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Craig:

A left-handed compliment?

Sri

Thanks Axwald and LCMark!

LCMark wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:20 pm

......... neither change the current card of the stack.

That explains (and clears) my confusion!

Regards,
Sri

So, "this" refers to card 2 (for both "send" and "call") ... But, "me" refers to card 1 (for both "send" and "call")... and any reference to a script local variable refers to the one in card 1 (for both "send" and "call") (to test this, define a script local variable each on card 1 and card 2, both ...

LC 9.5.1 User Guide p 131-32 gives the following example: Add to card 1 script: command showCard answer the number of this card end showCard Now, use the following statement from card 2 (card script or button script) to send "showCard" to card 1 According to the Guide, "send" command should result i...

Do you have a particular issue? Hi Craig: My program required comparing two numbers, each stored in a file. put URL tRemoteFileURL into t1 put URL tLocalFileURL into t2 If t1>t2 then ....... etc., etc. When the remote file access returned an error (which was in text form) instead of the file conten...

Playing around with the operators, I noticed put empty > 20200120 - - false put space > 20200120 - - false put space > empty - - true put -1 > space - - true put "text" > 20200120 - - true put (space & "text") > 20200120 - - false put ("text" & space) > 20200120 - - true put (space & 20200121) > 202...

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I am writing an app which requires it check the AWS server periodically for new content (text or pdf files) and download it. Since the new content is strictly not essential for the user to use the app, the user should be able to go ahead and start using the app while the content is being updated. Wh...

Darn!
Do you know how many times in the past I have heard Klaus shout (in all caps) about this very point?
I still stepped into it!
Putting it into a variable first should guard me against this pitfall.

Thanks,
Sri

I have a file named lorem.html on my desktop. In message box, put there is a file specialFolderPath("desktop") & "/" & "lorem.html" returns false. Actually, it returns false/lorem.html When I type put specialFolderPath("desktop") it returns /Users/MyName/Desktop When I copy the above returned result...

Thanks!

Regards,
Sri

I am sorry to bring this up again, but
in the case of a standalone application running on iOS
what would the function environment() return?
"standalone application" or "mobile" ?
Why?
(I am assuming the function returns only one result).

Thanks,
Sri

Hi guylouis: 1. The structure of Data grid is complicated. The option menu button you put in a column of a DG is inside a nested stream of groups. The long name of one of the buttons in the column, e.g., is button "Option Menu" of group "MyColumnName 0001" of group "MyColumnName" of group "dgList" o...