Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 02/28/2016 08:08 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: OK, thanks, just changed it. Curious that they are cut off for you, as I am running linux and I can see them fine. Actually about an inch of blank space after each caption. I just filed a bug on this. It's only for LC8. LC7 and below are fine. Changi

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-28 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/28/2016 09:51 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/28/2016 07:20 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Finally had time to give this a try and it is exactly what I was trying to accomplish. I am still learning how to work with the ide. Once I had the group set up, at first I couldn't figure out how to make any

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-28 Thread Mark Wieder
On 02/28/2016 07:20 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Finally had time to give this a try and it is exactly what I was trying to accomplish. I am still learning how to work with the ide. Once I had the group set up, at first I couldn't figure out how to make any changes to it, but finally figured it out.

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-28 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 05:33 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/25/2016 02:42 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: The other environments I have used had a control that was essentially a box with a border around it. At the left end of the top border you could embed a label in the border itself. You could then drop other con

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 09:50 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: That worked, thank you very much. And just in case you are wondering how it got that way, as you didn't type any commands. My guess is that this property can be set within the Property Inspector - t

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Jim Byrnes wrote: That worked, thank you very much. >> > > And just in case you are wondering how it got that way, as you didn't type any commands. My guess is that this property can be set within the Property Inspector - typically accessed via the Object menu via

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Byrnes wrote: > That worked, thank you very much. I must say this is a friendly, > helpful group. This group is awesome! Many years ago when I was first getting my head wrapped around how this engine works, back then it was called MetaCard and Kevin's company was just getting started. I

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 07:25 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 02/25/2016 06:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Try this in the Message Box (replacing "YourStack" with your stack's >> name of course): >> >>put the mode of stack "YourStack" && the style of stack "YourStack" >> > >

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 02/25/2016 06:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Try this in the Message Box (replacing "YourStack" with your stack's >> name of course): >> >>put the mode of stack "YourStack" && the style of stack "YourStack" >> > > This results in: 2 toplevel Hunch confirmed: if you l

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 06:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 02/25/2016 04:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Try this in the Message Box: >> >>put the name of this stack && the mode of this stack >> > > Doing that results in: stack "revMenubar" 2 This is my bad. I just realiz

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 02/25/2016 04:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Try this in the Message Box: >> >>put the name of this stack && the mode of this stack >> > > Doing that results in: stack "revMenubar" 2 Hmmm...if your stack was toplevel then revMenubar wouldn't be "this stack", suggest

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 04:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: Here ctrl-tab toggles the tool palette. I tried a number of modifier keys + another key combinations with no effect. To me it looks like I am stuck in run mode. I can drag a control off of the palette and drop it on the stack, but

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Wieder
On 02/25/2016 02:42 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: The other environments I have used had a control that was essentially a box with a border around it. At the left end of the top border you could embed a label in the border itself. You could then drop other controls inside the box. It just called attenti

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Byrnes wrote: Here ctrl-tab toggles the tool palette. I tried a number of modifier keys + another key combinations with no effect. To me it looks like I am stuck in run mode. I can drag a control off of the palette and drop it on the stack, but it just disappears. Hmm...I wonder if someho

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 03:53 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 02/25/2016 12:44 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: On 02/25/2016 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code. > I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it's size. > Then

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Wieder
Bug report #17021 filed. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ 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/listin

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 03:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > I just tried to recreate what happened,but could not get it to happen > again. So I guess it is not reproducible. > > I did restore the file from trash and can send it to you if you think > that it would be helpful. I just tra

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Mark Wieder
On 02/25/2016 12:44 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: On 02/25/2016 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code. > I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it's size. > Then I dropped 2 radio buttons inside the bounda

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Byrnes wrote: > I just tried to recreate what happened,but could not get it to happen > again. So I guess it is not reproducible. > > I did restore the file from trash and can send it to you if you think > that it would be helpful. I just transferred the file to my laptop > which is also runni

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 11:16 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jim Byrnes wrote: > At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code. > I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it's size. > Then I dropped 2 radio buttons inside the boundaries of the of the > label. I was renaming

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Byrnes wrote: > At the point the problem occurred I hadn't written a line of code. > I had dropped a label control on the card and expanded it's size. > Then I dropped 2 radio buttons inside the boundaries of the of the > label. I was renaming them and changing the label text when the > proble

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/25/2016 05:59 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: Welome Jim, What happens if you forget your first test stack and start a fresh. Start LiveCode, create a New Stack. Have you got the Pointer Tool back? Can you drag buttons and fields onto your new stack now? Yes, I deleted the original stack and restar

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-25 Thread Kay C Lan
Welome Jim, What happens if you forget your first test stack and start a fresh. Start LiveCode, create a New Stack. Have you got the Pointer Tool back? Can you drag buttons and fields onto your new stack now? If you can reproduce your first problem it would be worth submitting a bug report with r

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-24 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 02/24/2016 10:50 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: I am running the Community Edition vers 7.1.1 Build 10048 on Ubuntu 14.04. I am just getting started with Livecode and was laying out the gui for my first little project. I'm not sure what I did but t

Re: Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-24 Thread Mark Talluto
> On Feb 23, 2016, at 2:16 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: > > I am running the Community Edition vers 7.1.1 Build 10048 on Ubuntu 14.04. > > I am just getting started with Livecode and was laying out the gui for my > first little project. I'm not sure what I did but the cursor changed to the > hand p

Cursor changes to a hand in the ide

2016-02-23 Thread Jim Byrnes
I am running the Community Edition vers 7.1.1 Build 10048 on Ubuntu 14.04. I am just getting started with Livecode and was laying out the gui for my first little project. I'm not sure what I did but the cursor changed to the hand pointer and now I can no longer work with any of my controls. M