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by Maxiogee
Sat Feb 10, 2018 12:54 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Not the foreground application
Replies: 13
Views: 6858

Re: Not the foreground application

Thank you all. I have learned all I need to know. And, as often on boards such as these, I have been introduced to ideas which are above my current need to know. However, in a small corner of my brain, I will file some of the ideas, and will - when the need arises - come back here and find these not...
by Maxiogee
Thu Feb 08, 2018 10:00 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Not the foreground application
Replies: 13
Views: 6858

Re: Not the foreground application

Thanks.

What's wrong with using idle?

Incidentally. your incrementer incremented in leaps and bounds. One time it was increasing by fours, and another - when I restarted it, by nines.

Thanks
Tony
by Maxiogee
Thu Feb 08, 2018 7:14 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Not the foreground application
Replies: 13
Views: 6858

Not the foreground application

Hi,

I want to have Livecode display, and update as necessary, the day, date and time on my Mac.

I have it working fine with an "On Idle" script. but only when LiveCode is the foremost, active, application.
How can I oblige LiveCode to carry on working when in the background.

Thanks,

Tony
by Maxiogee
Sun Jun 19, 2016 12:39 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Capturing the RBG of a sequence of pixels
Replies: 1
Views: 1925

Capturing the RBG of a sequence of pixels

I have a photograph which I wish to stylise. I intend to replace, both vertically and horizontally, ever second pixel's color value with that o the preceding one. Thus, the color value of the pixel at 1,1 will also be given to the pixels at 1,2 and 2,1 and 2,2> I have expected that the script for ca...
by Maxiogee
Wed Dec 10, 2014 7:43 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Is the word "infinity" a problem for LiveCode?
Replies: 5
Views: 3960

Re: Is the word "infinity" a problem for LiveCode?

magice wrote:I am curious why you have "go to card a" within the repeat loop.
It gave me something to look at while the job was in progress.
I hate looking at a locked screen.
by Maxiogee
Tue Dec 09, 2014 9:27 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Is the word "infinity" a problem for LiveCode?
Replies: 5
Views: 3960

Is the word "infinity" a problem for LiveCode?

I have a stack which records thew words used in a word game I have been playing. I wished to tally the frequency of occurrence of the words (there was a lot of repetition across levels). The stack contained 26 cards, one for each letter of the alphabet, and each card had 8 fields - an identifying fi...
by Maxiogee
Tue Oct 07, 2014 10:03 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Sorting glitch
Replies: 5
Views: 3420

Re: Sorting glitch

Yes, I discovered that deleting the spaces did not work because it did not delete all the spaces, because I only asked it to look for " ". I had to copy the offending 'space' into the script.

Thanks for the insight.
by Maxiogee
Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:37 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Sorting glitch
Replies: 5
Views: 3420

Re: Sorting glitch

I've settled for adapting the sort as follows. repeat with c = 1 to number of items in fred if char 1 of item c of fred = " " then delete char 1 of item c of fred end repeat sort items of fred ascending repeat with c = 1 to number of items in fred put " " before char 1 of item c of fred end repeat T...
by Maxiogee
Mon Oct 06, 2014 6:29 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Sorting glitch
Replies: 5
Views: 3420

Re: Sorting glitch

Why does the space matter, Craig?

Looks like I'll have to do a stripping out of the spaces following comas and then sort and then re-insert them.

If only I could use a doub;e-character itemdelimiter - ", "!!
by Maxiogee
Mon Oct 06, 2014 5:13 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Sorting glitch
Replies: 5
Views: 3420

Sorting glitch

I have a field (named "Personnel") which contains lines of names of people appearing on music albums. Following each name is a list of the things the person is credited with. The primary item delimiter is "•", and then the person's entries are separated by commas The Personnel field on one card is t...
by Maxiogee
Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:12 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: BackColor problem
Replies: 3
Views: 2305

Re: BackColor problem

Hi. Do you have the "listBehavior" of your field set to "true"? This may interfere with the manual color changing you are trying to work. Set it to "false" (make sure that lockText is "true") and see if that helps. Craig The "listBehavior" is false The field is not locked. The following code works:...
by Maxiogee
Wed Aug 13, 2014 3:55 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: BackColor problem
Replies: 3
Views: 2305

BackColor problem

In the script of a scrolling field with several lines of text I wrote… On mouseUp if the controlKey is up then put last word of (the value of the clickline) into numba go to card numba of stack "AllSingles" else put word 2 of the clickline into Lin if the backcolor of me = 255,255,255 then set the b...
by Maxiogee
Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:47 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: TextColor glitch
Replies: 1
Views: 1549

TextColor glitch

Why does the textcolor of a field return empty when no textcolor has been set? I set the textcolor of the first line of text in field 1 to "255,0,0" I have left the textcolor of line 2 unchanged from the default. I have this script in a button on mouseUp repeat with a = 1 to 2 put "/" & the textcolo...
by Maxiogee
Sat Dec 14, 2013 7:35 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Fixedwidth font is not fixed
Replies: 12
Views: 6523

Re: Fixedwidth font is not fixed

Klaus wrote:Could you please report this as a bug? http://quality.runrev.com
Thanks!
Done
by Maxiogee
Sat Dec 14, 2013 1:03 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Fixedwidth font is not fixed
Replies: 12
Views: 6523

Re: Fixedwidth font is not fixed

If I remember correctly from the mailing list, this is a known bug in LC 6.x Thanks Klaus. I suspected, and feared, as much. I can confirm that it is a 6.x issue. I have just now opened all the affected stacks with LiveCode 5.5.4 — having viewed them (with the non-alignment visible) first in LiveCo...

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