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Hi, I am in the process of refactoring one of my projects and wish to reduce the number of handlers in my main stack to aid clarity. A number of handlers deal with a single aspect (report generation) so I have moved these to a new sub-stack. I have use a start using mysubstack command in the main st...

Hi Craig, Sorry for being confusing. What I meant was that if I copy a code snip from the IDE and paste it into Apple's TextEdit application the colours are changed. Its as if they have been turned up to maximum with the amber becoming yellow, subdued green getting bright and so on. The screen shot ...

Hi All,

Thanks for all your inputs. I now realise that I fell into the trap of just looking at the properties listed in the stack inspector, I'm off to fashion a pointy hat with a "D" on it and will go and stand in the corner.

Skids

It was late and I was caught out by how Livecode works when changing the width of a stack in code. I thought it would be simple but although the button resize worked the stack jumped on the screen which looked most odd. So I though I would post my solution in the hope that it may be helpful to other...

When I copy a section of code from the IDE and paste it into another app the text colours and not being honoured. The text in the screen shot, attached, shows the feature where the top portion is a direct copy and paste and the lower portion is a copy from a PDF opened in Preview. While I can live w...

Thanks saved me a task!

Thanks both : re IT, I've not checked but can its value be viewed in the debugger?

S

Excellent work! In my opinion Bernd's Dictionary Splitter Stack is so much clearer than the standard Dictionary supplied with LC8. I think it would be useful if it were possible to add example use cases either entered by the end user or from a community database, these would have to be carried over ...

Hi Thierry, Thank you for your refactored version of my script. In it you have used constructs that I did not know were allowed e.g. put (pGroupName is empty) into ignoreInGroup and your use of the filter command to reduce the list size is very elegant. My only concern is the use of the single line ...

Here is the function I ended up with : Function GetControlScripts pLongIDCardOrGroup, pStackName, pCardName, pGroupName # Function that extracts the scripts from the buttons on the stack/card/group passed in. put empty into tText if pStackName is empty then return False else Put "***! Stack:" & pSta...

A folksy wimp - whatever next ?!

Does seem to be an omission from the API - user is sorting on column "fred" but I'm not going to tell you in which direction. (Do you feel lucky???)

dgtext rules

Simon K

I am still not sure why you still say that the variable cannot be, er "variable",

Because I was wrong! excuses excuses...... late at night mind set........ need coffee etc etc

Thanks again for all the help,

best wishes

Simon K

Hi, I have been reading the Datagrid API but still seek enlightenment. I have a standard datagrid table that allows the user to sort the rows by selecting the column headings. I wish to extract the data in the same order as it is being displayed. The simple answer is to use the dgText[true] command ...

Hi, thanks for all your replies and the confirmation that it is not possible to use a variable in the way I hoped. I have included a copy of one of my functions which I accept needs refactoring with some of the ideas given above; specifically extracting the type of control, button or field from the ...

Hi Craig, I'm sorry but it is not quite what I was after. My actual functions are quite complex and one is the twin of the other except that one refers to buttons and the other to fields. So my aim was to merge the two functions into one and get rid of a load of code. So for example is it possible t...