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Thank you, Craig, I want to use this method in an application that basically plays a song, and while listening I press a key to mark specific moments, which are stored in a list. Later, those moments will be used to trigger processes synchronized with the same song.

Great, thank you so much, SWEdeAndy. And since this is about synchronizing musical moments where a second is sometimes too long, I assume ticks might work. I've tried wait 10 with messages and it seems to be working.

Hi, I’m facing a problem I thought I had already solved, but now I’m stuck again and can’t make it work. I’m trying to run three actions, each triggered by a separate press of the Command key: on mouseUp wait until the commandKey is down put "AAAAA" wait until the commandKey is down put "BBBBB" wait...

Thank you very much for all your help. It is very reassuring to be able to count on this forum.

Hello Bernd, Thank you for your suggestion on handling UTF-8 encoding in LiveCode. Although I haven’t tested it exhaustively yet, it seems that the compatibility issue with special characters in JSON files is resolved, which simplifies their use in my text animation application in Python. Much appre...

Thank you, Stam, for your recommendation. I appreciate the suggestion of FerrusLogic's PhotonJSON library, especially since it respects UTF-8. While I am still exploring and investigating alternative methods to ensure compatibility with UTF-8, your advice is valuable and certainly something I will c...

Hello everyone, I’m working on a project where I need to export configuration data from LiveCode to a JSON file. The ultimate goal is for this JSON file to be compatible with a Python program that reads and processes it. The challenge is that the data includes special characters (such as accented le...

Thank you very much, Richmond, but I'm not sure if it would work when the target is at the beginning of a line or after a period or a comma... Also, the algorithm would need to work both for a single word (e.g., "here") and for a small phrase (e.g., "in front").

I was overcomplicating things. I believe I’ve found the most straightforward way to do it. on mouseUp put "in front" into obje put upper(obje) into obje2 replace obje with obje2 in field almacenb preserving styles end mouseUp mmm... Although I hadn’t considered the problem of finding a substring wit...

Hi, I need help converting all occurrences of a specific substring to uppercase within a field. I’m already using the upper function to convert to uppercase, but my main issue is finding all occurrences of the substring and putting them back in the same position. Is it possible to do this using the ...

Thank you for your answers. I understand the problem now and will try to find another way to fix it. As a curiosity: I presented the problem to ChatGPT and it's clear that it doesn't have any complexes. It may not have any idea what it's saying, but at least it says it with a lot of confidence. :D A...

Does anyone know how to force LiveCode to return a string instead of calculating the result when using "<" and ">" and "</" ? With the PUT command there is no problem, but I need it with ANSWER or RETURN to deliver a result within a routine. For example: answer "<" & aaa & ">" & 555 & "</" & aaa & "...

Thank you, Richmond... and Thank you very much, Bernd!!! Understood, applied, and problem solved.

"Power to the squares!!!
... Anyway, nothing to do about it. Let's see if I can figure out the solution.