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Custom properties are very handy for storing data. But please remember they can only be stored within a file that is writable. For example, consider you have a custom property of a stack. In the IDE you can read and write that at will. But once you compile that stack into a standalone it is readable...

Bill,

Thanks for our effort in making that clear explanation and video.

Jim Lambert

Get Info reports the size of testInterface as "43,560,495 bytes (Zero bytes on disk)"

Perhaps that's a clue.

I also used revZip to decompress testHello.zip

error: "ziperr,unable to open output file"

Jim Lambert

downloaded to macOS 10.15.5
unzipped
double-clicked testinterface application

You can’t open the application “testInterface” because it is not supported on this type of Mac.

Jim Lambert

for a 'typewriter effect see TYPE in the dictionary

I am simply trying to read a number from a text file located on a web server without having to download it at all. How is this done? ... It’s just a simple text file. If that's actually what you want to do have you tried this? put url "https://mysite.com/mysimplenumberfile.txt" into theNumberIWante...

To give an actual answer to OP shaunalan's question - Yes, I would. But as LiveCode has just completed a successful fundraising campaign they should wait a bit to conduct another. Re: MarkW's 'eat our own dogfood' post, I wonder if RevIgniter might be useful for that? I appreciate Mark's metrics on ...

Hi Richard,

LiveCode Connect was the 'soon to be released' feature promised in the quote I posted.

It ingested Swagger (OpenAPI) API descriptions and converted them to LC scripts.

It was stillborn. Or rather aborted.

Jim Lambert

Ah, if only Livecode Connect were real! Get Access To This Major New Feature… We are rapidly approaching the first release of LiveCode Connect. This major new feature will allow you to add all kinds of Web API’s easily to your app. LiveCode Connect takes the hard-work out of accessing web APIs by us...

Bogs wrote:

Yah, but where are the Android and Desktop sizes ?

Random(4000) x Random(3000)



Jim Lambert

I too was gobsmacked when I saw that post using 'new' to create a card.

I never knew the voodoo that old 'new' could do.

My aim is to present learners with a stack with a button which, when they click on it, runs a script, but they are prevented from being able to see the script. At a certain point learners need to get away from being spoon-fed and start working out how to effect functionality: a stack with a button ...

The mothership Zoom meetings have had light attendance. Perhaps that's a function of covering the entire world.
Maybe regional Zooms would be better.
I'd certainly be up for popping into an online SoCal Zoom meeting such as Clarence offered.
I don't have much LC stuff to say though.

if I held the mouse down the card flipping continued but on mouseUp it was not stopping the animation once it got going

Since you use SEND IN TIME, make sure your MOUSEUP deletes any remaining SEND messages.

Jim Lambert

And here's an old animation technique using a single image containing all the cels of an animation.
Jim Lambert