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Getting 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...

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Getting 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 —...

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Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Livecode error -231...

Hello,I'm new to the forum. I'm using Livecode version 7 on Windows 10. I am trying to record audio files for an experiment that I am creating. Here is the code I am using:CODE: global...

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Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Re: Livecode error -231...

If you read the Dictionary carefully you will find that CODE: recordFormat only works on Macintosh computers:-- Statistics: Posted by richmond62 — Thu Jan 09, 2025 10:12 am

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Getting 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:...

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Getting 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...

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Getting 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....

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Getting 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

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Getting 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

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Talking 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...

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Getting 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...

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Internet • 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...

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Off-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...

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Getting 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

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Off-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

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Getting 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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Off-Topic • Re: Editing the Dictionary

The stack that does the export isn’t too complicated and can easily be run by anyone to host a copy of the docs locally.https://github.com/bwmilby/lc-misc/tree ... ebDocMakerDarn, if I'd seen this...

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Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • I can`t get a line to...

Hi everyone, I'm trying to get a line to rotate with the following codeCODE: on mouseUp rotateLine end mouseUpon rotateLine put the angle of graphic "myLine" into tCurrentAngle add 10 to...

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