Weird. I quit LC, restarted it, opened the stack, now it's working. -- Peter
Peter M. Brigham [email protected] http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jul 20, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Part of 'put URL...' gets translated to a LiveCode command that fetches the > request. This command uses a version of wait that allows messages. > > I suspect you are clicking a button again before this is finished. > > You might want to consider these two things in that button. Set the cursor > at the beginning so you will get feedback as to when it is still cranking > away. Also, create an error if you click it while it is busy. (Use a local > variable busy that you set to true at the start and false at the end but bail > before it is set if it is already set.) > > Dar > custom libraries and externals > > On Jul 20, 2013, at 11:45 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > >> I'm trying to design a poor man's spelling checker, and I'm using the script >> below. I keep getting the error "error Previous request not completed" and I >> don't know enough about internet connections to interpret what's going on. >> Can anyone help? >> >> function checkSpelling tWord >> put >> "http://www.dict.org/bin/Dict?Query=<tWord>&Form=Dict1&Strategy=*&Database=*" >> into theURL >> replace "<tWord>" with tWord in theURL >> put url theURL into tHTML >> put the result into tErr >> if tErr <> empty then >> put "Error:" && tErr into fld "text" >> else >> put tHTML into fld "text" >> end if >> exit to top -- temporarily >> -- more code will go here, to parse the HTML >> -- return listOut >> end checkSpelling >> >> -- Peter >> >> Peter M. Brigham >> [email protected] >> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> [email protected] >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
