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Thankyou jacques... I now understand better that using put URL someWebSite gives me some 'html' from the website as just plain old text. Thus when I set the htmlText of a field or part of a field (which the Dictionary says it must be, i.e. not just a variable) to that text it gets made into somethin...

Thanks for your help AxWald. But, - as I don't want any hypertext links I have gone my own way and deleted everything I don't want rather than as you have done, selected everything one might want. Rather simplistic but it works quite happily and quite fast. I have also used, set the htmlText of fld ...

Wow, you go too fast for me AxWald. Just getting through checking out how to modify your first 'scraper' and the second makes its appearance. Thanks for your take(s) on my little project. I've enjoyed examining and understanding your code. I'm not in the least confused. The following applies to scra...

Oh I did mean to say that as a 78 year old completely self taught amateur (introduced to HyperCard some 30 years ago) I am quite embarrassed to be exposing my coding to public view which is why I worked hard to clean up and improve the problem code - so that what is in that last post is much cleaner...

Have done more work on script and have made a stack which encapsulates what was previously causing the error messages. I guess I can't upload the stack. I attach/include the script for the handler 'makeList pSite' which gets the address from its line number 'pSite" in the list below https://www.fant...

Thank you all for such quick responses.
Especial thanks to AxWald for giving me the simple solution.
I followed your advice AxWald and am now up and running with no problems.
It's easy when you know how ain't it.
Now back to he fun of coding.

Thanks Richard et al. I had already posted a new thread on the Platform specific Windows forum with the heading 'unable to open .livecode files'. And AxWald has replied and solved my problems simply. (Its simple when you know how). I will now try to get back to sorting out my coding and see if I can...

Hmmm - I need to make my problem(s) clearer. After some tinkering I believe I successfully achieved associating .liveCode files with the application. But problems persisted. So I started afresh. I uninstalled LiveCode Community 8.1.3 (that was the only version installed at this stage). I downloaded ...

I am no longer able to open my .livecode files. Have a problem with Windows 10 (64 bit) and LiveCode Community for Windows 8.1.2 . Windows hung while I was in the process of editing the script; a complete freeze requiring use of the restart button as task manager was not able to be run. Since the re...

I will as soon as possible post the relevant script. But unfortunately a problem with Windows 10 (64 bit) and LiveCode Community for Windows 8.1.2 has intervened. Windows hung while I was in the process of editing the script; a complete freeze requiring use of the restart button as task manager was ...

Have worked on my code and thought all was going well. No more error messages "LiveCode Community for Windows has stopped working" as previously described. However after dozens of successful test runs I ran into this new error message error-1.PNG . This freezes up LiveCode for a while but eventually...

I am working on a stack with code which accesses URLs and then uses selected data from them. Until recently all was proceeding slowly but surely. Now I am concerned that some of my code may be causing problems as I get an error message window which forces a shutdown of LiveCode. I include the image ...

Thanks for confirming and clarifying that Jean-Marc.
I'm running Version 8.1.2 Community.
I think it should go to quality centre but I'm way out of my depth here and so I won't attempt to do any more.
Regards
Lewis

Suddenly when I look for "textColor" in the Dictionary it is not there.
What is happening?

I really want to achieve these special characters from within Livecode rather than from whatever the operating system provides. I have written some code to achieve this which I think may prove more convenient than having to remember or look up the altChar codes. I created two fields listing all the ...