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Hi! A quick question for which I've searched a lot without finding an answer: in my iOS application I'd like to create a calendar event for a given date/time/description etc. However, by looking at the dictionary I've only found functions to pick a date, but nothing to interact with the calendar. Is...

Hi, I've been trying to embed a browser into a mobile app for iOS. Looking at this lesson, http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4069/l/22836-how-do-i-use-the-browser-control everything is pretty clear except for one thing. At some point it says "First, create a display group with the name Browser". The point...

Hi, Let's say I have a few images that are already imported as controls in my stack, with their visible set to false. I created a group with an image field, that should behave like a pop-up (so it becomes visible upon clicking a button) and display just one of the pre-imported images; the name of th...

Thanks a lot to both of you! Ok, lessons learned. Yes, I'm definitely new at this so I didn't check for errors.. ooops :roll: it'll go at place #1 of my list. The random error might be provoked by the space, then. I guess it'll just take a couple of edits and I should be good to go. Many thanks agai...

Hi everyone, this one is really making my head spin. There goes: I've written a small app that queries an API and gets a xml with local weather, which then parses and structures into a card. Everything was working fine initially, except that after a while I started getting "xmlerr: can't parse xml" ...

Brilliant Klaus, thanks! I didn't think one could "move" from the current card and still keep a script alive in executing commands, especially if it was placed onto a button in a specific card! How about those temporary variables? Do I need to declare them at stack level for the script to work? (I s...

Hi, I've got a stack with a lot of different cards, each having the same customproperty with a specific value. I'm trying to write a recursive function, that has to be assigned to a button in a specific card, that does this: - creates an invisible field in each card - puts the customproperty into th...

Thanks, I'm still doubtful on one thing though: how can I update the value of a local variable, declared at the card level, from an object on the same card?
Do I need to create a function on the card that's tasked to update the value, or is there a quicker way?

Hi, I'm trying to set a local variable in a card script, so that I can update its value and get it as needed. On the card script I've written: local thisVar = 23 on tryThis answer thisVar end tryThis In the same card there's a button that does this: on mouseUp put 21 into thisVar tryThis end mouseUp...

Oh. I hadn't tried to deploy the app to my tablet yet, I see from the dictionary that printing to pdf is indeed not possible from android. It appears that Quartam PDF Library can indeed support Android, I'll give it a try - However even if that works, is there any smart way to get around the limit? ...

Hi, I'm trying to print some cards of my stack to a pdf, which is basically an illustrated book (lots of images on lots of pages). The aim is to send via email a custom pdf that only has the pages that the user selects on the mobile app. There's a problem: Android Mail only supports attachments up t...

Thanks a lot to both!
I just modified my script with Klaus' suggestion and it worked like a charm

Hiya all, I've written a recursive function to set a custom property of all cards in my stack. Here's a snippet of the longer function: put the cardnames of this stack into tCardList repeat with cardIndex = 1 to the number of lines in tCardList put line cardIndex of tCardList into tCard if the myPag...

Thanks Simon. Let me say that I appreciate immensely your approach of giving hints instead of a solution, that's what's needed to get people thinking and learning. Your suggestion of using custom properties is great, however I won't be able to use it since this project will be more of a brochure tha...

Hi again, I'm trying to find the best way to setup a new project. Since I'm really new to programming I'd love to have a methodological point of view from your experience :) Basically, the project will be a digital book for android and ipad. It's going to have more than 100 pages, so readability is ...