Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-29 Thread Pete
I guess I'm not clear on just where the user types in a new value - over the top of an existing choice that's loaded into the menu? Pete On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:53 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > The entry doesn't usually go into the menu at all. The field is like an > "other" box. The user can eit

Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/29/11 11:08 PM, Pete wrote: I noticed that too. Just looked at the Apple HUG document for OS X and it is silent on the matter. IT feels like the arrow keys should work to me since they do work in an option menu and and a combo menu is supposed to a combination of an option menu and a field

Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-29 Thread Pete
I noticed that too. Just looked at the Apple HUG document for OS X and it is silent on the matter. IT feels like the arrow keys should work to me since they do work in an option menu and and a combo menu is supposed to a combination of an option menu and a field. On a related topic, I've always h

Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
In OS X at least, text arrows don't work in the field portion of a combo-box button. Should they? What's considered standard behavior for those? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com __

Re: Another Gotcha

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
S'not. ;-) It's the handler that builds contextual menus. By trapping it and doing your own thing you can make your own contextual menus, or add to existing ones. I have this in a frontScript which puts a few extra things at the top of the contextual menu if a field is the target: on revHookBui

Re: Another Gotcha

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: I have been using a trick John Craig showed me for appending to a contextual menu which has been very handy for me. The gotcha is that instead of building the menu on the fly using "put theMenuItem into line 1 of theMenu" (or something like that) I decided to simply create

Another Gotcha

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I have been using a trick John Craig showed me for appending to a contextual menu which has been very handy for me. The gotcha is that instead of building the menu on the fly using "put theMenuItem into line 1 of theMenu" (or something like that) I decided to simply create a custom pro

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and customproperties of a stack?

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Keith wrote: Richard: I have a pretty large stack with lots of graphics and controls... I could just save the stack to save the settings, but each stack would be quite large in size. Also, if I need to upgrade the software, all of the saved stacks would need to be updated accordingly. I have de

libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

2011-12-29 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello everyone, The following two lines used to work fine in a startup script. libURLSetLogField the long id of fld “Connection Log" of card "Connection" of stack “Headquarters" libURLSetFTPListCommand “NLST” Today I upgraded to version 5.02 of LiveCode and I get the following error mess

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and customproperties of a stack?

2011-12-29 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Thanks to everyone for your input... Richard: I have a pretty large stack with lots of graphics and controls... I could just save the stack to save the settings, but each stack would be quite large in size. Also, if I need to upgrade the software, all of the saved stacks would need to be updat

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: It seems like it would be easier to clone a stack, then reset everything in it, or just keep a copy of a virgin stack around. You would have to update it every time you made any changes to the original though. That's been my experience as well. The stack file format is so

Re: Sample stack demonstrating how to obtain all properties and custom properties of a stack?

2011-12-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right. It seems like it would be easier to clone a stack, then reset everything in it, or just keep a copy of a virgin stack around. You would have to update it every time you made any changes to the original though. Bob On Dec 28, 2011, at 1:51 PM, stephen barncard wrote: > A while ago I ex