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Thank you Simon, That works perfectly.

They should add that to the dictionary and manual.

Hello, I am looking at how to return the chosen color of a value in its Hex value

get the backgroundcolor of control ID "1003"
put it into myColorVar
put myColorVar into fld "colorID"

This will create an RGB value, like 22,183,67 for a blue

how would I get the hex value of that same value ...

Oh, yes, now I see, you put it, I was trying to set the global

Thank you very much.

Yes, I did get it to work, only I think I did not completely understand how to set a global or define its value,

I must have not correctly set the global to the folder path, I set what I would call in PHP a super global, $mypathtofile
loaded that into a variable then it did work, so far nothing ...

I have a need to open a specific folder path, looking in the dictionary I could not find an exact example of how this should appear.

There are examples of different uses, but none that explain the defaultPath method, at least from what I read.
source dictionary
answer file "Select a file to ...

Oh, yes thank you, gentleman, I appreciate the replies, this makes perfect sense, If I could only unlearn the old ways...

again thank you for the replies, it is much appreciatiated.

I am curious if it is possible to put xml formatted data, into a variable or to add strings to a container.

Example,
put "tab1text" title=" into mySpecialvariable This would create error, double binary operator, so if you wanted to express data that contains operators, what would be the best ...

Ok, yes, thanks, I had an old script I think back around 2.8.1

But its probably been changed years ago, yes, it would be handy, I used to use it to communicate an error, for a validation of a PHP script, but its been a long time since I have fooled with the engine at all.

The docs dont seem to ...

I have a stack that posts to a webserver and receives a result, if the result is OK:0 it means that the post connected but no action was taken, in that case I would want to exit to top with a message, letting the user know that something went wrong.

if fld "result1" contains "OK:0" then exit to ...

Ok, I believe I understand the way that it works now, that I see the example thank you for sharing your time so generously.

There is a lot to understand but that really helps, when I look at the example I can understand how it should work, so much better again thank you.

I played with this for several iterations, producing various results, I am certain I have something a little off, I can almost see where I am going wrong but it just escapes me at the moment.


on mouseUp
put the text of fld "testing" into mySnippetVar
set the itemdelimiter to "*"
repeat for ...

Thank you Klaus I will read though the documentation to see how I can find out more about these subjects, I appreciate the information, so in this case I would say that the engine does not know what of the construct to put into the field, so I have to construct a method of telling the engine what I ...

Yes, that is a good idea, the base idea is to Get, some text data, (flat file) from a remote server,

Post that data into a substack variable, sort it then load it into fields that co-respond to the lines of each item,

item 1
line 1 into fld A
line 2 into fld B
line 3 into fld C
line 4 ...

Ok that makes sense, I tried out a couple of different things,

on mouseUp
put the text of fld "testing" into mySnippetVar
set the itemdelimiter to "*"
repeat for each item tItem in mySnippetVar
put line 2 to -1 of tItem into mySnippetVar[tkey]
end repeat

put mySnippetVar into fld ...

Thank you for your reply, Yes the first line would be a designation for the type of data later I would probably add more information.

But yes both of those work quite well, I am a little amazed at how easy it is to use a few words and accomplish so much, again thank you for your reply and solution.