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I play a lot of Scrabble and made a tileTrackerScoreKeeper gadget in LC. Works fine, though I have not yet implemented a game timer.

If anyone else plays, let me know...

Craig newman

What happens if I give you a stack that has the same ID as one you're working on? Easy in LC. Just make a few new stacks. They will all have the same id. If you add the same number of controls to each, they will all have the same id. I think it would be very useful indeed to have an immutable stack...

Richard. Just remembered this thread. AFAIK the ID property of stacks was always used as a placeholder for the next available ID for the objects within it. As with HyperCard, SuperCard, Toolbook, and others, the identifier for a stack is its name. Been a while, but it turns out that HC stacks do not...

Hi.

I would contact QCC right away.

But I often find issues that nobody else has ever seen. This seems to be the case here as well. It will be interesting to see if the team can reproduce...

Craig Newman

All, I am aware of that. Thanks, though. My point is really, I guess, that the word "deprecated", as regards to numToChar was somewhat alarmist when it first came out. It really should have been, er, "marginalized" or "now limited in scope". I was at the time alarmed. I am happy now to be merely lim...

Richmond wrote: I spent an very, very long time indeed messing around converting stuff from numToChar and charToNum to numToCodePoint and codePointToNum because backwards compatibility in that area was broken. I was concerned about this when if first came up years ago. But I have never seen it broke...

AHA. I was using Brian Milby's fast and easy on-line dictionary. In the embedded v.8 dictionary, there is no mention of the command at all. So the error was essentially correct. LC was expecting a command call, and suggested I get rid of the unknown "with" and put in a comma like a good boy. It migh...

I was playing with the "difference" command for arrays, and simply pasted this example from the dictionary into a button script: on mouseUp put "green" into tLeft["color"] put "left" into tLeft["align"] put "blue" into tRight["color"] put "100" into tRight["width"] difference tLeft with tRight end m...

AFAIK the ID property of stacks was always used as a placeholder for the next available ID for the objects within it. As with HyperCard, SuperCard, Toolbook, and others, the identifier for a stack is its name. Richard. Do I have that wrong? I (always?) thought that HC stack ID's were permanent. You...

Back in the day, a stack ID was immutable. This might resolve the whole issue, if the behavior pathname referenced the stack ID instead of the stack name. But stack ID's are now a moving target. Perhaps creating a new immutable stack property might be the answer. It also might be useful in many othe...

Also can you set different padding and spacing within the cells to align the graphic better? I should have read more carefully. A table field is adorable, but is limited in certain ways, derived from the limitation that it is just a field, after all. What you want to play with are the "tabStops" an...

Hi. Of course we are fitting a function into a space that is not exactly built for it. I assume you have an image and will soon have a "characterImage". So say you have a table field with several rows and columns filled with a single char in each "cell". And you set the imageSource of ONE of them to...

Mike. We were not talking about creating a matrix of individual controls, butt rather using a single table field. That gadget has the XY stuff already in place, ready to go. Do you understand what I meant by setting the "imageSource" property of each character in that field? Do you understand that w...

Jacque.

I made a 100 card stack in HC. Disk management notwithstanding, the "show all cards" command took 15 ticks.

So unless the flip book that one was making required a frame rate 20 times faster than old movies had, it seems that a delay parameter in that command is sorely needed.

Craig

Has to be:

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Craig