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by FourthWorld
Tue Jul 22, 2025 2:57 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Modifier Keys?
Replies: 32
Views: 2929

Re: Modifier Keys?

Would it be simpler to use key combinations that leverage existing conventions on each OS? https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/keyboard-shortcuts-to-add-language-accent-marks-in-word-and-outlook-3801b103-6a8d-42a5-b8ba-fdc3774cfc76 Which will occur more often?: - A user running one app on mul...
by FourthWorld
Tue Jul 08, 2025 5:30 am
Forum: CGIs and the Server
Topic: Get external page source?
Replies: 1
Views: 1971

Re: Get external page source?

This can be tricky in a world where web content is increasingly assembled dynamically in divs with JS.

If just getting the URL isn't doing what you need, that may be the issue.

Does the host offer an API to get the data you're looking for? Can you tell us more about the page?
by FourthWorld
Mon Jun 09, 2025 6:42 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Screen freezes about 30 seconds after exiting repeat loop
Replies: 10
Views: 4205

Re: Screen freezes about 30 seconds after exiting repeat loop

Without an example stack we're just guessing. With one we can probably resolve this in minutes.
by FourthWorld
Sat Jun 07, 2025 5:22 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: image is shared between cards instead of unique to the cards
Replies: 9
Views: 6243

Re: image is shared between cards instead of unique to the cards

Put the image unique to each card on the card instead of the shared background.
by FourthWorld
Thu Jun 05, 2025 6:42 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: [SOLVED] Can we login to Gmail with TSNet or do we need OAuth?
Replies: 6
Views: 8550

Re: [SOLVED] Can we login to Gmail with TSNet or do we need OAuth?

Bad news for anyone doing this, Gmail and Microsoft are abandoning support for less secure apps. Without OAuth support mail will not be retrievable I fear. I get this same error with office.com. I administer the mail domain, but I can no longer find a place to enter an app password. This is why I h...
by FourthWorld
Wed Jun 04, 2025 3:32 pm
Forum: Games
Topic: cutting irregular pieces from image for puzzle game
Replies: 63
Views: 28484

Re: cutting irregular pieces from image for puzzle game

One could conceivably place polygon objects over the image, and perform a loop in which all but one of the polys set their fill color to match the card color, then use the snapshot command to grab the resulting piece. Tedious, though, to place those polys. Unless this is an exercise for learning, th...
by FourthWorld
Tue May 27, 2025 1:57 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Forum behaviour change?
Replies: 7
Views: 56382

Re: Forum behaviour change?

DDoS attacks are definitely on the rise. But unlike spam, there's no money to be made doing it, other than by renting out the infrastructure needed to pull it off. LC Ltd is not involved in any political or ideological controversy, and even if they were they're not big enough to warrant attack. Any ...
by FourthWorld
Mon May 26, 2025 7:55 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Editable fields?
Replies: 3
Views: 6126

Re: Editable fields?

Thank you for that reminder, Stam. It's good to see them pick up where they left of on the foundational work we first saw hinted at with the language features added for the DataGrid. The LC field object is quite an accomplishment, among the better text engines I've seen, certainly the most feature-r...
by FourthWorld
Fri May 23, 2025 8:25 pm
Forum: LiveCode Builder
Topic: Editable fields?
Replies: 3
Views: 6126

Editable fields?

Way back in the early days LCB didn't offer a way to create editable text fields. I'm considering LCB for a new widget, but among the other primitives I'd need is an editable text field. Is that supported these days?
by FourthWorld
Tue May 20, 2025 4:28 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: I didn't know commas were letters
Replies: 44
Views: 16117

Re: I didn't know commas were letters

My 'problem' with trueWord is that if I throw 'cheese|smelly' at it it splits that up into 2 words when for my needs I need to treat it as a 2 item thing with '|' as the itemDelimiter. Specialized data formats unrelated to natural language will need different methods than parsing natural language. ...
by FourthWorld
Mon May 19, 2025 11:59 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: I didn't know commas were letters
Replies: 44
Views: 16117

Re: I didn't know commas were letters

Ah, pointing out the "specialNess" of the word delimiter, space, is timely. I haven't thought about this in decades. It is special in just the way you said, a string of spaces of arbitrary length is a countable string of chars, but only one delimiter. I assume that construct is deeply buried in the...
by FourthWorld
Mon May 19, 2025 5:35 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: I didn't know commas were letters
Replies: 44
Views: 16117

Re: I didn't know commas were letters

@ Richard. I dunno, I do not see the issue with aa, bb, cc being three words, that is, space is the word delimiter, period. Something that offers a space delimiter is useful, and "word" has a feature the standard item delimiter doesn't, in not counting multiple delimiters as delimiting empty chunks...
by FourthWorld
Thu May 15, 2025 11:11 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Any Idea?
Replies: 7
Views: 3142

Re: Any Idea?

Lengthy blocks of unformatted text mixing code and description from an account created hours before this first and only post may be a human behavior, but is frequently what bot behavior looks like. Dear OP: add some meaningful line breaks to your post and I'll help. Ignore this request long enough a...
by FourthWorld
Thu May 15, 2025 11:04 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: I didn't know commas were letters
Replies: 44
Views: 16117

Re: I didn't know commas were letters

I am NOT expecting the comma to be treated either as a word or part of a word, I am expecting it to be treated as punctuation: obviously the term word is unable to distinguish that. HyperCard got a lot of things right. Its novel redefinition of "word" isn't among them. I have no reason to mislead y...