Re: Book on Programming by Example

Alejandro Tejada wrote Hi All, Bookmark this webpage: http://web.media.mit.edu/~lieber/Your-Wish/ to read this mind opening book: I dunno about that Alejandro, I think I still prefer main() { printf(hello world); } or, if using LC on mouseUp put hello world after msg end

SQL Join question

I have two tables A and B, both with the same structure (about 50 columns each). I would like to combine them into a single table (ie. rows from Table A followed by rows from Table B). Does anyone know of an SQL statement that will do that? Thanks -- View this message in context:

Re: SQL Join question

John Craig-4 wrote I really should have started with '0, field2' in the example below - assuming field 1 is the primary key.. If you have an auto incrementing primary key 'id' as the first field in both tables... INSERT INTO tableA SELECT 0, field1, field2, field3, etc... FROM tableB Hi

Re: SQL Join question

Peter Haworth wrote SELECT tableA.*,tableB.* FROM tableA JOIN tableB ON tableB.keycolumn=tableA.keycolumn Hi Peter. So, do I understand correctly that if table A has fields first, last and table B has fields age, sex and they both have an id column (key column) then this code would produce a

Re: SQL Join question

Hi Peter, thanks for that. I definitely prefer your option 1. Would it still be possible to have an auto incrementing field that combines with the device id to make the primary key (ie. could recno in your example be auto incrementing)? Also, I wonder if there is a device ID that could be grabbed

Re: SQL Join question

Perfect, thank you. Peter Haworth wrote but if there are three tables, the SELECT becomes: SELECT tableA.*, tableB.*, tableC.* FROM tableA JOIN tableB ON tableB. keycolumn =tableA. keycolumn JOIN tableC ON tableC. keycolumn =tableA. keycolumn But the keycolumn must have the same

Re: SQL Join question

Thanks Peter. Good discussion. I'll check on the developer list to see if anyone knows if there is an iPad device ID I can grab. Perhaps another widget for Monte to work on :) -- View this message in context:

Calculating age

Hi, does anyone know how to calculate someones age in years from two dates? Currently I am doing something kludgy like: convert dateone from date to seconds convert datetwo from date to seconds put datetwo - dateone into age -- calculate the age in seconds -- divide by the number of seconds per

Re: Calculating age

Many thanks to Mike and Hlowe, I suspect the algorithms you suggested are doing very similar things and are an improvement over my approximation. Mike, I don't think you can calculate the seconds of a date prior to 1/1/1970 since the seconds are calculated as 'from that point'. An astute

Re: [ANN] HTML 5 Campaign Monitor

Your eye for detail is amazing. Heather will be pleased -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-HTML-5-Campaign-Monitor-tp4680812p4680820.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: OS X Mavericks

Mike, thanks for mentioning that. I am about to upgrade to Mavericks myself and will make sure I check that LC is pointing to the right Xcode. What about the SDK? Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OS-X-Mavericks-tp4671455p4683735.html Sent

Xcode, which one?

Hi there, Was running LC 5.5.5 on iOS 10.7.5 (Lion), Xcode 4.5.1, SDK 6.1 and iOS 6 on the phone and tablet - everything worked well. Wasn't able to run the latest MobGUI so thought, h, maybe I should upgrade (this IS always an adventure, isn't it ) First, upgraded the mobiles to iOS 7. Next

Re: Xcode, which one?

Ok thanks, reassuring to know what's been working. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing anything (the possible combinations and permutations are pretty huge). Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Xcode-which-one-tp4683786p4683795.html Sent

Documentation

I've just upgraded from 5.5.5 to 6.6.3. Surely there have been a few changes between then and now? But reading the Release Notes provides no hint. Is there one document I can read that tracks all of the additions, updates and changes from 5.5.5 to 6.6.3? Here's hoping! Mark -- View this

Re: Documentation

Richard Gaskin wrote There's no single document outlining the changes between that specific range of versions, but the release notes for each version will bring you up to speed: lt;http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/gt; Thanks for the link Richard. Very useful -- View this message

Re: Documentation

skiplondon wrote Just a thought: One of pieces of software that we use in our office environment, we can go online and put in the version of the software you are using and the version that you have upgraded to and it will compile a complete feature / bug fix document for you on the fly based

Re: Documentation

One more thing I forgot to ask. Now that I've upgraded from 5.5.5 to 6.3.3 is there any stack format issues that I need to be aware of? All compatible? Thanks Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Documentation-tp4683797p4683859.html Sent from

Stack format concerns

Now that I have upgraded from 5.5.5 to 6.3.3 are there any stack format issues I need to be aware of? All compatible? I've been thinking Since I have 51 release notes to read between these 2 versions what this calls for is some sort of release note reader/stack that helps organize

Re: Stack format concerns

Thanks Jacque. On the release notes - I could just open and read all 51, or maybe the stable release notes summarize all the rc's and dp's (have asked) - I am going to try acrobat 11 to see how well it saves as a word document, and try converting to rtf from there. It would be nice to preserve

RTF or TXT

Possibly very dumb question here. What I want to do: using code 'cut and paste' (i.e. parse) text from an RTF document into a LC field, preserving the text formatting. What I don't want to do: deal with all of the RTF formatting codes. Is this doable? If its not easily doable I can downgrade the

Re: [ANN] homemade slider

Excellent! Nice job Bernd. Thanks for doing this. Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-homemade-slider-tp4686566p4686747.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

RE: LC Summer Academy

The Summer Academy was incredibly useful (and hats off to Elanor for being such a great presenter). A ton of information was presented in the 7 weeks, so much so that I had trouble keeping track of it all and definitely wanted a way to be able to go back and review it later. So I created the

RE: Getting Android going

Thanks Jacqueline... I think I'll repeat the process and do what you did: drop it into the /developer folder and try again. I'll let you know if it works. -- Mark Mark Smith Associate Director, Repository Manitoba Centre for Health Policy University of Manitoba 727 McDermot Ave Room 408

Re: Getting Android going

J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/2/11 10:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote: I didn't know what I was doing when I set up, so I just followed those instructions and used the Android 2.2 API 8 package to set up my virtual machine. Do you have a VM configured? Hi Jacqueline, I had no luck installing

RE: Drag and Drop Between Stacks?

Why not put it in the User Samples in revOnline? It's available from the IDE menu bar - Mark From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Pete [p...@mollysrevenge.com] Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011

Re: I Killed The Site

Mike Kerner wrote: I just want to apologize for killing runrev.com. I was just trying to buy something in the store when kaboom, the whole site went #epicfail. So since it must be MY fault, sorries! Too funny!! -- View this message in context:

auto-rotation in 5.0.1/.02

Hi I just upgraded to 5.0.1 (and then .2 thinking that might solve the following problem but it didn't). Gone from the standalone settings pane are the options to set the supported orientations and in there place are new options to set the initial orientation for iPad. A program that previously

Re: auto-rotation in 5.0.1/.02

Further to this I just wanted to add the following: To configure which orientations your application supports use: iphoneSetAllowedOrientations orientations Here orientations must be a comma-delimited list consisting of at least one of portrait, portrait upside down, landscape left and landscape

Re: auto-rotation in 5.0.1/.02

Randy Hengst wrote Looking at your script, you added spaces after the commas…. in your comma-delimited list…. you can't do Randy, thanks. I knew there was something I was probably doing wrong. -- Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: auto-rotation in 5.0.1/.02

Yes sir, that fixed it. Thanks. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/auto-rotation-in-5-0-1-02-tp4111266p4112014.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode

startup handler

Hi, just wondering if there is something special about the startup handler. The following code (executed in the IDE) does nothing: on startup if the cpassword of this stack is empty then ask password Please enter a new password: put it into temp1 ask password Please re-enter

Re: startup handler

J. Landman Gay wrote On 11/28/11 10:15 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Now, before I begin, both the stack in the IDE and tested on the iPhone simulator report the encrypted pw as \VUw|1,A so, no difference there. I get a difference. Thank you (once again). Your testing was more thorough

window decorations?

Not sure if that is the right term, but I think so. Does anyone know how to enable, disable the window resize decoration in the lower right corner of the window? Thanks -- Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: Have you made an iOS or Android app with LiveCode and published it in an app store?

Hi Ben, you might want to post this on the runrev livecode forums in the iOS section. Or, I could post it there for you. -- Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: window decorations?

Super, thanks for all the comments and suggestions here. I'll give them all a try. -- Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/window-decorations-tp4121455p4125874.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

Marty Knapp wrote In my scenario, how do I use the GetDataForLine command? Am I wasting time by converting my tab-delimited file to an array? Hi Marty, I am no datagrid expert (more or less just stumble onto solutions that work for me) and I am not familiar with the technique you are

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

Marty Knapp wrote In my scenario, how do I use the GetDataForLine command? Am I wasting time by converting my tab-delimited file to an array? Hi Marty, I am no datagrid expert (more or less just stumble onto solutions that work for me) and I am not familiar with the technique you are

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

slylabs13 wrote Prior to this we were discussing how unwieldy this can be with a lot of data. If he has a ton of data, like in the hundreds of thousands or even millions of records, this can take an extraordinary amount of time, hence, the need to bite off a little at a time. Bob

matchChunk question

Hi, shouldn't the following place the start position and end position of the regular expression found in the input field into the output field? on mouseUp local startpos, endpos put fldinput into tinput put \ quote v \ quote : into tregularexpression put matchchunk(tinput,

Re: matchChunk question

Thanks, worked perfectly. changing the expression to (\ quote v \ quote :) resulted in true, 422, 425 in the output. What I am attempting to do is define a rather complicated item delimiter, in this case made up of the 4 char sequence v: If I can define where this occurs I can break the

database write error

Hi, I have some code that works fine until I put an apostrophe into a field and then it errors out on storing the data. Any suggestions on dealing with this problem? The code I am using looks like this: put INSERT INTO master (delivery_date, mothers_name, mothers_phin, mothers_mhsc, mothers_dob,

Re: OT: Walking

Mike, thanks for sharing... a very inspiring journey that makes many of our day-to-day irritations and struggles in living pale in comparison. I wish you MUCH SUCCESS!! -- Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Walking-tp4343357p4345637.html Sent

Re: database write error

Thank you all... you have left me with a number of great suggestions to look into. It does seem like using variable lists as in the substitution approach would be the more/most generic solution to this problem... since I'm on a deadline I'll probably do a quick and dirty escape on apostrophe

Re: database write error

Peter Haworth-2 wrote If you use single quotes, double quotes don't need to be escaped in the literal, and vice versa. So, if you're sure that your data won't contain double quotes, then you can use double quotes to enclose the literals and single quotes won't cause a problem. Pete

Re: database write error

Peter Haworth-2 wrote so I just have to: put buildValuesClause(globaldate,tmaternalname,tmaternalphin,etc) after tSQL I put that together before I knew revexecuteSQL substitution deals with all that and more but it kinda works for me. Smart. Sounds like the direction I will be

Re: [ANN] sQuiRt V1.1.0 update

John Craig-4 wrote The sQuiRt library for generating QR codes can now be used with LiveCode server. You can view an online demo at; Now that is cool! -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-sQuiRt-V1-1-0-update-tp4359702p4360384.html Sent from

Re: How alive is LiveCode?

Hi Michael, I can only add to this by saying I am doing very similar work with livecode, and so far have run into few problems with it, and most of those are fixed by enhancing my learning curve. I do feel like Livecode has provided only the basic tools and I am required to construct libraries to

Re: Drag and Drop in a locked field

slylabs13 wrote Any easy way to implement this? I could use a datagrid I suppose (grumble grumble) but it would be nice if I could just do this with a simple list field. I want to reorder entire lines by dragging and dropping them. Hi Bob, I wrote something to do that awhile back and

Re: Drag and Drop in a locked field

Sorry, its been awhile since I worked on it and so I should clarify: the 7766 bug only rears its head after using the pop-up menu. If you disable the pop-up menu option the drag drop works fine on x86. -- Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: Architecture of downloadable content for iOS?

Ken Corey wrote Do I grasp the general idea here or can modules indeed be downloaded from the app store, and called from my main stack? I've downloaded apps that handle tons of multi-media, pictures, video recordings. They seem to dload the content from a server. Check the Winnipeg Folk

Re: Architecture of downloadable content for iOS?

Ken Corey wrote My question is meant more as a producer of one of those apps in a LiveCode environment. I'd rather learn from someone else's wisdom, but if I can't I'll do it on my own. -Ken Ok, then in response to your previous question Once the new version is running, then it

Re: RevOnline upload (bis)

Did not work for me either earlier this week. Did not try today though. You might try sending a msg to support as they may not be aware of the problem. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/RevOnline-upload-bis-tp4387783p4393018.html Sent from the

Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Hi, I've encountered a bit of an anomaly when storing empty values into integer fields in SQLite, and wonder if others have observed the same behavior. If I store an empty value from a LC field into an integer field in a database, and then subsequently read it back LC displays it as a 0. Where

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

slylabs13 wrote What is the field type? What is the default? If numeric and not null then it may be that the value defaults to 0 Thanks Bob, field type is integer, no default is defined. Firefox plugin has a zero in the Not Null column,(which means?) and a zero in the Primary Key column

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter Haworth-2 wrote Long story short, the only way I could find to make this work correctly is to not include the integer column in the UPDATE statement. Not sure if your update was just a test with that one column or if there;d normally be more columns to update, but you'd have to test

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter Haworth-2 wrote Yes, it causes a headache, you're right. You would have to build the UPDATE command in a variable by examining each field for empty and adding it to the variable list if not empty. Don't have time to give some example code right now, but will try to do something

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

slylabs13 wrote Is it important to discern between null and a value? If so, uncheck the not null in the table definition and don't include the column in inserts/updates Awkward but yes, that seems to be the solution. -- mark -- View this message in context:

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter Haworth-2 wrote The only way round this that I've found as in my earlier email is to not include the integer column in any INSERT or UPDATE statements if you want it to come back as empty instead of zero. Which sort of works, until you consider the case of wanting to back out a

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter, very cool. I'm going to have fun with that one. LC is very powerful at times. Oh, and thanks for posting to the bug list. While it is possible that RR will say this behavior conforms to a particular standard and you just have to code for it (as you have below) its still way, way to much

Looping over all buttons

Hi, I have 38 buttons on a form that I need to copy their hilite value to a temporary variable. Is it possible in LC to do something like for x = 1 to the number of buttons on card y put the hilite of btnx into tButtonx end instead of writing out manually, 38 times: put the hilite of

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Robert Brenstein wrote Have you tested that you get the same behavior with not-null setting for that integer field on and off? You should get different results. HI Robert, while I was hoping it would unfortunately no, it didn't make a difference. -- Mark -- View this message in

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

slylabs13 wrote It may be a small distinction, but NULL is ASCII 0. An empty string is nothing at all, so far as I know. To a human this is splitting hairs, but to a computer all hairs must be split. The scenario seems to be (1) if you create a new empty record all the undefined values

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

slylabs13 wrote It seems that if you use an empty string on a numeric column, SQL interprets that as zero 0. Hi Bob, that basically is the problem right there. slylabs13 wrote It begs the question however, why in the world you would pass a string value to a numeric column? I'm

Re: Looping over all buttons

Ken Ray wrote repeat with x = 1 to 12 put Hello into field (MyField x) end repeat What if you want to put fld fieldname into myvar as in the original that Bob suggested: put fld myfield into tvar x Myfield holds the name of a field that is being copied to a temp variable that is

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter Haworth-2 wrote put 1 into x put UPDATE test SET into mySQL repeat for each item myField in One,Two,Three if field myField is not empty then put myField =: x comma after mySQL put field myField into myArray[x] add 1 to x end if end repeat put space

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

I should have added many of the ideas are things others on the list have suggested in response to my looping over all buttons post so thanks to all who made suggestions including Jacqueline, who's comment about not doing do is something I am still working on. I really appreciate all of the

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter Haworth-2 wrote If you look at the array in debug, you should see its keys being 1,2, etc and the value of each key being the value of the field, not the name of the field. You could try changing the line in my sample code put field myField into myArray[x] to put the text of

Re: Looping over all buttons

Thanks Ken... I suppose one of those would work but I'd have to think about it :) The goal was the construction of a parameter list for revExecuteSQL that would look something like: revExecuteSQL gConnectID, tCmd, tvar1, tvar2, tvar3, tvar4, tvar5, tvar6, tvar7, tvar8, tvar9 Actually there was

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

Peter Haworth-2 wrote You could try changing the line in my sample code put field myField into myArray[x] to put the text of field myField into myArray[x]. Pete Yipppeee! That worked. The following code copies all of a forms values into an sql database... no manual coding required. Truly

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

And as a bonus (sorry, in my excitement I forgot to mention this)... you don't have to escape anything either, since this is using the substitution form of the revExecuteSQL command. -- M -- View this message in context:

Re: Anomoly when storing empty values into SQLite integer fields

slylabs13 wrote For the sake of satisfying my own curiosity, I just used the Firefox sqLite manager to open an sqLite db file. I added a column to a table for testing purposes, called bobnum integer default NULL. When browsing, the column indicates it's value is Null. But when I update a

Re: ButtonGadget2

Mark Wieder wrote ButtonGadget has its own website now. http://www.buttongadget.com/buttongadget2/default.htm Mark, very cool application. The videos really show it off well. BTW, is it coded in LC? Also, I had the same problem Bob did in that from one location/button the videos

Xcode 4.2 and iOS 5.1

Anyone know why Xcode 4.2 would stop talking to iOS? I am running Snow Leopard 10.6.8, but recently gave in to the constant upgrades notices on my iPad2 to upgrade to 5.1. Now, xCode can open a window onto my iPad but I can't add or delete anything? Thanks -- Mark -- View this message in

Adding row of numeric keys above default iOS keyboard

Hi, any suggestions for how to add a row of numeric keys above the default keyboard in iOS? Ideally it would be nice to get a screen shot of the top row of the numeric keyboard and display that that with some hidden buttons for each of the numeric keys, but I am not sure how to go about getting a

Location of iOS 5.0 SDK

I know I shouldn't have upgraded to iOS 5.1 on the iPad. Here's what I have done: 1. updated iPad to iOS 5.1 (first mistake) 2. this required update to xCode 4.3.2 (done) 3. this required update to Lion (OSX 10.7.3) (check) Livecode is now complaining that in order to build for iOS it needs to

Re: Location of iOS 5.0 SDK

Further observations: Where once my Library folder used to be (ie. /Mark/Library) there is now just an empty space. I checked my time machine backup and inside Library is Developer. And inside Developer is Xcode. Or should I say, was Xcode. Is this a case of Lion thinking its safer for me not to

Re: Location of iOS 5.0 SDK

Mike, Tom, all the rest... thanks for the assistance. You are correct. I did an email earlier today to Heather and she confirmed this only works in 5.5 (I feel another article for the newsletter coming on... we should not be stumbling around out here in user land trying to figure this out...

Re: Location of iOS 5.0 SDK

J. Landman Gay wrote I have purchased and downloaded Lion and have been sitting here all weekend trying to make myself install it. I know I have to. Still don't want to. Jacque, I would say go for it. The current successful recipe, based on my limited experience, appears to be iOS

Re: Location of iOS 5.0 SDK

J. Landman Gay wrote I did it. I am speaking to you from the Lion's den. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque@ To the sound of applause heard in the background :) -- View this message in context:

Re: Location of iOS 5.0 SDK

J. Landman Gay wrote I did it. I am speaking to you from the Lion's den. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque@ To the sound of applause heard in the background :) -- View this message in context:

Re: iOS Keyboard options

Hi Graham, I put the settings in custom properties and I haven't had any problem with the following openfield handler on openfield if the environment is mobile then iPhoneSetKeyboardType the ckeyboardtype of me iPhoneSetKeyboardReturnKey the creturnkey of me end if end

Re: Can I put advisory text in an 'ask' dialog?

Hi Graham, when I need advisory text I often put it into a custom property and use a set of routines I've written for a behavior to handle the display (which can be used on any platform). Here's the routine that displays the advisory text: command ShowPrompt if the cprompt of me is not empty

Re: Can I put advisory text in an 'ask' dialog?

Graham Samuel-4 wrote Thanks very much Hugh Senior, Ken Ray and Mark Smith for their solutions, which are going in my scrapbook and then of course into the relevant projects. Graham Hi Graham, I was thinking of writing up a quick piece on methods for handling advisory text

Re: ANN: Radial Dial Making Utility

Roger Guay wrote Hi All, RadialDialOmatic is a utility I created to make nice (even if I say so myself) Radial Dials. With RevOnLine still down, I'm afraid you will have to go to my downloads page to get it: Roger Roger, your stuff is always so cool! -- Mark -- View this message

Re: Casey is now in the App Store

J. Landman Gay wrote Casey's Solitaire has migrated to the App Store. :) If you have an iPad you can grab it here: Hi Jacque, I just discovered I'm lousy at solitaire! Nicely done game though, very nice indeed. In fairness, I've not given the parrot a chance to help. So there is still

Re: Casey is now in the App Store

J. Landman Gay wrote Yes. Help is a euphemism. There's one instance where sometimes it can Hi Jacque, As soon as I posted I wanted to edit the message and quote help as well, but then Mark Wieder's response was s funny I was happy to let it stand :) Thanks for the tip on the

5.5.5 linking problem

Hi, just installed 5.5.5 after working with 5.5.4 for a bit. Have the correct Xcode installed (4.6 or higher) but I am getting a linking error related to ARMV7 or something (about 6 lines of output in the error msg). Anyone know how to banish? Thanks Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: 5.5.5 linking problem

Thanks Mike and Scott. I am linking for the Universal settings. I have SDK's 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 and I have a green square. Although, it keeps forgetting my settings for some reason. Anyway, with this config I am getting the arm7 error message. Interesting it does create an application anyway. I may

Re: 5.5.5 linking problem

Yes Scott, that is exactly the same error I am seeing as well. Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/5-5-5-linking-problem-tp4667839p4667881.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: 5.5.5 linking problem

Hi Scott, yes I am. I am using some of Monte's externals. Is that the problem? Thanks Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/5-5-5-linking-problem-tp4667839p4667939.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: 5.5.5 linking problem -- SOLVED

This one was solved by installing the latest version of the externals I was using. Simple, elegant, just didn't know where to start with this problem. Thanks for all the help and hints provided here. Mark -- View this message in context:

Re: SQLite/LiveCode Issues

Peter, thanks for your efforts to keep LC current and capable on the database front. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/SQLite-LiveCode-Issues-tp4624881p4668806.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Dollar Sign Variables

J. Landman Gay wrote One thing I do all the time is to step through a new handler to see what it is doing. When I can see the values of the variables, I know what to expect. Usually I can tell when the next executable line will error and to avoid having to dismiss an error dialog and start

Re: 6.6.1 no bueno

Just tried Devin's recipe. Got the same result. Running OSX 10.7.5 Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/6-6-1-no-bueno-tp4678265p4678292.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Obvious Way To Add To Group?

Mike Kerner wrote: I have a group that I'm using for a background in a stack. I want to add a new object to that group without losing the data in all the fields in the Hi Mike, you need to create the new object when you are editing the group. Here's how. Using the pointer tool select

Re: show package contents

Thanks Jacqueline, I think I need serious remedial help. I just realized I have been making a really stupid mistake. I am so used to the a) edit, b) compile c) run scenario that... I have been modifying Notepad4 (my current version) then recompiling the splash screen stack again and running that

Re: show package contents

Thanks Jacqueline.You are a terrific teacher. It not only worked but I understand it. It is a very clever technique. I am still using the old 'hard coded' method (as well) because it has the advantage that while I *use* the stack, and modify it, the notes get written to a common stack (not a copy

RE: show package contents

...@lists.runrev.com [use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay [jac...@hyperactivesw.com] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2010 11:21 AM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: show package contents On 12/3/10 10:37 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Thanks Jacqueline.You are a terrific teacher

focus question

I'm still using 4.5.0 dp-3. In the dictionary under focus it says If the object is an unlocked field, the insertion point is placed after the text in the field. My experience is it is placed at the beginning of the field. I checked the online bug list, and the bug fixes for 4.5.1 and saw no

Re: focus question

Josh Mellicker wrote: Are you using select after fld X? Hi Josh, thanks so much. No, I was using focus on field x. The dictionary says that if the field is unlocked text then the insertion point is placed after the text in the field. I think I'll suggest that line be removed since it

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