Re: confirmation dialog opening on second screen can't be answered

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 18, 2015 9:48:56 PM CDT, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: At times, it would pop the are you sure/save boxes on the second screen. I have no idea why. It is impossible to click either choice when this happens. Finally, it occurred to me to pull the cable, which froced all the

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 18, 2015 9:44:03 PM CDT, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: It appears to be related to sending a message that assumes the existence of a file or edit window button too early during startup (during openstack)--but I can't really tell. The reason I think that is that if I used an

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Richard E. Hawkins: I spent a full *five* hours today trying to track a presumably bad line of code--because whichever it was, it was causing the ide to crash, rather than throw an error. This may not be relevant to your issue, but keeping the LiveCode Debug mode on can cause the IDE to

Re: curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Pete, Can you use the short id? put the short id of fld text into x put deux into word 2 of fld x -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer

Re: curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Peter Haworth
The problem is word is a valid reference to a variable and that may be what you want to do. I can't remember what I've tried to get round this but pretty sure I've always ended up using a do command. Pete lcSQL Software On Apr 19, 2015 1:21 PM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: So I have

Re: Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/19/2015 2:58 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: I have now tried this with 3 different drivers with the exact same results, so I guess it is not a driver issue :-( In that case it's probably a bug. I'd report it and give them a copy of an example stack. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 4/19/2015 2:07 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Did you try making the field transparent (disable opaque)? Scott, thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately Opaque has no effect on the issue. Here's a suggestion from the goofy workarounds category... You say the field prints correctly with no text.

curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Peter M. Brigham
So I have a field, let's say field text, with the contents one two three four. if I do this: put the long id of fld text into fRef put deux into word 2 of fRef it puts deux into word 2 of field id 1022 of stack… and doesn't resolve fRef as a field reference. But if I do: put the text

Re: Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/19/2015 10:39 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: If either the vGrid or hGrid are set to true, the field prints as a solid block of color of whatever the field borderColor is set to. It may be a printer driver problem. If you're on Windows, see if you have the latest driver. I had a similar issue

Re: Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread Scott Rossi
Did you try making the field transparent (disable opaque)? Here's a suggestion from the goofy workarounds category... You say the field prints correctly with no text. How about empty lines with only return characters? If that works, and assuming the field can be scrolled, maybe you could

Re: Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 4/19/2015 2:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/19/2015 10:39 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: If either the vGrid or hGrid are set to true, the field prints as a solid block of color of whatever the field borderColor is set to. It may be a printer driver problem. If you're on Windows, see if you

Re: Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 4/19/2015 2:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/19/2015 10:39 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: If either the vGrid or hGrid are set to true, the field prints as a solid block of color of whatever the field borderColor is set to. It may be a printer driver problem. If you're on Windows, see if you

Basic Table Field prints as one solid color

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Dupuis
Help! I am trying to print a card with a single field on it. The field is a basic table field (i.e. hGrid and vGrid set to true, dontWrap to true, etc.). I.e. all the standard field settings you get when you drag a Basic Table Field off the tool palette in LC6.6.5, 6.7.4, or 7.0.4. The same

Re: confirmation dialog opening on second screen can't be answered

2015-04-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:09 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: If it happens again, try typing the return key if you didn't already. Tried that. Hmm, maybe I should have tried focusing on the primary screen for that. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Paul Hibbert
If you are absolutely sure your field has a unique name then this works… put text into fRef put deux into word 2 of control fRef …but, I think if you are replacing text in this way you will still lose any formatting, so you may need to do something like this… put text into fRef put

Re: curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Mike Bonner
I wish it was easy to work with the styledtext but multiple runs get really convoluted. They contain the actual text though, so if you're better at navigating arrays than I am, it might be possible to put the styledtext of fRef into tStyledA then make adjustments, then set the styledtext of field

Re: curiosities in object reference

2015-04-19 Thread Kay C Lan
Maybe this will help: put the long id of fld text into fRef put word 3 of fRef into fFldID put word 7 of fRef into fCdID put word -1 of fRef into fStackName replace quote with empty in fStackName put deux into word 2 of fld id fFldID of card id fCdID of stack fStackName On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 11:14 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Red dot breakpoints don't always trigger early in the startup sequence but often typing the word breakpoint into the script will work. It's a useful way to debug in pre-whatever handlers. I wasn't even fighting

Re: another day lost to the ide and crashes

2015-04-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On April 19, 2015 10:38:15 AM CDT, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: Even breakpoint isn't enough until there has been some user interaction; I have to use answer, then breakpoint, to get it to stop. This was a matter of not being able to stop the hard crash of the IDE itself, and the