Re: LC suddenly sending using library stack for script editor field calls

On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > The IDE and your stack are running in the same engine so if you add a > handler for a message sent to an IDE stack but unhandled or passed to a > library or backScript then it will get it. Having said that I think the IDE > should probabl

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 7:23 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I suppose it wouldn't hurt to delete your preferences file. Who knows, it > might perform some magic. > I tried going back to 8.1, which was noticeably better, and 7.1.4, which was *much* better. Deleting the red dots didn't do it in 8.1.

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

It is *much* worse today. I have no idea where the cycles are going; I don't have anything in the message queue, although that preferences bit keeps showing up. I am seeing delays of about 5-30 seconds when clicking in a field before it responds (focuses), and so forth. The script editor has act

LC suddenly sending using library stack for script editor field calls

It took a couple of wasted hours to find this . . . LC has, all of a sudden, started using my library stack when opening the script editor. So my openField handler, for example, gets called. I'm guessing that it briefly did this a long time ago, because I have commented out routines to catch and

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 7:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I think that's long. See if it happens with a script only a couple/few > hundred lines. I can't actually test for this; it comes and goes. When it happens, though, I seem to be waiting on a breakpoint in one of the 6k line main scripts.

Re: molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

On Fri, Nov 25, 2016 at 2:25 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > It is unlikely that this message is actually bogging down the system. > Indeed this message is a performance optimisation to avoid saving the > preferences file multiple times in quick succession. > I'm not thinking cause, but there is a c

molassus IDE and revInternal_savePrefs

I'm not sure that I got the name right, but I'm frequently seeing the IDE go to molasses while debugging, and delays of the better part of a minute from apparently stopping and actually settling on the breakpoint. It knows that the script is running. On a while, I clicked the mail logo in the mes

Re: menu entries are not getting enabled

Hmm. It appears that it isn't even setting the menubar to active *switch* the platform *case* "MacOS" *set* the defaultMenubar to stMen *break* as I step through in the IDE, though, the menu doesn't change to stMen (which holds the name of my master menu). So I assume the IDE entries get

menu entries are not getting enabled

openStack and resumeStack both send a setMenus message Inside setmessage, I have *repeat* with i = 1 to 5 *enable* menuitem i of menu "Window" *end* *repeat* I step through, and it executes these. Nonetheless, all menu items of Window are greyed out. Is there something I'm missing? thanks -

Re: Type on an angle

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 4:14 AM, Richmond wrote: > To turn a textField should be no more complicated than: > > 1. export snapshot of textField (border? backGroundColor? textColor? > font?), > At which point you have a bitmap not an image. Fine for the screen but not for printing. -- Dr. Rich

finding highest value used in a postgres sequence

The postgres server defines the values used in my unqKy variable, a sequence. In dealing with backups and a glitch already gone wrong, however, I have found that postgres seems to remember previously used values, even after ALTER SEQUENCE/RESET--but still assigns this enumbers. So After I use the

Re: savingStandalone message

On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I'm less certain about the count params, and would favor a build number. > But that would require that all of us use build numbers, and perhaps some > don't, so I'm not opposed either. I would like to see flexibility on this. Personally

formatting fail?

This indents properly (the repeat is a single line, even if email wraps it: *repeat* for each word theList in "obDflFlds obDspFlds obDspBtns obDspObjs " & "obDspCmbs obDspGrps obCtrlFlds obAuxDspObjs obAuxDspCmbs" * put* the theList of srcGr into theProps But *repeat* for each word theList

Increased focus switching causing typing in scripts?

I've noticed over the last few weeks that it is becoming increasingly common for the IDE to switch focus to a script editing window, particularly during startup. This seems to be becoming gradually more common, rather than a sudden change from not happening to happening. Most, but not quite all,

Re: margins ignored in formattedHeight for 8?

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 1:39 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Interesting...I'm working with formattedheight today too. I have a field > placed under an image where it can't be seen. It slides down sometimes and > moves everything below it down to accomodate. When I get the > formattedheight of the gr

margins ignored in formattedHeight for 8?

Is 8 ignoring margins in calculating formattedHeight? Placing a single line of text into a field, which is Helvitica Bold size 9, and margins of 0,6,0,0, it manages to return a formattedHeight of 7 when checking . . . uhh . . . . Am I missing something here? This worked for years in 5/7 for yea

Re: How can we dynamically create variable names from changing value "x" on a loop?

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > There's your first bug right there - that should be: > > do makeAccessVars("emacs", line 1 of tTSVdata) > damned heretics are everywhere . . . :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

Re: loss of access to stacks after "save as"

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > I suspect it will be because you are referencing your stacks by (the old) > filename somewhere else and not name - thus causing the engine to load in > the old file, the stack in which has the same name as the existing stack in > memory. >

Re: loss of access to stacks after "save as"

On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > Therefore when you subsequently reference the stack by its old filename > (in the delete) it will load the old stackfile, thus triggering the process > that occurs when you try to load a stack into memory when one with the same > name alre

loss of access to stacks after "save as"

I have a bmpVrsn routine to update the revision numbers of my various stacks. Once the calculations are done, I *close* stack stk *save* stack stk as newFlNm *delete* stack oldFlNm So stk might be "rawForms", which was in file rawForms.161103a.livecode (oldFlNm), and now rawforms.161103b.livec

disabled on 10/28 for bounces--to gmail???

Did anyone else get de-subscribed recently? I got an email, that got filtered to promotions, that I was unsubscribed on 10/28 due to excessive bounces--but this is a gmail account. And what's the best way to sift through a few days of archives? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

Figuring out what type of text is on the clipboard, and ascii filtering

I'm trying to figure out how to filter potentially unknown source pasted text into plain 7 bit ASCII. Working on a mac, for example, the incoming text might be: - Honest ASCII - Apple 8 bit extended characters - MS characters from a Word document created on MS - Who knows what coming

Re: not so much a bug, but a needed workaround

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 3:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Have the frontscript check the name of the target, and if "scriptEditor" > is in it, just pass the mousemove message. That's what I had figured--but the problem here is that if single stepping when it fires means single stepping into the

Re: sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 1:36 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > 1, 3, 5, 7, 2, 6, 4 > > This _could_ account for the behaviour that Richard is reporting. I know > that it is fixed in the development branch [1]. At the moment, while I single step through a script, I notice that the message queue has

not so much a bug, but a needed workaround

I think what I need is to have front scripts ignored when in an IDE window, but I'm not quite sure. I have a number of places in my interface where mouseOver is used to pop up a stack or group, and mouseMove to determine if it's been left. These scripts use custom properties of the stacks, which

Re: Regular Expressions in IDE

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Peter Reid wrote: > Does anyone know where I can get guidance notes for the regular expression > find & replace in the IDE script editor. In particular, what is the syntax > for using remembered groups in the replacement string. There is only a subset of what w

Re: [TI] Gnome-Commander

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 6:09 AM, Richmond wrote: > > Just to say that I have just installed *Gnome-Commander* on my main > Xubuntu box: > > and, suddenly, everything seems a whole lot easier. more importantly, will it work in my garden? followup product could be "cat commander", to get my fel

Re: More unreproducible oddities in 8--text semi-lock of mousedown

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 7:38 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I have seen something similar where I cannot enter a field or click a > button. Switching out of the app and back seems to clear it. I thought it > was some code of mine, but it's so obscure and so easily remedied, I didn't > bother trying to

Re: sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > send “foo” in 0 > —> insert script taking longer than 1 millisecond here > send “bar” in -1 millisecond > > “bar” will be handled after “foo" This leads to the next question. ON a "wait 0 with messages", does this effectively put the n

Re: sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 3:31 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: > You might consider using 'dispatch' instead of 'send' if you really want > it to execute the moment that line shows up. I read somewhere the dispatch > is more performant anyways. > > to be clear: I would certainly *like* it to happen right

More unreproducible oddities in 8--text semi-lock of mousedown

I've seen this sporadically as long as I can remember, but it seems to grab a couple of times a day in 8 on mac. The mouse is apparently thought to be down for text selection in the script editor. This makes it difficult to select any other object, and blocks key-commands. I generally eventually

Re: sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Send in time has does not guarantee when a message will be sent. It’s ASAP > after the event time. If there is a pending message that should be handled > before the message you sent then it will be handled and then you will run > out of tim

Re: conversion of field margins from older version to 8

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Aren't the fields picking up the text formatting of the stack, unless > special formatting has been applied to the field? Does the stack have > margin properties?? If so, setting the stack properties should affect all > the fields with no spec

Re: sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 12:28 PM, mwieder wrote: > That's the way the "send" command works. See the dictionary for details. > > If you "send" a command it's executed immediately, before anything else in > the current handler. > If you "send in time" it's executed *after* the current handler finis

Re: sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

On Tue, Oct 25, 2016 at 10:18 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > > I (like I assume many others) have a number of places with blocks like > > > > send doIt to stack worker in 0 > > wait 0 with messages > > doSomethingElse > > > &g

sluggishness of 8.1.1 on send in 0/wait 0 pairs?

I still don't have my finger completely on this one, but watching the sluggish shifting back and forth between tabs on the script editor, I think I'm starting to grasp it. I (like I assume many others) have a number of places with blocks like send doIt to stack worker in 0 wait 0 with messages

Re: conversion of field margins from older version to 8

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 5:46 PM, Randy Hengst wrote: > What about something like this: > >repeat with z = 1 to the number of fields of this stack > set the margins of field z to "8" >end repeat > Something like that. The problem is that my margins in the label fields have been cus

conversion of field margins from older version to 8

Among the quiet changes in 8 was a significant change in how field margins are rendered, making many of my cards difficult to read. Is there a simple script that can concert from old to new? I suppose that this came about because the default margins and placement were utterly inconsistent across

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0 DP 1

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 7:59 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > So you want to create the PDF from scratch? How about if you were able to > create the PDF as a fillable form, then save it in a database so you could > recreate it at will? > The last thing I want is a fillable form :) I'm looking to take a

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0 DP 1

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 2:52 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > Could you output the annotations as PDF, and shell out to the command-line > version of PDFtk to overlay your annotation PDF on the original PDF? > That's tentatively the only way I see to do this going forward. Actually, it will need ano

Re: palette causing reload of a separate stack?

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Upon using version 8, a line of "palette chStk", where chStk holds the > long id of another stack, consistently causes a dialog box of "A stack > "mcp" is already in memory. The LiveCode UI . . ., etc.&qu

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0 DP 1

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > You could use XPDF to either: > > - extract PDF text and print from LC fields > - extract page images and print those > I've been using xpdf and similar for decades for various purposes. But what I need to be able to do is take the "offic

palette causing reload of a separate stack?

I have a control stack mcp which operates the other stacks, etc. Upon using version 8, a line of "palette chStk", where chStk holds the long id of another stack, consistently causes a dialog box of "A stack "mcp" is already in memory. The LiveCode UI . . ., etc." I've tried single-stepping into

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0 DP 1

What I still don't see is the ability to handle eps & pdf, and including these in print. Without either these, or the ability to reversibly import pdf (i.e., turn it to live code objects in a way that it indistinguishably turns back to pdf on print to pdf), I need to start planning my transition t

Re: error in revDatabaseQuery() causing recursion of parent?

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 9:00 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > I don't know if all the database stuff I do has any parallel here but when > debug stepping after a breakpoint if I stop execution(click the square) the > app take off at some point in the call stack and goes crazy sometimes. > I > can't

error in revDatabaseQuery() causing recursion of parent?

I don't have enough to nail this down, and if I file a bug, it will just be closed. But have others seen something like this? I have something to the effect of revDatabaseQuery(,,a[b][c][d], theCommand) I eventually noted that "c" wasn't actually an index variable, but rather cNo or some such.

Re: error with script opening application browser in 8

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > You fry demons??? ... > > how do they taste? > like chicken of course! You just have to marinate them in Holy Water for a couple of days they're too tough to new well and you get one Hell of a stomachache . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins,

Re: are custom properties not supposed to be sorted in inspectors in 8?

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 12:43 PM, mwieder wrote: > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18300 Wow. Isn't this a one-line insertion to fix between collecting them into a field or variable, and displaying it? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

Re: error with script opening application browser in 8

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Works as advertised! Thanks jacque! It worked once for me, but not since. But I've got bigger fish at the moment (make that, bigger demons . . .) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

are custom properties not supposed to be sorted in inspectors in 8?

Am I doing something wrong, or are the custom properties in an inspector not supposed to be sorted alphabetically in 8? I have enough properties on some objects that this quickly gets maddening . . . or am I missing a setting again? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

scrollbars for variable windows in IDE for 8?

Is there some way to turn on the scrollbars for variable watch windows in 8? manually working through when something is hundreds of lines long is a bit tedious . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

error with script opening application browser in 8

I have the code snippet if the version < 8 then put "revApplicationOverview" into brsStk else put "revApplicationOverview" into brsStk --put "revIDEProjectBrowser" into brsStk end if if brsStk is not among the words of the openStacks then open stack brsStk end if in my setup routine. Bu

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Now *Bug 18638* <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18638> > Hmm, it now seems to work in 8.1. I'll give 8 another try, but my first few minutes aren't promising . . . I'm used to the 2-5 second delay

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

Now *Bug 18638* I can't put the stacks publicly, so I'll wait for an email or ftp at live code to upload. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hmm… Is this only when opening the stacks by double-clicking rather than > from the IDE menubar To tell the truth, the only time I ever loaded a stack from the menubar was when opening another version of live code, blocking messages, and

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > I was on 6.7.6 up to 4 weeks ago. There was some pain but not as bad as I > thoug > I never ended up using 6; the global shade problem was so much worse than 5 that I just couldn't get anything done. By the time it was solved (well, I ass

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > And now at about 23 minutes . . . and apparently ended at ten hours and one minute, giving by the save time on the file (save & quit buffered) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 5

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > What kind of errors? Startup in the IDE or standalone? The IDE. It throws an error apparently coming from trying to resize the message box, and refers to a blank line of code in the engine . . . Naturally, if i use an answer/breakpoint

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > There’s your problem. Sounds like staying on 7 is painful right now. > > What are the bug report numbers for the issues causing you pain? > I'm doing this so that I *CAN* file the bug report for this bit where the engine throws errors on

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

And now at about 23 minutes . . . -- 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://lists.runrev.c

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > What version are you using? I did some work on this a little while ago so > it should be much quicker in the latest releases. 7.1.4. 8 has still been to painful the last couple of times I've checked. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (7

insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

I have been waiting now for over ten minutes for this round of commenting to apply. My main script is something like 15k lines. At the moment, I'm sequentially blocking out large parts for a stripped down stack for a bug report. This last round, I think I applied comment to about 2k lines at onc

Re: How to ensure that 'close stack' destroys the stack in RAM?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 12:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Is the stacks destroyStack property set to true? If not, just closing it > isn't enough. Also, if it's a substack, it won't ever be removed as long as > its mainstack is open. I even tried setting every destroy property I could locate, a

a quarter of a datapoint on those #()&%)(8 wandering red dots

I may have, by chance, stumbled upon something. The evil red dots have a tendency to wander, sometimes a line or two, and sometimes wildly. I just discovered that I had two versions of the same button, in two copies of a group. I *think* that after deleting the extraneous group, it's buttons may

Re: How to ensure that 'close stack' destroys the stack in RAM?

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 3:39 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > The stackFiles property maps names of stacks to filenames - it basically > means that when the engine resolves a chunk reference 'stack ', if > there is no stack in memory with the name , then it will look through > the stackFiles property

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 9:20 PM, Scott Morrow wrote: > My brother lives on the other side of the country. I live across town. +1 > for Kay C Lan’s rant But your brother is +1ing my solution :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-

Re: Artificial Evolution

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Some might take this to be a minor point, but Darwinian Evolution relies > on truely random point mutations followed by the process of natural > selection. In this case a computer induces a change then evaluates the > effects of that change. I

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > We (my wife and I) live 9hr flight time away from our parents. The trick here is to have your little brother living a couple of miles from your parents, so that *he* gets the tech calls instead of you. :) Works for me, although some of the o

Re: more postgres madness

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > It took a bit to track this down,, but the command > > SELECT unqKy, ktyp, kywd, usr, tstmp, scr, cmd FROM > dhdbt_testy_xlvi___001 WHERE ((tstmp > '2010-01-01 00:00:00.00-00') > OR (tstmp IS NULL)); >

more postgres madness

It took a bit to track this down,, but the command SELECT unqKy, ktyp, kywd, usr, tstmp, scr, cmd FROM dhdbt_testy_xlvi___001 WHERE ((tstmp > '2010-01-01 00:00:00.00-00') OR (tstmp IS NULL)); is yielding revdberr, That's it; just "revdberr," This is regardless of whether or not the

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

On Fri, Oct 7, 2016 at 10:50 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > FWIW I think Jacque's explanation is the better of the two. > I think maybe LiveCode should ship her with every new build of > the dictionary. > on revBuildDictionary clone Jacque set the mainStack of it to stack revDictionary end revBui

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 2:25 AM, David V Glasgow wrote: > Do not try to bend the card. Nor spindle fold, or mutilate . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Agreed. I probably paid for the original Supercard and about 4 upgrades > over the years and never produced anything with it, but the ability to > continue working in a hypercard-like environment and wanting it to not go > the way of Hypercard

using Sierra

The shared iCloud drive was compelling enough for me to convert to Sierra without waiting months. It does a *far* better drive at syncing than Wuala used to or than SpiderOak does, and without churning cpu and battery on my laptops. (pretty much 100% cpu whenever on, and still doesn't finish upda

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same > reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a > tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. > That. Listserves are in the mail that is part of

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Same here. -1 for Google Chat. I much prefer a listserv for the same > reason Matthias referred to as it is quick and easy to respond to using a > tool (email) that is in my face 24/7. > -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Can we move the use-list to a Google Chat

I should certainly hope not. listserves and boards are fundamentally different in how people interact. Moving lists to web generally causes *massive* loss of membership and participation. In a professional organization I belong to, it resulted in an independent mailing list, and would likely have

Re: How to extract specific columns/line items from a CSV file?

On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Keith Clarke wrote: > I’ve a large number of sizeable CSV files from each of which I need to > extract just 2 or 3 specific columns. Creating nested iterations through > every item in every line seems somewhat inefficient - as does loading each > full file into me

Re: "Command" as control structure?

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 1:49 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > I don't think there is a difference, though I use command for my handlers > I started doing that a while back, but have gotten rid of them. if I search for "on commandName", it catches both functions and commands . . . -- Dr. Richard E. H

Re: getting the "normal" messages when reopening a stack

I've tried putting "wait 0 with messages" in the preOpeStack handler of the new stack, but that doesn't work--execution returns there, rather than in the calling stack (which was obvious once I thought of it that way . . .) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 __

getting the "normal" messages when reopening a stack

My user interface stacks are now made by cloning the respective stack, to allow multiple open debtors, and multiple windows of each type in the interface. I store the stem that identifies tables and windows in the dbtr_stem custom property of the stack. I need to lock messages as I open the stack

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

it--and now it triggers sooner, at an undetermined point, still with no clue what is causing it, if any, from my code. On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 12:25 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM, mwieder wrote: > >> revUpdateGeometry is in the script of s

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:20 PM, mwieder wrote: > revUpdateGeometry is in the script of stack "/Applications/LiveCode Indy > 7.1.4.app/Contents/Tools/Toolset/libraries/revgeometrylibrary. > livecodescript", > which should be in the backscripts and available to all stacks unless you > have specifi

Re: How to stop LoveCode running in Edit mode

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Richmond wrote: > You have an xTalk fixation? Wow . . . can we start a self-help group? > Several months ago, at my cadillac club, I introduced myself with, "my name is Rick, and I have a Cadillac problem. It's been 37 days since I bought my last Cadillac." . .

Re: How to stop LoveCode running in Edit mode

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:11 AM, mwieder wrote: > > ... and so much better than my usual finger-slippage, which ends up > "LiceCode" > > Well, *that* is certainly a nit-picking distinction . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ us

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:02 PM, mwieder wrote: > Ah! I see what you mean... you were actually looking at the messagebox > stack > with a hex editor... > Actually, just plain old boring "less" . . . I thought it might be a pure script stack, and took a shot > those are custom properties store

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 5:47 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 09/22/2016 01:24 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > global gRevDevelopment; put true into gRevDevelopment >>> >>> >> Unfortunately, it's not getting me there. >> > > one of the problems with

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

I've purged all of my own settings and 7.1.4, and reinstalled. It hasn't made a difference, and still refers to 6.6 community. I've tried opening in 8.1, and am getting the error executing internal 3:04:10 PM Type Handler: can't find handler Object revbackscriptlibrary Line send "revSEObject

Re: Waiting for the train

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 2:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > My preference is the send in time as shown by paul. I don't think that it's even a matter of "preference" for what Richmond is trying to do: even though messages can fly about, being stopped on a line of code will block some parts of the in

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:48 PM, mwieder wrote: > ...as in... > > global gRevDevelopment; put true into gRevDevelopment > Unfortunately, it's not getting me there. I have a log stack, and the simple function on cck stuff put stuff & cr & the milliseconds & cr & cr after fld "log" of cd "wt

Re: The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > gRevDevelopment Ahh, thanks. Now I'll reload and se what happens . . . at the moment, I get my own error dialog, which has an option to pause so that I can single step, but it goes nowhere . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508

The name of the property to trace scripts into the IDE

Things are getting out of control more and more often. Today it was the lack of buttons on dialog windows about closing stacks, the previous couple of days had a couple of rounds of the browse/edit suddenly applying to the application browser, and then there's the perennial untraceable euro messag

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Richmond wrote: > I, personally, playing on my G5 running PPC 10.5, cannot for the life of > me see any obvious > advantages of Supercard over Livecode. It strikes me that this is probably > largely used by people > who have dug themselves into a Macintosh-only c

Supercard 4.8 public beta

On the other side of the fence . . . SupercCard just emailed me about their public beta for 4.8. Since it's mac only (again), I have no interest, and it apparently still doesn't have things I need from LC 5 (and I presume at least 4). (For that matter, the only things that I *really* need that we

Re: Breaking out a PDF

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > They are not created by me a bunch of forms (200+ pages combined into 1 > PDF) that are 1 pager's (8.5x11) and each page in the PDF needs to be > broken out into it's own file. > Hmm, another possibility: look at the packages pdftools,

Re: LC 8.1 Mac - Crash on name change

On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > This looks like a bug to me, but I just wonder if anyone has experienced > anything like this before I report it. > Nah. 7.1 crashes a significant portion of the time when doing a "save as" from a script (I think it's 20-30%, but nearly al

Re: Breaking out a PDF

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:13 AM, Skip Kimpel wrote: > Has anybody taken a PDF, read it into LC and then split that PDF and > created multiple PDF documents from it? Looking to create a streamlined > way of doing this an a continuous basis. > Playing with PDF is a nightmare. I've looked at it,

regex to add a variable to calls

As I move to multiple open debtors, I'm having small but consistent and numerous changes. I need to catch every instance of getVal(a,b,c) and change them to getVal(a,b,c,dbtr) (and similarly to find when called with one or two arguments) a can actually be a combination of letters and number

Re: Multiple Property Inspector Instances for the same object - Bug or Feature ?

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > To me, this is cumbersome in many ways… I’d rather have just one inspector > that reflects just the currently focused object. > The 7 method of simply saying "No! You can't!" instead of bring that one to the front left a lot to be desire

Re: attempt to delete unsaved stack bombs out in IDE

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > "delete stack" bombs out to the end of the script, then to the end of the > calling script, and gives the message, > > Script compile error: > > Error description: request: no 'type' expression > &

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