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by rjtheobald
Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:32 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: read from file not working
Replies: 6
Views: 3449

Re: read from file not working

Thank you all for responding, I found the problem. The documentation does not cover this but the behavior I observed, and what ultimately solved my problem, was that I was not opening the file for "read" and a "blank" file was being created (I don't know why) that did not have any date in it, thus m...
by rjtheobald
Tue Mar 08, 2022 2:58 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: read from file not working
Replies: 6
Views: 3449

read from file not working

I am trying to read a file (theFlightPlan) and put the contents into a field (flightPlanContents ) with the following mouseUp handler but the "it" variable is coming up empty - no data seems to be coming back. I am using LiveCode version 9-5-0, running MacOS 12-2-1 Monterey, on a M1 Max processor. I...
by rjtheobald
Sat Jan 21, 2012 4:24 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Saving Cards in a Standalone
Replies: 2
Views: 1894

Re: Saving Cards in a Standalone

Sturgis,
Thanks for the excellent advice, the check box did the trick :D :D I had a number of e-mail exchanges with support but they didn't come up with this answer???
Thank you for the help, happy coding.
Rich.
by rjtheobald
Thu Jan 19, 2012 3:24 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Saving Cards in a Standalone
Replies: 2
Views: 1894

Saving Cards in a Standalone

I'm having trouble saving new cards in a compiled/standalone application. Everything works fine until I quit the application, that's when all the newly added cards are deleted. I've tried making a substack in the main application but that doesn't work either. The substack script I'm using is: on mou...