One caveat: if you are assembling a great deal of text in small chunks, you
should likely do it in a variable and then toss it into the field in one go.
Field updates are slower than many (most?) other things you might be doing, and
one field update with 10,000 lines will be *much* faster than
Hi Larry,
As well as the afore mentioned, all excellent comments, you can use the 'if
exists(fld myField01) then' script. I also encapsulate all sorts of
things in try...end try commands. These are extremely powerful although
could be considered a little lazy. For example, when using iPhone
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
1) I have a program where I'm creating and deleting fields.
Why are you creating them and deleting them? Why aren't the fields already
there and you just show and hide them?
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that.
Thanks,
Larry
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From: Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com
To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:14 PM
Subject: Re: lock screen question and detect field question
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:05 AM, la
On 10/12/2014, 9:05 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
1) I have a program where I'm creating and deleting fields. If I try
to delete a field that hasn't yet been created, I get a script error.
So is there a way to first find out if the field exists?
Did you look up exists in the
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:33 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote:
Maybe I can just create all the fields I will ever possibly need and then
just show and hide them.
That is certainly an approach I've used many many times, especially if the
number of fields is large. If the number of fields
Accidently hit the Send button. Here is what I meant to type:
lock screen
if the label of btn selectMethod = Output then
set the height of fld multipurpose to 123
set the width of fld multipurpose to 456
set the loc of fld multipurpose to 200,200
etc
put
