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- Thu Aug 01, 2013 11:36 pm
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: Quotation Marks and Formatted Text
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3531
Re: Quotation Marks and Formatted Text
I am changing my code thusly: put the label of button "ComboBoxStudent" of card "New Note" of stack "Grad Log" into aName put the htmltext of field "FieldScratchPad" into aString replace quote with numtochar(2) in aString put aString into aMemo along with companion code to replace numtochar(2) with ...
- Thu Aug 01, 2013 6:01 pm
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: Quotation Marks and Formatted Text
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3531
Quotation Marks and Formatted Text
My ultimate question is: What code (and properties) allows users to save formatted text to a (SQLite) database? Here are details: I have a field where users might paste text from an office application. The field's contents are then inserted into a (SQLite) database field (of type text). Right now I ...
- Thu Jul 25, 2013 6:50 pm
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: Selecting a Database for Multiple Users
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5155
Selecting a Database for Multiple Users
I'm a newbie in the world of LiveCode and also databases. To help me learn I've written a simple "CRUD" app, using SQLite--three tables, a few joins. I've been using it myself; all is well. Now I'd like the app to be usable by a small group, sharing the database's data. Can I continue to use SQLite?...
- Fri Jul 19, 2013 11:22 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Multiline, word-wrapped text in table cell?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2277
Multiline, word-wrapped text in table cell?
I am trying to learn to create, display, (and then print) a report. I can select a record from a database and send the record's text to a field in another stack. By sending the info tab delimited I can put grid lines around it (...thanks to runrev's online lessons :-)) Some of the displayed text, ho...
- Fri Jul 12, 2013 10:38 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Creating New Cards When 'Behave Like a Background' is True
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3967
Re: Creating New Cards When 'Behave Like a Background' is Tr
My thanks to you both for your replies! Quite helpful. I read the documentation; my question is answered. ... Looking around on my own some more I also came to see part of the issue for me is/was confusion between the concept of a card and that of a stack. I think, ultimately, I was talking about cr...
- Fri Jul 12, 2013 9:49 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Creating New Cards When 'Behave Like a Background' is True
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3967
Creating New Cards When 'Behave Like a Background' is True
My main stack has a tab panel which fills the window. The stack has three cards, one for each tab. The tab group property "behave like a background" is checked, and clicking each tab displays a different card. The whole thing is almost the same as the LiveCode lesson on using tab buttons (I would po...