Re: Confused about storing arrays in a custom property

2011-08-21 Thread Pete
Thanks Richard, writing to a file (an sqlite database actually) is exactly what I want to do. However, I'm running into a problem with this. I believe I have written the data correctly to the database as a BLOB column, but when I read it back from the database and use arraydecode to make it into

Accessing the last item in a line

2011-08-21 Thread Pete
It seems that if the last item in a string is empty, then trying to access it by using item -1 returns the penultimate item, not the last one. For example, given the string a,b, item -1 of that string comes back as b. This is on LC 4.6.2, OS X 10.6.8. Is this expected behavior? Pete Molly's

Can I set file as read only?

2011-08-21 Thread Bill Vlahos
I want to write a file to disk and then mark it read only. Is there a cross platform (Mac, Windows, and Linux) LC command to do this? Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important life information with you, accessible, and secure.

Re: Accessing the last item in a line

2011-08-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Yes, this is expected behaviour. If you want to count the last item if it is empty use Item (number of items of (myVar x)) of myVar -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link

Re: Can I set file as read only?

2011-08-21 Thread Roger Eller
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I want to write a file to disk and then mark it read only. Is there a cross platform (Mac, Windows, and Linux) LC command to do this? Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is about keeping your important

Re: New App Developed in LiveCode

2011-08-21 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello Trevor, Elegant interface, nice and clean. I can see a market among IT and systems types who work in educational institutions and are constantly having to explain various computer and network things to faculty and staff. Site licenses might be a good option. I noticed that when the

Re: New App Developed in LiveCode

2011-08-21 Thread Colin Holgate
Go into System Preferences, Accounts, select your account and choose Login Items. There you'll see a list of things that are loaded when you log in. Select Clarify Helper and click the minus button to remove it. At least I think that's how you would do it! On Aug 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM,

Re: New App Developed in LiveCode

2011-08-21 Thread Colin Holgate
By the way, if you control-click on the Clarify Helper before removing it, you can Reveal in Finder, and you'll see there's a Clarify folder in Application Support. You should be able to throw that folder away. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Combining cards into a stack

2011-08-21 Thread Bill Ziegler
I have a difficult time with new names and faces. We have quite a few new teachers and therapists this year so I plan to make a photo data base of their image, name, job and school(s) they are assigned to. I'm planning to build a simple stack that will allow them to capture a still from a