Re: Commercial version lockout

That's extremely good to know. Richmond. On 11.06.2016 19:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: RM wrote: > Am I right in thinking that if one opens a stack in the Commercial > version of Livecode and then saves it, it will be unopenable in the > Community version? Only if you've set a passwor

Commercial version lockout

Am I right in thinking that if one opens a stack in the Commercial version of Livecode and then saves it, it will be unopenable in the Community version? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Help yourself.

I'm starting with my kids on Monday: and I'm releasing the stacks for teaching as I go along (2 already uploaded). So, anyone who wishes to teach with these stacks, mess around for fun, or whatever, is more than welcome to pop across to the Facebook page and "beg, borrow or steal" the material

Android-x86

http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=androidx86 http://www.android-x86.org/ Does anyone know: 1. Whether it is possible to get Livecode running on this? 2. Whether Android standalones will run on this? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Cost of app development...

Maybe I'm a poisonous toad (OK, OK, don't answer that one: I am a poisonous toad), but I feel very funny about these claims: Battle-tested at 10,000 companies by 200,000 developers with over 100,000 apps. Craft your application in minutes [who is naive enough to fall for that one?]

Re: Another way of approaching LC8?

On 9.06.2016 17:33, Richard Gaskin wrote: Graham Samuel wrote: > Having been burnt by the BMI Calculator example, what would listers > suggest as the shortest way to get familiar with LC8 without reading > an enormous amount of text? I would count myself as a pretty > experienced LiveCode

Re: Another way of approaching LC8?

Well, I'm just playing with it in my spare time: that's how I learnt Hypercard, Toolbook, Director, and Runtime Revolution 1.1.1 (that's Livecode to you). I have never found books on how to program make any sense whatsoever to me; and that is one of the reasons (apart from innate idleness) that

[a bit OT] Apple Store

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-36486556 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Uninstalling Livecode

On 8.06.2016 09:43, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 08/06/2016 06:47, RM wrote: If I dig into the /home/.runrev directory I can manually delete the versions I don't want, but the system still 'sees' those I have deleted, so they show up in the menu system. Is there a way to remove all but the 8

Re: Uninstalling Livecode

On 8.06.2016 09:43, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 08/06/2016 06:47, RM wrote: If I dig into the /home/.runrev directory I can manually delete the versions I don't want, but the system still 'sees' those I have deleted, so they show up in the menu system. Is there a way to remove all but the 8

Uninstalling Livecode

Currently I have about 40 versions of Livecode installed on my Xubun tu system, with them all showing up in the menu system. This is giving my system "gut rot". If I dig into the /home/.runrev directory I can manually delete the versions I don't want, but the system still 'sees' those I have

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.2 RC1

This was a bad case of "Richmond's Silly Buggers": 1. A cache on my Xubuntu system had suddenly had an attack of bloat so there was NO space left on my HOME partition; something I did not see (because, previously, I had 1.5 GB space) before I attempted installation. 2. I messed around with

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.2 RC1

Unfortunately, trying to install LiveCodeCommunityInstaller-8_0_2_rc_1-Linux.x64 onto Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit "You Only" I got a message: "Internal error (couldn't extract payload item to file). The installer did work on the "All Users" option. Richmond. On 7.06.2016 13:52, panagiotis merakos

Re: How to change the color of the text in a disabled button ?

That's all rather odd as the text in a button, regardless of what the textColor is set to goes grey as soon as it is disabled. If one groups the button and then disables the group the button text is also greyed out. If one takes a snapshot of a button and then uses the resultant image as a

Re: Feature Exchange any one?

To be honest this is why I have only tried once to do anything with the Datagrid, and go so badly bogged-down due to the lack of documentation I abandoned it and have never looked back. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

:49 PM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: I dunno who was or wasn't being rude: but, Dar, you helped me out of the bog. Thank you very much indeed. Richmond. On 30.05.2016 22:00, Dar Scott wrote: Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case? Can you check that? Or a

Re: Alternative interfaces

standalone settings stack and save standalones, as well as a 'thing' to rename objects. Richmond. On 29.05.2016 22:26, RM wrote: I produced an extended lateral palette to day for those who want to mess around with text in fields while in Browse mode: same place. Richmond. On 27.05.2016 19:1

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

, at 1:00 PM, Dar Scott <d...@swcp.com> wrote: Shouldn't the selected object list be empty in that case? Can you check that? Or are you getting a crash in just doing this: get the selectedObject Dar darzLab On May 30, 2016, at 12:43 PM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: S

Re: getting bogged down with the selectedObject

? Can you check that? Or are you getting a crash in just doing this: get the selectedObject Dar darzLab On May 30, 2016, at 12:43 PM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: So; here I am mucking around with my alternative front-end and have a merry little button with this script in it: on mo

getting bogged down with the selectedObject

So; here I am mucking around with my alternative front-end and have a merry little button with this script in it: on mouseUp put fld "nname" into NN set the name of the selectedObject to NN end mouseUp which, unsurprisingly perhaps, changes the name of a selectedObject in the topStack

Hypercarding Livecode

Many people should be aware by now that I am producing a set of related alternative interfaces for Livecode 8, mainly because of some comments made on the Yahoo 'Hypercard' group. Nobody has indicated yet whether they are considering using one of the things I am making. However, what has become

Re: Alternative interfaces

I produced an extended lateral palette to day for those who want to mess around with text in fields while in Browse mode: same place. Richmond. On 27.05.2016 19:12, RM wrote: I went lateral today: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=25=27328=143042#p143042 Richmond

Re: Picasso's blue period

What happened to Dr Raney? R. On 29.05.2016 22:07, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/29/2016 1:39 PM, RM wrote: No; I think a lot of the problem comes down to whether one wants to used quotes or not: set the textColor of the selectedText to "yellow" works For what it's worth, Dr Rane

Re: Picasso's blue period

Hey: my specs have a very jazzy filter in them as my eyes were getting damaged by staring at large monitors! No; I think a lot of the problem comes down to whether one wants to used quotes or not: set the textColor of the selectedText to "yellow" works, while plain yellow seems, sometimes

Re: Picasso's blue period

Yes, and it has been going blue for the last 12 years, both on Linux and on my Macintosh PPC computers with earlier recensions of Livecode. Richmond. On 29.05.2016 21:12, John Dixon wrote: It goes yellow for me... there again I am on a macBook and I guess you are messing about with linux.. :-)

Picasso's blue period

No, not really, but more like Richmond's blue 5 minutes. I am having a small, silly problem: When I type this: set the textColor of the selectedText to yellow the text goes *BLUE*. :-( Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [ widget that turns text horizontal ]

Clever, clever stuff! Congratulations. Richmond. On 29.05.2016 13:15, BNig wrote: in the spirit of letting thousand widgets bloom: here is a simple widget that turns text horizontally. the widget to install in "My Livecode" -> "extensions" --

Re: Alternative interfaces

I went lateral today: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=25=27328=143042#p143042 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Project Browser

Well, I apologise if I got that one wrong: about the Application Browser being EOL. I was not trying to distort reality, and I know I am not Steve Jobs, and am very glad I'm not: and there are 2 ways of interpreting "Kevin is not Steve Jobs", and I meant that to be a positive statement, not

Livecode for education

I like this page: https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/livecode-in-education/ Yes I do, really. But there is one small thing that annoys me, and sorting that out would be a very good thing indeed. When we scroll down to Course materials the first thing we hit is this: "Course

Alternative interfaces

百花齊放，百家爭鳴 Well; not wishing a Maoist crackdown subsequently (pace Steve Jobs and themes in Mac OS 8). Having successfully demonstrated that it is really in comparatively simple to make an alternative interface for Livecode (that took me a total of 7 hours), admittedly after a nudge from

Re: Project Browser

Well, Kevin Miller is not Steve Jobs. R. On 24.05.2016 22:16, J. Landman Gay wrote: The last time I led a revolt, Steve Jobs wrote me a terse email and shut down HC. But I can submit a bug report. On 5/24/2016 1:10 PM, RM wrote: Well, Jacque, do you want to lead a revolt (not quite sure

Re: Project Browser

wrote: On May 24, 2016, at 9:28 AM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: It isn't my cup of tea either. But for those of us who don't like it, the Application Browser is "still there", but, I assume, it is frozen, and in time may prove a bit "lumpy" with new ve

Re: Project Browser

It isn't my cup of tea either. But for those of us who don't like it, the Application Browser is "still there", but, I assume, it is frozen, and in time may prove a bit "lumpy" with new versions of Livecode. But by then, either the Project Browser will be better (and/or more like the

Re: Confusion over builds.

I honestly don't know what you are talking about. Here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ I can see 8.0.1 STABLE and 8.1.0 RC1 So, there is no "8.0.2" and no "8.10" Over in GitHub things are, by the nature of GitHub, likely to be somewhat more confusing. This is one of the main

Re: Avoiding a stupid mistake

Ha, Ha, Ha: I'm sure that everybody is dumb enough to do that at least once. I know that I, being extra skilled, have done it (deleting things accidentally) . . . at least . . . oh, dear, I seem to have run out of fingers and toes. Deleting anything may lead to regrets later: hence I have

HTML5 standalone from Livecode 8.0.1

Just a "little something" for Sunday afternoon: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=120=27345 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Unicode display engine.

not in the world of computers. Richmond. On 21.05.2016 11:21, Fraser Gordon wrote: On 21/05/16 09:05, RM wrote: I don't know how the Unicode display engine in Livecode 7.0 and upwards works. LiveCode doesn't include a Unicode display engine - it takes the steam of characters, breaks it down into wor

Unicode display engine.

I don't know how the Unicode display engine in Livecode 7.0 and upwards works. But it certainly doesn't seem to want to do some interesting knitting in Hindi: http://unicode.org/faq/indic.html Section: "Q: I cannot find the "half forms" of Devanagari letters (or any other Indic script) in

Re: [OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

Thanks to suggestions by Peter Bogdanoff much better indeed. R. On 20.05.2016 22:14, RM wrote: Keeps on getting better. I am now at the stage where I would be grateful for anyone who wishes to deploy a vaguely "Hypercardy" simplified UI for Livecode 8.0 to try the thing out a

Re: [OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

ove things - just upload your improved version. Richmond. On 20.05.2016 18:18, RM wrote: "Open" button now works, "Import Image" button added [and it works!], "Save" button still proving a problem. R. On 20.05.2016 10:22, RM wrote: Just uploaded a revision that wor

Re: Stupid Q number 1000

That WAS a bit goofy of me. Thanks. Richmond. On 20.05.2016 18:23, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 20.05.2016 um 17:17 schrieb RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>: I wonder why this script doesn't work in LC 8.0.1: on mouseUp ask file "Choose where you wish to save

Stupid Q number 1000

I wonder why this script doesn't work in LC 8.0.1: on mouseUp ask file "Choose where you wish to save your stack" if the result = "cancel" then exit mouseUp else save stack "New Stack" end if end mouseUp Richmond. ___ use-livecode

Re: Palette command problem

If I put 'palette "XYZ"' in the messageBOx I get a palette. If I put 'palette "XYZ"' in a stack called "XYZ" insode, say, a mouseUp message, I DON'T get a palette. Richmond. On 20.05.2016 17:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: Kay C Lan wrote: > Here on OSX 10.9.5 LC 8.0.1 rc 1 if I open a

Re: Stupid Q number 999

Thanks. Richmond. On 20.05.2016 10:15, Kay C Lan wrote: Same way as you did in HC go to card 999 of stack "Stupid Q" OR, if the stack isn't known/related to the stack you are currently in: go to card 999 of stack "Users/Richmond/Stacks/Stupid Q.livecode"

Re: [OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

Just uploaded a revision that works a whole lot better! On 19.05.2016 23:44, RM wrote: I'm on it: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=25=27328 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Palette command problem

Yes, it does: thanks a lot. Richmond. On 20.05.2016 02:08, panagiotis merakos wrote: set the style of stack "newTools" to palette ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Palette command problem

So, I have this command in the stackScript of a stack: on openStack palette stack "newTools" end openStack and the stack is not becoming a palette. I'm obviously missing something. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

I'm on it: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=25=27328 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Stupid Q number 999

How do you open a stack using a script? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Another Q from the Yahoo HC group

Sorry, but got caught by this. "Op 10-May-16 om 14:38 schreef Andrew Ferguson andrewferguson500@... [HyperCard]: > > > A modernised UI was one of the stated goals of the kickstarter project. > This hasn't been started yet, though, and I can't find any mention of it > in the LiveCode roadmap. > >

[OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

Over on the Yahoo group "Discussion Group for Hypercard" there is this topic. This seems to be a seasonal phenomenon, which never comes to much, and I cannot help wondering why it keeps coming up. One thing that does cross my mind is that maybe (?) some of these people haven't heard about

Re: Daft "text Editor" question

ot; option to "This stack and its stack files". Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/18/16, 10:05 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of RM" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: So am really wondering

Re: Bullet • Mac/Win

chmond, Am 18.05.2016 um 17:45 schrieb RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>: Dear Klaus, As Macintosh and Windows versions of Livecode, and the 2 operating systems, are Unicode compliant as long as you use the Unicode compliant bullet-point symbol [Hex 2022, Decimal 8226] there should be n

Re: Daft "text Editor" question

vecode, and "Bob's yer Uncle". I wonder why Livecode is "so stuffy"? Richmond. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On May 18, 2016 5:05:02 AM RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>

Re: Bullet • Mac/Win

Dear Klaus, As Macintosh and Windows versions of Livecode, and the 2 operating systems, are Unicode compliant as long as you use the Unicode compliant bullet-point symbol [Hex 2022, Decimal 8226] there should be no reason why it should not cross from Mac to Windows without going "funny".

Daft "text Editor" question

Does anyone know of a word-processing type program that can open .rev and .livecode files so that one can see ALL the scripts of ALL the objects in one long document? This may sound a bit daft, but I am considering "refactoring" the code-base for my Devawriter Pro from pre version 7 to post

Re: LC on VMWare?

All I can tell you is that I run Livecode in VMWare running Windows 7 and have never had a problem with it running. I run standalone builds of mine (both locally generated, and generated on the host system [Linux]) without a blink. Admittedly this does not happen every day as I don't use

Re: Defaults for groups

I have just posted a solution to this problem here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=27280 Richmond. On 14.05.2016 11:31, RM wrote: Yes, this is a nuisance, on all versions of Livecode. When I combine a background image that is, say, 128 by 128 pixels with various front images

[OT] Politics

I'd just like to state that I'm sorry I made a political statement a few messages back (pace Donald Trump). Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

I admit you are right. Richmond. On 14.05.2016 17:01, Richard Gaskin wrote: RM wrote: > AND, as to "complaining"; I often wonder where one draws the lines > between "complaints", positive criticism and negative criticism. I'd venture that filing a bug repor

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

On 14.05.2016 11:40, Monte Goulding wrote: I'm not overly fond of the direction this conversation is going. Us v them is unproductive and there are many benefits to the platform for going open source. AND, as to "complaining"; I often wonder where one draws the lines between "complaints"

Re: Defaults for groups

Yes, this is a nuisance, on all versions of Livecode. When I combine a background image that is, say, 128 by 128 pixels with various front images to do either an "import snapshot" or an "export snapshot" (something I do on average about four times a day), I would love to end up with an image

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

On 14.05.2016 02:06, Bob Sneidar wrote: On May 13, 2016, at 16:05 , Bob Sneidar wrote: Well you know, there are lies... and then there are damnable lies... and then there are detestably damnable lies... And then there are statistics! (roughly a quote of Mark

Re: SVG Widgets Work Well -- User Contributions - Screen Casts

Just one small addendum to Brahmanathaswami's good posting. On 14.05.2016 01:19, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: SVG widget, despite limitations at the moment, is awesome making icons. No more PNG's that go "all bust up" if you resize them… Go to iconfinder.com… download what you want as

Re: Infinite LiveCode - Message from CEO

On 14.05.2016 00:17, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/13/2016 2:02 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: My first gut reaction was "So, I and the other 24% minority of people paying for licenses are funding an awesome development tool that some 76% of you folks out there are using for free. What follows does

Re: Raising Money

is not "American Politics". R. On 13.05.2016 18:13, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well then, you must be completely confounded with American Politics! ;-) Bob S On May 12, 2016, at 23:11 , RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: I really wonder about asking people for donations when one hasn

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.1 RC-1

This, oddly enough, excites me, for 2 reasons: 1. The "Stable" release version 8.0.0 is not feature complete, and is "quite wonky" on Linux 64-bit. 2. I am endlessly hopeful, naive and optimistic. I am looking forwards to some sort of in-built Dictionary in the Linux 64-bit build

Raising Money

I really wonder about asking people for donations when one hasn't fulfilled all the promises one made last time people gave you money. R. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Tiling games & custom props

At last . . . http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=22=27268 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Wildcard?

l'anglais). Richmond. On 10.05.2016 23:33, RM wrote: Well, here I am reading my "Revolution 1.1.1" User Guide because when I was soaking in a nice hot bath (an excellent location for thinking about Livecode) I suddenly thought of a "problem", which, on reflection congealed around

Wildcard?

Well, here I am reading my "Revolution 1.1.1" User Guide because when I was soaking in a nice hot bath (an excellent location for thinking about Livecode) I suddenly thought of a "problem", which, on reflection congealed around the term "Wildcard". Now in the "Revolution 1.1.1" User Guide,

Re: Webinar

:22 PM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: I would be most grateful if there were a link available for later viewing. 1+ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Webinar

Unfortunately I was at work, so couldn't watch the webinar. I would be most grateful if there were a link available for later viewing. Richmond. On 9.05.2016 21:40, Mark Talluto wrote: I am equally excited about 8. The webinar was very informative. -Mark On May 9, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Dar

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

You have made me an extremely happy person! Thanks, Ali. Richmond. On 8.05.2016 17:37, Ali Lloyd wrote: The old style 'contents' pane will be reinstated in (probably) the next RC: https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/1159 On Sun, May 8, 2016 at 3:31 PM RM <richmondmat

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

, Randy Hengst wrote: Have you tried resizing the property palette window? When I have multiple lines entered into a field, I can see up to nine lines of the field in the “Content” tab. be well, randy Randy Hengst www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com On May 8, 2016, at 4:43 AM, RM <richmondmat

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

Picture indicating how inferior the new 'content' thing is: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=27232 R. On 8.05.2016 12:43, RM wrote: Thanks for that, although a single line 'thing' does not "Do for me" what the previous field did. R. On 8.05.2016 11:21, Peter W A

Re: Getting text into a Livecode field

On 8 May 2016, at 15:44, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: More: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=27232 R. On 7.05.2016 21:38, RM wrote: So, I was mucking around trying to reduplicate/solve John Patten's problem with Arrow Keys in Livecode 8 (I reduplic

Re: LC 8 speed advantages??

Speed advantages are like many things; they depend on a large number of variables. I can imagine a test that runs much faster in 7 than in 8, and the other way round. I do have a feeling that the Livecode people have shifted their attention to slightly different goals with 8 than they were

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

st, I hope it is). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/7/16, 12:24 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of RM" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

, 2016 at 1:24 PM, RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed, and what justifies such change. Richmond. On 7.05.2016 21:56, Scott Rossi wrote: If you want to recreate the behavior of previous versions of LC, you

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

I am beginning to wonder exactly HOW MUCH of the language has been changed, and what justifies such change. Richmond. On 7.05.2016 21:56, Scott Rossi wrote: If you want to recreate the behavior of previous versions of LC, you can do something like this: on arrowKey theKey if the selObj is

Getting text into a Livecode field

So, I was mucking around trying to reduplicate/solve John Patten's problem with Arrow Keys in Livecode 8 (I reduplicated them: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=27225), and thought I'd do what I usually do: enter some text in a field and do a quick "import snapshot" to get a label

Re: ArrowKey Handler in LiveCode 8?

NBG: Stack here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=27225 on arrowKey AWK switch AWK case "left" put item 1 of the loc of img "eight" into IT1 put item 2 of the loc of img "eight" into IT2 put (IT1 - 10) into IT1 move img "eight" to IT1,

Props Palette 8

I won't say anything about releasing Beta quality stuff as 'stable' because it has already been said loads of times, and . . . But there is a "more niggly thing", which many may regard as simply cosmetic, and I suppose it is, but it does seem a bit symptomatic . . .

Re: livecode.org [was: Release 8.0.0]

at was just too hard to resist. Richmond. On 5.05.2016 20:58, Bob Sneidar wrote: As in Whack-a-mole as in you nailed it? Bob S On May 4, 2016, at 09:16 , RM <richmondmathew...@gmail.com<mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote: Whacko! Richmond. ___

Re: Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

I don't quite know where you got that idea from. I would be very much surprised if Kevin Miller had actually stated that; it might be that you concluded that on the basis of something he said; which is not the same thing at all. I would be extremely interested if you could post a link to

Re: LiveCode 6.7 and 7.1 end of live [was: Release 8.0.0]

Be happy; over at Richmond's place those releases will live on for an extended time; especially the last release of version 7 as it offers the perfect teaching interface without the "distractions" of what version 8 offers. I hope, however "end of life" version 7 is the ability to download it

Re: livecode.org [was: Release 8.0.0]

Whacko! Richmond. On 4.05.2016 18:07, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 04/05/2016 15:28, jameshale wrote: Great news! Congrats to the team, well done. But as Colombo would say, there's just one more thing. Looking at the pricing page on the website you need to scroll to the bottom to see the

Re: Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

I would suppose the ideal thing would be both something that allows one to render a PDF document, and extract all or part of an embedded text layer (if one exists in the original PDF). Richmond. On 4.05.2016 17:22, Richard Gaskin wrote: Tim Bleiler wrote: > The Livecode PDF viewer is an

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

Congratulations. Richmond. On 4.05.2016 17:12, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0, the first stable release of LiveCode 8. Read more about LiveCode 8 here: https://livecode.com/introducing-livecode-8/ Getting the Release

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

To this I would just like to point out that in my "other" email I have been offered the chance to PAY Livecode to fix THEIR bugs: https://livecode.com/services/priority-bug-fixes/ That seems a bit odd. Richmond. On 4.05.2016 09:53, Terence Heaford wrote: It seems to me as a “community” user

Re: drawing tools in LC 8

Quite honestly I don't think they have been touched for donkey's ages, and they are not much use as they are at present. Richmond. On 3.05.2016 20:51, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I’m looking forward to a small coloring/drawing module for our big app. Little hacking today: Today I

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

From a purely selfish point of view (what, me, surely not?) I stated I wanted to PAY for something PERMANENT because I develop ONLY for desktop (and possibly HTML%) deployment. This is where we might need to discuss the sort of folowing scenario: 1. Permanent version that deploys standalones

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

Bulgaria (Now why would I pick those 3 countries, I wonder?) they might look at you fairly blankly. "Private joke" for Andre: Hey, let's phone up Dilma Rousseff and ask her for a quick $2,000 to fund our startup. Richmond. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone On 3 May 201

Re: [OT] Atkinson Interview, Pt 2

On 3.05.2016 05:48, Lynn Fredricks wrote: I like that Atkinson revealed he got the idea for HyperCard while dropping LSD. Thirty years later we're still using a descendant of that idea. Are we experiencing a perpetual flashback? Nah, Flash is something else! Flash is somewhere between PCP

Re: [OT] Atkinson Interview, Pt 2

Aah, maybe that's why I have so much creative block : I don't drop LSD. Maybe they could add LSD tablets to the Commercial version of Livecode as an extra incentive . . . Richmond. On 3.05.2016 00:58, Jim Lambert wrote: I like that Atkinson revealed he got the idea for HyperCard while

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

Um: think very closely about "look at Naomi Campbell" :) Richmond. On 2.05.2016 23:16, Peter M. Brigham wrote: Richmond, as soon as I wrote that I just knew it would be a set-up line for you. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com On May 2, 2016, at 4:05 PM, RM wrote: The

Re: Revenue and the Open Source edition

The Scots have been running the world for at least 300 years. Why do you think that about 50% of all Canadians, and a very large number of Americans have Scots names? After all, just look at Naomi Campbell! Richmond. On 2.05.2016 22:46, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On May 2, 2016, at 3:44 PM,

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

No, can't match that, I'm running at only 40 years. Congratulations. Richmond. On 2.05.2016 22:22, Jerry Jensen wrote: 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

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