Re: Why won't this work.

[Peter M. Brigham]

Yes. You have to use syntax that makes it plain to the engine that the variable 
tID should be evaluated before any action is taken. The only way to do that is 
to use language that can only be applied to controls, ie, setting a property. 
Since you can't set a property of a variable, the engine looks at the contents 
of the variable and sees that it's an object reference and proceeds on that 
basis.

-- Peter

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On Oct 30, 2015, at 1:12 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:

> To describe the other aspect of this, you can only use a variable
> containing a long id as a reference to the underlying object if you
> reference properties of the object. Hence why
> 
> put the long id of fld "test" into tID
> set the left of tID to 47
> set the vis of tID to true
> set the dontwrap of tiD to false
> set the htmlText of tID to "something"
> set the text of tID to "something else"
> 
> all work, but
> 
> put "some text" into tID
> 
> will just change the contents of the variable. I have vague memories of
> some exceptions to this, but it was a long time ago, so maybe I'm wrong, or
> LC has addressed the issues.
> 
> gc
> 
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Scott Rossi  wrote:
> 
>> Try: set the text of tlongid to "my email"
>> 
>> Otherwise, you're just putting a value into your tlongid variable, the
>> same way you did with the long id of the field.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Scott Rossi
>> Creative Director
>> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>> 
>>> On Oct 29, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Earthednet-wp 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Folks,
>>> 
>>> I tried
>>>Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
>>>Put "my email" into tlongid
>>> 
>>> This does not work.
>>> 
>>> It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message
>> box.
>>> Seems this should work.
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> William Prothero
>>> http://es.earthednet.org
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Re: Why won't this work.

[Scott Rossi]

Try: set the text of tlongid to "my email"

Otherwise, you're just putting a value into your tlongid variable, the same way 
you did with the long id of the field.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Earthednet-wp  wrote:
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I tried
> Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
> Put "my email" into tlongid
> 
> This does not work.
> 
> It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message box.
> Seems this should work.
> 
> Bill
> 
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
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Why won't this work.

[Earthednet-wp]

Folks,

I tried
 Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
 Put "my email" into tlongid

This does not work.

It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message box.
Seems this should work.

Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

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Re: Why won't this work?

[Earthednet-wp]

Folks,
I've had to forward this to my iPad to send it. I had to update my ssl 
certificate and it buggered the email from my server and I can't send from my 
Mac laptop, but I can from my iPad. Go figure! 

Thanks for your feedback, here is what I found out:

> The long ID of a field looks something like this. I haven’t saved the stack 
> yet, so there is no filename.
> 
> field id 1006 of card id 1002 of stack "Untitled 1”
> 
> I can do:
> put “myEmail” into field “email” and it works fine and to me, serves as a 
> model for syntax variations.
> 
> I can copy that long id to the message box and do:
> 
> put "my email" into field id 1006 of card id 1002 of stack "Untitled 1” and 
> it works.
> 
> I can do, but it doesn’t work:
> 
>put the long id of fld "email" into tLongID
>put quote into tx
>put "myEmail" into tx
>  
> This works: (thanks, Jacqueline)
>put the long id of fld "email" into tLongID
>do "put" && "my email" && "into" && tlongid
> 
> So, this may be obvious to experienced livecoders, but it is bizarre to those 
> less experienced, like me. I'm not complaining, mind you, but there are many 
> such non-intuitive operations in livecode. That's ok, but sometimes the 
> effort to make livecode natural language-like creates new confusions. I also 
> get confused about whether to call something an object, a control, a key, an 
> item (ok, items are obvious), and I only point this out because sometimes 
> information about what hangs up beginners is very useful when creating 
> documentation. 
> 
> Best,
> Bill
> 
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Re: Why won't this work.

[Geoff Canyon]

To describe the other aspect of this, you can only use a variable
containing a long id as a reference to the underlying object if you
reference properties of the object. Hence why

put the long id of fld "test" into tID
set the left of tID to 47
set the vis of tID to true
set the dontwrap of tiD to false
set the htmlText of tID to "something"
set the text of tID to "something else"

all work, but

put "some text" into tID

will just change the contents of the variable. I have vague memories of
some exceptions to this, but it was a long time ago, so maybe I'm wrong, or
LC has addressed the issues.

gc

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Scott Rossi  wrote:

> Try: set the text of tlongid to "my email"
>
> Otherwise, you're just putting a value into your tlongid variable, the
> same way you did with the long id of the field.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
>
> > On Oct 29, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Earthednet-wp 
> wrote:
> >
> > Folks,
> >
> > I tried
> > Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
> > Put "my email" into tlongid
> >
> > This does not work.
> >
> > It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message
> box.
> > Seems this should work.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > William Prothero
> > http://es.earthednet.org
> >
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Re: Why won't this work.

[dunbarx]

Hi.


I do not understand. This is simple and straightforward. Both peices of data go 
into the variable just fine.


Craig Newman





  Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
 Put
"my email" into tlongid





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From: Earthednet-wp <proth...@earthednet.org>
To: Use-livecode Use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 8:20 pm
Subject: Why won't this work.


Folks,

I tried
 Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
 Put
"my email" into tlongid

This does not work.

It works if I copy the long id
and paste the second line in the message box.
Seems this should
work.

Bill

William
Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

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Re: Why won't this work.

[Scott Rossi]

The assumption is Bill is trying to put the string "my email" into the target 
field.

Of course, the assumption could be wrong.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media UX/UI Design

> On Oct 29, 2015, at 8:29 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> 
> I do not understand. This is simple and straightforward. Both peices of data 
> go into the variable just fine.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
> Put
> "my email" into tlongid
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Earthednet-wp <proth...@earthednet.org>
> To: Use-livecode Use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Thu, Oct 29, 2015 8:20 pm
> Subject: Why won't this work.
> 
> 
> Folks,
> 
> I tried
> Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
> Put
> "my email" into tlongid
> 
> This does not work.
> 
> It works if I copy the long id
> and paste the second line in the message box.
> Seems this should
> work.
> 
> Bill
> 
> William
> Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
> 
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Re: Why won't this work.

[J. Landman Gay]

On 10/29/2015 10:29 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:


I do not understand. This is simple and straightforward. Both peices of data go 
into the variable just fine.

Craig Newman




   Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid
  Put
"my email" into tlongid


I had to read it four times and then see Scott's reply before it made 
any sense to me either. What Bill wants to do is:


get a field reference
put his email address into that field

I like Scott's method best, but a less elegant way would be:

  do "put" && "my email" && "into" && tlongid

--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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Why won't this work ?...:-(

[John Dixon]

The script below will run on a Mac, under Windows XP but not under Windows 7... 
anyone able to tell me why not ?

on openCard
   /* set the rect of the image on which to overlay revBrowser */
   set the rect of image browserimage to 0, 0  ,  (the width of this 
stack)  ,  (the height of this stack -16 )
   /* get the path to the html file */
   put the defaultFolder  /mapFolder/map.html into adJustWindows
   /* replace the spaces, if there are any, in the URL filepath */
   replace space with %20 in adjustWindows
   /* set up the browser instance */
   put revBrowserOpen (the windowId of this stack, file://  adjustWindows) 
into browserID
   revBrowserSet browserID, rect,rect of image browserimage
   revBrowserSet browserID, scrollbars, false
   revBrowserSet browserID, showborder, true
end openCard

Just get a blank revBrowser under WIndows 7

Dixie
  
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