On 18.06.2012 at 16:36 Uhr -0400 Mark Rauterkus apparently wrote:
Hi,
Yep. LC just went strict with me.
Errors such as:
stack Kids: compilation error at line 4 (Expression: unquoted
literal), char 46
For the past week or two I've been FINE without these issues. Seemed
as if LC didn't care.
On 18.06.2012 at 12:03 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
I'm not entirely sure this is the issue, but let me describe how
Livecode interprets your code. When you say field boy, Livecode
translates that to field boy of the current card of the topstack
(others will correct me if I am
On 18.06.2012 at 14:34 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
hmmm... If by context you mean that if I go to a card in another
stack and get the name of this card, it will return the name of the
card I came from and not the card I went to, I think you are
mistaken, but I may have
On 11.06.2012 at 9:54 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
It occurs to me that there is room for something like a stack global
and card global, where any script belonging to a stack or card would
have access to those globals. This would address, in some basic
fashion, namespaces if the
Kay C. Lan wrote :
I haven't written a Stack with multiple Cards in quite a while. Stacks and
SubStacks, yes. When was the last time anyone here created a Stack full of
Cards?
When using card-size tab button to switch among various sets of
functional views, hiding and showing groups of
On 20.05.2012 at 21:28 Uhr -0700 Timothy Miller apparently wrote:
Hi, I do a fair amount of tedious data entry with my liveCode stacks.
Now and then, a field's focus border is hilited, the cursor
insertion point is blinking in the field, but the field is
unresponsive to keyboard input.
On 21.05.2012 at 10:14 Uhr -0400 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote:
I have never seen this behavior.
But I see that others have noticed the same irregularity. It is so
fundamental, that I cannot imagine it is an engine issue, but rather
must be some procedural thing, as Igor points out, though
On 21.05.2012 at 9:52 Uhr -0700 Timothy Miller apparently wrote:
On May 21, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
As far as I can see, based on a few years of observation, it has
to do with mis-clicking somehow.
I see it sometimes when a script places the insertion point in an
empty
On 22.04.2012 at 21:55 Uhr +0100 Andrew Henshaw apparently wrote:
Using the following simple code today (the 22nd April)..
put the date into tDate
convert tDate to seconds
put tDate
Returns 1335049200
Id expect to get a result of 22nd April, but instead Ive fed that
in to a few
On 16.04.2012 at 14:37 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
Everyone by now has heard about the App Store. Apple even has gone
so far as to deploy Lion this way, and appears poised to provide ALL
Apple produced software this way... AND NO OTHER. So what's the big
deal right? Seems pretty
On 10.04.2012 at 10:06 Uhr +0900 Nicolas Cueto apparently wrote:
The 'lineOffset' function will be your friend here...
If only it truly were that simple...
In my example, lineOffset would return 3 for is. But 5 is what
I'm after.
--
Nicolas Cueto
untested but something along this
On 11.03.2012 at 20:09 Uhr -0700 RevList apparently wrote:
Thanks for the suggestions. In fact, I use Notepad Plus and it was
opening the original one saved by using file: and it looked fine.
Perl just didn't like it.
I switched now to binfile: to save the file and NotePad still sucks,
but
On 24.02.2012 at 13:03 Uhr +0100 Mark Schonewille apparently wrote:
No improvements with regard to RTL languages. No unicode that just works :-(
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Not yet, but this introduces a number of long requested and needed
features and at least all the new features
On 24.02.2012 at 16:07 Uhr +0100 Mark Schonewille apparently wrote:
So... then we will be able to use these new features to their full
capacitiies when unicode gets finally implemented correctly. I
agree, that could be nice...
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Unicode is not required to
On 21.02.2012 at 19:46 Uhr -0800 Mark Smith apparently wrote:
Which sort of works, until you consider the case of wanting to back out a
value (revert from some value to NULL). At present, I think I'll just stick
with using text fields, but we should definitely report this to RR. If the
user
On 18.02.2012 at 13:28 Uhr -0800 Pete apparently wrote:
In spite of all that, I share your concerns. Using the autohilite property
was a very easy way out of the original question but perhaps the image
approach might be better and not a lot more work if I use a behavior
script. If I make it
On 04.02.2012 at 23:50 Uhr -0700 Vokey, John apparently wrote:
I have a baffling condition. Over the many years I have used
MetaCard in my lab (and, yes, I still use that IDE), the one
reliable object was the group. Group a bunch of objects and you can
cut and paste and reuse them as a group
Hi Takashi,
put fld Data into URL(file: specialFolderPath(documents)
/ testFile.txt)
I notice that you have two different kinds of quotes in the above. If
that is your actual code, those non-programmer's quote might be the
problem.
robert
On 13.12.2011 at 22:15 Uhr -0800 Pete apparently wrote:
Very strange. As mentioned, I got round the problem by using a do command:
do set the hilite of control x of this card to the cInitialValue of
control x of this card
That worked with no other changes to the overall logic of the handler
On 12.12.2011 at 15:59 Uhr -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
Wild turkey guess off the top of my head: Some web bugs as Jacque
put it do not like being blocked and try to re-establish themselves,
and they are what is leaking.
Bob
That would be too simple. Unfortunately, the problem is
On 11.12.2011 at 23:00 Uhr -0500 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote:
I can do this the long way, but is there a clever sortkey that will
sort lines by the length of those lines?
something along this should work:
sort lines of myVar numeric by length of each
Robert
On 03.08.2011 at 10:52 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
I've been using NoScript for years. Last week I discovered Ghostery.
It lets you know what sites are tracking you and allows you to block
the trackers. I have been appalled by what's been going on without
my knowledge. Some
On 24.11.2011 at 1:29 Uhr +0100 Mark Schonewille apparently wrote:
Dear LiveCoders,
Before I wrap up the latest LiveCode.tv event, I have a sad
announcement to make. Even though we optimistically checked out
which system we might use for the next broadcasting, it looks like
we've had our
On 18.11.2011 at 12:17 Uhr -0600 Warren Kuhl apparently wrote:
I am trying to retrieve data from a socket.
When I try:
read from socket myDecSock until eof
put it into tData
...no data
Is that your actual code, Warren? There is a typo in the non-working
code: myDecSock instead of myDevSock.
On 10.11.2011 at 13:15 Uhr +0100 Mark Schonewille apparently wrote:
Hi Francis,
Usually I don't reply to messages that don't quote the preceding
message. If you would like me to answer your questions and take part
in discussions that may benefit you, quote the previous message. If
you don't
On 09.11.2011 at 19:38 Uhr + Alex Tweedly apparently wrote:
taskRunner is, as I'm sure you can guess, named after Ken Ray's
'stackRunner', but unlike stackRunner it doesn't run whole stacks,
it simply performs little tasks, and does so on behalf of another
app rather than for a user
On 17.10.2011 at 12:47 Uhr -0700 John Patten apparently wrote:
Hi All!
I have a little project that is using SQLite to save user data.
Essentially, each user has their own table created in the database
and it saves records consisting of text content in mutiple fields in
each record. The idea
On 19.09.2011 at 16:04 Uhr -0500 Tereza Snyder apparently wrote:
Look at the docs for =; LiveCode CAN compare arrays using =.
Ah, something new learned; yes, to quote the docs:
The ability to compare two arrays using = was added in version 3.5.
Previously, comparing two arrays would have
On 19.09.2011 at 15:30 Uhr -0500 Tereza Snyder apparently wrote:
I recently encountered a problem implementing an undo function in a
script. I needed to compare two arrays to see if any values had
changed, like this:
put (tArray1 tArray2) into sDirtyFlag
so that sDirtyFlag would be true
On 31.08.2011 at 17:29 Uhr -0700 Pete apparently wrote:
I put a default button a card that has a couple of field controls on it.
The field controls all have lockText set to true and traversalOn set to
false. Pressing the return key when the card is active does not execute the
mouseUp handler
On 28.07.2011 at 14:02 Uhr -0400 JACK RARICK apparently wrote:
RETR /public_ftp/Hartland.iMovieProject
/Media/Clip 009.mov
550 Can't open /public_ftp/Hartland.iMovieProject_/Media/Clip
009.mov_: No such file or directory
There seem to be a space in the file name which terminates that path
On 28.07.2011 at 15:50 Uhr -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
I don't agree that Hypercard didn't work. It worked amazingly! Just
not as a mainstream development environment, but it was never
marketed or presented as such. A lot of people wrote Xcmd's for it.
One guy wrote an Xcmd that
On 26.06.2011 at 17:42 Uhr -0700 Pete apparently wrote:
I think I will have to use the formatted height and width and be consistant
about how much room is around the borders of the controls on each card.
If your cards vary in size but are static, that is not changed
dynamically by users,
You mean like turnitin or crot?
http://turnitin.com/static/index.php
http://www.siberiasoft.com/
Robert
___
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription
On 07.06.2011 at 15:16 Uhr +0100 Keith Clarke apparently wrote:
Hi folks,
I've tried to check if a folder 'is empty' or 'is not true' but I'm
obviously missing the magic word - and I know it's not 'please', as
LiveCode ignores all my pleading! ;-)
Why do I get the feeling it's another one of
suspendStack serves a different purpose but the save dialog will pop
even if you save the stack in the script of any handler... If you
want to avoid that, set the stack mode to modeless in the
preopenstack handler.
Robert
On 05.06.2011 at 8:31 Uhr -0700 Todd Geist apparently wrote:
On 04.06.2011 at 12:58 Uhr +0100 Keith Clarke apparently wrote:
Hi Jim,
Thanks for the response, clarification and tips.
This app has one MainStack (so far!) and it's script contains a
handler on preOpenStack, to start using stack SOAP. So, thanks for
confirming that this should place the
On 20.04.11 at 11:32 -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
Criminy! Well I have nothing to hide, so I'd like to see detailed
information. Presently the open source app you can download to show
this information reduces the detail and accuracy of the information
so that someone malicious can't use
On 05.04.11 at 08:49 -0400 Thomas McGrath III apparently wrote:
Ton,
How time sensitive is this? Immediately?
Can you set a flag upon first notice of the folder activity and then
wait an indeterminate period of time to perform your LC action?
Ton,
I wonder whether Finder sets file
On 23.03.11 at 10:27 -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
Yeah sounds like a support issue to me. I wonder if there was a
purchase option that did NOT include the year of free updates? If so
then it would be like any other software upgrade, where you pay some
fraction of the new price for a
On 23.03.11 at 16:02 -0700 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
That would not apply to me as I paid ahead for the subscription
something like 3 years. If that's what you mean by clemency, then
yes I am on that program.
Bob
Of course, the new licensing model affects only new users and users
On 09.03.2011 at 17:48 Uhr +0100 tkuyp...@telenet.be apparently wrote:
The current LiveCode engine cannot be use as a CGI engine anymore,
need to use version 3.5 or lower for this. So this is no option.
Well, actually, LC 3.5 does not really differ from LC 4.5 in terms of
CGI-related
On 28.02.2011 at 9:15 Uhr -0500 Thomas McGrath III apparently wrote:
Okay, Okay, Wait a minute. :-)
I have a group with items in it that I want to align with other
items that are 'not' in the group. But the items in the group are
under other items so I have to 'edit group' to get to them but
On 23.02.11 at 15:07 +0100 Francis Nugent Dixon apparently wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Britanny,
So, using the Standalone Application Settings,
I know that I can create an empty sub-stack, build
it and thus solve my problem. But how do I add an
existing stack, to a main SplashStack, as a
On 18.02.11 at 15:30 + Keith Clarke apparently wrote:
Thanks for reframing the problem Bjoernke!
Actually, I have the 3.5 CGI but as I arrived on planet LiveCode
after version 4, I'm concerned about just how limited my palette
would be with v3.5 engine and UI controls. This is especially
On 16.02.11 at 17:44 +0200 Richmond apparently wrote:
I have a series of images used as buttons
with an optional overlay image that has
both transparent and semi-opaque areas.
When I mouse Down/Up over the opaque areas
I want the mouse Down / Up signals to
pass through the overlay to the images
On 16.02.11 at 11:57 -0600 David C. apparently wrote:
Bob said:
If vendors do not like the deal, they don't have to sign the contract.
If users do not like Apple practices, they can avoid buying the product.
What you are overlooking is that vendors like Amazon have already
invested who
On 15.02.11 at 17:24 +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote:
Hi Jim,
thanks for your coaching. I wasn' t aware that sending the mousup message
wouldn't trigger the needed event.
So I was correct that I have to script both the message and the event.
Thank you
Tiemo
In this case, you can use
On 09.02.11 at 11:53 +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote:
Now I just wanted to ask, if groups can help me in any kind with resizing
all objects of a group in case I haven't noticed it yet and do a lot of
unnecessary work, when extending my groups now.
Unfortunately, no, groups won't help
On 02.02.11 at 22:17 -0500 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote:
Jacques.
Easy workaround using the clickLoc and knowledge of the field properties.
I must say I like the way LC/Rev/MC does it. It's more logical. Why
should one get clickline info if clicking where there is no content?
Actually,
On 04.02.11 at 12:43 -0500 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote:
But why more logical? The simple, transparent way is to just let the
clickLine do its thing.
Well, more logical to me. It allows me, for example, to distinguish
between content with empty lines and no content. The latter is
On 24.01.11 at 09:43 -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
Wait a minute, the arp command does not send out anything does it? I
thought arp only parsed out the current arp table for the device you
are running the command on.
Yes, that is what Alex's code does. It opens datagram to each
On 21.01.11 at 17:46 -0800 Bob Sneidar apparently wrote:
Once you ping an address you can shell to get the arp table. Use arp
-a. BTW have you looked at Spiceworks? They have an incredible scan
engine that gets just about anything with a management protocol. AND
it's FREE!
Bob
I just
On 22.01.11 at 01:28 + Alex Tweedly apparently wrote:
You can't do ping directly from LC - LC only supports UDP and TCP
sockets, not ICMP or raw.
You could do it via shell - but too many devices may not respond to ping.
Do you want to find all active IP addresses on your own subnet, or
A weekend challenge for those who are bored, but not only...
I wonder whether it is possible to have a livecode stack that scans
all IP addresses within a specific subnet to check whether devices
are there. I am currently using Remote Desktop to do those scans
manually but this is becoming
On 16.01.11 at 11:56 -0800 Peter Haworth apparently wrote:
I'm trying to copy a number of objects from one card to another by
selecting them all on the source card, copy, then paste them onto
the destination card. On the destination card, they all end up
stacked up on top of each other
On 15.01.11 at 09:42 +0100 Alessandro Pisoni apparently wrote:
I have serius connection problem with my database sqlite.
my code is this:
on mouseUp
put tAppPath() GestPres.db into tDB
put revOpenDatabase(sqlite,tDB,) into mydb
revCloseDatabase mydb
end mouseUp
Are you trying to
On 08.01.11 at 17:26 -0800 Bill Vlahos apparently wrote:
I use Kagi. They were very helpful with the entire process.
Bill Vlahos
I used Kagi on a couple ocassions. Their tech support crew is quite
good and helpful. Unfortunately, the same can't be said about
accounting people.
Robert
On 06.01.2011 at 14:25 Uhr +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote:
Btw. I didn't found the expression to chime in in my dictionary ;) beside
for sounds what bells or clocks do
Always prepared to learn...
Tiemo
On 21.12.2010 at 15:34 Uhr -0800 Peter Haworth apparently wrote:
I am now thinking that I may be able to make use of my own custom
properties along with some common code to implement all this.
Without that, it sounds like thousands of lines of code.
Alternatively, I'm naively hoping that I
On 18.12.2010 at 23:02 Uhr -0600 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote:
If you can't find the reason in your scripts, it might have to do
with the message hierarchy. I've hit the same snag before and ended
up adding a check for the selectedfield at the top of the button
script that navigates. I.e.:
On 19.12.2010 at 15:22 Uhr -0700 Mike Bonner apparently wrote:
Here are some possible ways to do what you want. I'm sure there are more.
Have a specific entry address just for you that grabs your ip and stuffs it
in a file. Then all your other pages that log IP can reference the file to
know
On 16.12.2010 at 20:36 Uhr -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote:
function getMissingNumbers pNumberList
put empty into vOccurences
repeat for each item vNumber in pNumberList
add 1 to vOccurences[vNumber]
end repeat
get the keys of vOccurences
sort lines of it numeric
put line -1 of
On 16.12.2010 at 19:29 Uhr -0400 william humphrey apparently wrote:
My math skills are terrible but this is something I can do in excel but
which should also be easy to do with a nested array in livecode. I want to
build a function that returns the numbers that are out of sequence in a list
of
On 07.12.2010 at 19:19 Uhr -0700 Glen Bojsza apparently wrote:
When the substack opens the preOpenStack of the mainstack tries to run which
generates an error since none of the objects on the mainstack are on the
substack.
Should preOpenStack only work with the stack that contains it?
If this
On 02.12.10 at 20:40 -0800 John Burtt apparently wrote:
Wouldn't more terms just add to the confusion.
Separate stacks are called main stacks.
The stacks that are part of (within) a main stack are called sub stacks.
Sub stacks that are separated from their main stack, become main stacks.
A main
On 25.11.2010 at 21:25 Uhr -0800 Joe Lewis Wilkins apparently wrote:
Thanks Jacqi. It's been ages since I've worked with HC, but I
question that menus would have been in backgrounds. They would have
been in stack scripts the majority of the time. I think; although I
can see how implementing
101 - 167 of 167 matches
Mail list logo
