Re: Ben Beaumont jumps ship.

2017-06-07 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
All the staff changes were discussed in the last blog post. It isn't a secret. Staff move on and are replaced. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On June 7, 2017 11:31:42 AM Mark Waddingham via

Re: 64 bit desktop apps

2017-06-07 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/7/17 10:41 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: The SB by default builds for 32-bit mode, but you can choose 64-bit by checking the appropriate box. When Apple begins requiring 64-bit, it would be a good idea to make this the default in the SB. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

2017-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/8/17 3:19 PM, tbodine via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the encouragement, Richard. Looks like I'll be doing the "Humility Workout" for quite some time. For future list searchers who might have this same symptom, I found the cause: One of my stack level scripts used "theme" as a parameter

Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

2017-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/8/17 2:35 PM, tbodine via use-livecode wrote: Another clue... If I use the message box to call any simple stack level handler, LC 8 changes that command to a put statement. Example: I type in msg box: zzShow -- a stack level handler Msg box changes my cmd to "put zzShow" and then puts

Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

2017-06-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
There's a spoil-sport in every crowd. :P On 6/8/17 4:19 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: tExt is all I'll say ;) (thanks to Ken Ray for that one) Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone On 8 Jun 2017, at 22:07, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: [ANN] a gauge widget

2017-06-09 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Bernd's stuff is always so amazing. Very cool. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Ben Beaumont jumps ship.

2017-06-09 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On June 9, 2017 11:17:13 AM "Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode" wrote: On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 6:33 AM, dunbarx via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: And gals. No, so far no gals. Jacque & company aren't keeping up their end :) Ah, but you've

Re: annoying property editor

2017-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I don't see that on OS X, for what it's worth. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On June 15, 2017 12:42:05 AM Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Is anyone else

OT: Spelling "windows" with a P (Was: [ANN] Release 8.1.5 RC-1)

2017-06-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/14/17 6:24 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: On 6/14/17 4:06 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: But on that subject, which I never imagined seeing here, I would advise males to pee in the most manly way possible TMI... for me it's triggering that scene in "About Schmidt".

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/13/17 12:36 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: there is also strong logic for Group crops to rect This also correlates well with the word "clips" in the property name itself. i.e. zero ambiquity I agree with the concept in general, but the word "crop" implies

Re: clipsToRect property (was Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive)

2017-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/13/17 4:17 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote: or ‘Clip Group to rect’ There are a few others like that, where the explanation is just the original term (or close) with spaces added. I always felt that didn't explain much. But the suggestion does have company in the PI. --

Re: LiveCode apps in Google Play

2017-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Maybe ask on the forums too, but that may not yield much either. I've been doing lots of Android apps lately but they are all proprietary and don't get uploaded to the Play Store. Rather than trying to identify specific apps, I'd like to see a conversation between Google and Mark where he

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-7

2017-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/16/17 8:53 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Is anyone else seeing that the dictionary is broken or is it again a case of just me? warning: save your work first because you have to force-quit after trying this. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19895 Seems okay on

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-7

2017-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/16/17 9:51 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 06/16/2017 07:33 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Seems okay on Mac/OS X. That's with dp7, right? I have no problems with dp6. Yes, 9.0dp7. I just installed it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac

Re: clipsToRect property (was Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive)

2017-06-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
istent rect”. Conversely, it could be something like “Auto-update rect”, but then the checkbox would be opposite the property setting. That’s almost as bad as something like dontUpdateRect. (Sorry, Scott, plug your ears.) Devin On Jun 13, 2017, at 3:34 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <us

Re: "clipsToRect" property

2017-06-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/14/17 1:51 AM, Quentin Long via use-livecode wrote: My 2 cents' worth: Rather than "clipsToRect", call the property "visibleRect". Because that's what it is—it's the rectangular area of the screen, within which the specified portion of the group is visible. I like that, but for the

[OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Best volume controls ever: https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/6/9/15768800/reddit-worst-volume-sliders-ui-design -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___

Re: [OT] We should have our own competition

2017-06-16 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/15/17 5:29 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: For our competition I nominate LiveCode's little up-and-down arrows in the property editor for selecting location, where I'm never sure which one increases the number or decreases it. Easy peasy. The up arrow makes the numbers go up so

Re: Ben Beaumont jumps ship.

2017-06-09 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
ou, Jacque have been "there" far longer than Heather if Hypercard is still a location. Richmond. On 6/9/17 8:13 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On June 9, 2017 11:17:13 AM "Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On Fri, Jun

Re: Escape From Script In Use Blocking?

2017-05-07 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Sometimes a hard coded breakpoint command works. But it's easier to click the Messages button in the toolbar before going to the card so that no messages are sent at all. Note that in LC 9 dp6 I've had occasional lockups when using the Messages button so save the stack first. The team

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

2017-05-01 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
My mistake was resetting the layermode after a drop. It does have to be set after object creation but that should be the only time it's messed with. Dragging was too jerky without acceleratedRendering, so I think that has to remain. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

2017-05-01 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Layering was definitely broken, that's for sure. But in this case we're referring to the layermode of a draggable object. I haven't worked much with his latest version yet, when I was doing it I was using fields instead of images. But since the images are created on the fly from within LC I

Re: Android & LC advice

2017-04-30 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/30/17 3:49 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: Do folks know if there are specific Android devices that play nicely or badly with LC? If not, can I just proceed on the basis of keeping costs low? If you could specify a single device for end users, which would you choose? Would

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

2017-04-30 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/29/17 9:56 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: My question is: where is the documentation for AcceleratedRendering -- exactly what does it do? (don't worry, if the explanation is very technical.. .let me see it!) -- when does it help -- what contexts may there be where

Re: Will LiveCode run an x86 android device?

2017-04-29 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/29/17 1:25 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: If that is so why can LiveCode make standalones that run on ARM Android? But can you run an Android APK made with LiveCode on an ARM Linux OS? Seems to me, Richmond's question is the same as "Why can't we run a Mac app on Windows?

Re: Unable to set breakpoint

2017-05-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
deleting your Prefs? On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:49 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Suddenly I have lost the ability to set breakpoints. Red-dot breakpoints are dimmed as though the script has not been compiled (it has, several times.) Hard-coded "

Re: Unable to set breakpoint

2017-05-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Restarted again and LC proceeded to the welcome screen. I clicked "open existing project" and my stack loaded. There are no menus, no tool palette, basically the IDE didn't load. On 5/8/17 4:03 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Thanks, I hadn't thought of that. I tri

Re: Unable to set breakpoint

2017-05-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
-livecode wrote: Have you tried deleting your Prefs? On Mon, May 8, 2017 at 9:49 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Suddenly I have lost the ability to set breakpoints. Red-dot breakpoints are dimmed as though the script has not been compiled (it has, s

Unable to set breakpoint

2017-05-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Suddenly I have lost the ability to set breakpoints. Red-dot breakpoints are dimmed as though the script has not been compiled (it has, several times.) Hard-coded "breakpoint" commands to not trigger either. I am not able to debug. Things were going along well until I allowed remote

Re: Unable to set breakpoint

2017-05-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Okay, restoring prefs from yesterday worked. Major panic averted. But there is something very wrong with a clean startup. On 5/8/17 4:13 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Panos, I need to get this running. I've tried launching dp5 with the same results. If I restore my old prefs, I

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

2017-05-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/6/17 12:10 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote: Set the tabstops to a number greater than the width of the field. Set the itemdelimter to tab. Then put the OtherData of each line into the second item of each line. As long as there’s no horizontal scrollbar on the field the user will

Android label and name

2017-05-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I need to build two versions of an Android app, one for production and another for testing. It appears that the standalone builder uses the "name" property as the icon label in the Android launcher. I need the stack name to stay the same, and only the label to differ. I have tried building

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

2017-05-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/6/17 2:30 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode wrote: But I realized Tiemo might not even need to bother hiding the otherData if he takes advantage of another property of fields - the metadata property: I forgot all about that, even though I've used it in the past. That's the best idea so

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

2017-05-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Use tabwidths instead of tabstops. I was working off faulty memory. On 5/6/17 2:32 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Cool stuff! Didn't know you could hide things with tab, and will have to look at metadata now. Thanks! On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode <

Re: Android label and name

2017-05-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/6/17 3:21 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to build two versions of an Android app, one for production and another for testing. It appears that the standalone builder uses the "name" property as the icon label in the Android launcher. I need the

Re: LIvecode quit unexpectedly errors.

2017-05-04 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I've had the same problem with 9.0dp6, unexpected crashes, sometimes a whole string of them, also not reliably or reproducably or predictably. It may be just coincidence, but when I told the firewall to deny LC it seemed to get a little better. (I'm still getting asked about remote access on

Re: English Like?

2017-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On May 25, 2017 3:03:01 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-05-24 19:14, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 05/24/2017 08:03 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Anyway, I shall now get off my (small?) soap-box. Again this is a

Re: English Like?

2017-05-25 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
You have to go back in space too, it's the only way to make "top" turn into "left". On 5/25/17 2:05 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: In Jacque's Time Travel Stack, it's counter-clockwise, but only when you go back in time. Bob S On May 24, 2017, at 13:41 , Scott Rossi via

Re: Param Naming - Object by Reference Best Practices

2017-05-31 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/31/17 4:06 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: One does not expect this to be improperly evaluated put "graphic portal-title-bkgnd" into pObject What do you do? And why? I suspect the engine is trying to do subtraction since it can't tell you are referring to a

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

2017-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Richmond. On 9/13/17 11:41 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 9/13/17 1:34 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi there, I was wondering, if I find I don’t like the new Script Editor Autocomplete function because I find it too distracting, can I turn it off? I think the

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

2017-09-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On September 14, 2017 11:17:25 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote:. Another option here (beyond the shortcut to show completions option) might be to have an option to display the current list of potential completions in the pane at the bottom rather than

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

2017-09-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Having just read the blog post, which I didn't know existed until I saw the reference here, I may use autocomplete more than I thought. I didn't know it did all that stuff. Apologies, Monte. I'd still like the separate pane for when I'm not actively coding, but this does look pretty cool. I'm

Re: How to debug a hard crash of a windows standalone nowadays?

2017-09-18 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Have you tried the new remote debugging feature? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 18, 2017 8:34:01 AM Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode wrote: Hi

Re: Testing iOS apps on attached device

2017-09-18 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
, Ben On 16/09/2017 22:08, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 9/16/17 1:40 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the reply, and I certainly have had that problem often enough - but not this time. I can build a standalone, and use Xcode to install it on the phone; and it

Re: Testing iOS apps on attached device

2017-09-16 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/16/17 1:40 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the reply, and I certainly have had that problem often enough - but not this time. I can build a standalone, and use Xcode to install it on the phone; and it works. So I don't have a provisioning profile issue in this case.

Re: LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 Dropping Keystrokes in IDE

2017-09-19 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I'm pretty sure there wouldn't be any large project that would cover all bases, given the wide variety of uses we subject the engine to. That's why LC wrote the automated test engine, to cover as many features as possible. But that can't catch the manual actions that require a real user sitting

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

2017-09-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/21/17 12:57 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Would be super if we could build this into the widget.. so you could, e.g set the width to 100 pixels height to 20 align the SVG to the left, center or right but the whole 100X20 region would be reactive, even if the SVG

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on Android 7 and Android 8

2017-09-22 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
;wait" is probably fixing things here. I also tested on a Pixel running Oreo. Best regards, Panos -- On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 7:48 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Panos: I just tested Swami's app on my Pixel running Oreo (Android 8) and accelerate

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on

2017-09-23 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/23/17 2:27 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: when we issue "wait 200 milliseconds with messages" does the engine send idle to the card? i.e now the phone OS has time to "catch up" ?? Basically. The idle message is sent regularly whenever no other handlers are

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on Android 7 and Android 8

2017-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Does it work if you set acceleratedRendering in preOpenStack or preOpenCard? It seems to work okay for me that way. On 9/20/17 5:21 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hi folks, Today I came across this issue, affecting Android 7 and Android 8: on openStack set the

Re: (Browser) Widget documentation

2017-09-20 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/20/17 3:51 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: Now I feel even more foolish But it makes the rest of us look good. We owe you. Any one of us might be next. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

2017-09-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/13/17 1:34 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi there, I was wondering, if I find I don’t like the new Script Editor Autocomplete function because I find it too distracting, can I turn it off? I think the ability to turn it off might be important to some people. I'd like an

Re: read from file until a line begins with a certain word

2017-09-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
You're right of course, I had a thinko. On 9/17/17 4:15 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 18 Sep 2017, at 6:13 am, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: thanks for that code sample. I was not aware that i can use EOF in a repeat loop as

Re: read from file until a line begins with a certain word

2017-09-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/17/17 8:18 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: concatenating a cr (or whatever line delimiter the file uses if opening as binary) before mStart and reading from file until that string will find all instances but the 1st line of the file (it the file starts with mstart) I think it

Re: read from file until a line begins with a certain word

2017-09-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/17/17 7:16 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: You're right of course, I had a thinko. It should have been this, btw: on parseFile put "/path/to/file" into tFile put cr & "mstart" into tDelim open file tFile for read repeat read from

Re: LiveCode 8.2.0 DP-1 Dropping Keystrokes in IDE

2017-09-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/17/17 6:58 PM, RunRevPlanet via use-livecode wrote: Carefully type the following in the Script Editor, using my 2 finger typing skills: put 5 into item 1 of rectBuffer Looking up from the keyboard, this is what has been added my code: put nto 3 ectfer ... Decide that I have

Re: Best way to copy from one stack to another

2017-09-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I'm astounded too. I wonder how long that's been there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 21, 2017 6:14:49 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:

Re: Best way to copy from one stack to another

2017-09-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
For some reason I've never understood, there is no menu item to copy a card, but it is easy to do in script or the message box: copy this card Once that's done you can use Cmd-V to paste the card into the target stack. Alternately you can do: copy card x of stack y to stack z For only

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on Android 7 and Android 8

2017-09-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
in preopenstack or openstack. I did not check with opencard/preopencard. On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 10:13 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Does it work if you set acceleratedRendering in preOpenStack or preOpenCard? It seems to work okay for me th

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

2017-09-21 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/20/17 11:36 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: the proper way to do it is, says Jacque: create the rows so the bottom one is a bit cut off, otherwise a subset of users never try to scroll up! I'm not sure how proper it is, but it's what I do and it seems to work. I

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on Android 7 and Android 8

2017-09-22 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
ot; set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to "true" end preopenstack The "wait" was to fix something else, but I wonder if it is allowing acceleratedRendering to kick in too. That would seem similar to your suggestion to send the message in time. On 9/21/17 12:48 PM, J

Re: SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

2017-09-19 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I can't tell if the suggestion is a feature request or a suggestion to fix the Android issue. If the latter, the sleep mode thing isn't an option on Android, which always retains apps in RAM until it needs the memory. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: Grouping Controls in selectGroupedControls mode

2017-10-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I run for days at a time with selectGroupedControls turned on, setting it to false is the exception. It's already possible to align or move any controls together regardless of the groups they are in. While I rarely use the project browser, it's my understanding that you can align and

Re: is a date

2017-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 10/14/17 2:14 PM, Yves COPPE via use-livecode wrote: Try this function CheckDate pDateToCheck return matchText(pDateToCheck,"([1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])/(0[1-9]|1[0-2])/([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9])") end CheckDate Promising, but fails with dates like "1/1/19". -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Rotating widgets

2017-10-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Another disadvantage of using a rotated SVG is that is will resize to fill its rectangle when rotating. The clock hand will change its size on each rotation. On 10/14/17 2:17 PM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: That is why I suggest using a png-file, where all but the hand is transparent.

Re: Send "rawKeyUp"

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 10/15/17 11:31 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Normally, when I have personal problems . . . I hope you saw the invisible smiley after my comment. Here's one: :) I suppose an enhancement request for the rather obvious: rawKeyStillDown & keyStillDown might not be a bad

Re: is a date

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 10/15/17 5:10 AM, Yves COPPE via use-livecode wrote: I hope this works for any date format ... if matchtext(textToSearch,"(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{2,4})",theDay,TheMonth,TheYear) is true then Yes, it seems to work with any numeric date now. I also like Ken Ray's solution which lets the

Re: Send "rawKeyUp"

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
hewson via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: And how, pray tell, would one have "stuff" in a LiveCode standalone to tell the OSes to which LiveCode deploys to alter their key repeat rates? Richmond. On 10/15/17 6:16 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote

Re: is a date

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 10/15/17 1:57 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 10/15/2017 11:44 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 10/15/17 5:10 AM, Yves COPPE via use-livecode wrote: I hope this works for any date format ... if matchtext(textToSearch,"(\d{1,2})/(\d{1,2})/(\d{2,4})&qu

Re: Send "rawKeyUp"

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
And here I was, looking for a post card. What I was planning to write on it was: it's easiest to set the key repeat rate in the OS. Macs allow that, not sure about other systems. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: is a date

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
wrote: Or   x is a date and x is not an integer  ? -- Alex. On 15/10/2017 21:37, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: You know, after all the dicussion here, I'm not sure any of the options are better than "x is a date". The one exception may be that any integer is considered a dat

Re: is a date

2017-10-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
You know, after all the dicussion here, I'm not sure any of the options are better than "x is a date". The one exception may be that any integer is considered a date. To get around that we could just check that there are 3 items delimited by slashes before testing for "is a date". --

Re: How to meet an integer

2017-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On October 16, 2017 5:16:15 AM hh via use-livecode wrote: JLG wrote: You know, after all the dicussion here, I'm not sure any of the options are better than "x is a date". The one exception may be that any integer is considered a date. Being a

Re: 'manual' Copy and paste of multiple objects to new card ungroups grouped objects

2017-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
The name of the actual LC property is selectGroupedControls, so the label reflects that. Translated, it means "select controls in groups". Maybe that will help trigger recall. On October 13, 2017 11:05:01 AM David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: Yes, but

Re: How to meet an integer

2017-10-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I met 3, which is odd. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On October 16, 2017 10:21:40 PM Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: I never met an integer I

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

2017-10-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 10/12/17 3:51 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: The dashed border around selected controls certainly makes their selected state clear, but it also obscures the object's own border, sometimes making it difficult to visualize placement or changes to border treatments until I deselect

Re: TSNet error 6

2017-09-05 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Okay, so three of us have been running around for a couple of days trying to find "bad" internet connections. Sometimes we walk to the limits of our router until we barely get a connection, and we get curl error 35. At some coffee shops with a solid connection we get error 6, once error 7.

Re: TSNet error 6

2017-09-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
ou try connect via the IP address rather than the hostname? Cheers, Charles On 6/09/2017 6:37 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Okay, so three of us have been running around for a couple of days trying to find "bad" internet connections. Sometimes we walk to the limits of our

re: script/engine broken when moved to 64bit server at JaguarPC

2017-09-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
The other person is me. I had a terrible time after Jaguarpc moved me to a 64 bit machine, but using the old 3.5 engine and changing the extension from ".mt" to ". cgi" made it work again. I do remember Richard trying to get it to work and finding something wrong but I can't recall the bug

Re: Livecode docset for Dash

2017-09-11 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/11/17 12:27 PM, James Hale via use-livecode wrote: The online API doesn't function on touch devices It works on my Android with Chrome, but it is painfully slow and you have to wait for the popup ad to display, then dismiss it, and then you can type. The initial filtering on the first

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.7 RC-1

2017-09-05 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/5/17 10:21 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: 19420 Calling quit causes Android app to crash on next launch if Android is still retaining the app in RAM For anyone who attended my LC Global presentation, this is the "quit" problem I mentioned. Great news that it is fixed now,

Re: remote debugging just stopped being available.

2017-09-04 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Mine never did come back. I haven't seen it in months. On 9/4/17 6:41 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: Too late - it just came back again. I'm on MacOS 10.10.5 - no extra firewall or security software running. Now that I'm alert to it, if it happens again I'll (likely) notice it

Re: remote debugging just stopped being available.

2017-09-04 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Actually this isn't really fair, I haven't set it up for some time. Maybe I'll try it again. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 4, 2017 8:12:02 PM "J. Landman Gay via use-liv

Re: Deploying to Android (Amazon Fire 7)

2017-09-05 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
If you don't want to install Android File Transfer you can also use a cloud service like Dropbox to move the apk to the device. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 5, 2017 6:14:08 AM

Re: What Android device detail do you find useful and why?

2017-09-10 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/8/17 8:46 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: MobileBuildInfo for Android (see below) Is anyone tracking this stuff? If so, what, from your analytics experience is most useful? And why? The most useful for me would be to get the hardware serial number for tracking

Re: remote debugging just stopped being available.

2017-09-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/6/17 11:47 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 7 Sep 2017, at 2:46 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Here's a new twist. I did not include the remote debugger in a standalone I'm building. When I did a test build with my phone

Re: remote debugging just stopped being available.

2017-09-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Here's a new twist. I did not include the remote debugger in a standalone I'm building. When I did a test build with my phone cabled to the Mac, LC asked if I wanted to start a debugging session. Apparently it doesn't know the app didn't include the extension? At least it's asking me again.

Re: remote debugging just stopped being available.

2017-09-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/7/17 12:17 AM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 7 Sep 2017, at 3:15 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Ah. Okay, that explains it. It doesn't put it into an apk you build on disk though, right? I’m not sure what you mean here

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

2017-09-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On 09/24/2017 08:26 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Very tall groups have to be arranged by script, the way Mike Bonner described. It's sometimes easier to use relative locations rather than hard coded numbers: set t

Autocomplete toggle?

2017-09-26 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Apologies Monte, I'm sure autocomplete will be handy at some point, but is there a command I can issue in the message box to turn it off for a while? Yesterday it went amok and I had to quit LC and restart to get normal operation back. In those situations it would be good to be able to turn

Re: Arrow keys in SE

2017-09-26 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
That is going to throw me, I use cmd-right arrow a lot. Cmd-left arrow too. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 26, 2017 6:29:54 PM Devin Asay via use-livecode

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

2017-09-26 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
The original issue that influenced this one was how to provide a larger hit zone on an SVG widget. How would this property work for that? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 26, 2017

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

2017-09-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
When you're editing a group, you're on a temporary card that represents the whole group but visually appears to be the card itself. What seems to be "outside" the group is actually inside the group currently being edited. When you stop editing, you see the group normally. If you leave editing

Re: Beacons and Bluetooth

2017-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On September 27, 2017 10:40:01 AM Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote:. The Documentation/Dictionary says OS - IOS/OSX and PLatforms - Desktop/Mobile - not very specific as IOS is mobile in the Platforms and the Word Mobile suggests BOTH IOS and Android. My

Re: Autocomplete toggle?

2017-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
| jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 27, 2017 9:17:10 AM Robert Brenstein via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On 27 Sep 2017, at 7:16, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: What this sounds

Remote debugging - expected behavior

2017-09-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
What is the expected behavior of remote debugging? I'm not sure if what I see is how it is supposed to work, or a bug. I have an app that does not have the remote debugger included in the Inclusions pane. Looking at the revStandaloneSettings custom properties, it is (correctly) not in there

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

2017-09-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/28/17 11:53 AM, hh via use-livecode wrote: JLG wrote: The original issue that influenced this one was how to provide a larger hit zone on an SVG widget... Yet another option. You can use my iconGrid widget for that. Use a 1x1 grid with your SVG icon as property. It informs you whether

Re: Remote debugging - expected behavior

2017-09-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Thanks. One more question: should remote debugging work with script-only stacks that are part of the app? I have several breakpoints set but none of them trigger in a test build. On 9/28/17 2:16 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hi Jacque, This is the expected behaviour. The

Re: Remote debugging - expected behavior

2017-09-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
etwork than the one your machine is connected to). I have not tested it but I suppose it will work. Best, Panos -- On Thu, Sep 28, 2017 at 7:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: What is the expected behavior of remote debugging? I'm not sure i

Re: Remote debugging - expected behavior

2017-09-28 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/28/17 8:54 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 29 Sep 2017, at 7:13 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Thanks. One more question: should remote debugging work with script-only stacks that are part of the app? I have several break

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