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Dear richmond62,

thank you for your brainwave. I tried it and it works, even if the selected line gets blanked out somehow. I just got a solution from a friend of mine who solved the issue using a datagrid instead of the field. As i have no clue about datagrids i can not tell you anything about the ...

Hi there,

i have a problem on windows with dragging lines in a field. Basically i have a field, which is filled with names and i want to reorder them by clicking on a name and then moving it up or down in the field. I found a wonderful script in the forum which works well on mac but does not on ...

Hi there,

i am working on a design app. In the app i can work with text, graphics, images,... Basically i store all properties of all objects into an array. This can be saved to the desktop with the file extension .mipu

On Mac i use the appleEvent, which checks if the file contains .mipu and if ...

Thank you, Klaus! You know your stuff.

Coooool. Thank you, Klaus

hi there, its me again :D

as i learn livecode i stubled into another problem. basically i want to find a way to store information in a file and load it again when needed. for my example i made three fields (f1, f2, f3) and a save button. i put the content into an array and save it. this works. and ...

dear people, bn was right - i did use , instead of .

thank you for helping me an beeing kind to a noob.

does still give me the same error: Operators *: error in left operand. i checked if the fields are named correctly and they are.

hi there, am i stupid?

i have two fields. in these two fields i type in some numbers. then i have a button. the script of the button should multiply the numbers of the fields. what am i doing wrong? do i have to tell the app that the fields contain numbers? if yes, please how :)

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Hej, you two fine guys. Thank you for your answers. I already thought that i might have to define this in another way. so what my plan is to create the array and then store it in a way that is can re-use its content from any place in my app. basically the textfile i generate the array from will ...

Ha, i am stuck again. after creating the array i try to make a global variable "Testfeld" and add some content in it. Then i have another button where i try to access the content int the "Testfeld" but it does not work. please lighten up my stupid brain again.

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answer file "A text file ...

Thank you Klaus. Basically it was my mistake. i had a blank line in my textfile and so the first four items were blank. you made me happy again

i can now go on with my app but i am sure, we will get in contact again. have a nice day!

Hallo Klaus,
it´s you again. by the way: can we talk german or for the sake of others reading my posts stay in english?
anyway - thank you for helping me again!

your code makes sense and i tried the following but there must be some empty space in my brain because i can not display specific items of ...

Hi there,

i am trying to load a textfile into an array and am stuck.

my textfile has 4 columns and looks like that (split by tabs):
name type xposition yposition - this goes on for a couple of lines

so i created a button which allows me to select the textfile and loads it into theData and ...

dear bogs!

thank you for sharing. this is helpful.