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Hi Simon, I _think_ what is confusing is public foreign handler type CallbackType(in pContext as Pointer) returns CBool especially public foreign handler type CallbackType That is a special beast that I understand every time I look at it for about half a millisecond. For a discussion of it look at h...

Hi Simon, I don't understand anything about this. But it seems Paul McClernan wrestled with the same questions. In case you have not seen this: https://github.com/PaulMcClernan/LCB_AppleAVMidiPlayer/blob/master/AVMIDIPlayer.lcb Maybe it gives you some ideas. I admire your courage and persistence. Ki...

Hi Tom, the point I wanted to make is that you put the name of the field into a variable which you build on the fly. That is all fine. The important point is how you address the field set the property of field dfld to someValue note there is not quotes and no ampersand in the quotes. As soon as you ...

Hi Tom,

try
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Bernd

Hi Michael, that is a nifty workaround. I had to add a second delay tell application "Finder" activate open information window of file POSIX file "filePath" tell application "System Events" to key code 48 delay 1 tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down delay 1 close info...

Hi slowmaker, I think an optionMenu is not a good place to have checkMarks. The menu choice is already apparent in the label of the option menu. So no use to actually put a check mark in front of it. Especially if you allow for multiple checkmarks the use would have to click on it to see the current...

By the way, what datatype should the date be in? TEXT? That is really a sqlite-question. a quick google search for "sqlite date format" turns up useful information. https://www.sqlite.org/lang_datefunc.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17227110/how-do-datetime-values-work-in-sqlite Kind rega...

Hi nicoloose, There are some problems with your code regarding the date format you pass. After your switch statement you do put tYear & "-" & tMonth & "-" & tDay into theRec that is not a recognized format for date in LC (see date in dictionary) change that to put tMonth & "/" & tDay & "/" & tYear i...

This is a version of drag-reorder that also keeps formatting of textStyles this time using htmlText It is functionally equivalent to the version above that uses styledText. local sClicked, sMovingText, sLastLineNum on mousedown put word 2 of the mouseLine into sClicked put the htmlText of line sClic...

If you want to preserve styles (like bold, underline, italic etc) when reordering then this script might be helpful local sClicked, sArray, sMovingText, sLastLineNum on mousedown put word 2 of the mouseLine into sClicked put the styledText of me into sArray put sArray[sClicked] into sMovingText put ...

Bernd, All of the graphics effects are already arrays, and like any array, you can set any individual key of that array. For example - set the outerGlow["color"] of button 1 to "red" works just as well as putting a whole new array together :wink: Thanks bogs, I always used arrays, but that is a goo...

(6) Try to resurrect the border again: "set the outerglow["color"] of graphic myGraphic to silver" >> Error: "Can't set object property." Give up. LC is a really weird mixture of super easy and ridiculously difficult. Michael, you have to set the color or any other property of outerglow by filling ...

Hi Jeff,

in the stack script
seems to do the trick

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Bernd

Hmmm...perhaps what LC renders as a bullet here on Ubuntu renders a diamond on macOS. I haven't read the macOS HIG in a while; it the diamond is on spec we may be well covered as-is. Have you seen a diamond in other Mac apps? No, I have not seen the diamond in other Mac apps. I looked at a couple o...

The diamond is from Motif. Most OSes now use a dash. A bullet may be allowed in some of those cases, but I don't think that's quite up to spec.

Livecode 9.5 is using diamond on MacOS X (in my case 12.6) in Tools menu to indicate the "Browse Tool" or "Pointer Tool"

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Bernd