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Thanks, that fixed it - reminds me of the old "knowing where to tap" parable : -)

Holy Cow Jacque - yes I did assign a menu without a script yet! So you think that that was the cause of the problem?

Thanks for your advice Dave, yes I copied everything over to my new stack and now copy and paste works fine - very odd. Yet, stripping out each of the elements one at a time did not resolve the problem - in fact the problem seemed to persist over the whole of that stack and any new cards made

Hi, no I have checked lock text etc - like I said if I create a new stack then the problem is not there - but when I create anew card in my current stack the problem does exist. Even cmd+c will not copy to the clipboard when I try to paste to notepad. There are no scripts on the stack. I assumed tha...

I'm using version 6.62 on Mac OS X Mavericks - v 7.0 simply crashes on startup for me, even before the IDE loads or the splash - I have reported it to bug report. Tried re-downloading numerous times - conflicts with my system somehow.

Thanks magice but sadly it's not that, "can't modify" is unticked - I also tried comparing all properties to another new stack and even with them the same the problem persists - very odd

I am making my first app for desktop - the only objects I have on my page are textfields and buttons. Strangely I do not seem able to copy and paste within any of the text fields using cmd+c/cmd+v etc (I can manually type and and use delete/backspace). There is no code on the stack at all and little...

Wow -hh you just simplified that down a huge amount for me thank you - it goes to show how experience triumphs over reason any day. I am trying to create an ebook where you can enter PHP into a text field next to an example and then see the results in another browser object on the same page - your f...

Thanks, the cd command it seems does have an effect for my purposes because performing a cd to a specific folder sets that folder as the root directory for the a php -S localhost:8000 server - the benefit to me is that by cd-ing to defaultFolder/playground and having Livecode create that folder mean...

Hi, thanks for your input both of you, this is all really helping and I have a working demo - I will try your shortened version -hh next. However, right now, with my working demo the stack simply freezes once the shell command is run. I have tried not putting the shell into a variable or field and t...

On second reading your response the penny dropped what you were trying to say and it now works. Thanks. Instead of trying to concatenate "playground" onto the end of my change directory command I instead changed default folder put the defaultFolder into newdefaultFolder set the defaultFolder to newd...

Thanks for the reply, I should explain more. I am trying to get Livecode to turn on PHP through terminal and set the root of localhost to the folder playground. defaultFolder it seems is always the location of the livecode created app - I am simply trying to change this by concatenating "/playground...

I'm really struggling with this. Can somebody please explain what I am doing wrong - I'm new to LiveCode. I'm trying to send a concatenated string with a "cd" command through shell on a mac. For example, this works fine... put shell("cd" && quote & defaultFolder & quote) into field 2 Whereas trying ...

Hi, I am brand new to Livecode and wanting to learn the scripting language - seems the "how to" videos in the academy do not teach the scripting language but are more recipes for creating certain functionality. I know html/css/php all very well but want to try my hand at creating desktop apps - obje...