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And, in a global world better tools are needed... There must be something in those images I'm not noticing. xTalks use a default date format internally for computational consistency, and through useSystemDate LC accesses the user's preference expressed in OS settings for display. Under what circums...

Does anyone have an example of what some other program does much better than LC? There are SOOOO many languages and toolkits, each with their own trade-offs, each invented to do something better than the others. Too many to list. Visit the Wikipedia page for just about any language to learn why a l...

CAsba wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 13, 2025 9:53 am

Hmmm, belittlement, dimunutive, confusion. By comparison, coding is quite straightforward !

Code can acquire and manage properties, become drivers, and handle resource balancing, but these are relatively recent feature-parity upgrades for women, and not all systems have been updated.

As I'm developing with HTML+JS, I found one advantage of LiveCode: It's live. Meaning, I don't have to reload the page to see the results. I've done that some hundred times now with HTML+JS. That's one of two of the most significant advantages xTalks have (the other being GUI objects as integral pa...

Thank you for posting that link, Bernd.

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 11, 2025 2:35 pm

Is this a Windows thing only?

That it how it's listed in the report.

Disc space or memory?

So you have a recipe we can run to reproduce this?

With a recipe stack, add that to a bug report and the team can usually address such issues quickly.

Hey there! I've run into similar snags with LiveCode on Windows before. Have you tried using the specialFolderPath function to construct the path? It's sometimes more reliable than hardcoding. Also, weird question, but is there anything unusual about the file name itself? Maybe some hidden characte...

For some operations LC will free up memory at idle. If that's at the heart of what you're seeing there, you might consider breaking your handler's loop into something that can use a timer. Total throughput time should be nearly the same, but it may provide just enough of an idle break to clean up th...

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 05, 2025 2:27 pm

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   convert the date to dateItems

"the date" (or "date()") is a function, a value returned by the engine.

"convert" operates on containers.

I'd guess the error reported reflects a need to put the date into a variable first, and then run the convert operation on that variable.

Would it be simpler to use key combinations that leverage existing conventions on each OS? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-to-add-language-accent-marks-in-word-and-outlook-3801b103-6a8d-42a5-b8ba-fdc3774cfc76 Which will occur more often?: - A user running one app on mul...

This can be tricky in a world where web content is increasingly assembled dynamically in divs with JS.

If just getting the URL isn't doing what you need, that may be the issue.

Does the host offer an API to get the data you're looking for? Can you tell us more about the page?

Without seeing the code in question we can only guess.

Without an example stack we're just guessing. With one we can probably resolve this in minutes.

Put the image unique to each card on the card instead of the shared background.

Bad news for anyone doing this, Gmail and Microsoft are abandoning support for less secure apps. Without OAuth support mail will not be retrievable I fear. I get this same error with office.com. I administer the mail domain, but I can no longer find a place to enter an app password. This is why I h...