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I am using an i-MAC with OS 10.5.6 I am trying to save a stack using save stack as [filePath] and am getting nowhere. I want to save the stack to my Desktop, or if it is possible, to a DVD-RW disc. As background, I have created an application named "Recipe Book" in which the user can type her recipe...

EUREKA ! I woke up this morning at 2:00 AM and suddenly knew what the problem was. I had inadvertently used an image id for one of my images that was the same as the one for the square cursor. I created a shortened version of my program in which I replaced the images on the image stack with thirty n...

I estimate that I have spent over 15 hours trying, without success, to solve this problem (including three forum posts). Here is all I have discovered: 1. The cursor becomes a small square, the diagonal of which is the same size as the regular cursor. When I change the cursor size in my preferences,...

I recently posted a message on this subject and the answer I got didn't solve the problem. The problem is that when I create a standalone copy of my application, two problems occur: 1. The cursor changes from an arrow to a small square on the MAC OS 10.5.5 version. 2. The windows version will not op...

When I make a standalone app, I get two problems: In the MAC OS 10.5 version, I get a small square as a cursor. It works like a cursor, but looks weird. In the Windows version, I get an error message saying the app cannot be opened. I tried it on two different Windows computers with the same result....

I have a very long stack containing a large number of short horizontal fields. I placed a vertical scrollbar on the right side of the stack, but I can't get it to scroll the page. What I want is a scroll bar that works just like the ones in the Revolution Dictionary. The Revolution User's Guide has ...

I am using the following code in one of my projects, and it does'nt work: on mouseUp put 1 into F repeat until F=7 get char 1 to 6 of field "flowernumber" put it into mynum get char 1 to 6 of field "dat1" of stack "flowerdb" put it into yournum if mynum=yournum then get char 1 to 85 of field "dat1" ...

Background information: I am using an i-MAC with OS 10.5.5 I am writing a program in which the user enters a calendar date and gets back the day of the week for the date plus an image of the phase of the moon for the entered date. I have everything working fine up to the point of putting a moon imag...