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Hi gurus, I've come across an inexplicable phenomenon: The transition between cards in my stack used to be fast, but all of sudden it's slowed down by 3 or more seconds for no apparent reason! When I create a new main stack and copy the cards and scripts from the old stack to the new stack, the new ...

Yes,
random(10 - 5 + 1) + 5 - 1
is a bit more readable.
My apologies

Gerrie

Carel, Klaus is right about the -1. "Word 1 to -1" basically means the first word to the last word. Say, for instance, pText contains the string " The lazy dog couldn't care less about a jumping fox. ", and you wanted to return a range of words starting at the fifth word and ending with the second-t...

Hi Carel LiveCode's random function always returns a random number in the range of 1 to n , where n is the upper limit you pass to it. But let's say for example that you want to return a number in the range of 5 to 10, then you can't simply return random(10), because it's lower limit would be 1 inst...

Hello Frankel, You'll need to create your own LiveCode external that can install a low-level keyboard hook. For more information, head over to the "Developers" section of the livecode website, and choose "Desktop Externals" on the left-hand side. You may need to do some C++ or C# coding. You'll need...