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by lcfan
Mon May 16, 2016 5:37 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: UI / Accessing button name from another button
Replies: 9
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Re: UI / Accessing button name from another button

Thank you. Interestingly, not doing what I expected, which tells me something about how variables are handled, but that's for me to learn. Where am I able to give feedback to LiveCode, and is that effective? This debugger is lacking some features that are considered basic in modern IDEs, and that's ...
by lcfan
Mon May 16, 2016 4:54 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: UI / Accessing button name from another button
Replies: 9
Views: 3671

Re: UI / Accessing button name from another button

Yep, I'm learning it. It is pretty different.

Let me restate: How do I see the value of the button "start"'s label?

The code is in debug mode, and a breakpoint has been triggered. Is there a place where I can see the current value of the "start" button's label?

Thanks
by lcfan
Mon May 16, 2016 4:34 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: UI / Accessing button name from another button
Replies: 9
Views: 3671

Re: UI / Accessing button name from another button

Thank you! I've reviewed the link you sent. How do I see the current label of the button "start"? That is, have it show up here: <I don't have permission to post imgur links :( > That is, can I set a watch on start.label (or whatever it's called), or even better, watch it and trigger a conditional b...
by lcfan
Mon May 16, 2016 3:50 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: UI / Accessing button name from another button
Replies: 9
Views: 3671

UI / Accessing button name from another button

Short version: Is there some documentation of how UI elements are accessed? (This is riffing off the code example http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=11750 ). If I have two buttons, start and stop, how do I access start from stop? Here's the code - this is in the button 'stop': on mouseUp...