Jackie's Garden first stack

[xmattoxx]

hey guys, I'm brand new here. I just went through the tutorial of creating Jackie's Garden first stack. For some reason once I'm done I click on the blue hyperlinks and I get a cursor icon instead of the black arrow. It doesn't display any pictures?

Any ideas why??

Thanks
Ryan

[chris25]

Hi there Ryan, just a question for you. The black square box that I see under all that text, if this is a text box then it won't be able to import an image. You have to create an image area box, by dragging another object area called 'image area' three quarters of the way down in the tools palette? When you said that you get a cursor icon this maybe why, because it is a text box you dragged out?

Kind regards
chris

[xmattoxx]

hey Chris, thanks for the quick reply man.. Hmm, I know exactly what you're talking about, I think I did drag over the Image area box, its next to the play sign with a circle around it right? I went back through the directions a couple times and can't seem to figure this one out..

[chris25]

I am in this stack now from the tutorial. Can you check perhaps in the properties inspector for the images, that the 'Visible' is checked to true/ in other words that it is ticked? since earlier on you were asked to hide them.

Sorry I got that wrong because naturally you have to hide it.

Can you post your code that you have done?

[xmattoxx]

Sure no problem so you just want me to go back into the Stack and open properties inspector for the images and make sure visible is checked true?

Sorry man still learning all the lingo! I really appreciate your time!

[xmattoxx]

sure.. here's my code... thank you!

on linkClicked wordClicked
put wordClicked & ".jpg" into flowerPic
put image flowerPic into image "showPic"
end linkClicked

on mouseUp
put empty into image "showPic"
end mouseUp

[chris25]

Hi When you go to the property inspector of the Text field, you need to set the 'Lock text' by clicking that - it is under 'basic properties'. This way when you click on the word it should highlight and you will see an arrow and not the cursor. The code is the same as I have.

[xmattoxx]

ok thanks man, i really appreciate it! Thank you i'll try this out

[chris25]

Let me know because I think that the code is wrong somewhere - I am constantly getting an error in debug without going into details, and nothing is entering the variables either. I am also a beginner, I don't use images in this way so have never linked like this from within a text, but am still working on it because it is annoying me now and I hate being annoyed by something as small as this

[xmattoxx]

I did that and it worked beautifully then I tried to click on the link to show the images for the flowers and got this error..

[chris25]

That is EXACTLY the same as I am getting, and what is more, the variables are not receiving any information. So in a nutshell, unless we are missing something from the properties inspector which I can not see, because I have spent the last 30 minutes fiddling, and unless the linkclicked is not being syntaxed correctly which it is because I checked in the dictionary, the code must be wrong, again I can not see how the code is wrong. Oh the fault shows up in Line 3, long before that mouseUp.

[xmattoxx]

that makes me feel a little better, thought I was going crazy here

Thank you for taking the time to look at this for me.. really appreciate it

[Simon]

Goooo Chris!

[xmattoxx]

Just had a quick question guys..

With Community Edition you can publish apps to Google Play store and NOT Apple's App store, correct? (Even though they are open source)

[xmattoxx]

haha, thanks man, sorry to make this images think into a headache..

Thanks for the info on Apple/Google! It's good to know you can at least publish on the play store, hah