Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-27 Thread Bob Sneidar
On Apr 19, 2016, at 07:22 , Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com>> wrote: If it doesn't work like it says on the tin it's a bug. If there's bugs in the tin, you may have a decent lawsuit on your hands. :-) Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Mark Wieder
On 04/19/2016 02:32 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: is there a bug number for the corrupt lc 7 prefs issue? That's possibly http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16422 and its duplicates. The way I get around the LC7/LC8 thing is 1. delete or rename the livecode.rev prefs file 2. start LC8 (crea

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Mike Bonner
is there a bug number for the corrupt lc 7 prefs issue? On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:11 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > yeah, ill add it > > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:34 AM, [-hh] wrote: > >> |= Mike B. wrote: >> | There's a simple fix. >> | Change the setprop name in the script of stack "revpreferences

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Mike Bonner
yeah, ill add it On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 10:34 AM, [-hh] wrote: > |= Mike B. wrote: > | There's a simple fix. > | Change the setprop name in the script of stack "revpreferences" to > | cRecentStackPaths > | > | change this line > | set the cRecentPaths of stack "revPreferences" to tRecentPaths

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread [-hh]
|= Mike B. wrote: | There's a simple fix. | Change the setprop name in the script of stack "revpreferences" to | cRecentStackPaths | | change this line | set the cRecentPaths of stack "revPreferences" to tRecentPaths | to this | set the cRecentStackPaths of stack "revPreferences" to tRecentPat

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Mike Bonner
Oh, one more thing. YOu don't have to restart lc to get changes to occur, just do something that triggers the setprop. (save, or open a stack) The way it was before, I suspect the recent files list would just grow forever. On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Theres a simple

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Mike Bonner
Theres a simple fix. Change the setprop name in the script of stack "revpreferences" to cRecentStackPaths change this line set the cRecentPaths of stack "revPreferences" to tRecentPaths to this set the cRecentStackPaths of stack "revPreferences" to tRecentPaths It looks like when a stack is

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread [-hh]
| John D. wrote: | How do i clear the list of recent files from | file > open recent file > Sorry had a typo above, here again all, corrected: constant p="revPreferences" version < 7: set the cRecentPaths of stack p to empty version > 6: set the cRecentStackPaths of stack p to empty -- View

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread [-hh]
It's a property of stack "revPreferences". You can get and set it, especially set it to empty. version < 7: the cRecentPaths version > 6: the cRecentStackPath I use it to edit the list, in case I know what I'm doing ;-) -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabb

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 19/04/2016 14:18, Dave Kilroy wrote: In LC8, if you go to File/Preferences/Files and Memory and then change the value in "Number of recent files to store" it makes no difference to what is displayed in the 'recent files' list. If you do the same in LC7 it also doesn't seem to make a differen

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Kilroy wrote: In LC8, if you go to File/Preferences/Files and Memory and then change the value in "Number of recent files to store" it makes no difference to what is displayed in the 'recent files' list. If you do the same in LC7 it also doesn't seem to make a difference. But if you do it i

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread Dave Kilroy
In LC8, if you go to File/Preferences/Files and Memory and then change the value in "Number of recent files to store" it makes no difference to what is displayed in the 'recent files' list. If you do the same in LC7 it also doesn't seem to make a difference. But if you do it in LC6 it works - and

Re: clear recent files list from the menu

2016-04-19 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Do you mean the files listed in the "openFiles" function"? I suppose you would have to get that list, and loop through, closing as you go. Is there a one-liner that does this? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: John Dixon To: use-livecode Sent: Tue, Apr 19, 2016 8:19 am