Problems with external functions since vers. 6.7

2014-11-04 Thread Thomas Fischer
– or rather, they break LiveCode. Calling some of seems to work fine, but some crash LiveCode 6.7 and 7.0 immediately. Has there been a change in the external interface? Is there any information on what I have to change to make them work again? Or ist this a bug in LiveCode? Best regards Thomas

Re: Reading directly from Excel

2013-04-17 Thread Thomas Fischer
Hi Skip, reading my digests I came across your question (up to the suggestion to use SpreadlibBeta01). If that doesn't work as hoped, did you consider using AppleScript to read the data from the Excel files? You would need a version of Excel, though, but then it works pretty smoothly (I just bu

Re: Foreign characters in file names

2013-04-14 Thread Thomas Fischer
ot;close access openFile"&return after asScript > put "display dialog ""e&"Error is occured.""e&return after asScript > put "return"&return after asScript > put "end try"&return after asScript > do asScript as

Foreign characters in file names

2013-04-13 Thread Thomas Fischer
Hello, I have a problem with foreign characters in file names, like Cyrillic or Japanese. E.g. I didn't find a way to get the correct name of a folder "Bilder Ж" either using "answer folder…" or dragDrop with dragData. Is there a way to handle this situation? Be