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Hi Jean-Marc and bogs: No luck! LC crashes every time! (Just to be sure, I shut down and restarted my computer -- to rule out system corruption issues. Also, the fact it works in LC8.1 rules out a lot of other possibilities). MacOS 10.14.5, LC 9.5.1 I guess it is the OS (Mojave). Maybe someone with ...

1. It appears that the Window's version is being very forgiving! The Mac version crashes every time! 2. The standard compliance text I had posted in the original post says that we must encode the URL. It is not necessary in my example (all chars are alphanumeric, no spaces). I went ahead and convert...

Hi bogs: In Mac, /Users is the root directory and /Users/JohnDoe is the "Home" directory. So, it is file:// followed by the full path name (giving rise to "///") And it works in LC8.1, so the syntax is correct. Also, I am surprised that you say that simply putting the file path (without the keyword ...

Could someone give an example of setting the browser URL?

set the URL of widget "Browser" to tLocalFile

What is an example specification of tLocalFile?

Thanks,
Sri

I have an LC8.1 stack where, to display a local pdf file, I use a browser widget. The URL of the browser widget is set to file:///Users/JohnDoe/myApp/A101.pdf This works in LC8.1 but crashes LC9.5 The LC9.5 dictionary says (see image below) (for some reason, the dictionary won’t let me copy the text...

Smart quotes !
And I can turn it off in preferences in TextEdit (not in Stickies, though)!
I must remember to look at the preferences of the apps I use (including LC).
I miss out on a lot of feature power by not doing that.

Thanks, everyone!

Sri

is it possible that the original text used some form of "curly" quotes'? Craig I pressed the same quote key on the keyboard, the one next to the enter/return key. By the way, it was on a sticky note that I had scribbled the code (not in TextEdit). I tested using nativeCharToNum in the message box: ...

I drafted some code in TextEdit (a Mac editor) and copied to to the script of a button. The code has several literals in quotes. There was a compile error -- it didn't recognize the quote chars! I deleted and added back the quote chars within LC script editor, and it worked. The chars "quote", "begi...

Thanks, Richard and Sparkout! That certainly changes my perspective! Two points, though: 1. Regressions vs fixes: You can’t weight them equally. It is one thing not being able to do something to begin with (existing bug or lack of a feature); it is an entirely different matter if my existing program...

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Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:28 am

Color palette works as expected with LC 9.5.0 stable on OS X 10.13

Thanks, Jean-Marc!

Version 8.1 is more than three years old, with many bug fixes in the engine since. You might try that recipe in the latest version, 9.6dp2: Richard: I was under the impression that newer versions are more liable to be buggy and are more suitable for people who know what they are doing (especially, ...

LC 8.1 stable (on Mojave 10.14.5) 1. Create a stack 2. Drag an object in (rectangular graphic, text field, ....) 3. Open object inspector; click on background color 4. Color palette opens; you can set a color or simply click "Cancel" 5. LC crashes. (You can set the color by script without a hitch). ...

Try inserting before the failing line.

Sri

@bogs, thanks for the link. It should do. I'll check it out. @jacque, yes, I was thinking along the same lines, that the initial act of setting credentials on (say,) AWS should serve as a check (if we are not accessing public web pages on the internet). (I am still learning the intricacies of AWS). ...

Thanks, Jacque & bogs! Good enough but we can't know if the site is down or we don't have internet connection. We can reduce the probability of false positive if we check two websites, I guess. There must be a webpage with small amount of content but near 100% uptime that one can use for this purpos...