Re: Crunchy chestnuts again, again, again

2019-01-14 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
What is your "objection" to the forum? I find it better than the Use-List as one can attach stuff. On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 1:41 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I don't use that forum so I cannot. > > Bob S > > > > On Jan 14, 2019, at 10:44 , Richmond via

Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness

2019-01-14 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Hi Marty I’m just wondering if you are using the standard IDE ask and answer dialog or a custom one? If you are working on a very old stack then MetaCard used to copy the ask and answer dialog into the stackFile as a substack. You should be able to see them in the project browser under your

Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness

2019-01-14 Thread Knapp Martin via use-livecode
> set the loc of stack "Ask Dialog" to screenLoc() > ask "What color is you favorite?” Does that work for you Paul - it doesn’t for me. I’m having to do this: send CenterAnswerOnScreen to me in 1 tick answer “Blah blah blah” on CenterAnswerOnScreen set the loc of stack "answer dialog" to the

Re: Crunchy chestnuts again, again, again

2019-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I don't use that forum so I cannot. Bob S > On Jan 14, 2019, at 10:44 , Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > Indeed: Please signal your opinion: > > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=31971 > > Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 1/10/2019 11:02 PM, Knapp Martin via use-livecode wrote: OK, I’m making progress here. But I’m finding that ask and answer dialogs are opening off-screen. How are their positions determined? Marty See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4309 A very old enhancement request that

Re: screensChanged ? (was Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness)

2019-01-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Aha! Thanks Paul, that's just what I needed. I looked through all the 'changed' messages in the dictionary but didn't spot that one. Ben On 14/01/2019 13:38, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: This is the 'desktopChanged' message -- see Dictionary On 1/14/2019 8:22 AM, Ben Rubinstein via

Crunchy chestnuts again, again, again

2019-01-14 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
Indeed: Please signal your opinion: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=31971 Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Repeat for each line of a variable or field?

2019-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Also if you do not lock the screen the engine has to update the display each time a line changes. Not sure if this is the case if the line is not visible... Bob S > On Jan 12, 2019, at 08:37 , JB via use-livecode > wrote: > > It is faster to use version 1 because accessing the > lines in a

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 163

2019-01-14 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #163 here: https://goo.gl/wUv84j This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Re: screensChanged ? (was Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness)

2019-01-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
This is the 'desktopChanged' message -- see Dictionary On 1/14/2019 8:22 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: Related to this: is there any possibility of getting a "screensChanged" message? I work on multi-monitor setups all the time, and have not been bothered by the issue with

screensChanged ? (was Re: screenRect and screenLoc weirdness)

2019-01-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Related to this: is there any possibility of getting a "screensChanged" message? I work on multi-monitor setups all the time, and have not been bothered by the issue with screenRects because they've always told the truth relative to each other. However, the problem is that my set-up changes