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by vanderpump
Tue Sep 30, 2008 8:21 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: passing arrays to scripts in other objects
Replies: 4
Views: 5747

SparkOut hi yes, thankfully just syntax. Thanks. In fact I caught sight last night of the existence of the call function and combining this with what I learnt earlier about function calls figured out (hopefully correctly) that messages are passed as interpretable strings. The rest as they say is his...
by vanderpump
Tue Sep 30, 2008 9:00 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: passing arrays to scripts in other objects
Replies: 4
Views: 5747

SparkOut hi,
yes, I should have said.
I'm running Revolutions Media 3.0 on a mac pro leopard 10.5.5.

thanks
Julius
by vanderpump
Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:14 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: passing arrays to scripts in other objects
Replies: 4
Views: 5747

passing arrays to scripts in other objects

Hi encouraged by the success of my previous posting I have here another question to ask. This is a question to which today I have spent a good couple of hours seeking an answer in the documentation and by trial and error. The problem concerns passing an array over to a method in the script of an obj...
by vanderpump
Sun Sep 28, 2008 6:11 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: calling functions in the scripts of other objects
Replies: 2
Views: 4221

Hi Malte
thanks for the quick reply.
Perfectly magic.

BTW would you happen to know why the syntax takes this string-evaluation-like form?

all the best
Julius
by vanderpump
Sun Sep 28, 2008 5:46 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: calling functions in the scripts of other objects
Replies: 2
Views: 4221

calling functions in the scripts of other objects

Hi, yesterday I downloaded Revolutions Media 3.0 and have been having fun ever since. However, I cannot find documentation on how to call functions in objects other than the one's they're defined in. Kindly help. I have a function and a method in the script of a text field : myTextField on beepMetho...
by vanderpump
Sun Sep 28, 2008 4:50 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Let's talk about Revolution 3
Replies: 7
Views: 5653

jpfife, I could not disagree more. I just started looking at Revolutions Media cause I used to love Hypercard and it looks really good. I have quickly got into it and the documentations is fine excepting a few holes which have driven me to these lists. I have already obtained from the list info on h...