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Richard, Thanks for the detailed mbox explanation. I'm thinking that mucking about in the mbox file is substantially above my pay grade. :lol: This specific task I am attempting may be unnecessary, as it turns out. As I was examining the Add-on "EditEmailSubject MX" which I have installed in TBird, ...

Big Thank you! to all who responded. I tried Thierry's approach as it seemed to take into account the fact that the word "Subject:" for which I was searching was only a relevant find if it appeared at the start of the line. I modified the provided script (ever so slightly to personalize it for the n...

I have a stack with a field into which I drop a file from the Desktop (Windows Desktop in this case). The file is an eMail I've dragged to the Desktop from Thunderbird. No problem getting the contents of the file to appear in the field. I then need to search for the "Subject:" line of that eMail whi...

I've been running 10.12.x for over a year. Updated to 10.12.6 when it came out. All security updates. "hang" means exactly that: LC simply stops and refuses to respond. I must force-quit. I must admit I haven't done any development work in a number of months so I'll have to play some and then post a...

I'm seeing on both my Macs where LiveCode 7.1.4 and 8.1.9 exhibit "hangs" at some inexplicable and random points; the spinning beachball starts and the app (in all windows) is frozen. Of course, I need to force-quit and re-launch. I've examined the logs in Console and find a number of log entries en...

The popup command can't be used because it relies upon the mouse pointer being within the stack window. If you attempt to use it (even with a specific location where a btn is really located!) while the mouse pointer is outside the window, you either get an error: "Message execution error: Error desc...

Yep. So "Not a bug". Now that I understand it, I'll craft something with the "click at...".

Always helps to have multiple eyes and brains working on it. Appreciate everyone's efforts. I'll get the bug report closed.

Barry

More enlightenment. I tried a fresh stack with a field and an option button. In the field I put an openField handler: on openField send mouseDown to btn "optMenu1" end openField What's strange is that, wherever the mouse pointer is located within the stack window , that's where the option button's c...

Hi Barry, Congratulations Not sure this is a bug Maybe that was an error to use the target in this case. Best Jean-Marc Can't understand why just moving the mouse pointer outside of the stack window should result in this error. Everything was working when the pointer was within the stack window. Wh...

I filed a bug report: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21268

If you move the mouse pointer outside the stack window, LC can't find the target button (stack?) when you use the arrow keys.

Strange results. - If I mouseClick on each field, everything works. - If I use the arrowKey to move from field to field, everything works. However, if the mouse pointer is outside of the stack window (and I use the keyboard arrows), it fails with an error: card "cPopUpByKB001": execution error at li...

I haven't yet had a chance to fool around much with Jean-Marc's stack although I can see that it is essentially the solution I need. I'll need to add a bit of code so that accepting the choice in a field will move the focus to the next field until the last field's choice has been done. Then a mouseC...

Hi Barry, Here is a quick try select fld by ArrowKey left/right select menuitem by ArrowKey Up/Down confirm your choice or cancel by returnkey stPopUpByKB.zip Best regards Jean-Marc Yes; that seems to be very close to what I need. Probably will have to tweak the card script a bit to make it conform...

snip...Is it that you want to both populate the "subsequent" control and also have it automatically pop up with those choices, ready to select? You still need the mouse to make the selection, unless you want, say, the arrow keys to do the walking for you. No problem either way, or maybe in some oth...

But doesn't what you suggest still require the user to operate the mouse in order to make a choice? I can get the appropriate data into the "subsequent" field/button/whatever, but it appears LC is missing a "drop-down list" (which I think Access has). In HyperCard, I used an XCMD called (something l...