Re: Reverse a list

2015-02-16 Thread Jerry Jensen
Good point. Besides being a good general habit, it would be especially important to make recursive functions private. .Jerry > On Feb 16, 2015, at 7:18 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > It's important to note that the efficiency is all/mostly in the function > call, not in the execution of the functi

Re: LiveCode 7.0.3: a new meme

2015-02-27 Thread Jerry Jensen
+1 for modTableField. > On Feb 27, 2015, at 12:35 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > Hi Terence, > I agree with your comment about why a developer should have to implement > the features you mentioned. > > However, I suggest you take a look at Bernd's modTableField control. I > believe it has almos

Re: Visual effects on iOS?

2015-03-01 Thread Jerry Jensen
I haven't tried it, but from the dictionary: Use the (optional) 'for visual effect' variant of the lock screen command if you want to subsequently unlock the screen using a visual effect. .Jerry > On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:45 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > I'm using 6.7.3 on the most recent version of

on-rev outage

2015-03-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
Diesel.on-rev.com has been down, for me at least, for about 8 hours. This is a big problem. Is everybody at on-rev affected? The server status page is out too. An urgent support ticket is gathering dust... .Jerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: on-rev outage

2015-03-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Mar 5, 2015, at 10:15 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > >> On Mar 5, 2015, at 7:35 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> An urgent support ticket is gathering dust... > > Several urgent tickets I imagine, Simon on the LC Forums has had a reply from > RR, but that was o

Re: Text Field in LC 7

2015-03-07 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Mar 7, 2015, at 3:28 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > I too got scared off the Geometry Manager from posts on this list and > rolled my own. Me too. > I'm a big fan of modTableField but I must admit I've never resized one, > except when first setting it up. I wonder if there's more going on tha

Re: [OT] Apple Wireless mouse

2015-03-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
I like it too. Every once in a while it does something I don't want when I'm careless about the edges. I don't think I'd recommend it to a newbie, though - I'd have to teach them how to use it. The Apple alternative, the one with the tiny little rollerball, is easier to teach but the ball gets

Re: [OT] Apple Wireless mouse

2015-03-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
I do know what you mean. I guess I've learned to be careful. It could (should) be better. I must say that I hope the new script editor has smooth scrolling. My old tired eye loses track when things jump-scroll. I find it too cumbersome to use an external editor. Maybe I could learn to ... .Jer

Re: How to add a new item into the end of an existing line?

2015-03-16 Thread Jerry Jensen
Keith, There is a good explanation of chunk expressions in the User Guide, starting on p. 168. You get to the User Guide by opening the Resource Center from the toolbar, which has a link to download the PDF of the User Guide. There is lots of good stuff in there that explains the basics. What

Re: Livecode's math precision

2015-03-17 Thread Jerry Jensen
They diverge at the 15th decimal digit. That is about where the 64 bit format runs out of mantissa precision. You only get about 7 with the 32 bit format. .Jerry > On Mar 17, 2015, at 6:55 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: > > Mike > > This explanation from Mark Waddingham confirms that numbers are h

Re: Getting in a mix-up with COMn

2015-04-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Apr 3, 2015, at 8:05 AM, Richmond wrote: > >> read from file "COM3:" until end >> >> is the Dictionary example. >> > > Indeed; although the problem seems to be with 'end'. I have used the following with a driver for a Keyspan USB-to-serial adapter on a mac: read from driver tWxPort unti

Re: Please recommend a text editor

2015-04-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Apr 5, 2015, at 4:20 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On all other platforms I use GNU Emacs, the one editor to rule them all, the > ultimate editor, the true choice of Real Programmers, etc. etc. "I refuse to get involved in a theological argument." - Charlie Brown ___

Re: Repeat syntax addition

2015-04-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
Hi Mike, > On Apr 5, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > > While not exactly whats been requested, this works pretty well: > >repeat for each line tLine in (myFilter(sData,"abc*","with")) > > I like the way a where clause reads as in the OP, but being able to use an > inline function f

Re: Lest anyone else go mad

2015-04-10 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Apr 10, 2015, at 6:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I wasted an afternoon going crazy It usually takes me much less time. Practice, practice, practice! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: An interesting programming challenge

2015-04-10 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Apr 10, 2015, at 8:04 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > I tried using Jerry’s approach under ActionScript, slightly modified to use > arrays instead of strings, and it took just over 300 mS. Tried as Javascript > too, and that seemed to be under 2 milliseconds! Wow! That Javascript number is imp

Re: When is a stack "dirty"?

2015-04-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Apr 8, 2015, at 12:29 PM, stephen barncard > wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 9:33 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> Surely the IDE should be aware that a save is needed in those >> circumstances? >> > > I never thought about it. > I save save save save all the time anyway and never trust

Re: fastes way to search an array?

2015-04-23 Thread Jerry Jensen
Actually it may be a bit faster with the two tests if a lot of them match at the beginning. Testing at the beginning (begins with) is a lot faster than spinning through the entire thing (contains), and if the first clause of the OR is satisfied, it won’t execute the second clause. So, maybe. I

Re: On-Rev server Pancake problems - old backup restored?

2015-04-30 Thread Jerry Jensen
Thanks, Richard. Interesting data in that article. I’ve been buying HGST Ultrastar drives. I’m surprised to not see them mentioned in the article. I prefer them for their 5 year warranty, which implies that they may last longer. The price difference is not much compared to what a failure costs i

Re: Simulator, externals and LC 7.0.5

2015-05-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On May 8, 2015, at 6:27 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 2:19 PM, J. Landman Gay > wrote: > >> You were lucky. Blame never works on my husband. > > Whether I had anything to do with it or not, my wife blames me . . . I have a standing offer at work - I’m always available

Re: Simulator, externals and LC 7.0.5

2015-05-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On May 8, 2015, at 8:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 05/08/2015 06:45 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > >> I have a standing offer at work - I’m always available for blame. Its just >> easier that way. >> .Jerry > > Oh good. I'm gonna need somebody to bla

Re: Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

2015-05-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
We went through this a while ago, I think a challenge forwarded by Mark Wieder. The problem is that integers overflow and start giving wrong answers part way to 100. I forget the exact place it happens. I wrote a few that did it the hard way (character by character arithmetic) - I’ll see if I c

Re: Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour

2015-05-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
Fibonacci calculator that won’t overflow. Here’s one, I think there were others. The script is in the GO button. Copy into your message box: go url "http://sysoper0.com/calcFibs.livecode” .Jerry > On May 9, 2015, at 5:12 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > > We went through this a while

on-rev trouble again?

2015-05-24 Thread Jerry Jensen
My web pages aren't loading from Diesel. Also the Server Status page doesn't load content, only title. Urgent support request sent. Here we go again? .Jerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: on-rev trouble again?

2015-05-24 Thread Jerry Jensen
s > > Peter > >> On 25 May 2015, at 09:23, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> My web pages aren't loading from Diesel. Also the Server Status page doesn't >> load content, only title. Urgent support request sent. Here we go again? >> .Jerry >> >

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

2015-06-26 Thread Jerry Jensen
Bernd’s excellent modTableField manages it. I haven’t explored how its done, but in a modTableField, you can get a selectionChanged message. Its very useful! .Jerry > On Jun 26, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > >> Do you mean a ch

Re: [OT] Gravatars?

2015-06-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jun 29, 2015, at 7:59 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 06/29/2015 01:20 PM, Richmond wrote: > >> Somebody has asked me to "add a photo of yourself to your Gravatar". > > I had to go look up Gravatar. > Wikipedia says it's a portmanteau, but I'm not sure that's completely > correct, unless "

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-01 Thread Jerry Jensen
Diesel is serving web pages. On-rev email is working (IMAP, I don’t use SMTP). livecode.com no . downloads.livecode.com no . on-rev.com no (!)(I guess it isn’t really in the on-rev hosting) > On Jul 1, 2015, at 5:04 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > Not just the forum, all of livecode.com > > So far

Diesel

2015-07-15 Thread Jerry Jensen
Oh, poor diesel. Having another conniption fit? Emergency support request sent. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.co

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jul 16, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Jana Doughty writes: > >> We have a preview of HTML5 Deployment and two demos to share with you! > > Wow. > A calculator on a website. > Welcome to 1995, folks. In the ’70’s in Seattle (and maybe other places), somebody marketed “telecalc

Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
Hello bug chasers, This is regarding bug report 11142: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11142&list_id=33024 I first reported this almost 2 years ago, and it had been happening for a while before that. I just received a note from Panos that it is fixed in 6.7.6 and probably before. It i

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Jerry- > > Sorry to report that it works for me. > Command-underscore comments > Command-shift-underscore removes comments > > OSX 10.10.4 > LC 6.7.7 rc1 > Mac Air > no third-party components Thanks Mark, Peter, Colin and Bernd. Very myste

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jul 22, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > > On 22.07.2015 at 16:56 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen apparently wrote: >> >> Thanks Mark, Peter, Colin and Bernd. Very mysterious! I'll try it on a few >> other computers at work when I get back there tomor

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
think it will help. I’m using > LC7.0.6(rc3) on OS X 10.10.4 > > Baffled. > > Paul > > >> On Jul 22, 2015, at 16:56, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> >>> On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >>> >>> Jerry- >>> >

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-23 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jul 23, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > > On 22.07.2015 at 17:55 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen apparently wrote: >> Thanks for the suggestion, Robert. >> >> Yep - two different wired Apple keyboards (with and without numeric keypad) >> plugged direc

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-23 Thread Jerry Jensen
if some > combination of those settings might trigger the problem. > > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 2:20 PM Jerry Jensen wrote: > >> >>> On Jul 23, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote: >>> >>> On 22.07.2015 at 17:55 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen appar

Re: Importing UTF-8 files

2015-08-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
Thanks for the link. I need to “grow up” and move some stacks to 7. I will need to re-re-learn about unicode before it bites me. .Jerry Jensen > On Aug 18, 2015, at 1:50 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > i would highly recommend a "deep read" of the read me docs for 7.05 wher

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

2015-09-01 Thread Jerry Jensen
Thanks, Bob. Very informative to this total JS noob. .Jerry On Sep 1, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Bob Warren wrote: > > Please allow me to elucidate a little on the question of file I-O in the > local file system using Javascript, in the hope that it will be useful to > some of you, or that it might in

Re: Compare numeric strings with leading zeros

2015-09-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
What’s wrong with simply: function stringsAreEqual p1, p2 return (p1 & "z") = (p2 & "z") end stringsAreEqual As Terry Judd and Mark Wieder suggested yesterday? .Jerry > On Sep 3, 2015, at 8:56 PM, Thierry Douez wrote: > > Hi, > >> Ah, > > Well, nothing very dangerous here :) > >

Re: Silly conference survey

2015-09-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
I’ve always wanted to visit Antarctica, but I wasn’t invited to the survey. Maybe that’s why. > On Sep 8, 2015, at 1:09 PM, Richmond wrote: > > survey would have looked a bit more friendly if it had left a chance open for > participants to suggest other cities in other states/countries than th

Re: Thoughts about Functions, Pseudocode & Natural Language

2015-09-12 Thread Jerry Jensen
And then there’s the well-known Forth construct: ComeFrom . . . .Jerry > On Sep 12, 2015, at 2:07 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > > Richmond, I was actually programming in the 1960s in languages that had ‘go > to’ but very few or maybe no other control structures. It was a mess and I > made a great

Re: App Browser versus Project Browser

2015-10-07 Thread Jerry Jensen
What Scott and Jacque wrote. I might add that it doesn’t take many controls to get confusing. Just a few modTableFields (thanks, Bernd!) that have fields named the same, and you can easily be lost. I can guess it would be even more confusing with datagrids. .Jerry > On Oct 7, 2015, at 4:20 PM,

Re: Home servers, anyone?

2015-10-27 Thread Jerry Jensen
I’m doing a similar thing, but writing the current IP# to a particular dropbox file that is shared with me. > On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > > I know someone that had a dynamic setup like you describe. It was simple > and easy for 1 person access. > > He had a local script

Re: Home servers, anyone?

2015-10-27 Thread Jerry Jensen
for that (just to keep it in LiveCode). > On Oct 27, 2015 11:05 PM, "Jerry Jensen" wrote: > >> I’m doing a similar thing, but writing the current IP# to a particular >> dropbox file that is shared with me. >> >>> On Oct 27, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Roger

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-11-02 Thread Jerry Jensen
Dragging the sides of a window to resize. > On Nov 2, 2015, at 10:18 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Yeah. It's usually the other way around! ;-) > > Bob S > > > On Oct 30, 2015, at 15:33 , Richard Gaskin > mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: > >> Puttin' on my holy war pants... I hope th

Re: Chromebook deployment...

2015-11-02 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Nov 2, 2015, at 11:38 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > This is kind of like arguing about whether Bootsy or Larry Graham started > popping first. How about Pops Popwell? Or was he much later? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.c

Diesel down again?

2015-11-02 Thread Jerry Jensen
Is diesel down again? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Calculating the sum of a *lot* of primes

2015-11-11 Thread Jerry Jensen
Interesting challenge, and puzzling crashiness. As a first thought, making the bAdd function private might have some speed advantage - but since the message path isn’t very complicated in this example, it might not be a lot. I’m not sure how many primes are involved, but I think its lots, as you

Re: Scrolling Smoothly through Large Scripts

2015-12-24 Thread Jerry Jensen
+1 My eyesight is not great and this is a continuing problem for me, even with non-large scripts and editor window. .Jerry > On Dec 24, 2015, at 8:59 AM, Ray wrote: > > Seasons Greetings on Christmas Eve! > > Does anybody know how to scroll just one line per mouse-wheel movement > through the

Re: list of compatible Xcode versions for various LC versions?

2016-01-11 Thread Jerry Jensen
I am also thankful, but the answer could use updating to current versions. .Jerry > On Jan 11, 2016, at 8:24 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > Perfect - thanks Steve! > > Terry... > > On 12/01/2016 2:49 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Stephen MacLean" > smacl...@madmansoft.com> wrote: > >> Hi Terry >

Re: LC 8 hard question...

2016-02-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
Eminently quotable! This is why I will not take fixed-price jobs. .Jerry > On Feb 29, 2016, at 9:45 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > * Any projection of ship dates from any one about any software is, > ultimately, a form of guesswork. We have 50 years of ACM literature to back > that up, and

Re: Help with Nested Arrays - Json

2016-04-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
I, for one, have no issue with Brahma’s netiquette. I read his posts and learn with him, and now thank him. .Jerry > On Apr 18, 2016, at 7:45 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > That said, if this is bad etiquite > On 4/18/16, 3:04 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of [-hh]" > wrote: > >

Re: ListStyle - How to control distance between the list marker and subsequent text

2016-04-24 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Apr 24, 2016, at 9:57 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > > Where is the documentation on all the new field props added in 7? > > ( I don’t mean in the dictionary, but as a separate… “these are > > the new things…” document > > The field object was writt

Re: Hexier and Hexier

2016-05-01 Thread Jerry Jensen
Have you seen the baseConvert() function? In the dictionary. > On May 1, 2016, at 8:58 AM, RM wrote: > > I have now included a "catcher so that when you try to decode a Hexadecimal > number > of the form "123WP2A" it will catch you out and point out that that isn't a > Hex number. > > This ma

Re: [OT] Atkinson Interview, Pt 2

2016-05-01 Thread Jerry Jensen
He attended and spoke at the LC conference in San Jose. He had written most of PhotoCard in ObjectiveC and was looking at the cross-platform possibilities of LC. Since then, I don’t know his plan or interest. I was surprised as well that he didn’t mention LC in the interview. .Jerry > On May 1,

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-02 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On May 2, 2016, at 12:14 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > > Hi from Beautiful Brittnay, > > Richard, > >> nor to the 60-85 year old crowd >> (I'll become a slobbering old, senile whatsit in >> my own good time anyway). > > > I think I should take umbrage on the insinuation that > the 60-

Re: Running Node (or any unix cmd line program) from Shell from a LC Stack

2016-05-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
Which shell runs from the command line? Maybe not /bin/sh > On May 8, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > > I have a stack with a field that contains a shell script: > > cd /Users/Brahmanathaswami/Documents/media-books/_hap-epub-export-tool > node index.js --epubFile ###

Re: Running Node (or any unix cmd line program) from Shell from a LC Stack

2016-05-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
Never mind, the msg box does run /bin/sh Sorry for the bandwidth waste > On May 8, 2016, at 1:46 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > > Which shell runs from the command line? Maybe not /bin/sh > >> On May 8, 2016, at 1:20 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami >> wrote: >> >

Re: Defaults for groups

2016-05-13 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On May 13, 2016, at 8:12 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > Am I the only one wishing that when we create a group the defaults should be > no border, no border width assign and margins 0? I’m with you on this. .Jerry ___ use-livecode ma

Re: Cubist's first bug report

2016-06-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
I just spent a few minutes in the 8.0.1 dictionary and did not find it. That thing is useless! Maybe its because I’m new to 8, but where is “any" documented? How in the world does one find it? .Jerry > On Jun 5, 2016, at 2:50 PM, ** Clarence P Martin ** > wrote: > > I feel that I am somewhere

Re: Cubist's first bug report

2016-06-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
lost, > is the word "any". I clicked on it and I got a description. > > Of course, if one is learning the language... Why would anybody think to > look for "any"? > > > >> On Jun 5, 2016, at 4:06 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> I just

Re: The 'startup' message not working in IDE

2016-06-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jun 8, 2016, at 4:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I thought assigning values in a variable declaration was discouraged. I probably missed that memo, I haven’t been keeping up as much as I should. I’m not in the habit of doing that except with constants, but should I avoid letting it become

Re: The 'startup' message not working in IDE

2016-06-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
The dictionary claims that it is legal syntax (in 7 and 8). The example therein shows that handler locals can be declared and assigned values at runtime using a do in a loop. I would never have thought of that! .Jerry > On Jun 8, 2016, at 7:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 06/08/2016 05:50 PM,

Re: The 'startup' message not working in IDE

2016-06-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
& cr after msg end repeat put tOut after msg end mouseUp .Jerry > On Jun 8, 2016, at 9:15 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 06/08/2016 07:40 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > >> The dictionary claims that it is legal syntax (in 7 and 8). The example >> therein shows that handler l

Re: The 'startup' message not working in IDE

2016-06-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jun 9, 2016, at 6:31 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > On 06/09/2016 05:11 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> True, true. in that example the “;” separates the declaration command from >> the assignment command. My mistake. >> >> However, here is an example that

Re: The 'startup' message not working in IDE

2016-06-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
Hah! I was wondering if anybody would get that. > On Jun 9, 2016, at 6:53 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > > Yeah, I started out in FORTRAN a half century ago, and I have habits from > that. > >> On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:42 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> Heck, I st

Re: Windows 10 script editor problem

2016-06-16 Thread Jerry Jensen
One more thing that might show up in “the screenrects” would be messes like left >= right or top >= bottom. .Jerry > On Jun 16, 2016, at 12:39 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > > I wasn't thinking resolution, but some surprise, like ten monitors or a super > huge monitor. > > Maybe there was something

Re: Does anyone see this message?

2016-06-18 Thread Jerry Jensen
Hmm. I do see my posts. Is this a gmail thing? I send and receive through Dreamhost. Sending or receiving from my own servers also works the same. .Jerry > On Jun 18, 2016, at 11:16 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > In this list you don’t see your own messages. > > >> On Jun 18, 2016, at 2:15 PM,

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 38

2016-06-20 Thread Jerry Jensen
Fortunately, ‘cussing’ always has two ’s’, but sometimes no ‘g’. > On Jun 20, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Richmond wrote: > > That certainly puts things in perspective. > > Lovely job! > > Richmond. > > On 20.06.2016 17:56, [-hh] wrote: >> Jerry D. wrote: >>> 'Focusing' has only one 's'. Not two. >> Th

Re: A DataGrid is not a spreadsheet

2016-07-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
Hello Javier, You might like looking at Bernd Niggemann’s modTableField. Its a lot simpler than the dataGrid and very useful for many purposes. It has built in manual editing of cells and much more. http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/modTableField/modTableField_0_3_2.zip Its free and well documente

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
Stephen: see bug http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18160 Something isn’t right with dontUseQT. .Jerry > On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:52 PM, stephen barncard > wrote: > > Brahma, > > did you turn off Quicktime? > > > We have a new audio foundation in LC. I'm about to test it myself for the

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
Sebastopol Ca. USA - > mixstream.org > > On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 2:00 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > >> Stephen: see bug http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18160 >> Something isn’t right with dontUseQT. >> .Jerry >> >>> On Aug 8, 2016, at 12:52 P

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 9 Aug 2016, at 7:23 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> And I’m happy that you did! I never knew of it. Someday I hope to use it, >> but not right now. >> Also see bug 18161 which is a follow-u

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Aug 8, 2016, at 5:14 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 9 Aug 2016, at 9:45 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> It still shouldn’t crash on quit even if an ignoramus like me tries to use >> it. > > Yes if you are getting a crash under any circumstan

Re: [on-rev] Diesel Is Down

2016-08-16 Thread Jerry Jensen
Diesel is OK for me. CPanel and sites work. No fixed IP#. Very generic setup. .Jerry > On Aug 16, 2016, at 11:47 AM, Phil Davis wrote: > > You're not alone, Ralph! > > When I try to login via ssh, I get this: >Could not resolve hostname : nodename nor servname provided, > or not known > >

Re: blockchain

2016-08-23 Thread Jerry Jensen
IEEE is getting interested in blockchain technology. Here’s a basic article: http://theinstitute.ieee.org/technology-topics/computing/getting-linked-to-the-blockchain .Jerry J > On Aug 20, 2016, at 2:17 AM, David Bovill wrote: > > Mike that would be great. I'd like to get together a small grou

Re: Logic Flow Chart App

2016-08-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
I use a pen and paper. It helps me think it through without dealing with yet another piece of software. One client jokingly accused me of drawing cartoons on the job. .Jerry > On Aug 29, 2016, at 1:29 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Hi all. > > Anyone know of a good logic flow chart editor? I am

Re: excessive bounces

2016-10-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
Maybe it is something to do with gmail. I don’t use gmail and didn’t get the message. My email comes to me through Dreamhost. .Jerry > On Oct 29, 2016, at 5:53 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > > I got the same message, had to re-verify my subscription. Did gmail start > doing something different?

Re: excessive bounces

2016-11-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
Has anybody had a look at the headers of a bounce message? Do those messages actually exist? > On Nov 14, 2016, at 4:45 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > I don’t think your email client makes a difference. Some are using Gmail, I’m > using Mail, others are using browsers. >

Re: excessive bounces

2016-11-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
to look for that. > > >> On Nov 14, 2016, at 7:55 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: >> >> Has anybody had a look at the headers of a bounce message? Do those messages >> actually exist? >> >>> On Nov 14, 2016, at 4:45 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: >>> >

Re: excessive bounces

2016-11-14 Thread Jerry Jensen
. Heather said so, dreamhost said so. Don’t care now. Its a problem for the new owner of jhj.com if the problem still exists. > On Nov 14, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > I’m on Verizon, something else must be going on. > >> On Nov 14, 2016, at 9:34 PM, Jerry Jensen wro

Re: [OT] unhosing .rev and .livecode files

2016-12-03 Thread Jerry Jensen
Just one additional level of warning - if you keep Dropbox or Google Drive online, malware can get there too. Usually the baddies just trash your directory, but if they encrypt everything you have accessible online, Dropbox and Google Drive won’t help you. Offline backup is essential, offsite is

Re: EBCDIC to ASCII

2016-12-28 Thread Jerry Jensen
Ee. > On Dec 28, 2016, at 8:32 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > Anyone here have a function to translate the old EBCDIC encoding format to > anything more modern format like ASCII or UTF-8? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, M

Hunting Default Preferences

2023-05-07 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
handler, but that is annoying at best. Where should I look? Regards, Jerry Jensen M1 MacBook Pro, OS 13.3.1 LC 9.6.9 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Hunting Default Preferences

2023-05-07 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
:58 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Jerry, >> >> did you already try to delete the LC preference file? >> >> The function revEnvironmentUserPreferencesPath() >> returns the path to the preferences file. >> >> >

Re: Hunting Default Preferences

2023-05-07 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
t; did you already try to delete the LC preference file? > > The function revEnvironmentUserPreferencesPath() > returns the path to the preferences file. > > > >> Am 07.05.2023 um 23:39 schrieb Jerry Jensen via use-livecode >> : >> >> Hi folks, >&

Re: Managing windows in the IDE on Mac

2023-07-31 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
I now always "set the backdrop to none” right away in the main stack. Otherwise mine is always black. Pain. .Jerry > On Jul 31, 2023, at 8:56 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hey Dar! So nice to see you here again. > > The backdrop problem is a known bug on Ventura. Sometimes

Re: OT Friendly customers....

2021-01-28 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
> On Jan 28, 2021, at 11:46 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > > As I wrote to you offlist, in reply to your hateful and cursing rant: Ce fromage pue ! Please keep it offlist. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: Whatever happened to on-rev?

2021-08-19 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Eh, wot? For me it redirects to https://livecode.com (in Safari on a mac). .Jerry > On Aug 19, 2021, at 4:43 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > ? > looks like it bit the dust. > > http://on-rev.com/ > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > _

Re: OT: Facebook -> Meta (Damaged Infinity!)

2021-10-29 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
An alert viewer of his big announcement video noted that the bookshelf behind Zuck had a BBQ sauce bottle being used as a bookend. He surmised that the set had been specified by an algorithm that chose the bottle because it is something that humans enjoy. > On Oct 29, 2021, at 2:17 PM, doc hawk

Re: Sorting cards

2021-12-30 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Behold the new keyword undoSort > On Dec 30, 2021, at 12:19 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > > jacqui jagged, > >> What's the best way to ignore the previous sort order? > > I think what you’re looking at here isn’t even livecode itself. > > Just about any computer sort doesn’t ch

Re: [OT] Converting to LiveCode from VAX VMS

2022-01-11 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
And just think of what to do with the extra floor space! > On Jan 11, 2022, at 12:31 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > Well my old VAX/VMS friend has finally died. It ran 24/7 for 26 years and was > only rebooted every 2 or three years(power outage or disk replacement). It's > e

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Could using “is among the keys of sDictFile” instead of the loop be another advantage? .Jerry > On Mar 2, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Devin Asay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Jacque, > > Have you tried > > put the keys of sDictFile into tCorrWdList > repeat for each line I in pList > if I is among t

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
> On Mar 2, 2022, at 4:19 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode > wrote: > > Could using “is among the keys of sDictFile” instead of the loop be another > advantage? > .Jerry > >> On Mar 2, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Devin Asay via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >>

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Arrgh. Try again. “among the keys of C” instead of the keys of tCorrWdList like I wrote. I’ll quit now. .Jerry > On Mar 2, 2022, at 5:44 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode > wrote: > > Now that I’m thinking more directly, I’ll try again: > > Instead of putting the keys OF

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
That does make sense and now I understand the problem. > On Mar 2, 2022, at 6:19 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Actually, this is what I do: > > if sDictFile[L] = true then... > > which I thought would be pretty fast since it's accessing the array directly. > The array lo

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
I did not know about filter! I think I am cured of my “among” disease. .Jerry > On Mar 2, 2022, at 7:29 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > I ran into this when doing mobile predictive typing for US cities(40,000) > with a scrollable dropdown of results. I did with a loop in JavaScri

Re: playrate & templateimage

2022-03-24 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Izotope > On Mar 24, 2022, at 9:19 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Now THAT is interesting. I used to play guitar along with music in my iTunes. > The problem is that recording studios used to alter the pitch of their songs > (and so the time of the song) slightly, in order to

Re: playrate & templateimage

2022-03-24 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
> On Mar 24, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Am 24.03.2022 um 18:31 schrieb Jerry Jensen via use-livecode > : >> >> Izotope > > Gesundheit! :-D Ha! I last said Gesundheit after a dinner companion exclaimed about her salad:

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
Wait, I like octal! I admit I have not used it since writing a disassembler for the HP-85, which nobody but me ever used. I agree with Ralf - carrots would be just fine. .Jerry > On Jun 9, 2022, at 5:44 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > So I'm currently sitting here about to e

Re: Guess encoding for text file...

2019-09-19 Thread Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
On Sep 19, 2019, at 11:53 AM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote: > > Yeah. I love the smell of burning bytes. 4 bits is called a nybble, and 2 bits is called a snyf. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

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