> How about we all chime in on what we are currently working on?
Like many who have been sick between all the flu and corona going
around, just working on getting well again. Managed to stay out of
hospital, but not much energy. Quiet is good
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Softwa
Pi:
> The only issue with using a field is you are limited to character
> data presentation only. You can’t put inline images, widgets,
> checkboxes, etc.
Mark:
> Now that's just patently not true. No problem with images:
> Set the imagesource of char x of field y of this card to tImageID
Thank
Pi:
> Fields: Images, yes. Other objects, no. Working out which cell
> has been clicked, no.
> Is that ‘fake news’? If so, sad face. If not, still sad face.
Well, sorry but I have to say YES it's largely fake news! :D
I'm ill and no strength for an argument (and BTW it has been a fairly
"seri
Pi:
> I’m not sure this is what Curry was thinking of. What do you think
> he was eluding to. We’ve ‘known’ this for years now apparently.
I love the humor so far - well done, kind of like a skit/spoof of Fake
News flailing under the weight of Accurate Facts yet insistently
demanding more, LO
We don't need to confuse people - it DOES cause damage, because readers
often trust confident/prolific statements without realizing which ones
are flawed, and they act upon bad information. It often falls to
consultants and trainers like myself to help individuals fix the
resulting problems
Pi:
> you make these statement but give no example code to show it. This
> is damned infuriating as it keeps us hunting around in the dark.
On the contrary, as I've mentioned and as you know, "SEVERAL people
immediately provided sample code." You were using sarcasm at the time to
walk back d
PS - Here are two word problems to view this type of algorithm in a
bigger context beyond just software UI. Not too scary or difficult; our
ancestors could solve similar problems, and so can kids in school.
Older problem:
You are in charge of preparing animal enclosures for a market. The
m
Richard:
> Exactly. Reducing the differences between runtime and development
> is a cornerstone of The xTalk Way.
[...]
> Suffice to say politely and succinctly: a decade later, LC for
> mobile remains half-baked compared to what it could be, compared
> to The xTalk Way that rests at the heart
Howdy Graham,
This particular problem is ideally suited to a screen-sharing video
conference tutoring session, talking you through the process and solving
obstacles while you are hands-on. That could get you running in minutes
to a couple of hours, rather than days to weeks.
I would normal
Richmond:
> Thunderbird has recently started marking posts from the
> Use-list as junk.
Might be the click-bait subject lines lately. Seem to be coming from a
server in Bulgaria? :D j/k
> whether there is something that can be done
There are also Junk Settings in Account Settings (Tools me
(I know that Paul understands tradeoffs very well, so he already knows
this, but for the benefit of others)
Maybe some concepts are so simple, people never take them seriously:
- You reap what you sow. You get the cake you bake.
- Comparisons: 1 < 2
- Complexity often reduces efficienc
Assistive tech is a wonderful thing, and yet even when that "compliancy"
is achieved, the effort is doomed to fall short of real-world needs for
many people.
That's because the "compliancy" designers tend to think in
all-or-nothing ideals - and the subset of opinions and studies popular
in
Rick:
> I have a couple of questions for you.
Thanks Rick! I do appreciate the concern. But in my post, your questions
were already either answered or otherwise addressed before you asked. I
anticipated them; I know what makes people tick! So I'll "re-answer"
partly by quoting myself.
But
Rick, I thanked you for your concern. I'll thank you once again. Your
questions were just a little bit off target, just like some of my
clicks; but that's OK. I heard you, and I responded to your actual
points. Here are my points again:
Ability is not all-or-nothing. We need to look at the
Alex:
> You are quoting yourself without adequate context.
Ah yes, I'm trying to keep what I said a big secret, right? :)
Quite the reverse - I was drawing attention to my original post, which
is readily available in its entirety, which is typically what I suggest.
> The fuller version of
Peter:
> I’m currently working on adding accessibility to my text and
> media-heavy music application. In trying to find actual information
> about doing this in a way that is both “compliant” and also good UI—
> I find very little data online.
Nice project! For the standards side of it, I woul
Times are hardly changing at all in substance, actually - this is
nothing but a superficial change of costumes in society's grand parade
of exquisite nonsense. Always a great pretense of love, always plenty of
real hate and prejudice. The thugs and their victims do change in every
Act of soc
What if Windows users rarely printed things?
That hypothetical alternative world/dimension almost looks like part of
LiveCode's operating paradigm!
Windows print bugs don't seem to get much attention.
For example, LC cannot print a field that has vGrid turned on.
https://quality.livecode.c
I would use binfile to a variable, rather than a custom prop.
I've seen LC 9 fields become unusable after reaching a certain # of
chars. I would trust LC 9 fields with 8 million chars - maybe not 80.
If users have a need to see what's going on, intentionally show them
what they need to see.
Klaus:
set the scroll of fld "fonts" to tLine*tTH + the height of fld "fonts"
set the hilitedlines of fld "fonts" to tLine
The test is invalid; the 2nd quoted line overrides the 1st.
Therefore you don't see the results of your scrolling code.
To debug your scroll calc, first comment out th
Bob:
> If I drag drop on a tab field TAB, is there a way to tell which
> tab I dropped on? Probably not but it’s worth a shot.
Probably so...
... if we can define "tab field" and "tab field TAB"?
(I think I know what you're aiming for, but I'd rather be sure.)
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Klaus:
> oh, I really had no idea that setting the hilitedline will also
> scroll that line into view!? 8-)
> That makes my custom scrolling stuff completely obsolete.
Yep, LC does auto-scroll when you set hilitedline! Very handy.
I would say "redundant" in this case, rather than obsolete. Th
Stephen:
> Girls! Time to take this spat off list, please.
Ah good, belittling a gender! That helps. Otherwise agreed; I don't want
to see this either.
But as this was a very public attack on a very LC product, and strayed
from the facts, that didn't leave me much choice. Public inaccuraci
Like everything field and text related, this thread caught my eye! :)
One of my favorite areas of LiveCode, and also one of the areas I have
to actively keep an eye on since I rely on it a lot.
Here's an observation that might help in one way or another
David:
> http://adomain/27/06
Bruce:
> However, when I saved the stack as a standalone
> the Abstract Report did not run.
> Abstract Report which takes a list of US patent numbers
> and downloads basic information about each
> I tried adding some “answer” alerts to try to find the bottleneck.
You are using a logical metho
Bruce:
> comment-out all the instances where I am using a libURL command
> or function, save as a standalone, and and see what happens.
Now you need to follow through on your diagnosis. It will not be
efficient to quickly abandon a sound diagnosis and search for something
else. People do tha
Richard:
> The simplest is to use unambiguous names
+1!
Alex:
> Is there an unambiguous name in this case ?
Use unambiguous SHORT names!
Alex:
> (i.e. A-R, not A-B-R)
+1!
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Co
Alex:
> Using unambiguous short names prevents behaviour scripts
> that references child controls completely
Sure about that? (Option A)
> Inside A, there is a rect called "R" and also a group called "B"
> inside B there is a rect called "R"
Or put the "direct" R in a subgroup also. (Option
Michael:
> set the vScroll of fld 1 to (60 * the effective textHeight of fld 1)
> Clicking the button takes me to line 65, and when I set the
> list behaviour to true the button scrolls me to line 69
Bernd:
> turn "fixedLineHeight" on for the field
And subtract a line.
Because when scroll
Livecode 中文支持非常好。 您可以复制和粘贴。
อย่างไรก็ตามการตัดข้อความของ Livecode สำหรับภาษาไทยนั้นไม่ดีนัก
มันทำให้ตัวละครแตก
:)
Best wishes,
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Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Consulting
http://livecodeconsulting.com/
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Indeed sad news - Hermann was a competent LC coder and contributor. I
enjoyed his comments.
Glad to hear HTML5 support is improving; it's time. Good potential.
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Consulting
http://
Mark:
> It's actually OSX where CEF usage was
> dropped, not Windows.
Yep, it actually feels great to be a Windows-first LiveCoder.
Ironically, things "just work." In fact I'm doing a Windows app right
now, using - guess what - the Browser widget. Works a treat.
It's hard to overstate how
Bob:
> The promise of creating standalones and encrypted stacks
> containing code sounds promising, but there are caveats.
Just like anything else - you have to learn the ropes. First time at any
task can present some challenges. For those in the habit of encrypting
stacks, it comes more nat
... to my friend and colleague Josh. Amazing coder (godlike skills),
generous with his knowledge, and highly available. Thanks Josh. Enjoy
your day, you earned it! ;)
Also,
LiveCoders: holiday greetings. May you give and receive the best gifts
this year. (Not the virulent dirty gift that k
Ben:
> What is the best way to structure a library these days?
Flashback to an interesting conversation, when LiveCode Ltd (or RunRev
Ltd) asked me, "what is a library?"
Not kidding; real question. It's like Newton Ltd asking you, "what is
gravity?"
That opened my eyes to how libraries h
Paul:
> we have several customer who have said
> they are upgrading to M1 laptops
Yes; important to support! I'm looking in that direction too. It'll be
popular, plus it's what I can afford. Many people in the same boat.
(Backstory: Apple's biz model forces Apple to force us to spend on
ha
Me:
> I'm planning to get an M1 Mac this year
Naturally, right after I post this, Apple makes headlines (again) for
doing something arbitrary and rather dim.
So an ethical and professional disclaimer:
I don't support self-contradictory and illogical policy,
any more than self-contradictory
JeeJeeStudio:
> One could ask him/her-self the question if it is still ethical to
> buy a reall Mac? Seeing the child-labor in their factories in China
> is still present.
I'm glad you went there! Thank you. I do ask myself, and the answer is
clear. Whether it's a Mac, or any other product. S
Always remember who is the computer, and who is the coder!
The computer may need to perform a loop under the hood, but that doesn't
mean you need to use the "repeat" keyword.
It's often cleaner/faster when you don't. For those who value concise
code and good performance in LiveCode, avoid u
Paul:
> I find myself wishing each custom
> property has a comment field.
DIY approach with another cp:
cProperty = cp itself
iProperty = info
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Consulting
http://livecodeconsultin
Matthias:
> So in my case it was not scam but just a rude person.
Plenty of those around. Including what comes around.
Manipulative people usually follow 2 tactics.
Either buttering up for a favor, or being rude to apply pressure.
Sometimes both; they will abruptly switch if one fails.
In whi
Stephen:
> Putting down the FBI won’t help anything and makes me think you
> might be partial to the dark forces and fake news. We get enough
> of the hate through other sources and it is unwelcome here.
Ah Stephen, it's good to see that you've moved on from your previous
practice of gender-ba
Stephen:
> Curry's gaslight and personal attack
Sorry guy, not true. Simply holding your post up to logic.
You are political, so maybe you see politics everywhere.
As I wrote to you offlist, in reply to your hateful and cursing rant:
"Look again at my post. Notice the timeframe of the scams
Jerry:
> Please keep it offlist.
Sorry, guy. Any implication that I'm bringing brand-new stuff onlist is
inaccurate; sharing an offlist definition of what was meant by "team" -
which was used right here online.
> Ce fromage pue !
Je ne sais pas. Je n'ai jamais goûté de fromage français. Et
Richard:
> For those of you who haven't seen Ralf's recent work
> on the revIgniter site [...]
It's been on the edge of my radar, but never had a chance to use it yet.
Thanks for the testimonial and reminder! Hope to try it later this year.
Rick:
> Why are you still using PHP when LC is be
Andrew:
> You can click in the field and the blinking I-bar is inserted,
> but typing on the keyboard does nothing.
I love field topics!
Win/Mac differences can really hit you, even on a stack that you thought
was well-tested. Because only well-tested on one platform.
This glitch sounds fa
Stephen:
> forgive me that last post was supposed to be for Curry only
Stephen, I want to thank you for providing verification of the kind of
hate speech/harrassment you were sending offline.
And for the record, I didn't attack you - I mentioned the FBI's lack of
action when commenting on
Bob:
> Why am I still seeing this?
Why are you continuing this topic? And quoting the entire text?
I consider the topic closed, and the horse just about beaten to death.
Dead yet? Yeah...probably. Just about.
I didn't start this, or even continue it - I received a series of
unprovoked attacks
Brian:
> I’d like to print decks of cards, front and back
This post has become a master puzzle of its own!
Enough detail to elicit solutions, yet still open-ended.
Each answer makes its own assumptions, and solves a different problem.
But I like it. So OK, I'll join. Here goes
My own assump
Andrew:
> I can’t add a breakpoint because the Remote Debugger
> will take focus from the standalone
Behold the power of the log file:
Logs DOMINATE standalone debugging for all but the simplest issues.
They don't affect focus, either.
(Remote Debugger is cool, but like most things, has big li
Bruce:
> tsNetUploadSync
> binary files are corrupted
Try tsNetUploadFile - fewer steps!
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Consulting
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Me:
>> Try tsNetUploadFile - fewer steps!
Bruce:
> Thanks, much appreciated.
No problem. That's why I love, and preach, KISS!
(My father taught me "Keep It Simple (Stupid)" at an early age.
Probably around 7 years old. Military aircraft electrician.
They popularized this phrase - and they n
David:
> My impression is that a LiveCode field scrolls less smoothly
> than a comparable field in some other programs
Fair impression. :)
> 25,000 words into a word wrapped scrolling field
Performance does degrade as text size increases.
(Exponentially, after a certain point.)
> Does anyon
jbv:
> if myvar = trunc(myvar) then
Different approach: I prefer "mod" for loop breakouts/pitstops.
Very clean way to determine action for certain loop iterations!
Useful for fractional values too, in LC versions thus far.
> set numberformat to "#.000"
You can easily set the numberformat
Paul:
> I'm sure this could all be worked out as far as
> how to do the layout and printing directly from LiveCode... but why?
Good question! Might be a good reason, but not much point in guessing.
The bigger question is: what was the true original problem?
Brian:
> The problem is, printing
Paul:
>> ... but why?
Richard:
> 1. Because we can. It's fun to figure stuff out.
Yes, it is! :)
> 2. Print-and-Play tabletop games.
This special printer paper looks way too fun:
https://www.avery.com/products/cards/4785
(Discontinued already? Que lastima!
This thread is giving me inten
Bob:
> I am trying to clean up my stack (i.e. clear the fields),
> then save it when I close it
This is a good topic for LiveCode learners; I'm chiming in
I often do something similar - but with an important difference:
I perform cleanup when I save. I do NOT force an auto save.
(More on t
Tore:
> I do not do any clean up at closing time. Instead I execute
> the necessary routines as part of a preOpenStack handler.
> I then do not have to consider which way the stack was closed.
Yes! Like you, for cleanup I also avoid that how-closed consideration.
Much easier to have a simpler
Mark:
> I agree with others that this isn't a Good Idea,
> and a cleaning routine in preOpenStack would do the trick nicely.
Amen, Brother Mark! Good Idea to avoid Bad Habits.
(Agreed, except a small but crucial difference in details)
As Tore said:
> execute the necessary routines as part
Richard:
> they still offer a business card size with rounded corners -
> I'm taking it as a challenge to bring the card content
> down to just the essentials. ;)
> https://www.avery.com/products/cards/88220
Thanks for that link - good idea! Mini cards look great.
I doubt my own hands can man
Jacque:
> I did a test before answering and the message was sent to the card
> of my otherwise blank stack, after dismissing the IDE dialog.
Same here!
Bob:
> there have been at least 2 versions that were unstable that crash
> to desktops were not uncommon, and after losing so much data, I
>
JeeJeeStudio:
> I like Livecode a lot, but it has it's limitations,
> lot of bugs are not solved.
True. Would be more accurate with "yet" added; solving bugs is ongoing!
We could also say that many bugs HAVE been solved. Moderate progress.
(I know, having been on the front lines of the bug-rep
e.beugelaar at me.com:
> https://www.b4x.com if u dont want headaches.
Thanks for the tip - looks pretty neat. I like the website.
Before going all-in with LiveCode, I did a lot with VB-style code.
HOWEVER, I don't have any big headaches, thank God!
Nor do I feel any need to try another IDE.
Me, recently:
> I don't have any big headaches, thank God!
That's true; it's rare that I get stuck. I'm workaround-musclebound. :)
But I do understand why people get headaches and get stuck.
Hope I didn't sound aloof from the problems; just busy working around.
It's not just features; it's Li
Paul:
> apparently neither the sort direction (ascending|descending)
> nor the sort type (international|text|datetime|numeric|binary)
> can be variable!
> I see this a a bug or perhaps a failure to fully
> robust impliment the sort container command?
> Does any one else see this as a bug?
Abs
Inline sort param variables:
If anyone files this bug report/feature request, let me know!
I will sign on
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Consulting
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LC Bugathon continues
Recently I ran into this bug, which Trevor already reported:
"Unable to paste images copied from Microsoft Word on Windows"
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21906
Copying an image directly (not inline with text) fails.
The clipboarddata contains nulls, in
Sean:
> put the keys of the rawclipboarddata
Yes, I have a little clipboard browser stack for that.
There are regular, full, and raw keys. Joy awaits
> or any other CF_, it crashes out of LC altogether
I had that joyful experience earlier today, with my test stack.
You gotta love it, rig
Sean:
> char 1 of rawclipboarddata["CF_BITMAP"] crashes it
That's simply standing on principle, which I find admirable!
After all, give us a char and we'll likely take ... an image. :)
But on the tech side, not surprising; char 1 of (the data).
--
Paul:
> I would consider this a serious LC
Bob:
> MS Office copy operations are notoriously problematic.
> Microsoft maintains their own clipboard format, so that when
> switching to another product the clipboard must be translated.
> Other apps may do the same.
> The translation does not always go to plan.
Eh ... I think this is a mor
Tiemo:
> working with LC 9.6 on a fast win 10 machine
> the responsiveness of the IDE on every mouseclick
> or other action is almost not acceptable slow.
The biggest issue was not Windows per se, but rather disk access:
LC IDE's casual repetitive disk usage + modern antivirus + HDD.
Best sol
Me:
> Best solution: SDD.
*SSD
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Sean:
> if there is a way of replacing using cr
> in the find/replace panel of the script editor.
So what you are REALLY asking is whether nested style arrays and chained
behaviors can be used with tsNet and DataGrid in a git-compatible
environment to create an IDE within an IDE, via a creep
Jacqueline:
> It's not a bug, it was intentionally introduced to allow a couple
> of features, like retaining script local variables after a build.
> Given the amount of extra scripting to work around it for existing
> stacks, I think it may have introduced more problems than it tried
> to cure
Charles:
> Please do not ban anyone.
Somehow that struck me as a pure and beautiful sentiment!
Short and simple. It grew on me during the list silence today.
We can be punitive, or else help each other as we imperfectly stumble.
I'd hate to see the entire list hurt for the sake of a careless
Andre:
> Often in LiveCode (and most programming languages to be honest)
> we go coding for a long while and then realise that our code
> need extensive refactoring. We may have repeated a pattern over
> and over again and discovered that we need to change every
> instance of them, or something
Me:
>> The biggest code is the most repetitive and least modular!
Jacqueline:
> Not always, but often. I try to aim for the smallest code base,
> so I think the contest should be to solve a complex problem
> with the least amount of code.
Yes, but not brevity for its own sake! Rather for mai
Andre:
> I like verbose code that is full of comments.
Ah yes, comments are good! But comments do not make code verbose.
Terse code can be heavily commented, and vice versa.
Commenting is not closely related to my issue, nor perhaps to yours.
Me:
> But there's an even bigger danger than the o
(Full disclosure: Testing a "Cheerful Rant" format to see whether
employing some humor is more effective when letting off steam, and
hopefully even slipping a bit of common sense past politically-correct
radars under the cover of attempted wit. We'll see how this fares,
compared to the Stand
Mark:
> Sorry to hear of all your crashes and hangs Curry.
Thanks! The crashes and hangs are only the icing on the cake; 90% of the
calories are normal bugs, glitches, and poor quality of feature support.
But I actually love bug-hunting, and finding a crash or hang is like a
trophy specime
Tiemo:
> Only a hard close via task manager
> is the only option to quit the engine
That has become a defining feature of the LC experience.
Hangs are quite common on both Mac and PC in various situations.
> Is it something about my stack what makes
> the engine hang, or do you also
> experien
Panos:
> If I remember correctly, this happened on Big Sur only,
> and it is fixed in LC 9.6.2 rc-X
No way.
Hangs have become a defining feature of the LC experience.
They are quite common on both Mac and PC in various situations.
I'm not disputing that you fixed "something" recently.
Perhap
Panos:
> What Tiemo described sounded like this issue
> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22896
> - so if this is the
> case, this bug is very specific to Big Sur,
> and it is fixed in LC 9.6.2 RC-1+.
Hi Panos,
I'm not disputing that you recently addressed a specific Hang.
But you
Matthias:
> I did not had any hang/freeze.
Hi Matthias,
Good for you! Perhaps you work with fewer projects, or fewer LC areas.
Anyway, you and I are obviously not doing the exact same work, right?
So count your blessings. Every hang does have a trigger and a cause.
No trigger = no hang. That
Matthias:
> Believe me i am real. I purchased every library
> you've created in the past, so i must be real.
Not necessarily! You could be a "bot" with a Paypal account.
But I am not prejudiced; human or not, you're a valued customer. :)
And so hopefully you see, and understand, what I'm doin
Scott:
> Paypal account or not, if Matthias is a bot we need to
> figure out how to spawn more instances.
That's no problem; we can hack into the server and "borrow" the Matthias
source code. But I don't know what kind of hardware he requires. ;)
(Again, for any who did not understand the e
Matthias:
> I just wrote about my observations and asked for a recipe.
...
> If you felt that as "doubt" then i am really sorry.
No worries! I also apologize if I've misread your message.
It's probably a "Good Thing" anyway that we've had some exchange,
because it brings more attention to the
Jacqueline:
> I routinely run 3 versions of LC simultaneously
> with different stacks and projects in each.
> I've left them all running for weeks at a time without any issues
That's pretty scary; your habits are much like mine! That's how I work.
I have two LCs minimized today, and each has b
David:
> Would I be right in thinking if codepoint count > the number of chars
> in a text string, then it probably contains invisible characters?
Negative; there are other possibilities. Including
Paul:
> There are characters that consist of more than one codepoint -
> composite versions
David:
> I set out to learn some Livecode, but instead learned about Zalgo.
Patience, dear chap! :)
Indeed you learned a relevant fact about Zalgo, and also Hindi, to
demonstrate the answer to your first assumption and first question:
> Would I be right in thinking if codepoint count > the
Richard:
> Because if it's just the stack name conflict thang,
> I'd rather we solve that at the root by being done
> with that IDE-imposed limitation
Yes, good idea. I would be happy if LC either:
1. Solves it at the root, per RG suggestion.
2. Fixes what they already have, in the IDE.
Whic
JeeJeeStudio:
> And wow got me a massive 30KB/sec download
> while my download speedtest is 74.87Mbps...
> That's the speed back in 1996...
That happens to me a lot. Like the T3 cyborg using dial-up in the past.
But I'm happy to report an LC 9.6.2 download at 5 MB/sec!
From East Coast USA
Jacqueline:
> Just a data point: yesterday I downloaded 9.6.2 stable directly
> from the download page and got about 500 kb/second. It took a
> very long time to get the file.
Yes! That's my typical experience. (Except lower than 500 kb.)
LC download usually takes forever, and sometimes fails
Paul:
> I created a slider with a label on the left and right in a group.
> The slider is set to min 0, max 2, inc 1 and it's script is:
> on scrollbarDrag pNewPosition
> [...]
I like this UI approach! Your script could be shorter.
A 4-liner or 5-liner would be ideal; just eliminate the switch
Jacque wrote:
> It's either the Flying Spaghetti Monster or fullscreenmode. ;)
For Dawkins so loved the things of this world
Might be good to steer away from such, and back to LC. :)
Richard:
> I'm still wondering why we're still scripting scroll regions at all.
...
> I'm also wondering why
Paul:
> Is there an debugger feature or tip or trick anyone has
> that can do the equivalent of set a break point when a property
> is changed and let me see the executionContexts
> to tell what the heck is changing it!
Add a setprop with either a breakpoint and/or the executionContexts?
Best
Paul:
> if word 7 of X = the layer of fld "Address" then
Sean:
> If word 7 of X = the number of fld “Address” then
I prefer this:
if short name of field N is "Address" then
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Cons
Here's a test stack and Word document to either Crash or Hang LC 9.6.2.
This will be the first in my "Crash or Hang" LC Bug Report series!
Two bug reports, which use the same test stack:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23238
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23239
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Paul:
> It appears Livecode's language has no support for Backwards searching.
These days, for a one-off backward sequential find with no hints,
I'd be tempted to use a "last item of" calculation; short and simple.
> With hints, so it shows you snippets of the matches for you to jump
> to one
Panos:
> LiveCode 9.6.3 RC-1 comes with more than 60 changes
Thanks, I will aim to do some rc1 testing this week and next week.
Best wishes,
Curry Kenworthy
Custom Software Development
"Better Methods, Better Results"
LiveCode Training and Consulting
http://livecodeconsulting.com/
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