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I am working on a seating chart and am having trouble allowing the user to move the seats. Right now the seats are placed in a set arrangement and locked into position. You can move the students from seat to seat. I am trying to make the seats moveable so that the user can change the arrangement of ...

how about this opening step (or variations with/without leading or trailing qoute): replace (quote & <delimiter> & quote ) with <delimiter> in x as for line deletion, try smth like: delete line 1 to 1 of x look up "delete chunk" in the dictionary Thank you for the suggestion, I will try it. As to t...

Simon wrote:Did you try filter without space
and
filter without empty
and
filter without quote?

Simon

Thank you for the suggestions but I am sorry, I do not understand.
Is filter a command? Do you mean I should not be using "'s?

I am reading data in from CSV files and having minor problems with quotes, spaces and names. Some fields had extra quotes around them (e.g. "10/18/2012") or extra spaces before and after the field (e.g. " Yes") that I want to remove. I wrote a function (see below) function removeSpaces x replace quo...

Thank you all. Those are all good answers and conceptually, they make sense. The problem is, I do not know how to do what you are suggesting and can't find any examples or documentation on it. I looked in the Dictionary, Resources, Lessons and found not much to help on those topics. I read a number ...

Thank you for the reply
That is the problem, lockLoc locks everything.
I do want to let them move it around. I just do not want them to accidentally change the sizes.
I want to lock the size but not prevent the users from positioning it

I am creating graphics problematically for the user to move around but I do not want the user to be able to change the size of them. Is there a way to do this? There is a lockLoc but no lockSize, lockWidth or lockHeight

Thanks to both of you. The answer did the trick. There were numbers, each followed by a "return" which is what killed the calculation (l*w) Force of habit, pressing the "enter" key after entering something in a field. Checking the "Tab on Return" and the "Don't Wrap" will solve this problem in the f...

I am trying to calculate the area of a rectangle after the user types in the length and width. I have 3 text input fields: "length", "width" and "area". The user puts in the length and width, then presses the "calculate" button which has the following code: global l global w on mouseUp put field "wi...

Thanks!!! I would never have noticed that or have known what it was for.

Once I deploy my app and people are creating/deleting objects, will that cause any problems? It would not seem so, but I will ask anyway.

Thanks for the quick reply.

I programmatically create a number (x) of graphic objects in a repeat loop with create graphic ("obj_" & x) Later I delete them with delete graphic ("obj_" & x) They go do get deleted but when I look in the Application Browser - They are all still there (each in it's own layer). I do not understand....

That was exactly what I was looking for. It works great.

I also discovered vGrid to help in choosing values for the tabStops, (hard since it is in pixels, not chars)
and hGrid which makes its also more readable.

Thanks

I am sorry that I did not explain it very well. Maybe a example will help. For instance, I want to print my address book which has a name, address, phone number, etc stored in an array. I would like to print a report with just the name and phone number and have it nicely lined up in columns. Right n...

Is there a way to format lines in a text field? I want to line up some columns in a text field as I put separate fields in them.

I tried doing it with setting tabs but that results in widely spaced columns. Is there any way to line up the columns or set column stops?

Thank you

I verified that the array is being built and populated properly so it is the data grid that is not being populated on the screen under the standalone Here is the code that allows me to select a class to show in the datagrid. on menuPick pItemName global pClassNo uiViewClass pItemName put the dgNumbe...