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Thank you guys, I made it work.

Hi guys, I did what you suggested, but I'm running into problems. I guessed that the preOpenCard is called when I go to the card, so I created a new card with a button "Start" that has 'go to card xy' where xy is the card that actually does the thing I'm working on, put some initializing stuff in th...

Good to hear these, and thanks for the help, really great community here, fast, helpful, and friendly, I like that

OMG this seems complicated. LiveCode should have something built-in for this, like a menu "Save card state as", and then a command initCardState "CardStateName". I'm still learning a lot of commands and features of LiveCode, so I'll get back to the documentation on how to save states of objects in a...

And how do I initalize the card? What code should I Put in?

Can you explain in more detail?

Sorry I'm a complete beginner.

Thank you.
Cole

Hi,

How can I reset the cards, variables, etc, to the basic state, as I set them up?

I mean after testing out my app, things don't reset when I get back to edit mode and it's a bit annoying that I have to put back everything by hand.

Thank you.

Thanks for both of you

And how can I get access to these long IDs globally, later on?

I mean I have to know how livecode names these long IDs, make them global, and access them later in code.

How do I do that?

Thank you.

Hi, What's the solution to give unique names to objects created at runtime, so I can easily refer to them? I have a Button with the following script, but it doesn't work: global POV, POVNum POVNum = 1 POV = "POV" + POVNum on mouseUp move button addnew relative 0,30 create field "NewField" set the na...