Re: Standardize Font Appearance

2022-09-11 Thread Neville Smythe via use-livecode
I have enough datapoints to report some findings from my comparison of the appearance of fonts across platforms, in particular on the length of strings in fields and text baselines, and to correct some of my previous statements. My intention is to compile a database for some 7000+ fonts in 7

Re: Sort Ascending DateTime - failure

2022-09-11 Thread Paul Hibbert via use-livecode
Should have waited to send this, on further investigation, I found the useSystemDate property, now all is well. Sorry for the noise! > On 11Sep, 2022, at 8:29 PM, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode > wrote: > > While playing around with the PolyGrid, I wanted to try adding sorting > options by

Sort Ascending DateTime - failure

2022-09-11 Thread Paul Hibbert via use-livecode
While playing around with the PolyGrid, I wanted to try adding sorting options by clicking the PolyGrid Header Labels. The solution I came up with drove me nuts until I discovered that there appears to be an issue associated with the sort command and dateTime. According to the dictionary, text

Re: Livecode Builder -how t write to a file?

2022-09-11 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
one other note on execute script, if you choose to go that route: you cannot use it until the OnLoad() and OnCreate() events achieve. On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 7:44 PM Mike Kerner wrote: > From Brian, answering the same question on the LCB Missing Manual repo > "See the contents of file File in

Re: Livecode Builder -how t write to a file?

2022-09-11 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
>From Brian, answering the same question on the LCB Missing Manual repo "See the contents of file File in the LCB dictionary. The actual name is FileContents" On Sun, Sep 11, 2022 at 11:20 AM Mike Kerner wrote: > Try execute script > that throws you over the wall into LCS > > > On Mon, Aug 22,

Re: LC converts phone number to scientific notation

2022-09-11 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
I had the same problem with long integer numbers being imported into a spreadsheet. My solution was to append “a” to the numbers before they got imported into the spreadsheet. Kee Nethery > On Sep 9, 2022, at 3:00 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi friends, > > I have a

Re: Livecode Builder -how t write to a file?

2022-09-11 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Try execute script that throws you over the wall into LCS On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 6:46 PM matthias rebbe via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks Zryip, > > i think that is a good workaround. ;) > > Thanks. > > Regards, > Matthias > > > > Am 22.08.2022 um 00:38 schrieb