Because the point was to demonstrate different script lines, some of
which work and one of which doesn't - but which to my simple mind should
have all worked.
(and a couple of kind people explained why that one was different :-)
It was not a "real" fragment of code - in that case I would
Why aren't you setting the vis of tName?
Bob S
> On Jun 10, 2019, at 17:44 , Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> OK, this code produces an error - but I can't see why (and I worry about that
> :-)
>
> I have a field inside a group inside a group ,
>
> and the following code :
I think this is important.
Perhaps related is why this is an execution error.
> On Jun 11, 2019, at 2:18 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Thank you Peter and Mark.
>
> I guess I see it now - though it's still against *my* intuition :-)
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex.
>
> On 11/06/2019
Thank you Peter and Mark.
I guess I see it now - though it's still against *my* intuition :-)
Thanks
Alex.
On 11/06/2019 03:24, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote:
I think that 'item 1 of t1’ has to be resolved to an object reference before it
can be used with the vis property. The
On 2019-06-11 02:44, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
on mouseup
local tName, t1, t2
put the long name of fld "F" into tName
put tName & ",12,13" into t1
put "t1" && t1 after msg
put item 1 of t1 into t2
set the vis of t2 to TRUE
put "t2 was OK" after msg
set the
I think that 'item 1 of t1’ has to be resolved to an object reference before it
can be used with the vis property. The earlier lines are doing that, but not
the last.
It seems that LiveCode has gotten stricter with this in recent versions,
requiring “of me” or such when referring directly to
OK, this code produces an error - but I can't see why (and I worry about
that :-)
I have a field inside a group inside a group ,
and the following code :
on mouseup
local tName, t1, t2
put the long name of fld "F" into tName
put tName & ",12,13" into t1
put "t1" && t1 after
This is a similar question to that of Tiemo (why does lock screen doesn't locks
the screen? (Tiemo Hollmann TB)) about finding colours under other objects
(controls) but that thread evolved so fast in a single Digest I may appear a
bit late. Thus the hijacked thread title.
The following
Barry,
You made a mistake.
The correct syntax is:
lock screen
or
set the lockScreen to true
and
unlock screen
or
set the lockScreen to false
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Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering
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