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If it ain't broke, fix it until it is.

Yeah, well, it appears that it's been some six years now since I sent out an update, so...

Whew! It's been a long time since I've updated this. I really thought I had made my peace with the built-in script editor, but I recently had to look at this thing again and make some long-needed adjustments. Refactored it so much that it really needs a new major version to reflect all the changes. ...

hmmm... somehow managed to post before editing.
See below.

Mark- I'm not seeing that header. What I get back from the Covid19.countries function starts with [{"Country":"Portugal","Slug":"portugal","ISO2":"PT"} ...and yeah, you're basically on your own to prettify the output. I'd try grabbing the easyjson or fastjson libraries from github, use the library t...

Yay!
If you want to get really fancy you could even shorten that to a single line

Probably the lineOffset function is going to give you the best results.
That will give you a line number which you can then plug into the hilitedLine command.

Ha! I was just watching Viv Stanshall before reading this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hcZ4s9cvpw

...and I don't for a second believe the OP's claim that

I've used LiveCode for >5 years, on hundreds of projects

Here's what I came up with:

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=511904

Here's a quick script-only stack library I threw together to access up-to-date worldwide covid-19 information from Johns Hopkins.
Stay safe out there.

thanks - I know I can zip and post, and that's what I'll do, but sheesh.

Couldn't find a better place to post this: I tried to post a .livecodescript file as an attachment and got an error message that this wasn't an allowed type. WTF? First of all, what are the allowed types? Second, why isn't .livecodescript on the list? And... what can be done to fix this? InvalidFile...

Hmmm... could you flush specific messages from the queue rather than brute-forcing it, i.e., leave the callback messages in place?