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Hi Craig,

not sure I fullly understand your problem, but check the image property CenterRect in the dictionary.
This lets you define a region of the image which should be streched when resizing the image instead of streching the complete image.
Sounds like this could be a solution.


Best

Klaus

Hi Glenn,

well, to access the first record, just omit -> ... & CR & "LIMIT 1 OFFSET '"&tRecordNumber&"'", which will skip the records up to tRecordnumber!

Best

Klaus

Great, so now it is not neccessary anymore and both of us are quite content.

I deleted it, it was spam!
Posting a completely meaningless response to a several years old thread is always spam!

OK, you are probably right: force of habit...

This should not be an issue for the message path otherwise, as the user (or the dev) will never send an openstack message from the substack and expect the mainstack handler to deal with it. I could agree if you replace "the user (or the dev)" with "I" (eye)! 8) I have used this feature many times i...

If you need to modify and save these external stacks, you need to copy them to the users documents folder on first launch of your app and open them from there. Same applies to the mobile platform! On the Mac you could also use -> specialfolderpath("preferences") for this, we have write permissions t...

Hi Stam, @klaus: thanks for the workaround… but that doesn’t sit entirely right with me in the sense that I want stack wide stuff to be in the stack script and card-wide stuff to be in the card script, and I’d prefer to keep this separation for my own sanity! I did not mean that would be suitible fo...

I always use this "trick":
I put my "pre-/openstack" handlers into the script of the first card of the mainstack!
Eliminates the need of "dummy" handlers in the substack(s).

Yep, as I wrote in my second posting: ... Did you add these stacks via the "Copy files" tab in the "Standalone Application Settings..."? If not, do so then you can access them in -> specialfolderpath("resources") That specialfolder (resources) also works on the IDE, there it will point to the folder...

Hi gnor, I did not mean that CAPITALS are a problem, only that you will have to take care of that fact! :-) ... go stack (specialfolderpath("resources") & "/Calendar.livecode") ## Works on Android go stack (specialfolderpath("resources") & "/calendar.livecode") ## will not! ... And "Find and replace...

You are welcome!

Another important hint:
Android (and iOS) are case-sensitive OS!
So:
TABLET.livecode <> Tablet.livecode

Hi gnor, Yes, umlaut here is also the case. Thanks for ponting it out. So everyvhere in my code i have to change the navigation lines, i've got it. yes. I've beenn bitten by that in the past! :-D If i want to navigate back to the runtime stack from other stacks is it the same? No, since that stack i...

Hi gnor, 1. "start using this stack" goes into the "openstack" handler of the stack that you will create the rúntime from. 2. Just like the desktop: ... go cd 42 of stack (specialfolderpath("resources") & "/name_of_one_of_your_other_stacks_here.livecode") ... 3. I found that Android does not like fi...

Hm, since that is new to me, I just made a little test and had no problem
to open a stack in -> specialfolderpath("resources") on Android!
So no write permission neccessary!