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Jean-Marc. I know. I was trying to make the point that "placing" a group usually involves groups that will "work" together, in whatever way, and that if one wants to get that group to another stack, copying is the way to go, since there is no particular connection between groups that live in differe...

Hi. The real point of the "place" command is usually (always?) about making copies of a group that have their sharedBehavior and backGroundBehavior set to "true". That is, groups that appear on multiple cards and share lots of properties. To use this command to make a copy of a group in another stac...

Richmond.

Thank you for sharing, for your courage, and the trust you have in the members of this forum.

Please take comfort in that you will not have to change your personality, neither during your transition nor after.

Craig

This has been discussed in the past. http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=33610&p=187670&hilit=32+monitor#p187670 The fix is to make sure that the tops of the two monitors are level with each other in the system monitor setup. To recap, I use a 32" monitor turned on its side that is only ...

Funnily enough, I stated much that a couple of years ago and had all sorts of people jump all over me . . .

But Richmond, you are so lovably jumpable.

Craig

@ Bogs. Thank for the support; that is indeed exactly what I thought, especially since that sort of question comes up regularly.

@mVillion. LC is not perfect. Neither am I. But I do at least see you appreciate the miracle. We can both live with that.

Craig

Richmond.

You posted an example above using "mod". "Div" is its cousin. They usually are used together. You knew the one but not the other????

Craig

Hi.

If you were an avid HC user, you will soon be a far more avid LC user.

I was once a rabid HC loser. I am now an avid LC abuser.

Craig

Hi. Operators, like ">", compare two values character by character, using the ASCII values at each step. That is why "b" is greater than "a", "5" > "4", and "abs" > "abc". The caseSensitive property is important if you compare "A" to "a", since "A" is ASCII 65, whereas "a" is ASCII 97. "Empty" has A...

JackieBlue1970 says that: instead of if "Fld1" is empty... implying that works as he wanted. It cannot work at all. This is OK: if "" is empty then answer "What did you expect?" but this, nope: if "empty" is empty then answer ""Well, what did you expect?" This last is simpler to grok than the snippe...

What Sparkout said.

Way, way back, because I thought it more compact for some reason, I used both quoted literals and also the same string for control names. These were usually related. There was a small benefit for me, keeping similar stuff in much the same place in a handler.

Don't.

Craig

Bogs.

If you: you get a dialog with a blinking cursor. If you click somewhere inside that dialog (not in the field itself) or back on the card, your cursor remains blinking? And there is no change to the look of the dialog?

I remain unblinking.

Craig

This harkens all the way back to HC, which vacillated between considering it a feature that an unquoted literal, would, eventually, as Klaus mentioned, be resolved into a, er, literal, or, a mild no-no. It is a terrible idea. I like to see my literals as literals, so I do not confuse them with varia...

Hi.

No.

The correct syntax would be: You have to have a control reference, apart from however you, er, reference that control.

What you describe would throw an error.

Craig

Are there other operating systems than Mac OS? If I open a dialog of either kind, and instead of dealing with it right away, click on the card, say, I am still in LC, but the dialog loses focus. You are right about the blocking thing, that is, I can do nothing until I go back and deal with it. So th...