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The whole process of creating and managing menus is woefully under-documented. This seems to be one of the parts of LiveCode that you're expected to 'just know', which is a shame. Where's the newbie-friendly documentation on making and managing menus? The explanations of how it works? The tips and t...

Sell-by date? In current release terms version the GM1 build of 6.5.2 is fresh, no? :?: :? According to the bug reporter form v6.6 is at DP1 stage. But I will definitely take your advice to drop back to v6.5, which is still installed. (In fact I see 5.5.3 still installed too! Maybe it is time for a ...

Duly noted! And I'll make sure to report all the documentation glitches I see to quality.runrev.com.

Not a typo, just a nod to Richard Gaskin (@FourthWorld would have been a better choice), someone I knew from a mailing list a long, long time ago.

That should work! I used pretty much the same thing myself just a couple of hours ago:
Perhaps a sanity check on the tShortID variable contents?

Nice, thanks!
With a little bit of rethinking and being careful to call it just before the actual 'find' line this worked a treat.

Thanks, sounds sensible!
@Richard, I'll go do that.

Keith

Ah, yes. Sorry!

Mac OS X 10.9.1
LiveCode 6.5.2 build 3014
It's exactly the same in the Commercial and Community editions.

Is there a straightforward way to find text in a different stack? The 'find' command is really easy to demonstrate, but it's limited to searching through the same stack.

I'm hoping it's something odd to do with my installation but I have a nagging fear it isn't... When I look through the LiveCode Dictionary from within LiveCode I keep coming across glitches. The latest is a show-stopping loss of key bits of info from the Find page. Fortunately it's all there in the ...

Nice! Thanks @jacque, this is useful stuff

Heh. My youngest son has a score somewhere around 40, and I can't get past 2 either. It is *incredibly* infuriating – and very clever.
The plan is a stop-motion animated GIF for the character and side-scrolling clay-based landscapes and hazards. I'll shout out when I get to a stage worth trying.

Thanks @BvG, I've been gravitating towards that, and your advice pushed me to complete the process: on startTheGame set the loc of image "person" to 170,165 -- move the character to the start position set the repeatCount of image "pipes.gif" to -1 -- loop the GIF runTheGame end startTheGame on runTh...

Interesting that I can use animated GIFs and the intersect function's "opaque pixels" to detect a 'collision' with just the visible pixels, and it works across the frames. Very nice! :) I also improved the performance by using the move command and the 'without waiting' parameter to have the user-con...

Thanks – making empty handlers to swallow related events sounds like a useful (and logical) suggestion. I'll try it in a sec. I'm talking with my son about anternative takes on this - I'll mention Flappy Hippos to him, I'm sure it'll get a laugh! He's a stop-motion animator, and we may try making al...