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FourthWorld wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:19 pm

There's no place like Home.

That's the piece I forgot. Normal inheritance is happening. But extensions, including ask/answer dialogs, are attached to (or at least reference) the Home stack, which in a standalone is the mainstack containing the engine.

It only happens in standalones if I remember right.

He mentioned there were many stacks, and I assumed only one put up a dialog. "This stack" is presumably that one.

Why would not the field inherit its properties from the dialog stack itself, and only that stack, as opposed to any old topStack that called the dialog? That would not work with any other pair of stacks that were in play. I haven't looked at the scripts but I assume they set the colors so the dialo...

Actually, the answer and ask dialogs inherit colors from the current stack, so it would affect the dialog. I had to do the same thing once.

It won't take long. As Kitty Carlisle said once, at our age "every 15 minutes it's breakfast.".

oldummy wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:06 am

Well, that clarifies that. Thank you.

Also, at the very lowest tier, any standalones you've built stop working. Higher tiers don't have that restriction. That tier is suitable for students who are learning LC in the classroom.

DumbarX and Stem

I LOVE this. Sounds like a comedy team. They should go on the road.

Be of good cheer, the sun is returning! Good wishes to all.

My guess is that a paste requires the SE to recalculate the red dot breakpoints, the formatting, and the text coloration; basically the entire display, so it reverts to LC native script styling.

Do you get any errors, and if so, what are they?

I forgot about that, it hasn't been in my menu for years. The last time I looked at it, it was only for character info, I wasn't aware you can actually type with it. Or maybe I'm thinking of something else. I wonder if it's for adaptive hardware, since otherwise the usual keyboard should be more con...

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 16, 2023 10:48 am

It could be very useful on desktops as they all sport virtual keyboards.

I didn't know that, how would I see that on my Mac?

Internet permissions maybe? There are two for Android, one in inclusions and another in the Android pane.

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 14, 2023 5:22 pm

The ONLY thing that fusses me is how an LC stack or standalone is going to work out 'by itself' when someone summons another bit of screen furniture.

LC sends a keyboardActivated message so you can adjust the stack.