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Hi Jean-Marc,
The code I showed works for me and is necessary for reasons not discussed.
I put my issue in context for other users, but the question is not the code but at the end.
The point was about the amount of text that can be held in a Table field.

I use a table field to store information. In my application, it was chosen to quickly save and recall the data in a neat structure, from a programmer's view, not a database view. For example, to save:- (shown for the benefit of fellow Nubies) put field "Table 1" into url ("File:" & field "FilePath")...

Hi Klaus, Well, that fixed it! I have set all objects to Arial , from the preopen stack, but because of a few different font sizes, I have not set them. I also selected the objects and made sure they were all showing Arial and the actual font size. I think the font name and font size set at object l...

I used the Livecode system font and size, whatever that is. The Text Formatting properties always shows a blank box for font and size, when I use the Livecode system. I am not sure from your question if that means it is not SET. Or to put it another way, do you have to chose a font and size, regardl...

Thank you Jacque for the clear and helpful advice.

All the objects are locked into position and the Stack is not resizeable.
The resulting font size is bigger in the EXE than in theStack. I can compare this by having both the exe and the Stack in view at the same time.

The IDE views of my application is the same on either PC 1920x1200 & 1920x1080 resolution, but are significantly different in exe form. Also no problem in either state on a Mac. The big issue is that Label fields are partly covered by adjacent controls and it is a right mess! Yes, I can reposition t...

Hi, I had a similar requirement for a background process, see

Re: How do you poll in a program?
by Dixie » Fri Mar 29, 2013 1:04 pm

And in conjunction with advice from others in the Post, credit for my solution should go to Dixie, who produced a simple stack demonstrating how to do it.

I cobbled together a Contact Manager to get more business, running on PC, it also works as is on the Mac. As an enhancement, I added a "Personal" section and it would be very handy to access this from my Galaxy Note 10.1 outside business hours. Everything appears to work, except file handling, and t...

Hi Dixie and Jacque, A further observation about the stack, if the poll process stops because of a script error (elsewhere) then the shutting down and restart of Livecode is not enough. The PC must be restarted or the poll will not work. In addition, it leaves a process running with the same name as...

Hi Dixie, Using your polling code has been very successfull. I am not entirely sure how it works, but I will explore it in detail some other time. A side effect that was unexpected, is that if there is an error in my code that causes the script to stop, it kills the polling. The only way to get it t...

Hi Richard, Everything is now working as desired. I had to change back to the line background method, because the html required set the htmlText of fld "table 1" to tNuData At first, I thought everything was fine, but when scrolling down and working with the coloured lines above the field, the above...

Hi Richard, Well, this worked perfectly, right out of the proverbial box! 49ms x 4 will be well within my requirements and should not cause any noticeable issues. I did read your links and got the point. I tried to make the change, but got an anoyiong "Repeat: missing 'in' " error. I can study this ...

I have removed sensitive data the central button is wher the problem code is. The side button is to put rubbish into private fields. Item 11 holds hours, item 12 holds minutes, item 13 holds the trigger to colour line or not. There are always just a few triggers at any one time, never more than a do...

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