Re: copyKey

The point of any pass-handler is to pass the message to the next level in the message hierarchy. If you pass a message and the engine has a generic routine to handle this message, you may end up with unexpected behavior in your application. There is no need to pass any message unless you

Re: Yertle the Turtle

> 30. jan. 2017 kl. 21.20 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > 2.2. I wonder how my turtle will be seen to draw a pen line from the two ends > of the "line". If you would like the “turtle” to move to the points of the line then, lock screen, draw

Re: side effect on mac with LC

What you can do is the following: When the user pushes down you register the horisontal position of the pointer and store this position for later use. This can be stored in a variabel or a custom property like this: global gStartH on mouseDown put the mouseH into gStartH end mouseDown

Bug in the inspector palette

I have come across what must be a bug in the IDE, in the inspector palette to be precise. I have a script where I set some text properties of the templateField on the fly, like font, size and color. These settings also affect the objects of the “Basic" pane in the inspector, changing the

Re: Dragging widgets

> 1. mar. 2017 kl. 20.40 skrev Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > : > > I just downloaded HYPE from Tumult: this is where some serious competition is > coming from. If animated content is what you want to build, then, yes. But it is nowhere near the

Re: Background behavior use

You must make a group out of the element you would like to appear on all cards, then set the group to behave like a background. You can turn a single object into a group. Regards Tore Nilsen > 13. aug. 2017 kl. 06:57 skrev William Prothero via use-livecode > :

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-1

I have played a bit with the enhanced script editor and while I like the idea with the handler lists I am not sure that the implementation is as good as it could be. I find it a bit confusing to see a list of handlers in the handler list without any actual handlers in the script itself. From

Re: Goofy question #7234

Here is what I teach my students: Use the function to return a value to the calling handler, set the properties in the handler, not in the function itself, like this: on mouseUp set backgroundColor of this card to goRed() end mouseUp function goRed return “red” end goRed The benefit of

Re: High Sierra & LC

9.0 db 8 and 8.14 and 8.15 opens fine in 64 bit mode, trying to set any color via the color palette crashes any of these versions of LC. Tore > 14. jul. 2017 kl. 20:56 skrev Colin Holgate via use-livecode > : > > 7.1.4 is intermittent, sometimes it opens fine.

Re: High Sierra & LC

At this stage in the development of High Sierra I guess it is hard to tell whether or not difficulties in using LC or apps created with LC is caused by bugs in the OS or incompatibilities in LC. I think their policy is to address any incompatibilities in LC once the OS is out of beta. Tore >

Re: High Sierra & LC

I can not start any version of LC in beta 3 of High Sierra. In beta 1 and 2 LC hung when I tried to access the color palette. Regards Tore Nilsen > 14. jul. 2017 kl. 20:46 skrev Marty Knapp via use-livecode > : > > I just downloaded the latest Mac OS beta - High

Restrict navigation in browser widget

I am currently preparing the coursework for next years classes in programming. Working with the browser widget, I am trying to restrict navigation in a a widget to a specific domain, but have run into a problem I can not get my head around. I use the browserNavigateBegin message to capture the

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-1

Just to make my points a bit clearer, here is a list of what enhancements to the handler list I think will be helpful: 1. Put the list in a menu/scrolling list field above the current list showing actual handlers in the script 2. Label this menu/list clearly as “Common handlers” to make sure

Re: Table Fields "and all"

> 29. jun. 2017 kl. 21:29 skrev Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > : > > hh wrote: > >> RG wrote: > >> The human mind can generally hold between three and seven things in > >> conscious memory at any given time. > > > > How did you measure that? > > Good

Re: Exporting coloured text to HTML and RTF from 8.1.4

How are you trying to export the text? Works alright here with Indy 8.1.4 and MacOS 10.13. Sample script that works for me: on mouseUp ask file "Give your file a name:” put "file:" & it into tURL if char - 1 to -4 of tURL <> ".rtf" then put ".rtf" after tURL end if put

Re: Exporting coloured text to HTML and RTF from 8.1.4

Your script works with both “file" and “binfile” here. Regards Tore > 2. jul. 2017 kl. 18:38 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > No, but I will. > > Richmond. > > On 7/2/17 7:07 pm, hh via use-livecode wrote: >> Did you already try ...

Re: Exporting coloured text to HTML and RTF from 8.1.4

esult= "cancel" > > thenexitmouseUp > > else > > puttheRTFtextoffld "fRESULT" intourl("file:" & it & ".rtf") > > getthelongFilePathofit > > settheitemDelimitertoslash > > setthedefaultFoldertoitem 1 to-2 ofthelongFil

Re: FOR YOU: OSX-style push reorder of objects

To make this even simpler, since you already have a button containing the script, button “masterscript”, you can just set the behavior of the other controls to the button “masterscript”. You do not need to copy the script to each button or control. You can do this in the advanced pane of the

Re: Leslie Nielsen

useUp call: on mouseUp pButton pAltKey if pAltKey then answer "Alt key was down" else answer "Alt key was up" end if end mouseUp Regards Tore > 8. aug. 2017 kl. 20:23 skrev J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > >

Re: Recursive folder creation

+1 Tore > 7. aug. 2017 kl. 19:57 skrev Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > >: > > 2) Does it make sense to ask for an enhancement request for the engine to > recursively create folders for a path where itemdel "/"

Re: Recursive folder creation

Since we do not need to check whether a folder exists or not before creating it as LiveCode will not create duplicate folders, here is a script that will create nested folders: on mouseUp put specialFolderPath("desktop")& "/testFolder/testOne/test/result" into tFolder set the itemDel to

Re: Leslie Nielsen

Try this: dispatch mouseUp to button "BASH" with true Regards Tore > 8. aug. 2017 kl. 17:54 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > That's marvellous . . . > > as far as it goes: > > click at the loc of btn "BASH" with altKey > > The only "snag" is

Re: Leslie Nielsen

And change the script in the BASH button to something like this: on mouseUp pAltKey if pAltKey then answer "Alt key was down" else answer "Alt key was up" end if end mouseUp > 8. aug. 2017 kl. 17:54 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode >

Re: Sorting out the sheep from the goats

I do not think that vowels are automatically detected, so you need to put the chars representing vowel sounds into a variabel tVowels . Run a repeat for each char tChar of the string and check if tChar is in tVowels, like this (using Norwegian vowels as an example) put “aeioyæøå” into tVowels

Re: Recursive folder creation

You can only create one folder at a time. You can not create nested folders in one go. So you need to do like this put tDF & "/media/audio/nature/2017/" into tFolder create folder tFolder put “birds” after tFolder create folder tFolder Regards Tore > > 7. aug. 2017 kl. 19:57 skrev Sannyasin

Re: ANN: new team member

They come with just the OS, no supporting software is provided. Congratulations to Ali. Hopefully he will find that improving on LiveCode is a good way to make sleepless nights go so much faster. Regards Tore N > 11. mai 2017 kl. 19.08 skrev Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: synonyms

> 26. jun. 2017 kl. 19:59 skrev Mark Wieder via use-livecode > : > > Limiting the language limits the ways in which a problem may be thought of - > that's the basis of the linguistic relativism, and it applies to programming > languages as well as to natural

Re: English Like?

I have on several occasions propagated this list to my computer science students. Now I wonder whether it had not been just as appropriate to tell my English students that they would benefit from joining this list. Tore Nilsen > 25. mai 2017 kl. 23.35 skrev Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode >

Re: Rotating widgets

You would probably be better off using a transparent png-image that is square for the clock hand, and where the rotation point of the clock hand was at the center of the square. You could then put the clock hand on top of the clock face and rotate the hand at will. My students hand the same

Re: Rotating widgets

That is why I suggest using a png-file, where all but the hand is transparent. Setting the resizeQuality to best should give a good result without reducing the speed of any animation you do. Tore > 14. okt. 2017 kl. 21:06 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode >

Re: In GRAB control

Try on mouseMove instead of on grab: on mouseMove if the mouse is down — to make sure you are holding on to something your code goes here end if end mouseMove Tore > 15. okt. 2017 kl. 19:07 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > If you try that "code

Re: MacOS 10.13 crashes LC after color dialog

It has been like this since the second developer beta of MacOS 10.13. In the very first developer beta of MacOS 10.13, LC would crash before it managed to open the color picker. Tore Nilsen > 29. sep. 2017 kl. 07:22 skrev Roger Guay via use-livecode > : > >

Size restrictions when cloning or create a control in script

One of my students have come across what may be a bug. When trying to clone a control where width/height is less than 9, LiveCode reverts to default sizes set in the preferences for that particular control. The same happen if you try to create a new control by setting the with/height of the

Re: Size restrictions when cloning or create a control in script

ivecode/livecode-ide/pull/1501 > > You can modify the file > "/Contents/Toolset/libraries/revbackscriptlibrary.livecodescript" locally > in LC 8.x if you want to back port this change. > > Best, > Panos > -- > > On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 2:32 PM, Tore Nilsen via

Re: mouseUp in a field

textLock of the field has to be set to true in order to get the field recognize a mouseUp. Tore > 3. sep. 2017 kl. 19:43 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > I am able to run a *mouseDown* script when I click on a field, > but seem unable to run a

Re: mouseWithin and mouseLeave problem

But Alejandros script also works when you have scrolled up or down and release the mouse outside of the scrollbar without moving the cursor into the field area first. . Otherwise width of the scrollbar would have stayed at 30 until next time the field received a mouseLeave message > 15. nov.

Changing playLoudness has no effect on audioClips

According to the dictionary, changing the playLoudness would effect both player controls and audioClips. The following script seems to indicate that the playLoudness is in fact set, but the there are no change in sound volume, even though playLoudness seems to be reduced as expected. Is this a

Re: The coming of SVG

Please consider it very carefully! Do not proceed until you have found a proper replacement. Tore > 5. nov. 2017 kl. 20:24 skrev J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > : > > It did occur to me that if I kill Mark my career will be cut short. I have to > think

Re: Mac color chooser swatches do not work?

Seems as if you are right, I cannot use the swatches either in LC 8.2 (dp2) with MacOS 10.13 beta (17A360a). Using the eyedropper tool to pick the colour from the swatches works here. Tore > 5. des. 2017 kl. 22:55 skrev Klaus major-k via use-livecode > : > > Hi

Re: sorting with number late in name

Ascending is implied when you sort numeric. If you want to sort it the other way round use: sort lines of fld 1 numeric descending by item 2 of each Tore > 7. des. 2017 kl. 00:47 skrev Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode > : > > Yes, that did it. I had the item del,

Re: sorting with number late in name

You could always try to set the itemDelimiter to _ and then sort the lines numeric by last item of each. Tore Nilsen > 7. des. 2017 kl. 00:29 skrev Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode > : > > Now that I've hit ten numbered items, I'm having an issue with > maintenance

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

You could also try: on returnInField focus on nothing end returnInField in the field script. That seems to do the trick on desktop at least, whereas on returnKey does not when it is placed in the field script. Tore Nilsen > 10. mai 2018 kl. 23:44 skrev J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >

Re: NavBar widget in LC9.0.0

I did the same test on MacOS 10.13 and LC 9.0.0. Everything works as expected here. Best, Tore Nilsen > 24. mai 2018 kl. 07:47 skrev Brian Milby via use-livecode > : > > I ran the test on Linux and Win10 with the same result. The icon highlight > moved along as

Problems with jsonToArray and special chars like: æøå

I have run into a problem with jsonToArray and the special Norwegian chars æøå. They do not show up in the keys of the array when the array is made from an external file. The external file is generated by LiveCode and the arrayToJSON function. All text are encoded to “UTF-8” before the array is

Re: Problems with jsonToArray and special chars like: æøå

Hi Panos. This does not work, and it is somewhat similar to what I tried initially, although I am certain I should use textDecode when importing text to LiveCode, as per the Dictionary. Also note that tFile only holds the url to the file containing the JSON, and your suggestion only encodes

Re: Listfield Questions

A selectionChanged handler in the list field will take care of that. Tore > 16. jun. 2018 kl. 06:31 skrev Charles Szasz via use-livecode > : > > Thanks Richard for your help. Unfortunately, using keyboard arrow keys may > hilite a line but it does not put a value associated with the line into

Re: Stripping styling from the clipboard...

>From the dictionary: The LiveCode development environment traps the pasteKey message <>, unless "Suspend LiveCode UI" is turned on in the Development menu. This means that the pasteKeymessage <> is not received by a stack <> if it's running in the development environment <>. So if you are

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

The variabel scope can be a bit tricky. The difference between a script local variabel (declared as a local variabel outside any handlers) and a global variabel can be confusing. They act very much the same way when used within one script. The main difference being that a global variabel can be

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

If route66 is declared as a local variabel in the card script (and it must be declared outside any handlers), then all other scripts that uses this variabel must reside in the card script as well. If it is declared as a global variabel, it must be declared in all scripts that uses this

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

Try this: local sFolderPath on preOpenStack put specialFolderPath("resources")&"/myCrap/rez/" into sFolderPath end preOpenStack specialFolderPath(“resources”) will point to the folder containing the stack when you are in the IDE, and to the resources folder of your compiled application

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

pr. 2018 kl. 19:51 skrev Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > In theory that should work . . . > > But what happens is that I end with a grey square rather than the actual > picture. > > Richmond. > > On 28/4/2018 8:42

Re: Down a leafy lane or up queer street?

gt; ("p11") > > having had > > setthefileNameofimg "p11" tosFolderPath & "c11.png" > > in the openCard script > > I see that its source is listed as sFolderPathc11.png > > Richmond. > > > On 28/4/2018 8:55 pm, Tore Nilse

Re: Dissolve/Transitions Very Costly

It may also help to lock the screen for visual effect within a given rectangle, thereby reducing the number of pixels that need to be updated. If the images are of equal dimensions and with the same loc, you can refer to the rect of one of them, otherwise you can have an invisible graphic as

Re: Play WAV audio clips in iOS

When you import an audio file into the stack as a control you need to use: play audioClip "the name of your imported sound”, as the imported file becomes an audio clip. The dictionary is somewhat confusing when it comes to support for audio clips om mobile platforms. If you look at audioClip

Re: How do I delete cloned images with the same name all at once?

deleteImage > 18. jan. 2018 kl. 17:32 skrev Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > > on deleteImage > put the number of images of this card into tImages > repeat with x = sImages down to 1 > if last char of the short name of image

Re: How do I delete cloned images with the same name all at once?

You do need to count down to 1, otherwise the counter x will become greater than the number of images you have on the card, halfway through the repeat loop. There is also no need to get the ID (neither the long or short ID) as you can simply refer to the image by its number (the counter x). The

Re: How do I delete cloned images with the same name all at once?

The property “name” refers to more than “ticket”, it also includes the description of the control, in your case the name will be “image ticket”. You also will need to count down from the number of images in order to delete all of them, otherwise you will run into a situation where x is higher

Re: Delete imported audioclips?

Right click or control click the file i project browser and use clear from the menu. You may have to reload the PB to see that the clip is deleted. Best regards Tore Nilsen Sendt fra min iPhone > 6. feb. 2018 kl. 23:08 skrev Klaus major-k via use-livecode > : >

The results are in.

The academic year has come to an end in Norway, and the results from various exams have just been released. I am happy to say that my Computer Science students have ended this year on a high note, with 55% of them scoring an A or A+ for their final exams. All students participating in the

Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

I have not encountered any differences in how variables are declared from LC 7 to LC 8 or LC 9. It works fine here both in LC 8.1.8 and in LC 9.0.1 (RC) with MacOS 10.14 Beta Best regards Tore Nilsen --- This mail contains no viruses or bacteria as it is electronically produced and

Re: How to get LiveCode to return 'Today' & 'Now'?

Use any form of the date (short, long,international,system) for today, an any form of the time (short, long,international,system) for the time. To see the difference between them look them up in the dictionary. Regards Tore Nilsen --- This mail contains no viruses or bacteria as it is

Re: Database data & emoji's

You should look up textEncode and textDecode in the dictionary. I think they may prove useful. Best regards Tore Nilsen --- This mail contains no viruses or bacteria as it is electronically produced and untouched by human hands. Once printed it may or may not contain various

Re: Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

Microsoft Word seems to behave the way you suggest, in the sense that if any given text style is present among the words in the selection then it is removed. Pages behaves differently. If a given text style is true for some of the words in the selection, Pages will initially keep this style for

Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

I am struggling with a problem related to the selection of parts of a text in a field. I would like to know which words are selected, that is, I would like to know the range of words selected. None of the functions available in LiveCode will do this. If I use selectedChunkI will get the range

Re: Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

I got a bit confused there. Pages behaves as you say, Microsoft Word would turn off bold on the initial push of the button, then adding bold to the styles the next time. This is why I thought I needed to find the style of each word in a group of words when the the textStyles is mixed. And I

Re: Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

Beats "looping around» all the text any day! I think I can use this with my students in a couple of months time. For now, I think I have to stick to the more basic tasks of just altering fonts, text size, text color and text styles for single word selections. Best Regards Tore Nilsen >

Re: Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

We certainly are. I can already think of several sarcastic phrases to use, should the situation call for it! :) And since my students all know me well enough from earlier years, they will expect as much. Tore > 31. aug. 2018 kl. 22:13 skrev Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > : > > P.S.

Re: Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

018 kl. 22:00 skrev Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > : > > On 2018-08-31 20:51, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: >> I got a bit confused there. Pages behaves as you say, Microsoft Word >> would turn off bold on the initial push of the button, then adding >> bo

Re: Missing function selectedWords/selectedTrueWords

The array form may well be what I need. I do think I still will have to wait some time before I introduce it to my students. Best regards Tore > 31. aug. 2018 kl. 21:39 skrev Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > : > > The key thing here is that using the array form of textStyle treats each >

Re: This is disturbing!

use-livecode > : > > If I put anything else in place of the dot, I get a fail, but with the dot, > i get true > > On Thu, Sep 6, 2018 at 11:55 AM Tore Nilsen via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> It seems to only compare the

Re: This is disturbing!

It seems to only compare the integer part of the statements. If you substitute the integer with a letter, then it reports false. But still strange as the quotation marks should indicates that this is a string. Best regards Tore Nilsen --- This mail contains no viruses or bacteria as it is

Re: This is disturbing!

and untouched by human hands. Once printed it may or may not contain various microorganisms that can cause diseases. Print and hand out at own risk. Unsolicited distribution of this mail is prohibited. > 06. sep. 2018 kl. 18:02 skrev Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > : > > I think thi

Re: doMenu

c "zzz" > set the points of grc "zzz" to fld "PTZ" > end mouseUp > > Richmond. > > On 10/7/2018 12:07 pm, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: >>> 10. jul. 2018 kl. 10:43 skrev Richmond via use-livecode >>> : >>> >

Re: doMenu

> 10. jul. 2018 kl. 10:43 skrev Richmond via use-livecode > : > > Is it possible to send a *doMenu* command to a menu item several levels down? > > Such as *Object/New Control/Radio Button* ? > > Richmond. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list >

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

> 10. jul. 2018 kl. 00:41 skrev Mark Wieder via use-livecode > : > > Well, sure... at a higher latitude the electrons don't have as far to go. That must be why I can report even better times (approx 1:30) than Phil Davis. I am at sea level, but on the west coast of Norway, so not very far

Audio recording fails when trying to record video

I am currently trying to help one of my students with setting up a camera control to record video. We have been able to set up a camera control to record video, but no sound is recorded. According to the dictionary an audioDevice ID should be set in order to record sound as well as video. Using

Re: Blurring field contents

Why not just hide the fields in question before exporting the snapshots and then showing them after the export is done? This way you do not have to work with the exported image. Regards Tore Nilsen > 29. mar. 2018 kl. 17:35 skrev David V Glasgow via use-livecode >

Re: Stacks whose names start with "rev"

> 27. sep. 2018 kl. 21:08 skrev J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > : > > Some of my client's stacks must begin with names starting with "rev" (i.e., > Bible study, "Revelations".) Why does the stack itself need to be called «Revelations»? Could it be a word around just to set the title of

Re: Interrupting "Wait"

Depending on the action the user might take, have you tried: wait until the mouse is down Best regards Tore Nilsen > 31. des. 2018 kl. 14:39 skrev Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > : > > If you issue a > > Wait for 3 seconds with messages > > And, after 1 second, the users

Re: LC 9.02 Problems when displaying local PDF in stack

I had the same problem as you, and I used the Adobe Unistaller Program to remove all traces of Adobe Acrobat. This worked for me. You could try to reinstall Acrobat and then use the Uninstaller to remove it again. This has done the trick for me at times when I simply cannot find the file(s)

Re: LC 9.02 Problems when displaying local PDF in stack

Try to remove the Adobe Acrobat (Reader) Plug-in from the Internet Plug-ins folder in the Library folder. Restart the application and see if that helps. Alternatively you could try to uninstall Acrobat altogether. Best regards Tore Nilsen > 05. jan. 2019 kl. 23:01 skrev Simon Knight via

Re: Seeking OSX Code signing consultant...

> 11. des. 2018 kl. 23:28 skrev Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > : > > I think if you double click it and get the unsafe app dialog, you can open > Security & Privacy, and there should be a button to approve the most recent > "unsafe" app. Not in High Sierra or Mojave. The only options are

Re: Seeking OSX Code signing consultant...

You can easily run an unsigned app on High Sierra or Mojave. But you can not start the application by double clicking it the first time you run it. You need to open it from a contextual menu (right click or ctrl click) and then choose «Open» in the resulting dialog window. Afterwards you can

Re: Seeking OSX Code signing consultant...

You are right, there was this third option prior to High Sierra. I agree that if you distribute an application as a professional developer, you need to code sign it. Tore Nilsen > 11. des. 2018 kl. 23:26 skrev Knapp Martin via use-livecode > : > > I think on Sierra and older there was a

Re: Seeking OSX Code signing consultant...

> 11. des. 2018 kl. 23:40 skrev Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > : > > I'm on High Sierra, and that is how it works for me. > > Bob S I am on Mojave now, so I may remember wrongly about High Sierra, but the contextual menu method works on both of them anyhow. Tore

Re: get offset of current selection

The selectedChunk is probably what you are looking for. Regards Tore Nilsen > 14. des. 2018 kl. 15:28 skrev Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode > : > > I am stuck on something that should be simple. User has selected a text, > say a word in a field. How do I get the offset of the start and

Live Code crashes on startup

One of my students has a problem with LiveCode crashing on startup. He uses a machine running Windows, and I suspect there might be a corrupt preference file involved, as LiveCode dies right after it has loaded the preferences. Since I have no experience in using LiveCode on Windows, I have not

Re: Live Code crashes on startup

veCode versions < 7 >> >> I suggest: >> >> 1. Quit LiveCode >> 2. Delete/rename both of these files. These files will be created/updated >> every time you start/quit LiveCode. >> 3. Launch LiveCode >> >> Hopefully the problem should be fixed now.

Browser widget and PDFs

I have come across a puzzling phenomenon in how the browser widget handles pdfs. On my iMac I do no have Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat installed. Here, the browser widget displays pdf-files without any hiccups. On my MacBook I have Adobe Acrobat installed, and the browser widget seems to use

Re: Browser widget and PDFs

on your Mac? > > Thanks, > Brian > On Nov 22, 2018, 11:53 AM -0500, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > , wrote: >> I have come across a puzzling phenomenon in how the browser widget handles >> pdfs. On my iMac I do no have Adobe Reader or Adobe Acrobat installed. Here, &

Re: Browser widget and PDFs

the pdf-files displayed without all the bells and whistles provided by the plugin. Best regards Tore Nilsen > 22. nov. 2018 kl. 18:06 skrev Klaus major-k via use-livecode > : > > Hi Tore, > >> Am 22.11.2018 um 18:01 schrieb Tore Nilsen via use-livecode >

Re: Bug in how LC handles sentences

e ends with anything but full stop. A sentence may well start with a number! Best regards Tore Nilsen > 17. nov. 2018 kl. 00:22 skrev Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > : > > > I have come across what I think must be a bug in how LC handles sentences. > When a sentence begins with a n

Re: Bug in how LC handles sentences

After some thinking I actually do agree it is not a bug. The problem being that full stop (period) can also be used in abbreviations, and numbers can follow immediately after such abbreviations. Tore > 17. nov. 2018 kl. 00:36 skrev Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > : > > I wou

Bug in how LC handles sentences

I have come across what I think must be a bug in how LC handles sentences. When a sentence begins with a number, it is not counted as a sentence if the previous sentence ends with a full stop. If the previous sentence end with a question mark or an exclamation mark, then the sentence starting

Re: Repeat for each line of a variable or field?

When using a field with close to 45000 lines, the second (using the lines of the field) version takes on average 23 milliseconds, whereas using a variable takes on average 15 milliseconds. For a field /variable with 5000 lines the difference is about 2 milliseconds here. The actual speed and

Re: Creating Array - Auto Numeric

You can not put the incrementing numeric key inside an associative array the way you want. The key of any array must be unique, and you can not have several instances of a key in an array. Think of the keys of the array it as the primary keys of a database table. It serves as a unique

Re: Creating Array - Auto Numeric

rray? > > *on*mouseup > > *repeat* withy = 1tothenumberofwordsoffld"tQuote" > > *select*wordy offld"tQuote" > > * put*wordy offld"tQuote"&"|"& theselectedLoc& crafterwordLocationsA > > *end* *re

SVG widget and grab me command

When one of my students tried to use grab me command in a mouseDown handler on a SVG widget, some strange things happened. In run-mode, the script did not work as expected. The widget would not move with the mouse. When switching back to edit mode, the widget started to move with the mouse

Re: SVG widget and grab me command

Thanks for your explanation. Since my student does not need any handlers (in fact would not want any handlers added to the widgets), the examples from «ControlHandles89» could not be used. The simple solution was to «group» each individual SVG widget and add the grab me command to the group.

Re: SVG widget and grab me command

My mistake, I meant handles, not handlers. The widgets are used to display chess pieces. The actual script «controlling" each widget/group is a behavior, where the script itself resides in a button script. Best regards Tore > 21. feb. 2019 kl. 18:36 skrev hh via use-livecode > : > >> Tore

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