Hi Craig I was blessed to have my best friend Brent to work with. This guy is a wizard at any programming and he has a photographic memory. He did things with HC that were incredible for the era of the 80's. He mastered HC to above the expert level. So it is my pleasure to let him know about LiveCode about a month ago. He recently retired as the chief testing manager for all arms of the US Military for testing Medical software used to support our military. He is the guy that makes sure the designs will pass the standards he wrote for the military software tools.
Getting back to your help response: I am still at the beginner level with LiveCode so it takes some usage to see it working to reveal the outcome I am looking for. It is actually an issue being a long time programmer in other languages because you expect things to work in similar ways. LiveCode is its own world with a greater degree of scripting required to get results. For example; setting the money symbol in FileMaker cannot be scripted, it is added in the inspector similar to LC. BUT, it requires only one way type of symbol in the inspector to be used so if the app is used in different countries the user cannot change the symbol. You can type the symbol into the field and it works fine, but a preset is much nicer. So as developers do, I created a drop down list that sat in front of the number fields that had 60 country money symbols in the drop down. The user set the to a GVar for that symbol on the main screen and it would then change the entire apps money symbols. I could do the same thing in LC, so you see how the usage is traded to new development formats. I want to test your approach because it is the LC way to do things. Thank you Vaughn Clement Apps by Vaughn Clement (Support) *http://www.appsbyvaughnclement.com/tools/home-page/* Skype: vaughn.clement https://secure.join.me/appsbyvclement FaceTime: vclem...@gmail.com LogMeIn also avaialble Call on "ooVoo" at address: vaughnclement or 9282549062 Ph. 928-254-9062 Cloud Hosting Registration Web Site: https://my.oditech.com/cart.php?a=add&pid=41 On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 6:18 AM, <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > > > Vaughn. > > > YOU WERE A HC USER??!!?? > > > Sorry. Ahem. > > > But then you must remember that you cannot add "$50" to "15". xTalks are > typeless, and the parser resolves strings into usable form purely by > context. So you can only add strings that resolve to numbers. > > > Would this be immediately understandable to you?: > > > function goodNumber tText --valid in both HC and LC > repeat with y = 1 to the number of chars of tText > if char y of tText is in ".0123456789" then put char y of tText > after temp > end repeat > return temp > end goodNumber > > > In LC, we have another way to do it: > > > function goodNumber tText --valid in LC only > repeat for each char tChar in tText > if tChar is in ".0123456789" then put tChar after temp > end repeat > return temp > end goodNumber > > > This last is faster; LC is a superset of HC. But you must already have a > huge head start in all this. It is just a matter of learning new language > elements, unlearning such things as backgrounds in lieu of groups, and so > forth. An effort, to be sure, but I retract my wager. You already have won, > though it appears you do not yet know it. > > > Were you part of the HC community 15 years or so ago? The LC one is > larger, comprised of many of the same (now older) members, and growing. > Thank heaven. > > > Craig > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode