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Everytime I need to grab hold of an invisible object, I just open the "Application Browser" window and go to the card in question. But I have some other advice: your idea of placing buttons behind text seams clumsy and has obvious drawbacks as you have noticed. You might be interested in using the "...

You might be able to access such functions using the "shell()" function. On unix systems (like Mac OS X) you should use the "chmod" shell command to change file permissions. And to make an item invisible you just need to add a period "." as the first character of its name using the "mv" shell comman...

Instead of storing your variables in fields like "if field "SettingsAutoHide" is "yes"" you should use global variables. Having "send subMouseLoop to me in 1 milliseconds" in the mouseLeave handler will start several loops at the same time, I wouldn't do this. And you might want to put the "send sub...

You could just insert the following line somewhere in your handler: "wait for 5 milliseconds with messages". This should permit other handlers to start while just creating a small lag in the bouncing animation. Or a more fancy way of controlling a looping handler would be like this: on stopAnimateLo...

I see two other ways of achieving the same result, that might be better. First, as this happens to be HTML, you could use a trick by setting the HTMLText of a field like this: function extractValue tLine set the htmltext of field "tempField" to tLine return field "tempField" end extractValue And her...

Unfortunatly once compiled into a standalone, the mainstack is unmodifiable. Usually what I do to store the user's changes, is to use a preference file placed in the preference folder or (only on OS X) inside the application bundle. My scripts for doing this can be found in this post . Here is an ex...

Make a variable that counts the number of "MouseUp" and discards the second one. Not much of a solution, I know : )

Depends on how the site is made. Sometimes it's just a matter of executing a "POST" command to the site in question. Othertimes, it can be more tricky; for instance I remember doing it for a site that had a timestamp imbedded in the page which you had to find and send back to log in. I can give you ...

You don't actually need to call each object the correct type. Whenever it's a button, a group, an image, they will all respond to the nomination "CONTROL". So basically you can always just write all the time:

set the locklocation of CONTROL ("group_Cat" & Index ) to true

Mark Smith wrote:

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do "put tmp into g" & index & "[" & quote & "<key goes here>" & quote & "]" 

That can be writen better using format(): Or maybe even better using merge():

Sweet. Exactly what I needed.
Nice work and thanks a lot !

I've had lots of answer dialogs lately randomly clipping text here and there. The strangest is that several answer calls with the same string will produce different text warping each time...

Use Keynote and it's stylish transition effects
Essential also is the remote control and laser pointer combined in one.
I mean; that's what Steve Jobs uses for his, so...

For OS X, I like to store the pref file inside the application bundle. If it intrests anyone here are my script for handeling preference file generation and retrival: on preOpenStack determinePrefPath readPrefFile insertPrefValues end preOpenStack on closeStack determinePrefPath generatePrefs writeP...

Mark: yup you are right. Automation and less work for the user is always good. I just wanted to point out to stu that an installer isn't mandatory with rev programs. Your first post could have misguided him.

Cheers, xApple.