is the scope issue. I’ll put this info into my toolchest. Best, Bill > On Mar 31, 2016, at 3:33 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: > > Or more accurately > on preOpenStack > local tBehaviorLongID > put the

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Great! :D Now the big question :D Who volunteer to build (and maintain) a plug-in (palette or modeless stack) that explains and create the many ways of masking an image: 1) Group with an image and graphic (using inks effects) 2) Image and graphic or Image and Transparent Image (using snapshot

need your ios app approved in a hurry?

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Re: Using LC for Interactive Tutorial

This is Amazing! :D Just a few questions: Does this new feature offers a method to display custom stacks that execute messages and display animations? Could we use this new feature in our own stacks and applications? When are we going to see an interactive tutorial that explains how to create i

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Or more accurately on preOpenStack local tBehaviorLongID put the long id of stack "" into tBehaviorLongID set the behavior of field "FieldWithBehavior" of me to tBehaviorLongID end preOpenStack On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:31 PM Ali Lloyd wrote: > My solution to this: > > Stack "MyTestStack"

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

My solution to this: Stack "MyTestStack" has a field, which is assigned stack "MyBehaviorStack" as its behavior property. Stack "MyBehaviorStack" is a separate stack file. would be to also include the behavior *setting* in the preOpenStack handler of "MyTestStack". on preOpenStack set the beh

Re: Multiple Versions of LC on Mac

Thanks Jacque: I'm not using 6... but might want to send someone a stack done in 8 but they are only using 7 or not: the new jsonLib on board is a valuable addition and if we use it, then anyone touching the stack will need 8/16 (still very unstable, but fortunately doesn't break anything)

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Alejandro Tejada wrote > By the way, just to complete in this same thread all masking options > available, here is a recipe for using Scott Rossi's Hidden Point technique > to mask an image: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Hidden-point-technique-to-mask-an-image-td2270248.html > >

Re: Multiple Versions of LC on Mac

You can run multiple versions simultaneously -- I often run multiple versions side by side, and copy scripts/objects between versions. Settings can be an issue if you're going to have different locations for extensions, etc -- not sure if the LiveCode people made accommodations for that. But an ef

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Bill- So, the “myBehaviorLib” substack could be simply a script only stack that contains some reasonable number of separate behavior type scripts, and once the “start using” is invoked, say on a preopenStack script, all common code for button behaviors becomes a single code element. Inheritan

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

The difference between a library and a behavior is scope: the library is global, while the behavior only affects the objects to which it's assigned. The preloading thang with behaviors is somewhat specific, only coming into play when all three of the following are true: - The behavior scrip

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Richard: Ok, for the sake of argument (and my learning), compare that to: 1. Make new stack and call it “Alt Behavior Playground” 2. Make a new button and enter the script: on mouseDown put the long ID of the target into theTarg doABehavior theTarg end mouseDown 3. Make a substack and

Re: Multiple Versions of LC on Mac

On 3/31/2016 3:44 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: If we maintain all these in the applications folder (on mac) LiveCode Indy 7.5.app LiveCode Indy 8.0.0 (dp 16).app LiveCode Indy 8.0 (dp 15).app etc. and be sure to close anyone of them before using another... are we getting ourselves in

[OT] World Backup Day

Today is World Backup Day - do you have multiple redundant backups with a tested recovery plan? http://www.worldbackupday.com/en/ -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Multiple Versions of LC on Mac

The read me notes on LC 8 say "Each version of LiveCode installs to its own, separate folder, to allow multiple versions of LiveCode to be installed side-by-side." Just to confirm: If we maintain all these in the applications folder (on mac) LiveCode Indy 7.5.app LiveCode Indy 8.0.0 (dp 16).ap

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > I think the idea that you have to open an external behavior stack > *before* you open the main stack that has controls which point to > it as their parent, is totally unintuitive and when a newbie reads > "load, open, put into memory" etc... he/she will always

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On 3/31/2016 3:09 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I think the idea that you have to open an external behavior stack*before* you open the main stack that has controls which point to it as their parent, is totally unintuitive and when a newbie reads "load, open, put into memory" etc... he/sh

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

I don't think I'm super smart... or over thinking it I think the idea that you have to open an external behavior stack *before* you open the main stack that has controls which point to it as their parent, is totally unintuitive and when a newbie reads "load, open, put into memory" etc... he/she

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/31/2016 1:42 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: ergo: merely opening a script-only stack that is applied as a behavior to a control (not global in scope) does*not* place into the msg path. By the time a preOpenStack handler executes, the engine has already loade

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

William Prothero wrote: > Thanks, Richard: > My previous exposure to the behaviors methodology was in Adobe > Director. A behavior was assigned to a particular control, field, > button, whatever, and in its script, it defined a set of properties > that could be set custom for each instantiation.

LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

The stack should run on PC. Be sure the movie filename is correctly prepared as a relative path, not an absolute path. E.g.: set the filename of player 1 to “Images/MyMovie.mov” Also, be sure the movie is correctly placed hierarchically. If for instance the movie MyMovie is in a folder titled "

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > ergo: merely opening a script-only stack that is applied as a > behavior to a control (not global in scope) does *not* place > into the msg path. Respectfully, your recipe would be easier to follow without the steps unrelated to the actions we're exploring (m

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Thanks, Richard: My previous exposure to the behaviors methodology was in Adobe Director. A behavior was assigned to a particular control, field, button, whatever, and in its script, it defined a set of properties that could be set custom for each instantiation. That way, a “set” of graphics for

Re: Android Internet Library OpenSSL version problem

Hi Todd, We have updated the OpenSSL version to 1.0.1s, and the patch will be included in the next LiveCode release (6.7.11-rc-1 / 7.1.4-rc-1 . 8.0.0-dp-17). Best regards, Panos -- On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Todd Fabacher wrote: > Here is the email > > > Hello Google Play Developer, > >

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On 3/31/2016 1:42 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: ergo: merely opening a script-only stack that is applied as a behavior to a control (not global in scope) does*not* place into the msg path. By the time a preOpenStack handler executes, the engine has already loaded the stack into RAM an

Re: Android Internet Library OpenSSL version problem

Here is the email Hello Google Play Developer, Your app(s) listed at the end of this email utilize a version of OpenSSL that contains one or more security vulnerabilities. If you have more than 20 affected apps in your account, please check the Developer Console

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Hi Richmond, RM wrote > Am I being stupid? No, this same topic (masking images) have been discussed many times before. An this same topic will arise again in a near future. Do you know why? Because LC IDE does not have an integrated menu or an external palette or a stack plug-in to create mask

Android Internet Library OpenSSL version problem

I LiveCode going to upgrade the Internet Lib? Google sent out messages to everyone in the app store: *Please migrate your app(s) to OpenSSL 1.02f/1.01r or higher as soon as possible and increment the version number of the upgraded APK.* Our build manager say they will start rejecting Apps. Can we

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

  Jai Ganesha! I went to bed HST worried I was creating too much churn on this list and here you guys kept spinning a web of silk and gold ideas all night longAwesome... Now have to digest all this. BR: "opening the stack did not work" RG: What happened? Still failing today.. try this uni

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Thanks, Richard, that is a very, very nice intro to behaviors! On 31.03.2016 at 9:52 Uhr -0700 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: Behaviors are very powerful for all sorts of things, whether you work alone or in a team of twenty. The biggest benefit for teamwork comes from the very separate

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

*If* I remember, correctly, the default value of the global dontuseQT is false on Windows (and true on OSX>=10.8). However, note that QT is not officially supported on Windows 8.1 and 10. It is quite possible that it will "just work", but not guaranteed. From Apple's website (https://support.appl

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

Also remember to set the dontUseQT to false. The default has changed, and QT won't load now unless you tell it to do so. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On March 31, 2016 12:28:11 PM Mark Tallut

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Richard Gaskin wrote > In just 11 steps, each taking only a few seconds, you've just created a > rich hierarchy of custom messaging: > >"A" "B" "C" > \ | / > \ | / > MyClass > | > | > MySuperClass > > > If you wanted the drag b

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

> On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:40 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > If I install Quicktime (Version 7) on the PC, what do I have to do to > allow it to run the videos , or is it transparent, as with Mac OS ? > If (as I have read) QT doesn’t run well on a PC, if I convert all the > video files to .AVI

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

William Prothero wrote: > Reading this kinda makes my head spin. Now I’m thinking it is going > to be a heck of a lot more robust for my situation, as a single > developer, to not use behaviors at all, but to have a single > (possibly script only) substack that holds all of the handlers that I >

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On 2016-03-31 18:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: When we use array syntax on custom property sets we have effectively a sort of two-dimensional array. Would be nice to extend that deeper, but I'll take what I get. Well, that 'anomaly' is basically about the fact that custom property set syntax is '

LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’m confused - I want to create a PC version of a stack which plays videos (external) on demand. The files are either .mov or .mp4. The stack works perfectly on my Mac, but when I run it on a PC the video display will not work (no QT). So I have questions : If I insta

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Mark Waddingham wrote: > I still have a difficult time wrapping my head around the syntax for > multiple custom property sets - especially since the introduction of > nested arrays: > > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6912 > > ;) This reminds me of a hypothesis I have that perhaps you

Screen Resolution Dialog problem with Windows 10

An user reported seeing a screen resolution dialog in one of my programs that requests a screen resolution of 1024x768 be used. The problem is that the user reportedly is using a screen resolution of 1920x1080. She is using Windows 10. I am using LC 6.1.2 and use the following code in my ap

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Thierry: Thanks! As an afterthought, I should have added an “all of the above” choice because I visit each of those intellectual realms frequently. Best, Bill > On Mar 31, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Thierry Douez wrote: > >> Am I wrong. misguided, foolish, or brilliant? >> > > ​You are brilliant !!! >

Using LC for Interactive Tutorial

Dear List folk, Really cool blog post from Ali today: https://livecode.com/livecode-interactive-tutorials/ Find out how to write your own interactive tutorial using the building blocks Ali has provided. Warm Regards, Heather Heather Lai

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

> Am I wrong. misguided, foolish, or brilliant? > ​You are brilliant !!! Mmm, as long as you don't need behaviors :) Kind regards, Thierry ---​ Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com sunnYrex - sunnYtext2speech - sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Folks: Reading this kinda makes my head spin. Now I’m thinking it is going to be a heck of a lot more robust for my situation, as a single developer, to not use behaviors at all, but to have a single (possibly script only) substack that holds all of the handlers that I would normally use as beha

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

Thanks for elaborating on that, James. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/IMG-resize-advice-wanted-tp4702682p4702862.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-liveco

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

On 2016-03-31 17:04, Richard Gaskin wrote: Happy to help. Just paying it forward. You should have seen some of my posts on the MetaCard list circa '98. I was moving from SuperCard, where we only had a single custom property set, and was having a very difficult time wrapping my head around the

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > On March 30, 2016 at 6:17:20 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> in brief: >> 1. Open them > > # this did not work for me earlier today What exactly happened? It may be helpful while demystifying this to work with ordinary stack files for your behavior scripts.

AW: Are there any cumulative release notes?

Hi Richard, thanks for your helpful explanations and the links Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Richard Gaskin Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. März 2016 17:05 An: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: Are there an

Re: Using Behaviors for Triggering UI Design - Run Time

On Mar 30, 2016, at 9:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > In all cases, once set a behavior is resolved to a "rugged long ID", a long > ID where the stack portion is changed from the full file path as we normally > find it to just the stack name, allowing portability. > > For example: > > button

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Am I being stupid? https://www.dropbox.com/s/ce57yiy7xj4k9j0/Round%20Corners.livecode.zip?dl=0 http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26933 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscr

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

This works set the backgroundpattern of grc 1 to 1004 as for "imageSource" -> from the dictionary: "Specifies an image to be displayed in place of the specified character in a field." Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Design-C

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Why does THIS not work: set the imageSource of graphic "ggg" to 1003 ? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runr

Re: Design Challenge -- Round Corner mask on images

Alejandro Tejada wrote > 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=65

Which stack hosts the externals in runtime?

Hello, with: put the externalPackages of stack "home" you can check in the IDE, which externals are loaded. I thought in runtime the externals would be loaded into the mainstack, so that you could ask for: put the externalPackages of stack "" But in my case this shows me just 1 out of 4 exter

AW: LC 8.0 DP16 Failed to load external

SOLVED Though I can't reproduce the error anymore, I am almost sure it was an incompatible version of the revxml.dll or revzip.dll. I copied the latest version of these dlls from the LC 8 program dir into my test environment and now my LC 8.0 runtime starts without error. Thanks Tiemo -Urspr