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I have macOS Big Sur 11.7.1, Xcode 12.1 which is the correct version for my LC 9.6.2. I get the green square in 'Standalone Application Settings'. I can build a MacOS standalone. I want to create an iPhone app for my own personal use (no selling, no App Store). I did that years ago but things have c...

"Should be"? Why?

OK, I take back that a plugin "should" be a script-only stack.

multi-developer team (…) That's why script-only stacks were invented. That's an opinion. Or did you see that mentioned in a document from the LC team? Not many people around here know for sure (doc…) the answer to my question: can I use script-only stacks as plugins? . I asked in case someone here ...

Thanks, but I'm afraid you didn't really read the questions I asked, which was NOT 'where should I drop my files' (that was solved August 2021), but why can't I seem to use a script-only stack as a plugin?

Back to that same subject, almost one year later: I put my general purpose stacks 'Scripts.livecode' in Dropbox/Livecode Extensions/Plugins. Works all right. Today I tried to make that stack a script-only stack, because that's what it should be, basically. 1) I copied the stack script from 'Scripts....

@RCozens: not a bad idea, of course, except for the fact that I have a MacBook Pro, so no multi-button mouse. but maybe I could tune some system pref to simulate a multi-button mouse? BTW, how do you use your software on a portable Mac?

@Dunbar: Try this on a new card: CODE: SELECT ALL on functionKey tkey answer tkey end functionKey Note that you first have to go to the"Short Cuts" pane in the "keyBoard" pane in "System Preferences" and check the "Use F1, F2, etc keys..." Interesting to know that… except for the fact that I couldn'...

@Richard: The bigger challenge here seems less a technical concern in the messaging as much as a usability concern with having to remember a hidden option and also the means of revealing that option. We spend so much time making our own software it's easy to forget how much time users spend with sof...

@richmond62: sorry, I disagree. 1º shift and option have the same problem as the command key: you can’t get the fact that they are pressed without pressing another key (AFAIK) 2° function keys: I don’t know how to use these but that’s drifting from my original post. All I was thinking of in my origi...

@mtalluto: I do not really understand; what's the mouse got to do with the problem I stated at the start of this thread?

@Fjord. But do you see how this can work?

Sure. I used HC a lot when I was a bit younger, 30+ years ago.

Wow! Thanks to all! At least I’ll stop searching the doc for a message.
Still, it is somehow sad that pressing a modifier key can’t be reflected visually by modifying the interface.

Hi, I'm wondering how / if I can change a button label just by holding, say, the command key. I have a button script along these lines: on mouseUp    if the eventCommandKey is up then      do something on the current card   else do the same thing on all cards end mouseUp It would be much neater to h...

I had to delete Xcode 12.1.1 and install Xcode 11.3.1 and everything works, finally. Thanks to all!

@Richard

can you describe how behaviors are insufficient in your app's model?

Actually, what I’m looking for is a systematic design strategy, applicable in LC.
What is you strategy to build an app around behaviours?
Could you be so kind to point me to some docs?