I'm building, or should I say rebuilding, a stackfile that contains many
substacks.
To get the stackfile I'll use the standard Answer/Ask file commands and then
use go invisible or go to to get at the data in the substacks. No problem.
But this got me to wondering. If I wanted to use the
There comes a time in the use of LiveCode when you run across the concept of
a template stack or a substack as a entry/data display form. The questions
that you might be faced with are:
Which one should you use?
Which is the most efficient as a form(date entry) etc.?
How much memory does each
Call me old fashioned and stodgy but I'm still using LC 5.5.5 to do what I
want to do. No doubt I will upgrade when LC 7.0 comes about, if it meets my
needs.
But, while I continue to use what I consider to be a fairly stable IDE I don
t wish to be bothered each time I start up by that annoying
Richard Gaskin wrote:
Data storage and display is such a broad topic - can you share some
Specifics of what you have thus far?
And if the data is being stored in a stack file, why ISAM over something
Like delimited chunks in custom props?
I have set up an ISAM data substack to control how data from a stack-file is
displayed. And yes I know it's reaching back into history to use it, But
Anyway, my algorithm is a bit clunky. So I'm looking for instruction and
examples of any other ISAM methods. So it will be nice and simple but
This needs to happen within the IDE.
When I open a stack that I have blessed with a suffix other than the
LiveCode standard ones I have to select All Files in the Stack File dialog
Where do I patch the IDE, so that it will recognize my file type on an Ask
File dialog?
Gentlemen,
When I asked this question I didn't expect a training session in
Linguistics!
Francis the patch you were looking for was posted by Mark Wieder back on
Friday, October 8, 2010. But it just works with existing suffixes.
Richard I've traced it Open file through the revBackScript
Simple question:
If you can do this,
set the backgroundcolor of stack Answer Dialog to whatever.
Why can't you do this?
set the location stack Answer Dialog to whatever.
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Anyone done any study of the dialogdata command?
What does the data structure look like?
I'm assuming that it is held in an array. But I can't find anything that
defines the array itself.
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I have implemented a modified error checking handler in the topmost stack in
a multi-stack application and the standard answer dialog is popping up
over the topmost stack instead of in the middle of the screen. To me this is
a problem.
I was sure that I had seen an answer to my problem in the
This Message Box message started appearing yesterday for no apparent reason:
Message execution error:
Error description: Handler: can't find handler
Hint: X The following server error was encountered:
Where X is the last item I typed into the message box. Then it's
followed by
Surely this discussion is missing the Most Important tag of all.
I know that I have received much help and instructions from the Master
Class over the years.
And this forum would be very remiss if this tag was not included.
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So, does this mean I can no longer use Plug-ins that I have paid good
money for in LC unless I shell out $500 for the commercial product? Or keep
using LC 5.5.4..
What does this do for the plug-in market? Seems like another example of
shooting your own foot. How many creators will think about
So, help me get this hypothesis correct then:
I can use anything that is developed in LC OSS within my commercial LC
environment. But if there is a password protection on something I have been
using for awhile, and wish to continue to use, that plug-in can't be used in
a LC OSS development
I've been setting LC Community up with all the extra tools (plug-ins) I
always used with all the other versions of LC I've used over the years. And
I have found that LC Com doesn't want to load in any of the proprietary
plug-ins I use.
So before I delve any deeper into this mystery I would like
Richard
Far be it for me to push some one else's products but I have been using Axialis
Icon Workshop for a lot of years and it always comes through.
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I have a stack (like everyone else) and the 'Master' card contains all the
objects needed to make a complete window.
Some of the buttons are needed for separate cards, but not all of the cards.
When I need one I do the standard thing, push - go to master card - copy
one of the buttons - pop -
My two cents worth.
I must admit I hadn't been following this thread but on a fine Sunday
morning while catching up on correspondence
I found out a long time ago the best way for me to avoid mistakes was by
following that principle of engineering. The rule of modeling my answer of
the
I know that what I just finished reading in Rev-Up is not the case. That the
sub-headline text:
Our whole team is focused on just one goal at the moment - LiveCode Open
Source.
Can't really be what is going on there at RunRev.
This must be some advertising hype to make us all Feel good. And it
Just to close off this problem.
First, thanks Mark and Jacqueline for your quick response.
I took your advice and just to be on the safe side and not have this problem
go on forever. I removed all copies of LiveCode from my system then
reinstalled LC 5.5.4..
Hey presto! Everything was all
I just started a new stack that required the menu bar. So I selected the
Menu Builder and it was like a Whiteout in the Antarctic.
Everything had gone white.
So Like any good hacker I went into administrator mode and loaded in the
application browser and loaded in the menu builder. All the
There are many unanswerable questions in this world of ours. And here is
another one.
Why are there three different views of the handler list in the Script
Editor?
Isn't one enough? How many of you out there use more than one?
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I'm having a bit of a senior moment here folks.
I've looked through lots of LC and RunRev documentation and I can't find a
clear and simple definition of a string. Sometimes they have quotes around
them and sometimes they don't. So what's the difference between a string and
a literal?
OK, now
On 24 Dec 2012 17:25:26 -0600 J. Landman Gay wrote:
The team didn't really just yank it out, they first asked how many
People used it. Not many did and it was difficult to maintain
Funny that. I don't remember them asking me, but I can live with that.
The real problem is the last few words of
O.K. You all made me doubt myself. So never being one that enjoys being
proven wrong I went back into the cob-webbed archives of time and pulled out
Revolution Studio 2.7.4 and reinstalled it. Just to see if I had been
dreaming.
Lo and behold under the view menu there were several menu items
I find that I need a feature now that used to be available back before LC
grew whiskers.
Remember when you had the option of looking at a single handler in the
editor pane instead of the whole script? Yes, I remember the script editor
was a bit flaky with that feature but it did work well,
Hi Bob
Thanks for the reply.
Here is a partial message from the Even Viewer.
The program LiveCode.exe version 5.5.3.1497 stopped interacting with
Windows and was closed
...
Process ID: b94
Start Time: 01cddc9fa3c85650
Termination Time: 49593
Application Path: F:\Program Files
I've rebuilt my machine recently, in order to accommodate the Windows 7
Operation system. And now when I start up the LC IDE 5.5.3 Windows Explorer
goes into a sleep mode.
The sleep mode also occurs when I shut down LC IDE 5.5.3.
Do any of you Forum members have this problem or am I the only
Maybe it's just me, maybe I've missed some notification on this forum. But:
While changing some code today I noticed that the apply, and step buttons as
well as other objects were missing from the script editor.
Maybe some preference has been reset? Anyway, I'd like to know if it's just
me or
I've noticed recently that a text field set up to handle text (naturally)
has an odd attribute.
As long as the user is typing normally, that is words with spaces between
each word when the sentence reaches the right boundary of the text field I
get text wrap.
But when I take it in my dottery ol'
I upgraded to LC 5.5.2 and Win 7 to pull myself into the 21st century.
Since then I have had the message Programname not responding while in
the IDE and also in some of my LC executables. Then the whole system goes to
sleep for a while, finally shakes itself off and comes back to the real
Perhaps this has been discussed before, but I guess I wasn't paying
attention. Here goes:
I like to take certain clumps of code or handy hints from the digest and
paste them into Scriptors Scrapbook. 'cause you never know when they will
come in handy.
I have found that the only way I can get the
After many years of happy use with Windows XP, I and many other users were
told that it was no longer supported. But you all know that.
So I opened my moth-filled wallet and purchased Windows 7. Along with an
upgrade to LC 5.5.2.
I can hear you all say Aha!.
I have very carefully converted
What OS?
Sorry Jacqueline, I sometimes forget that there is more than one OS in the
world.
I'm running the best Windows stalwart. XP. I prefer an operating system of
maturity.
How wide is it on your monitor?
It's an old 19 inch square.
Those are the default values for all new stacks
I'm
Is there any reason for the IDE revMenubar to be as wide as it is?
If you have ever taken a little wander with the Property inspector you will
see that the max width and max height can be 65535!
What could be the possible reason for the attributes to be set that large?
Well, anyway back to the
Hi Bob
No, nothing as sophisticated as that.
Check the second paragraph of my first posting. It was vanilla LC 5.0.2.
Cal
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I started developing a stack that uses the command openstacks and this
stack Data Grid Templates 1330583110740 popped up its sneaky head.
I know I didn't load it in to the Development environment. So, I started up
the Development Environment by itself and using the app browser, just to
check my
Over the years I have created a lot of plug-ins. Some templates are for the
interface and many templates are for scripts. An example would be the
ask/answer dialog template.
I have always cut and pasted the scripts into the script editor. Simply
because I didn't have the knowledge(expertise) to
Is anyone still using ButtonGadget2?
If so, is it still being supported?
If not, what happened to Altuit?
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Thanks for that mark.
Yes, I had know the site. And you know there's gonna be a Yes, But.
If you happen to look at the last modified date you will see that was
6/26/2007. So it would seem to me that nothing has been done to this handy
little tool in over 4 years.
I fired off an e-mail to the
I've always assumed (Never assume anything, Watson.) that the LC clipboard
worked the same way as other app clipboards. But I've been stuck with this
problem for some time now.
I've been trying to pass data from an LC 5.02 stack to an .exe through the
clipboard. The .exe can pick up the copied
I know that I'm not a young player and this tip has probably been floating
around for years but here's what happened to me and how I got around the
trap.
As a standard (self-imposed) I always set up a preopenstack handler in my
main stack. Now, I know for some of you that will be an AHA moment,
Is there any command that will allow me to pass a simple parameter to a
compiled LC program?
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preferences:
Recently, I broke down and got a new Windows XP based computer. And even
though there has been much moaning and winging (how many of you guys are
Poms?) about the new release of LC, and feeling flush, I thought it was time
for an upgrade of Elsie 4 to 5.
It was purchased and downloaded with no
Does anyone have the perfect Definition of a plug-in? What are all of a
plug-ins attributes and property settings? And after building a plug-in how
do you test it?
Cal
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I noticed in the forum a few digests ago that one of the members was looking
for conventions to use in coding and object naming, etc. And from my
experience with Runrev and now LC stacks the people on this forum try to use
some form of convention naming. Even if it isn't pure Hungarian notation.
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