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Hi Bernd,
That's great - thanks for the tips!
Best,
Keith..

Hi Bernd, Thanks for responding and clarifying the difference between a called function and called command, which is really useful to know. My library has two distinct types of method that seem to fall into your function and command categories: 1. Functions: I would use these, returning a 'finished'...

Hi folks, If building a library function that doesn't return a specific response to a calling script - for example, where the function updates a custom property - is there any best practice concerning what should be returned to the calling script to indicate the function's completion and hence, prev...

Hi Bernd, I followed your previous thread and now have an array with the full, raw XMLText call responses, mapped against calling string keys. When I called the array keys back out to test it was clear that they were in no apparent order! :D Yes, your latest response is a little more challenging - t...

Hi Bernd, Thanks for another piece of enlightenment! :D I was definitely going down the wrong path and you are spot-on with the use of arrays. Coming from a non-development background, I didn't really understand the difference between an array and a list of delimited items but thanks to your explana...

...and I forgot to mention that the reason I need to create the names "Fred", etc on the fly, is because this list is the result of another SOAP call - so I don't know how many names are involved (and I need to manage changes in the list of names - hence the persistence of custom properties). Best, ...

Hi folks, Is it possible to create variables and/or custom properties 'on the fly', through scripting - or do all variables have to be declared in advance? I want to convert a list (of unknown length) with lines containing 2 items: thing & notes... Fred, "notes about Fred' John, "Notes about John' K...

Bernd,
Thanks for the steer re chunks within chunks.
Best,
Keith..

Jean-Marc, Thanks for the response and the script. Bernd's suggestion of items has solved my initial requirement - to find the commas that I'd added to a revXMLTree extract to identify levels of encapsulation. On the more general requirement - needing to count the instances of a character or string ...

Hi Bernd,
Many thanks, once again for reframing the question into one that has an obvious answer - count the items not the commas!
Who was it that said it isn't the notes that make the music but the gaps in between. (That was a rhetorical question that you don't need to answer!)
Best,
Keith..

Hi folks, Can some kind soul please point me to the mechanism that lets me count the number of instances of a specific string or character - such as a comma - in a string of text.
Thanks,
Keith..

Hi Mike, Nothing obvious seems to be setting the stack to make new fields locked, so having discussed the issue with support I've created a new main stack, transferred all my app across and will keep the old dodgy stack for reference, should the issue repeat.
Best,
Keith..

Ah, thanks for the responses and enlightenment, gentlemen. I now see how set properties ≠ setProp!
I must improve my search strings!
Best,
Keith..

Hi Folks, I'm building out some preferences on a card and want to use custom properties for persistence. I'm trying to understand Revolution's checkbox and custom property set/get syntax and would appreciate a simple example of how a card custom property can be set to reflect the hilite/non-hilite s...

Thanks dunbarx but I think the issue is the main stack, as it's locking the text of any new fields on any new cards on the main or sub-stack - as per this post http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... f=8&t=5487