Re: Locating a line in a scrolling list field

2012-11-12 Thread John Tregea
One I particularly like is; If at first you don't succeed ... Then parachuting is not for you. : ) John On 13/11/2012, at 7:03 AM, Robert Sneidar wrote: > I came up with a saying that if you catch yourself saying, "there's got to be > a better way" then there probably is! > > Se

Re: The Parent of me?

2012-11-11 Thread John Tregea
Thanks Mike, That was it. Regards John Quoting Mike Bonner : > I think you're looking for "owner" of me. > > > On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 6:39 PM, John Tregea wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Can anyone tell me what syntax is being used in place of &qu

The Parent of me?

2012-11-11 Thread John Tregea
Hi, Can anyone tell me what syntax is being used in place of "the parent of me"? I recently upgraded from 4.5 to 5.5 and the code stopped working, the word "parent" no longer appears in the documentation or the dictionary either. Thanks in advance for any advice. Reg

RE: Confused about storing arrays in a custom property

2011-08-22 Thread John Tregea
Hi Pete, I have made extensive use of arrays as custom properties of all sorts of objects and never ever had a problem. Unless someone else has found a way to blow things up I think you are perfectly safe. Regards John -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mail

RE: Ask Password and Login Screen

2011-08-19 Thread John Tregea
Screen On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:54 PM, John Tregea wrote: > Hi, > > I used a different approach to this question as the bulleted text font > didn't seem that secure. The following code just traps the characters > entered into a field and replaces them with "*" while stor

RE: Ask Password and Login Screen

2011-08-18 Thread John Tregea
Hi, I used a different approach to this question as the bulleted text font didn't seem that secure. The following code just traps the characters entered into a field and replaces them with "*" while storing the actual string into a global variable. on openfield global gThePass put empty into