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Zax. Are you wedded to using the border-whatevers? I am thinking about using an overlay and modifying its properties to fit. Maybe a field with just the right backColor, borderColor, borderWidth and blendlevel? That way it is a single control not subject to the line and paragraph constraints you are...

Jwack?

I think she is used to having her name manhandled, but this?

Craig

Hi. You will find that adding a short delay will solve issues that otherwise seem perfectly sound. Just because our logic and coding is OK, it does not mean that the physical running of the engine is up to speed with our thinking. Often you can use a much shorter value than ten ticks. In fact, one t...

Richmond. Glad to see that we are both willing to work hard at anything but our work. You can see the pseudo-repetition every 36 "passes", though getting darker as you go. And the whole thing changes after six such, with a gray-scale sequence at the very end. All this was just to explore the fact th...

Ah.That was over there, eh?

Craig

Richmond.

You are no lower a life form than me. I am smug about that.

Heather said so, in that thread. Scotland (rightly) does not want the two forums to mix their posts, or even reference them between each other.

Craig

All. This post is based on an earlier thread here (of low life expectancy) about the idea that the backColor of a control can be an integer. This is, er, not well documented. This automated sample stack sets the backColor of a control to all the integers up to 260. I went above 255 just to see what ...

I started with HC in 1987, and when Supercard came out, I saw it had advanced the xTalk paradigm rather a lot. But I stuck with good ol' HC because I was incensed that Bill Appleton co-opted Bill Atkinson's name. That sort of copycat behavior just did not sit well with me. And we must not forget tha...

Anyone think that Scotland should mention on the LC website that free lifetime technical support is available 24/7?

Craig

When you put an image into a variable (it does not need to be an array variable, an ordinary one would do) you are putting the "guts" of that image into that variable. The guts are all the information one (actually LiveCode) would need to fully characterize the image, pixel by pixel, colors included...

Hi. Line 1: you put the image metaData into an array variable ("animalArray1") line 2: You ask for the name of the image, ("sheep") An image is a control. Line 3: You put the value of the array variable into a normal variable ("temp") Line 4: You ask for the "name of the variable temp". That last ma...

Rereading, I see you mentioned "array". This does not matter in the overall method I suggested, but if your data is actually an array, there are a few things that may need to be considered. For example, an array in LC cannot be displayed in a field. Its form prevents this. An array is a type of vari...

Hi, and welcome to the forum, as Klaus would say. Try this stack. It contains a field with a list of letters, as you see. It also contains another list that relates those letters to a word. That second list can be stored anywhere, and accessed in several ways. In this stack it exists as a custom pro...

So much of this long running debate is about getting the word out. The four items Stam mentioned are major enhancements. Full page ad in the Times? Kudos on the forum? I believe a free limited version is and always was essential. Not everyone saw instantly that LC was a much better new HC. And I wou...

Well, at least two people have wanted that "feature" to be "updated". Is this worth making an enhancement request?

Make that three, with me, just because.

Craig