Dialog box selections using keyboard.

[richmond62]

On a related note, the 'forward delete' button does not work as one would imagine - it just goes to the end of line.

In fact the DELETE button is also crap as it always deletes the last char of the string.

Looking now, at that stack: almost everything is crap . . .

Anyway: here's a rehash, that I hope will cover my embarrassment:
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Totally, 100% recoded as previous code was a serious 'diversion' not even worth tweaking.

[richmond62]

possible spammer!

Possibly, or another person trying to get someone else to do
their homework for them and not prepared to make any effort
themselves.

[SparkOut]

possible spammer!

Possibly, or another person trying to get someone else to do
their homework for them and not prepared to make any effort
themselves.

It's definitely a spammer, just copy/pasting from a previous legitimate post
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... 81#p221581

[richmond62]

So it would seem.

Obviously you are better at spotting those things than I am.

HOWEVER, odd as it may seem, that spam message DID spur me to examine my stack and realise
what complete and utter rubbish it was, and remake it.

So, everything (well, nearly everything) has a silver lining.
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Disclaimer: I am in now way connected with the manufacturers of Ibuprofen, and this meme is in no way
to be taken as either an endorsement or a criticism of that medication. . .

[Klaus]

possible spammer!

Possibly, or another person trying to get someone else to do
their homework for them and not prepared to make any effort
themselves.

It's definitely a spammer, just copy/pasting from a previous legitimate post
https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.p ... 81#p221581

Thank you, he/she/it is history now!