Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Well thanks to this thread at least I found out where the # key went on the UK Mac keyboards, which maybe might come in handly one day. Its surreal to have it be alt + 3 unmarked. How on earth are you supposed to know that? I guess you have to read the Human Interface Guidelines? -- View thi

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Bill, That article is at mac observer-- so I'm thinking it could be a bit biased? But, you are correct on a couple points. Netbooks are typically up to 1/8 the cost of the new MacBooks, and they have more USB and other external ports. Even so, my original point was you really can't believe anythi

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
I think this article says it really well. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/ what_the_pundits_are_getting_wrong_about_the_new_macbook_air/ "The MacBook Air is indeed Apple’s answer to the netbook. (One of them, anyway — more on that later.) But the answer they’ve given is “you’re doing

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Lynn, Saw an interesting post over at Gizmodo today. http://gizmodo.com/5670812/big-brother-apple-and-the-death-of-the-program?skyline=true&s=i One of the more interesting comments is so appropriately true: > The argument that the app store doesn't bar outside installations is bogus. > It's

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually he's looking around about now for the institution that is missing a bunch of inmates. Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/22/10 3:11 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: >> Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... > > Until the little bumps on

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes, but if I take my keyboard to England, then all the keys will have changed. Then what do I do? ;-) Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:11 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... > > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:37, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 10

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2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
This guy has not been blocked yet? Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:49 PM, thebilltay...@yahoo.com wrote: > http://dukulahi.t35.com/ > > > > ___ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscr

Re:-Milgram & the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread David Glasgow
Jacqueline Landman Gay said: "Uh oh. After reading this list for so long, you've probably got enough material for a book by now." Nah. Nice list. Nice people. :-) Mind you, there was that one guy Regards David Glasgow On 22 Oct 2010, at 13:32, use-revolution-requ...@lists.runrev.c

Re: Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread Shao Sean
Richard, nice sweet code :-) The only thing though, is his original message asked to open the Inspector on the "Geometry" pane hence the longer code I proposed.. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread Marian Petrides
In case anyone misinterpreted my earlier reply let me offer the following clarification: By that I mean we all are so, ahem, "unique" that our story would not be believable, NOT that no one would believe David. On Oct 22, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: > Yeah, but no one would believ

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 3:11 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... Until the little bumps on the "J" and "F" keys wear off, which is probably next. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | h

Re: Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 4:02 PM, Marian Petrides wrote: Yeah, but no one would believe him, even if he wrote a book. On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/22/10 6:48 AM, David Glasgow wrote: As a forensic psychologist... Uh oh. After reading this list for so long, you've probably got

Re: Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread Marian Petrides
Yeah, but no one would believe him, even if he wrote a book. On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/22/10 6:48 AM, David Glasgow wrote: >> As a forensic psychologist... > > Uh oh. After reading this list for so long, you've probably got enough > material for a book by now. >

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2010-10-22 Thread thebilltaylor
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Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread Kee Nethery
On Oct 22, 2010, at 12:46 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/22/10 12:12 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: >> Thanks Andre, but ... > > I know you've figured this out now, but just wanted to add a couple things. > If you click on the tab button, you shouldn't need to set the selected tab at > all, it shou

RE: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
> From: Mike Kerner > > Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... It's fun to swap the N and M key on someone's keyboard, and see how long before they get confused. -- Ciao, Paul D. DeRocco Paulmailto:pdero...@ix.netcom.com

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Richmond
On 10/22/2010 11:11 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... Hey, come over here and try typing on any one of the 3 keyboards I have on my desk that feature Latin-Arabic, Latin-Cyrillic and Latin-Phonetic Cyrillic and try typing using one of

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Bonner
I had a kensington that I liked but it didn't survive the beating. Had an apple wireless (2006) that didn't work all that well, but I was the second owner so not only did it have to survive me, no telling what the previous owner did to it. Despite all its issues, i'm back on a G-15, the first mode

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Kerner
Well if you can type you shouldn't be looking at the keys anyway... On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 15:37, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/22/10 1:00 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> I should also mention that I have never seen anyone wear the letters off >> the Apple keyboards. At least not the external ones.

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 22, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Richmond wrote: > Transatlantic problem! British Apple Keyboards have the > Sterling sign at shift 3; # is there at Alt 3. And the US one uses option-3 for £. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Richmond
On 10/22/2010 10:18 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: The real irritation about the Apple keyboards is the keys. Where, you ask yourself is the # key? Any Apple keyboard I look at seems to have the # as shift 3. Transatlantic problem! British

Re: Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 6:48 AM, David Glasgow wrote: As a forensic psychologist... Uh oh. After reading this list for so long, you've probably got enough material for a book by now. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperact

Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-22 Thread stephen barncard
yes, I'm guessing that it's not flushing the audio buffer on close. Another coding error that's been there for ages. I'd suggest that your stop sequence include some kind of delay before actually stopping the recording, so the talent stops speaking earlier than the actual time it stops, and it sho

Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 12:12 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: Thanks Andre, but ... I know you've figured this out now, but just wanted to add a couple things. If you click on the tab button, you shouldn't need to set the selected tab at all, it should be automatic. The only time you'd need to script the menuhis

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/22/10 1:00 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I should also mention that I have never seen anyone wear the letters off the Apple keyboards. At least not the external ones. I have on other keyboards. Again, don't go cheap and you should be fine with anything. I did. My old one is half bald. The "S"

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Kerner
Has anybody tried a Das Keyboard? I've read about them but I haven't been able to try one out. Just as an editorial comment, even the new wired apple kb has the 3/8 chicklet action. I've tried both kb's in best buy and I just can't get used to them. I don't mind scissors per se. Actually, if I

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 22, 2010, at 2:23 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > The real irritation about the Apple keyboards is the keys. Where, you ask > yourself is the # key? Any Apple keyboard I look at seems to have the # as shift 3. ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Looney
Mike, Nice to hear from someone who takes typing seriously. I've found keyboard preferences are as personal as spouse preferences. Some people regard noise in a keyboard as a sign of quality; some people think silence in a keyboard is a sign of quality. Some like a long key travel, some prefer

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I wonder if they sell a UK keyboard. For me, the # is shift-3, where it's always been for US keyboards. The @ is shift-2, again where it's always been. " is shift-' again... well you get the idea. Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 11:23 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: > The real irritation about the Apple

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I have to say, reluctantly, not being an admirer of Apple or its works, that the latest keyboards, if that's the sort of thing you want, basically do not have any competition. I was using the aluminum usb full one, really came to like it, apart from the irritating keycaps. It is virtually silent

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I should also mention that I have never seen anyone wear the letters off the Apple keyboards. At least not the external ones. I have on other keyboards. Again, don't go cheap and you should be fine with anything. Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Well, the possibility of

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
I really like the Logitech ones. The only real advice I can give you is when it comes to keyboards, "cheap" refers to both price AND quality, and hence longevity. Bob On Oct 22, 2010, at 7:35 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Well, the possibility of being able to use RR...ERR LC to develop iOS apps

Re: Franklin Audio 1.1 Released, Frankin 3D 1.7.1 Followed

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Lynn, > Hi Pierre, > >> Is Franklin Audio 1.1 suitable as a WebPlugin component ? >> With/without restrictions ? > > It hasn't been tested - are full on externals working now? Can't say. Someone ? Best regards, Pierre > > Best regards, > > Lynn Fredricks > President > Paradigma Software

Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread Kee Nethery
On Oct 22, 2010, at 10:20 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > Kee, > > let me try to understand, you have a tab panel as a background group which > has a go to card in the menupick handler right? OK, I'm a dork. Turns out that the card in question has two copies of the tab panel. All my commands are set

Re: Tabbing out of a text field

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
NVM just read your last sentence. I suppose then that the autoTab property for scrolling fields should be disabled, or invisible in the inspector. No big deal. Bob On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/21/10 6:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> Well this is interesting: Even i

Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I have no idea what VideoGrabber is, but the symptoms suggest that some frames were skipped, and yet the stored frames were kept at a regular frame rate. Would be interesting to video grab a running clock. Then you could test my theory. ___ use-revo

Re: Tabbing out of a text field

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Aye, but I was hitting return in an empty scrolling field. Bob On Oct 21, 2010, at 4:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 10/21/10 6:10 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> Well this is interesting: Even if a scrolling field has tab on return >> set, it inserts a cr when you hit return. On a regular field i

VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
We've used LiveCode to create an unattended system in a public environment which is recording several hundred short video clips a day. The clips are variable length - controlled by the person who is recording a message - typically 10-30 second each. In a small number of cases, the last second

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Holgate
I ordered a few items the other day, one of which is the shorter wireless keyboard. I'm expecting to get on with it ok, because I full time use a MacBook Pro keyboard, which is more or less the same set of keys. I also ordered a Magic Trackpad. Will be interesting to see how that goes. __

Re: Progress bar with lock?

2010-10-22 Thread Andre Garzia
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > bt... it's not a real progress bar. It's only eye candy. Kind of like > Microsoft's progress bars. Ever wanted to poke yourself in the eye with a > sharp stick after waiting 15 minutes at 33%, only to have the bar jump to > 85% then 10 sec

Re: Progress bar with lock?

2010-10-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
bt... it's not a real progress bar. It's only eye candy. Kind of like Microsoft's progress bars. Ever wanted to poke yourself in the eye with a sharp stick after waiting 15 minutes at 33%, only to have the bar jump to 85% then 10 seconds later go back to 0%? Someone ought to beat that develo

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Leland Vandervort
I use the apple corded keyboard at work, and for home I use the wireless "short" version (without the numeric keypad)... It took me a few days to get used to the one at home, but now I'm equally comfortable on both. At least now I don't have to tote my keyboard around with me along with my Mbpro.

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
The Apple corded full USB is very nice. Far better than the Cherry Strait which is a contender also, but the keycaps wear off. Otherwise, Logitech OEM is very good value and everyone really likes it. Or the extreme clickety clack made by PCKeyboards, which if they are into that sort of thing, p

Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Kee, let me try to understand, you have a tab panel as a background group which has a go to card in the menupick handler right? When you navigate to a card without using the tab menu, it fails to hilite the correct card there. Then you do like this, on the menupick, you check if you are going to

Milgram and the Unabomber [OT]

2010-10-22 Thread David Glasgow
As a forensic psychologist I have an interest in both Milgram's work and the Unabomber. My recollection is that Kaczynski was a volunteer subject at the Murray lab in Harvard, but not for Stan Milgram. They did other poorly controlled 'research' there, which certainly would not obtain ethical ap

Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread Kee Nethery
Thanks Andre, but ... On Oct 22, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: > I think you can do it with the menuhistory this is what I was using: set the menuhistory of button "NavBar" to 5 I thought that was the correct code but I find that when I set the menuhistory on a tab panel, it navig

Re: Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread Andre Garzia
I think you can do it with the menuhistory cheers andre On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > Amazingly enough, there appears to be no documentation for "Tab Panel", the > "button" with choices displayed along the top of a rectangle. > > I am using a Tab Panel to navigate betwee

Tab Panel - how to change the hilited selection?

2010-10-22 Thread Kee Nethery
Amazingly enough, there appears to be no documentation for "Tab Panel", the "button" with choices displayed along the top of a rectangle. I am using a Tab Panel to navigate between cards and when I click on a tab "button" it hilites and then my script navigates the user to a different card whe

[ANN] LocoSnap :: Snap like there is no tomorrow

2010-10-22 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, Following the trend of "boring fridays at work", today I release to public scrutiny a handy tool called LocoSnap. LocoSnap is a tool to be used inside the LiveCode IDE to take screenshots from open stacks. It makes easy to take screenshots and save them to the HD or upload to a server. You

Re: Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
This seems to work here: choose pointer tool select btn 1 -- or whatever object you want send "mousedoubleUp" to btn 1 One advantage to this sort of top-down approach is that it should survive changes to the IDE, and allows support for any inspector the user may have installed, not just

Re: revServer installation issues

2010-10-22 Thread Phil Davis
On 10/22/10 8:19 AM, Devin Asay wrote: On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Phil Davis wrote: Thanks Andre! This is a crazy problem. I just made the changes you recommend and added the .htaccess back into the mix, but no joy! I'm guessing I made a change to my httpd.conf at some point without commentin

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread stephen barncard
HI, Mike, There are actually two models, the full size USB 105 key version with num keypad, and the wireless, smaller version. if you haven't tried one of the 'newer' mac keyboards, they're not as impractical and non-tactile as they look. They take a little getting used to, but they are not chick

RE: Franklin Audio 1.1 Released, Frankin 3D 1.7.1 Followed

2010-10-22 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Pierre, > Is Franklin Audio 1.1 suitable as a WebPlugin component ? > With/without restrictions ? It hasn't been tested - are full on externals working now? Best regards, Lynn Fredricks President Paradigma Software http://www.paradigmasoft.com Valentina SQL Server: The Ultra-fast, Royalty

RE: Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread John Dixon
Shao... There are days that pass you by when it seems that you have not learned much... there are other days when you learn something and the facts just get stored away, maybe for recall at some point in the future... and now and again there are days when you learn so much it makes you tired..

Re: revServer installation issues

2010-10-22 Thread Devin Asay
On Oct 21, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > Thanks Andre! This is a crazy problem. I just made the changes you recommend > and > added the .htaccess back into the mix, but no joy! I'm guessing I made a > change > to my httpd.conf at some point without commenting it and that's what is >

RE: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Nice article, Lynn. Thanks Chipp! > Heck, I first purchased TechSmith's SnagIt years ago, then > Camtasia soon after it launched. I now get an email every so > often with an upgrade discount offer I can't resist. They > receive 100% of the revenue, all for the cost of a single > email. This

Re: Progress bar with lock?

2010-10-22 Thread Andre Garzia
There is yet another way. Screen locking does not affect animated gifs, so if you have an indeterminate progress bar in gif format (there are some bundled with rev in the image libraries), you can show it and lock screen the thing will keep spinning while you work.

Re: Progress bar with lock?

2010-10-22 Thread charles61
Hugh, Thanks for this suggestion! I will give it a try. Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com On Oct 22, 2010, at 3:26 AM, FlexibleLearning-2 [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: > > Hi Charles, > > According to the Scripter's Scrapbook: > > "A useful tip for displaying a modal that will not block,

Keyboards

2010-10-22 Thread Mike Kerner
Well, the possibility of being able to use RR...ERR LC to develop iOS apps caused me to buy a Mac Mini, my first desktop in a while. For the first time in a long time I'm looking for a keyboard. Since I spend a lot of my day banging on keys, I'm looking for something that doesn't feel like 5h!7,

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Scott, Congratulations on making to the new and noteworthy pane on the AppStore!!! Just a few reviews and there you are. I can not imagine any other way to get that kind of exposure that quickly. And to think this could happen for desktop apps still seems a good thing to me. It levels the playi

Re: Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread Shao Sean
on mouseUp # get the target of this control local tTargetID put the long id of the target into tTargetID # create the inspector linked to this control send "revBuildPropertyPalette tTargetID" to stack "revTemplatePalette" # get the name of the inspector linked to this control lo

Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread John Dixon
Hi... Is it possible to open the property inspector of an object by script, and have it display the geometry settings on opening ? be well Dixie ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.co

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Yep. Thanks François Pierre Le 21 oct. 2010 à 23:15, François Chaplais a écrit : > A very interesting blog post about the Oracle v.s. Google lawsuit (hint: it > revolves around Java ownership and its impact on android) > http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/08/14/how-oracle-might-kill-googles-and

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Sems me that this will stay the way to go as long as the "password protected stack's library" support will not be added to the LiveCode cgi-based application's server engine :-/ Would be great to get this feature added to the server engine as soon as possible. A timeline info would greatly help

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 22 oct. 2010 à 01:10, Chipp Walters a écrit : > Nice article, Lynn. > > One thing it made me think of, is the incredible role the Internet has played > in software business development models. Previous to the Internet, the > software "Kingmakers" consisted primarily of the MacWorlds, MacUse

Re: Franklin Audio 1.1 Released, Frankin 3D 1.7.1 Followed

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Lynn, Is Franklin Audio 1.1 suitable as a WebPlugin component ? With/without restrictions ? TIA, Pierre Le 22 oct. 2010 à 00:27, Lynn Fredricks a écrit : > Hello all, > > Yes, the numbering is strange, given Franklin Audio 1.1 is the initial > release. These externals utilize libraries under

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 22 oct. 2010 à 00:06, Lynn Fredricks a écrit : >> A very interesting blog post about the Oracle v.s. Google >> lawsuit (hint: it revolves around Java ownership and its >> impact on android) >> http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2010/08/14/how-oracle-might-kill >> -googles-android-and-software-pa

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Jim Sims
I'm currently working on a project and now thinking of using the old CGI rev engine, not the plugin. You can do a lot with the CGI engine - even more if you throw a connecting standalone into the mix. I was going to use a different setup but all seems clearer now. sims ---

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Richmond
On 10/22/2010 12:58 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: It will certainly become the most agnostic way to provide win-win next step solutions to agnostic customers ... Best, Pierre Le 22 oct. 2010 à 08:53, Jim Sims a écrit : The thought occurs to me that Web Apps are looking far more attractive. si

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Pierre Sahores
It will certainly become the most agnostic way to provide win-win next step solutions to agnostic customers ... Best, Pierre Le 22 oct. 2010 à 08:53, Jim Sims a écrit : > The thought occurs to me that Web Apps are looking far more attractive. > > sims > > > > _

Re: Progress bar with lock?

2010-10-22 Thread FlexibleLearning
Hi Charles, According to the Scripter's Scrapbook: "A useful tip for displaying a modal that will not block, for example, a progress indicator. The secret to having a modal dialog that you can update is this: go invisible stack "MyModal" as modal set visible of me to true By opening the sta

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-22 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Yes, Richard's post is spot on. They have a track record, and this is how it will start. Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Mac-App-Store-tp3004425p3006723.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___