I just tried Google to the answer to a problem. Didn't get it first time, so tried ChatGPT. I asked:
*How do I add a button to a group in LiveCode using a script?* I got: *create button "myButton" in group "myGroup"* *This command creates a new button object with the name "myButton" and places it inside the group "myGroup".* Just what I needed. You can also set properties of the button On Sat, 14 Jan 2023 at 20:09, Mark Smith via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks for posting this Geoff. It’s the first time I've seen a ongoing > dialog between a programmer and Chat GPT and the first thing I am struck by > (but not the only thing) is it’s ability to deal with human ambiguity. For > example, you ask it to modify the code to be an “on mouseUp handler in a > button". But nowhere in its response is there any sign of a button. It just > totally ignored that part of your request. The code it provides works in a > card, a stack, a graphic image, an svg widget, in fact, in anything that > accepts mouseUp input. And yet, it didn’t worry itself about that. Very > interesting. It’s kind of like, “this works in a button, so good enough”. > That is not the kind of “nuance” I am used to expecting from an AI. So, > progress has clearly been made in interpreting what humans say (or ask) in > a very loose way. > > The 2nd, and perhaps more astounding example, is when you ask it to > "rewrite the code to be a function that takes an argument "n", repeats with > 1 to n, and returns the results”. > > The really clever bit here is not that it rewrites the previous code into > a function, but that it removes the bit about "put fizzbin into field > “display””. How does it know that putting the result in a field is NOT the > typical responsibility of a function? How does it know that that step needs > to occur AFTER the function call? That is so high-level that I am sure lots > of beginning programmers have made that mistake. It even comments on it in > the documentation. So there is some very deep semantic understanding of > programming code that is going on here. Because, you did not ask it to do > that, but the fact that it did it anyway indicates it clearly understands > what the purpose of a function is. > > Quite weird for me to comprehend how it knows that. Unless of course, you > were somehow more specific than your examples illustrate. > > Mark > > > On 14 Jan 2023, at 3:22 am, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > So just now I put this in to chatgpt: > > > > "fizz bin" is a program that counts from 1 to 100, replacing every number > > divisible by 5 with "fizz" and every number divisible by 7 with "bin"; > and > > numbers divisible by both 5 and 7 with "fizz bin". Write code in the > > programming language livecode to execute "fizz bin" > > > > This is what ChatGPT responded with: > > > > repeat with x = 1 to 100 > > if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "fizz bin" > > else if x mod 5 = 0 then > > put "fizz" > > else if x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "bin" > > else > > put x > > end if > > end repeat > > > > That works as-is, but obviously the results fly by in the message box. > So I > > put a field and a button on a card, and edited to this, and it works > > perfectly: > > > > on mouseUp > > repeat with x = 1 to 100 > > if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "fizz bin" & cr after fld 1 > > else if x mod 5 = 0 then > > put "fizz" & cr after fld 1 > > else if x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "bin" & cr after fld 1 > > else > > put x & cr after fld 1 > > end if > > end repeat > > end mouseUp > > > > Then as I was typing this email I realized I was potentially selling > > chatgpt short, so I put this in: > > > > Modify that code so it works as an "on mouseUp" handler in a button, and > > concatenates the results on individual lines, and puts the final result > > into the field "display" > > > > And it output this: > > > > > > on mouseUp > > put "" into fizzbin > > repeat with x = 1 to 100 > > if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "fizz bin" & return after fizzbin > > else if x mod 5 = 0 then > > put "fizz" & return after fizzbin > > else if x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "bin" & return after fizzbin > > else > > put x & return after fizzbin > > end if > > end repeat > > put fizzbin into field "display" > > end mouseUp > > > > And it followed that with instructions: > > > > This code uses the "on mouseUp" handler to execute the script when the > > button is clicked. The results are concatenated and separated by a new > line > > using the "& return" operator after each output. The final result is > placed > > into a field with the name "display" using the "put" command. > > > > I'll save you the trouble: that code executes perfectly right out of the > > box, with no errors, and of course even though I didn't ask it to, it > uses > > a variable to store the intermediate values, saving the field update for > > the end. > > > > If I were writing it, I'd probably do something like > > > > on mouseUp > > put "" into fizzbin > > repeat with x = 1 to 100 > > if x mod 5 = 0 then put "fizz " after fizzbin > > if x mod 7 = 0 then put "bin " after fizzbin > > if char -1 of fizzbin is space > > then put return into char -1 of fizzbin > > else put x & return after fizzbin > > end repeat > > put fizzbin into field "display" > > end mouseUp > > > > That might be a bit faster, but probably not as clear. > > > > Finally, I gave it the input: > > > > Now rewrite the code to be a function named "fizzbin" that takes an > > argument "n", repeats with 1 to n, and returns the results. > > > > function fizzbin n > > put "" into fizzbin > > repeat with x = 1 to n > > if x mod 5 = 0 and x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "fizz bin" & return after fizzbin > > else if x mod 5 = 0 then > > put "fizz" & return after fizzbin > > else if x mod 7 = 0 then > > put "bin" & return after fizzbin > > else > > put x & return after fizzbin > > end if > > end repeat > > return fizzbin > > end fizzbin > > > > This works perfectly, and chat gpt also documents its answer: > > > > This code defines a function named "fizzbin" which takes an argument "n" > > that determines the range of the repeat loop. The function builds the > > result string in a variable "fizzbin" and return the final result. The > > calling script can then use the returned value for further processing or > > for displaying in a field. > > > > Grammatical issue notwithstanding, that's good documentation. > > _______________________________________________ > > 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/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > 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/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Kaveh Bazargan PhD Director River Valley Technologies <http://rivervalley.io> ● Twitter <https://twitter.com/rivervalley1000> ● LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/bazargankaveh/> ● ORCID <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1414-9098> ● @kaveh1000@mastodon.social <https://mastodon.social/@kaveh1000> *Accelerating the Communication of Research* _______________________________________________ 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/listinfo/use-livecode
