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by shaosean
Tue Nov 16, 2010 3:22 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Catastrophe for standalones moving from XP to win7
Replies: 2
Views: 3522

Re: Catastrophe for standalones moving from XP to win7

Your user created data should be stored away from your main application's executable files (regardless of operating system).. If the data being saved is truly user created (or user owned) data, then store it in the user's document folder (or ask them where to save it).. If the data is application cr...
by shaosean
Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:05 pm
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Font Style not "sticking"
Replies: 8
Views: 8477

Re: Font Style not "sticking"

Are you saying at the font size of 60? Sorry, worked a few good years at a print shop and the original wording sounded like you were using one of the Helvetica Neue variants..

In Rev are you picking HelveticaNeue-Bold from the font list, or selecting HelveticaNeue and turning on the bold style?
by shaosean
Tue Nov 16, 2010 9:05 am
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Font Style not "sticking"
Replies: 8
Views: 8477

Re: Font Style not "sticking"

Here is a list of the fonts in iOS click here Scroll down through the comments as it seems people have been keeping it updated with the new releases..
by shaosean
Mon Nov 15, 2010 8:51 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: change the link dest of a button
Replies: 6
Views: 4416

Re: change the link dest of a button

is it possible to change the link destination of a button on the fly ? i have tried the textLink property, but that does not work on buttons. yes, but depends on how you are going about it.. post some samples :-) is it possible to create buttons on the fly ? check out the create command. how can yo...
by shaosean
Mon Nov 15, 2010 6:55 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: access to the different cols of a csv file
Replies: 6
Views: 4012

Re: access to the different cols of a csv file

There is the split command, not certain if it handles multi-dimensional arrays though..
by shaosean
Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:33 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: empty lines in field
Replies: 5
Views: 4978

Re: empty lines in field

Why not use

Code: Select all

filter fld "myField" without EMPTY
by shaosean
Sun Nov 14, 2010 7:30 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: access to the different cols of a csv file
Replies: 6
Views: 4012

Re: access to the different cols of a csv file

Your best bet is to read in the CSV file and save it to a multi-dimensional array and then loop over that..
by shaosean
Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:15 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: stack inside stack
Replies: 27
Views: 14359

Re: stack inside stack

open stack "A" in the window of stack "B"
This replaces the content of stack "B" (what you see on the screen, not the actual file) with the content of stack "A".. This is a nice method to open a new stack in the same location and size as a previous stack but without all the flickering..
by shaosean
Fri Nov 12, 2010 5:09 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Point Of Sale Application
Replies: 5
Views: 4664

Re: Point Of Sale Application

why one would choose runrev over real basic as they both appear to have similar features from the outside looking in Indeed they do, and until you need to get in to some more advanced features both will do pretty much the same thing.. The reasons I switched from REALbasic to RunRev was I just have ...
by shaosean
Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:47 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: How to pick selection in a field?
Replies: 6
Views: 4046

Re: How to pick selection in a field?

If you have a button and a list field named "list" you can place the following code in the button to get the selected text of the field. on mouseUp put the selectedText of field "list" -- displays the selected text in the message box end mouseUp Now if you want to use this in an "if" statement on mo...
by shaosean
Thu Nov 11, 2010 4:43 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Shao Sean's Calendar Object
Replies: 23
Views: 12448

Re: Shao Sean's Calendar Object

Check out Fourth World's message path information (it helped me out when I was starting)..
by shaosean
Tue Nov 09, 2010 9:32 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Really Basic Question
Replies: 2
Views: 2238

Re: Really Basic Question

Have you tried deleting the preference file?

Mac OS X:
~/Library/Preferences/Runtime Revolution/

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