Re: Filter with wildcards

2023-11-02 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
> On 1 Nov 2023, at 11:24 pm, Neville Smythe > wrote: > > But I suspect you should allow for the required strings to be followed by > punctuation or be at the end of the line, things which are hard to do with a > simple LC wildcard search, at least in a single filter. When I originally

Re: Filter with wildcards

2023-11-01 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
, > > Mark. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 30 Oct 2023, at 17:19, David Glasgow via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I am doing the above and struggling with an oddity that I can’t find >> guidance on on Livecode or wid

Filter with wildcards

2023-10-30 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Hi folks, I am doing the above and struggling with an oddity that I can’t find guidance on on Livecode or wider wildcard stuff A simple example is I am searching text messages for 'with you' or 'with u’ so I use the wildcard form *with [you,u]* That finds all examples of both just fine.

Re: Creating 'read only' text files

2023-05-02 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Perfect. Thanks, Paul. > On 30 Apr 2023, at 1:43 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > I don't know of a Livecode syntax per se to do this (i.e some syntax like: > set the permissions of file tFile to read-only) > > You can do this in Livecode using the shell() function (see the

Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

2023-02-22 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Of course!!! And indeed a bonus that we can keep happy our AI overlords-to-be. > On 20 Feb 2023, at 10:11 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/20/23 13:29, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: > > ...or to make ChatGPT happy: > > sort tData ascending by word 1 to -1 of

scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

2022-01-11 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Hi folks I have an app in which tooltips are generally off. I also have a button menu which allows the selection of equality/inequelity. Users are non technical, and on selection (i.e. not the usual hover) I wanted to pop up a brief tooltip describing the selected item in ordinary language

screen resolution and stack height

2021-12-01 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Hi folks, I have been developing a desktop stack at 1024×760 for a while. Vertical space is becoming increasingly cramped, and I need a bit more. I reckon 40 pixels would do it. Obviously that would break the 4:3 ratio. So am I better reconfiguring for a completely different screen ratio

On the subject of things with the same short name... ('identical' groups which behave differently)

2021-10-08 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Being essentially a lazy and a sloppy programmer, I made a group which contained a script that caused the group to do what I wanted. Then I copied it again and again, and grouped the resultant groups. Rather than adapting the script to be located on the card I just left several identical

Re: valueDiff for arrays?

2018-08-05 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Maybe 'strain' could be a culinary synonym? ;-) Best wishes David Glasgow Sent from my iPad via iBrain & iFingers LinkedIn > On 5 Aug 2018, at 16:36, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > This is getting pretty contorted and is becoming less like natural language. > For what it's

Re: URGENT: MergGoogle no longer works on iOS: CLIENTS VERY UNHAPPY

2018-05-04 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
It was a single problem, but the poor fellow was in hock up to the ears and out of time. If there is anything positive here it is the response of the community. No lectures on what he should have done different, just genuine concern and an astonishingly quick fix. Best wishes David

"Aphasia" (was Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 171, Issue 44)

2017-12-28 Thread David Glasgow via use-livecode
Unfortunately, it is all rather more complicated than either Richmond or Peter suggest. There are many more contributing areas than Brocas, and what Peter describes doesn't appear to be aphasia at all, but rather a pathology of semantics or word finding. It's not possible to be more specific