LiveCode Forums

I'm replying to my own post. I opened the file with the tilde and NOW it opens from within RunRev. This may be solved. Thanks for reading my frantic post. I feel better now, friends.

I try to open my stack and it says it's corrupted and to look for a back-up with a tilde ~. I find that file, but it's corrupted too. Help. What can I do?
Tom

I see. I guess I'll have to learn how to use applescript.
Thanks

The inexpensive word processor for Mac, Pages 09 has a table of contents creator but doesn't make an index. I thought it would be fun to make a program that would make an index. I remember in HyperCard, you could open Word Files and things. I'm guessing it might be possible to get RunRev to open a P...

This is a great improvement. I get a tiny flash, but it's the same screen; not the other stack. I think it's my scripting which is like something out of a drug addict's nightmare that makes it go the slightest bit wrong. I don't know why this would work, but you know I guess I have LEFT the stack be...

I have a script that sends a mouseup to a button on a card in another stack. Then it runs around the stack gathering up data. I push the card and pop the card. I have put "set lockscreen to true" at the beginning and "set lockscreen to false" at the end of the script, but I still see one flash of th...

I have a bird listing program I've written in Revolution. In HyperCard, there used to be stacks to share with cool graphing and things like that. I've made a graphing system on my own, but it took such a lot of time, and I can't remember what I was doing with that script and I can't face going in th...

Klaus,
Thanks so much. It's like greased lightning! Why hasn't anyone told me this? My repeat takes AGES -- I mean ages! Yours is instantaneous with 20,000 lines. I have some scripts that make me wait that I can fix now.

¡Mil gracias!

Tom

Thanks for the help. I can't get that script to do anything. I guess it's my inexperience. It's just a repeat, isn't it? I tried this: on mouseUp set cursor to watch put 1 into lineo put card fld sortfield into yourtext repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of yourtext put item 1 to 3 of line lin...

Well, you see, I have records like this with four items and I want the fourth one to go take a powder. BIRDNAME,DATE,PLACE,NOTE I HAVE: Common Snipe,01/22/2010,Lonely Mountain,A nice big one with a chocolate back American Robin,01/31/2010,Phoenix Sewer Flats,Unusual bird for the Phoenix area. Everyo...

I'm working on my super smokin' bird database and I need to filter by item. I want to say filter this without item 3 of myvar, but I can't remember how to do it. I can filter by strings, but if someone told me how to filter out an item in my data, I can't remember. Thanks!
Tom in Arizona

Gosh, I didn't know everyone was still in here talking about databases. I've been away, but I'd still like to make that bird database with sql, or, as someone suggested, by staying in rev. I just have bird,place,date,birdnotes,placenotes With these five fields, I can do great things, but I want to u...

I'm converting a HyperCard stack to Rev and my favorite button icons keep disappearing. Sometimes I'll open a hypercard stack in Rev, copy a card to my new Rev stack and use the buttons with their icons. The next time I open Rev, the icons are gone. Is this because the HyperCard stack isn't open? I'...

Dear Teks: Thanks for your help on this. Yes. I think it is time for me to do the database right. You are about right on with your tables. My HyperCard Stack has a card for each bird and each location. There are some 500 bird cards and perhaps 100 locations. There are 2830 cards because everytime I ...

Thanks! The offset works great. I have a front end now that does some great junk. With 17757 lines in my field, I can do the small sorts really fast, but the sorting that has to extract hundreds of records from thousands of lines requires that I put the records in individual fields in the datastack....