Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-25 Thread Sarah Reichelt
Thanks Chipp. This thread has got so long that I couldn't find the post. Sent from my iPad On 25/10/2010, at 12:16 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: That someone is probably me. Here's my research. Both of these reputable websites claim iPad apps sell for only about a buck more than

Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Terry Judd
Attention web gurus, I¹m probably going about it all wrong but I¹m still struggling to retrieve data from a series of secure (https) websites. Each of these sites requires a username and password and I can post these along with the url and am able to retrieve the expected result but ONLY if I set

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Terry Judd
I don't think that's the problem. I know at least one of the sites has a session cookie but that doesn't seem to be involved in the initial authentication. One of the sites definitely doesn't use any cookies and I have the same problems even if I only try to connect to this site. Terry... On

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Jim Sims
Maybe there is a cookie involved somewhere? sims --- On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Attention web gurus, I’m probably going about it all wrong but I’m still struggling to retrieve data from a series of secure (https) websites. Each of these sites requires a username and

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Jim Sims
Have you tried a web monitoring tool? So you can watch the traffic back and forth? I use Charles on OS X. sims On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Terry Judd wrote: I don't think that's the problem. I know at least one of the sites has a session cookie but that doesn't seem to be involved in

Programmer for Mac external(s) wanted

2010-10-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi friends, for our current project we might need someone with experience who can write externals for Mac OS X. Please contact me off-list,. thanks! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com

Re: OT: SheepSaver

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I don't use it often (I use it to occasionally take a look at an old program/publication, rather than for production use of legacy software) but when I do I'm very happy with it. I certainly don't resent the space it takes on my disk, by contrast with Parallels... Ben On 24/10/2010 17:43,

Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 22/10/2010 18:53, Colin Holgate wrote: 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. VideoGrabber

Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread René Micout
Hello, Mac OS 10.6.4 / LiveCode 4.5 When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar... How can I pick this menu item ? on menuPick theItem if theItem is About... then ... end mousePick don't work Merci par avance

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi René, Hello, Mac OS 10.6.4 / LiveCode 4.5 When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar... How can I pick this menu item ? I think this is added by the OS! You can't unless you create your own menu(s) by yourself! See below... on

Re: VideoGrabber: dropping last second of sound

2010-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Stephen. Your suggestion is indeed what we expect we'll have to implement - but before I report this in RQCC, and before I roll out that fix, I'd be interested to know if anyone else has encountered this. Your response suggests that there is a known issue with the VG not flushing the

Re: ANN: Installer Maker Plugin 1.4.2

2010-10-25 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I believe I should keep my announcements as brief as possible, unless the announcement considers a new product or major update. Please, have a look at the website where I listed the latest changes. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering

Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Terry, There are two different things happening here. One is SSL encryption which protects the communication between your machine and the remote machine, the other is user authentication that protects the other machine from unauthorized access. For LiveCode to trust/accept an SSL certificate as

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hello, Mac OS 10.6.4 / LiveCode 4.5 When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar... How can I pick this menu item ? In the user guide pdf you can find this entry on page 263: The Help menu and the About This Application menu item

Re: ANN: Installer Maker Plugin 1.4.2

2010-10-25 Thread Andre Garzia
Oh okay Mark, But keep in mind that installer maker is a product that directly supports desktop app developers so I don't think is an abuse to post one a quick summary when you're announcing an update. Some of your new features and fixes might net you some more customers and spread the love.

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
René Micout wrote: When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar... How can I pick this menu item ? on menuPick theItem if theItem is About... then ... end mousePick don't work The LiveCode engine makes it very easy to

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Rene, Hi René, Hello, Mac OS 10.6.4 / LiveCode 4.5 When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar... How can I pick this menu item ? I think this is added by the OS! You can't unless you create your own menu(s) by yourself! See

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread René Micout
All lesson is good to take ! Toute leçon est bonne à prendre ! Thank you Klaus Le 25 oct. 2010 à 15:40, Klaus on-rev a écrit : Hi Rene, Hi René, Hello, Mac OS 10.6.4 / LiveCode 4.5 When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar...

Re: Standalone and About... menu

2010-10-25 Thread René Micout
Thank you Richard ! My standalone of Exagofon with English manual will be operational soon ! (Beta version) René Le 25 oct. 2010 à 15:36, Richard Gaskin a écrit : René Micout wrote: When I create a standalone, LiveCode make automatically an About... menu in the application menubar... How

Need help with this script...

2010-10-25 Thread charles61
I have the following script where the user is given the option of not saving a new file, canceling, or saving it. The problem is that when the I select New in the File dialog the dialog with the three options does not appear and the fields in the open file are cleared out. switch pWhich

Community request: Calling all screenshots!

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
I'm giving a talk on Nov 3 on cross-platform UI design in which LiveCode will feature prominently: http://www.mactech.com/conference/about Here's a chance to make both LC and and your work look good for that conference audience: I'm including a number of slides of screenshots showing

[OT], but imagine an iPad Rev...

2010-10-25 Thread Colin Holgate
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Re: Https, sslVerification, certificates - huh?

2010-10-25 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks Andre - that gives me some confidence that proceeding without the certificates is OK (i.e. the data is still encrypted) because really all I'm concerned about is that the username and password data I send to each of the sites isn't visible to snoopers. Having said that I'm still confused

OT: DVD Ripper and DVD Ripper Pro for free

2010-10-25 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, for a limited time MacXDVD is giving away for free DVD Ripper Pro for Mac and also for Windows offer expires 28th october http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-ripper-pro/ and DVD Ripper for Mac and Windows offer expires 31 october

Re: OT: DVD Ripper and DVD Ripper Pro for free

2010-10-25 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Matthias Rebbe wrote: for a limited time MacXDVD is giving away for free DVD Ripper Pro for Mac and also for Windows http://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-ripper-pro/ Thanks for the link Matthias. Looks useful. Best Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-25 Thread Bob Sneidar
This analogy would hold true, if WalMart charged 30% of the profit margin of everything sold in it's store, required a registration process before you could even sell anything through them, but had such awesome security that all but eliminated shoplifting and employee theft. In an environment

[ANN] Data Grid Helper 1.1.1 increases the TMPL area size for DG forms

2010-10-25 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear LC users, Data Grid Helper version 1.1.1 is available! Improvements: - The TMPL area size is increased. Scrollbars allows navigation in the content of the TMPL area for forms. Mouse wheel is supported (wheel or shift + wheel) - In the TMPL area, we can now unselect a control by using

RE: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-25 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi Chipp, Bob, http://gizmodo.com/5670812/big-brother-apple-and-the-death-of-the-prog ram?skyline=trues=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 like making the free market

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-25 Thread Alex Tweedly
Hi Sarah - very interesting perspective on the App Store. I was particularly struck by one point. On 25/10/2010 01:36, Sarah Reichelt wrote: The other iOS phenomenon I would expect to see on the Mac, is greater numbers of small, cheap, single-use apps. LiveCode is ideally suited to this

RunRev Enterprise 5.5 OSX to Windows XP

2010-10-25 Thread bsummerton
I am programming on a Mac and exporting standalone for Windows XP and higher. IHave written a script that puts the contents of a field named Results into an email - auto filling out To/ CC/ and Subject. But there are over 1500 characters from the field Results which will not fit into the email

Re: RunRev Enterprise 5.5 OSX to Windows XP

2010-10-25 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi There's no easy way to do what your asking. Some email clients support the attachment field in a mailto url but not many. Does the user need to use their mail client? If it's just a matter of emailing in the results and you have access to a web server then posting to a php or irev script

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-25 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Paul Looney-2 wrote: Let us know if you have more keyboard questions. Hi Paul, I have another keyboard question. For some time i have been using diverse IBM Thinkpads models and i have grown accustomed to their keyboard configuration and typing touch. Did anybody could name another

Re: [OT], but imagine an iPad Rev...

2010-10-25 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Colin, Colin Holgate-2 wrote: but imagine an iPad Rev... http://itunes.apple.com/app/iluabox/id398073834 Did you mean A) Full implementation of LiveCode IDE for iPad? or B) A script editor that could edit, compile and flag errors in LiveCode scripts? If you select: A) then, please

Re: [OT], but imagine an iPad Rev...

2010-10-25 Thread Colin Holgate
On Oct 25, 2010, at 9:41 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: If you select: B) then, correct me if i am wrong, but Could this editor be implemented via the web browser? I hadn't deeply thought about it at all, but the browser approach might not work, if it required plugins. It was mainly the fact

Re: [OT], but imagine an iPad Rev...

2010-10-25 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hmmm... looks like Safari's version for iPad does not have an important feature to implement a decent text editor on it: Safari. This is a poor, crippled web browser. Specifically the killer problem is the little reported absence of support for a feature called ‘content editable’ which is used

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-25 Thread Chipp Walters
This famous study on the impact WalMart has had on small town businesses certainly debunks your notion both can thrive-- your comments regarding 30% and other non sequiturs notwithstanding. You may wish to '*take the time to examine*' it.

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-25 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 26 oct. 2010 à 01:33, Lynn Fredricks a écrit : The devil suggests Richard's installer warning, new APIs only available store partners, and interactively modifying requirements and restrictions whenever there's a new vertical market Apple can profitably exploit (after proven by third

Re: Keyboards

2010-10-25 Thread Paul Looney
Al, For what it is worth, I don't like any of those keyboards, either. When I travel with my laptop I carry a Mac Mini Pro keyboard that I got from Fentek years ago. I'd recommend it but I went to their site and they no longer carry it. What I like about it is that it is compact, light