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by howeyb
Wed Jan 04, 2012 3:55 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: problem with wiindows standalone playing video
Replies: 1
Views: 1940

problem with wiindows standalone playing video

I have a stack (created on a Mac) that plays a .mov video using a player. The mac standalone works fine. The windows standalone (.exe file) works on some PC laptops in my office, but on my husband's HP laptop (windows 7) the video won't play. He has quicktime installed and the videos play fine indep...
by howeyb
Fri Oct 21, 2011 2:48 am
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: keeping all selected text hilited
Replies: 3
Views: 2924

Re: keeping all selected text hilited

Thanks so much...this will let me do what I want.

Betty
by howeyb
Thu Oct 20, 2011 6:59 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: keeping all selected text hilited
Replies: 3
Views: 2924

keeping all selected text hilited

I have a text fld with a paragraph in it and I want the user to be able to hilite more than one chunk of text at the same time. Under colours and patterns in the property inspector for the fld, I set the text hilite to yellow. When I hilite a word or chunk of text in the paragraph by selecting it wi...
by howeyb
Wed Sep 22, 2010 3:46 pm
Forum: Internet
Topic: saving data from a revlet
Replies: 2
Views: 3669

Re: saving data from a revlet

I plan to save the data on a central server. Below is some more information that may be helpful to others. If you have anything to add, that would be great. Thanks. 1) Writing data to file on individual user's disk: A revlet can write data to a file on the user's disk only if the user gives permissi...
by howeyb
Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:15 pm
Forum: Internet
Topic: saving data from a revlet
Replies: 2
Views: 3669

saving data from a revlet

Help anyone: I recently upgraded from studio 2.8 to version 4.0 mainly to see if I can run the psych experiments I program using revolution over the web (direct multiple participants to go to a website and click on an experiment "revlet"). What I am wondering is how I can collect data/results (such ...
by howeyb
Wed Jul 22, 2009 2:02 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: on mouseenter irregular shape
Replies: 3
Views: 4270

Thanks for your help...I got it now...after paying a bit, I also realized that when you are in the pointer tool mode and you have the graphic selected, the script works differently than when the graphic is not selected...it uses the irregular edge of the actual graphic instead of the rect boundary w...
by howeyb
Tue Jul 21, 2009 10:03 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: on mouseenter irregular shape
Replies: 3
Views: 4270

on mouseenter irregular shape

How do I track when the mouse enters and leaves an irregular shaped area on a picture? If I create an irregular shaped graphic to outline the area in question, the mouseenter and mouseleave handlers use the rectangular shaped bounding box instead of the edge of the graphic within the box.Thanks