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Sri.

Hey, setting the htmlText of the browser widget actually works !!!
I stored the embed code of the video player (with video file and closed captions) in a field and
set the htmlText of widget "MyBrowser" to field "EmbedCode"
The player controls work (including turning on and off the captions ...

Too much do-it-yourself for me!

Welcome to LiveCode.
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I wonder if I can enter the HTML embed code for an external video player in LC and have it execute? Not the browser widget, it would mean I'll have to make and store the html file containing the embed code somewhere. Can it execute a ...

I am just getting to know the intricacies of CC, so the way my question is formulated is informed(!) by my ignorance!

Here’s what I “understand”:
CEA-608/CEA-708 format closed captions can have subtitles in multiple languages (one or none of them to be chosen by clicking the CC button in the video ...

Can the LC video controller on iOS play mp4 (m4v) video files with embedded closed captions?
If not, is there a workaround to display closed-captioned video files?

Thanks,
Sri

Copy the whole card; this works (most of the time).
Copying and pasting Datagid creates all kinds of problems.

Regards,
Sri

Craig:

A left-handed compliment?

Sri

Thanks Axwald and LCMark!

LCMark wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:20 pm ......... neither change the current card of the stack.

That explains (and clears) my confusion!

Regards,
Sri

So, "this" refers to card 2 (for both "send" and "call") ...

But, "me" refers to card 1 (for both "send" and "call")...

and any reference to a script local variable refers to the one in card 1 (for both "send" and "call")
(to test this, define a script local variable each on card 1 and card 2 ...

LC 9.5.1 User Guide p 131-32 gives the following example:

Add to card 1 script:
command showCard
answer the number of this card
end showCard

Now, use the following statement from card 2 (card script or button script) to
send "showCard" to card 1

According to the Guide, "send" command should ...

Do you have a particular issue?

Hi Craig:

My program required comparing two numbers, each stored in a file.
put URL tRemoteFileURL into t1
put URL tLocalFileURL into t2
If t1>t2 then .......
etc., etc.

When the remote file access returned an error (which was in text form) instead of the file ...

Playing around with the operators, I noticed

put empty > 20200120 - - false
put space > 20200120 - - false
put space > empty - - true
put -1 > space - - true
put "text" > 20200120 - - true
put (space & "text") > 20200120 - - false
put ("text" & space) > 20200120 - - true
put (space & 20200121 ...

.... where no meaningful action can be performed by the user until the app finishes obtaining data from the server...
Of course!
If I was using a server where its latency became prohibitive ....
One of the challenges of serving a low-incidence target population is that, you may have a user in a ...

...the "load url" command is non-blocking, with a callback message to notify you when the download is complete ...

Yes, I noticed that ....

1. I guess one should never use "put URL .... into tTemp" with internet documents because the remote server may hang or be extremely slow, and we wouldn't ...