Re: fontLanguage()

From my simple tests, this seems to have been broken sometime after LC5.5.5, that’s the only version I have installed that doesn’t return ascii for every font installed on my Mac. I tested; LiveCode 5.5.5.app LiveCode 6.7.8.app LiveCode Commercial 6.7.11 (rc 2).app LiveCode Indy 7.1.1.app

Re: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

Tiemo, I’m not sure if this will help because I’m testing on Mac, but I did a little bit of experimenting with the new ‘rawClipboardData’, it allows plain text to be copied out of LC, just to prove it, here’s a button script copied via my now modified Script Buddy plugin… on mouseUp local

Re: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

est your approach, but when running the code in the DIE, LiveCode crashes > immediatly. When debugging the code, it doesn't crashes, but stops at setting > the rawclipboarddata with an error "clipboard is not locked". > This happens anyhow, if I am using "lock clipboard" or not. I'l

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.3 RC-1

Everything is working correctly for me with LC8.1.3 (rc-1) build 14015 on OSX Sierra 10.12.2. I don’t have too many plugins installed, but all the standard ones, my own and lcStackBrowser are all available and working as expected. Paul > On 20 Jan 2017, at 11:22, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode

Re: MacOS Sierra - Tab Bar showing in Stack and IDE windows?

Thank you James, I would never have thought Window Tab Prefs would be in Dock settings! I’ll give it a try. Paul Paul p...@livecode.org Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1 > On Feb 20, 2017, at 4:46 AM, James Hale via use-livecode > wrote: > > So perhaps your Dock

Re: Call a function on another card

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode > > wrote: > > put value("myFunction(hello, world)", group "myGroup" of card "myCard") into > tResult > > I want to use a variable as a parameter instead of

MacOS Sierra - Tab Bar showing in Stack and IDE windows?

I’ve just recently started seeing the MacOS Sierra Tab Bar showing up in the LC IDE and stack windows. I don’t know when it started happening, maybe the last OS update, but it’s now it’s starting to cause some problems. Very occasionally I would see the menu item ‘Show Tab Bar’ with the

Re: Dragging widgets

I would really love to see LC’s image handling improved, not just for SVG, although that would be a huge bonus, but for raster images too. I would happily put money into crowdfunding for this, provided the promises were kept of course. Anyway, this is probably not the answer you are looking

Re: save stack as filename failing most of the time

I tried, but it works fine for me every time in LC8.1.2 (Build 14013) (I no longer have RC3 installed), on MacOS Sierra 10.12.2. This is the test script I used: on mouseUp put"/Users/paulhibbert/Documents/001 Test Folder/paultest.xx.to.Compile.livecode" into tFileName replace "xx" with char

Re: iOS SDK Question

AFAIK the iOS SDK comes with the particular flavour of Xcode and you need to have the correct version of Xcode to match the version of LC on your choice of OS, if you go to Help > Release Notes the version you need is listed under the iOS Platform Support section, about page 4 I think, or

Re: iOS SDK Question

> On 23 Mar 2017, at 17:36, Glen Bojsza via use-livecode > wrote: > > Please let me know if I missed anything. It looks like you are on the right path. Hope it goes well. Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: DragDrop makes windows unresponsive OS X

Just tried a simple test on Mac OS Sierra / LC8.1.3 and it seems to work fine here. Is there anything else that could be interfering with the dragDrop? Maybe the Message Watcher could give a clue as to what is happening. Paul > On 24 Mar 2017, at 08:00, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

anathaswami > via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >Now, that's obscure > >I was in "In Full screen Only" > >I set to sys prefs → dock → tabs→ "Manually&quo

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

This came up a while ago, and Colin Holgate pointed out that it comes from a System Preference setting for the Dock (go figure!). Go to the Apple Menu, open System Preferences and choose the Dock icon. Look at the fifth item down the window and you’ll see: Prefer tabs when opening

Re: how to print only a part of a card?

Tiemo, There’s nothing wrong with your logic, this all works fine on a Mac, LC8.1.4 (rc1), but from an earlier post I gather you are on Win 10 so this looks like there's a bug in the works, maybe a Linux user could test also. Have you tried any other versions of LC? HTH Paul > On 12 Apr

Re: OS X Firewall triggering on launch

Just checked my Firewall settings and there’s no entry for LC, but I’m not seeing any trigger, I’ve used LC 9.0 (dp6) quite a few times since install and no problem so-far! Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4 Paul > On 10 Apr 2017, at 23:21, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >

Re: OT (?): Bookmarking GPS coords

Alex, I used this lesson [ http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/30379-how-do-i-get-the-location-and-use-the-digital-compass ] as the basis for a GPS location in one of my iOS apps, if it helps I could save the relevant card to a new stack and send you a copy, I’m pretty sure it would work on

Re: Bug in the inspector palette

I can confirm your findings, also affects LC8.1.4 (rc 1). Paul MacOS Sierra 10.12.4 > On 17 Apr 2017, at 02:08, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > wrote: > > I have come across what must be a bug in the IDE, in the inspector palette to > be precise. I have a

Re: align field scrolls

I have a stack that does a similar thing, but with numbers and I just use the following script in the main field; on scrollBarDrag pScroll set the vScroll of fld “lineNumbers" to pScroll end scrollBarDrag Provided both fields have the same number of lines and the text properties are

Re: spotting a mouseclick in the transparent area of an image

Ben, if you could edit the PNGs to add a 1% tone to the transparent areas (maybe with a batch process) this allows LC to accept the clicks within the image area. The advantage of this is you could have a 1 % tone inside the area you need be active and completely transparent where you don’t

Re: Browser widget on linux

Looking at Bugzilla, I’m hoping it will soon be time for the Browser widget to be given some attention, and not just on Linux, there seems to be over 30 active bugs. The bug I submitted over 10 months ago was for a crash on Mac OS (Bug 17928 ),

Re: Browser widget on linux

> On 13 Apr 2017, at 10:17, hh via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Pano, > thank you very much for coming in. > > Please correct the typo in the first link. > I got "16848 is not a valid bug number" and don't know > which report you mean. hh, maybe try again, it

Re: how to get the value of a custom property if the name of the cProperty is in a variable?

> > let´s say a card has a custom property name cMyProp. > > The variable tMyVar contains the word “cMyProp” > > How do i get the value of the custom property using the variable tMyVar? Using the “do” command, a quick test and this works OK: on mouseUp put "cMyProp"

Re: Ink pullDown menu

The fontNames is a built-in function, but there’s no built-in function for ink names AFAIK, however, that doesn’t stop you form creating a custom function, something like this should work for an option menu button (edit as appropriate): on mouseEnter if word 1 of the selectedObject = "image"

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-1

Configurable sounds like a great idea to me too. I’d like to see a more defined break from the regular handlers if that’s possible. Also there is a Typo - PasteKey in the Field script is missing the “P” - it just states asteKey, I wondered what that was! :) Paul > On Jul 11, 2017, at 8:01

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.5

I just saw the Link Arm error, but the dialogue also suggested updating the path to the Xcode tools, I did this with [ sudo xcode-select -r ] in terminal and all works correctly now. This is with Xcode 8.3 installed in the default Applications folder. I haven’t tried updating Xcode to 8.3.3

Re: Livecode on iPod

> On Jul 15, 2017, at 7:20 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > the SA builder does not show "iPod" under iOS. It does for me! :) I see three options; iPod, iPhone and iPad iPod and iPhone iPad Paul

Re: 8.1.4 Export snapshot

> Best, > Panos > -- > > > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:26 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On 6/28/17 7:45 pm, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode wrote: >> >>> This look

Re: Capturing screen into image

Terry, If your concern is that the area of the card doesn’t print exactly as you see it on screen, it looks to me like the printMargins are set at the default 72 all round. Try setting the printMargins to 0 set the printMargins to "0,0,0,0" Paul Paul p...@livecode.org Mac OS Sierra

Re: PrintPaperRectangle

i came to the same conclusion, thank you for reporting it. Paul > On Jul 4, 2017, at 9:08 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > wrote: > > By synchronicity, I start writing a very similar message a few days ago. > > I stopped writing the email when I'd typed

Re: 8.1.4 Export snapshot

This looks like it may be a bug on Mac OS, or just a difference in the way the OS works. I see the same problem using LC 8.1.5(rc1) on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4, but if I give the file a more complete path (which I would normally do), then it does work: export snapshot from group "abc" to file

Re: xCode ??? version

I’ve seen this warning in Xcode when connecting my iPhone 5s after updating it, but copying my LC app on to the phone still works and the app runs OK, just can’t use the simulator. Anyway, just try it, preferably without overwriting any currently working app, and it should be fine. Paul

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

On Jun 19, 2017, at 8:19 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: > > so, does it make sense to request a feature enhancement to add a preference > to *not* insert any handler in buttons/widgets, whose scripts are empty if > inadvertently opened?

Re: Scrollbars in 8.1.3

How are you trying to set the scrollbar to vertical? Setting or dragging the SB rect to the desired dimensions should automatically change it’s orientation as soon as it's width is less than it's heigh, is this not working? Paul > On May 6, 2017, at 6:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson via

Re: Scrollbars in 8.1.3

st set up a vertical scrollbar in an LC 7.1.4 stack, saved it and opened > it up in 8.1.3. > > Richmond. > > On 5/6/17 6:51 pm, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode wrote: >> How are you trying to set the scrollbar to vertical? >> >> Setting or dragging the SB rect t

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

On Aug 28, 2017, at 7:07 AM, Randy Hengst via use-livecode wrote: > > I would find it very handy if when the cantSelect is true, you could still > drag to select objects that are above the control with cantSelect true… > > In other words, the ability to select

Re: Does exporting a snapshot from a rect work on mobile?

I just ran a quick test and it works OK for me using LC8.1.6 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.6, build for iOS10 and tested on iPhone 5s running iOS10.3.3 HTH Paul > On Aug 30, 2017, at 7:00 PM, Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode > wrote: > > I am getting all black in the

Re: IDE breaks down over time

Re PB: > 1. there's no refresh button > 2. it doesn't auto-refresh > 3. it empties its contents at odd moments 4. it screws up it’s own view from time to time making it impossible to see which control is linked which group These are part of the reason I set about making a plugin to add some

Re: Q re multilingual mobile apps

According to the dictionary, you should be able to use mobileCurrentLocale(), but I don’t know what the specific results would be, as the dictionary example states “en_US” whereas the equivalent result shown in the settings on iOS is “English (U.S.)”, so some careful investigations may be

Re: submenu

In the Menu Builder, underneath the [Delete Item] button, there are two icons. The left one is to “Make the submenu item into a menu item” and the right one will “Make the selected menu item into a submenu item". On a side note, while checking this out and refreshing my memory of the menu

Re: submenu

u (A) and want to make Menu > (B) a submenu of menu (A), this icon you describe is disabled ! > > > Greetings. > >> Le 19 nov. 2017 à 18:51, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> a écrit : >> >> In the Menu Builder, undernea

Re: Black Friday mac app bundle

If you are just looking for Flux, this may be a better deal… https://bundlehunt.com Paul > On 21 Nov 2017, at 12:36, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > This looks like a very good deal. I'm springing for it even though I don't

Re: Image Offset in Frame

For a simple rectangular crop you can just group the image and set the group bounds to the desired frame area, make sure you lock the location of the group and image, but ultimately I think the best person to answer your question would be Scott Rossi, so I’ll hand over to him…

Re: MergPop error on iOS 11.2 & LC 8.1.8

Thank you for the quick response Monte, the fix works well! Paul > On 10 Dec 2017, at 13:36, Monte Goulding via use-livecode > wrote: > > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20759 > > >> On 11 Dec

Re: MergPop error on iOS 11.2 & LC 8.1.8

William, Just did a quick test and to make this work I had to go to Standalone Application Settings > General and choose “Select inclusions for the standalone application”, then under Standalone Application Settings > Inclusions scroll down and make sure “MergPop” is selected along with any

Re: MergPop error on iOS 11.2 & LC 8.1.8

ther apps installed. > > Greetings, > > William > >> Op 9 dec. 2017 om 03:26 heeft Paul Hibbert via use-livecode >> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> het volgende geschreven: >> >> William, >> >> Just did a quick test and to make this wo

Re: MergPop error on iOS 11.2 & LC 8.1.8

41:19 AM William de Smet via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Paul, >>> >>> Like I said MergPop works fine in my app except the fact that the app >>> quits after choosing 'Save Image' from the popover sheet. >>

Re: Livecode Share

I’ve had this problem in the past and I’m sure I used the password reset to fix it (within the LC share option), but I’m away from my Mac until late tomorrow, so I can’t test right now. I’ll check as soon as I get home. Paul > On May 2, 2018, at 11:13 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: native iOS button question

According to the MessageWatcher the iOS Native Button doesn’t receive a mouseUp/Down event, but the Android Native Button does, however, they both receive a rawKeyDown message if I scroll while the mouse pointer is over either button. That suggests something is wrong to me, I would expect them

Re: Problem pasting from Livecode to Mac Mail

This works for me with LC9.0.0(dp11) on MacOS High Sierra 10.13.2: lock the clipBoard put the clipboardData["text"] into tClip set the clipBoardData to empty -- OSX set the rawClipboardData["public.utf8-plain-text"] \ to textEncode(tClip, "UTF-8" ) unlock the clipBoard

Re: LC Toolbar

LiveCode isn’t the only app to leave windows visible, so I’ve become used to typing Cmd-Alt-H if I switch to another app or the finder and there’s something in the way that doesn’t belong to the app in front. Cmd-Alt-H is a system wide short-cut to “Hide Others”, so it should work in most

Re: "clear" a command?

Because “clear” is also a synonym of “delete”. :-) Paul > On Jan 26, 2018, at 3:41 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi friends, > > I just saw a code snippet in the german LC forum, > did not believe it would work, tested it and in fact it DID?

Re: gradient selectors

Both fill and stroke gradients work fine on Mac High Sierra, no delays that I can see and definitely no hang, so it may be a Linux related bug. Anybody tested Windows? Paul > On Jan 17, 2018, at 6:30 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > Before I log

Re: Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?

Just to add to the mix, I have been using a two monitor system for many years, I now have an iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017) connected to an Eizo ColorEdge CG 241W, the iMac is 4096 x 2304 and the Eizo is 1920 x 1200, both driven by the same Radeon Pro 560 4 GB card. Both monitors are set to

Re: What Env Variable set when saving standalone?

A couple more ideas: in the Stack script… on savingStandalone processLogin "false" pass savingStandalone end savingStandalone command processLogin pLogin if pLogin = "false" then exit processLogin modal stack "Login" end processLogin I tested this, but I’m not 100% sure it would be

Re: Problem pasting from Livecode to Mac Mail

I use a small utility called PopClip, I wouldn’t be without it (although it does have some issues with LC on occasions), but it does allow you to choose to paste plain text if you wish along with lots of other useful copy/paste options. Saves me from some frustration. It’s available on the App

Re: how to format text for copy-pasting as a spreadsheet table

Nicolas, please don’t give up just yet, I don’t think this is too difficult. I’ve posted a sample in the user forum [ http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=30584 ] that I think may work for what you describe. The example I tried uses

Re: how to format text for copy-pasting as a spreadsheet table

Could you give a little more info… Do you want to import from Pages into LiveCode or import from LiveCode into Pages? Paul Paul p...@livecode.org Mac OS Sierra 10.12.1 > On Feb 13, 2018, at 3:14 AM, Jean-Jacques Wagner via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hallo, >

Re: how to format text for copy-pasting as a spreadsheet table

The best place to start is by analysing the clipBoard data, in this case, copy a small table from Pages and then look at the fullClipBoardData[“html”] in LiveCode to see how the table is represented as html. You can then use this as a model to build a table in html and place it on the

Re: LiveCode Widget Factory

Not sure this is feasible yet, I’m still in the early research stage, but I’ve just seen a point where one of the iOS apps that I built for my own personal use could be made much more useful if it could communicate with Apple Watch, it’s basically for quickly and easily recording times of

Re: Simulator woes

Devin, I did just see the same error when launching the simulator for the first time (this session), but then I restarted the simulator device and all worked as expected, but it was a long laborious process displaying multiple messages. One trick I’ve used in the past still worked OK. When the

Re: Print to PDF

Richmond, I tried using macOS High Siera version 10.13.2 (17C88) and your script writes a PDF in LC7.1.4 & LC8.2.0 (dp2), but in LC9.0.0 (dp11) it prints the card to my default printer, so it seems the ’to PDF’ part is being ignored. Maybe time for a Bug Report. :) Paul > On Jan 3, 2018, at

Re: Has Anyone Got A Directory "Walker" Available

> On 19 Apr 2018, at 11:20, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > > wrote: > > Never mind… > > I found this in a toolbox. Sent by some ago, by a LiveCode deva That looks very much like the code supplied under the

Re: Typesetting Fields

Another useful reference that may help… http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/StyledText Paul > On Apr 24, 2018, at 12:29 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > > What I would do is set some text in a

Re: Typesetting Fields

> Where does livecode.wikia.comcome from? I believe it was started by MaxV2, I think he hangs around in the forums mainly under the handle MaxV. He’s done a great job with the Wikia. Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Blurring field contents

That tutorial is a bit outdated now that there is a “blur” command, introduced in LC 8.0, it’s quicker and easier to use. Paul > On Mar 29, 2018, at 8:35 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode > wrote: > > I want to give users options for capturing anonymised

Re: Stupid Question re LC9

In the messageBox try: set the rect of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to "100,100,800,600" then: set the loc button "Resizer" of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to (the width of card 1 of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1"/2),(the height of card 1 of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" - 100) Beware of email

Re: Open a Plugin via Script

If this is just for your own Dev use then the installed plugins should be in 2 locations, on Mac inside the App bundle; e.g. /Applications/LiveCode Indy 9.0.1.app/Contents/Tools/Plugins I’d guess a similar location in Widows inside the App folder. The user installed plugins should be in the "My

Re: tabbed windows in Mac - as setProp

The menu item “View > Show Tab Bar” does show up occasionally, there does seem to be a trick to getting it to show up if it’s not there right now. I find that switching apps will sometimes return the menu item occasionally, but I seem to be able to force it to show up by switching to an app

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.2 RC-1

Thank you for testing and letting us know, I was just about to upgrade my Xcode too, so you saved me wasting another 5GB download, I really appreciate that, as it saves my limited monthly bandwidth. I’ll go get Xcode 10.0 now. :) Paul > On Nov 9, 2018, at 11:42, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via

Re: where can I learn about macOS app Help menu Search menu item?

AFAIK the “Search” feature in the Help menu is mainly for searching Menu items, try it while you are in Mail and search for “Accounts”, then each menu item that contains “Accounts” will appear at the top of the list with more generic Apple “Accounts” related subjects below. As you mouse over

Re: Refactoring is your friend / moving from 6.x to 9.x

Malte, I think the info you were probably looking for is buried within the dictionary entry for the “lockScreen” Property, maybe this should be referenced a little better in the dictionary entries for “lock screen” and “unlock screen”, see below: LiveCode keeps count of how many times the

Re: Position the Label/Name of a Button

> On Dec 4, 2018, at 13:36, Richmond via use-livecode > mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: > > especially as that can easily be faked by using an image as a button. But if you do need text for any reason, you can fudge it by putting returns before the text label to move it down,

Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness

Interesting! - it does appear to work, but that combination is not in the dictionary under “topLeft” as far as I can see, and “topLeft” is missing from the list of properties shown under the “effective” description. Paul > On Jan 10, 2019, at 17:03, Brian Milby via use-livecode > wrote: > >

Re: Confirm Bug in Button - iconGravity and margins

Not seeing this behaviour here on Mac. Paul macOS Mojave 10.14.4 > On Apr 3, 2019, at 19:56, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > Can anyone confirm? > > 9.0.4 RC2 > > set the iconGravity of Button "openGlobalNav" to bottom > > > set the iconGravity of Button

Re: Seeking confirmation of a bug...

On May 16, 2019, at 07:32, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: > ... >> From the dictionary about "anser file ... with type..." >> ... >> If more than one type is specified, a drop-down list containing the tags >> will be displayed allowing the user to select which types of files to >>

Re: $1,000 Bounty For LiveCode Bug 20240

> On 19 Jun 2019, at 01:26, Simon Knight via use-livecode > wrote: > > 3. Go to edit menu and click 'undo' : the dragged text is deleted - ouch! I’ve seen this too, but then soon realised that clicking ‘undo’ a second time did restore the text in its original position. Seems the ‘Drag’

Re: launch & quit

I’ve used quit before on Mac with no problems, so I tried a few tests and it still seems to work fine for me (even with your mismatch variable tError/tErrormEssage). I tried both with and without generating a deliberate error and it quit straight away, so I’d guess there may be something else

Re: Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

Have you looked at the Launch command? launch [documentPath with] applicationPath Documentation: Description Use the launch command to start an application for the user to use. When the launch command executes, the application being launched comes to the foreground. When the user quits,

Re: What is a real?

I was too, but then noticed that it’s a type of a value, look up the Description of the “is strictly” operator in the LC Dictionary and it explains there. Paul > On Apr 25, 2020, at 10:44, dunbarx--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > I am a little confused. I do not sea "real" as a valid LC

Re: Small and strange problem

Good point Ben, looks like that was my mistake. I don’t remember where I learned to use "if tError then”, but what I forgot was that it should have been testing for a false condition, so “if not tError then” does show the error when one occurs and skips when no error occurs. Fixing this

Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

I’ve no idea if this could help or even if this may cause worse problems with a DG, so just a thought, but have you tested with Lock Screen, Lock Messages and/or Lock Updates while the repeat is processing? Failing that, I would try disabling each command in turn to find out if just one of

Re: Small and strange problem

No replies so far, so I had a few minutes spare and tried to recreate this problem, but couldn’t. No matter what I put into tMins first, even an empty variable still returned 0, so my suggestion would be to wrap the script in a try - catch to see what’s going on with the left operand (tMins)

Re: Small and strange problem

is acknowledged - as I said in my submission, I’m not claiming my > coding is correct, I’m just trying to show that the IDE doesn’t behave > consistently in this instance. > > Graham > >> On 11 May 2020, at 23:18, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode >> wrote: >>

Re: Is it possible to get the clicked cell for a table field, if the table is empty?

Mike Bonner posted this back on the 14th February 2020… Found an interesting behavior.. I was trying to set up a custom control that keeps track of the current row and column and put the script in the group, but rawkeyup or rawkeydown messages never reach the group. I'm wondering if its because

Re: Basic question about behaviors

Bill, try this in the behaviour button script: on mouseUp put the long name of this me into theName —theName will contain the long name of the behaviour button. end mouseUp put this me into theName - would put the value contained in the text property of the behaviour button into theName. In

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

> On 21Sep, 2020, at 10:55, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > ?? where does the font size becomes "34" . Even with the font size of field > increases, it stays at size="34”?? I would say from the h1 attribute that sets the text as a heading, h1 being the largest size.

Re: Has anyone published an iPhone app that works on iOS 14?

I’ve just recently upgraded my iPhone and so ended up using iOS14, initially some apps that I had previously installed on my older iPhone would’t install on the new phone, most of them are quite old, so I rebuilt them using LC9.6.0 and Xcode 11.4. The first time I launched them they all worked

Re: Special Paste

Hi Charles, Your examples are about pasting; > Both Apple's Pages and Microsoft’s Word software have key commands for > pasting text into an existing document to match the current formatting (font). But, your question is about copying; > How do you script to accomplish this when copying text

Re: HTML Colour Groups

Hi Terence, I’m not sure where these originate from, although I suspect they are from an earlier HTML version than is displayed on w3schools. After a quick comparison, the missing colours appear to be; Aqua Crimson Fuchsia Indigo Lime Olive RebeccaPurple Silver Teal It probably wouldn’t be

Re: Moving object out of a group

Hi Sean, Try collapsing the groups in the PB, then dragging the Graphic Object in between them. I find that if the groups are displayed expanded, then the dragged object will end up in the group above where it is dropped, but with the groups collapsed you should be able to drop the objects in

Re: Mobile Keyboard

Try setting the traversalOn to false rather than using lockText, I seem to remember that worked for the last iOS app that I made (quite a while ago now), I’m sure it has been discussed here, probably several years ago, so I’m amazes that I remembered it. :-) I tested the script below in the

Re: Quick question: player object callbacks still working?

Just done a quick test and it’s working fine for me with LC9.6.0 on macOS Mojave 10.14.6. Paul > On Jun 27, 2020, at 13:41, David Bovill via use-livecode > wrote: > > I’ve been testing an idea for an app - and I can’t get the callbacks property > sending of messages. Does it still work with

Re: Searching this mailing list

This may help: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html Paul > On 14Dec, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Linda Miller via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is there a way to search through the

Re: disabling a group

I have just used setProp in a behaviour button that was assigned to several groups made up of two graphic controls to represent a toggle switch. By setting one custom property the whole appearance of the group can easily be changed. I predefined the colours for each state in more custom

Re: bordercolor of buttons

Like Sean points out, this is caused by the “threeD” property being on. I don’t think it’s a bug, it’s just the nature of the beast, I seem to remember that the threeD effect is generated by pre-made graphics or images, although I may be totally wrong. It would be useful if this kind of info

Re: 9.6.0 simulator issue

The process I use: One time process for each Xcode version/update: Launch Xcode > Open the Simulator(s) that I want to use. Add the Simulator app(s) to the dock — Right Click on the Simulator Icon in the Dock while it’s open and choose “Keep in dock”. Quit Xcode. From then on, whenever I’m

Re: how do I get geoLocation on a Mac?

I’m no Javascript expert, so I can’t answer the question about the error, but my best guess is that code needs to be run within a browser. However, considering that you need to be connected to the internet to access your geolocation on desktop, if you sign up for a free API with

Re: LC, Mac Mail & Rules

I know this is moving away from LC, but you can use a simple AppleScript to to do this, then trigger the AppleScript from Mail rules, or run as a standalone app, or you could trigger the AppleScript from LC if that’s what you need. I’m no AppleScript expert, I just did a bit of searching and

Re: Which Monitor to Open LC In

6.1 in OS 11.2 What is your > config? > > Thanks Paul! > > Roger > >> On Feb 22, 2021, at 8:48 PM, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Right-click (ctrl-click) on the LC icon in the dock and choose “Options” >> then select “Assign to Desktop

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