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Ah I like it, I shall give that a spin.

Thanks

Happy New Year all, I have a Field I want the user to enter a unique Project code reference eg. " GFB ". Sometimes the Project code reference can be very similar eg. " GFR " so I want to ensure the user doesn't duplicate a reference as the Project Code must be unique. So I tried doing the following....

Thanks for that. I didn't realise that.

Thanks again that sorted it.

I want a Field to only have numbers entered into ie. no text. So I looked at the code in the Lessons Book on page 127 and put this together for my Field script on keyDown thekey If thekey is not a number then answer information "Must be a number" else pass keyDown PUT me into nareasqm end keyDown Ho...

Cheers Craig I will have a good old rummage and fiddle about.

"Label Field" I have had a look through the Dictionary and the User Guide and I have found very little that describes what it does and how you can use it. Is it possible to get a Text Field to display a Label of it's self via the Property Inspector or is this what the "Label Field" tool is for? I h...

Cheers for that, I think as a starting point the way you describe is the way I am going to go for now just to get some of our more recent Projects catalogued and me a bit more up to speed with LiveCode :shock: Ultimately it will have to become a proper database as over the 20 or so years we have arc...

I am trying to plan what strategy I should use to create a sort of Database that keeps records of the buildings we have built. Each building would have basic information like Client, Cost, Number of Storeys etc. My first thoughts are the user would create a new card based on which building type they...

Thanks for that. I'm not sure why, initially when I did what you described it didn't work but once I deleted the second card and made a new card it did work. Groupnotshowing.png I have one further question but it is to do with scripting a Field so I will post it on the forum separately Thanks again ...

I have at various times tried to get started with Livecode but not really made any progress.

As I live in Edinburgh I was wondering are there evening classes available either at one of the local College/University facilities or even at Livecode HQ?