Re: nsScriptDatabase (was property sheets)

2022-06-10 Thread Neville Smythe via use-livecode
Bob S wrote > On 11 Jun 2022, at 2:00 am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > A direct link, or where to go to get it would be helpful. The stack is in the Development section of Sample Stacks, though it seems to help the extraordinarily slow search engine to click All before Go.

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 6/10/22 10:12, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: "saw"... heh I was thinking along those lines as well. Heck, I just saw my octalmologist last week. Phil Davis On 6/10/22 8:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So it has nothing to do with eye surgery?? Dang. I thought I was going

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
I was thinking along those lines as well. Heck, I just saw my octalmologist last week. Phil Davis On 6/10/22 8:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So it has nothing to do with eye surgery?? Dang. I thought I was going to get a prize or something. Bob S On Jun 10, 2022, at 24:45 ,

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I may be dreaming, but didn't you mention that using "the" before a property name would be required? That will throw a lot of people who've become used to omitting that. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On June 10, 2022

RE: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Same as many others on the octal question. Did not know/don’t use. (can see how it would be useful) On this one... don’t use it for msg or envs. I rarely use by ref to change calling parameters, but do it now and again. I mostly use by ref for performance in loops or extraordinary large data

Re: Property sheets

2022-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi Neville. A direct link, or where to go to get it would be helpful. Thanks. Bob S > On Jun 9, 2022, at 17:51 , Neville Smythe via use-livecode > wrote: > > I have uploaded version 2.2 of nsScriptDatabase which can display supported > properties of widgets, with their current and default

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
So it has nothing to do with eye surgery?? Dang. I thought I was going to get a prize or something. Bob S > On Jun 10, 2022, at 24:45 , Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > Given the responses so far, it looks to me like convertOctals is an > exceptionally rarely used feature

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-09 20:54, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: Mark. Gong the other way, is your task made much simpler by losing “converOctals”? I assume so, or the issue would never have come up. Are there other similar language elements that also are on the block? I'm not sure it makes things