Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:22 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: How in Linux would I do that? Oh, I skipped something... select "Properties" and then permissions... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubs

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:22 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: How in Linux would I do that? One way, right-click the file and select the permissions pane in the dialog and check the box. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit thi

Re: which Linux?

2012-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/03/2012 03:11 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I got around the difficulty of sharing files by putting the test files onto a server that I could log onto with Linux. What should the name be for a Linux LiveCode standalone? It came out named as "untitled 1" with no extension, an dLinux thought tha

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 02:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard Gaskin writes: If any of you are using Linux it would be helpful to know which distro and version, which desktop environment, and whether using the "answer file" command shows hidden files in its listing. After caffeine, I realize that the a

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 11:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It seems that LiveCode's "answer file" command on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) always shows hidden files, regardless of whether I have that setting turned on in the file manager. Is there some secret param I can use to turn that off? If not, I'll file a bug

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 11:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It seems that LiveCode's "answer file" command on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) always shows hidden files, regardless of whether I have that setting turned on in the file manager. Is there some secret param I can use to turn that off? If not, I'll file a bug

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/19/2012 11:43 PM, Warren Samples wrote: http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.33.48 PM (2).png http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.42.16 PM.png http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.43.05 PM.png http://dochawk.org/Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.43.35 PM.png

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/19/2012 11:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/19/12 11:14 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 06/19/2012 11:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/19/12 8:53 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: OK, I can't attach that much. Here are links for the message below: http://dochawk.org:Screen Shot 2012-06-

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/19/2012 11:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 6/19/12 8:53 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: OK, I can't attach that much. Here are links for the message below: http://dochawk.org:Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.33.48 PM (2).png http://dochawk.org:Screen Shot 2012-06-19 at 6.42.16 PM.png http://dochawk.org:

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/16/2012 02:53 PM, Richmond wrote: Peter, you might update apt-get and try 'sudo apt-get install ia32-libs' and see if that does the trick for you. "Package 'ia32-libs' has no installation candidate" Richmond, are you working with a 64 bit installation? If you are, do you find ia32-lib

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/16/2012 11:51 AM, Warren Samples wrote: Adding some 32 bit libs in the software center in Mint 13 has helped. This is clearly the problem. Livecode is not working with the new multiarch system implemented in Mint 13. Ok, missing 32 bit libs was the problem. It's working now, but i

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/15/2012 09:57 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 06/15/2012 02:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this should be happening? I hosed my Debian installation (don't ask!). So not having done a new install for many years and severa

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/15/2012 02:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this should be happening? I hosed my Debian installation (don't ask!). So not having done a new install for many years and several new computers, I decided the thing to do was sta

Re: Crashing documentation on Linux

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/06/2012 05:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: I'm sure it's a conspiracy on the part of that fiendish rev team to get us all to switch from linux to Windows. But I'm keeping my tinfoil hat right where it belongs. You can't take the sky from me. -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net Well, it does

Re: Crashing documentation on Linux

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/06/2012 04:27 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: The problem with the dictionary crashing in linux is with user-added notes. Try opening the dictionary entry to "repeat". I do this and nothing untoward happens in either Livecode 4.5.3 or 5.5. I see several user added notes, but no crashing. Is there

Re: Crashing documentation on Linux

2012-06-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/06/2012 02:36 PM, Richmond wrote: At the risk of being boring I am reposting part of a message that I posted under a different heading: An on-going problem is that the RR/LC Dictionary crashes the IDE on Linux (3.5, 4.0, 4.5 at least), and, at last, I have found a suitably mental workaroun

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-06-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/01/2012 10:15 AM, Paul Looney wrote: Obviously Apple is thinking ahead to the day when all of the Macs will have SSDs. This is a coin whose flip side is that they would obviously not be thinking about their current users whose computers do not. That makes this coin worth zero cents. F

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/16/2012 06:14 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Until the software is actually for sale, it probably does not make much sense to get worked up about their distribution system for large organizations. If one wishes to prevent a plan from becoming a problem, it may be that "before it matters" is v

Re: Linux application crashes

2012-04-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/13/2012 10:22 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote: The tarball can be gotten here... http://www.box.com/s/07d396287def00f59b8e If you launch the application then all you need to do is click any of the images in the scrolling field and watch the memory. This problem is very evident here, certainly a

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/10/2012 07:54 PM, Pete wrote: Hi Warren, It's the un-zipping at the other end that concerns me, not the zip on my machine. Sounds like the ability to handle tar files might require a Windows user to install some software. Pete Yes, that is something completely different :D You could off

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/10/2012 07:04 PM, Pete wrote: I guess my primary concern is that a user can simply download the compressed file and either have his browser autoatically un-compress it or just be able to double-click on it to un-compress it, then have the program be ready to use. I may be misunderstanding

Re: Browse tool. I give up.

2012-04-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/09/2012 11:18 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I have been doing this sort of thing for so many years, and still find the simplest things will not work. OK. Someone tell me why I cannot choose the browse tool under script control upon opening a stack in a new session. Wait. Maybe I should w

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/03/2012 12:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Still would be nice to have feature parity and not cost*more* than the other platforms. That's just insulting. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net :) I agree with this entirely. I haven't been running Livecode under Linux for all that long, no

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/02/2012 06:15 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode wi

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote: I have spent some time playing around with PearOS, and can honestly say "it sucks"; I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone, especially with h

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/25/2012 03:13 PM, Warren Samples wrote: :D as I said "heaping spoonfuls of salt" Also applies to all my opinionated advice, highly biased - and definitely not representative of anyone else's experience - no matter how much I try to make it appear otherw

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote: As a Mac-o-philiac I have spent some time playing around with PearOS, and can honestly say "it sucks"; it being neither one thing nor the other. Also, for Mac types; the initial set up does NOT have desktop icons, and it is a right cough-cough-cough findi

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete More ideas that might interest you :) Since you are mainly working in OS X and I assume you are happy and comfortable working in that interface, you may be interested in a linux

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: you can find downloadable, ready to go virtual machine disk images of almost any Linux distro, in current and older versions. Here are some links to preconfigured virtual disk images. http://virtualboxes.org/images/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtu

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 09:44 PM, Roger Eller wrote: The easiest way for a beginner is a WUBI installation. You don't need an emulator or virtual box or parallels, etc. Just a PC that is already running Windows. When you install Ubuntu via WUBI, it is just a series of folders on the hard-drive (no dedic

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for FWIW: http://dt.deviantart.com/journal/poll/1202084/ http://enigmacommunity.org/forums/topic/1099-whats-your-favorite-linux-desktop-environment/ http://www.muktware.com/survey/3444/poll

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: the VM approach solves the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete Since you can test them so easily, I would suggest firstly not to be too anxious about making the "best" decision. You don't have to dec

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote: I already have a Windows laptop that I only use for testing out the LC apps I develop on my Mac. I don't really want another computer. It seems like Apple has just about shut the door on running anything but OS X on their computers. Can I install Linux on my

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and mana

Re: Serious Question about the list...

2012-03-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/18/2012 08:51 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: I am automatically notified of any new message on this mailing list. I don't know of a way to do this with the forum messages (unless I'm already participating in the discussion) RSS works, although it's not quite as nice as a properly threaded

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/14/2012 12:25 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 03/14/2012 11:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: continued frustration. Result was "website cannot be found". (sigh!) Thanks anyway! Just not my day. My vision is poorer than usual today. Joe Wilkins That seems odd. You can edit the p

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/14/2012 11:42 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: continued frustration. Result was "website cannot be found". (sigh!) Thanks anyway! Just not my day. My vision is poorer than usual today. Joe Wilkins That seems odd. You can edit the prefs files directly in a text editor. It's not difficult or

Re: OT - BING HAS TAKEN OVER MY SEARCH ENGINE

2012-03-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/14/2012 11:11 AM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Thanks Fellas, Even after removing Bing and restarting and Quitting/starting, Bing still showed up as the active search engine. I don't trust them at all now. VERY insidious! Guess I'll just use Safari now. Seems as if it's a little better than

Re: How do I execute a shell command?

2012-03-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/13/2012 11:29 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: The docs say to execute a shell command you can do: shell("ls -l *.txt") However, this fails for me with: Message execution error: Error description: Handler: can't find handler Hint: shell("ls How do I run a shell command from inside LiveCode on a Mac

Re: What is wrong with this ?

2012-03-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/12/2012 12:38 PM, John Dixon wrote: It does however beg the question as to why this is undocumented ? And also the question 'why is there a problem there, but not here?' Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: What is wrong with this ?

2012-03-12 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/12/2012 10:54 AM, Ken Corey wrote: On 12/03/2012 15:38, John Dixon wrote: on mouseUp put"https://gg.com/racing"; into raceListURL put URL raceListURL into fld 1 end mouseUp It will not work for me under Win XP from boot camp... Can anyone tell me why ? It's not a help, but as a

Re: [OT] Free SSL certificates available

2012-03-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/11/2012 05:03 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: Hi Andre, Is StartSSL the one in Israel? I think when I looked at them it was only free for 1 month. They were also very intrusive, almost like spyware, so I didn't end up going with them. Let me know. Rick http://www.startssl.com/?app=40 _

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/09/2012 12:27 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/8/12 11:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Ignore all that other advice. Just give a couple of your kids to the neighbors. This is the answer to so many problems, although not always conducive to good relations with the neighbors! __

Re: The Linux engine...

2012-02-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/25/2012 12:27 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Just MHO on a Sunday morning, Joe Wilkins Architect It's Saturday. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscrip

Re: The Linux engine...

2012-02-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/23/2012 01:50 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I've more or less stopped using Rev because I only use Linux, and having got a 22 inch monitor, I simply can't read most of the IDE unless I reset screen resolution to much lower resolution. Or put on reading glasses which brings its own problems.

Re: The Linux engine...

2012-02-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/23/2012 03:20 AM, Malte Brill wrote: I figured out so much that this is a GNOME (working) versus KDE (not working) thing. What really scares me is the exit on signal 11 issue. How does one debug that??? Not that this is of any practical value, but this is an issue with compositing. If

Re: Video on Linux (again)

2012-02-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/06/2012 09:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: How are you playing videos on Linux? Are you able to do it at all? Running openSUSE 12, KDE and KWin. I get audio but no video attempting to play videoclips. Using the player, and with window effects on, I get audio but no visible video. I get v

Re: Developing on Mac, standalone on Windows

2012-01-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/22/2012 11:55 PM, Pete wrote: I just compiled and ran my fist standalone on Windows and I'm finally realising the benefits of developing cross platform applications with LC. I was pretty amazed when everything I developed on my Mac just ran as expected on Windows! The on;y problem I need

Re: Application quit on OS X

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/20/2012 11:23 AM, Pete wrote: As far as I can tell, all Mac applications work this way.. This is not correct. It depends on what kind of application it is. Most work this way but several utilities do not. I have seen some discussion of this elsewhere, although I can't recall where, and

Re: best 404 ever

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/20/2012 11:01 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I get blank screen. I am probably being blocked by a content filter.:-) Bob It's done in Flash ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: revBrowser & sound

2012-01-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2012 04:20 AM, tkuyp...@telenet.be wrote: it's kinda annoying to always have their website open when surfing the internet, accidentally closing my music when closing to many windows. Can't you just open it in it's own window and hide/minimize it? Park it on another desktop/workspa

Re: Application Menu (again) and RunRev attribution

2012-01-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/13/2012 11:51 AM, Pete wrote: I am about to release my first commercial product written with Livecode and I'm wondering what the etiquette is, if any, regarding mentioning Livecode and RunRev in the About dialog, maybe something like "Built with Livecode from RunRev" plus a web address?

Re: SQL Date Formatting

2012-01-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/11/2012 07:20 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi all. I am having F-I-TZ working with dates in mySQL. I WANT to store the dates as real dates, but mySQL formats them as -mm-dd. Livecode does no such thing and nothing I know how to do can get Livecode to work with dates in this format AS dates

Re: 5.0.2 startup woes

2011-12-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/23/2011 11:40 PM, Fred Moyer wrote: Now with this new 5.0.2 that I just purchased, various startup, openstack and preopenstack commands do not implement -- that is they don't implement when I double-click on the stack while LiveCode is not running. (Everything works fine if LiveCode is a

Re: [ANN] Extensions for LiveCode/Linux

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/19/2011 08:16 AM, Bob Warren wrote: In case you missed Rev's announcement a few weeks back, and now that the site is complete, Linux fans might find the following extensions useful: 1. UTF-8 Stack Template 2. UTF-8 Function Demo 3. Accent-Blind International Bubble Sort 4. UTF-8 Text Edito

Re: [ANN] Extensions for LiveCode/Linux

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/19/2011 10:12 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Im looking at the webkit extension now. Looks nice. Only other requirement is python, correct? You may need to install the python-webkitGTK bindings. Would not run initially on my system, openSUSE, but installing the bindings allows the python br

Re: clipboard issue in Windows?

2011-11-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/30/2011 11:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/30/11 1:00 AM, Pete wrote: I can see where the confusion comes from on this. The dictionary claims you can copy a chunk of a control to the clipboard, even has an example - copy word -3 to -1 of field "Help". I was wrong, the dictionary is

Re: Re : Wasting space on the forum.

2011-11-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/14/2011 07:25 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Top please. This is a whole other topic. I personally prefer to have the new reply at the bottom, as the quoted text prepares the context for the reply. I understand the other point of view, and I would say that it frequently doesn't make a differe

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 01:21 PM, Warren Samples wrote: vxLangauage is a variable not a string. oops! Didn't spell your variable correctly. That would never work either :D Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 01:17 PM, René Micout wrote: YES ! But why put "defaults read NSGlobalDomain" into vxLangage get shell (vxLangage) works ? I don't write put quote& "defaults read NSGlobalDomain"& quote into vxLangage ... Le 8 nov. 2011 à 19:39, René Micout a écrit : Thanks to Pete, Warren and

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 12:39 PM, René Micout wrote: get shell (defaults read NSGlobalDomain) don't work... !!? Don't forget to wrap your shell command with "" ! Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subs

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 12:01 PM, René Micout wrote: Yes of course, it is better, line 10 is the first language in the list (and I think it is the default system (country) language. AppleLocale is line 33... Thank you Warren Le 8 nov. 2011 à 18:39, Warren Samples a écrit : I get a very different line

Re: MAC OS X Lion, shell and language

2011-11-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/08/2011 11:03 AM, René Micout wrote: A little information : in Mac OS X Lion when you need to know what is the default (country) language of the system : put "defaults read NSGlobalDomain" into vxLangage get line 10 of shell (vxLangage) Before "Lion" it was line 9 of shell> now line

Re: Waiting for 'shell'

2011-11-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/01/2011 06:27 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I just looked back at the original post. If I understand correctly, the problem is not seeing when shell completes, but to let the user know there is backgrounded activity while shell is still processing, and so they don't think the app has locked up.

Re: Waiting for 'shell'

2011-11-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/01/2011 03:47 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I've done this on Mac and Windows, but I would expect it to work on Linux too. ~Roger Putting something like "show animated.gif > get shell("cp fileLocA fileLocB") in a button leaves the animated gif completely static during the copy operation. Int

Re: Waiting for 'shell'

2011-11-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/01/2011 12:11 PM, Roger Eller wrote: I use animated GIFs which I show just before a lengthy conversion, then hide it when shell has completed the task. It' not a progress bar, but indicates a busy state quite well. ~Roger What platform(s) does this work on? When I do this, the animatio

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/29/2011 12:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote: on a side note regarding shell - I just ran this from the message box: put shell("man zip") and got this text: Not an answer to your question, but that doesn't happen here running Linux. Here is something from discussion of Phil Davis' Shell

Re: OT: Command-line blues (ImageMagick)

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 07:33 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: [As an aside I would NOT recommend IM on a Mac to anyone who has only worked within a GUI environment. The installation of IM for Mac took longer (and appeared to use more resources) than installing Lion on my Mac, even if you take into account my m

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/29/2011 09:40 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: shell(/opt/local/bin/convert) Mike's response contains all the correct information, but it can be distilled to this: change what you what you type into the message box to: put shell("/opt/local/bin/convert") This should display in the messa

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 03:09 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Try this on your terminal: which convert This will return the path to the convert command, in my case is: /usr/local/bin/convert So change your convert command in the shell to "/usr/local/bin/convert image.jpg blabla" and see if you can get it to wo

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 12:53 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Is this in Windows or Mac? Im Mac to get usage for a shell command you have to preface it with man. I think it's short for manual. This only works if whatever installed the command in the shell also installed a man page. Bob Technically you are cor

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 11:52 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: While trying to get just a bit comfortable with a command-line interface, I started Terminal on Mac OSX Lion and eventually got a command to work (after finding out how to cope with spaces in file and folder names). I put the same thing in an LC 'sh

Re: What's the difference between LC 'shell' and OSX terminal?

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/28/2011 11:52 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: While trying to get just a bit comfortable with a command-line interface, I started Terminal on Mac OSX Lion and eventually got a command to work (after finding out how to cope with spaces in file and folder names). I put the same thing in an LC 'sh

Re: Confused again

2011-10-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/25/2011 05:44 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: She seemed to suggest that the upgrade to 5.0.1 is for developers only, but that doesn't sound right. Please advise. Tim Miller Any upgrades you are entitled to will be available from the Store at runrev.com. Select that link and sign in. 5.0 s

Re: Export and Import SQLite data from LC Project?

2011-10-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/25/2011 02:34 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi John, Can't you transfer the entire database file? If not, you can just do a dump and import the resulting file or do a query and save the data to a text file, which you import the usual way. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Mark is cor

Re: Help tracking down a shell problem

2011-10-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/20/2011 03:12 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Pete, The terminal and the shell command are different beasts. On your mac, you can check some hidden files: .profile .bash_profile .bashrc For example, my .profile changes my locale $LANG var. I think that .profile always load but .bash_profile and

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/05/2011 11:34 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Oct 5, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: * It requires lots of touches to do simple things. please let me know if there is a quicker way! Android: 1. Touch the Clock in the lower right. 2. In the popup that appears there are some slider

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/04/2011 02:13 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: but it doesn't replace Viagra I'm sure there are some... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription pref

Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help

2011-09-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/29/2011 12:27 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I just created a PDF with two lines of text and a 16x16 graphic and following text. A very basic test pattern. Then I opened up the document in BBEdit. Yikes! A huge amount of data is there - some binary and some plain text for such simple data

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

2011-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/06/2011 02:40 PM, Roger Eller wrote: It looks like the announcement ONLY went to the DEV list though... Odd... :\ ~Roger Yes, I noticed that, too, but I checked the store and it's available for download in my account. Warren ___ use-livec

Re: LiveCode 4.6.4

2011-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/06/2011 02:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: SSSHHH! We are not supposed to even KNOW there is a 4.6.4. But seriously, this is not the forum for pre-release versions. Did you get an email telling you where to post beta issues? Bob Final public release was announced today. Warren ___

Re: Max length of value passed to shell()

2011-08-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, August 29, 2011 06:35:36 PM Dar Scott wrote: > Whereas I'm lazy, I thought I'd ask rather than run a test. > > Is there some limit to the length of the string passed to shell() on any > platform, especially OS X, whether by the engine or the shell-command program > itself. Or even t

Re: Retrieving Date and Time From The Internet

2011-08-16 Thread Warren Samples
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:13:58 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: > Okay, I contacted the USNO site via email and requested that they include the > year in the returned date/time. You could try this: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_CA-QC.aspx Your time info is here in the html it retur

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

2011-08-15 Thread Warren Samples
On Monday, August 15, 2011 12:31:25 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: > This interests me, because while I could depend on the system time I suppose, > to datetimestamp entries in an SQL tab But wouldn't it be simpler, and smarter, to let the db create and store store its own timestamp as the insert is made

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 13, 2011 01:06:43 PM Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hi Warren, > > Thanks for the tip. I had read that FTP service could be re-enable from the > command line. That will certainly solve the problem, but if Apple has a good > reason for dropping it, it would be nice to be able to do

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-13 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 13, 2011 10:17:25 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > IIRC Apple no longer makes Xserve anyway, so who needs an OS X FTP server? > > -- > Richard Gaskin At issue is which protocol is being used when one enables file sharing in the System Preferences on a standard OS X Desktop instal

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

2011-08-12 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 12, 2011 01:44:32 PM Gregory Lypny wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was building a nice app with LiveCode the other day. It used PUT URL and > FTP to download files from my remote Mac. Worked like a charm until > yesterday when I updated the OS on the remote Mac to Lion. Now

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 12:09:47 PM Roger Eller wrote: > I agree. In fact, I witnessed the rise of a YouTube artist, and bought his > very first CD because 1) he was that good, and 2) I wanted to be supportive > of the hundreds of songs he posted on YouTube (and I enjoyed for free). > THAT is

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 11:53:33 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: > But the very thought of having people pay royalties on what we consider to be > a "gift from God" namely the talent and the inspiration for the music seems > to be... well "quenching". The moneychangers in the temple comes to mind. >

Re: [OT] Blasted Flash

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, August 11, 2011 08:32:51 AM Richmond Mathewson wrote: > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-14475250 > > Firefox 6, Ubuntu 11.04 No probs here in Opera on openSUSE ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pleas

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-06 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 06, 2011 01:39:13 AM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Ideally, I would like to see it. > > My curiosity arises from my contact, for many years, > with people from the Music Business. > > The stories that I heard from first hand where, at the > time, like tall tales to me... But now,

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, August 06, 2011 12:48:04 AM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > You'll find a discussion of this in another of these clips > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPmnho7OvT8&feature=related > > > > Hmmm, There is no discussion in that page. (or anything else) > Only the message: > "This video co

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:45:46 PM Warren Samples wrote: > On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:30:44 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > > many people, around the world, are not supposing to watch > > to finish your sentence... "on youtube." > > I suppose you could write t

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 11:30:44 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > many people, around the world, are not supposing to watch to finish your sentence... "on youtube." I suppose you could write to Sony and ask them. While this is just speculation, it is a possibility that either some performer appea

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

2011-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, August 05, 2011 10:25:18 PM Alejandro Tejada wrote: > "This video contains content from SME, who has blocked it > in your country on copyright grounds." This doesn't have much or even anything to do with "Censorship". This is about honoring commercial distribution agreements which wil

Re: Getting someone's age from dob and current year

2011-07-30 Thread Warren Samples
On Saturday, July 30, 2011 07:16:44 PM Roger Eller wrote: >convert tToday to seconds >convert tBorn to seconds It's been talked about before, but this calls for a reminder: attempting to convert a date prior to Jan 1, 1970 to "seconds" returns "invalid date" instead of a number in Windo

Re: Installing iOS SDK and Xcode on Windows 7.

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 12:04:49 PM Roger Eller wrote: > running natively on brand new i7 machines with high-end > video cards. The Hackintosh is not a great secret, and indeed there is no reason for OS X not to run beautifully on non- Apple hardware once the issues of booting and certain drive

Re: [OT] More Apple Foolishness

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 11:44:11 AM David C. wrote: > ...from iTunes (the single most frustrating and annoying app > interface-wise on the whole planet on any OS) > > Absolutely on the mark! To be tied at the hip with that one piece of > software is absolutely awful and I'm doing just about all

Re: Installing iOS SDK and Xcode on Windows 7.

2011-07-29 Thread Warren Samples
On Friday, July 29, 2011 10:09:13 AM Roger Eller wrote: > it would be prohibitively slow "in a vm" Roger, Have you some disappointing experience running vms? My own experience running VirtualBox is that the guest OSs run quite snappily. I cannot recommend that one rely on a virtualized OS for

Re: AW: OT: I want to buy Lion

2011-07-28 Thread Warren Samples
On Thursday, July 28, 2011 11:13:23 AM Bob Sneidar wrote: > I think that may be harsh. Remember one of Microsoft's excuses for not > producing a really modern OS for so long was that they had to maintain > backwards compatibility for all their users. At some point this becomes a > ball and chain fo

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