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dude, if you want to use html/js then that's fine - millions do. Not quite sure why you're here arguing the case. At the end of the day I see your mindset is fixed. Feel free not to respond to this as it won't really change anything for anyone. Dude, WTF?! I'm just relaying my actual experience. Wh...

I was definitely using Data Grid. My data is only 205 rows. It's about 2.5 screens of information. Scrolling as fast as I can with my Magic Mouse (swiping my finger across the top of the mouse) takes 4 seconds to go from the top to the bottom of the data. I just made a 2000-row table with JS and I c...

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Tue Aug 19, 2025 6:48 pm

ChatGPT almost found "metaData". I wrote:

In the program "LiveCode" is there any feature that can associate additional data with individual words in a text field?

I asked something similar of the Google Search AI, but it too didn't come up with an answer.

You are greatly underselling LCs capabilities... Okay, I'm listening, what am I missing? To me, if I'm going web-based, I can't see why I'd want the bloat of LiveCode for no discernible benefit when HTML/JS is easy to code, lightweight, and runs fast. If I'm making a standalone app, then sure, Live...

Thank you, I didn't know about Metadata for text. The feature set of LiveCode is huge (and growing) and there's a lot I don't know about. (I couldn't find Metadata even when searching for that feature, because I didn't know what it was called.) Knowing about metadata sure would have saved me a lot o...

One thing I'm preferring with HTML/JS over LiveCode is that I can embed data behind the text. For example: <LI ledgerEntryID=38 transactionID=7 sortDate=20250818 humanDate='8/18/25'>Groceries</LI> (Yes, you can make your own attributes in HTML and access them with Javascript, works in all browsers.)...

As I'm developing with HTML+JS, I found one advantage of LiveCode: It's live. Meaning, I don't have to reload the page to see the results. I've done that some hundred times now with HTML+JS.

As I'm continuing my accounting sw development in HTML/JavaScript, I peeked into my LC code for my LC-based accounting app, to copy an algorithm to port, and I'm remembering something that really slowed me down in LC development: the code windows scrolls super slow. I'm using an older computer, but ...

LC 9.6.3 on MacOS 15.5 starts to load, then when it says "Loading tools..." it quits unexpectedly. But at this point, even if I could get it to run, I wouldn't use it any more. I'm nearly finished writing my new accounting app, and it's SO much easier to use HTML tables + Javascript vs. LC's DataGrid.

After nearly 40 years, I'm done with XTalk. In the beginning I loved the ability to quickly make real apps with HyperCard, but today I can make web-based apps with Javascript + SQL, which is easy, cheap, and gives way better performance. When HyperCard came out in 1987 I was blown away. I actually t...

That's a great poem. It brings back memories, e.g. John Sculley, SCSI drives. Especially as I worked at Apple from 1992-97 (probably the five worst years of Apple's existence).

Yes, whoops, I meant 2000 for buying Serf, not 2020. I edited my post.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson I made a trip to Dallas circa 1987 or 1988 to see him speak about HyperCard. I remember in the Q&A when an audience member asked about the interface being non-Mac-like (others had made the same complaint), Atkinson asked for an example, and the questioner ...

Thank you for the help!

In another thread, Bernd identified another difference: "select line..." screws with the focus, and could "eat" a user's subsequent click, causing it to not register. Switching from "select line..." to "select the hilitedline..." fixed that problem in my stack.

Thank you, Bernd, changing the code from "select line..." to "set the hilitedline..." fixed it. I'm using closeField because I don't want to make the user press the Return or Enter key. I want the changes populated into my list field as soon as the user clicks away onto something else. Is closeField...