The secret for me (which shouldn't be necessary) is to drag whatever control/palette/whatever is being referred to by the tutorial and it forces a redraw of the tutorial part itself, at which point I can get to the next step.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Graham Samuel <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmm - looks like confirmation that the example (well the guidance really) > is not robust. Since writing my email I did get a bit further by what > amounts to a process of random clicks, but now I’ve reached “resize and > position the graphic as shown” when nothing IS shown, so stuck again… very > frustrating. > > Graham > > > On 7 Jun 2016, at 17:25, [email protected] wrote: > > > > Graham... I've been away from RunRev and LiveCode for quite a while and > wanted to reorient myself to the new features. I didn't get to the end > either... Jim > > > > On 2016-06-07, at 11:57 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > > > >> I’m still trying to get a handle on LC8, and I now have LC 8.0.1 on my > Mac, which AFAIK is the latest stable release. But I still can’t get the > BMI Calculator example to work all the way through - the guidance has > abandoned me at the first field, and the ‘fast forward’ arrow doesn’t do > anything. > >> > >> Has anyone got to the end, and if so, how did they do it? I know I am > very much behind compared to all you LC 8 aficionados, but I am not yet > convinced that I really understand what a widget is, so I need to see a > whole working example to understand how widgets have changed the LC that I > have been using for so many years. > >> > >> Can anyone help, or maybe suggest an alternative practical learning > strategy - or shall I just tinker around until the fog clears? > >> > >> TIA > >> > >> Graham > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > [email protected] > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
