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Thank you Simon, That works perfectly.

They should add that to the dictionary and manual.

Hello, I am looking at how to return the chosen color of a value in its Hex value get the backgroundcolor of control ID "1003" put it into myColorVar put myColorVar into fld "colorID" This will create an RGB value, like 22,183,67 for a blue how would I get the hex value of that same value, like this...

Oh, yes, now I see, you put it, I was trying to set the global

Thank you very much.

Yes, I did get it to work, only I think I did not completely understand how to set a global or define its value, I must have not correctly set the global to the folder path, I set what I would call in PHP a super global, $mypathtofile loaded that into a variable then it did work, so far nothing else...

I have a need to open a specific folder path, looking in the dictionary I could not find an exact example of how this should appear. There are examples of different uses, but none that explain the defaultPath method, at least from what I read. source dictionary answer file "Select a file to delete:"...

Oh, yes thank you, gentleman, I appreciate the replies, this makes perfect sense, If I could only unlearn the old ways...

again thank you for the replies, it is much appreciatiated.

I am curious if it is possible to put xml formatted data, into a variable or to add strings to a container. Example, put "tab1text" title=" into mySpecialvariable This would create error, double binary operator, so if you wanted to express data that contains operators, what would be the best way to ...

Ok, yes, thanks, I had an old script I think back around 2.8.1 But its probably been changed years ago, yes, it would be handy, I used to use it to communicate an error, for a validation of a PHP script, but its been a long time since I have fooled with the engine at all. The docs dont seem to be cu...

I have a stack that posts to a webserver and receives a result, if the result is OK:0 it means that the post connected but no action was taken, in that case I would want to exit to top with a message, letting the user know that something went wrong. if fld "result1" contains "OK:0" then exit to top ...

Ok, I believe I understand the way that it works now, that I see the example thank you for sharing your time so generously.

There is a lot to understand but that really helps, when I look at the example I can understand how it should work, so much better again thank you.

I played with this for several iterations, producing various results, I am certain I have something a little off, I can almost see where I am going wrong but it just escapes me at the moment. on mouseUp put the text of fld "testing" into mySnippetVar set the itemdelimiter to "*" repeat for each item...

Thank you Klaus I will read though the documentation to see how I can find out more about these subjects, I appreciate the information, so in this case I would say that the engine does not know what of the construct to put into the field, so I have to construct a method of telling the engine what I ...

Yes, that is a good idea, the base idea is to Get, some text data, (flat file) from a remote server, Post that data into a substack variable, sort it then load it into fields that co-respond to the lines of each item, item 1 line 1 into fld A line 2 into fld B line 3 into fld C line 4 into fld D ite...

Ok that makes sense, I tried out a couple of different things, on mouseUp put the text of fld "testing" into mySnippetVar set the itemdelimiter to "*" repeat for each item tItem in mySnippetVar put line 2 to -1 of tItem into mySnippetVar[tkey] end repeat put mySnippetVar into fld "testing2" -- gener...

Thank you for your reply, Yes the first line would be a designation for the type of data later I would probably add more information.

But yes both of those work quite well, I am a little amazed at how easy it is to use a few words and accomplish so much, again thank you for your reply and solution.