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According to the dictionary Month/Day/Year is the English form: A long English date looks like this: Thursday, June 22, 2000 An abbreviated English date looks like this: Thu, Jan 22, 2000 A short English date looks like this: 1/22/00 put the system date into the field uses the D/M/Y version on my UK...

I think you need English rather than British.

I have had no success with FireFox at all on my Mac but it seems to work with Safari, Opera and Stainless browsers. I managed to bypass the whole disk access warning box by selecting the customisation option when building the revlet but then not choosing any of the options. As someone else observed ...

Playing hunt the script is a fun game for us newbies

Right click on the green background from the menu select Card & Stack and from the sub menu select Edit Stack Script. I am guessing that is what you are looking for.

Synchronicity!

Ah! The user guide does indeed say "When typing press tab to manually format the script." It seems that you need to hit tab inside each handler rather than it reformatting the whole script but that will do for me. Thanks.

My constant experimentation (random cutting and pasting ) leaves my scripts looking rather ragged - particularly with several nested levels of indentation. Is there anyway to force all the on/end, if/end if etc. pairings to match up neatly?

Thanks. I thought I was straying away from some obvious solution.

Have been experimenting with creating a clickable link from text in a field. Using if mouseText () ="clickable" then launch url "http://w.... which works. I also tried using clickText but I did not manage to make that work. If this is the way to do this I am left with a couple of questions: The text...

Thanks for all your thoughts. It is not a deal breaker; indeed I have purchased a copy of Revolution having seen some great things created with it. I shall keep in mind that tick boxes (as in the slider's inspector) labelled "showValue" should be read as "Show some arbitrary rounded number which is ...

Once it was apparent what was going on the Rounding solution was obvious but my question is/are.... Why is it like this? What is the point of setting the Number Format in the Property Inspector if that is only being used in a cosmetic way? How are you supposed to figure out what is going on when the...

Thanks for the previous comments . I am still troubled by the slider's value. A script in a slider like... on mousedown put "Find 56.2" into the field "fieldTxt" end mousedown on mouseup put the thumbposition of me into the field "field1" put the thumbposition of me + 1 into the field "field2" put t...

I am new here so do not believe anything I say but....

I think lineDelimiter is what you are looking for.

set the lineDelimiter to numToChar(13)
put field "fldAddress" into mrgAddress

will pick up a Return character at the end of a line and separate your output.

Firstly - Hi and thanks to all the contributors to this forum. I have been trawling all the Newbie type questions and have learnt a lot. But.... After a couple of days trying to get a simple If... Then check to work (and when you are down to the last couple of days of your thirty day trial you canno...