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- Mon Jul 23, 2018 5:10 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Option Menu
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2091
Re: Option Menu
Hi Craig -- do you have an example stack of a dropDown field that does what you are describing below? The filtering of the items in a large list to limit choices after a few characters are typed sounds like something useful in many similar cases (like a search). That is an awfully long list. I would...
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 4:03 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: How many days until ...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3233
Re: How many days until ...
Thank you for your suggestions and some good hints on how to approach this. I'll give it a go 

- Thu Jul 12, 2018 3:01 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: How many days until ...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3233
Re: How many days until ...
Yes, I know what you mean -- as with the majority of tasks done with Livecode, and as you noted, there are many ways to do something. I'm sure another cool solution will surface here 

- Thu Jul 12, 2018 2:21 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: How many days until ...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3233
Re: How many days until ...
Mind reading would be good to have sometimes when dealing with co-workers =( I'm working on sending reminders on a certain day. If the reminder day is a Saturday (regardless of the date of that Saturday), I was hoping to have a basic countdown timer of sorts to display to the user. Something like .....
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 2:02 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: How many days until ...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3233
Re: How many days until ...
Ah that looks simple enough -- but what if I don't know the date of the 'next' Saturday (or whatever day a user chooses)?
- Thu Jul 12, 2018 1:49 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: How many days until ...
- Replies: 18
- Views: 3233
How many days until ...
Hi Livecoders - how can I calculate how much time it will be until next Saturday?
- Sat Mar 24, 2018 4:58 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: widget icon glow
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1347
widget icon glow
Hi - Is there a way to make a SVG icon glow on mouseEnter without creating custom icons? The outerglow property doesn't seem to apply here 

- Tue Mar 20, 2018 8:25 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: scripting a click on a tab panel
- Replies: 3
- Views: 883
Re: scripting a click on a tab panel
Thanks for the quick response, Klaus! I don't know how I didn't come across that in my searches but I'm so glad you knew it =)
- Tue Mar 20, 2018 7:57 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: scripting a click on a tab panel
- Replies: 3
- Views: 883
scripting a click on a tab panel
Hi - is there a way to script a tab selection on a tab panel control? I've tried mouseUp and menuItem "tab 1" but those didn't work. I want to select a specific tab to open depending on a user's keyboard shortcut. Couldn't find anything else in the docs or forum yet to try. Thanks! on rawKeyDown the...
- Mon Mar 12, 2018 1:20 pm
- Forum: Animation Engine
- Topic: pop-up video
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8672
Re: pop-up video
Hi Richmond - yep! That is great and thank you so much for the quick response. I will try to make some sense of the code and hopefully learn a thing or two 

- Wed Mar 07, 2018 6:57 pm
- Forum: Animation Engine
- Topic: pop-up video
- Replies: 4
- Views: 8672
pop-up video
Hi - is there a canned animation or does anyone have one that does a pop-up video (a la old school VH-1 video series) effect? It's like a bubble field with text that 'pops' onto the screen with a little enlarge then shrink to final size effect. I don't know if I'm describing it correctly but some ex...