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by Der-Schredder
Sat Jun 16, 2018 8:29 am
Forum: Internet
Topic: How to read text file through Dropbox
Replies: 13
Views: 22954

Re: How to read text file through Dropbox

I'm on Windows 10. It did not work in the Windows Standalone and Android Standalone.
by Der-Schredder
Fri Jun 15, 2018 9:25 am
Forum: Internet
Topic: How to read text file through Dropbox
Replies: 13
Views: 22954

Re: How to read text file through Dropbox

I think I found the gremlin everyone is talking about. :twisted: It defenitely did not work with the brackets and httpS.
by Der-Schredder
Thu Jun 14, 2018 8:39 am
Forum: Internet
Topic: How to read text file through Dropbox
Replies: 13
Views: 22954

Re: How to read text file through Dropbox

Thanks a lot. It seems like I had two problems. First one was the missing "s", second one was the round brackets next to the url command.

This only works inside livecode:

put field "Link" into dropboxLink
put url(dropboxLink) into fileContent


This works everywhere.

put field "Link" into ...
by Der-Schredder
Wed Jun 13, 2018 9:02 pm
Forum: Internet
Topic: How to read text file through Dropbox
Replies: 13
Views: 22954

Re: How to read text file through Dropbox

I know this thread is old, but I give it a try.
This trick works for me, but only in the Livecode environment. It does not work on Windows and Android standalone. Did anyone experience similar behaviour?
I created a simple Stack to test it: A field containing the link, a field that gets the content ...
by Der-Schredder
Wed Jun 13, 2018 6:05 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Generating Variables in a Repeat loop
Replies: 30
Views: 44016

Re: Generating Variables in a Repeat loop

Wow, that was a lot more input then I expected :) You are an awesome community, thanks a lot!
Even though I dind't understand everything I think I got the quint essence: Try to use something else than "Do", e.g. arrays.
And an array makes a lot more sence in my case, the variables will contain ...
by Der-Schredder
Mon Jun 11, 2018 12:43 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Generating Variables in a Repeat loop
Replies: 30
Views: 44016

Generating Variables in a Repeat loop

Hallo,
I started coding in Livecode about 1 week ago and now came across a very basic problem I can't seem to figure out. One of the "there has to be an easy solution, but I don't know what to google" problems.
Since my code is quite complicated at the moment, I created the simpelest verison of this ...