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Hi, I don't know if this might be the issue, but have you properly and completely removed Java v 8 from your computer before trying with v 11?

If that happens to fix your issue, you should please add this note to update the bug report. If not, probably worth mentioning that in the report too.

Hi bn

I am super interested, although I doubt I would get a chance to explore it much. But I do love to see other coders work and examine different techniques. Anything you show would be appreciated by more than one, thank you.

Using "set the useSystemDate to true" in a handler where dates are interpreted generally makes things a lot simpler. Put one field on a card "fldDate" and get a user to put a date into it in the user's typically accepted format In a button on mouseUp set the useSystemDate to true put field "fldDate"...

See the dictionary entry for "useSystemDate"

That's a story of hers, from childhood when her brother couldn't say Jackie. It tickled me, and now I can't help saying [writing] it. As well as klausimausi.

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Heh, I don't think that was the fix, jwack said to put word 1 of each field into the relevant item of the date to be converted (which woild strip any whitespace/extraneous characters). Which implies that the original contents of the field were not "clean" values within range/devoid of extra characte...

You may also experiment with the useSystemDate property
Not that your sample code shows a date that would encounter a problem, but on Windows anything before 1970 is not recognised as a date. A disappointingly ignored problem since forever.

The only thing beyond any usual historic issues I've encountered in the IDE on Windows 11 is that in the last version or two, the backdrop has created some window focusing problems. Elements don't drop in the right place or can't be selected. It's (very unfortunately) been necessary to turn off the ...

and how would ctrl-alt-shift + key go down with Windows users? Personally, I would say likely better than using Shift Lock. But, what's the target user? Is it a user of non Roman alphabets (eg your Devawriter user base)? Or more of a Unicode power user tinkering with the character sets? Either way,...

Also check that you don't have a duplicated field on the details card that's obscuring the destination field. It *might* be that your code is fine, but you're not seeing the content because of something in the way.

There's a lot of options available depending on the use case and user interface. Not necessarily, but another possible solution could be a "placed group" with the behave as a background option selected. We really need more info from the OP as to what is the goal.

Is this running in the IDE or a standalone? If standalone, you'll need to ensure the database external is found and accessible for the engine. revdbErr means there's an error generated by the LiveCode database library. It's not really clear what's going wrong without seeing your code specifically ma...

When you're using "put... into..." the engine is expecting an expression to be resolved, eg values, or a function. "put" is a command. Whereas revExecuteSQL is also a command, so it doesn't parse to have two commands following each other in the same statement. Try leaving out the "put... into..." pa...

Quite possibly the loop exit condition is not met because the subtraction of 1 per iteration is done with floating point arithmetic and the nearest the value gets to zero is only ever a very close approximation. Try making the repeat until check less than or equal to zero, not "exactly zero". Also t...

Just to be doubly sure, where are you setting the version number and what format is it?
If you are using typical dotted format for major.minor.release numbers, this will possibly fail. Just use an integer that is higher than previous and try that.