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by Jake11
Mon Mar 23, 2009 9:51 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

Dang! I didn't even get a chance to reply before you solved it... happily, most of the time programming in rev if you can think of the problem in English you've got the answer coded. Seems so...except in my current case... I am trying to do the "clear fields" type command (As a separate button for ...
by Jake11
Mon Mar 23, 2009 8:10 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

Ok. So it seems that above post had some truth to it. i started a new project, put the submit button, as well as the fields all on the same stack and used that code above. It worked. Contents (numbers) from the field saved as a .txt. file with tabs. IT WORKED However, I added a second card to this, ...
by Jake11
Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:29 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

Close. You're missing a "" (line continuation character) at the end of the line before "into tData". Hm.. added that "", yet I am still getting the same error (referring to the "Task1Time" section still). Any ideas? EDIT: I have a programmer (who is NOT familiar with revolution) sitting across from...
by Jake11
Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:58 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

Phew. Finally starting to get somewhere... Thanks. I am finally getting it to prompt me to save the txt file somewhere. Once I saw that, I was happy. So I put in some random data into the first 6 sets of fields that I want to save to a .txt and tried to make it work. Here is the code I put in the su...
by Jake11
Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:40 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

Exporting a tab-delimited text file can be as simple as: on mouseUp local tFilePath, tData ask file "Save as tab-delimited text file:" if it is empty then exit mouseUp put it into tFilePath put "Row1Column1" & tab & "Row1Column2" & return & \ "Row2Column1" & tab & "Row2Column2" & return & \ "Row3Co...
by Jake11
Sun Mar 22, 2009 5:23 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

Hi Jake, There are basically two ways to go about this: Use AppleScript/VBScript to get/set the value of individual cells in your Excel sheet Create text files that Excel can read The quickest route programming-wise is probably to use AppleScript/VBScript - and Ken Ray has an excellent page on his ...
by Jake11
Thu Mar 19, 2009 7:46 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: New learner needs help! Excel related
Replies: 13
Views: 7621

New learner needs help! Excel related

Hey to all, I need some help! Here’s some background on my problem. I am new to revolution and am not actually a programmer (my specialty is actually in Industrial/Organizational Psychology). However, I spent some time with programmers this past summer who taught me a few things with revolution. I...