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Hello, I am attempting to script the placement of multiline text into a field when a user presses a button. It's probably my syntax knowledge that is letting me down (and my google-fu). The scenario is when a user presses a button This is copied into a field Line one of the text Line two of the text...

All, Thank you for your help and replies. Based on a chat with Klaus, and the other replies, I decided to take a look at my installation. It appears as though an old installation, possibly 6.x or 7.0 (RC2) was having an influence on my install. Removing all older versions of LiveCode resulted in the...

@Klaus - email sent.

@Klaus - The results were the same as encountered earlier. The "Visible" box is being unchecked, but the button does not disappear.

@magice - I wouldn't know how to print to an actual printer.

If someone else more experienced reads this and wants to take a crack at it, that would be very useful.

I moved all of the code from the stack script to the card script, the button was still visible when printing the pdf. I then did a separate test by starting a new stack, adding a button and attaching the following script to the button: on mouseUp set the visible of button "Button" to false end mouse...

In the code below is there a reason my my "...set visible of [button] to false!" code isn't functioning? I have had a tinker and cannot get the button to disappear for when the printInvoiceis called, on printInvoice set the visible of button "btnPrint" to "false" put specialFolderPath("documents") &...

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately the suggested code resulted in a blank page being printed to PDF. I tried a couple of variations including
Nothing has worked so far.

Any other suggestions?

I have been tinkering with the create PDF lesson and have hit a snag. Instead of printing the entire card I want to print 3/4 of the card. I cannot get the syntax right for specifying the are of the card I want to print to PDF and could do with a bit of help. Here is the code I am working with: on p...