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To all of you who replied to my post I want to thank you. The reason I'm asking about this is because I have on occasion, inadvertently, deleted the external file. I don't want that to happen again. I'm a LiveCode hobbyist and do coding to keep my old brain (80 plus yrs.) from declining to fast. I u...

In LiveCode, I want to know which is the best and most reliable and robust way to Save and retrieve (Open) text in a text field from/to an external file. Part of the Save/Open function would be to use htmlText to format the text for size, color and style. Also, where would the ideal place be for the...

Hi Craig, I re-read all of the posts after my initial post and now I get why you went off on a tangent. It was scott_morrow who suggested the scrollbarDrag message. I didn’t get it at the time, but as you said, HC had no such message back in the day. I remember hearing about HC, but never did any th...

Hi Craig, I'm curious, what was it in my post that prompted you to start "waxing nostalgic"? And you assumed I was young, why? I actually found your reply to my post annoying, because I was looking for a solution to a problem I couldn't solve and you just "did your thing" I guess. I'm not on this fo...

Hey scott_morrow, Thank you for the code snippet--it works like a charm. I appreciate the help. I don't do much coding in Livecode as it's just a hobby to help keep my old brain from deteriorating into dementia. Again, thanks for the help. And Craig, I don't get what you are trying to say to me, why...

Hi Klaus and Craig,

What does all of this XCMD and HC = Hypercard have to do with my asking for help to get text to scroll in two fields. And by the way, I'm 80 years old.

Dan. = confused old guy

Hi Craig, I have no idea what you mean by this: "Back in the Pleistocene, HC, which had no such message as "scrollbarDrag", had an XCMD called "MultiScroll", which I still use in the HC suite of stacks I manage. It was not a Rinaldi gadget, but still works just fine." What is HC and XCMD and a Rinal...

I have a problem and everything I have tried so far doesn’t work. I even asked ChatGPT and Microsoft Bing if they could help me with the code and each one gave me samples of code, but none of the code worked. I think the apps and I are missing something—I think something simple. Anyway, this is the ...

Hi Mark, I apologize for not replying sooner. I got sick and had to have extensive surgery, but I'm better now. To answer your questions, I'm using the standard TopLevel stack, the one that is automatically created when one clicks on "New Mainstack" in the file menu; it's the default stack which is ...

I built a program and then made it into a stand alone app. As part of building the program I opened the Stack Property Inspector and in the Basic Properties window clicked on Controls. The Title Bar Controls I used are: Title, menu, minimize. I wanted the app to be able to be minimized when I wasn’t...

Magice and Newbie4, Where to start? I’m sure I’m going to sound really dense. Most of the info you guys gave me is new, so it might take me some time to completely understand it. Problem is guys, I don’t know how to save data in a custom property which is then saved as an “external” stack in another...

Hi Klaus, Thanks for replying to my post. Unfortunately, I don’t know how to create an invisible stack on the fly. I wouldn’t know how to code it or even how to get started coding it. Do you mean that the user could create an invisible stack while the standalone app is running? If that’s what you me...

I’m not sure of this, so hence the reason for this post. I think I remember reading somewhere that using a Custom Property (CP) to store data (text) in a standalone app won’t work because LiveCode won’t let the data be changed, so adding or deleting data from the CP in the standalone won’t happen. A...

I have a confession, I have never really understood the difference between Target and Me in LiveCode. I can imagine most of your reactions will be, “Oh My God, you gotta be kidding me, this guy should have learned this stuff in LiveCode 101”. I’m self taught in LiveCode and I have never really grasp...

Hi Richard,
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate the information.