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- Mon Mar 02, 2015 6:50 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: video streaming from IP camera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5407
Re: video streaming from IP camera
Well, I have been unable to display the streaming video from an IP camera using the player object. Though I can (as mentioned previously) display it with a browser (and browser object), I have found a problem displaying the video with a browser object, namely, it depends on the browser object that I...
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 8:21 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: size / efficiency question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3718
Re: size / efficiency question
Thank you all very much!
- Tue Feb 24, 2015 4:02 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: size / efficiency question
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3718
size / efficiency question
I'm starting to write a "flash card" app for my kids to use for school studies. I could design it to use two cards and simply go back and forth between the two for the question and answer; or I could have as many cards as there are questions and answers and simply move through the stack of cards. I ...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 8:59 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: video streaming from IP camera
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5407
video streaming from IP camera
I have a wireless network camera that I am trying to connect to with the player object. I can access the camera via a web browser, but so far, not using the LC player. I've looked at this lesson: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4603/l/44283-using-players and noticed at the bottom of the lesson it says t...
- Mon Feb 09, 2015 4:56 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: why is "replace" grayed out on "Find and Replace" dialog?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6923
why is "replace" grayed out on "Find and Replace" dialog?
I click on Find and Replace in the menu and I get a find and replace dialog but the replace buttons are grayed out. How can I activate the replace buttons?
- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:37 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: error creating hyperlink in field
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4981
Re: error creating hyperlink in field
Thank you both!! 

- Sun Feb 08, 2015 4:35 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: variable checking has me mystified ...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2389
variable checking has me mystified ...
I used VB and VB.net for years. I always declared my variables. I've been learning LiveCode because I love the multi-platform support and I naturally turned on Variable Checking. But it has me completely mystified. For example, This code works when variable checking is NOT active: on mouseUp set the...
- Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:45 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: error creating hyperlink in field
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4981
Re: error creating hyperlink in field
Sorry if I am being dense but I can't get past
button "Make Link": compilation error at line 3 (set: missing 'to'), char 28
button "Make Link": compilation error at line 3 (set: missing 'to'), char 28
- Fri Feb 06, 2015 11:49 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: error creating hyperlink in field
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4981
error creating hyperlink in field
I am trying to create a hyperlink on a word selected in a text field. Here is the code: on mouseUp put the selectedText of field "note" set the linkText of the selectedText of field "note" to "http://revolution.byu.edu/textfind/TextandFind.php" end mouseUp The first line successfully outputs the sel...
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 12:06 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Bug when working with Shell command
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2900
Re: Bug when working with Shell command
Well, I guess my definition of "bug" would include any scenario in which the answer dialog went "bezonkers" regardless of the inelegant coding that caused it.
But, it is hardly a critical bug as it is only likely to be encountered by newbies like me experimenting with unfamiliar commands.
But, it is hardly a critical bug as it is only likely to be encountered by newbies like me experimenting with unfamiliar commands.

- Sat Jan 31, 2015 7:37 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Bug when working with Shell command
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2900
Bug when working with Shell command
Though I am relatively new at LiveCode, I am pretty confident this is a bug. Nevertheless, I am posting here in the beginners forum because I am a beginner and I could be missing something. I am experimenting with the Shell command to run another application using the command line (on Mac OS X 10.9....
- Tue Jan 27, 2015 4:57 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: link to particular page of pdf file?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1945
link to particular page of pdf file?
I want to link to a particular page of a pdf file. This link: http://blogs.adobe.com/tcs/2011/01/tcs-specific/linking-to-a-page-within-a-pdf-and-more.html says that all I need to do is append #page=3 (for example) to accomplish this. However, it does not work. I can launch the document with this cod...