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Honestly the tool or code doesn't matter. It is the ability to take the tools available and apply them to solve problems. I don't think that is going to change anytime soon.

stam wrote: ↑

Fri Jul 31, 2020 1:50 pm

So that’s a bit like a class then?

From what I can see, it is like Inheritance of properties in OOP rather than an instance of class.

Moderaters note: Removed the wrong quoting.

FourthWorld wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 28, 2020 6:41 pm

- Use a field, as you've done.
- Use the simple "put" command, to display in the Message Box
- Use the debugger, designed for exactly this sort of observation.

I have used the debugger some but find it cumbersome for this purpose, when I want to just observe the variable for a test.

Perhaps it is helpful if you remember that LiveCode does not distinguish between string variables and numeric variables. BTW - in my cultural context (American born in 1970) "whacked" means "crazy". Quite possibly: LiveCode has grown out of HyperCard, a programming environment that was initially th...

BTW - in my cultural context (American born in 1970) "whacked" means "crazy". I always thought that "whacked" meant murdered. American, 1951. Craig It does as a verb - as in "to get whacked". Mostly heard in movies about organized crime. If it is about street gangs you usually here "pop a cap" as i...

Putting into the fields worked for my purposes and quickly let me diagnose and address the testing issues. But, the handling of string literals is very strange compared to other languages. As you surmised, it is XML, which is just formatted text. Other languages treat them as text/strings, period, e...

Thanks. Strange behavior. I keep running into strange behaviors with LiveCode. Honestly, I would consider this a bug since the information is enclosed in quotes and should be interpreted as a string literal, not HTML. Very, very whacked.

I'm perplexed on this one. I am testing an call to eBay's API, a very simple one. The XML code is submitted with headers. I found it was not working, even though the XML is right. I was building the XML up with strings and found that it doesn't work as the logic would indicate: put "<?xml version='1...

I’m curious, have you tried the solution noted above using the POST and GET functions?

Thank you. Can’t hurt. I’ll give it try on Monday. I thought I saw something in the forums that the POST command was not preferred though.

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Thanks. I saw the post. As I said though I can write the function myself - in a variety of languages, it would be nice if it was built in. String manipulation is a standard function for most languages. That was my only point. Thanks. Jack

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Thank you Klaus. The contents of that filed are in the photo. I cleared it and added, and it worked. HOWEVER, there was nothing changed in the field. So I am a bit puzzled on how that would cause anything. The only thing I can concluded was using something off the clipboard that had hidden character...

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