yet another alternative:
if the long id of ends with the long id of then …
this catches controls whose ownership includes intervening grouping between
your control and your group
— Dick
> On Aug 23, 2024, at 5:48 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Another alternative.
>
> If t
> On Jun 28, 2024, at 3:15 AM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I have a solution or at least a workaround
Hi, Neville. You may find a worthwhile improvement in speed if you avoid
referring to the Unicode lines by their line numbers (as in "line k of fff").
Here's a way:
functi
Hi, Bob. The bottom pane reappears to show search results, so search for
something.
— Dick
> On Aug 8, 2023, at 9:28 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> Not sure how I did it but I can no longer see the variables while debugging.
> The bottom pane has disappeared and n
> On Jul 25, 2023, at 7:49 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> So, not to be too much of an apologist, but the issue doesn't seem like a
> showstopper to me.
This is just a crashing bug to fix before RC1. Let the show go on!
— Dick
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> On Jul 25, 2023, at 11:37 AM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Maybe a silly question, but that issue lists "turn on bracket completion"
> as a step to reproduce. If bracket completion is off, is it safe?
Hi, Geoff. I filed the report. With bracket completion off, I saw no such
p
> On Jul 15, 2023, at 8:06 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> So in the instances where you have a script that creates an object and then
> sets the script of that object (example below), what is you best practice for
> having the script in a script and still be readable?
Hi, Paul
> On Mar 30, 2022, at 2:16 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> sort lines of tText by word 1 of each & word 2 of each & word 3 of each
Hi, Paul.
The only feature missing is padding the first two words:
sort tText by pad( word 1 of each ) & pad( word 2 of each ) & word 3 of each
> On Mar 22, 2022, at 7:25 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> An existing database would make things a lot easier.
You could scrape an online dictionary to obtain the syllabification for each
given word.
For example, if you investigate
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/syllabi
> On Mar 13, 2022, at 1:05 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On 3/12/22 8:54 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote:
>> I have a field with about a thousand lines with many duplicate lines, and I
>> want to delete the duplicates. Seems like this should be simple but I am
>> run
> On Mar 3, 2022, at 2:30 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I can filter text using a single term plus a numerical range s eg:
> *re 1[0-5]*
> matching a text stem “re “ followed by any one of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15
>
> But is there a form where the alternatives are also tex
> On Mar 2, 2022, at 1:57 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> wrote:
> ...
> repeat for each line l in pList -- pList is the user word list
>if sDictFile[l] = true then put l & cr after tCheckedList
>else put l & cr after tNonWords
>wait 0 with messages -- prevent ANRs
> end repe
> On Jan 21, 2021, at 2:34 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode
> wrote:
> I was just keen to understand why offset wasn’t happy with the ‘not(tab)’ in
> this instance.
expression "not(tab)" evaluates to true, which doesn’t serve your purpose
— Dick
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> On Jan 21, 2021, at 2:25 AM, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi, Keith. You could test each character until you find a tab:
>
correction: until you find one that’s not a tab
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> On Jan 21, 2021, at 1:30 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode
> mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>
> Please can anyone advise on the correct syntax for trying to find the first
> non-tab character offset in a string
Hi, Keith. You could test each character until you find a tab:
f
> On Jan 22, 2020, at 10:17 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I stumbled across a code challenge for y'all, one that seems seductively
> simple but I don't think it is:
>
> What is the simplest way to build an array that reflects the files and
> folders within a given folder?
> On Aug 7, 2018, at 9:29 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
>> On Aug 7, 2018, at 8:35 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/07/2018 07:57 PM, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode wrote:
>>> On Aug 7, 2018, at 5:47 PM,
On Aug 7, 2018, at 5:47 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> Is there an easy way to test whether an array is (currently) a sequence array
> ?
>
> something easier than
> put the extents of tArray into tmp
> if item 1 of tmp = 1 AND item 2 of tmp = the number of elements in tAr
> On Jul 13, 2018, at 1:26 AM, hh via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
>> Bob S. wrote:
>> Something in my scripts is sending a selectionChanged message in
>> time to a specific datagrid when it shouldn't. How do I determine
>> the sender of a send in time message?
>
> Simply use a a parameter:
>
>
> On Jun 26, 2018, at 1:13 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
> ...
> do "put " & quote & aStackConstants [tConstant] & quote & " into " &
> tConstant
Hi, Bob. If you wanted simpler code, that could be just
do "put aStackConstants[ tConstant ] into " & tConstant
— Dick
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> On Apr 26, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode
> mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>
> tPath can also be thought of as a (proper) list which makes a little more
> sense. Mark W would need to answer the why.
The following excerpts provide a quote from Mark W:
> On Mar
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