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And even if it turns out your bank has sloppy devs, as long as there are millions of examples of web apps that work wonderfully in Safari I'm unclear what case can be made that the issue is somehow the tech and not the team misusing it. If the world wild web was standards-compliant an app that work...

If LC doesn't work for you, there are dozens of free alternatives for you to use. Perhaps try Pascal or Elixir or Tcl.

It's not entirely a bad proposal. I see all manner of things "just work" in a web browser with Javascript. Really? I just happened to have been on my bank's website at the moment I was reading this. They're one of the biggest banks in the world. I told them two years ago their banking application d...

You need some shared storage space on a network where you can store this information. For example, you could store in on a FTP server, or in Dropbox. You need to think about this question: what if two people using your app simultaneously try to update that variable. Provided your app has a different...

2382 bugs if you override the 500 limit. Oh and before Bernard jumps in to tear me to shreds for whining - I just paid nearly £500 to livecode so I do have some skin in the game. Paying customers who point out that bugs need fixing and that promised enhancements are missing are not IMO whining. Tho...

I remember the parallel programming course of my IT degree. Yikes. Semaphores, monitors, mutexes, etc. It was by far the hairiest part of the degree. It would have been less hairy if they had taught how to do multi-threading using Tcl. https://www.activestate.com/blog/threads-done-right-tcl/ I've do...

I suggested this a few months ago. It met with no enthusiasm.

I am quite curious as to what profession you are referring to, that has a starting salary in excess of £100,000 but which an errant apostrophe could spell ruin (presumably £100,000 doesn't buy you staff to check your spelling for you). Corporate lawyers. In their first few well-paid years they will...

Thanks for the example, Bernard. That middle block is something I've been wanting in LC ever since I played with R: named params. I can never remember the order of all the args for "export snapshot", or the specific sugar in between them we use instead of commas, but if I could name those args like...

I thought I'd go and look at an extended tutorial on Flutter. https://www.tutorialspoint.com/flutter/flutter_tutorial.pdf This piece of code creates a dialog button, sets the title and the text of the dialog button and (I think) closes the dialog when the button is pressed. // user defined function ...

What happens if you repeat that process but you also put empty into the customproperty when you clear the fields (I know that's not a solution, just trying to identify at what point a change causes your problem).

Google's Wave developer community was probably far bigger than the paying userbase for Livecode. Google shelved Wave after a couple of years, dumping it on Apache. Years later, Apache discontinued it. So size of company, number of developers, FOSS - none are guarantees that a technology will survive...

Also with that logic one should only use free opensource tools not maintained or promoted by any one company, as any company can change their mind at any time and smaller companies can go under quite easily. I don’t trust google. But do I trust MS or Apple? Or LiveCode for that matter? So with that...

However, I'd still advise people not to use default buttons except in the circumstance they are designed for - i.e. as the default action button in a modal dialog. I'd noticed probably a decade ago that just having a single "default button" on a card would cause CPU to jump to 10% or so every time ...

Assuming you STARTed the program and set the title of that process to (say) _MyTitle_ you should be able to kill off the hidden process when you close your own app using put "_MyTitle_" into tTitle put quote into q shell( merge( "taskkill /FI [[q]]WINDOWTITLE eq [[tTitle]][[q]]" ) ) I just tried kil...