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Since 2014 I've hunted with team 'Rage' - we're always some sort of pun on the word, this year we were called 'Non-Abelian Rage Theory' as the initial theme was a Physics conference. My first was with Manic Sages in 2012, who actually won it, so I was part of the writing team in 2013.

For those able to watch BBC TV live, I am on again tonight, BBC2 8pm

Thick chips are usually disambiguated using the terms 'chip shop' or 'chippy', as they tend to be what you get in Fish & Chips establishments. Sometimes thin chips are called fries, but generally if you see the word chips on a menu you probably have to ask how thick they're going to be.

Aha, I had managed to completely forget about that!

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Wed Jan 20, 2021 7:28 am

Do you make fishcakes?

I'm sure I should understand this question but I don't

Thanks :D It means Ali Lloyd has been competing in a quiz/puzzle show on UK television called "Only Connect", and his team won in the episode aired tonight. Rooting for the win! (But Ali won't be allowed to say yet, although it will have been filmed already.) I also suspect Ali might be a bit tired ...

Have a look at revIDECreateTransientTextField and associated handlers in the IDE - this is how we do it with the navigation bar property inspector.

It doesn't have to be a whole new widget, but yes, within the widget you need specific logic for returning a value - see the 'currently popped up' syntax in the dictionary, or the code in the icon picker.

In general widgets require specific coding to handle the case when they are popped up by some other script

There is no such widget - I think the docs were intended to be illustrative rather than literal there. It would be better to replace with a working example though, so it could be changed to "com.livecode.widget.iconpicker" with selectedIcon instead of currentColor. If you are asking because you actu...

I'm still confused as to the specific issue here - if the handler shows up in the default handler list (and nothing else) then that is the expected behavior - we did away with default scripts actually populating the script, they merely define a list of handlers for the default handler list. If I loa...

No, it should happen automatically. However, I'm wondering if there may be a docs issue here - we changed default scripts so that the handlers specified show up in the left hand side, rather than the script actually being automatically filled in - does your default script consist of (a) handler(s) a...

support should be lowercase, although possibly that isn't the issue if you're on an os with a case insensitive file system. Your default script stack needs to be named "your.widget.identifier.__DefaultScript", eg: script "com.livecode.widget.navbar.__DefaultScript" Other than that, the only reason I...

Yes, the cross platform button example is how we would recommend structuring such an extension: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6266 However it does potentially over-complicate things it if the extension is very simple, and you can do as Trevor suggests (in fact the first LiveCode widget t...

Hi Max, I added an overview of the canvas API with examples in the Extending LiveCode document in the 9.0 GM release: https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Documentation/guides/Extending%20LiveCode.md#canvas-api Please give that a read and let me know what we can do to improve it. Th...