using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

when I try and type in a field using the special keyboard (a system-level thing), the keyboard seems to be ignored. Is there some trick to this? Thanks so much. rand valentine university of wisconsin-madison ___ use-livecode mailing list use

solved my own unicode problem

I just wrote asking for Unicode help, and found a solution in one of Devin Asay's helps. I'm writing scripts to help my students move simple Unicode text files (if there is such a thing) into a Windows-based linguistic program called Toolbox. This program seems to only recognize UTF8 text. So using

outputting unicode text fields to unicode text files

te Unicode text from simple text. So the file is garbage. But if I code put fld "x" into url theFile I also don't get the Unicode characters rendering correctly in a textfile. What alternative is there to output this Unicode text to a Unicode text file? Thanks. rand

silver menu in Windows, why?

I don't see a way to change this background. The menu set seems to be a group, and it seems the silver color is a property of this group. But I can't seem to find a property in the Colors to change to make the menu transparent. Could someone clue me about th

Re: Missing Menu Items

Thank you for taking the time to answer my request, Mark, I appreciate it very much. So, yes, I was using a mac to do that scripting. And yes, your comments were right on. There is one more component to my mess, though, namely that I had deleted some of the auto-added menu items, such as Preferen

missing menu items

e. So for example, my File menu has &Save/S - &Quit/Q but all that shows up in Save in the File menu. My edit menu has Copy/C Cut/X Select &All/A but all that shows up in the Edit menu in LiveCode when I check "Preview in Menu Bar" is Copy. What am I missi