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its incredible compared to other languages. I've not yet hit any significant limitations/showstoppers I agree it has some very nice strong points ----- like the floating point arithmetic for one: It felt a bit unnerving using "get text from field " to import a number but Livecode has that covered q...

Which distro do you use? I'm an Ubuntu fanboy myself. I make happy use of Elive Beta; Buster based with a modernized E16 desktop. Amazingly fast, stable and easily customized to the core. :D I stopped using Ubuntu once they fazed out their Unity desktop and switched over to Elive but I'm also very ...

Let's not forget Ireland is still in the EU and uses the Anglo Saxon format.
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From what I searched, found out the Scott Payne opted for a decimal dot where later Leibniz wanted to use the dot as multiplier in place of x. So he introduced the comma.
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It's a total mess.

The simplest global solution for me turned out use replace on the numerical fields. This is works as long as no-one uses a dot for 1000 values. on mouseLeave replace "," with "." in me end mouseLeave on keyDown or Up made the input reverse from right to left while typing in the field --- haven't loo...

thanks for the replies ..... "replace" looks like the best candidate for ease albeit a reusable function is a good solution too.

Hello all, Sorry to ask (maybe) a simple question but I apparently cannot find an answer to a (not so minor) niggle I'm having. My first app I created was based on older python app I once made....took me half a day to discover that counting from 1 instead of 0 in lists was what was killing my math, ...