Terminating an audioclip

[bogs]

You'd think so, wouldn't you? I find lots of interesting differences in the various versions, for instance, between 2.2 and 2.3, the script editor menu lost 2 items that were a kind of primitive autocomplete if you will.

One menu item had a series of command structures such as "if/then/else" or "select/case" and the like, you clicked on it and into the s.e. it went all nicely formatted with space for whatever you were inserting of your own code.

Another had a list of commands, functions, etc which inserted not only the command but formatted the structure for you, and you just filled in the parts that needed placement.

RunRev IDEs had the same kind of interesting things dissappear, for instance, it used to be that you could double click on a tool from the palette, and then put as many of that object as you wanted. There was also a primitive (but very effective) auto-complete field at the bottom of the s.e., which would autofill like the current one does, but not be in your way. It dissappeared somewhere between v2.2 and 3

You complete me...

[jmk_phd]

Klaus --

Thanks for your reply. A few of the abbreviations you'd mentioned (e.g., "btn" and "fld") do in fact appear in the text of LC Dictionary entries and/or LC User Guides and are indeed quite handy shortcuts when typing a script.

Although I first learned the rudiments of programming via HyperCard around 1990, I've no experience with the MetaCard years -- having graduated instead to the wonderful yet ill-fated Prograph visual IDE. When that went bust in the mid-late 1990s -- taking down a few of my apps in advance of macOS 10 -- I turned instead to JavaScript for more modest programming projects.

My discovery of LiveCode around 2013 was a godsend. Its resemblance to HyperCard felt like an old shoe on steroids. I've never looked back, and for anyone interested it's a powerful introduction to programming.

jeff k