BTW This is why I wanted to group my imported images into predefined ID ranges. I ran across this at one point.
Bob On Mar 31, 2012, at 7:21 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > On Mar 31, 2012, at 3:56 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 3/31/12 5:34 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: >>> I just discovered that if I click with the browse tool on the >>> place where the buttons should be, the button becomes visible and the >>> button script executes. If I save and quit LC, the buttons disappear >>> when I launch the stack again. >> >> Sounds like an icon ID conflict. Do what Mike suggested. Import the icons >> from the Icon Library into your stack and assign the new image IDs to the >> buttons. That way they'll stay stable. > > Thankya Mike and Jacque. That's a relief! I had unhappy visions of > laboriously re-creating a corrupted stack. > > Sadly, I can't figure out how to import icons from the icon library into my > stack. You won't believe this... The first thing that popped into my head was > "resedit" > > Okay, I guess I figured it out by trial and error, probably did it wrong, but > it worked. Something about development: image library. Never noticed that > item before. > > A couple of little images, about right for the icons I want, are now sitting > at a random location on one of the cards in the stack. So now when I set the > icon, I can use image library:this stack. I can see the little images there. > Before I was using image library: standard icons. > > What do I do with the little images I imported? Set the visible to false, > hide them under a field, or can I delete them now, because they are used in a > button? > > Should this be standard procedure? I never thought about importing images for > icons. Normally, when I make a new button and want an icon, I just use the > icons & borders popup. > > The stack and buttons are working normally now. > >> Version 5.5 has a new file format and older versions of LiveCode can't read >> it. >> >> Open your stack in 5.5. Do a "Save as" and use the popdown menu in the Save >> dialog to choose Legacy 2.7 format. Save it that way and it will open again >> in 5.02. > > Another relief. > > Maybe I should read the "what's new" document. I don't recall seeing one, but > I didn't look for it very hard. > > Tim > _______________________________________________ > 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
