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by jmk_phd
Mon Oct 24, 2022 8:44 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Managing background controls
Replies: 20
Views: 4540

Re: Managing background controls

is it not just a matter of setting the label of the (option/menu) button to the desired text? That's what I had expected would happen as well. But instead the result is similar to what happens when the sharedHilite property of a background checkbox object (or sharedText property of a background fie...
by jmk_phd
Mon Oct 24, 2022 2:02 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Managing background controls
Replies: 20
Views: 4540

Re: Managing background controls

Richard & Stam -- Of course the solution was something so simple. Thanks! As regards Panorama, I can't say enough good about it: It's incredibly easy to master, very powerful, and (being RAM-based) incredibly fast. My reasons for not continuing to use it are simply mundane: There's no upgrade path f...
by jmk_phd
Sun Oct 23, 2022 3:41 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Managing background controls
Replies: 20
Views: 4540

Managing background controls

This is surely a LiveCode-101 type question, but I’ve never before had reason to create a stack using a group of controls as a background for multiple cards. One of the first Mac apps I purchased in 1989 was Panorama, which was great for creating flexible database files. But decades and several upgr...
by jmk_phd
Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:22 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Removing rulers in IDE
Replies: 3
Views: 1369

Removing rulers in IDE

I've not bothered before using the Rulers and Grid options from the IDE View menu. Never needed, but enabled briefly just out of curiosity. Now I find that unchecking the Rulers option does not seem to "stick" : Each time the stack is saved, the rulers reappear -- and even overlay the Dictionary win...
by jmk_phd
Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:33 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Image resolution
Replies: 26
Views: 6758

Re: Image resolution

Samuele -- Stepping back to your original post, it's my understanding that you began by working with .png images -- which, being of fixed resolution, can result in ugly artifacts when scaled either up or down. As other forum members have noted, .svg (scaled vector graphic) images are resolution-inde...
by jmk_phd
Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:37 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows app certification
Replies: 46
Views: 29367

Re: Windows app certification

Thanks Cairoo for the new info, which should be of interest to forum members frustrated by the IE browser restriction. I'd also alert forum members to Matthias Rebbe's latest (10-03-2022) reply to the LC lesson on signing a Windows app: https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/1306746-how-do-i-sign-a-w...
by jmk_phd
Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:32 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows app certification
Replies: 46
Views: 29367

Re: Windows app certification

Perhaps no consolation for anyone with a newer Windows PC that requires Windows 11 -- which presumably doesn't support IE -- but I just recently renewed an expiring KSoftware/Sectigo certificate without incident by running IE in Windows 10 via Parallels on my Mac. (This was how I obtained the certif...
by jmk_phd
Wed Sep 28, 2022 3:22 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows via Parallels quirk?
Replies: 38
Views: 13912

Re: Windows via Parallels quirk?

First, apologies to SparkOut in case he was awaiting a go-ahead to test the latest Win version of the app. I'd simply edited my previous post, unaware that this would not alert anyone that the update was available. Anyway, so far the trials I've run on the newly-purchased refurbished Win PC confirm ...
by jmk_phd
Mon Sep 26, 2022 7:02 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Publishing desktop apps
Replies: 37
Views: 9897

Re: Publishing desktop apps

Thanks Jeff, very useful link and discussion… Paddle seems like a very sensible option if selling outside the appstores - anyone know If same fees apply to windows store? Just out of curiosity, I did a quick search for info on publishing traditional desktop apps through the Microsoft Store. As far ...
by jmk_phd
Sun Sep 25, 2022 10:27 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Publishing desktop apps
Replies: 37
Views: 9897

Re: Publishing desktop apps

Can i also ask - how does the 30% cut to apple compare with a) hosting a website (I realise you already have one, but others may not), b) hosting storage for downloadable software, and managing down c) doing SEO, d) advertising, and most importantly e) processing payments - i'm unclear for example ...
by jmk_phd
Sun Sep 25, 2022 2:38 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Publishing desktop apps
Replies: 37
Views: 9897

Publishing desktop apps

I am just about to go public with my latest cross-platform (Win/Mac) LC desktop app, so I can at least share my own experience with others who are new to publishing. Unlike iOS apps, Apple does allow developers to distribute macOS apps outside the Apple store. For me, this decision was a no-brainer:...
by jmk_phd
Sun Sep 25, 2022 12:14 am
Forum: Made With LiveCode
Topic: ModeWheel
Replies: 0
Views: 7623

ModeWheel

Perhaps of interest to any musicians here is my freeware cross-platform Win/Mac app — dubbed ModeWheel — which displays and plays via sampled keyboard audiofiles each mode of the four most common families of Western musical scales. The wheel itself is based on a design by the Danish jazz musician Ol...
by jmk_phd
Thu Sep 22, 2022 12:53 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows via Parallels quirk?
Replies: 38
Views: 13912

Re: Windows via Parallels quirk?

@SparkOut -- I truly welcome your experience with this revision. So far the only difference noted between the Mac standalone and the Win standalone via Parallels is a delay in feedback of what seems to me to be a trivial half a second or so, which I'm attributing to extra processing that must be don...
by jmk_phd
Tue Sep 20, 2022 9:52 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows via Parallels quirk?
Replies: 38
Views: 13912

Re: Windows via Parallels quirk?

SparkOut -- Thanks for your generous offer. You set us on the right track by documenting that the keypress issue I'd reported initially was not an artifact of emulation via Parallels, but rather that the Windows standalone itself was somehow less responsive than its Mac counterpart built using the p...
by jmk_phd
Mon Sep 19, 2022 10:01 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Windows via Parallels quirk?
Replies: 38
Views: 13912

Re: Windows via Parallels quirk?

I’m pleased (and relieved) to report that the latest rewrite of my app is running without a glitch as a Windows standalone in emulation via Parallels. Having assumed ( wrongly ) that if a Mac standalone ran flawlessly, so too would the Windows counterpart, my first guess was that the problem involve...

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