Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 13/04/2016 05:40, Mark Wieder wrote: The good news: I no longer am seeing a CEF segfault after closing the dictionary and IDE. My guess is that we are no longer using the CEF browser for the dictionary. We are, in fact, still using the CEF-based browser widget for the dictionary.

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/13/2016 12:51 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13 Apr 2016, at 3:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That must be a bug with the dictionary as is rendering fine on the clipboardData. Can you report that? It's a markdown issue I was thinking Mark Smith might want to tackle, since it's part of th

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 13 Apr 2016, at 3:47 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> That must be a bug with the dictionary as is rendering >> fine on the clipboardData. Can you report that? > > It's a markdown issue I was thinking Mark Smith might want to tackle, since > it's part of the community docs we're trying to

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/13/2016 12:06 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13 Apr 2016, at 2:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: BTW, I've found omitted words in the rawClipboardData summary if you want to tackle that one. The summary reads provides low-level access to the contents of the . That must be a bug with the dict

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 13 Apr 2016, at 2:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > BTW, I've found omitted words in the rawClipboardData summary if you want to > tackle that one. The summary reads > > provides low-level access to the contents of the . That must be a bug with the dictionary as is rendering fine on the

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 13 Apr 2016, at 2:50 PM, RM wrote: > > I'm not putting them anywhere as I just keep them in my latest stacks folder > and get at them from there, rather than treating them as plugins. Ah, well maybe try renaming your prefs file and send it in if that resolves it ___

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread Paul Hibbert
> On Apr 12, 2016, at 9:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > In addition, if you have Toolbar text enabled and Toolbar icons disabled, the > "Dictionary" text becomes overwritten with after clicking it. That’s the icons showing through, there’s a bug report for it already. http://quality.livecode.c

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread RM
This is identical to my experience with RC1 on Xubuntu 15.10 64 bit. Richmond. On 13.04.2016 00:23, G.W.Gaich wrote: These are my first experiences with LC 8 and Linux: LiveCode 8.0 (rc1) Linux community 64 bit Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64 bit Try to open the Dictionary. First click on the

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread RM
I'm not putting them anywhere as I just keep them in my latest stacks folder and get at them from there, rather than treating them as plugins. Richmond. On 12.04.2016 23:48, Monte Goulding wrote: On 13 Apr 2016, at 4:12 AM, RM wrote: Well; to start with I don't have a "~/my_livecode/Plugins/

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/2016 6:55 PM, Mark Smith wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote >textShift is not tagged as "text processing" BTW, are tags something new in the LC 8 dictionary? I can't see any in the LC 7 version (or don't know how to make them appear). Yes. It's the pseudo-word-cloud at the left of the wi

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder
On 04/12/2016 02:36 PM, panagiotis merakos wrote: PS: Mark Wieder uses a Mint Cinnamon 64 bit, so Mark, if you watch this thread, please add your input :) On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 12:23 AM, G.W.Gaich wrote: These are my first experiences with LC 8 and Linux: LiveCode 8.0 (rc1) Linux communit

Re: Plugins vs. the Mac app bundle

2016-04-12 Thread Paul Hibbert
Thank you for your reply Richard, I’ll try some answers… > Well, if you want to truly own your computer there's always Ubuntu, or any > other Linux. :) > > Apple and Microsoft are proprietary systems. They each make a fine OS, but > to use it you play by their rules. In terms of the UX, it's m

Re: Does autoupdater work in Linux?

2016-04-12 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 04/12/2016 08:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 04/12/2016 05:26 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Running Ubuntu 14.04 - Livecode 8.0.0-DP-16. I clicked on help-->check for updates but nothing downloaded. If I look in /.runrev/updates/livecode I see that a update_uuid.txt was generated and was timestamped a

Re: Does autoupdater work in Linux?

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder
On 04/12/2016 05:26 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Running Ubuntu 14.04 - Livecode 8.0.0-DP-16. I clicked on help-->check for updates but nothing downloaded. If I look in /.runrev/updates/livecode I see that a update_uuid.txt was generated and was timestamped about the time I tried to update but nothing

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
My application is basically a specialized classroom presentation tool much like basic Apple Keynote or Powerpoint (text and images) with buttons that do things like play edited audio and video. So in many ways I’m reproducing the LC IDE in a runtime, but simplified for the user. So I’m investig

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread Tim Selander
Aha! That makes sense. The IDE is un-doing the command... OK, not a bug -- just a quirk. ;-) Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan On 16/04/13 1:13, J. Landman Gay wrote: On April 12, 2016 8:27:15 AM Tim Selander wrote: However, after reading some of the various other comments, including Jacqueline's h

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Smith
J. Landman Gay wrote >textShift is not tagged as "text processing" BTW, are tags something new in the LC 8 dictionary? I can't see any in the LC 7 version (or don't know how to make them appear). Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Voluntee

Does autoupdater work in Linux?

2016-04-12 Thread Jim Byrnes
Running Ubuntu 14.04 - Livecode 8.0.0-DP-16. I clicked on help-->check for updates but nothing downloaded. If I look in /.runrev/updates/livecode I see that a update_uuid.txt was generated and was timestamped about the time I tried to update but nothing was updated. Regards, Jim __

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Smith
J. Landman Gay wrote > Like Devin said, almost everything I look at needs at least a minor > tweak. I was just reading the encrypt entry. It's missing examples, but > I don't know enough about encryption to add meaningful ones. If you do, > that'd be great. > > Another thing to do would be to g

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread G.W.Gaich
Hi Panos, you can download the VM at https://cloud.gaich.de:4/owncloud/index.php/s/CVQBX4MclZCRUfZ It's compressed with 7Zip, the user in Linux Mint is test and the password is testtest Am 13.04.2016 um 00:31 schrieb G.W.Gaich: Hi Panos, thank you for your reply. I will file a bug repor

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread G.W.Gaich
Hi Panos, thank you for your reply. I will file a bug report tomorrow. Just installed a fresh VM Linux Mint 17.3 (VirtualBox). Did only install LC 8 (rc1) and have a similar behavior. The dictionary window is an empty rectangle without tabs. Same message box when I try to exit LiveCode. Have

Re: Plugins vs. the Mac app bundle

2016-04-12 Thread Scott Rossi
At least one reason: one of the more significantly needed user-modifications is the ability to disable UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend in the iOS pList settings. Is this now an option in v8? I don't see it in dp16 but maybe I'm missing it. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread panagiotis merakos
Hi Günter, We have a Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64 bit VM in the office, which was used to test the Dictionary functionality before releasing LiveCode 8 RC-1. I did not experience any of these problems. I suggest you file a bug report (http://quality.livecode.com/) so as we investigate this further

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1 (Linux)

2016-04-12 Thread G.W.Gaich
These are my first experiences with LC 8 and Linux: LiveCode 8.0 (rc1) Linux community 64 bit Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon 64 bit Try to open the Dictionary. First click on the dictionary icon: Nothing happens Second click: A window opens with 2 tabs (API and Guide) but the window is empty.

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 13 Apr 2016, at 4:12 AM, RM wrote: > > Well; to start with I don't have a "~/my_livecode/Plugins/" directory, as I > have stated several times before. You are regularly posting images of plugins you make to change the colors of bits of the IDE. Where are you putting those? Cheers Monte

AW: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Paul Dupuis
Thank you everyone for the very helpful responses. Perhaps I just hadn't had enough caffeine, but for whatever reason, I just never considered trying mouseLeave. Also, I must have had something wrong with my default case in my menuPick switch statement becuase it did not seem to fire when I was tr

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread -hh
RM is right, the user extensions directory is on linux not created by default. *But* this path is registered by default in the prefs and LC tries to look into that directory. So it could be, that missing this directory produces irritations. RM, you could try to create that path in your home directo

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Tore Nilsen
If you click on a dividerLine in a popUp menu, the menuPick message fire, but with pItemName being empty. You can see this happen if you try: on menuPick pItemName answer pItemName end menuPick This will give you an empty dialog. At least this is what happens in LC 7.1.1 Tore > 12. apr. 2016

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Mike Bonner
I thought it was the same as your approach.. We both recommended using mouserelease, though reading the dictionary, I wonder if there will be issues with this method at some point. It seems to be an unintentional feature. (Which is better than a random feature, for obvious reasons) On Tue, Apr 12,

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/2016 1:48 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: You can use the "mouserelease" message for this. This script in the popup works in both 7 and 8.Didn't check earlier versions. on menuPick pItemName put pItemName -- displays what was chosen end menuPick on mouserelease put "Nothing chosen" -- i

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/2016 1:12 PM, RM wrote: Well; to start with I don't have a "~/my_livecode/Plugins/" directory, as I have stated several times before. It could be somewhere else on your drive. Look in the LC preferences in the "Files & Memory" pane, and see where LC thinks your user extentions are.

Re: pay your money... take your chance!

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-04-12 21:21, John Dixon wrote: Any ideas... everything was fine until I downloaded LC 8.0.0 (RC1) http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=27024 Another thing to attach to a bug report is the result of doing: put the revLicenseInfo From the message box. This shows what details

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
The menupick message doesn't fire at all when no selection is made from a popup button, but you do get a mouseLeave message. It might be possible to track a local script variable to catch when that happens. This may need some tweaking: local sMenuItem on menuPick pItemName put pItemName int

Re: pay your money... take your chance!

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi John, On 2016-04-12 21:21, John Dixon wrote: Any ideas... everything was fine until I downloaded LC 8.0.0 (RC1) http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=27024 Hmmm - that is odd. It could be there is something up with your license details on the activation server. The first thing

Re: LC 8.0 (rc 1) - Again script edtior window disappearing off-screen

2016-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roland Huettmann wrote: What to do? - New bug report? - Re-open existing bug report? If the recipe is the same and the outcome is the same please re-open the bug report. Regressions happen, but I'm sure the team will sort this for RC2. Thanks for testing. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth Wo

pay your money... take your chance!

2016-04-12 Thread John Dixon
Any ideas... everything was fine until I downloaded LC 8.0.0 (RC1) http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=27024 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/12/2016 5:19 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: The viewer stack was something I quickly knocked up so that there was *some* way of viewing the document in context - the links indeed don't work as it doesn't rebuild the whole dictionary. I'm sorry about that- I can probably make it work properly at some

LC 8.0 (rc 1) - Again script edtior window disappearing off-screen

2016-04-12 Thread Roland Huettmann
Testing on Windows 10, 64 bit. LC 8.0 (rc 1) Bug 16749 (Current status: fixed) There are several bug reports (duplicates) about this issue, but they are marked as resolved or fixed. But so far, and through all the version until now, the script editor window simply is not available in MY WIndows 10

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Tore Nilsen
I did not think of the mouseRelease handler, but it is much simpler and better than my solution. You would still ned the if-statement in the menuPick handler to get any clicks on the divider lines, as they will count as a menuPick with the pItemName being empty. Tore > 12. apr. 2016 kl. 20.48 s

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread RM
In the light of my recent experience with Livecode 8 RC1 I find something a bit worrying. Presumably what happened means that anyone who wishes to use Livecode 8 on Linux is either: 1. Going to have to set up a plain, vanilla user account specifically for Livecode. 1.1. This is going to be

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1

2016-04-12 Thread Roger Eller
Sending bug reports 'again' for Windows and Android issues which still persist. I'm sure it's fine for iOS and Mac though. On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > Dear list members, > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0 RC 1. > > Getting the Release > ==

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Mike Bonner
You can use the "mouserelease" message for this. This script in the popup works in both 7 and 8.Didn't check earlier versions. on menuPick pItemName put pItemName -- displays what was chosen end menuPick on mouserelease put "Nothing chosen" -- if nothing was chosen end mouserelease On Tu

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread RM
I have set up a new user account; tried all the aspects of the RC1 build I commented on and filed them in the correct places, with, needless to say, an acidulated comment. Love, Richmond. On 12.04.2016 20:56, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 12/04/2016 18:49, RM wrote: This looks exciting. On 12.0

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Tore Nilsen
In order to catch the user escaping the button without making any choices this works: local lLabel on mouseDown put the label of me into lLabel end mouseDown on mouseLeave if lLabel is not empty then if label of me = lLabel then answer "You did not select anything" p

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-04-12 15:25, Tim Selander wrote: Hi again, Basically, my problem is solved with Peter's work-around. However, after reading some of the various other comments, including Jacqueline's here, it strikes me that this has to be considered some kind of bug, doesn't it? Maybe :) It is always

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi Peter, On 2016-04-12 08:12, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: Hi all, I have a script in a button: on mouseDoubleDown choose pointer tool select me end mouseDoubleDown ... Is there another way? Without knowing precisely what effect you are trying to achieve, this suggestion migh

Re: Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread RM
On 12.04.2016 20:56, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 12/04/2016 18:49, RM wrote: This looks exciting. On 12.04.2016 20:07, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0 RC 1. Xubuntu 15.10 64 bit. 1. Documentation is STILL a "dead duck": Bu

Unreproducible Linux weirdness [was: Release 8.0.0 RC 1]

2016-04-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 12/04/2016 18:49, RM wrote: This looks exciting. On 12.04.2016 20:07, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0 RC 1. Xubuntu 15.10 64 bit. 1. Documentation is STILL a "dead duck": Bug 16848 2. Livecode UI elements not appearing

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1

2016-04-12 Thread RM
This looks exciting. On 12.04.2016 20:07, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0 RC 1. Xubuntu 15.10 64 bit. 1. Documentation is STILL a "dead duck": Bug 16848 2. Livecode UI elements not appearing in the Application browser: Bug 1

Re: Kinky text

2016-04-12 Thread RM
I don't suppose anyone knows if there is a unicode character for "backspace without deletion"? Richmond. On 11.04.2016 20:06, RM wrote: I would like the ability to both superscript and subscript text without resizing the individual glyphs, and the ability to set individual character sizes. h

[ANN] Release 8.0.0 RC 1

2016-04-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0 RC 1. Getting the Release === You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via the automatic updater. Release Contents LiveCode 8 has a host of exciting new f

Re: Plugins vs. the Mac app bundle

2016-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
On 12/04/2016 17:08, Paul Hibbert wrote: > Peter, > > Does this affect solutions such as the one posted here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17292 - Comment 6? > > I’m curious because I usually modify the revMenuBar stack to add > in my own preferred shortcuts, there are also people

Re: Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Tore Nilsen
When you do not select an item in the menu, pItemName is empty. If you set up a condition where the switch statement kicks in if pItemName is not empty, then you will get the result you wanted, also if the user leaves the menu without making any choice. Here is a script that demonstartes this:

Any message sent to popup menu (btn) when nothing is selected?

2016-04-12 Thread Paul Dupuis
I have a user interface problem. A popup menu (a button) is presented. The button has a number of menu items, some dividers between items, etc. It has a menuPick handler that covers all the items in the menu explicitly and a default handler at the end (just for good measure). I want to take some a

Re: Plugins vs. the Mac app bundle

2016-04-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 12/04/2016 17:08, Paul Hibbert wrote: Peter, Does this affect solutions such as the one posted here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17292 - Comment 6? I’m curious because I usually modify the revMenuBar stack to add in my own preferred shortcuts, there are also people like Ric

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 12, 2016 8:27:15 AM Tim Selander wrote: However, after reading some of the various other comments, including Jacqueline's here, it strikes me that this has to be considered some kind of bug, doesn't it? A valid command (choose browse tool) in a valid handler (openstack) does not work!

Re: Plugins vs. the Mac app bundle

2016-04-12 Thread Paul Hibbert
Peter, Does this affect solutions such as the one posted here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17292 - Comment 6? I’m curious because I usually modify the revMenuBar stack to add in my own preferred shortcuts, there are also people like Richmond that like to change the tool bar ico

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread -hh
I have a similar solution that reduces the action *to the button only*. Works in both modes. = MouseEnter from above changes nothing (doesn't disturb) = MouseEnter the left half from below chooses pointer tool = MouseEnter the right half from below chooses browse tool The action for selecting the

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread -hh
For choosing a default tool I use to use Jacqueline's and other's delayed version. on preopenstack -- whatever here send "choose browse tool" to me in 1 tick -- default end preopenstack -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Default-tool-on-open-sta

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: > On Apr 12, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> A potentially better solution (which insulates them entirely from >> changing tools!) would be to either send your tools to your >> colleagues as plugins (which they put in the My LiveCode/Plugins >> folder), or se

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread Tim Selander
Hi again, Basically, my problem is solved with Peter's work-around. However, after reading some of the various other comments, including Jacqueline's here, it strikes me that this has to be considered some kind of bug, doesn't it? A valid command (choose browse tool) in a valid handler (ope

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread dunbarx
Hi. This works with the edit tool: on mouseMove if the mouse is down and the target contains "card" then choose browse tool end mouseMove Craig Newman -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Choose-Browse-Tool-with-click-tp4703338p4703353.html Sent

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Apr 12, 2016, at 8:02 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2016-04-12 07:07, Tim Selander wrote: >> Hi! >> That worked! Many thanks, Peter. >> Though I agree with Roger, the default tool should be a preference somewhere. >> I'm making little utilities to use at work, and the staff that use >> them a

Re: Default tool on open stack

2016-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-04-12 07:07, Tim Selander wrote: Hi! That worked! Many thanks, Peter. Though I agree with Roger, the default tool should be a preference somewhere. I'm making little utilities to use at work, and the staff that use them are always befuddled when they try to click a field to enter tex

Re: Problems building standalones

2016-04-12 Thread Dave Kilroy
For those who are still experiencing problems building for iOS (Mach-O bug), Panos has posted a work-around here http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17292 - "The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time." Peter M. Brigham -- View

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

2016-04-12 Thread Ali Lloyd
On Mon, Apr 11, 2016 at 9:55 PM J. Landman Gay wrote: > BTW, I downloaded the elusive viewer stack but it's leaving out most of > the keywords when it opens the text in a browser. I can't tell if it's a > bug in the text itself or in the viewer. Anyone know? > I've updated a couple of text files

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread Scott Rossi
I realize I should have included the object selection in the mouseDoubleDown handler: on mouseDoubleDown choose pointer tool select the mouseControl end mouseDoubleDown Also, if controls will have code that can be activated, you may want to use the these handlers in a front script to preem

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread Scott Rossi
If I understand what you're attempting, the following should get you going, as long as you select an object immediately upon mouseDoubleDown. Create a backScript with the following script: on mouseDoubleDown choose pointer tool end mouseDoubleDown on selectedObjectChanged if the mouseContr

Re: Choose Browse Tool with click

2016-04-12 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thanks, Scott that works…however... I’m experimenting with a tool interface for an application where the user works with buttons, fields, and draw objects (sort of like Apple Pages or Preview). I'm seeing if I can come up with a simple tool strategy that doesn’t require the user to keep track o

Plugins vs. the Mac app bundle

2016-04-12 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, There seems to some confusion about plugins/extensions and the OS X installation method for the LiveCode IDE. Some OS X APIs require the app bundle to be validly signed. Incorrect signatures have previously manifested themselves in horrible ways, including extreme delays when trying

Re: Standalone (and stack in IDE) getting larger on each launch

2016-04-12 Thread jameshale
hmm, worth a try. i applied the suggestion to the preopencard handler of the card I know will be first on view. setting a delay of up to 30 ticks made no difference. I will leave this for now. I think something else it happening (possibly due to some script that gets called) which is getting in the