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Sentence worked like a charm. I had forgotten what a pain-in-the-bum the Dictionary was on Linux until last night when I was in bed "having a thing" with my Xubuntu laptop and the Dictionary took up the whole screen, blocking out the IDE because my web-browser of choice is set to full-screen for ot...

Sofia is 2 hours away with a mountain range in between.

Thanks, I just checked that in the Dictionary.

1. your operating system: MacOS 11.5 beta 1 2. Lc version ( OPTIONAL ): 9.6.2 Stable 3. did this work or not ?: worked 4. if it worked, was it complete ?: as far as I can tell. 5. if it worked and was complete, was it accurate? Semi accurate? Complete garbage? See for yourself: - SShot 2021-05-23 at...

The European languages I have a reasonable knowledge of (Scots, English, French and Bulgarian) all have the annoying tendency to use 3 different punctuation marks to finish sentences: 1. The full stop ".'. 2. The question mark "?". 3. The exclamation mark "!". So, attempting to chop up a text into s...

Try typing this into the MessageBox"

delete group "xxx"

this is the only way I seem to be able to delete groups at present.

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That worked excellently, BUT, the JPG image weighed in at 117 KB, while the BMP3
worked out as 2.5 MB.

Here on MacOS 11.5 beta . . .

Preview opened it.

GIMP opened it.

MediBang Paint Pro opened it.

Toussaint Louverture: a most amazing man!

My Summer school stuff happens with Xubuntu 18.04 machines so no 'Preview'.

Maybe Richmond could make the "master" images available on his dropbox?

'My wish is your command' . . . Err . . .

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/430gd92p74nc ... nlx2a?dl=0

Aah: sounds good.

I will not be able to test that until Thursday night as currently away from my Mac Mini.

I am currently knocking up a word frequency counter . . . Now my "customer" (OK, OK, my younger son) wants to be able to differentiate between "NATO" and NATO. Using trueword it is dead easy to find all the occurrences of "NATO" with quotes by entering "NATO" in my search thing: - NATO.png - That gi...

HyperCard was concieved off as a single-windowed arrangement with a stack of cards metaphor. LiveCode has inherited that metaphor. but also introduced the concept of substacks; therefore allowing the possibility of multiple windows for a single application. The visual effect transitions have also be...

My Granny said, "Taste starts and finishes in the mouth."

If those who favour a single window IDE want to design one, let them.

Just make sure that a single window IDE is an option so those of us who prefer
they way things are at the moment can stick with that.

Works.

as part of the main window AND your unlikely to loose track of them.

If you are the type of person who loses track of palettes one wonders how you can program anything at all.