Re: Defaults for groups

2016-05-13 Thread l...@pbh.on-rev.com
I thought you should be able to set the templateGroup properties, maybe using a plugin that opens on LC startup, so I tried a test stack and found that the templateGroup props don’t apply to a new group (at least not the margins and borderWidth), the dictionary suggests this should work, so I tr

Re: Defaults for groups

2016-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/2016 10:12 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Proposed: the default for a new group be "clean and unadorned"… without any GUI attributes other than the objects that comprise the group. You could do this pretty easily with a custom plugin that sets up the templateGroup when LC start

Re: Defaults for groups

2016-05-13 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On May 13, 2016, at 8:12 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > Am I the only one wishing that when we create a group the defaults should be > no border, no border width assign and margins 0? I’m with you on this. .Jerry ___ use-livecode ma

Defaults for groups

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Am I the only one wishing that when we create a group the defaults should be no border, no border width assign and margins 0? This keeps biting me as the dimensions of group and what appears on screen don't match and movement of objects in the group displace the group in ways that are off by a

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread José Antonio Rocha
2016-05-13 14:43 GMT-03:00 RM : > I am looking forwards to some sort of in-built Dictionary in the Linux > 64-bit build ​The 32-bits LC on 64-bits Linux call the default browser, instead stuck like 64-bits LC. With Chromium, the dictionary load fast and perfect.​ With Firefox, load erraticaly.

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread mwieder
Quoting "J. Landman Gay" : On 5/13/2016 2:27 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Sometimes i find myself opening LC6 or 7 just to use the dictionary of that version. I do the same. Same here. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode maili

Re: Sound and video on Windows - help needed urgently

2016-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
I have had good luck using a player with dontUseQT set to true as long as the audio is created with a codec that Windows supports. I haven't had to use video, but since you mention invisible players, I assume audio is the target. We tested m4a on a Windows 10 machine and it worked, but previou

Re: SVG Widgets Work Well -- User Contributions - Screen Casts

2016-05-13 Thread pink
I put together a small stack that extracts the path information from an SVG file and applies it to an SVG icon. Doesn't matter how many paths, it will combine them all, don't need to use Illustrator first. http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=27202

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Tore Nilsen
I thought they both got it from Agnes Tore > 14. mai 2016 kl. 01.06 skrev Bob Sneidar : > > >> On May 13, 2016, at 16:05 , Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >> Well you know, there are lies... and then there are damnable lies... and >> then there are detestably damnable lies... >> >> And then there ar

Re: Bug Report

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
17643. Bob S On May 13, 2016, at 15:56 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami mailto:bra...@hindu.org>> wrote: ...,laptop with dual monitors that has to get up and take their laptop elsewhere from time to time, upvote the bug Yes Bug #? ___ use-livecode mai

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry for the quoting mess. Apple Mail it seems cannot discern the quote level when I type AFTER the quoted text. Bob S > On May 13, 2016, at 16:11 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > On May 13, 2016, at 14:17 , J. Landman Gay > mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote: > > On 5/13/2016 2:02 PM, Pa

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
On May 13, 2016, at 14:17 , J. Landman Gay mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote: On 5/13/2016 2:02 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: My first gut reaction was "So, I and the other 24% minority of people paying for licenses are funding an awesome development tool that some 76% of you folks out there are

Re: Inter-app URIs

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Can we link via some uri >From card 10 of app/ stack A To card 5 of stack/app B ? BR ( from my mobile ) On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 4:04 PM -0700, "Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami" mailto:bra...@hindu.org>> wrote: Can someone point me to the dictionary entry on inter app URIs Is there a way to j

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
> On May 13, 2016, at 16:05 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Well you know, there are lies... and then there are damnable lies... and then > there are detestably damnable lies... > > And then there are statistics! > > (roughly a quote of Mark Twain) > Who I just discovered got it from British Prime

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well you know, there are lies... and then there are damnable lies... and then there are detestably damnable lies... And then there are statistics! (roughly a quote of Mark Twain) Bob S On May 13, 2016, at 12:58 , Peter M. Brigham mailto:pmb...@gmail.com>> wrote: On May 13, 2016, at 3:02 PM,

Inter-app URIs

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Can someone point me to the dictionary entry on inter app URIs Is there a way to just say from card 10 in stack/app A to card Swasti Astu! Be Well ( from my mobile ) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Bug Report

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
...,laptop with dual monitors that has to get up and take their laptop elsewhere from time to time, upvote the bug Yes Bug #? Related: stacks on the secondary moniter do not even get mouse msgs R U seeing that too? BR ( from my mobile ) On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 3:37 PM -0700, "Bob Sneidar"

Re: Positive Infinity forever

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well then it's not infinite is it? So everything else falls flat after that. :-) Bob S On May 13, 2016, at 11:30 , Dr. Hawkins mailto:doch...@gmail.com>> wrote: Let N be a finite positive number, may be real. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: Group not appearing in Project Browser

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
So after reopening the project browser I found my missing group inside another group that I had just cloned, in order to GET the missing group. That itself may be another bug. Cloning a group by option-dragging another group should not put the copy INSIDE the source. I'll try to reproduce it.

Re: Bug Report

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
> On May 13, 2016, at 15:39 , Bob Sneidar wrote: > > >> On May 13, 2016, at 15:36 , Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >> Hi all. >> >> Just submitted a bug report involving windows becoming unresponsive when a >> dual monitor is unplugged and the windows rearrange on the main monitor. > > BTW if the

Re: Bug Report

2016-05-13 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/13/2016 6:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > On May 13, 2016, at 15:36 , Bob Sneidar > mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote: > > Hi all. > > Just submitted a bug report involving windows becoming unresponsive when a > dual monitor is unplugged and the windows rearrange on the main monitor. >

Re: Bug Report

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
On May 13, 2016, at 15:36 , Bob Sneidar mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote: Hi all. Just submitted a bug report involving windows becoming unresponsive when a dual monitor is unplugged and the windows rearrange on the main monitor. BTW if there is a message sent to the IDE when the wi

Bug Report

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Just submitted a bug report involving windows becoming unresponsive when a dual monitor is unplugged and the windows rearrange on the main monitor. They will all align to the top of the monitor, and once there will no longer respond until moved below the toolbar. This affects IDE windo

Re: SVG Widgets Work Well -- User Contributions - Screen Casts

2016-05-13 Thread Earthednet-wp
Great idea! I'd like to see that happen. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On May 13, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No > more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… > >

SVG Widgets Work Well -- User Contributions - Screen Casts

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… Go to iconfinder.com… download what you want as svg. Note that there are cases where the svg is in several paths. So if you open in Illustrator, select all and mak

Sound and video on Windows - help needed urgently

2016-05-13 Thread Tore Nilsen
I have a group of students up for national exams in computer science in late May. In Norway, high school students bring their own computers to the classroom and to their exams. One of my students has a PC with Windows 10 installed. She reports that she is unable to use the player object on her c

Re: How to Force Group to Show on Top of Browser Widget

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
That's interesting…. "borderless window" means substack… right? And then on Mobile it will replace the underlying stack completely N'est ce pas? At any rate… good do know it can't be done at the moment. I'll proceed with a work-around ala something along the lines of Jame's recommendation. I t

Re: LiveCode Server Linux 64 -- Exiting on "signal 11"

2016-05-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I installed the 8.0GM server and it still happening. With a good recipe, I still enter this http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17642 Though would it make more sense to re-open 17246? On 5/12/16, 6:17 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin" wrote: >Bad search - found it: ><

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Kevin Miller
Hi Rick, 1. Sometimes the data is blind, sometimes it is not. When analyzing the survey for most purposes we strip out any identifying data so this is irrelevant to the person doing the analysis. 2. Sometimes we indicate the number of questions and sometimes we do not. It depends on what the surv

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread stephen barncard
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > My regards to all who have pledged or who intend to pledge, no matter how > little or how much - and I'll see you on the sunny side of the street some > day! > > Kind regards > > Dave > Just pledged. I'm in. sqb Stephen Barncard - Sebastop

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/2016 2:02 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: My first gut reaction was "So, I and the other 24% minority of people paying for licenses are funding an awesome development tool that some 76% of you folks out there are using for free. People who only use Community and grip should be sending the 24% of u

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Richard, These surveys could be a lot better than they are. 1. The data collected is not blind. It is traceable to the participant who filled out the survey. 2. The questions are not all available at once so that one can decide if they want to participate or not. The parti

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/2016 2:27 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: I am too having problems with the new dictionary. Not technical problems, but problems with the gui or however i should call it. I miss the old style, especially if i am searching for something. The result list of the old dictionary was much more clear

Re: Field Text Bugs

2016-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/2016 2:45 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: It took me awhile to figure out how to set the textFont of a field using the IDE—it apparently has to be done via the Text menu. I can’t seem to be able to type a font name into the Inspector directly as in earlier versions of LC. And the Inspector

Re: Positive Infinity forever

2016-05-13 Thread dunbarx
Leave it to Hermann to pledge 2^(2^7) Craig -Original Message- From: [-hh] To: use-revolution Sent: Fri, May 13, 2016 4:04 pm Subject: Re: Positive Infinity forever Richard H. wrote > Well, which infinity? aleph-naught (A0) is the count of the > integers/wholes/natural A1=2^A0, the

Re: recording sound problem with new mac pro

2016-05-13 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I also saw this happen. I believe it is a problem based the version of OS X that you are using, and probably the implementation of QuickTime by OS X in your new Mac. 1. Apple is scaling back support for QT—I think this is a symptom of that. 2. Currently LiveCode requires QT to enable recording.

Re: Positive Infinity forever

2016-05-13 Thread [-hh]
Richard H. wrote > Well, which infinity? aleph-naught (A0) is the count of the > integers/wholes/natural A1=2^A0, the count of the reals. Craig N. wrote: > can it handle infinity^infinity? Of course, you need unicode to display the answer. Richard, I mean A0, and yes Craig, A0 and A1 are member

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread [-hh]
Paul Dupois wrote: > However, that gut reaction in no way takes into account the "gift in > kind" contributions of people using only the Community license in > (a) contributions to the source code > (b) time spend on submitting quality bug reports > (c) time spend on helping others with useful advi

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On May 13, 2016, at 3:02 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > It is *always* worth noting that statistics can be unintentionally > misleading, take out of context, and intentionally misinterpreted. 42.7% of statistics are made up on the spot. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com ___

Field Text Bugs

2016-05-13 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
I just submitted 3 bug reports for LC 8.0.0 having to do with field text: Bug 17639 - Cursor in fields renders in wrong position in fields with fixedLineHeight false Bug 17640 - Cursor in fields blinks too slowly Bug 17641 - Field text is difficult to format for pasted-in text It took me awhile

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
> > However, if you are getting something for free AND you are not > contributing anything at all (time and/or money), stop complaining ;-) > I also thought so. But I did not dare to write it myself. ;) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
> > (and, as someone remarked on the Forums, "Can we have our old dictionary > back?" - why not; as the new one is totally NON, > there's no point in having it) > I am too having problems with the new dictionary. Not technical problems, but problems with the gui or however i should call it.

Re: HTML5 LC Download Icon?

2016-05-13 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Peter, The reason I’ve been playing around with the Community Version of HTML5 was so I could determine if HTML5 was ready for primetime for me to start my Indy License which I prepaid for when I backed the KickStarter Campaign for it. I wanted to make sure that the Indy version didn’t have ic

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Paul Dupuis
It is *always* worth noting that statistics can be unintentionally misleading, take out of context, and intentionally misinterpreted. I saw the statistic in the LiveCode 8 Launch webinar that 24% of LiveCode licenses are paid and 76% are Community (open source) licenses. My first gut reaction was

Re: Positive Infinity forever

2016-05-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 10:18 AM, [-hh] wrote: The following is correct math. > Always a *dangerous thing to say.* > > Let N be a finite positive number, may be real. > > • Infinity > N > • Infinity = Infinity + N > • Infinity = Infinity - N > • Infinity = N * Infinity > > But all of you, who

Re: Positive Infinity forever

2016-05-13 Thread dunbarx
Hermann. Can it handle infinty^infinity? Of course, you need unicode to display the answer. Craig -Original Message- From: [-hh] To: use-revolution Sent: Fri, May 13, 2016 1:55 pm Subject: Positive Infinity forever The following is correct math.Let N be a finite positive number,

Positive Infinity forever

2016-05-13 Thread [-hh]
The following is correct math. Let N be a finite positive number, may be real. • Infinity > N • Infinity = Infinity + N • Infinity = Infinity - N • Infinity = N * Infinity But all of you, who play with that divine number: • Infinity - Infinity is NOT consistently definable. Trying that causes

Re: Raising Money

2016-05-13 Thread RM
Luckily for me I live a long way away from American politics (although, admittedly, I wouldn't mind taking a semi-automatic to Trump), and live in a country where the politics are remarkably bent, and as I am not allowed to vote here I just get on with my job. However, Livecode is not "America

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread RM
This, oddly enough, excites me, for 2 reasons: 1. The "Stable" release version 8.0.0 is not feature complete, and is "quite wonky" on Linux 64-bit. 2. I am endlessly hopeful, naive and optimistic. I am looking forwards to some sort of in-built Dictionary in the Linux 64-bit build (and,

Re: Group not appearing in Project Browser

2016-05-13 Thread Mike Kerner
There are issues with the PB not syncing properly. I tried chasing it but eventually gave up. The easiest way to fix it, in my view, is to just click in the search field in the PB. It immediately syncs/updates. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Hi all. > > I cloned a group

Re: Group not appearing in Project Browser

2016-05-13 Thread Mike Kerner
And I filed a bug report on it, too. On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > There are issues with the PB not syncing properly. I tried chasing it but > eventually gave up. The easiest way to fix it, in my view, is to just > click in the search field in the PB. It immediately sy

Re: HTML5 LC Download Icon?

2016-05-13 Thread [-hh]
Just to avoid misunderstandings for HTML5-standalones (one has to read Peter's posts always twice...): Using a licensed version of LiveCode disables the download icon. But: Downloading can NOT be disabled, no matter the license. Reading scripts can NOT be disabled, no matter the license. Not show

Group not appearing in Project Browser

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I cloned a group that contained a label and a text field. I renamed the group, label and text field to something unique. I opened the project browser, expanded the stack, and then the card. The group and all of it's controls do NOT appear in the project browser! I close t he project br

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Kevin Miller
These are valid points. I covered a great deal of ground in that presentation however this was an angle that I missed. I certainly didn¹t intend any offense with that omission and if I gave any then I do apologize for that. We are all extremely grateful for the many ways the community contributes.

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
-hh wrote: > I can't forget this community-trivializing pie chart > "The Story of community"(see webinar at 6:37), based on > pull requests: 2% community, 98% LiveCode (ignoring > the fact that many pull requests of the LC-team are > essentially based on time-consuming community LC QC > reports).

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Mann wrote: > As the situation stands, livecode drives the whole lot. So community > money contributors just support "blindly" livecode without any form > of representation. I wonder how long that can go on just like that. Part of the role of a Community Manager is as a sort of ombudsman,

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread James Little
Count me in also. I’m particularly keen on Stretch Goals 1 & 3, Sqlite Library & Field Widget Jim Little On May 13, 2016, at 8:38 AM, Earthednet-wp wrote: > I'm in too. I am retired and give my educational software away for free. But > the responsiveness of the LC team, the generosity of

Re: Using Widgets for Dummies Tutorial

2016-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 12/05/2016 03:30, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Where is the “using widgets guide for dummies?” At the moment we are updating the App Building Course to include widgets, and there is a blog post about using the header widget coming out soon (probably in the next week or so).

Re: HTML5 LC Download Icon?

2016-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 07/05/2016 02:09, Rick Harrison wrote: I’ve been playing around with HTML5 in the Community Version of LC 8. Although I think the small green LC App Download button is an interesting idea, I might want my users to only use the app online. I might not want them downloading it into their comput

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Earthednet-wp
I'm in too. I am retired and give my educational software away for free. But the responsiveness of the LC team, the generosity of the users with help, and the actuality and future vision of the platform is so promising that I want to contribute. Best, Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.

Re: Raising Money

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well then, you must be completely confounded with American Politics! ;-) Bob S > On May 12, 2016, at 23:11 , RM wrote: > > I really wonder about asking people for donations > when one hasn't fulfilled all the promises one made > last time people gave you money. > > R. ___

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I'm in. I ain't rich but I can do what I can. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-li

Re: inconsistencies in treatment of empty properties

2016-05-13 Thread dunbarx
Hi. I tried a few variations of these in 6.9. Never needed an explicit "is true". No errors or failures. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, May 11, 2016 1:14 pm Subject: inconsistencies in treatment of empty properties It's taken

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread [-hh]
Now having a first dot-dot-release of 8, we don't look back to unfinished work, because "we are post 8" (Kevin). And post 8.0.0 starts infinity? Let's look back a few days. I can't forget this community-trivializing pie chart "The Story of community"(see webinar at 6:37), based on pull requests: 2

Re: How to Force Group to Show on Top of Browser Widget

2016-05-13 Thread James Little
As a workaround, can you toggle the browser widget to hide / show? on MouseUp if the flag of me then show widget “myBrowser” set the flag of me to not the flag of me else hide widget “myBrowser” set the flag of me to not the flag of me end if end MouseUp On May 13, 2016, at 1:31 A

How do I add my own icons to the new Header Bar Widget?

2016-05-13 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, I just started 'testing' the new LC 8 and I like the new widgets. But how do I add my own icons to it? greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

[ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

2016-05-13 Thread panagiotis merakos
Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.1 RC-1. Getting the Release === You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via the automatic updater. Release Contents LiveCode 8.0.1 RC-1 contains more than 3

recording sound problem with new mac pro

2016-05-13 Thread BRAMI serge
Well hello everybody I need help I use LC for my professional use I have the following problem from LC 6.7 … the recording sound doesnt work on my MAC pro ( the new one) and only on this mac LC 7 and 8 recording sound it is the same thing on my others computers IMAC and mac book air reco

Re: Recording internal sound (Mac) - possible?

2016-05-13 Thread Terry Judd
Hi Peter - ok, I¹ll add my stuff to that bug report. Best regards, Terry On 13/05/2016 6:29 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter TB Brett" wrote: >On 13/05/2016 00:40, Terry Judd wrote: >> In LC 6.6.5 that is - broken in 7 and 8 unfortunately. > >Hi Terry, > >I wonder if that is related to bug

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Kevin Miller
Exactly the opposite. Rather than stopping at the very useful but limited implementation we have on widgets and LCB so far, the purpose of this project is to go very deep on this key piece. This really is the right move for everyone, and the campaign is us aiming to find a way to enable us to carry

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Roland Huettmann
Well, yes, but then it could have been announced three months ago?))) Never mind... The task is great. Thumbs up! On May 13, 2016 09:24, "Alex Tweedly" wrote: > I agree it is a rather short time frame - but 3 months would be far too > long. > > This project hopes to complete "this summer" - so my

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Matt Maier
In terms of what we should expect, does this push indicate a "breadth first" rather than "depth first" strategy? As in, will Livecode's reach continue to expand as quickly as possible while it's perfection is of secondary concern? More specifically, will we be getting 80% functionality in more plac

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Alex Tweedly
I agree it is a rather short time frame - but 3 months would be far too long. This project hopes to complete "this summer" - so my guess would be end of August or September - therefore only 4-1/2 months away; they can't wait 3 months to see if the funding is available. -- Alex. On 13/05/201

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Kevin Miller
Thanks very much for your support Roland. I¹m sorry if the campaign timing doesn¹t line up well for you. We¹ve tried various campaign lengths and longer doesn¹t materially improve the outcome overall. If it was a massive campaign we might consider 30 days but its not so large that there is a benef

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Roland Huettmann
I pledged, but the dates given are by far too short - May 23 is just around the corner. I could pledge more given more time, but currently away on a trip. I think 3 months pledge time should be normal. Roland ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@li

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Heather Laine
Dear Robert, You make a good point about community involvement. This campaign is all about encouraging much more of it. We want to enable a far wider community of LiveCoders to contribute to the feature set of LiveCode. Our little team cannot do it all. We have recently set up livecode.org, a

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Matt Maier
I just pledged. Both sides of the conversation make sense, and obviously I ended up on the "pledge" side of it. Getting the widgets and LCB working to "wrap" several more popular languages will dramatically increase the utility of everything we already know how to do in Livecode. That's the main va

Re: How to Force Group to Show on Top of Browser Widget

2016-05-13 Thread Kevin Miller
The workaround for the moment is to use a borderless window that floats on top with a handler to keep it in place if you resize the underlying stack. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps On 13/05/2016, 09:26, "use

Re: Recording internal sound (Mac) - possible?

2016-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 13/05/2016 00:40, Terry Judd wrote: In LC 6.6.5 that is - broken in 7 and 8 unfortunately. Hi Terry, I wonder if that is related to bug 16669. Do you have a good recipe for reproducing your problem? We have not found one and we have been waiting for a couple of months for a response fro

Re: How to Force Group to Show on Top of Browser Widget

2016-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 13/05/2016 04:14, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Our new app design will show video in the browser widget, streamed from YouTube. Because we need to use the entire card (almost) to maximize the video… the browser widget is set 16 X 9 but inset from top and sides to 686w X 385 tall… bott

Re: [ANN] New IRC channel for LiveCode Open Source users & contributors

2016-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 12/05/2016 23:11, Dave Kilroy wrote: Hi Mike - I must be doing something wrong then - I've logged in about ten times over the last week or so (am logged in now) and never found any activity or got any responses... :( I'm always in the channel in office hours and will react if poked. ;-)

Re: Help with Header Widget

2016-05-13 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 12/05/2016 22:08, Mike Kerner wrote: Hmm, Peter, that might also be an interesting blog post... As it happens, I think one has already been written and will appear in the next few days! Peter -- Dr Peter Brett LiveCode Open Source Team LiveCode 2016 C

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

2016-05-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi all I agree with Sannyasin about positivity and this being a thread about supporting the development of LiveCode I also am 'all in' and have just pledged at https://livecode.com/project/infinite-livecode/ My regards to all who have pledged or who intend to pledge, no matter how little or how