I have come across a puzzling behavior when trying to use the content of a
field as parametres in a function, and I am trying to understand why.
I put the following in a field called «test»: 1,2,3,4,5
When I then call the function like this:
answer testFunction(field «test»),
Yes, your description is correct (except for saying the behavior is
"puzzling" :-)
The first case you are passing a single parameter (which happens to have
commas in its current content). You could have said " paramcount()
returns 1 as expected".
The second case you pass 5 values.
And
> 29. nov. 2022 kl. 12:08 skrev Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
> :
>
> Yes, your description is correct (except for saying the behavior is
> "puzzling" :-)
>
> The first case you are passing a single parameter (which happens to have
> commas in its current content). You could have said "
Your original is the same as:
put field «test» into tParam
answer testFunction(tParam)
So yes, whatever is placed as a parameter to a function is not expanded. Think
about doing the same thing with an arbitrary block of text in the field and
what would be the expected result.
Brian Milby
FYI: I was able to run Xcode 14.1 and invoke the iPhone 14 simulator. I
tested an LC app building against Xcode 13.2.1. Clicked the test button and
BOOM there was the app on the iPhone 14 simulator. Only one little hiccup. I
had to select the hardware keyboard then disable then re-enable to get
Hello Matthias,
See:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18378
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22534
I suggest using a PDF widget instead of a browser widget to display the pdf
files, until this bug is fixed.
Kind regards,
Panos
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2022 at 18:59, matthias
Matthias,
That worked! Thank you so much. The link sent me to the app store. I clicked
"Get" and after the download finished the SW update pref appeared. Then the
installation dialog started. Not that it made any difference, the SW update
pref then spun for a second and showed the Ventura update
Hello,
i am currently having problems that a browser widget doesn't display a pdf,
regardless if remote or local.
I just see a white blank page. Sometime an error message comes up telling me
that "PDFViewer could not find a compatible version of Adobe Acrobat or Adobe
Reader for displaying
Hello Panos,
thanks for reminding me of bug 22534.
I should have remember it. That bug report is based on a support request i
filed. ;)
> Am 29.11.2022 um 18:38 schrieb panagiotis m via use-livecode
> :
>
> Hello Matthias,
>
> See:
>
> https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18378
