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by Norval Bard
Mon Jun 05, 2017 10:15 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Finding out what IDE/version a stack is associated with?
Replies: 4
Views: 3639

Re: Finding out what IDE/version a stack is associated with?

Maybe I'm over-thinking it, but recently when using "save as..." under the IDE, I noticed that the the default setting was 'LC legacy' and since it's been taking an unusually long time for these simple stacks to save, I have wondered if they were being saved as legacy and not current versions. I'll ...
by Norval Bard
Mon Jun 05, 2017 7:57 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Finding out what IDE/version a stack is associated with?
Replies: 4
Views: 3639

Finding out what IDE/version a stack is associated with?

Hi,
Is there some way to determine what IDE or what LC version a given stack was created with?
Thanx,
NB
by Norval Bard
Tue May 23, 2017 7:58 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Opening of a stack on a shared drive (how to lock out)
Replies: 5
Views: 5052

Re: Opening of a stack on a shared drive (how to lock out)

Hi,
I think I get the concept of a semaphore/flag check (confirms whether or not a file is open before attempting to make changes to it--right?), but I don't know how to set up the coding for it. Could someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
by Norval Bard
Tue Jun 16, 2015 7:05 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Final Char's lost in export?
Replies: 1
Views: 2176

Final Char's lost in export?

Hi, I use LC 7 to run a series of placement exams. Upon conclusion of the exam, the program exports data collected in fields to a simple text file. Recently (since upgrading to v7?) I am having a consistent and annoying problem: the last characters of any data exported from a field are truncated. So...