Quartam reports blank page on Sierra Macosx

2017-02-03 Thread Josep Maria Yepes Montardit via use-livecode
Hi, I need help with Quartam Reports. Since Sierra MacOSX when you print preview any report a blank page left on desktop making unusable these zone until close the app. Since now was impossible contact with Quartam support. Any idea if Quartam still exist or is supported? Alternatives? Salut,

Re: fontNames

2017-02-03 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
A masterful explanation! Thanks Fraser - Phil On 2/3/17 7:20 PM, Fraser Gordon via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-02-03 21:03, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: I'm currently fiddling around with fonts. I see that the list returned by 'the fontNames' contains some 'placeholder' values, namely

Re: fontNames

2017-02-03 Thread Fraser Gordon via use-livecode
On 2017-02-03 21:03, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: I'm currently fiddling around with fonts. I see that the list returned by 'the fontNames' contains some 'placeholder' values, namely these: (Default) (Menu) (Message) (Styled Text) (System) (Text) (Tooltip) Is there

Re: fontNames

2017-02-03 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Hi Craig, Maybe those new 'fonts' debuted in LC 7. I see what you're talking about in LC 6.7.10, then in 8.0.2 I see the additional ones. I don't have LC 7 installed anywhere and don't want to take the time, and none of the release notes for 6 / 7 / 8 mention it (that I can see), so... guess

Re: fontNames

2017-02-03 Thread dunbarx via use-livecode
I fear I am becoming more and more orphaned around here, languishing in v.6x. For what it is worth, the fontNames returns only a list of fonts, one per line, in my world. Is it a v.8 thing? Craig Newman -- View this message in context:

fontNames

2017-02-03 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
I'm currently fiddling around with fonts. I see that the list returned by 'the fontNames' contains some 'placeholder' values, namely these: (Default) (Menu) (Message) (Styled Text) (System) (Text) (Tooltip) Is there a way to find out what font is used when a field's

Re: repeated crashing on save in 8.x

2017-02-03 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
I have trouble with 8 crashing on save also. I found that I have an external La Cie drive that spins up on open and save activity, which is normal, but seems to cause this. When I dismount the drive, no problem. Peter > On Feb 3, 2017, at 11:26 AM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode >

Browser widget and websites that open content in a tab or window

2017-02-03 Thread Bleiler, Timothy via use-livecode
The links on a website displayed in a browser widget work fine when they are of the form: https://www.NotRealSite.*** but nothing happens in the Livecode browser widget if the links are part of a javascript element that attempts to open the site in a new tab. Is

Re: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

2017-02-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
This could be effected as an extension of what I posted here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10=28749=150876#p150876 As my example involves showing a series of static images inside a graphic object "frame" the hotspots might prove 'fun' to make; but I should think, ultimately,

Re: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

2017-02-03 Thread JOHN PATTEN via use-livecode
Thanks Mike! I posted this question on Pano2VR ggnome forum with a little animation of the particular challenge. https://ggnome.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13=11663 There may be folks interested in what Livecode could do for their workflow

Re: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

2017-02-03 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 9:39 AM, Jim MacConnell via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Still too wonky for me to use I'm afraid. > My users are simple "copy and pasters" and asking them to do different > flavors of Paste isn't going to work. > MANY apps have paste special or

RE: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

2017-02-03 Thread Jim MacConnell via use-livecode
Beat me to it and good to know. Paste special as Unicode Text also works but Paste special as HTML does not. As a wrinkle... pasting into NotePad has no line feeds (e.g. gives " Line 1Line 2Line 3") Copying that from NotePad and pasting into LC, Word, Excel, etc. gives correct result (meaning 3

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2017-02-03 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Sorry, I got that from an old thread and forgot to change it. By the way I didn’t say in my story that Knuth used Algol and Cobol for his algorithm, and I translated the Algol one (looks a bit like LiveCode, even today…) > On 3 Feb 2017, at 17:20, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

AW: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

2017-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
the headquarter could confirm this interaction to Excel bug and pointed me to the workaround with "paste special as text" Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode Gesendet: Freitag,

Re: Drag List Items Up and Down

2017-02-03 Thread Devin Asay via use-livecode
Excellent, Andy! Thanks for sharing this. The only minor, cosmetic change I made was on the next to last line: set the textColor of line tcl of me to empty My hilite color was set to a dark blue, and the black on dark blue was hard to read. Setting it back to empty means that it will go to

repeated crashing on save in 8.x

2017-02-03 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
My project is in a dozen or so stacks which I turn into substacks before filing. In 8.x, as I go through this dance, in addition to the bug that stops "save as" from working (although it does seem to change the name on the next save after, some of the time. I've worked around it with "set the

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2017-02-03 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Actually, I learned recently that C and it's variants is NOT a high level language! It's considered a mid-level language. Bob S On Feb 3, 2017, at 08:20 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: Only slightly OT, quite near my

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2017-02-03 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Why is this post called Supercard 4.8 Public Beta?? Bob S > On Feb 3, 2017, at 08:15 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode > wrote: > > Only slightly OT, quite near my first encounter with computers at all, and at > the very beginning of my encounter with High

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

2017-02-03 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Only slightly OT, quite near my first encounter with computers at all, and at the very beginning of my encounter with High Level Languages (do people still use that expression?), I translated Knuth’s algorithm for calculating the date of Easter into LISP 1. It would be a lot easier to do in

AW: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

2017-02-03 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Can anybody on Windows with LC 8 confirm this: - create a new stack - create a scrolling list field - enter three lines of text, each with one word - enter into the message box: *set the clipboarddata["text"] to fld 1* - open MS Excel (in my case Windows 10, Excel 2013) - paste - see an extra