Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
> - Original Message - From: "Peter M. Brigham" > To: "How to use LiveCode" > Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:31 PM > Subject: Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary > > >> On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:21 PM, wrote: >> >>

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread larry
OK, thanks Peter. I'll wait for the improvements. Larry - Original Message - From: "Peter M. Brigham" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2014 12:31 PM Subject: Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:21 PM,

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Whoops, pressed send too soon. > > How can I get this version to you/the list? > > Also, I think your array may need to have an extra level of key for the > entry type (command, property, etc) since there are multiple entries in the > dictionar

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, at 3:05 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/27/2014, 1:31 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: >> On the Mac these days the plugins folder is within the LiveCode app >> package (LiveCode xxx.app/Contents/Tools/Plugins/). On Windows the >> plugins folder should be visible with no hassle. > >

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/27/2014, 1:31 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On the Mac these days the plugins folder is within the LiveCode app package (LiveCode xxx.app/Contents/Tools/Plugins/). On Windows the plugins folder should be visible with no hassle. That folder is meant only for the plugins that ship with LiveCod

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:21 PM, wrote: > Hello Peter, > I went to your link below. > I see what appears to be a LiveCode stack. > Do I have to compile that before I put in the plugins folder? > Sorry, I'm a VERY newbie. No, just drop it into your plugins folder and restart LC. On the Mac these days

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Whoops, pressed send too soon. > > How can I get this version to you/the list? > > Also, I think your array may need to have an extra level of key for the > entry type (command, property, etc) since there are multiple entries in the > dictionar

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread larry
Hello Peter, I went to your link below. I see what appears to be a LiveCode stack. Do I have to compile that before I put in the plugins folder? Sorry, I'm a VERY newbie. Thanks, Larry > OK, here's a quick-and-dirty plugin called LCdictPlugin. Pop it into your plugins folder and restart LC. I

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter Haworth
Whoops, pressed send too soon. How can I get this version to you/the list? Also, I think your array may need to have an extra level of key for the entry type (command, property, etc) since there are multiple entries in the dictionary for the same term in some cases (e.g hilite is a command and a

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for this Peter, installed and working fine. I added a couple of things to it - saving the htmltext of the note into the array so simple formatting is maintained - An index of all the user notes in alpha order, accessible by shift clicking the "user note" pseudo button. Pete lcSQL Softwar

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, I wrote: > OK, here's a quick-and-dirty plugin called LCdictPlugin. Pop it into your > plugins folder and restart LC. I realized that with my original plugin it's impossible to tell if you have a user note for a given dictionary entry without checking each entry every time wit

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, I wrote: > OK, here's a quick-and-dirty plugin called LCdictPlugin. Pop it into your > plugins folder and restart LC. I realized that with my original plugin it's impossible to tell if you have a user note for a given dictionary entry without checking each entry every time wit

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 27/07/14 18:00, Peter M. Brigham wrote: My stacks are not password protected, I just have an ask password barrier to accessing the data. I may be misremembering, so that may not have been the problem. I just recall being blocked at the outset and deciding not to bother running anything beyo

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
My stacks are not password protected, I just have an ask password barrier to accessing the data. I may be misremembering, so that may not have been the problem. I just recall being blocked at the outset and deciding not to bother running anything beyond 5.5.1. At some point I'll try it again. -

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 27/07/14 17:38, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On Jul 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter M. Brigham wrote: (Sorry, like Richmond, I am not using LC 6.x for most of what I do, since that would involve updating 32,000 lines of script.) I must have missed something, as I've been hap

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, at 10:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter M. Brigham wrote: > > > (Sorry, like Richmond, I am not using LC 6.x for most of what I > > do, since that would involve updating 32,000 lines of script.) > > I must have missed something, as I've been happily working away in v6 without

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 27/07/14 17:27, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter M. Brigham wrote: > (Sorry, like Richmond, I am not using LC 6.x for most of what I > do, since that would involve updating 32,000 lines of script.) I must have missed something, as I've been happily working away in v6 without ever noticing that m

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: > (Sorry, like Richmond, I am not using LC 6.x for most of what I > do, since that would involve updating 32,000 lines of script.) I must have missed something, as I've been happily working away in v6 without ever noticing that my old code wasn't supposed to work. Can

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 27, 2014, I wrote: > OK, here's a quick-and-dirty plugin called LCdictPlugin. Pop it into your > plugins folder and restart LC. Forgot to say, make sure the plugin is set to open at LC startup. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Richmond
On 27/07/14 17:01, Peter M. Brigham (Sorry, like Richmond, I am not using LC 6.x for most of what I do, since that would involve updating 32,000 lines of script.) That is slightly misleading: My commercial ventures (such as they are: gross income for 2014 = 20 Euros) are all made with LC

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-27 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jul 14, 2014, at 12:15 PM, Charles E Buchwald wrote: > I know this is just one more complaint about how broken RevOnline is... But > it would be _really_ nice if it worked again. > > I just spent 45 minutes figuring out that when you use the revZip external, > you sometimes have to enclose y

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-14 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Thanks for the update, Richard. On 14 Jul 2014, at 11:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Charles E Buchwald wrote: > > > I know this is just one more complaint about how broken RevOnline > > is... But it would be _really_ nice if it worked again. > > There's a project in the IDE Contributors secti

Re: RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles E Buchwald wrote: > I know this is just one more complaint about how broken RevOnline > is... But it would be _really_ nice if it worked again. There's a project in the IDE Contributors section of the forum for improving RevOnline:

RevOnline & User Comments in the Dictionary

2014-07-14 Thread Charles E Buchwald
I know this is just one more complaint about how broken RevOnline is... But it would be _really_ nice if it worked again. I just spent 45 minutes figuring out that when you use the revZip external, you sometimes have to enclose your variable names in quotes. As usual I searched the list archive