Talking LiveCode • Re: App is grindingly slow on iOS
Almost every command requires a screen redraw which is visually expensive. Try locking the screen at the beginning of the handler and unlocking at the end. Let us know if that isn't enough.Statistics:...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers • Re:...
I am still having crashes on Android 11, because of revSetStackFileProfile.Trying to re-open the stack, after using the revSetStackFileProfile command and saving it, sometimes but not always, returns...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Using LC to generate music
Hi everyone, almost a year later, and have now found a solution to the issue of LC generating music.... Lilypond! https://lilypond.org/the midi file that Lilypond produces (via a LC script) sounds...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: How to replace the...
Hi Glenn,this is an operating system issue!Obviously there is no application associated with the ".MID" suffix, so Windows does not know what app to launch with the file. Install an app that can play...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Closing an open folder
Hi AllHappy New Yearis there a way to close an open folder on the desktop, something like:CODE: close folder(t_path_folder)as a note I am opening a folder using:CODE: launch document t_path_folderAny...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: Closing an open folder
Hi.I do not think so. Such a finder-oriented action is not, I think, possible from LC. You can create one, delete one, move one, but not close one.I could be wrong.CraigStatistics: Posted by dunbarx —...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • A scrolling list field...
I am looking for a drop-down menu, scrolling list field, or somesuch that will list all the visual effects available in LiveCode in the same sort of way I can populate a drop-down font menu usingCODE:...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: A scrolling list...
I'm afraid there is no such thing in LC, you need to create your own.But since the number of supported visual effects will not change dynamically like "the fontnames", you will only need to create it...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • All Deployment Options...
Greetings All,I have used LiveCode for years, but I haven't deployed to any platform for the past 4 years. I want to deploy to a Mac, but all of the deployment options are grayed out in the settings....
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: All Deployment...
When you say "deploy" do you mean making a standalone?CraigStatistics: Posted by dunbarx — Fri Jan 10, 2025 5:06 am
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Unicode limitations
I was in heaven (well, the nearest one could get without actually being dead) when, largely owning to the good offices of Mark Waddingham, LiveCode finally became 'totally' Unicode compliant.Suddenly...
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Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: Unicode limitations
Is THIS "where the antic sits":--And if you are not familar with Shakespeare's Richard II, I suggest you do read it because it rocks!Statistics: Posted by richmond62 — Fri Jan 10, 2025 9:01 am
View ArticleTalking LiveCode • State of play for standalone building?
I haven't built a standalone for anyone else to run for quite some time, entirely because the process had become rather convoluted over recent years and I didn't have the head space to go through it...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • REplace issue in livecode
Hello,I'm new to LiveCode. I need to replace " snn" with "" & " sss" & "" in myHtml. it will replace all " snn" with " sss". but it will not work in the begin of a line(newline, \n).Is there...
View ArticleInternet • Re: Getting the contents of a web request using load url
I think you should you need to access the content of the URL within your validationLoaded handler. You can do this by using the libURLData function, which retrieves the data returned from the URL once...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Can the 'common word' search term lists be edited?
I'm trying to find the current best-practise advice for building/signing/etc standalones, but when I search for "standalone" I get the following (grammatically awkward) message: "The following words...
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: REplace issue in...
Hi Helen,welcome to the forum!What did you script so far? Please post your script(s).BestKlausStatistics: Posted by Klaus — Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:54 pm
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Can the 'common word' search term lists be edited?
You could try searching for "standalones"Statistics: Posted by stam — Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:59 pm
View ArticleGetting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Surrogate Pairs
Some wag at the University of Plovdiv who insists on using Windows XP has asked me to implement some Unicode stuff for them: and for that I shall have to run off a standalone from either Revolution...
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Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: Surrogate Pairs
Hey-Ho: replying to my own post, again, again, again:CODE: on mouseUpset the useUnicode to trueset the unicodeText of fld "FFF" to numToChar(13654) & numToChar(52334)Those values are fake, for...
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