Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-18 Thread Mike Bonner
Theres so MUCH content in the forum, it seems to take over the results. Might be better to have it in a separate engine, and if there is still an online dictionary, set one up for that too. On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 8:16 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > +1 -- bookmarked! > > -- Peter > > Peter M. B

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-18 Thread Peter M. Brigham
+1 -- bookmarked! -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 17, 2015, at 11:39 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Its pretty easy to set up a custom search engine in google. I created a > cse restricted to 4 sites. www.livecode.com forums.livecode.com > lessons.

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Björnke's Docu2 dictionary tool. On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:02 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > William Prothero wrote: > > > Regarding tagging, searching, etc, I’ve experienced very primitive > > search boxes and they can be extremely primitive. (read useless > > almost). It is very difficult to bu

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: > Regarding tagging, searching, etc, I’ve experienced very primitive > search boxes and they can be extremely primitive. (read useless > almost). It is very difficult to build a great search system. Google > has done that. It is possible to get Google to index web pages. >

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-17 Thread Mike Bonner
Its pretty easy to set up a custom search engine in google. I created a cse restricted to 4 sites. www.livecode.com forums.livecode.com lessons.livecode.com and the nabble site. I'm sure there are settings that might help it work better. Like all google search, you can improve results with quote

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-17 Thread William Prothero
Folks: My initial comment arose because I, through searching the dictionary, couldn’t find how to get the group name of a control that was in a group. The best result I had was by searching with google. I could enter something like: “How do I get the group name of the group that a control is wit

Re: "lcdoc" documentation [was: Re: Bug getting group name, plse check]

2015-08-16 Thread Monte Goulding
> The spec is here: > > https://github.com/runrev/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Documentation/guides/Extending%20LiveCode.md#documentation-markup > > We need to make it easier to find -- I'll see what I can do to make that > happen. Oh, thanks I was looking in https://github.com/runrev/livecode/tr

"lcdoc" documentation [was: Re: Bug getting group name, plse check]

2015-08-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-08-17 04:04, Monte Goulding wrote: On 17 Aug 2015, at 12:46 pm, Kay C Lan wrote: I appreciate this is a bit late to the game, and this Doc Team may already be heading in a certain direction, but I'm wondering if there's been an thought of adopting some kind of 'Industry Standard' docse

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > It’s a nice easy format that would be simple for LC community members to > contribute changes. Indeed you could easily do it all on line via GitHub’s > document editor. Perhaps that was one of the design goals but as long as we > don’t

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 17 Aug 2015, at 12:46 pm, Kay C Lan wrote: > > I appreciate this is a bit late to the game, and this Doc Team may > already be heading in a certain direction, but I'm wondering if > there's been an thought of adopting some kind of 'Industry Standard' > docset format? I don’t know the proce

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 12:04 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > > We definitely need tagging in the Dictionary, something I'll be pushing for > as we finally get the ball rolling with the Community Documentation Team soon. > > With searchable tags anyone can add terms that will help others find relev

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Peter Haworth
Pending updates to the dictionary, I have a plugin available that lets you add your own notes to dictionary entries and also tag them with keywords of your choice. Unfortunately, the details are local to your computer and not available to other users. It can be downloaded at http://www.lcsql.com/

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: > Richard: > This is an example of how difficult it can be to find docs on an > operation that isn’t commonly used and that doesn’t have “obvious” > syntax. ... > Perhaps if there was a dictionary based, not on livecode commands, > but on operations that the user wants to p

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-15 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Bill, If you can send me a list of words and connected issues that you would like to be able to search for in the index, I'll consider adding them in the book I'm currently writing or in any future publications. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Eng

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-15 Thread William Prothero
Richard: This is an example of how difficult it can be to find docs on an operation that isn’t commonly used and that doesn’t have “obvious” syntax. Even the livecode books by Mark Schonewill and Colin don’t allow for finding this kind of information, especially in the index. If the contents of

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-15 Thread William Prothero
Richard: Hmm…. Thought I tried that. But, I tried it again and it worked. Thanks for the info. put the short name of the owner of me into tGroup —works fine. Best, Bill > On Aug 14, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > William Prothero wrote: > > > “the long name of me” is a complet

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: > “the long name of me” is a complete reference to an object, which > contains the group name. What I was trying to do is get the name of > the group that the button is in. I can parse it from the long name of > me, but thought it would pull it out of “me”. > > Anyway, wha

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-14 Thread Randy Hengst
Would it work for you needs by just putting this in the button script? put the owner of me be well, randy Randy Hengst www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com > On Aug 14, 2015, at 6:56 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Alex: > “the long name of me” is a complete reference to an object, which contain

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-14 Thread William Prothero
Alex: “the long name of me” is a complete reference to an object, which contains the group name. What I was trying to do is get the name of the group that the button is in. I can parse it from the long name of me, but thought it would pull it out of “me”. Anyway, what do I know? If I’m wrong t

Re: Bug getting group name, plse check

2015-08-14 Thread Alex Tweedly
Is it valid to say (in the mouseUp script) . of grp me into Isn't 'me' a button, so "grp me" is unclear ? [ or did you mean to sayput the short name of grp tGroup into ... ? ] -- Alex. On 14/08/2015 23:50, William Prothero wrote: Folks: I just encountered what appears to be an er