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Thank you Richard for the sound advice. It's much appreciated.

Thank you. I'll put my file in
/Users/Shared/MyApp
and then i'll use to give the other users write access.

Why not just use -> specialfolderpath("documents") (in a subfolder)? The average user does not want to mess with/in any Library folder! specialfolderpath("documents") yields a location writable only by the current user. I would like the data file to be stored where the app can modify the same file ...

Dear forum,

After some searching I've found two locations where an app can store a data file so other users can modify it: and Which one of the two locations is the best place to use?

Thank you

Thank you, Klaus and Richard.
I will use LiveCode's shell function.

Dear forum,

I need to give write access to a file, to all users of the Mac. I know this can be done using a shell command, but is there perhaps a built-in LiveCode function or command to do this?

Thank you

Here's a modified version of the makeMask command to illustrate how you might do it: command makeMask pObj local tAData get the imageData of img "snapshot" -- 4 bytes, 0,r,g,b white = 255, black = 0 put the number of bytes in it into X repeat with i=1 to X step 4 if i > X then exit repeat put byte (...

williamdesmet wrote: ↑

Wed May 18, 2022 4:31 pm

@Gert: thanks for replying.
I will try to figure out how the alphaData property works.

It works exactly like the maskData property except that each byte represents the pixel's transparency level, ranging between 0 and 255.

Hi William,

The data in the maskData property makes pixels either fully transparent or fully opaque.

If you want the transparency to blend in smoothly around the edges, you're going to have to manipulate the alphaData property instead of the maskData property.

Regards

Gert

I figured it out. Thierry Douez's sample stack "SunnYBeep", was to blame. I found his 5-star rated sample stack in the Mac OS X section. After opening the sample stack, any new stack I create has its cantModify property set. I didn't suspect that a 5-star rated sample stack could be so cruel. :mrgre...

Thank you, Richard! That was indeed the problem. Somehow the cantModify property got set. Now my next quest is to find out how that happened...

Dear forums, I've just installed LiveCode version is 9 .6 .4 on MacOS 10 .13 .6 (High Sierra). My XCode version is 10 .1. The iOS SDK location is correctly set in the preferences. I create a new default stack. I can't drag controls onto a card. I can't select controls that are already on a card. The...