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The system clock on modern machine is highly accurate - it has to be otherwise a lot of things we rely on day in day out would not work. (By accurate I mean the drift over a course of a period of time between when it is synchronized with an external source is exceptionally small - most systems autom...

@mwieder: Array literalts [] and {} syntax is new in LC10, dynamic paths have been around a while (I'm tempted to say since before 6.0 but I'm not 100% sure).

@stam: So: put [ A, B, C, D, E ] into tPath get tArray[tPath] put tValue into tArray[tPath] Does indeed create an array where: tArray[A][B][C][D][E] = tValue However, the other keys are not empty - they contain the nested arrays. If you assume that A-E (which I was just using as placeholders for arb...

@trevix: Heh - my post was a little dense! Perhaps a much shorter way to explain the 'dynamic path' feature is this: get tArray[A][B][C][D][E] put tValue into tArray[A][B][C][D][E] Is equivalent to: put [ A, B, C, D, E ] into tPath get tArray[tPath] put tValue into tArray[tPath] Here you can have as...

@trevix: If I understand what you want to do correctly, then you want to be able to access a deeply nested array element differently, based on some condition. To handle such cases, you can pass a 'sequence' as the key of an array which the engine will then use to dynamically descend into the array. ...

@trevix: I suspect it will be the tsNetClose - you only need to call Init on app startup and close on shutdown (although the latter probably isn't necessary). If you include tsNet in the inclusions in your standalone settings, then tsNet will be init'd on startup anyway I believe as it will also ins...

@KimD: Yes - the LiveCode Web (HTML5) engine could be used to create a PWA. The web engine itself is downloaded and runs entirely client-side - after that the your app controls any remote access via url requests - just as with all the other (native) platform engines. (Indeed the best way to think ab...

@Klaus: You aren't the only one

@trevix: Assuming these files all sit in their own folder then you can do: command keepRecentFiles pFolder, pCount /* Fetch the list of all files in the specified folder. */ local tFiles put files(pFolder) into tFiles /* The filenames are of the form YYYMMDDHHMMSS_<email>. So set the * the item deli...

@wsamples / @williamdesmet / @bobcole : Thanks for persevering and getting something to work - I've filed bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24327 for what I surmise to be the issue from your testing. Essentially, the default web font mappings we provide by default (which only use loca...

@Zax: So in this case, the second parameter's pointer indicates that it is a 'out' parameter - i.e. the method writes a value into it on return. Thus you want to bind to it as 'out' rather than 'in': private foreign handler ObjC_NSFolderExistsAtPath(in pFileManager as ObjcId, in pFilename as ObjcId,...

@bobcole: Looking at the dp-5 version of the app it looks like you are using a custom html page - does your app work if you use the standard html page? If so, you'll need to update your custom page using the latest from dp-6 as a base. If that doesn't work then please email support@livecode.com incl...

I've tried a number of things with the code including bypassing as much as possible during openControl, but this seems to have zero impact and similarly 'Lock Screen' has no impact either. Could this be an issue specific to graphics? (I'm sure this was an issue with LC 9.6.2 or 9.6.3 that was solve...

@stam: I'll let Ali answer these question; however, I think the speed issue is probably for two reasons... One is due to using `the mouse is up` in layoutVisualControls - this will cause a brief pause to check the event loop for mouse messages. Then (subsequently) if the mouse is up (which it almost...

@jameshale: That is most strange! If you have 9.6.8 (or 9.6.7) to hand - can you see if you get the same problem there? Does your standalone main stack have a pink background color (and therefore it could be an inheritence issue - answer dialog is made a substack of the main stack when standalones a...