Icon id conflicts?

the message box has no effect (the image named is in a stack “in use”). David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Making controls less subtle

rounded rectangle of a check box button, and the edges of an option button have this same light gray color. Is there some way to change this? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

PDF widget print quality

it close printing end p1 This prints a full page at the proper size, but not with acceptable print quality; everything is slightly blurred and pixellated. How can I get a good quality printout? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: LockLoc and grab

Let me try to clarify the problem I stated. I am not trying to remove the button, I am trying to use the “grab” command to let a user move the button around the window by dragging it. If I use a script to “set the loc” of a button to somewhere outside that group’s rectangle - the group

LockLoc and grab

. Confirm that the group’s lockLoc property is false. Then with the browse tool, drag the button past the edge of the group. The button disappears. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Comparative speed in switching among groups

time with something like send “upDateGroupLayout oneGroupID” to me in 10 milliseconds. Is that right? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Comparative speed in switching among groups

at some level these methods all amount to the same thing from the engine’s point of view (since everything is in RAM in any case). Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Pasting text and images together

char 4097ff of String B; âPNG IHDR,,y}éu IDATxúÏΩ{¨mYv÷˜sƵˆ„ÏÛ∏˜ú{Îvuuwuπ‹.€Ìˆ«!,d«2$qä¯a«9éCj,d°!dÅ"EâàB So my hope that String A could somehow be extracted from String B and used to “paste” the included image was disappointed. David Epstein _

Re: Pasting text and images together

ck clipboard > end mouseUp > > I tested this in LC 10dp6 and it works. Once you see what keys are > present with your mixed text and images copied to the clipboard, you can > choose which clipboard array and keys to work with to get the data. > > -- Paul > > >> O

Re: Pasting text and images together?

ardData or rawClipboardData to an array variable; and it does not seem that I can access any element of the rawClipboardData array. Further advice is welcome. Best wishes, David Epstein *on* a2 *lock* clipboard *put* the keys of the clipboardData into myK1 *put* the keys of the fullClipboardData into myK2

Re: Pasting text and images together?

To clarify my original question: I'm not expecting the built-in paste command to handle this task; I'm wondering if I can script my own paste command to handle it. Richmond, I can write a script to "paste" an image by itself (by creating an image and setting its text to clipboardData["image"]).

Pasting text and images together?

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Detecting when resizeStack is completed

How can I redraw objects after the user has resized the stack, but not continuously during the resize? Releasing the mouse at the end of a resize does not appear to send a mouseUp message. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Remote debugger error message

problem has something to do with a message that calls a handler in a stack-in-use. Best wishes, David > > > On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 8:40?PM David Epstein via use-livecode > mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: >> >> I?ve just started using LiveCode 9.6.

Remote debugger error message

.” I can click OK, but the error message soon returns. Any suggestions? Best wishes, David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

PDF widget and XPDFviewer

the widget’s name is not recognized as the name of a viewer when I try to call a function like XPDFViewer_Get(viewerName,property). So do I need either to create a widget or create a viewer? And are there non-obvious reasons to do one or the other? David Epstein

Re: Maximum field size

impractical. But in order to design workarounds I’d like to get as much clarity as possible on what limits I am working around. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Maximum field size

trying to load a 2.1 GB variable in a field surpass the 4GB limit, because the variable and the field would each need 2.1 GB? Best wishes, David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, un

Maximum field size

How many rows or columns or characters can reasonably be displayed in a LiveCode field? A 1.39 GB text file seems pretty clearly to surpass the limit, but how much do I need to subdivide it? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Livecode performance problem

I didn’t text the speed, but why not put fld A into x[1] put fld B into x[2] put fld C into x[3] put fld D into x[4] combine x by column return x > > I have a set of fields, call them A, B, C, and D. Each has the same > number of lines. Each field has different text (per line) > > I need to co

Chart widget question

: how do I find the script that LC runs when the “New Widget/Chart” command is chosen? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Is there a way to create a generic setprop handler?

es is set? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Using LiveCode with Mac Photos App

convenient use by LiveCode? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Shaping an image to fit in a polygon

irregularly shaped images. Is there some imprecision in the “within” function? This would be important to know for other uses of it. David Epstein on imageToGrc gID # fills graphic id gID with image it is positioned on; works for polygon, oval, regular, or rectangle set the linesize of grc id gID to

Shaping an image to fit in a polygon

under the polygon's enclosing rectangle, and then adjust the alphaData of that new image. But while the new image gets trimmed a bit, the result does not match the shape of the designated polygon. Any thoughts? David Epstein on action gID ## gID is the short id of the polygon import sna

Re: Implementing UNDO

emoved”], and u[“cardsAdded”], and uses values stored in u to restore the prior state of things, while reloading u with values reporting the state of things now being reversed. For text, I load u[“changed”] with “htmlText”,, and load u[“htmlText”,] with the htmlText of that field before the lat

Smooth scrolling

when I do the same thing to the same text in those other programs. (LC 9.6 on Mac OS 10.12.6). Do others see the same thing? Does anyone know the underlying cause of this, or a remedy? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Updating a menubar button on Mac

? Thank you! David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Saving stacks before closing

care of this? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: DataGrid question...

repeat end if put fL into item 1 of hold return hold end colGuide David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Reading and writing globals by script

into" && gName return oldVal end globalSwap Is there some way to write this with fewer or no uses of “do”? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: script for redo/undo text?

eload u with the state of the field just before undoing. I store the chunk information so that undo can restore the selection as well as the text to its prior state. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: A question about openCard

the name of this stack into gActiveStack. David Epstein Jacqueline Gay wrote: I wouldn't expect the execution contexts to be in the list but it sounds like that's a result of the debugging process itself. Is it different if you just log it to the message box without the debugger

Re: A question about openCard

earing in the recentCards, and why is my palette not appearing there? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

A question about openCard

user types there? Does it happen if I open a palette, or move a palette, or if the user clicks on the palette? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Multiple regression in LiveCode?

Has anyone written a LiveCode function that will take a table of 2 or more independent variables and 1 dependent variable, and return coefficients, intercept, and standard errors for a multiple regression? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list

Repeat for each line of a variable or field?

quickly than a field? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Large files crash on Windows 10

of text. Does anyone have relevant experiences or suggested remedies or ways of better diagnosing the problem? Perhaps relevant is that on the Mac I mostly use LC 5.5, on Windows 10 I am using LC Community 9.0 (dp4). Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-liv

Re: Area of regular polygon triangles

While trying Mike Bonner's suggestion of "manual" measuring, I learned the answer: a regular polygon whose official length is L and width is W is inscribed in the oval whose length is L and width is W. So for an equilateral triangle the area will be 3/4 * 3^.5 * R^2 (where R =

Area of regular polygon triangles

that could fit into that square. Is there some math that would give me the area of that triangle from the height and width of the square (i.e., the official height and width of the polygon object)? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Text with accented characters

with accent grave. Is there some font I can choose, or some other action I should take, to get these (and others) to display properly? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

HilitedLine of list field lost when unlocked field selected

point or selection from one unlocked field to the next, the list hilite is lost. How can I preserve it? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: FormattedHeight of a field and its contents

ceMargins put the effective textHeight of the target into t put round(t*7/12) into m1 put round(t/3) into m2 return m1,6+m2,m1,m1 end niceMargins getProp tightMargins put round(.25*the effective textHeight of the target) into m return m,6,m,max(6,m) end tightMarg

FormattedHeight of a field and its contents

perhaps related question: Why does a field margin of zero clip the visible text at the top and left? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Identifying empty lines of text

word by my script. Is there a better way to test for a line of text that has no visible characters? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Auto scrolling a locked field when mouse comes to edge

To clarify: For a locked field with autohilite and traversalOn both true, the “built in” auto scrolling works the same as with an unlocked field. I’m looking for a way to script this kind of auto scrolling with autohilite and traversalOn both false. David Epstein

Auto scrolling a locked field when mouse comes to edge

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Bizarre problem setting a custom property

: error in object expression Hint: Various other property names also fail, but I can’t detect a pattern. Any insights? Many thanks, David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

getProp puzzle

expected result. But with stack A still frontmost, if I type in the message box “the nSL of stack ‘B’” I get an empty result (not even a “0”). What am I missing? Thanks very much. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: MouseMove message interrupted when I change cards

moves from one rectangle to the next; so that on each change of card there is a new mouseEnter event that restarts the mouseMove message stream. I tried Matt’s idea of catching all mouseMoves, but still had problems. So I have placed the entire “quick browse” diagram in a separate palet

MouseMove message interrupted when I change cards

, unless I move the mouse out of and back into the control. Is this how things should work? Do I need to move my control to a palette so that the change of card that it triggers does not interrupt its own operation? Are there other options? David Epstein

Re: Field loses its identity as a target

think it will be easier to circumvent this problem than to figure it out, but I will report back if I narrow it down. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Script-controlled export of animation from Livecode?

from the action that my script is displaying in a LiveCode stack. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Field loses its identity as a target

B’s. Only after the user has repeatedly clicked OK or Cancel to remove the duplicative series of subgroups will a click on Field A cause the problem. Thanks very much for any insights about this. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: menu buttons and showname

an option can be put into effect in one step, not requiring some other action that enables or shows the button. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Insertion point problems

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Insertion point problems

see this, or have solutions? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Resolution of PDF in player object

anything other than 100%. And if I print it, even at 100%, I get screen quality, i.e., very bad, resolution. Has something changed? Can LiveCode not display or print PDFs at full resolution on an Intel Mac? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list

Can a script preempt substack name conflicts?

a file I will already be loading that file into memory, and it will be too late to head off the alert. Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

Re: What is driving the MB of a stack?

of diagnosing what’s going on? David Epstein > An issue that has been discussed in the past might be unplaced groups -- > groups that have been created at some time but aren't being used in the > stack. Here's one thread: > <http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble

Re: Interfacing with web services - advice needed

m put ATAN2(SIN(myLon-Lon0)*COS(myLat),COS(Lat0)*SIN(myLat)-SIN(Lat0)*COS(myLat)*COS(myLon-Lon0)) into k -- bearing in radians put k/rpd into aid -- in degrees return dkm end earthKM David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: Spider Web chart?

can “set the loc” using non-integers. I wrote the function without rounding because I may want to call it from a script that performs multiple transformations and then rounds the final results. > On 3/10/15 10:27 PM, David Epstein wrote: >> function yAD x,y,d,a,@xAD >> -- calcu

Re: Spider Web chart?

-- calculate point x1,y1 that is distance d and angle a from point x,y -- return y1, load x1 into param 5 -- a is in degrees, positive is east of north put (90-a)*2*pi/360 into a put x + d*cos(a) into xAD return y + d*sin(a) end yAD David Epstein

Re: Invisible character treated as word?

ter k2 end repeat put return into char -1 of k2 put k2 after hold2 put empty into k2 end repeat return hold2 end scrubbedText If anyone sees a way to do this without stepping through each character, or without excluding non-standard visible characters, suggestions are

Invisible character treated as word?

s that are always or sometimes invisible that cause the same problem? And what is a remedy? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription p

Tabstops problem in 7.0.1?

character it gets indented properly, showing me that the tab had been inserted. In LiveCode 5.5 the cursor moves as expected and desired when I press tab, to the indented point where what I type next will be inserted. Do others see this symptom? Many thanks. David Epstein

Determine the LC version of an existing stack

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Re: Speed testing: Fastest search method

statement inside the loop. Doing so will not cause a script error, but will almost certainly produce unexpected results." David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Edit cell in basic table field

eful information is stored as script local variables by LC's frontscript, which doesn't give me access to it in my own script.) Any thoughts? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Edit cell in basic table field

om property, but I see no indication that the field actually has such a property or where the script is. Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: pageHeights ignores new line properties in fields?

Thanks to Jan Schenkel for the confirmation and suggestion. Unfortunately, when I tried to script my own pageHeights function using formattedHeight, I discovered that formattedHeight also gives inaccurate results when paragraph properties have been set. I have reported both of these probl

pageHeights ignores new line properties in fields?

llustrates the problem.) Can anyone confirm this, and has anyone already scripted a workaround? Thanks very much. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: Finding matched parentheses

er very far from the front. And I tried to match the first "(" rather than building a list of all matches. There is no practical need for yet another approach, but in case others will find it of interest here is a speedy one that does not step through each character and barel

Finding matched parentheses

Has anyone scripted a function that will locate the closing parenthesis (or bracket, etc.) of a pair? Below is my effort. Reports of its limitations or simpler alternatives (regex?) are invited. David Epstein function offsetPair a,b,str,@z -- returns offset(a,str) and loads in z offset

Re: Printing puzzle

d be derived as 100 * item 1 of the printPaperSize / ( item 1 of the printRectangle + item 3 of the printRectangle). But this symmetry was found on only one of the two printers I tested. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

Printing puzzle

ectangle that will, when printed, be 1 inch from each edge of the paper; and also as much space outside of that rectangle as can be printed to. Thus I need to know how much of that 1 inch cannot be printed to. Many thanks for any suggestions. David Epstein ___

Re: Polygon's share of its rectangle inconsistent?

("coverage" reports the number of pixels that are within the object divided by the number of pixels that are within the object's rectangle). For the image, "coverage" remains quite close to constant when you resize the image, or when you resize the graphic and then impo

Re: Polygon's share of its rectangle inconsistent?

I was hoping to use “within ()” so that I could handle graphics that are not singly connected and closed. Is there some way to script a test for those cases? David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Polygon's share of its rectangle inconsistent?

sions by about two-thirds. With tens or hundreds of thousands of pixels being sampled in the calculation, I would not expect this variation. Many thanks for any insights or suggestions. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: Page 2 of a PDF

oll of the group to the top of the image minus item 2 of the formattedRect of the group. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Two Windows

hange the content of field 1 of stack 2 whenever field 1 of stack 1 is edited). David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: htt

Re: Keys of a custom property array

get the customKeys[myCustomPropertySetName] of myObject Jacqueline Gay asked: If I store an array as a custom property, is there a way to get its keys without putting the whole thing into a variable first? David Epstein ___ use-livecode

Re: Copying fields sometimes doesn't copy their content. But when?

etermines that my findings are incorrect. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Copying fields sometimes doesn't copy their content. But when?

type in the message box: copy group 1 of stack "x" to this card Then with card 2 of stack y frontmost, type in the message box: copy group 1 of stack "x" to this card Result: When copying to card 1, the content of the fields is copied. When copying to card 2, the fields are

Answer File crashes LC on PPC Mac 10.4

uses a crash as soon as I choose the file. On my MacBook Air, I do not have this problem. Any one else have this experience, or suggestions? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Characters that can be used in an array key

Are there any limits on what characters can be used in an array key? For example, do tab characters cause problems? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

AltIDs

ed this again, using 9. Result was 51711 What's going on? Many thanks. David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http:/