Last Saturday, 25 June, we had another nice on-line gathering of LiveCode fans. This time we had 2 interesting presentations by Ken Ray.
Ken’s first presentation dealt with the new DropTools Palette, how it works, what it does, and how you can develop your own DropTool stacks.
While celebrating the release of LiveCode 4.6.2, we invite you for another edition of the LiveCode.tv event. This weekend’s event is scheduled for 25th June 2011 at 19:00h GMT (Sat. 22:00 in Moscow, Sat. 20:00 in Paris, Sat. 14:00 in New York, Sat. 11:00 in Los Angeles, Sun. 04:00 in Sydney, Sun. 03:00 in Tokyo, Sun. 2:00 in Beijing; check the correct time in your own time zone).
This time we will have two presentations by one person: Ken Ray. His first presentation will take a look at the new DropTools Palette, how it works, what it does, and how you can develop your own DropTool stacks. The second presentation will walk through setting up and using the MetaCard IDE, which is a spartan and less intrusive alternative to the LiveCode IDE. For the second and last time, the European HyperCard User Group (eHUG) is allowed to raffle off a license of DiskDrill, courtesy of Cleverfiles. Disk Drill is data recovery software, a must-have for every Mac user. Find the eHUG website at http://www.ehug.info and visit http://www.cleverfiles.com to learn more about DiskDrill. A DiskDrill license is worth US$ 89. For those who don’t win the license, you can still get a 20% discount by using the coupon code MUGDXDD-CF on the CleverFiles website. During the event, you will also be able to get a 25% discount on a license for Installer Maker Plugin for LiveCode. You can find more info about the Installer Maker Plugin at http://qery.us/ce and go to http://livetalk.us/im for the discounted license. Make sure to use ChatRev during the happening, otherwise you won’t know where to watch the streams, which will be announced in ChatRev. Download ChatRev here: http://bjoernke.com?target=chatrev or enter in the message box:Use this script to make invisible folders and files on your Mac visible. Run the script again to return those files to their original states.
The Problem
Adobe seems to have managed to seriously mess up my Apple computer (MacBook running Mac OS X Snow Leopard). Last month, I installed a trial version of InDesign, because I had to do a quick test to see if software developed by my company is compatible with InDesign. It turned out to be perfectly compatible, after which I uninstalled InDesign. Since that time, my MacBook slowed down terribly. Everything related to network activity, the use of sockets and even Airport slowed down to an unacceptable low “speed”. At first I couldn’t find any cause for the problems, but when I looked in the console, I quickly found the culprit:
Wrong Solution
Every 10 seconds, a plist file caused OSX to attempt to launch a deamon, which didn’t exist. Searching for the source of this problem, I found this site, which suggests that Adobe is the source of all problems. I followed the instructions on that site (including wasting 3 hours with a faulty downloader application from Adobe and three times obligatorily updating Adobe Air while I had the latest version already) to no avail. Right Solution So, I decided to search for the files related to the problem and typed $locate akamai in the terminal. The locate command found two files: com.akamai.mac.plistIt looks like eggfreckles was the first to note how to create an OSX Lion installer disk:
• Purchase and download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Mac running Snow Leopard.Here’s my latest LiveCode.tv presentation.
Feel free to leave any comments about the presentation. If you have questions, I’ll try to answer.