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Klaus -- Thanks for your reply. A few of the abbreviations you'd mentioned (e.g., "btn" and "fld") do in fact appear in the text of LC Dictionary entries and/or LC User Guides and are indeed quite handy shortcuts when typing a script. Although I first learned the rudiments of programming via HyperCa...

Klaus -- Just out of curiosity, where are the abbreviations "ac" and "vc" (for "audioclip" and "videoclip" respectively) documented? Never saw these in the LC 8.10 Dictionary, although I may well be wrong. (BTW, I'm still using Indy LC 8.10 on an everyday basis because support for macOS 10.6.8 was d...

Craig and Klaus -- The example from the Dictionary entry for "stop" that I'd followed, namely, stop playing audioClip "track1" (of course, substituting the actual file path) resulted in an "object not found" error (even though the referenced path to the audiofile -- the same as used first to trigger...

I'm sure that I'm missing something really simple: When my psychological test opens to a new card/item, it plays an audiofile that "speaks" the text displayed on screen. Originally, I'd required the audiofile to play until done before the user registered a response, via either button or keyboard pre...

bogs -- Thanks so much for your lead! Richmond's solution -- to which you pointed me -- may not be elegant, but it is functional. Two independently scrollable script editor windows displaying the same script works just fine for my purposes. This workaround will save me a great deal of time and frust...

My #1 feature request is to have a horizontal split-screen in the script editor window, akin to what is available in MS Word and Excel apps, so that different segments of the code can be viewed simultaneously. When a stack script gets upwards of 600-800 lines and includes multiple handlers, it's rea...

I've read that under the new macOS Catalina, Apple has given a short reprieve -- until January 2020 -- for applications distributed *outside* the Apple Store to run without current notarization. Inasmuch as LC is an interpreted language, I assume that most of our code is just text, so that it's up t...

Thanks all for your support and suggestions for stress reduction. As a psychologist, I taught university-based stress-management courses for nearly 20 years, so the squeeze-bag and hollering at one's spouse alternatives are very familiar, albeit mostly ineffective. My own solution in this case has b...

My thanks to everyone for helping to troubleshoot the corrupted datafile stack. The problem turns out to have been far more mundane and tangential to LiveCode itself: The client had tampered with the structure of the stack file. I’ve finally received this email reply to my inquiries: I must have mes...

My thanks to all. I'm very much aware that you're volunteering your time here. In reply to forum member "bogs" : You are entirely right that I ought not rule out the possibility that the stack file simply was corrupted in transit. The client employs a university mail server that can be a bit flakey....

Richard -- Thanks for your reply. In fairness to Craig, I should've been more explicit that while the app works fine on *each* platform, I've never before tried to open a datafile stack created in the Win version on a Mac (or vice versa). (Inasmuch as these datafiles contain confidential information...

My cross-platform (Mac/Win) app saves a datafile generated by the app as a LC stack file, which can be opened/read later to generate a report of the results. It's worked fine on each platform for over a year. However, a client just sent me a datafile stack generated on a Win computer that can't be r...

Update: The colleague who volunteered to stress-test the Windows version of my app reports that in fact the unwanted taskbar pop-up occurs even when not connected to the internet. I've since learned that unwanted taskbar pop-ups have been vexing Windows users since the introduction of Windows 10. As...

Thanks, SparkOut. I'd considered using systemWindow for my cross-platform app, but the LC dictionary entry states that this has no effect in macOS. (Curiously, a respondent to the corresponding entry on the LC Wiki claimed that this was not so, at least for an older version of macOS.) Before I compl...

My cross-platform Mac/Win app displays a series of geometric figures (white on a black background). To each item the test subject must respond by pressing a number key 1 through 4. (All other keys are ignored.) In order to emulate the original 1940s version of the test and avoid distraction, in the ...