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by PaulDaMacMan
Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:12 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: Maze Generator
Replies: 7
Views: 5354

Re: Maze Generator

I spent hours looking for a way to simply import Livecode graphic points as a CSV file into a 3D program to extrude the map. Absolutely astonishing poor results. Everything for previous versions of Blender are broken, and every script on some stackexchange or whatever for multi-gigabyte installed s...
by PaulDaMacMan
Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:34 am
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: LiveCode Builder Foreign Function Interface for Beginners
Replies: 12
Views: 2325

Re: LiveCode Builder Foreign Function Interface for Beginners

I'll break down a C API binding string from that other thread: private __safe foreign handler _ReadBackAnalogOut (out rBuffer as CInt) returns nothing binds to "c:K8055D>ReadBackAnalogOut!stdcall" private -- means this handler will be invisible outside of the context of the current Extension module....
by PaulDaMacMan
Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:55 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: LiveCode and HyperStudio
Replies: 29
Views: 39529

Re: LiveCode and HyperStudio

I suspect that was a feature of OS 9. The HC team had access to the system source code as well. Access? Heck, Bill Atkinson wrote bunches of it, you know like 'QuickDraw' was one of his other projects (along with the awesome and fun MacPaint). This feature may have been in part of the Macintosh Too...
by PaulDaMacMan
Sat Jan 27, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: LiveCode and HyperStudio
Replies: 29
Views: 39529

Re: LiveCode and HyperStudio

A tear-off Layout palette Could you please explain whay you mean by 'tear off' as I do not understand that? Is that different from, say, clicking on a button to open a palettised subStack? In HyperCard there were some IDE menus that you could drag or 'tear' out of the menu to display it as a floati...
by PaulDaMacMan
Sun Jan 21, 2024 4:48 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: LiveCode and HyperStudio
Replies: 29
Views: 39529

Re: LiveCode and HyperStudio

Paul, Thanks for the tip on the HyperCard simulator. It is so much faster than viewing stacks on the internet archive and I don't have to launch a classic Mac emulator. I've been using Pierre Lorenzi's HyperCardPreview application for working with HyperCard stacks. (https://github.com/PierreLorenzi...
by PaulDaMacMan
Tue Jan 16, 2024 2:58 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: LiveCode and HyperStudio
Replies: 29
Views: 39529

Re: LiveCode and HyperStudio

If you're just prototyping a thing and then exporting it to a HTML5 webpage, eventually rebuilding the thing in LiveCode, then it might make more sense to use Dan Gelder's (who made 'Serf' back in the late 1990s) HyperCardSimulator web app https://hcsimulator.com , since even the script would mostly...
by PaulDaMacMan
Sat Jan 13, 2024 7:46 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Getting the key code
Replies: 7
Views: 3879

Re: Getting the key code

I'm pretty sure the rawKeyCodes enums list was set up way back when in the 1990s and, since MetaCard was a HyperCard clone, I'm guessing they were probably set to match HyperCard/classic macOS Roman character set, which BTW included some non-standard char that were actually used as tokens in HyperTa...
by PaulDaMacMan
Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:41 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Distributable format
Replies: 13
Views: 15056

Re: Distributable format

As ALL LC standalones come as a single file, there is no need for an installer. This is only true for Mac applications! On Windows you will end with a separate EXE plus one or more folders and maybe an external! That's not even technically true for macOS because your .app is actually a bundle, whic...
by PaulDaMacMan
Thu Nov 30, 2023 2:59 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Show Card Command
Replies: 9
Views: 8076

Re: Show Card Command

I know this thread is 5 years old, but I just found it and would interject. ShowAllCards, originating from HyperCard which ran on Moto 68K CPUs at less then 1MHz clock speed, IIRC the command simply visits every card (or range or marked cards only) as if the stack user had navigated to them, which m...
by PaulDaMacMan
Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:23 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Keyboard access in LCB
Replies: 13
Views: 25608

Re: Keyboard access in LCB

There was an effort on GitHub to build a 'LiveCode Builder - The Missing Manual as a Wiki (but it looks like that work stalled).
https://github.com/macMikey/LCB-missing-manual/wiki
by PaulDaMacMan
Fri Nov 17, 2023 11:00 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Keyboard access in LCB
Replies: 13
Views: 25608

Re: Keyboard access in LCB

While the language previously known as Transcript is fairly well documented, is there a 'go to' place for LCB? Is LCB a 'full' computer language (as in a full suit of clothes), just a set of hooks and buttons to connect LC with other things, or something midway between the two? Extension Builder, I...
by PaulDaMacMan
Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:57 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Sine wave generator ?
Replies: 3
Views: 3810

Re: Sine wave generator ?

Hi, One of my hi fi speakers is distorting at certain frequencies and looking at the web it is suggested that a tone generator may be useful in identifying where the distortion is originating. My first thought was to write a tone generator using Livecode but having searched the dictionary I can not...
by PaulDaMacMan
Thu Nov 02, 2023 1:12 am
Forum: Multimedia
Topic: Making and playing MIDI?
Replies: 3
Views: 8335

Re: Making and playing MIDI?

What I really want to do is be able to play a simulation of whatever chord is being picked out, and I presume midi would be the best way to do that. I've looked at PaulDaMacMan's rather excellent LCB midi tools and got the sample .mid files to play in the demo stack. But what I'd really like to do ...
by PaulDaMacMan
Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:32 am
Forum: Developer Services Marketplace
Topic: LC domain for sale: livecodeworld.com
Replies: 6
Views: 18264

Re: LC domain for sale: livecodeworld.com

If there are no takers here I'll see if someone outside the LC community wants it. "Live coding" and "#livecode" are popular terms for the practice of coding live for a streaming audience. The term live-coding was (still is?) also used by live algorithmic composers, like multimedia performances (Ma...
by PaulDaMacMan
Thu Nov 02, 2023 12:15 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Editing the Dictionary
Replies: 32
Views: 37268

Re: Editing the Dictionary

Paul. Are you saying that changes made in Github in the manner you describe will appear in everyone's dictionary? Craig No I was not saying that, although I think that could be made to happen via a bit of editing the IDE scripts so that it pulls updates from files on GitHub. What I was describing i...

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