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Hello, friends. It's been a while since I've gotten to play with LiveCode. I downloaded 9.5.1, and much to my disappointment, it is crawling. It takes forever to type in the IDE, select menus, etc. It seems like it's faster when I first start it (but still not snappy), and progressively slows down. ...

Richard and Mike, Thanks a lot for taking the time to look into this - The solution works great. Below is the final implementation to extract the data portion of the registry: //This is a workaround for using the queryRegistry command (bug was reported) //Must be VERY careful doing this as different...

Hi Richard, If you remove the "\" from the LiveCode example, it stops working. However, adding a "\" after SERIALCOMM doesn't work. In fact, I methodically changed the path in the following ways: "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\SERIALCOMM\" "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\" "HKEY_LOCAL...

Hi Richard, Nearest I can tell it is a string (although I'm really unfamiliar with this whole windows registry business. The example in the LiveCode docs for the function queryRegistry is: put queryRegistry("HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.rev\") into msg This works as expected putting "RevolutionStack" into msg...

Greetings, Courtesy of hutchfx (from 6 years ago), I found two methods for determining the available COM ports on a windows machine in livecode: One uses brute force (attempting to open each one and relying on the error you get if it doesn't exist), and the other, queries of the windows registry. pu...

Craig, THANK YOU, I was able to recover what I thought I lost - PHEW, lesson learned! To add onto what was probably clear to everyone but myself, you have to include the file path of the file you are interested in since the stack is not currently open. So for me, I typed the following into the messa...

Hi guys, I made a very silly mistake and I am afraid I may be stuck. I have a wait x milliseconds inside of an infinite main loop that gets called from my preOpenStack. Of course, in hind sight, I should have done wait x milliseconds with messages, but I had a lapse of judgement. To make matters wor...

Hermann and Craig, Thank you both for your (prompt and thoughtful) replies - I read about the customPropertySet stuff, but didn't realize I inadvertently made one! From a design perspective, am I using custom properties as they were intended? I could have also used a global variable to do the same t...

Hello everyone, It's been a while since I have used LiveCode so I'm a bit rusty. I have made a custom property in my stack that is an array called activePorts. The appropriate element of this property is updated when a particular checkbox is checked in my user interface. Please refer to my stacks in...

Thanks -hh. Any input regarding using the RESTful API implementation (if I chose to use Wolfram Cloud as part of my final application)?
Thanks,
Tom

Hi -hh, I didn't realize that there was another way! Now, it's probably worth mentioning that FactorInteger[] was just an example. I will be performing computations in Mathematica that are more involved than that. Also, I would like to be able to have the standalone application work without Mathemat...

Hi guys, Recently, Wolfram Research has created the ability to generate RESTful API's that can be called by external applications. I am interested in doing this for an application I'm working on (that will be predominantly written in LiveCode). Please see the post that I made to the Mathematica Stac...

Hi Richard, thanks for the prompt response. However, I don't think that's quite what I'm looking for. I understand not using the quotes (because I don't want the parameter in the repeat loop to be a string, I want it to be a function). But I also don't want the "mouseClick" function to be evaluated ...

Hi everyone, I am interested in passing a function as a condition to a repeat loop within a function I am writing that I want evaluated every time through the loop. In code: function myRepeat conditions, maxIterations put 1 into loopCounter repeat until (conditions or loopCounter>maxIterations) wait...

Hello everyone, I know there is a "Database" forum, but I have come to know people in this forum and don't like making new friends ;). I just started using databases with LiveCode have some nagging questions I can't find in the docs. When setting up an ODBC connection to a database, the liveCode les...