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by Pomo
Tue Apr 14, 2015 4:51 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Is there syntax for calling a function, ignoring result?
Replies: 4
Views: 3921

Re: Is there syntax for calling a function, ignoring result?

short answer: No! Function WITH result, a handler or die! :D Klaus This. In the end, I converted the result-less function into a handler. The "get f(a)" also looks plausible. I really appreciate being able to ask about the best practices for accomplishing particular tasks in LC. These kinds of ques...
by Pomo
Mon Apr 13, 2015 11:07 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Is there syntax for calling a function, ignoring result?
Replies: 4
Views: 3921

Is there syntax for calling a function, ignoring result?

I have a function that saves a value and returns nothing important. Only the side-effect is important. I would like to use a statement like setValue("kName","Fred") for the combination of brevity and clarity. This is an error though. What works: 1) put setValue("kName","Fred") into foo 2) Convert se...
by Pomo
Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:45 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand
Replies: 13
Views: 9601

Re: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand

Hi. We agree that me should evaluate to the card with the doIt handler. It does in fact: - In doIt: put the name of me into tMe - place breakpoint after - click Button2 - at he breakpoint, tMe is: card "card1" The problem is that when put the long time into fld "fText" of me is executed next, there ...
by Pomo
Wed Apr 08, 2015 7:25 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand
Replies: 13
Views: 9601

Re: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand

All, I will go ahead and file a bug report on send failing to switch the context, and also on 'put the long time into fld "fText" of me' neither throwing an error nor setting anything. Let's see what the official developers want to do about it. For my app, I have appended the equivalent of "...of ca...
by Pomo
Wed Apr 08, 2015 2:16 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand
Replies: 13
Views: 9601

Re: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand

Thanks for the replies. But I was asking why does LC behave this way, what's its internal model and the intention behind it. I'd already found the same workaround in experiment 3). It's an unsatisfactory workaround because it requires uglying up my code by adding explicit card references to every ob...
by Pomo
Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:05 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Calling handler on a different card - help me understand
Replies: 13
Views: 9601

Calling handler on a different card - help me understand

Hi. In trying to call a handler on a different card, I am confused about the behavior I am seeing. I've attached a sample stack to show the questions. Card1's script contains a handler "doIt". doIt puts the current time into field fText also on card1. Button1 on card1 sends "doIt" to card1. All work...
by Pomo
Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:38 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: How to package group control's behavior?
Replies: 9
Views: 6342

Re: How to package group control's behavior?

Nothing to do with LC directly. I originally had a hidden field that held the picked time already parsed out, along with a field to display the time in a nice format for humans. The simplification is to parse the displayed time and generate it as needed, using only the display field. BTW, I noticed ...
by Pomo
Sat Apr 04, 2015 6:12 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: How to package group control's behavior?
Replies: 9
Views: 6342

Re: How to package group control's behavior?

Thanks so much for your replies. Those are the kind of hints I need to shift skills from C++ and Java to LC. In this case I was able to re-design the group control as a single field (at the cost of more complexity in the script). The behavior then puts the scripts for all of them in one place, as yo...
by Pomo
Sat Apr 04, 2015 2:01 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: How to package group control's behavior?
Replies: 9
Views: 6342

How to package group control's behavior?

Hi all, I'm looking for advice on good design practice. I have made a control, a time-picker, that consists of several fields in a group. The fields and the group itself have scripts that implement the control's behavior. I need to put several instances of the control on each of several cards. That'...
by Pomo
Wed Apr 01, 2015 10:41 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Native widgets; bug fixes
Replies: 2
Views: 3884

Re: Native widgets; bug fixes

LCMark: Thanks for your reply. I will certainly check out community contribution pages. One immediate goal is to write a "Time Picker" in iOS and bring it up in a LC window. Can you tell me whether this is possible in practice (not the Xcode part, the LC integration)? I do see that LC translates opt...
by Pomo
Tue Mar 31, 2015 8:49 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Native widgets; bug fixes
Replies: 2
Views: 3884

Native widgets; bug fixes

Hello all, I have been assessing LiveCode for iOS/Android development, and was just about to give up on it when LC 8 DP1 was released in the nick of time. Unfortunately, my first simple iPhone standalone app (in LC 7) resembled, not to put too sharp a point on it, a settings dialog from Windows 3.1....