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Thanks, jacque and FourthWorld for the advice. I did have a go setting the snapToGrid in Prefs — which was tricky on a Mac, due to a bug in the revPreferencesGUI.rev stack (Panos helped me to patch that by adding the round() function to the arrow buttons' scrollBarDrag routine: https://cloud.githubu...

[-hh] wrote: The preferences are actually not a pain, but it's a nice 'freudian slip'

It is. I'll leave it in.

This is probably a beginner's question — but I can't find any mention in the literature or forums. When I use the pointer tool: • mostly its icon is four-way arrows (a cross: up/down/left/right); • but I've noticed that, on occasion, its icon is limited to one axis (a line: either up/down or left/ri...

Panos, that's terrific.

I'll do that now.

Thank you very much for your concise help and advice.

E.

Terrific. Thanks, guys. Especially, thanks to Panos - who has offered a patch (which I intend to install). Can anyone tell me how temporarily to open this "revpreferencesgui" stack for editing? I want to add a "Grid" checkbox button to enable/disable the global grid property (whilst also activating/...

Hi, I've hunted around, but I can't find any reference to my problem with setting the grid spacing for LiveCode using its preferences pain. I'm running LiveCode 9 on an iMac with OSX 10.11 (El Capitan). I found an option, in the Appearance tab of the Preferences dialogue, called "Grid spacing (pixel...

Hi. I keep getting the same message whenever I open or close my new stack. Screen Shot 2016-11-25 at 09.26.11.png Needless to say, the threat of data loss is worrying. I have tried using delete stack and close stack and, when I use msg to "put the openstacks" or "put the stacks" the stack is not lis...