Re: Resizing stack window by scaling

Marty, Thanks, that seems to be a good idea. I don’t have option menus, and I could reset the window position after the scaling. Peter > On Oct 20, 2017, at 4:11 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Peter, > I was faced with the same issue and for

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

Richmond Mathewson write: > RunRev did buy Metacard, but not at the start. > > I believe (this is where Heather can put us ALL straight) RunRev was > initially designed as an alternative interface (front-end/GUI) to the > MeatCard one. Heather's asleep, so maybe I can help: MetaCard premiered

Re: Mobile Device Physical Size

Thank you for bringing this to the list, Ralph: > On Richards talk yesterday I brought this up and I am moving it to the > list. > > Say you have 3 Android devices: > 1) Phone sized. > 2) Note sized. > 3) Tablet sized. > It is entirely possible that these 3 devices have the same(or close) >

Re: Resizing stack window by scaling

Hi Peter, I was faced with the same issue and for me I ended up adding a "View" menu to the menubar with user selectable sizes. Since scaleFactor was not really meant to be used this way there are some drawbacks, the main one being that the window will move on screen. It will not grow/shrink

Re: Resizing stack window by scaling

This is probably too simple an answer, but for database applications, resizing of windows is not a feature they allow, and there is almost always a "minimum monitor size" requirement so that the form fits inside any window the system might draw. Windows has a feature to increase the monitor

Resizing stack window by scaling

Hi, I’m needing to allow the user resize a stack window using scaleFactor and am needing advice about interface. First of all, I see that some Livecoders are using scripts to scale controls and text when the user drags the stack size larger or smaller. In my case, there are too many controls

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

Hmmm... I find the basis of the article somewhat simplistic. I suppose you could go back far enough with anything, and say it is an old idea produced in a new way. For instance, the dissemination of information via writing has been around for millenia, but someone made a way to do it

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

A lot of what he is talking about here is what they are now calling Machine Learning. I didn't 'fully' understand how this worked. But a few paragraphs from Mr Atkinson here helped me immensely. I'm all the better for it. Thanks, Bill, on so many levels. Sean Cole *Pi Digital Productions Ltd*

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

On 10/20/17 12:36 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: For every single Shakespeare play barring "The Merry Wives of Windsor" there is a play that Shakespeare "ripped-off". So, does that make him a plagiarist and a prize plonker? Plagiarism is a direct copy, or one similar enough

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

By the way, according to this article, we already knew which could be the next breakthrough in technological progress... but, we don't know who will pour their blood, sweat and tears to build and sell it to the people. https://zurb.com/blog/the-next-big-innovation-it-s-already-10-o On Fri, Oct

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

RunRev did buy Metacard, but not at the start. I believe (this is where Heather can put us ALL straight) RunRev was initially designed as an alternative interface (front-end/GUI) to the MeatCard one. I don't think RunRev ever plagiarised, especially as they always gave credit to Metacard.

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

Actually, RunRev BOUGHT Metacard didn't they? So they owned it, which is why that is not plagiarism. But saying that a pure copy is the only form that can be called plagiarism doesn't hold water in a court of law. If it can be shown that enough sections of code are identical in form and

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

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Re: is a date

Because Friday, October 20, 2017 is also a date. So is 2017-10-20. So is 2017/10/20. So is 17/10/20 amd 9/20/17. Bob S > On Oct 20, 2017, at 08:43 , trevix via use-livecode > wrote: > > How about this: > > function IsDate pDate, pSysDate > > if pSysDate

Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

Hi All, Being English my second language, frequently I have to read again (and reread some time after) many of the messages that I post in the mail list and in the forum. In the forum, we could simply edit, reedit and edit again any message until it means what we meant... but in the mail list

Re: Interview wtth inventor of hypercard Bill Atkinson

For every single Shakespeare play barring "The Merry Wives of Windsor" there is a play that Shakespeare "ripped-off". So, does that make him a plagiarist and a prize plonker? No, it doesn't, for the simple reason that the plays he ripped-off had crap dialogues and were second or third-rate:

Mobile Device Physical Size

On Richards talk yesterday I brought this up and I am moving it to the list. Say you have 3 Android devices: 1) Phone sized. 2) Note sized. 3) Tablet sized. It is entirely possible that these 3 devices have the same(or close) number x/y of pixels. How can I determine the physical size of mobile

Re: is a date

How about this: function IsDate pDate, pSysDate if pSysDate then put char 3 of the short system dateformat into tDelimiter else put char 3 of the short dateformat into tDelimiter end if if tDelimiter is in pDate and pDate is a date then return true return false end IsDate trevix

Re: [OT] Myst and The Manhole

Last year my wife and I visited Meow Wolf’s House of Eternal Return. It was clear there was a Myst-like puzzle at the heart of it. But we didn’t bother much trying to figure it out. It was just splendid fun to walk, dash, crawl, slide and climb through the wacky spaces. Even 67 year olds can get