Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

On 28 May 2014, at 12:39 pm, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > Another reason for me to delay running Mavericks as long as I possibly can. > Is this true for apps like Word and TextEdit, too??? I have been using Mavericks exclusively in all my Macs since it came out, and have now upgraded several ser

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

On 28 May 2014, at 1:54 pm, Kay C Lan wrote: > On my 10.9.3 a slew of Apple and non-Apple apps all remain open after > I've closed the last window. The one's that do auto-close seem to be > sensible ones: System Preferences for many versions of OS X has > auto-closed when the window was closed, n

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

I understand how you feel: On 28 May 2014, at 5:43 pm, stephen barncard wrote: > Sorry, I don't buy that. The changes just require more stupid clicking > than needed to do what was easy before. I can take care of my own file > management, thank you, and I hate this intrusion into my workflow

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

On 29 May 2014, at 12:38 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I find Mavericks auto-save pretty useless actually. When you go back into > their time machine interface you can only see the first page of the document > (and nothing at all for many types of files.) […] If you do a “Revert to…” from a Page

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

On 30 May 2014, at 3:19 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Hm...maybe there could be a contextual menu that copies the long ID > reference. That would at least be a shortcut. Indeed, that would be a very usable solution. Another one would be to use a control/option/command+drag from a child to a par

Livecode Server Sessions

Dear LC Server Gurus, Is there a tutorial anywhere that explains *exactly* how to use SESSIONS with LiveCode Server? I found a lesson on *cookies*, here: How do I use Cookies on LiveCode Server? | How To … This is good info, but only useful if I were going to implement my OWN session manageme

Base64 & Quoted-Printable Email Headers

Dear LC Gurus, I am working with LC 7.0-dp6, and need to parse some raw email messages, translating headers that were encoded using base64 or quoted-printable encoding back to ‘normal’ text. The email headers in these messages look like these samples: > > Subject: > =?UTF-8?B?e1N

Re: Livecode Server Sessions

On 1 Jun 2014, at 8:08 pm, Dave Kilroy wrote: > Hi Igor > > I don't know of any LC session tutorials other than the one you mentioned - > but I'm wondering if the user guide page on RevIgniter's Session Library > might be of interest an may provide some pointers? > http://revigniter.com/userGui

Quoted-Printable & Base64 Unicode Text in LC7

Dear LC Gurus, Using LC7-dp6, I’m trying to parse some raw email messages that have headers with international characters. Headers containing non-ascii characters should always be encoded in either base64 or ‘quoted-printable’ format. The header format then becomes: * =?charEncoding?B?encodedS

Re: Livecode Server Sessions

On 1 Jun 2014, at 10:37 pm, Simon Smith wrote: > […] Hope this helps. Thank you, Simon - this helps a lot! I knew it *had* to be easy! :-) Do you know where/how sessions are stored? - i.e., is session data stored entirely in a cookie in the user’s browser, in a hidden file on the server, or

Re: Quoted-Printable & Base64 Unicode Text in LC7

On 2 Jun 2014, at 12:05 am, Peter W A Wood wrote: > On 1 Jun 2014, at 19:40, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > >> 1) How to decode from “quoted-printable” to normal text? Is there a >> ready-made function somewhere? > > From the dictionary: > > textDecode

Re: Learning about server

On 12 Jun 2014, at 8:46 am, Mike Bonner wrote: > Just set up lc community server on mavericks server (fresh install since > previous updates had completely horked things). […] For those interested, please see this: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=20465 I have 3 Mavericks Server

Re: OT : Advice on SQL database design

I'll try to provide some initial info: On 1 Jul 2014, at 10:23 am, Alex Tweedly wrote: > I guess there's a meta-question about "what's a good book/source on SQL > database design ?" > > I am trying to design a database. There is one table which contains, let's > say, Armed Forces Personnel >

What is LiveCloud?

Dear ListMembers, The last issue of RevUp has an article titled "LiveCloud Part 2". I seem to have missed part 1 - could someone post me a link? And just what is LiveCloud? Is it related to this site?: http://livecloud.com -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia __

Re: What is LiveCloud?

Dear Nick, Thank you for the links, and for the info. And congratulations on putting together what appears to be a very polished piece of software. >From what I've read, it appears that *you* host the client's database - that >is, the LiveCloud software is hosted in *your* servers, and the cl

(Arbitrarily) Long-Division Script

Hi all, I wanted to develop a library to allow me to perform basic maths (add, subtract, multiply, divide) with arbitrarily long numbers in LiveCode. My requirements are simple: - integers and floating-point numbers must be supported as all operands in all operations, to an arbitrarily large

Re: Livecode Developer Certifications

On 09/08/2013, at 5:19 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Does exists plans to create LiveCode Certifications? It seems that RunRev is currently running a training camp, at the end of which attendees get a 'certificate'. I must admit, I did not pay too much attention to it as it seemed to be geared

Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line "put"

Dear LiveCode Gurus, Looking at the following blog post, it looks like LiveCode could be a great tool for producing more easily understandable and maintainable command-line tools: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/03/06/livecode-server/ Prompted by that, I am trying to create a LiveCode shell scri

Re: Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line "put"

Dear Jerry & Peter, Thank you for your very quick and very helpful responses. You were both right: setting the outputLineEndings to “lf” did the trick. Also, here on MacOS X, it seems that setting it to “crlf” also works. Would that be a better -i.e, more ‘cross-platform’ compatible - solution?

Re: Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line "put"

Thank you for the tip, Peter: On 29 Apr 2014, at 2:42 pm, Peter W A Wood wrote: > This might be a good way for cross-platform scripting: > > if the outputLineEndings = "cr" then >set the outputLineEndings to "lf" > end if > put "Hello World!" && the date && the time & return & "Goodbye"

Re: Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line "put"

On 29 Apr 2014, at 12:58 pm, Charles E Buchwald wrote: > Igor... Sounds like a great idea. I would definitely use that on a daily > basis. I bet it would be great fun with Alfred... http://www.alfredapp.com Yes, I’m trying to develop some scripts that will help me with remote server management

Saving Document 'Bundles' on Mac

Hi all, Does anyone know how to create bundle-type documents on MacOS? I know that bundles are simply directories, but there must be something that needs to be done in order for the system to recognise the directory as a bundle "file", rather than as a simple directory... Is this something that

[OT] Fossil SCM

Dear List Users, Does anyone have any experience with Fossil SCM? http://fossil-scm.org Like many, I find that git is often an overkill in terms of features and complexity, often making it very difficult to convince others in your team to adopt it... Fossil sounds like it could cover just abou

Re: Saving Document 'Bundles' on Mac

I apologise for not explaining myself properly: > When Livecode makes a Macintosh standalone it makes a bundle with all the > necessary > components inside it; so the whole thing appears as a MacOS app. I would like the *documents* saved by my app to be bundles - not just the app itself. Instea

Re: Saving Document 'Bundles' on Mac

On 14 May 2014, at 8:50 pm, Scott Rossi wrote: > One way is to rename the folder with a ".bundle" suffix. Yes, but how can I have a bundle with my own document extension? - I don't want my documents to appear in the desktop with the extension '.bundle', and with a generic system bundle icon...

Re: noob array question

On 15 May 2014, at 7:32 am, Rodney Green wrote: > [...] In attempting to parse some json data I can't find what the final output > should look like. [...] You can view the official JSON specs - very easy to understand - here: http://json.org As you probably already know, JSON documents are pla

Re: noob array question

On 15 May 2014, at 10:32 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > >> A while ago I wrote a JSON parser in LiveCode. The *very heavily commented* >> code can be found here: >> >> https://github.com/luxlogica/easyjson > > Thanks for that

Re: noob array question

On 15 May 2014, at 10:39 am, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > The License file of easyjson reads: License This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in source code form or as

Re: noob array question

On 15 May 2014, at 12:53 pm, Rodney Green wrote: > [...] I can't figure out how to get this ready to be converted to an array. I > have not yet installed any plugins or external files, so I was trying to do > this on my own. In order to 'convert' your json data to a LiveCode array, you will have

Re: Unicode Really Does Just Work in LiveCode

This is exciting news: On 15 May 2014, at 7:25 pm, Fraser Gordon wrote: > The hint I wrote shows how to do proper case conversions (i.e don't use > toupper and tolower - they don't take language-specific rules into account). > We do expect to add these into the engine core at some point but we

Re: noob array question

On 15 May 2014, at 8:47 pm, Pyyhtiä Christer wrote: > Just set itemDelimiter to "}” to extract the JSON elements, strip "{" > -characters from those, look what you need to use as the next itemDelimiter > and do it again. Then move to array. > > It probably takes less that 10 lines of code. Th

Re: [TIC: Tongue in Cheek] IDE oddities (was Re: Error Messages Are Evil)

On 16 May 2014, at 8:34 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > On another note, as I promised you last week I did ask Ben if RunRev planned > on open-sourcing the On-Rev real-time debugger. He's not sure and will check > with Kevin, but he did confirm my hunch that it requires specific sockets > open on

Re: LiveCode vs Fermat

On 19 May 2014, at 8:28 am, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Dar Scott wrote >> put 781769^12 + 852723^12 = 874456^12 >> >> See >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem > > The result is TRUE... > Could this be an error? :o Indeed, it is. You can check it here: http://www.wolframalpha.

Re: How do I…

Dear Dan, I'm a newbie to LiveCode, but your question is more of an algorithm question than a language-specific one, so I'll give it a shot: On 16/05/2012, at 1:50 AM, Dan Friedman wrote: > I could use a little help... Say you have a search field. In the script of > that field you use the ra

[OT] Was: Windows Metro

On 16/05/2012, at 8:40 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Ah, another conspiracy theorist I see! All conspiracy theories aside, there *is* something to be said about giving Google, Facebook et al less of your personal information: http://www.ted.com/talks/eli_pariser_beware_online_filter_bubbles.html

Re: [OT] Was: Windows Metro

On 16/05/2012, at 12:06 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > All the more reason to use duckduckgo.com. Ooooh, awesome search engine! Many thanks! :-) -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: insertion point glitch

Dear Tim, I have experienced something similar - don't know if it's the same thing as you: On 21/05/2012, at 2:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: [...] > I have noticed that when a field is unresponsive to data entry, it is also > unresponsive to tabkey and returnkey (tab on return is set to true).

Re: New Sandboxing Docs have been posted

On 21/05/2012, at 4:02 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I just emailed RunRev support to see what, if anything, that are planning > to do to help with sandboxing. Some information which may be useful can be found in the RunRev Forums, here: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=11024#p51406 -

Age & Anniversary Calculations

Dear LC Folks, What is the 'best' way to perform these 2 calculations with LiveCode? 1) Calculate a person's age, given a birthdate: /* Calculates the number of birthdays from a given date, up to and including *today*. @param pBirthDate the birthdate @return a positive integer represen

Re: Age & Anniversary Calculations

Many thanks for all the suggestions - and I did learn a couple of new tricks from your code, too! I had not realised that there could be an issue with pre-1970 dates in Windows, and also did not know that we had to watch out for the 'centuryCutoff' property. Very, very useful to know. Peter's c

Re: can someone please try this test...

On 23/05/2012, at 2:29 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Please tell me if it returns anything. Thanks. It seems to return this - 5 lines: "","" "Screen name","URL" "Home Screen 01","http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3788438/AgilixPublic/SesameLearning/UI%20screens/HomeScreen01.jpg"; "Home Screen 01a","http:/

Re: Age & Anniversary Calculations

On 23/05/2012, at 3:50 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I don't know the answer to your question about dates prior to 1970 on > Windows machines, but I do know that problem doesn't exist with the sqlite > solution I posted. [...] Peter, I went through my mail again to make sure, and I can't seem to fi

Re: Age & Anniversary Calculations

Peter, thank you very much for the sqlite-based answers: On 24/05/2012, at 2:17 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Sorry about that Igor, not sure why it didn't make it. Anyway, here it is > again. [...] Indeed, it may be easier to let an external lib handle the date calculations, considering that it

Re: Age & Anniversary Calculations

Dear Phil, Thank you *so much* for this link: On 24/05/2012, at 10:51 AM, Phil Davis wrote: > Another good resource for date & time calcs is Sarah Reichelt's DateTime.rev > library, which is pure LC: > >http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Library#stacks > That is some very useful

Re: Webifying livecode is a real mystery to me

I am coming to LiveCode from a web development background. I must say, that my point of view may differ from what has been presented so far. First, I find web programming quite enjoyable. I use a very, very powerful and little-known text editor called 'Sublime Text' (http://www.sublimetext.com/)

Where Do You Save User Prefs?

Dear LiveCode Masters, Could you experienced folks please give us a concise direction on *where* and *under what name/extension* to save user preferences in the different platforms? 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath("Preferences") Prefs Name: anything you wish, but convention is that

How Do You UNDO?

Dear LiveCode Experts, A reliable UNDO mechanism is an essential part of most desktop apps. Programming UNDO functionality, however, is not a trivial task, and it usually involves quite a bit of meta-programming: turning function calls into stackable objects, assembling the undo/redo stacks, ke

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

Pete & Andrew, thank you both very much for the info: So, the information we have so far: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath("Home") & "/Application Support/MyApp/" Prefs Name: anything you wish 2) Windows Prefs Location: specialFolderPath("28") & "/MyApp/" Prefs Name: anything you wis

Re: ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.7

On 27/05/2012, at 3:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > We're a month away from the 2011 LiveCode Developer Conference [...] Your personal Groundhog Day?... ;-) -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

Re-reading the answers here and the information in the dictionary for the 'specialFolderPath' - and after some more Googling - I have gathered the following info, which may or may not be correct: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath("Home") & "/Library/Application Support/MyApp/" Prefs

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

Thank you for the info, Guglielmo!: On 27/05/2012, at 7:29 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote: [...] > See Table 1-3, paragraph "The Library Directory Stores App-Specific Files", > on > :http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/FileManagement/Conceptual/FileSystemProgrammingGUide/FileSy

Re: How Do You UNDO?

Hey, a fellow Aussie! On 28/05/2012, at 9:44 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Firstly, g'day from Tas ;-) G'day from Sydney! :-) > Secondly your preferences and undo questions might indicate you haven't seen > the GLX app framework yet. Take a look at: > http://revolution.screenstepslive.com/s/rev

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

Thank you very much, Jacqueline: On 28/05/2012, at 4:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > SpecialFolderPath() on Android offers very few choices. You can't write to > the engine folder and cache folder contents are temporary, so that leaves > only specialFolderPath("documents"). I've used the documen

Re: What is the way to replace frames on a website?

On 28/05/2012, at 8:26 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > is there a better alternative that you could recommend over jQuery ? JQuery is excellent, but it has limitations, and using JQuery exclusively to build a web app on the client side can make your code difficult to maintain, depending on the comple

Re: How Do You UNDO?

Monte, thank you for the info, too: On 28/05/2012, at 12:16 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Yep, it really is a much better starting point for desktop app development in > LiveCode. If your doing anything with LiveCode server don't miss revIgniter > either. I appreciate Trevor and Ralf's contributi

Re: ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.7

Dear Mark, On 28/05/2012, at 3:46 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Igor- > > Sunday, May 27, 2012, 12:47:15 AM, you wrote: > >> On 27/05/2012, at 3:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >>> We're a month away from the 2011 LiveCode Developer Conference > >> [...] > >> Your personal Groundhog Day?... > >> ;-)

Re: Upgrade to Lion

-- Understanding Old "Save + Save As..." x New "Autosave Versions + Duplicate" -- When I first upgraded to Lion, I, too, became irritated and grum

Re: is Loki down?

On 29/05/2012, at 9:34 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > It's Coda 2 now -- a lot of improvements! Could someone tell me if there is a syntax mode or theme for LiveCode for Coda somewhere? Many thanks in advance. -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___ use

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Stephen, my apologies to you and to anyone else I might have offended - it wasn't intentional: On 29/05/2012, at 11:35 AM, stephen barncard wrote: [...] > "Fossilized into our old working habits" ? Excuse me, I take exception to > that. I'm a 'fossil-luddite' because I argue that I'm suddenly

Re: Constant statement limitations.

Alex, I don't know if you and I are reading the dictionary in the same way: On 29/05/2012, at 9:00 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: [...] > The dictionary entry for constant says: >> >> If you place the constant statement in a handler, you can use the constant >> anywhere in the handler. If you place t

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Kay, thank you very much for the correction: On 29/05/2012, at 4:42 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: [...] > I don't know where you got the information about Versions "taking up a lot > of storage space" if you have a lot of backups, but my understanding its > the complete opposite. Like TimeMachine, Versio

Re: Upgrade to Lion

I've noticed some people complaining about Time Machine in this thread. On 30/05/2012, at 6:01 AM, François Chaplais wrote: [...] > about time machine: yes, it can be a plague. [...] I have to say, Time Machine has saved my skin twice already. First time, a visiting cousin accidentally droppe

Re: Another 5-out-5 review for LC!

Congratulations, RunRev! On 02/06/2012, at 4:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review: > Well deserved! And, talking about reviews, I came across a rather scathing write-up on LiveCode at the ver

Re: Another 5-out-5 review for LC!

On 03/06/2012, at 10:09 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: >>> Consider also, if a competitor or a "champion" of another >> product buys >>> yours in a public venue that works this way, such as the Mac App >>> Store. They can heap abuse on your product pretty much freely and >>> there is nothing you ca

Better Wiki With LiveCode?

Hi all, I am playing with developing a personal wiki - a la 'VoodooPad' (http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/) - in LiveCode. One of the features I always disliked about most wikis is the fact that the user has to enter their content in an 'edit mode', usually using some sort of markup language, ra

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

Thank you for the suggestion, Monte: On 06/06/2012, at 11:41 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > There's always a way: > > on selectionChanged > put the linkText of the selectedChunk > end selectionChanged That seems to work fine if I click on the link - ie., I can get the 'linktext' on mouse click

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

On 06/06/2012, at 12:51 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > I think we found a bug. If you hold down shift and use the arrow keys the > selectionChanged message is sent. If your just moving the cursor it isn't > sent but it should be. Do you want to report it or me? I'm pretty new at this - I don't eve

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

On 08/06/2012, at 1:27 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > if you amend the behaviour to how you suggest, then wont you make it > impossible to actually amend the text that represents the hyperlink? The proposed change would mean that the programmer would be able to correctly detect that the selection has ch

Re: replaceText

Hmm, let me see if I understand you correctly: On 13/06/2012, at 7:19 PM, Richmond wrote: > put fld "TEXXT" into TEXXT > if TEXXT contains "sugar" then >replaceText ("sugar","sugar","sweetener") > end if > put TEXXT into fld "TEXXT" > > doesn't work. So, in this example, are you trying to

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

On 14/06/2012, at 11:02 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > You are seeing a 70 pixel difference, and that is what is causing your > problem. > > If other people here test it and they get a 70 pixel difference then the > bug can be confirmed. I can confirm, that I do get quite a large difference - over 70. T

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

Hi, Dave! On 14/06/2012, at 5:29 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: [...] > My first thought was that applying MD5 twice or more times would perhaps > increase its security, but nowhere do I see this suggested as a solution. If > anyone can add any information or point out my probable misunderstanding, I'd

Use-Revolution vs. Use-LiveCode

Why do some people insist on using the address "use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com" instead of "use-livecode@lists.runrev.com"?: On 15/06/2012, at 8:07 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote (via use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com): > Reads more like Stirner to me. On 15/06/2012, at 8:08 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

Hi, Dave, Hmmm, let me see if I can expand a little on my explanation: On 14/06/2012, at 7:32 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: [...] > You can't go directly from a hash to the original text like you might with a > cipher once you understand the key. Hashes are cracked (I think) by using > precompiled ta

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

Please note: On 15/06/2012, at 5:19 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this should > be happening? Messages that are sent to the OLD list address ("use-revolution" instead of "use-livecode") are not recognised in my mail system as pa

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.05

On 16/06/2012, at 12:52 AM, Richmond wrote: >>> Unless anyone's password is "12345" >> Hey, that's the same password as my luggage! >> >> (sorry, Mel, I couldn't resist) >> Tim >> > > Personally I never use passwords that difficult for me to remember. Have a quick look at this: http://netforb

Re: sqLite in Memory

Please note: On 16/06/2012, at 10:20 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Interesting... coincidence. :-D > > http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ancient-aliens > Messages that are sent to the OLD list address ("use-revolution" instead of "use-livecode") are not recognised in my mail system as part of the

Re: sqLite in Memory

Apologies to all - my intention was not to 'spam the listserver': On 16/06/2012, at 1:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > There's no reason to spam the listserv with an autoreply. That's a > good way to get banned. Just fix your email filter. It's not rocket > science. If you need help, Google it. Cons

Re: sqLite in Memory

On 16/06/2012, at 1:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > If the message got here, by definition it's not a "wrong" address. > > Apparently both addresses wind up here so both are correct. I believe the old address is kept because of users that have to /choose to continue to use it, as pointed out pre

Support for Git

Hi all, As a newcomer to LiveCode, I have been a little frustrated by the lack of support for a version control system - like git, svn or the like. I have, therefore, added a feature request to the quality control system, here: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10275 If this is of inte

Re: sqLite in Memory

Richard, I do understand and appreciate your points. However: On 16/06/2012, at 11:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > If nothing else, consider this democratically: > > Either multiple people must make a modest change, or one person must make a > modest change. I am looking at this in the most dem

Re: Support for Git

Richard, thank you for the info: On 16/06/2012, at 11:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > RunRev took the first step toward satisfying this request some years ago, > allowing us to set the ID of any object. > > While potentially dangerous and not recommended for normal use, this is > necessary to e

Re: Where do you save preferences?

Hello, Bill, Not very long ago, I had the same question, and several users contributed their knowledge and experience in the different platforms, helping me compile an answer: On 17/06/2012, at 6:28 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Where do folks put application specific preferences on Windows and LIn

Re: Where do you save preferences?

tion extensively, so it is quite possible that there are further explanations elsewhere in their docs that may change this point of view. If anyone has any further info that may contradict this, please do let us know! Many thanks in advance, -- Igor de Oliveira Couto Managing Director Superstud

Re: Rev Online

Dear List Folks, On 20/06/2012, at 6:04 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Mark Rauterkus writes: > >> With Rev Online, can I delete some of my stacks already uploaded? I >> put some junk there in the past that should be deleted. > > RevOnline's functionality has been dead for over six months now. To br

Re: Rev Online

On 20/06/2012, at 5:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Hmmm. Well, my password has always worked fine. I have no trouble > logging in to revOnline. I just can't upload anything. Glad it worked > for you. Aaaah, 'must admit, haven't tried *that* yet... -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia _

Re: Works sometimes -- but not other times

On 22/06/2012, at 3:54 PM, Ken Corey wrote: > But again, why can't this all be done in the keyDown handler? ...or, if you are using the current version of LiveCode, you can use a 'textChanged' handler on the FIND field, which may give you even less worries! :-) The algorithm, if I understood y

Re: Uniquly identifying a stack

Hello, Peter, On 02/07/2012, at 11:02 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Probelm is I need to maintain uniqueness acorss two versions of the same > stack file. For example if both versions have a stack named "myStack" but > then its name gets changed to "YourStack" in one of the versions, it's no > long

Re: Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

Saluton, Jonathan! On 19/02/2013, at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Cooper wrote: > I've just created a stack with fields that will contain text in Esperanto. > I have a keyboard layout ("Esperanto-sc") installed on my Mac that allows > me to type special accented Esperanto characters (eg, "ĉ", "ŭ"). I spe

Re: Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

An alternative: On 19/02/2013, at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Cooper wrote: > Or, failing that, to > have Livecode automatically set the keyboard layout as soon as the field is > opened? That may not be always reliable, as in some systems - like the Mac - the user has to explicitly 'enable' the keyboar

Re: Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

Jonathan, I couldn't resist, and ended up trying this out myself: On 19/02/2013, at 3:42 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > For an more polished user experience, you can try developing a script that is > more forgiving when the user mixes upper- and lower-case 'x's, like

Re: 1001 things to do with LiveCode - only 400 page views per day

On 22/02/2013, at 9:48 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > On 22/02/2013, at 9:24 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > >> I agree with that Monte, The map was a fun curiosity I was just there the >> other day but it is not very useful beyond that. It would be great if there >> where more choices like le

Re: What are the advantages of using on-rev over installing on say: hostgator?

On 28/02/2013, at 12:21 PM, Shawn Blc wrote: > What are the advantages of using on-rev over installing on say: hostgator? I have used HostGator in the past, and it is a rather nice company - can't really say anything bad about it. They are responsive, always try to please their customers, and

Re: StackOverflow

Sites like StackOverflow can be extremely useful in promoting LiveCode among developers: On 07/03/2013, at 3:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > I'd like to encourage people to ask and answer questions on StackOverflow. I would also suggest that people consider using popular snippet-sharing sites,

Re: StackOverflow

On 09/03/2013, at 1:12 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Sounds like a fun project. Many people on stackoverflow post to gist if a > significant amount of code is required for the question or answer. Indeed, Gist would provide even more features than Snipplr - ie., forks and versioning - and I'm sur

Re: StackOverflow

I know this is becoming a bit [OT], but another worthwhile project for a LiveCode guru: add LiveCode syntax to the ACE editor project: http://ace.ajax.org/ ACE is an in-browser text editor made for programming. It is widely used in many programming and coding sites, like GitHub, and supports do

Re: How to start a LiveCode stack without running scripts?

On 13/03/2013, at 5:11 PM, Ueliweb wrote: > How to start a LiveCode stack without running scripts? That's one that should be put on StackOverflow, me thinks... Perhaps a title such as "How to open a stack without triggering openStack/openCard scripts?" -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___

Re: Paste Code to Match Existing Formatting

On 20/04/2013, at 11:04 AM, charles61 wrote: > How do you script to allow the user to paste the selected text into a > document so that it matches the type of font and size of font used in the > word processing document? Whether the user can match the format of the text in the document will depe

Re: Paste Code to Match Existing Formatting

On 20/04/2013, at 12:34 PM, charles61 wrote: > Thanks. I am aware of but was wondering how to script this in LiveCode to do > this automatically. In the past, I have an option menu where the use could > select font and font size for pasting from an app to a word processing > document. I belie

Re: error creating table for postgres

On 22/04/2013, at 10:54 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I think the following had been working for some time, but now it creates an > error: > > CREATE TABLE plumber_joe_the__001_sofa (uniq_sfky INTEGER PRIMARY KEY , > subq CHAR(3) , a TEXT, b TEXT, c TEXT, d TEXT, ordr INTEGER, user CHAR(20), > tstmp

Re: Internet headers of LiveCode CGI

On 22/04/2013, at 11:29 PM, paolo mazza wrote: > Am I supposed to modify some configurantion files of Apache or can I set > the internet headers of the CGI using a LiveCode function? Try looking at the description of the "httpHeaders" property in the documentation, and let us know if you need a

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