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Hi, I need a way to find out what word a certain character is in. For example, say I had char 4 of "LiveCode Forums", the result would be 1 (because char 4 is in the first word of "LiveCode Forums". I looked in the dictionary, and both "charIndex" and "lineIndex" seem very similar to what I am tryin...

Hi, I have an object that has a mouseLeave handler. This handler is run when the mouse moves off the object. However if I keep the mouse still and move the object with the "move" command, mouseLeave is only sent when the user moves their mouse a tiny bit after the object have been moved from under t...

Thanks very much, this is exactly what I was looking for!
Andrew

Hi,
I have a field and I need a way for it to resize its width to the the width of text that is in the field. The text in the field could be any length, but will not span over multiple lines.
Any ideas?
Andrew

Hi all, I have a group of objects, and I want to move this group along the horizontal axis. At the same time, I also want an object that is in the group to move along the vertical axis whilst still moving with the rest of the group . I know of a more complicated way that involves calculating where t...

Hi Craig,
The thing is, my program is not working with decimal places, all numbers generated are integers.

In answer to Klaus, I have tried setting the numberFormat to various values, and it changes nothing. I am not sure what to do next. Any advice?

Thanks again,
Andrew

Hello, I have just started a program that works with large numbers (not for any particular reason, I was just bored). However, when I try and calculate a really large number (for example 2^2^2^2^2^2), I get the result "00000inf". I know this is probably beyond the limits of what LiveCode can process...

Thank you Dixie, for solving this!
Your help is much appreciated.

Andrew

Hello, I am trying to find a function that returns the inverse tangent of an angle in degrees. I am currently using the following function for the "normal" tangent: function tanInDegrees angleInDegrees return tan(angleInDegrees * pi / 180) end tanInDegrees but I have now come across a situation wher...

Hello, I have a stack that uses an image object. The user is able to select an image from a list, and the image is loaded up into the image control through the fileName property. However, when the fileName is set the the image path, the size and width of the image control change, causing it to cover...

Just checking, but have you enabled Android 2.2?

... is an easy way to open the folder containing a file in the Finder/Explorer/Linux Desktop. From looking at the LiveCode documentation, I believe that the "launch document" command launches the document in the default application , not the Finder/Explorer/Linux Desktop. Is this what you are looki...

Hello Johan, and welcome to the LiveCode forums! reading and writing text files LiveCode can definitely do that. There is a lesson in the LiveCode lessons website which shows you how to do that: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/7407-file-input-output manipulating images (scaling, croppin...

Brilliant, Thank you for this!

Do you know when I will be able to build apps for the Raspberry Pi on the Windows/Mac version of LiveCode?

Thanks,
Andrew

Hello Terry,
Thank you! What a great stack. It is really detailed.
Is this under the GPL licence (The one that LiveCode Community is licensed under) or have you chosen another licence?
Thanks,
Andrew