On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> When you say "forms" do you mean "web forms" or PDF forms?
PDF forms. Particularly badly written pdf . . . I actually recreate them
(though, at some point, if people start paying me, I'll pro
When you say "forms" do you mean "web forms" or PDF forms? It may not matter
much. I wrote an interface which allows the user to associate a database column
with a PDF form control. Much the same thing could be done which would allow
you to call your form fields anything you like. Populating and
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 5:12 PM, Mark Schonewille via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> You shouldn't use numbers and constants as names for fields. One and 1 are
> identical and field "one" as well as field "1" may be interpreted as the
> first field rather than the field wit
You shouldn't use numbers and constants as names for fields. One and 1
are identical and field "one" as well as field "1" may be interpreted as
the first field rather than the field with name "one" or "1".
Instead always start control names with a letter or a symbol that isn't
a number. For ex
I have, due to the government's wisdom, checkboxes I have to use to display
numeric values. I've created my own to make them the right size, and to
function as parts of groups.
But looping through, with the fields in these things named for the possible
values (usually text), I have to refer to th
