Re: Licensing Issues for LC developers [was: Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help]

2011-10-03 Thread Kee Nethery
n is incorrect. Kee Nethery On Oct 3, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > The applicable part of the GPL referring to compiled and complete versions of > programs (such as GhostScript in binary form, which is what I intend to use) > is Section 6. It does allow use of the compiled

Alternatives to SiteGrinder?

2011-09-23 Thread Kee Nethery
r? Something that I can drop and drag GUI elements and have it create CSS and HTML? If I have the HTML and CSS, I can have RevServer "create" the HTML with the data in it. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: displaying Application.icns file images?

2011-09-14 Thread Kee Nethery
My apology, I should have looked harder. Found the solution in a forum thread. Sorry for wasting bandwidth. http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7764 Kee On Sep 14, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Kee Nethery wrote: > How does one display via Livecode, an icon image inside a .icns file?

displaying Application.icns file images?

2011-09-14 Thread Kee Nethery
How does one display via Livecode, an icon image inside a .icns file? I can drag an application icon onto a stack and have Livecode find it's .icns file. But I don't know how to open the .icns file and use one of the images inside to display in the stack. Is there a way to do

Re: LC --> Website ?

2011-08-26 Thread Kee Nethery
RunRev has this service. In general I have to control all the components of server services that I create so I tend to ignore the "who hosts livecode server" kinds of comments. Someone will help you I'm sure. Kee > > Tim > > > > > On Aug 26, 2011

Re: LC --> Website ?

2011-08-26 Thread Kee Nethery
uot;normal" CGI. The commands come into Apache and Apache handles the juggling of all the connections. More mainstream, more industrial, but way less documentation and examples. Kee Nethery On Aug 26, 2011, at 6:09 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Greetings, > > I have a vague not

Ideal Unicode?

2011-08-15 Thread Kee Nethery
characters and as 6 bytes. I want UTF8 instead of UTF16 because UTF8 is the same byte stream regardless of processor endian-ness and more importantly, the entire web uses UTF8. Is this crazy talk or would this be your ideal programming system for u

Re: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Kee Nethery
Oregon physical Apple stores appear to be letting people come into the store to do the install. Perhaps physical Apple stores in your location offer the same service. Kee ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-27 Thread Kee Nethery
specific setup for immediate distribution, you'll have to wait for the physical media distribution. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscri

Re: security code number generation

2011-07-18 Thread Kee Nethery
spent building code to prevent people from using your software is typically better spent building code that makes people want to use your software. For most software, people who pirate it were never going to pay for it and probably are not actually using it. Focus on building market share. Kee Ne

multi-lingual and the .lproj folders inside apps?

2011-07-13 Thread Kee Nethery
How does one determine the preferred written language for a user's computer? For example, when to display French versus English or Italian? How does one typically make a multi-lingual Livecode app? Put all the translations in custom properties and set everything when the language changes?

Re: how to make answer and ask work in revweb?

2011-07-11 Thread Kee Nethery
On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:39 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Kee, > > There is a focus problem that either doesn't let you type text in the dialog > or doesn't let you use the browser after the dialog disappears. yep > I think that the best way to do this is by making a group with a custom > d

how to make answer and ask work in revweb?

2011-07-11 Thread Kee Nethery
When I create a revlet using revweb, and access it via a browser, it appears that answer and ask don't work 100%. In "ask", I can type in the field presented and completely replace what is in the field but I cannot edit what is in the dialog field. It also appears that I cannot click on the bu

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-06 Thread Kee Nethery
Thank you Terry. On Mac OS X this command: put the effective textfont of this stack && the effective textsize of this stack returns: Lucinda Grande 11 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Kee Nethery
Actually I think on the Mac it is textfont=Lucinda Grande textsize = 11 On Jul 5, 2011, at 2:55 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > On Mac OS X I think the default textsize is 10 and the default textfont is > Lucinda Grande. > If someone wants to give me the defaults for Windows, (and confirm

default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Kee Nethery
ly is, that would be useful also. Thanks, Kee Nethery ___ 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: How to obtain browser version in revWeb app?

2011-06-02 Thread Kee Nethery
for me. I'm sure there are quite a few other useful items that > can be queried this way. > > On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > >> I see HTTP stuff in the dictionary for talking to a server and getting web >> pages. I don't see a way to query rev

Re: How to obtain browser version in revWeb app?

2011-06-01 Thread Kee Nethery
Jun 1, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > >> It is possible to get any information about the browser running a web based >> livecode stack? If so, how? Didn't see anything in the dictionary. >> >> For example, Safari 5.0.5

How to obtain browser version in web app?

2011-06-01 Thread Kee Nethery
It is possible to get any information about the browser running a web based livecode stack? If so, how? Didn't see anything in the dictionary. For example, Safari 5.0.5 or IE 7.2 or anything like that? Thanks, Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Generating e-mail

2011-05-19 Thread Kee Nethery
or example, by clicking a "Mail" button in the email program)." He'd have to click send for each and every email. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

revWeb supported browsers?

2011-04-20 Thread Kee Nethery
es and see if it works (or doesn't), it won't hurt you a bit" in order to see if it works or not. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-19 Thread Kee Nethery
eeBSD. It's what he runs for his personal servers. I have no idea how big the market is for FreeBSD installations of LiveCode, but the OS has an excellent reputation as a server. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
doh! hand slap to forehead. I was pretty sure I checked those images previously but obviously not because ... they are there. Thanks! Kee On Apr 16, 2011, at 11:51 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 4/16/11 12:17 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: >> How do I do a barber pole progress bar? > &

barber pole progress bar?

2011-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
that the user knows something is happening. Any ideas on the proper way to show that something invisible is happening and the user should relax, the system has not hung? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: Differences between Mac chars and Win chars

2011-04-13 Thread Kee Nethery
Posting the code and the results might be useful. Doing a character by character comparison with chartonum() might also be a useful debugging tool. With almost zero data to back up this conjecture, perhaps you are running into big-endian and little-endian issues? Or perhaps you are running into

Re: lines of UFT16 text are broken?

2011-03-31 Thread Kee Nethery
ement. Then instead of line 5 I look at lineArray[5] Sure wish LiveCode dealt with unicode as a first class citizen. Kee On Mar 29, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > I convert UFT8 text into UTF16 and then work through each line of text. > > The problem I run into is that o

Re: why one char in UTF8 (3 bytes) converted to UTF16 becomes 6 bytes?

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
parent as possible. >From what I've seen, most platform independent text is UTF8 because it can >typically be read by any text editor and it does not have the need for the >Byte Order Marker nonsense. But ... I agree with the previous response, gots to deal with it the way it

Re: lines of UFT16 text are broken?

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
Looks like when I uniencode(inputText,"UTF8") it makes the don't symbol character into two bytes. Correctly using the uniencode and unidecode functions resolves this issue, thanks! Kee On Mar 30, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Kee Nethery wrote: > > On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:58 AM

Re: uniencode(utf8Text, "unicode") vs uniencode(utf8Text) vs uniencode(utf8Text, "UTF16")

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
2011, at 5:52 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > Why do uniencode(utf8Text) and uniencode(utf8Text,"UTF16") convert UTF8 text > into something whereas uniencode(utf8Text,"unicode") produces no output? > > Am I doing something wron

Re: Very slow in edit mode

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
By "graphic effects", I've found that the aqua blue default button on Mac OS X visually pulsates and that pulsation is a graphic effect that uses a significant portion of the CPU. Could be you have a graphic effect that you did not specifically create that is causing the slownes

Re: why one char in UTF8 (3 bytes) converted to UTF16 becomes 6 bytes?

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
e parser to figure it out. encode from to Thanks, Kee On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2011, at 02:30, Kee Nethery wrote: > >> I have the don't sign symbol (Combining enclosing circle backslash) in a >> text file that I read into li

Re: why one char in UTF8 (3 bytes) converted to UTF16 becomes 6 bytes?

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
On Mar 30, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: > > On 30 Mar 2011, at 02:30, Kee Nethery wrote: > >> I have the don't sign symbol (Combining enclosing circle backslash) in a >> text file that I read into livecode. For grins, the character between >&

Re: lines of UFT16 text are broken?

2011-03-30 Thread Kee Nethery
On Mar 30, 2011, at 5:58 AM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:04 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > >> How do people deal with this? Do I need to build a UTF16 version of all the >> text parsing routines to safely get each line? >> > > Can you iterate o

why one char in UTF8 (3 bytes) converted to UTF16 becomes 6 bytes?

2011-03-29 Thread Kee Nethery
converted to UTF16. Any suggestions on how to get a UTF8 character to correctly convert to UTF16? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

lines of UFT16 text are broken?

2011-03-29 Thread Kee Nethery
uot; and deal with it as the divider between two lines. How do people deal with this? Do I need to build a UTF16 version of all the text parsing routines to safely get each line? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

uniencode(utf8Text, "unicode") vs uniencode(utf8Text) vs uniencode(utf8Text, "UTF16")

2011-03-29 Thread Kee Nethery
Why do uniencode(utf8Text) and uniencode(utf8Text,"UTF16") convert UTF8 text into something whereas uniencode(utf8Text,"unicode") produces no output? Am I doing something wrong or is this a known bug? Kee Nethery ___ use-livec

Re: best data format

2011-03-28 Thread Kee Nethery
On Mar 28, 2011, at 7:39 PM, Todd Geist wrote: > thanks guys. > > Now a couple of follow up questions. > > Where is a good place to stick all this data? custom Props on substack? It depends upon how quickly it changes. If it changes infrequently, I'll pull it and store it in a field along wi

Re: best data format

2011-03-28 Thread Kee Nethery
from the database and then modify it and put it back into the database, I tend to keep it in the format the database has it so that putting it back into the database is easy. Kee Nethery On Mar 28, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Todd Geist wrote: > My question is what is the best format to use as my &qu

Re: combobox

2011-03-21 Thread Kee Nethery
On Mar 21, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Terry Judd wrote: > Well, that's a real problem. FWIW I can't reproduce a crash here in 4.5.3 > (Mac) or 4.5.1 (Win). > > I've just tried a slightly more sophisticated version of my test routine > (that is more like the situation you originally outlined) and it all w

Re: combobox

2011-03-20 Thread Kee Nethery
On Mar 20, 2011, at 7:46 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > > > On 21/03/11 12:38 PM, "Kee Nethery" wrote: > >> Thanks Terry, >> >> Actually I'm at the point of one step forward two steps back. >> >> I appear to be unable to put the retu

Re: combobox

2011-03-20 Thread Kee Nethery
Thanks Terry, Actually I'm at the point of one step forward two steps back. I appear to be unable to put the return delimited list into the combobox more than a couple of times. I've tried all of these variations of the script to alter the combobox text: put theList into me put theList into bu

combobox

2011-03-20 Thread Kee Nethery
example characters "ammy" (aka characters 5 to 8)? Thanks, Kee Nethery ___ 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: SQL and other databases

2011-03-20 Thread Kee Nethery
y live in. Toss out transactions from countries that are not in Europe. A SQL database does this very quickly. Livecode could do this but wow it would probably take a long time. Those are three reasons I would not use Livecode as the database. Ke

Re: PlonkerPoint

2011-03-19 Thread Kee Nethery
As much as I love Livecode, I use Keynote on the Mac to make my presentations and it is really easy compared to powerpoint. Once I'm done I can export as PowerPoint or PDF and find that works quite well. It's a really nice easy to use tool for presentations. K

Re: usb driver problem

2011-01-26 Thread Kee Nethery
I'd be happy to donate an Arduino to the LC bug team if they need one to fix this. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

2011-01-18 Thread Kee Nethery
o this with URLs. A stack running as a HTTP server / cgi gets hit and it doles out a bunch of URL requests to various other servers. All those servers work in parallel and when they are done and the urlStatus for each request is "cached", I grab the results and return a summary to the cli

Re: usb driver problem

2011-01-16 Thread Kee Nethery
would love to talk to Arduino via Livecode. Too bad it does not work. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Software Order Processing Service?

2011-01-08 Thread Kee Nethery
have it populate a regcode field and optionally a second field. We pass that data back to the customer. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Planning/design/estimating checklists

2010-12-24 Thread Kee Nethery
I include a script in every card I ever create: on sanitize -- reset everything to the state I want it to be when it gets distributed end sanitize I've heard of another doing the same thing with on stripandship Then on the very first card I have two scripts that are on sanitize sanitizeFirst

Re: Getting a public IP address when connected to a router

2010-12-13 Thread Kee Nethery
ernal web site alters its HTML response, your code will break. Kee Nethery On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > Does anyone have a LC routine (or tips on how to write one) that will enable > me to get a public IP address rather than the local one assigned by a > router? >

Re: Nine digit zip codes

2010-11-28 Thread Kee Nethery
after the tag= if you are using a GET. I'm guessing there is a plugin for firefox that would catch the GET or POSt that gets submitted from a browser but I do this so infrequently that I have not searched for it. Someone else on this list probably has that answer. Kee Nethery On Nov 28, 201

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