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Thanks Richard, the boundingRect actually works very well.

Hi Jacque,

yes, for the moment I need it to act as a clip as the group itself is acting like a canvas of sorts. Anything outside those bounds is "off canvas".

But thanks for the info about the formattedHeight and formattedWidth, I'm sure I'll need those too as I progress through this project.

HA! Managed to find the answer in a 2017 mailing list.

set the clipsToRect of group "Canvas" to false

I'll start by saying the solution to my problem is solved by toggling the "Clip child controls to rect" checkbox in the Property Inspector. Unfortunately I don't recall if we can actually see the code behind the the various IDE elements in LiveCode. So here's the problem: I have a group with random ...

I'm absorbing the replies and continue to read what I can find — here's my current understanding: [1] specialfolderpath() I can store basic preferences such as window size, colors and fonts, preferred "save path" directory etc to an xml or json file. I don't really see any benefit to saving 4KB of s...

Hi all, I'm lost on where in the forum to find an answer for this question: If my standalone requires that a user modify settings in my app (for example they may change the bg color of the UI) then this needs to be saved externally to a custom plist/JSON/XML etc. What is the current best practice fo...

That worked perfectly, thanks Richard.

I'm currently trying to perform a get shell() and I'm having random successes in cases where it should just work. Here's an example where it just works: get shell ("dir") answer it Works a treat. The following more complex example also works without a hitch: get shell("cd C:/Users/5imon/AppData/Loca...

I just ran into the same problem as buchacho and spent the better part of a few hours debugging it. I finally got it to work when formatted as the following: put "cd C:/Users/5imon/AppData/Local/HaptUX/ExManCmdWin/" into thePath put "& ExManCmd /list" into theArgs get shell(thePath & theArgs) That w...

Hmmm> If i set the windowShape of a simple stack to the ID of an oval image on that stack, I get an oval shaped stack the size of the image. Regardless of what I do with the decorations, I cannot move the stack with the mouse. There is nothing to "grab" onto. No titleBar, minimize button, etc, ever...

As to the OP, I'm not sure what to say there. I don't have Mojave to test with, but with 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and Safari, I certainly see the search without being logged in. I see the search when logged out, but it disappears when logged in. Safari and Firefox. Anyhow, I already setup a bookmark to ...

Now I am trying to work out how to drag the stack anywhere at all. Add the following to the stack cd script. It's likely that the "target" will end up being the frog so you'll need to modify the mouseMove to reflect that. # make entire stack draggable local sgLeftOffset local sgTopOffset local sgDr...

Klaus. I'm sure Simon means empty "decorations"! Probably. But can you have decorations on a windowShaped stack? I made a oval image, set the windowShape, and I get an oval stack. How would a titlebar "track" the top of such a thing? Simon, decorations are not controls. Craig On Windows you can dra...

Yes, I mean empty decorations. When I use the Property Inspector to set the decorations the last option is titled "empty".

And to set the decorations to *empty* I need to click on a button with a magic wand icon next to a field labelled *Controls* in the Property Inspector.

I should elaborate ... this problem only happens on Ubuntu Linux with 9 .6 .0