Regarding the interactive tutorial

Is there a way to "rewind" it. That is back up a step or two. I managed to mess it up a couple of times and it would have been nice to redo a previous step instead of having to start over. I'm curious if anyone else using Linux (Ubuntu in my case) had trouble figuring out how to scroll the

Re: Ho to pay pledge

On 05/24/2016 11:34 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/24/2016 06:32 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/24/2016 8:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/24/2016 04:21 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I received an email with a customized link. In fact, I got three of them. Maybe one was yours... I also got three

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

On 05/13/2016 04:34 PM, stephen barncard wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 12:35 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: My regards to all who have pledged or who intend to pledge, no matter how little or how much - and I'll see you on the sunny side of the street some day! Kind

Re: Weird behavior of LC 8.0 in Ubuntu 14.04

On 05/04/2016 05:15 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes@...> writes: I am curious to see if any other Ubuntu users are seeing anything similar. For now I am guessing that LC 8 is somehow interacting with some desktop or theme setting I have set. The backdrop doesn't work on

Weird behavior of LC 8.0 in Ubuntu 14.04

Running Ubuntu 14.04 - AMD64 I downloaded LiveCodeCommunityInstaller-8_0_0-Linux.x64 from livecode.org. When the installation finished I clicked on the run button but it did not run. I was able to start it using the Dash. At some point I was asked if I wanted to update to LC 8 DP16. Before

Re: A brief message about my book

On 04/16/2016 03:24 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi everyone, We're currently at the fourth print run of my book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner. We decided to print a large stock of books, so we have plenty of copies available for immediate delivery. The fourth print of Programming

Re: Does autoupdater work in Linux?

On 04/12/2016 08:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 04/12/2016 05:26 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Running Ubuntu 14.04 - Livecode 8.0.0-DP-16. I clicked on help-->check for updates but nothing downloaded. If I look in /.runrev/updates/livecode I see that a update_uuid.txt was generated and was timestam

Does autoupdater work in Linux?

Running Ubuntu 14.04 - Livecode 8.0.0-DP-16. I clicked on help-->check for updates but nothing downloaded. If I look in /.runrev/updates/livecode I see that a update_uuid.txt was generated and was timestamped about the time I tried to update but nothing was updated. Regards, Jim

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

On 04/01/2016 06:47 PM, Jim Kanter wrote: Then there’s this: https://livecode.com/new-livecode-app-building-course/ I guess this is part of what confused me. That link leads to a $75 course. This one leads to a $59 course. https://livecode.com/courses/create-it-with-livecode-course/

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

ons on the right I don't see anything that jumps out at me as being very graphics intensive. So is this version less graphics intensive? If I could work my way through most of the desktop centered lesions using Linux the price is certainly right. Regards, Jim 1. apr. 2016 kl. 03.24 skrev Jim Byr

Re: Difficulty using Livecode.com

Jim Byrnes wrote: As a new user I sometimes find Livecode.com difficult to use. Generally speaking I find some parts of it not very intuitive. Specifically I had this problem: [1] I go to Livecode.com and click on the Get Started button. [2] That takes me here: https://livecode.com/download

Difficulty using Livecode.com

As a new user I sometimes find Livecode.com difficult to use. Generally speaking I find some parts of it not very intuitive. Specifically I had this problem: [1] I go to Livecode.com and click on the Get Started button. [2] That takes me here: https://livecode.com/download/. Since I have

Re: Problem updating to Version 8 (DP16)

On 03/24/2016 05:21 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 24/03/2016 20:43, Jim Byrnes wrote: I have version 8 (DP 14) installed on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.04. When I opened the start center there were a couple of buttons visible. One referred to version 7.xx and the other was an upgrade to DP 16

Problem updating to Version 8 (DP16)

I have version 8 (DP 14) installed on my laptop running Ubuntu 14.04. When I opened the start center there were a couple of buttons visible. One referred to version 7.xx and the other was an upgrade to DP 16. I clicked on the DP 16 button a download progress bar appeared. I must have lost my

Re: The Future of LiveCode in Education

On 02/29/2016 02:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: William Prothero wrote: > Richard; > Agreed. Perhaps it’s my age. Yes, of course it won’t be a good > strategy to compare Livecode to Hypercard. I only brought it up in > an attempt to contrast the wide early adoption of Hypercard by >

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/28/2016 09:51 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/28/2016 07:20 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Finally had time to give this a try and it is exactly what I was trying to accomplish. I am still learning how to work with the ide. Once I had the group set up, at first I couldn't figure out how to make

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 05:33 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/25/2016 02:42 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: The other environments I have used had a control that was essentially a box with a border around it. At the left end of the top border you could embed a label in the border itself. You could then drop other

Re: Is this a dictionary error?

On 02/26/2016 06:33 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: Comments: It is convenient to use the revDataFromQuery function, instead of revDatabaseQuery,... Which version are you using? When I check the LC 8.0 dp15 Dictionary i

Is this a dictionary error?

I was researching connecting to a sqlite db. In the dictionary I was reading about revDataFromQuery. In the comments section I read this: Comments: It is convenient to use the revDataFromQuery function, instead of revDatabaseQuery,... When I searched for revDatabaseQuery I couldn't find it.

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 09:50 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: That worked, thank you very much. And just in case you are wondering how it got that way, as you didn't type any commands. My guess is that this property can be set

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 07:25 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 02/25/2016 06:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Try this in the Message Box (replacing "YourStack" with your stack's >> name of course): >> >>put the mode of stack "Y

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 06:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 02/25/2016 04:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Try this in the Message Box: >> >>put the name of this stack && the mode of this stack >> > > Doing that results in: stac

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 04:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: Here ctrl-tab toggles the tool palette. I tried a number of modifier keys + another key combinations with no effect. To me it looks like I am stuck in run mode. I can drag a control off of the palette and drop it on the stack

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 03:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/25/2016 12:44 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: On 02/25/2016 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code. > I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it'

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 03:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > I just tried to recreate what happened,but could not get it to happen > again. So I guess it is not reproducible. > > I did restore the file from trash and can send it to you if you think > that it would be

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code. > I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it's size. > Then I dropped 2 radio buttons inside the boundaries of the of the &

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/25/2016 05:59 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: Welome Jim, What happens if you forget your first test stack and start a fresh. Start LiveCode, create a New Stack. Have you got the Pointer Tool back? Can you drag buttons and fields onto your new stack now? Yes, I deleted the original stack and

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

On 02/24/2016 10:50 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: I am running the Community Edition vers 7.1.1 Build 10048 on Ubuntu 14.04. I am just getting started with Livecode and was laying out the gui for my first little project

Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

I am running the Community Edition vers 7.1.1 Build 10048 on Ubuntu 14.04. I am just getting started with Livecode and was laying out the gui for my first little project. I'm not sure what I did but the cursor changed to the hand pointer and now I can no longer work with any of my controls.

Re: Livecode University & Linux

On 02/18/2016 05:34 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Feb 17, 2016, at 7:44 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byr...@comcast.net> wrote: I recently discovered Livecode and have worked through a couple of tutorials. I would be interested in taking the two courses I found but the faq says windows or mac requir

Livecode University & Linux

I recently discovered Livecode and have worked through a couple of tutorials. I would be interested in taking the two courses I found but the faq says windows or mac required. I asked over on the forums if Linux could be used to take the courses but never really received a definitive answer.