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Ordered the LiveCode printed dictionary a while back. The site says 6-8 weeks, or something like that, to allow for delivery. Just wondering how old that info might be and if anyone knows how much that time might have changed for the better?

As long as they're happy, that's all that counts.

I came upon a book entitled "Revolution 2.0 Transcript Language Reference." To what extent can I expect this to be 1) reliable as a LiveCode resource and 2) up-to-date, since its copyright year is 2004?

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Thanks for the input. I'll try the backwards approach. Programming in BASIC is basically a linear process, zipping off to a subroutine occasionally, and then back to the main road. LiveCode doesn't allow for linear thinking like that, it seems. It's more of setting causes and effects flying around f...

Checked "Opaque" and, Hallelujah! That would've taken me quite a while to figure out on my own. Thanks.

That did away with the error message (thanks), but I can't get the color to change.

on mouseup set the backgroundcolor of rectangle "MySquare" to random(255), random(255), random(255) end mouseup The above script I wrote for a button on the same card as a rectangle I've drawn and named "MySquare." My intention is to have the interior of the rectangle change to a random color every ...

In the very old days, when I was learning BASIC, the flowchart seemed a good way to lay out my plans for how the program was going to unfold. Well, LiveCode and stacks are quite a different environment. What advice can anyone give a beginner on how best to lay out a plan for stacks, cards, buttons, ...

Thanks to you both. I took "the contents" out and just commanded put field in variable and things worked. I appreciate the encouragement. It's English-like, as they claimed, but it's also not. That's my challenge, for sure. (I was an English literature major in college decades ago, but that backgrou...

Not thinking that it would make any difference, I inserted "the" before "contents." The error went away!

I'm still confused by the error message, though , so any insights are welcome.

I'm trying to take the numerical contents I've typed into "Entry Field" and store it in a holding variable I'm calling 'tHold1' using the line below: put contents of field "Entry Field" into tHold1 I'm being told I have a "compilation error at line 2" (the line in question, above) and the error mess...

Will print the Release Notes for such time as I might be lost. (That's an inside joke for myself - - I'm a beginner, so I'd better put those notes under my pillow at night.)

Thanks, Mark. Certainly much better than nothing. I see your 2006 join date, so assume you know your way around Live Code. Could you alert me to one or two major topics that are most likely to be out-of-date in the older manual? In any case, I should be able to make a lot of progress even using the ...

Just having purchased LiveCode 5, I'd like to have a complete learning resource (in PDF, probably) that I could put on my iPad to use in Good Reader. Working with LiveCode on my MacBook Pro, reading as needed from the iPad - - that's what works pretty well for me.
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