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I see. Somewhere I saw an example of getting the current time using "system date", not realizing that "date" gets the current time and "system" modifies its format. Never mind.

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Thu Sep 20, 2018 10:19 am

Hm, looks like noone is actually interested in the solution.

I am interested. That's off in a completely different direction, so I'll get to it when I'm at a good break point. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll let you know if it works for me.

The "convert" command documents the "date" and "short date" formats as month/day/year, where the year is two digits. This is correct. The "system date" and "short system date" functions are documented the same way, but they actually produce a four-digit year. If I had my druthers, "date" and "system...

aspect-by-max Presumably this means you want the stack to be the same size as the screenRect . Are you asking about my choice of name? It just means "constrain the aspect ratio by setting maxWidth or maxHeight". As to screenRect, that's the size of the whole screen. Even when a window is maximized,...

At this point, I'm not interested in having LiveCode fix the aspect ratio when I release the mouse button, because I'm hoping I can get everything inside the window to resize dynamically as I drag, and I don't want it to resize into something really ugly even if temporary. So I'm not looking for a w...

I'm trying to figure out how to place limits on the aspect ratio of a stack, when the user resizes it. I'd like it to be limited to something between 4:3 and 16:9. I'd like it to accomplish this by reducing the height or the width in order to stay within the limits. I've tried all sorts of stuff in ...

"startup" gets called, but setting the rectangles in there, when the window size matches the screen size, didn't prevent it from shortening the bottom. "preOpenStack" worked, as you suggested, and I'm not about to try to figure out why the other didn't.

Turns out "on startup" didn't work, even in the standalone. But setting it in "preOpenStack" worked fine. Thanks.

I have an app compiled with 7.1.1 that presents a fixed 1280x800 window. On a Mac with a 1280x800 screen, I can get this to fit with set the rect of stack "main" to "0,20,1280,800" This positions it so that its title bar is covered by the system menu bar, which is fine because the app name isn't imp...

I know this topic is a bit stale, but I discovered another issue: even if you trap enter/return, you can still paste multi-line text into the field. To prevent this, you need to trap pasteKey as well. (And BTW, pasteKey doesn't get trapped in the IDE unless you suspend development tools.) Since no o...

In my program, I write the location of my stack (among other things) to a text file on exit, and then read it and set the location on startup. This works correctly on Windows, but on the Mac, the window moves up by 12 pixels every time. This happens both when I run the .rev file or when I run my sta...

The problem with putting things there is that Win Vista and Win7 prevent you from writing to data files in the Programs tree. That's why you now have to put things into the application data part of the tree. By the way, for what you want to do, you can generate the pathnames more simply just by appe...

Thanks. Unfortunately, I don't have a Mac handy, as I do all my development on Windows. Is it customary for each software vendor to create a subfolder under that folder, with the same name as the company, and then put its stuff inside that? Are blanks in the folder names usually avoided? I'd just li...

I have a Win/Mac standalone, which stores its configuration data in a file. In Windows, I can put it in $APPDATA under a company name subfolder. What's the equivalent on OS X?

Excellent answer. I guess it means that I can't do what I had hoped. It suprises me, though, that you can't post a message to Rev's event queue from another thread, because it is so easy to make thread get/put operations thread safe with a simple mutex. Oh well, thanks for your clear explanation.