decrypt error junk

2023-11-01 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Hi Folks, I'm having bizarre issues with livecode's decrypt command. strap in, its a weird one. I have found a "wrong decryption key" that does not return a bad decrypt error, but returns garbage into "the result". Every other wrong key correctly gives the usual error. The right key works to

Re: Filter with wildcards

2023-11-01 Thread Neville Smythe via use-livecode
I agree David, regular expressions look intimidating at first sight. But in fact if you compare your intuitive attempt filter tList with “*with [you,u] *” with the regex which does what you set out to do filter tList with regex “.*with (you|u) .*” they are almost exactly the same – for very

Re: Direct editing of polygrid text cells and polylist text elements

2023-11-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
+1 I'd like to know this too as I can see no way in the Property Inspector or the pgColumns property to indicate a column is 'editable'. Nor can I find any property, message, etc. in the polygrid Dictionary entry that seems to suggest cell editing. On 11/1/2023 5:28 PM, Peter Thirkell via

Direct editing of polygrid text cells and polylist text elements

2023-11-01 Thread Peter Thirkell via use-livecode
I am enjoying both the polygrid and polylist add-ons to Livecode. They are infinitely flexible to use once you get to know them, and most importantly they render beautifully across all platforms. I have one question which doesn’t seem to be addressed in the documentation. The polygrid widget

Re: Modify timeout for shell function

2023-11-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2023-11-01 11:20, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: An install which runs daily and makes a number of calls using the shell function occasionally reports The process "..." exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds. I'm not sure where this timeout is defined; I'm not totally sure where

Re: PolyGrid: UNhilite a row? UPDATE

2023-11-01 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi friends, > I tried had: > ... > set the hilitedrow of widget "index" to "0" > ... > set the hilitedrow of widget "index" to 0 > ... > set the pgHilitedText of widget "index" to "" > ... > set the pgHilitedText of widget "index" to EMPTY > ... > no dice!? it turned out that ONLY this widget

Modify timeout for shell function

2023-11-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
An install which runs daily and makes a number of calls using the shell function occasionally reports The process "..." exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds. I'm not sure where this timeout is defined; I'm not totally sure where this message is coming from (the shell? LiveCode? the

Re: Filter with wildcards

2023-11-01 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
This is the thing about regex, amazing,powerful, impressive, but scary as hell. I will play with this a little, though… so thanks for your time when you should have been doing something else. I appreciate it. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Consultant Forensic & Clinical Psychologist Carlton

Re: Filter with wildcards

2023-11-01 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Thanks all for the suggestions, folks. I expected someone to mention regex (shudder). I have many searches in a loop and most are simple strings, so excepting regex filters would be a bit of a pain (unless of course I could specify regex but this would not choke if the search was simple