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- Mon Aug 11, 2025 3:49 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Freeing Memory
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1396
Re: Freeing Memory
'flushEvents' is in the dictionary, it should show up when you search for 'flush', I'm not totally sure that would help in this case, but I could be wrong. :idea: Just a thought, are you using 'open printing to PDF' and then using 'close printing' once the PDF is sent to the printer? If you are not ...
- Tue Apr 22, 2025 7:39 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Cannot use a menu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 39593
Re: Cannot use a menu
Pleased to help, sometimes all it takes is a fresh pair of eyes, I think we've all been there!
The Message Watcher is frustrating at times, but it usually gets me out of bother when I mess up.
Paul
The Message Watcher is frustrating at times, but it usually gets me out of bother when I mess up.

Paul
- Tue Apr 22, 2025 6:56 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Cannot use a menu
- Replies: 23
- Views: 39593
Re: Cannot use a menu
Fixed in a couple of minutes… To track the problem in this stack I activated the Message Watcher. The Message Watcher indicated the Mouse Down message was being intercepted by the Card Script line 43 I changed the handler from 'on mousedown' to 'after mousedown' and the menu subsequently worked! Alt...
- Fri Feb 14, 2025 8:16 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Polygrid data corruption?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 14707
Re: Polygrid data corruption?
I have used the PolyGrid in multiple projects now and I’ve found it to be very useful and reliable. The only time I’ve seen any type of corruption was if I tried to import unsuitable data. I have only deleted columns on a few occasions and I did’t see any problems at the time, but that was from a re...
- Sun Dec 03, 2023 1:38 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Color to Black & White
- Replies: 34
- Views: 151173
Re: Color to Black & White
John,
Check out this lesson from LiveCode;
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/2 ... -grayscale
It looks like it should help you.
Paul
Check out this lesson from LiveCode;
https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/2 ... -grayscale
It looks like it should help you.
Paul
- Thu Nov 23, 2023 4:23 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Field with placeholder/hint text
- Replies: 29
- Views: 84322
Re: Field with placeholder/hint text
Stam, Out of curiosity I played with this for a short while, I made the following changes targeting the field's autoHilite and it seems to work as far as I can tell, but obviously you'll need to test thoroughly as there may be other scenarios where you need to set the autoHilite to true or false. Ho...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 2:31 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: livecode and the iOS clipboard
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6375
Re: livecode and the iOS clipboard
I came across this a few years ago and IIRC this is an Apple issue, not a LiveCode issue. I believe it’s to do with the tighter security on iOS so the developer doesn’t have any control over the clipboard, only the end user (and probably Apple) has that privilege. I must admit though that I haven’t ...
- Sun Nov 12, 2023 4:14 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Magic pallete error
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7607
Re: Magic pallete error
I have seen this error, it was a while ago now, but I’m pretty sure it went away by installing the latest update which you should find available in your LC account.
Paul
Paul
- Wed Aug 16, 2023 5:55 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Am I screwed? iOS 16.6 and livecode 10.0.0.5(dp)
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11272
Re: Am I screwed? iOS 16.6 and livecode 10.0.0.5(dp)
It is possible, I can build with both LC 9.6.9 and LC 10.0.0-dp5 using Xcode 14.2, then upload to iPhone and iPad, both running on iOS16.6 while using Xcode 14.2 or 14.3.1 just for the upload. My advice would be to make sure your Apple Developer account is fully up-to-date, including the list of reg...
- Sat Feb 04, 2023 5:15 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Place unSubscribe button on an email
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6598
Re: Place unSubscribe button on an email
I don’t see this as a LiveCode problem, (afaik) you can’t just add a LC button to an email message even if the email is generated using LC, however, you can add a formatted link in most email apps, the following should work if you can embed it… mailto:you@youremail.com?subject=Unsubscribe%20=Please%...
- Tue Sep 27, 2022 6:08 am
- Forum: Bug Triage
- Topic: MacOS Sheets not working?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7755
Re: MacOS Sheets not working?
I would say this is not the expected behaviour, I am seeing exactly the same result on macOS and LC9.6.8 as well as LC10.0.0 (dp4).
So yes, I think you should report this as a bug.

Paul
- Tue May 17, 2022 3:55 am
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: What was lost, now is found
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2872
Re: What was lost, now is found
The "Apply" button compiles with a click of the mouse without having to save the stack. Just a side note for anyone that didn't know, the 'Enter' key also complies the script, whereas the 'Return' key doesn't. If you don't have an extended keyboard, then CMD-Return does the same, I assume that woul...
- Wed Feb 16, 2022 6:57 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: draggable image
- Replies: 29
- Views: 17113
Re: draggable image
A while ago, I used a sample stack by Peter Haworth on the LiveCode Share site, it explains pretty well how to do exactly what you are asking. It works on the same stack or between stacks.
Link here: https://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/614/DragExample
Paul
Link here: https://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/614/DragExample
Paul
- Sat Jan 29, 2022 4:15 am
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: [ANN] Open Source Offering
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5508
Re: [ANN] Open Source Offering
Thank you Scott,
That's an awesome gift for the LC community.
Always loved your work and learned quite a few (useful) things from you in the past.
Regards,
Paul
That's an awesome gift for the LC community.

Always loved your work and learned quite a few (useful) things from you in the past.
Regards,
Paul
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 1:20 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Buttons through which i can see desktop
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7346
Re: Buttons through which i can see desktop
I'm not sure you can make just the buttons transparent, but you can use an image to determine which areas of a stack are transparent, see this lesson for details: https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/6867-how-to-make-a-stack-with-a-window-shape You can also use the colors tab of the stack inspector...