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wildcards, I should add - so I craddled my search term in two of them:

"*" &tSearch & "*"

... and indeed no "items" specified. Works on tSource Var as such.

Nah! Livecode is pure poetry... Just flies on those English wings!

And thanks for that last input - the wildcard did it! Genius! Works!!!

Example card:
fld " searchFrequency " contains " Explosion ";
table field above it named " wordFreq ";
blue button next to it contains script:

on mouseUp
set the itemdel to cr

put the text of fld "searchFrequency" into tSearch
put the text of fld "WordFreq" into tSource

filter items of ...

Simon, Richard and Craig - - -

thanks a lot for the prompt replies. Tried everything - but my bug must be in how I apply the filter?

Here's the full script:

on mouseUp
set the itemdel to cr

put the text of fld "searchFrequency" into tSearch
put the text of fld "WordFreq" into tSource ...

Hi everyone

the filter function seems very straightforward - yet I can't get it to work for me...
I'm using a text entry field to specify a filter word, that should then be used to filter the lines of a table field containing words in column 1, and numbers in column 2.

So, e.g.:


filter ...

Drag'n drop freefrom buttons / clickable controls - - - that would be a huge plus.

Currently, if you want to use the built-in button functionality (e.g., mouse-over and click state changes, tooltips etc), rather than building a button behavior from scratch, you have to use a transparent button ...

Yeah.... wwwwwidgets. But building one is a bit more involved than simple drag and drop, I take it. But it'll be exciting, once we get to LC 8, I'm sure.

Further to Jacque's point: I am indeed talking about transparent buttons with icons. Was hoping I could use all the btn functionality, minus the ...

Thanks Jacqueline and Craig! I think that's just what I need.

I'd only approached this from trying to bend the built-in button control and its functionality to my purpose.
But if I want a custom-shaped button (or other control, for that matter) it seems I'll have to - but can - build it myself.

Hi everyone

What if you come from a tool like Sketch, or Photoshop, and you have, e.g., built a mock up UI with clickeable areas that don't match neat "sqare buttons", which for that reason don't lend themselves to custom skinning? In fact, anything non-square doesn't really.

Maybe I'm missing ...