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Thanks everyone. I'll try out some of these suggestions this weekend and see how I get on.

I've been trying to create a simple utility that takes a document loaded with placeholders wrapped in "$%", for example $%name%$ and replace each placeholder with a value taken from the UI. I have however fallen at the first hurdle - parsing the document. I have two fields and a button coded as foll...

bogs wrote: ↑

Wed Feb 28, 2018 4:43 pm

This lesson is explicitly about what your asking.

Thanks bogs. I've already taken a look at this tutorial but the download code just doesn't appear to work. Using the latest version of Livecode 8 any kind of interaction with the scrollbar throws up a show-stopping error.

Is there a way to replace the scrollbars associated with a text field with custom (skinned) scrollbars? My guess is that you have to create custom sliders and somehow link these to a text field set not to display its own scrollbars.

Okay, this isn't exactly working 100% of the time. I have successfully built a sliding draw now using animationEngine and I can create a static group and make it respond perfectly to stack resizing. The problem is when I combine the two. After the window resizing has taken place sometimes the drawer...

Thanks everyone for your help on this. lockLoc worked a treat FourthWorld. I've attached an example of what I've been trying to achieve for soooo long. sliding_drawer.zip You'll notice that the drawer will re-open almost immediately even if the mouse leaves it during it transition South. However I t...

Well I've managed to build a sliding draw using a graphic - thanks for the tip, I didn't think of that option. BUT I've spent the last 6 hours trying to get the draw group to adapt to window resizing. Why is this so hard? I've got a resizeStack handler that basically resizes the group as follows: se...

I'm really struggling to achieve a simple panel that is the width of the parent stack and slides upwards 250 pixels say from the bottom of the stack on mouse hover and slides away almost fully when mouse out. It is always partially visible so that it can be called into play on a mouseover action. Th...

Thanks gentlemen for you prompt replies - my context menu now works fine. However I still have the cursor issue - oddly I have the same behaviour in the Live Code IDE script editor under Windows 7 (hovering over the context menu still gives me a text edit cursor).

I have a text field for basic text entering and I've created a context sensitive popup menu to perform functions such as 'cut and paste'. However when the popup appears the text field loses focus and any text selections made disappear so there is nothing to cut or copy and the cursor disappears so I...

Many thanks for spending some time on this Simon. I will give it a try when I get some free time and report back. I didn't imagine that visual effects relied on Quicktime.

I've created a small app that is based on the RunRev slideshow example that uses images imported onto card backgrounds as controls. My problem is that when the application is closed (using the window 'X' icon) while an image transition is actually in progress the application closes and immediately r...

As a newbie I've been struggling with incorporating 3rd Party libraries in my projects. After much searching and experimentation it would appear (rightly or wrongly) that I first need to open up the library stack in the Revolution IDE before opening my project stack that references the library stack...

I hear that Apple has a 10Mb size limit on iPhone apps and that commentators have been grumbling about the much anticipated Flash CS5 Beta release which is said to be able to output native iPhone apps from Flash files but as yet even simple Flash apps are weighing in quite large (near the 10Mb limit...