Re: image question (for everyone)

2014-04-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Yeah, I had to talk to Mark Waddingham about it at one of the conferences before I understood what I was doing. He asked me how many images and what size each one was in pixels, whipped out his calculator, and showed me a calculation that overran the length of the display. Neither of us tried t

Re: image question (for everyone)

2014-04-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/10/14, 1:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I KNEW there had to be a good use for unplaced groups! Thanks. Do you think it still works that way? It does, I'm still working with the project. In retrospect I could have used a substack but there are so many other substacks that I didn't want to add a

Re: image question (for everyone)

2014-04-10 Thread Scott Rossi
I really appreciate you posting this. It's pretty eye opening for someone less "under-the-hood" savvy like me who has been told for years that LiveCode loads everything into memory at startup. I would never guess that "load into memory" could have two different "definitions". Regards, Scott Ros

Re: image question (for everyone)

2014-04-10 Thread Phil Davis
I KNEW there had to be a good use for unplaced groups! Thanks. Do you think it still works that way? Phil On 4/10/14, 10:56 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: In my case, the solution was to unplace the group from any cards; an unplaced group can still serve as a storage repository but won't be loaded

Re: image question (for everyone)

2014-04-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/10/14, 11:41 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I changed the drive to which I build apps and both built just fine. Don't know why. Me either, that's pretty odd. I wonder if the standalone builder is looking for resources in the wrong place. Now that you've narrowed it down, it would

image question (for everyone)

2014-04-10 Thread larry
hello Jacqueline, In response to my problem of building a standalone, you asked: Does it have a lot of images? Well, actually it does. But I had the same problem building an app with no images. I changed the drive to which I build apps and both built just fine. Don't know why. Anyway, my