Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-03-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Generous of you to offer, Bob. There's a donation button in the About pane, accessed through the topmost arrow button. I use pay...@fourthworld.com Donations allow me to spend time with it, and also useful is learning how others spend time with it. It's more of a tool rack than a tool itse

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-03-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Saw the png of it, looks great! I am going to give it a try. If I like and use it I will be happty to shoot you off something on PayPal. Just let me know your handle if you have one. Bob S > On Mar 1, 2018, at 08:41 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Very kind of you to say, Br

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-03-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Very kind of you to say, Brian. Thanks. I have no registration requirement for that free plugin, so I'm often delightfully surprised to discover who's using it. Very soon I'll have a window of time in which I can finally get around to adding some more useful things to the Projects pane. If y

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Devin Asay via use-livecode
> On Feb 28, 2018, at 10:02 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode > wrote: > While I’m on to explanations, in all my years of using LC and its > predecessors, I have never understood what the right hand column in the > ‘colors’ tab of the object inspector is for. Choosing a background pattern (

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Thanks Devin, that’s a great explanation - my program, which is just a one stack-one card helper app, did start off with a red background. Later I changed the card background (remember, there’s only one card) but forgot about the stack background since it didn’t show. So there you have it. We

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Richard, That is super helpful. I’ve had Devolution loaded for a while but was using PB to get to IDE scripts. This will be so much better/faster. Thanks, Brian On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 9:56 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > For super-quick access to

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
dunbarx wrote: > As a follow-up, is there anywhere a list of all IDE stacks? For > example, the stack named "answer dialog", though perfectly logical, > is not listed anywhere, and the names of some stacks, like the script > editor, have changed over the several LC versions. For stacks in memory

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Devin Asay via use-livecode
Graham, I think what is happening is that when you run in the IDE the parent stack of the answer dialog stack is the LiveCode engine, which sets a platform-appropriate background color (or no background color) for all child stacks. When you include it in a standalone, your stack-made-standalone

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Should have said “when I run through the script in the IDE…”. Sorry = Craig, you make an excellent point. We now know there is a stack named “answer dialog” and that it has properties you can set. Surely the documentation should explain this somewhere? By the way, when I said my red backgr

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Craig, you make an excellent point. We now know there is a stack named “answer dialog” and that it has properties you can set. Surely the documentation should explain this somewhere? By the way, when I said my red background had disappeared, it hadn’t. It’s just that when you I through the scri

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread dunbarx via use-livecode
Panos. Ah, of course. Thanks. I see one can get into real trouble. Craig -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi Craig, You can "force" all the (open) IDE stacks to appear in the Project Browser: in the menubar: "View" -> "Show IDE stacks in Lists" Another way is to type in the msg box: put the name of the mousestack but do NOT press Enter yet. Then place the cursor over the stack whose name you want

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread dunbarx via use-livecode
As a follow-up, is there anywhere a list of all IDE stacks? For example, the stack named "answer dialog", though perfectly logical, is not listed anywhere, and the names of some stacks, like the script editor, have changed over the several LC versions. It is a great way to get oneself in real trou

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread dunbarx via use-livecode
This is a great example of the maxim "Everything in LC is simply a stack" Craig Newman -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi Graham, You can set this by script, something like: set the backcolor of stack "answer dialog" to red;answer "Hello" Best, Panos -- On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 11:38 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I have created hundreds of LC ‘answer’ commands

Background color in an 'answer' dialog?

2018-02-28 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
I have created hundreds of LC ‘answer’ commands in my time, and as far as I can remember they all had white backgrounds. Recently I accidentally created one with a lovely red background, showing up in standalones on both Mac High Sierra and Windows 7. Well, it would be lovely if i wanted it that