Re: Tracking openStack

2014-11-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I don't think breakpoints are going to help you here. Plugin stacks > are counted as system stacks, and both hard and soft breakpoints are > normally ignored in system stacks. Well, that doesn't make them any different than other stacks w

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

2014-11-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I see. That sounds like either the card or the stack has cantModify set to > true. > But I'm having no problem changing the custom properties of groups on that page (in fact, the script is setting custom properties that are unset to custo

Re: shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

2014-11-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:44 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The symptoms sound like the button(s) aren't really in a group, they are > at the card level. Or alternately, there are copies of the group on > different cards rather than a single group being placed on multiple cards. > If either case is

shared group loses buttons & scripts when changing cards

2014-11-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I have a group in one of my stacks that the user will never see for maintenance. It has a slider to slip through pieces of forms, and a couple of maintenance buttons. I tried to change a script on a button a couple of times yesterday, and it kept going back to the prior form, or even *using* the

Re: any use of pass by reference breaks any omitted variable?

2014-11-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I think he means that if you have two arguments, one passed by reference > and you only provide one argument, it throws an error. Yes. Or if you provide "", or empty as the argument to the other. Hmm, I suppose I could make a global variab

any use of pass by reference breaks any omitted variable?

2014-11-22 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Pass by reference *should* be something useful, but it seems half done. I have various handlers with optional parameters. It seems that if *any* parameter is passed by reference, omitting any variable causes a runtime error -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Help! Debugger went silent!

2014-11-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:34 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Clear all of your breakpoints, quit livecode, restart. > And by that I don't mean individually, but with "clear all breakpoints" -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

Re: Help! Debugger went silent!

2014-11-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 11:11 AM, William Prothero wrote: > I’m on OSX 10.9.5, LC V7.0. The debugger has stopped responding to > breakpoints! Is there some way I could have disabled it? Or is my stack > corrupted possibly? I can’t find any way to restore it and it won’t > recognize breakpoints on

Re: [OT] Looking for proven and useful Cold remedies

2014-11-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Could we talk about proven and useful cold remedies > from the place where you live? > It won't fix the cold, but horseradish directly on the roof of your mouth will cause your sinus to contract/unpuff in very short order, at least allo

Re: a substack ignoring both its behavior and script

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:33 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > So they have a name now. :) > They've needed one, and what could be more appropriate . . . > I wish I could watch over your shoulder and see what you do differently to > cause this stuff. I'm at a loss. > Bugs and I have a very longstan

Re: itemDel not resetting on entering routines?

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:52 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I just stay embarrassed. It’s easier that way. > No need to stay embarrassed; there's always something new around the corner. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mail

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:38 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > A semicolon in any script is interpreted as a line ending, except when > within quotation marks. If the example failed (where the semicolon is > within the quotes) then that would be a problem with the scripts that > interpret the message

Re: a substack ignoring both its behavior and script

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/14/2014, 2:22 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> This stubstack is now doing this on two computers, and under 7.0-RC1 and >> -RC2. >> >> It has had a behavior for a long time, under 5.5 and continued working &

a substack ignoring both its behavior and script

2014-11-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
This stubstack is now doing this on two computers, and under 7.0-RC1 and -RC2. It has had a behavior for a long time, under 5.5 and continued working under 7.0. I edited it this morning, and now it is not only ignoring the behavior, but it's own script if I give it one (i.e., an openCard handler

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:32 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I just tried it under 7.0 and same result - no problems with or without the > semicolon. There must be something else going on in Dr Hawkins code. > The ones I posted today were typed into the message box! -- Dr. Richard E

Re: itemDel not resetting on entering routines?

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 4:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/13/2014, 5:42 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> In many of my handlers, I have to set the itemDelimiter explicitly to tab, >> whereas it is*supposed* to be local to the handler, and be reset on exit. >> > >

Re: can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > You could rewrite the code so that the variable portion contains only the > short name, e.g.: > >put "gizmo" into field theFld > in 7.0 RC21, this yiuelds, "button "scr_output": execution error at line 5814 (Chunk: no such object),

can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
With a sequence like, put the long id of fld (word 1 of myVar) into theFld put "gizmo" into theFld I end up with "gizmo" in the variable theFld, rather than the field it references. Am I doing something wrong, or does this just not work for fields (7.0-RC2) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702)

itemDel not resetting on entering routines?

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I've seen this in the past, too. In many of my handlers, I have to set the itemDelimiter explicitly to tab, whereas it is *supposed* to be local to the handler, and be reset on exit. I've seen this in both 5 & 7, although it just bit in a routine that worked in 5 while I'm using 7. -- Dr. Richa

Re: This'll make you tear your hair out by the roots

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:17 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I just read that within 12 hours of the report, Yahoo's servers were hit > with this exploit. My initial reaction is that anyone running windows on a server deserves whatever happens. But I thought that it said that this was a word/exce

Time to rename the red dots to "PCD"s

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
For Pirate Code Dots . . . :( This is maddening. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Neil Roger wrote: > Both the inclusion and exclusion of the semi-colon return data as > expected. If possible, could you supply a stack for me to test with and I > will happily look into this further. I'll see what I can pop together. And now, I am getting an

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > > "SELECT * FROM sometable;" worked before the change with SQLite. Now, > it > > is necessary to remove the semicolon. > > > > I just tri

Re: This'll make you tear your hair out by the roots

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:37 AM, Richmond wrote: > Microsoft has patched a critical bug in its software that had existed for > 19 years. Well, the footnote text placement bug lasted *at least* 15 years. It was there in Word 1.0 (mac) and I had students bringing me printouts exhibiting it in w

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-12 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > An unresponsive IDE was mentioned. The editor and the IDE can both become > "frozen" if you are debugging and you try to do something else without > exiting debug mode. Not only can you not type into the editor, which is to > be expected,

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> The first one ('97) was especially interesting because in all the years >>> I'd been using LC I'd never used tha

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > OK, I'll try with and without multiple statements in both versions. > Now, to make matters worse, it appears that I've been using 7.0.0, not 7.0.1-RC-1 for an unknown period of time--it has managed to set itself as the default version more

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > On 12/11/2014 11:00 am, "Dr. Hawkins" wrote: > > >LiveCode's developer previews simply execue (nightly snapshot that > >executed), the RC are alpha quality, the 5.5 series are late beta, and the > >6.x

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Any other specific issues you feel are show-stoppers may well be worth >>> looking into, and I'd be happy to help

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Any other specific issues you feel are show-stoppers may well be worth > looking into, and I'd be happy to help if I can. But to do that I'd need > to know what they are. > That the IDE doesn't work? I filed those bugs, but can anyone re

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Richmond wrote: > Obviously Dr Hawkins is not over-enamoured of the Open Source theory: > LiveCode is paid for in a different way [the "I'll scratch your back if > you'll scratch mine" way] than the 'standard' commercial wa

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test our >> work with pre-release versions. >> >>

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I rarely, if ever, try to execute multiple SQL statements in one > revDatabasexxx so haven't seen that particular problem. Could you give an > example? I'd like to check it out as I don't want to get hit by the same > bug. > I routinely exe

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I just ran into this. If a variable contains “card foo” then the command > open card foo resolves to open card card foo. You can see the problem. > There is no card named card foo. Just foo. > > Is this the problem you are seeing? > Yes, it i

Re: hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> OK, I'll stop venting, but the amount of time I'm losing to bugs that >> never >> should have seen a public preview is getting increasingly frustrating. >> > > I ag

hair-pulling frustration

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I can't help but wonder what it would take to get runrev to follow normal practice and actually get something to alpha level before calling it a "developer preview", beta by a "release candidate" (ok, that still wouldn't be normal), and working rather than early beta before release. If I sold some

speed and shortening the long id

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
It is my understanding that reference to id is faster than name. However, if i get the long id of something, I can get field id 1 of group id 2 of group id 3 of card id 4 of stack "theSubStack" of stack "/some/really/long/filename" If I take word 1 to 3 of theLongId && word -6 to -4 of theLo

Re: Keyboard Shortcuts in Menus

2014-11-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Can anyone explain what is going on behind the scenes? Keep in mind that even built-in keyboard commands are generally not functioning correctly in the current 7.0.1 (RC1) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _

can't set new breakpoints while running in 7.0.1-RC1?

2014-11-10 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Is anyone else seeing this? I can neither disable (just not there!) existing checkpoints on the red dot, nor add new breakpoints, while the program is running and paused for single step. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode

Re: Failing to produce multiple-page PDF

2014-11-09 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > However, when I use the printing into a rectangle format, I get a PDF file > with only a single page. It seems that all cards are printed onto the same > page, so mostly objects from the last card printed are visible. > Furthermore, the ca

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-08 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 6:55 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I'd say that's a bug. It's good practice to use quotes around card and > stack names but unless there are any characters in those names like spaces, > etc, it shouldn't cause a problem without them. > The more I think about this, the more s

print card to pdf seems to fail in all cases if from in 7.0.1-RC1

2014-11-08 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Yes another thing that has worked for years failing silently. As near as I can tell, once printing to a pdf (open printing to pdf "abc.pdf"), if from/to is specified, the result is "printing failed" in all circumstances. Can anyone else verify this? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-846

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I had turned off Strict Compile Mode temporarily because of the "name > shadows another variable" bug which still hasn't been fixed and causes me > to quit and restart LC probably 6 times a day. > That was the primary reason I stayed with 5.

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 12:06 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > It is a bug but.another reason to use Strict Compilation Mode. > This is happening *in* that mode; it doesn't catch it. The card & stack combo are built from known names; apparently LC7 is treating a word in the middle of a string as a

Re: scrollbars for a stack?

2014-11-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 10:53 PM, Scott Morrow wrote: > Is the user viewing a pdf or is it LiveCode controls (fields and such)? They're viewing in livecode controls, whose content they can edit. > If it isn’t a pdf then they should be able to view things in any form > since it hasn’t been rend

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-05 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > go card "scD_1207" of stack "rawForms" > Apparently, it's the quotes. 5.5.4 could handle this without quotes; 7.0 cannot. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode maili

Re: 7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-05 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 9:43 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Not likely as this has been working but check "the result" after the open > statement to see if some sort of error occurred. > (ck is a simple routine to log/put messages. Here it is effectively a 1 argument put) ck srcCd & cr & the long

7.0.1-RC1 selectively not obeying "open card in script?

2014-11-05 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I am suddenly seeing (with disastrous results) 7.0.1-RC1 ignore an "open invisible card foo of stack bar" command. This in turn causes the formattedHeight to quietly return 0. I've stepped through the code, then set the vis to true, and seen it fail. I've even added a line to open without the in

Re: Fit text in a field

2014-11-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Pyyhtiä Christer wrote: > Is there a known way of fitting a specific (variable from case to case) > text string into a field with a definition of the font and min&max text > size? The other parameter would be wrap/no-wrap to tell you want just a > one-liner. For mu

two-fingered scrolling on mac

2014-11-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I've noticed that I can use the normal mac two-fingered scrolling in (at least) the dictionary. Is there a way to enable this for my own fields & groups? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.ru

scrollbars for a stack?

2014-11-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
My application generates pdf full pages (it has to; the forms are specified by the courts, and the program is to prepare them) Some of the text can be small (remember, I can't change that!), so I have coded to use scaleFactor to allow zooming. On even a 15" screen, this will rapidly create a sta

stack property editor "drifted" in 7.0.1-rc1

2014-11-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Upon reopening a stack property editor, the body had "drifted". (to a negative vertical value relative to the window) On clicking a surviving box, it popped up the popup well above the window: http://dochawk.org/badStackDialog.png -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 __

are all of the 7 releaces/rc this buggy???

2014-11-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I've once again ventured into a newer version of livecode, and once again am being hit by arbitrary changes/missing parts. I re-enabled the code to allow pixelscaling (which took doing, as I'm on a mac/Yosemite, and the key command to uncomment doesn't work), only to be greeted with the message,

Re: Hmmm...

2014-11-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 3:34 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Agreed, but Supercard suffered from early instability and general > interface kludginess. I was a Supercard guy for a long time, but got > sidetracked with other things. Still, I was stifled by the same issue I had > with Hypercard: I wanted t

Re: Hmmm...

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Richmond wrote: > Did anyone recreate HyperCard and then improve it once HyperCard was > killed off? > > And the answer is 'Yes' several times over: many being short-lived things > (SERF ???), and > many restricted to only 1 or 2 platforms (ToolBook, SuperCard), >

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 9:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Rightly so, according to the inventor of the LiveCode engine: Dr. Raney > once explained to me that the purpose of htmlText is to provide an > easily-manipulatable way to faithfully reproduce the entire contents and > styles within a fie

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:32 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > If I could remember well enough how to find things on Nabble or Gmane, I'd > just point to the original thread - but since I can't and am in a hurry - > here's a message I sent to this list on 12/05/2013. There are *very* few sites who can

Re: Open with 6.7 vs. 7.0

2014-10-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 6:52 AM, Rick Harrison wrote: > If you select just one file with "Get Info", tell it to use > 6.7 and then select the “Change All” it will stick > for all files. > This works for you? I've tried it many times for 5.5.4, and it hasn't worked yet--tends not to even leave *

Re: deleting lines in a field

2014-10-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Serge Brami wrote: > Each Time you delete a Line this change the index of the lines in the > field so you cannot do this That's why it's done backwards. When you delete a line, only the later lines are affected. So if you need to delete 3 and 5, deleting 5 m

Re: deleting lines in a field

2014-10-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Once you have the lines in variable theLins repeat with i = the number of words in theLins down to 1 delete line (word i of theLins) of theData end repeat On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:10 AM, wrote: > I have a field that allows non-contiguous selection of lines > > What is the easiest way to dele

Re: how to disturb newbies

2014-10-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Right Something like that would never work > Wikipedia has active "moderation". My thinking would be to have enough moderation that a person's first few are held until approved, and after that point, they become presumed OK, and at some

Re: Has anyone won the fight with postgres on OSC Server update to 3.2

2014-10-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Oh, and to top it off, it seems that when I log into Apple Support Communities to ask a question in the threads about this, I get The page you tried was not found. You may have used an outdated link or may have typed the address (URL) incorrectly. for all threads . . . ___

Has anyone won the fight with postgres on OSC Server update to 3.2

2014-10-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm nearly ready to pull my hair out. Shen OSX server updated to 3.2.1, it broke postgres, badly. This doesn't seem to have been solved on on 3.2.2, either. "unix_socket_directory" became "unix_socket_directories" in org.postgresql.postgres.plist --but this has to be done manually, resulting in

Re: Snapping To A Grid of TopLefts?

2014-10-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 11:26 AM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: > I figured I was making it more difficult than it needed to be :) > > But of course :) Anyway, you want to sum the *squares* of the X & Y differences, not the abs(), to get the shortest distance. (the distance is actually the square root of

the "price" of a context switch/function call

2014-10-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm eternally conflicted between the needed frugality of my eight bit childhood and the desire for clean code . . . And I never forget the model I wrote in smalltalk with nice "proper" OO message passing (the messages I was modeling, in fact), and then rewrote line for line in Fortran without opt

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 9:33 AM, JB wrote: > Okay, I am sorry I misunderstood you. > I do not like C or any of its form either. > And I do not like all of the wasted text > with curly braces. > > Now that Apple has released Swift it is > a little easier than C but you still need to > have a C back

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-02 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 6:11 AM, JB wrote: > Who do you think is sniveling and exactly > how fun is if for you to say “it burns. it burns!”? > > And who are you saying it to me because the > code does not work or LiveCode? Either way > what makes it so fun for you? > No, not at all. It's the C.

Re: Strip a ™ character

2014-10-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 4:01 PM, JB wrote: > > Code for Program to convert binary to hexadecimal in C Programming > \begin snivel{} It burns, it burns! -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

2014-10-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:01 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > Getting it to work, probably not that hard. Distributing it with your > application, that's a whole other issue. > Actually, it's allowed and straightforward; I'm thinking of the mechanics. It's GPL

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

2014-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > PDFTK works fine under Windows using shell commands from Livecode. That is > how my Patent Grabber app combines individual patent pages into a single > PDF. Ooohh! Someone who's done it on windows with a commercial program! How do you han

Re: Delete columns... How?

2014-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > I think that puts the whole database (multiple tables) in memory. Bob > mentioned only the table so I thought he might know of some other magic > incantation. :-) > Open another database :) So you open database gizmo on the disk, and ga

Re: Delete columns... How?

2014-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Michael Doub wrote: > Bob, how do you control whether SQLite pages the table in from disk or > maintains it entirely in memory? > use :memory: as the file name. Blindingly fast. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

2014-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > You could use 3rd party tool ghostscript. > I used to use ghostscript from my scripts. Sometimes it takes just far too long (minutes)< others it doesn't like files (but every pdf program refuses

Re: File Walker

2014-09-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Good catch. 40 is a deep folder hierarchy, and I've seen the > recursion error very early on, suggesting that the problem isn't traversing > the folders at all, but merely that it can't access some because of > permission errors. If

Re: Keeping a group of controls "active" while using edit tool

2014-09-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but if these tool panels are on > separate stacks or substacks you could try: > Unfortunately, it's just a group of buttons and slider on the same stack. It's purpose is to pop the group I want to w

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: > To get a > section sign on Mac, you'll need to use numToChar(0xA4). > This leads to the next question . . . if I use that character, will a pdf created by livecode be safely readable cross-platform, or am I going to have to use htmlText to

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:19 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > It¹s numToChar(164) on a Mac and numToChar(167) on Windows. > Ahh, the infamous window's curly-apostrophe . . . in grad school I had an ISN line (no, not IDSN; 9600 baud ISN). That apostrophe is a ^S with bit 7 high. It would hang my line un

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Richmond wrote: > That makes no sense at all as the Unicode char 'siglum' § is U+00A7 > Decimal 167 > > While the 'esset' ß is U+00DF Decimal 223 > I'm a bankruptcy lawyer. I stop expecting things to make sense every day before I start work. :) Anyway, those b

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > set the htmltext of fld 1 to "§” So I would put "It's in § 506(a)" into the field, and then when in the period loop through the stack in deveopments, set the htlmlText of fld i to the test of fld i ? That could work, with minimal effor

Keeping a group of controls "active" while using edit tool

2014-09-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I recall some fields I had years ago that stayed "live" with the edit tool, much to my dismay. I now have an editing tool panel on couple of my stacks for controls to choose and center the group I'm using or want to use. These are stacks the user will never see, but it would be nice for m own con

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Richmond wrote: > > Put numToChar(167) > I just tried that on a mac. I think what it gave me was a german esset, the double s that looks like a beta . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-live

getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm not ready to deal with general utf conversion yet. About the only thing I need is the section symbol, § (on mac). With 5.5, is there a way to type this in that will render as a section symbol on both mac & pc -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

replaceText() not working as expected for multiple lines

2014-09-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I have a variable with: /Users/hawk/bk_clients/blue aardvark/blue_aardvark001.dhbk /Users/hawk/bk_clients/pink panther/pink_panther_001.dhbk /Users/hawk/bk_clients/super chicken/super_chicken005.dhbk /Users/hawk/bk_clients/test5/test5001.dhbk which was obtained with a shel

returning data from a modal stack?

2014-09-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I believe that some months ago, when I mentioned setting custom properties of a modal stack to pass data back to the calling program, that someone stated that there was actually a mechanism to pass such information. I can't find that in my email, could someone either please remind me what I'm look

Re: share in-memory SQLite db with other apps

2014-09-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Don't think that's possible since the memory used in your application's > memory space. There is a shared cache setting but I think that only > applies to multiple sqlite dbs open in the same application and it needs to > use the URI file f

share in-memory SQLite db with other apps

2014-09-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm assuming that the answer is, "of course not!", but is it possible to share an in-memory SQLite db with other applications (particularly, LibreOffice)? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: Scripting Cut/Copy/Paste in custom menus

2014-09-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Let'st try that again . . . On Sun, Sep 14, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 8:26 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > >> on closeField >> doStuff >> end closeField >> >> And in some other handler somewhere: &g

Re: Scripting Cut/Copy/Paste in custom menus

2014-09-14 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 8:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > on closeField > doStuff > end closeField > > And in some other handler somewhere: > > put "xyz" into fld 1 > doStuff > or even -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-liveco

Re: stack "Unt!itled 1" ?

2014-09-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > (?im)^(?!--)\s*put\s((?!(into|after|before|\\)).)*$ > Wow. And there was a time I could have read that without putting serious time into it. There are a *lot* of those left . . . I switched to my own logging partly to be able to catch t

stack "Unt!itled 1" ?

2014-09-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I am seeing the message box opened with stack "Unt!itled 1" as my project opens; this has been a few weeks, I think (I just noticed the ! the other day). Of course, if I try trap for it, it doesn't happen . . . there are various things, such as an actual "put" to the message box that seem to st

Re: anyone have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3?

2014-09-07 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Thanks, if that conference is also in the San Diego Hyatt I could come > over… > 'twas the Las Vegas Four Seasons . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: Russian submarine

2014-09-07 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Yeah, I tried that in Las Vegas a few conferences ago, and it just can't be > done, even though it's a straight shot on the map. > While I was in exile in Pennsylvania and came here/home (LV) for a conference a few years, I walked from the air

Re: anyone have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3?

2014-09-04 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Does anyone at the conference have a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 with them? If > you do, can I try something on it? I was about to say that I could find mine and bring it tomorrow . . . and then I realized that you must mean the RunRev conference

Re: [OT] Spies under the bed.

2014-08-31 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > There's a way to check who Google thinks you are and what interests you. I > wish I could find the link again. When I last checked, it thought I was a > 35 year old male. I'm not sure about the male part, but I'd love to be 35. > In the

Re: Datagrid not displaying entries before clicked item on redraw

2014-08-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > Don't redraw the data grid while handling an event in a row control. You > are setting the dgData which redraws the entire data grid. The engine > doesn't like it when you delete the control that is executing a script so > this is likely the

Datagrid not displaying entries before clicked item on redraw

2014-08-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I'm using a datagrid, and my template has a checkfield (a field with code to act like a checkbox). Once I click on an item, it does a bit of processing, and eventually gets to a line where it set the dgData of grp "dnaDisp" to theData for any changed data. The result is that the lines of the

Should closeField get called when a group is deleted?

2014-08-25 Thread Dr. Hawkins
If a group is deleted but the cursor is in one of it's fields, should closeField be sent? I have fields that set a stack property to id the source of their data on enterField, and delete it on closeField. It seems to me that if the behavior is as above, that the program can conclude that the save

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 3:51 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > so tempting to steal or lose. Interface is more difficult. > My initial reaction is that if someone is breaking into a byzantine church, electronics will be *way* low on their priority list. The icons a

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 12:46 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com> wrote: > I think the extreme cheap-out solutions would be a disservice to the > client, especially with regard to reliability. > It's not a client; it's my own parish :) Anyway, I agree: we want something to d

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Dan Friedman wrote: > Thanks for the reply. The entire error string is "revdberr," (with the > comma). I tried your suggestion of using revExecuteSQL instead of > revDataFromQuery() and I did not get the error. So at least I have a > suitable workaround. Thank

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