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by richmond62
Thu Jul 15, 2021 11:53 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: KeyDown only firing once
Replies: 10
Views: 3553

KeyDown only firing once

What code can I use to stop multiple firing of a key when my finger gets stuck on it?
by richmond62
Thu Jul 15, 2021 7:43 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: What algorithm for random() function?
Replies: 26
Views: 8440

Re: What algorithm for random() function?

isn't related to building anything in LiveCode
'nuff said.
by richmond62
Wed Jul 14, 2021 7:44 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

that the OS doesn't report it Indeed. So in my favourite "ideal world" [don't worry, I've already got a therapist . . . admittedly she is out in the garden at the moment teasing lizards and grasshoppers . . . she's extremely level headed: whatever crap I throw at her she just says 'miaow' or yawns]...
by richmond62
Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:47 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: What algorithm for random() function?
Replies: 26
Views: 8440

Re: What algorithm for random() function?

Because I rarely find what I'm looking for in the docs. Ludwig Wittgenstein stated that the reason many people never found answers was because they asked the wrong questions. What MichaelBlueJay has not explained is WHY he needs to know the way LiveCode generates its pseudorandoms, NOR why that mat...
by richmond62
Wed Jul 14, 2021 9:44 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Monterey Jack
Replies: 3
Views: 2771

Re: Monterey Jack

Nothing quite like the quiet orgasmitude of answering one's own posts. 8)

As far as I can tell, after a week of running LC 9.6.2 and LC 9.6.3 rc1 on MacOS 12 beta 2,
all the obvious problems (such as random crashings) that were happening on MacOS 11 beta 5
have vanished.
by richmond62
Wed Jul 14, 2021 8:41 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: What algorithm for random() function?
Replies: 26
Views: 8440

Re: What algorithm for random() function?

rejected by peer review I wonder how you discovered that when the web-page (unsurprisingly) does not mention that as far as I can see. I spend quite a lot of my time polishing translations of what passes for academic stuff round these parts and am mind-blowingly surprised at the utter nonsense that...
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:49 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: What algorithm for random() function?
Replies: 26
Views: 8440

Re: What algorithm for random() function?

I was right for a reason. And what was that reason? As most of us are aware that computers are just clunky machines that are (and should stay) the slaves of humankind we are also aware that computers don't have hands and oposble thumbs so they cannot chuck dice around and any 'random' number they c...
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 7:42 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

rawKeyDown awareness
Aha: next year, at about this time, I shall be presenting online rawKeyDown Awareness Classes
complete with navel-gazing, mantras and juju beads. 8)
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 4:10 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

Not if, for some odd reason you have got it into your head that you want to use the capsLock key
for something other thandoing what a capsLock key usually does. 8)
So, as usual, Macintosh reduces clutter.
And makes it less hackable by those who want to do other things.
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 9:26 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

"Dirty types" might have a poke around in this:

https://github.com/wo52616111/capslock-plus
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:58 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

The problem is that in the Macintosh world pressing the capslock key either does NOT send a rawKey signal (which seems odd as the processor has to register that the capslock key is being depressed) to the CPU, or LiveCode doesn't/can't pick a rawKey signal up, this smells odd as LiveCode can detect ...
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:54 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: What algorithm for random() function?
Replies: 26
Views: 8440

Re: What algorithm for random() function?

I was not at all surprised that the Dictionary is completely silent about what algorithm the random() function uses.
Why weren't you surprised?
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:40 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

You could code for this sort of thing: if item 2 of the keysDown is 65509 then --Jump and shout end if But it presupposes another key is also being pressed, or another key is being pressed after the capslock key has been depressed (and is locked down). IFF the capslock is DOWN (i.e. has already been...
by richmond62
Tue Jul 13, 2021 8:36 am
Forum: Converting to LiveCode
Topic: possible livecode can make it
Replies: 5
Views: 7397

Re: possible livecode can make it

The question should not be, "can LiveCode make it?'

The question should be, "Can I make it with LiveCode?"

LiveCode does not make things by itself, but with a bit of effort and thinking it is possible
to make a tremendous range of software with LiveCode.
by richmond62
Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:48 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: detecting capslock key down
Replies: 32
Views: 10418

Re: detecting capslock key down

On a Linux box pressing the capslock key LiveCode picks up a rawKeyCode.

So much for Macintosh.

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