Lost the variables and errors panel in script editor

2022-01-07 Thread Michael Lew via use-livecode
I'm feeling frustrated and silly as I'm a long time user and this problem should have a trivially easy solution. The script editor was too tall to fit on my screen and so I made it shorter with 'set the height of window "revNewScriptEditor 1" to 800. That worked OK but the errors and variables

Standalone failures

2020-10-14 Thread Michael Lew via use-livecode
I'm trying to build standalones from 9.6.1 business and cannot get the Mac version to succeed. The process goes through the normal lot of "saving" and "building" bits but it eventually turns up an alert that says "There was an error while saving the standalone application Adding the ad-hoc signa

Scroll a field to a specified line number

2020-08-16 Thread Michael Lew via use-livecode
This is an odd one, and I hope that it is a bug. When I try to scroll an ordinary text field to a specified line number it overshoots, and if I set the field to have list behaviour it overshoots by even more. Here's a simple recipe. New stack with a field and a button. Button script is this: on

Scrollbar scale value not showing in Windows

2020-04-21 Thread Michael Lew via use-livecode
I have a small app that I've written for my lockdown-affected class, and the students with Windows can not see the value of 'scale' type scrollbar controls that have their showValue property set to true, but the Macs can. Is there a cross-platform trick that I don't know? Michael lockdown Lew