I'm celebrating

[chris25]

That's annoyed me Jacque, I should have guessed that it was that simple. I do that in Photoshop animating, but because my thinking is being radically altered and brain washed by a new language of thought and conceptual diagnostics reaching far beyond my intellectual capacity to reason intelligently like a prospective programming nurd - I forgot the bleeding obvious

[jacque]

I only mentioned it to embarrass you.

Pretty soon you'll be programming your computer to think for you and it will all be moot.

[chris25]

I am more embarrassed by the fact that I could not solve the problem of "jackies garden first stack", from another member - the Live code university thing - so annoying, I have tried everything, even making an independent stack. It such a simple task, yet it alludes me.

kind regards
chris

[jacque]

Now I'm curious. I wonder if the flower pictures are from my back yard. Devin (who wrote the LCU lessons) and I taught a similar stack at a conference a few years ago when we did a 2-day beginners class. We had planned to use my flower images but someone thought they were too girly (or something) for our largely male students and told us to substitute more macho images. Devin scrambled to find some at the last minute and my images went unused, but the stack scripts and structure remained intact and that's what we taught.

"Jackie" is how you pronounce my name, in spite of the spelling anomaly. If they're my pics, I'm happy they finally got some use. If you could post one here I can tell you if it's one of mine.

Are they these?:

Azalea.jpg
Begonia.jpg
Clematis.jpg
Crocus.jpg
Iris.jpg
Lily.jpg
Pulmonaria.jpg
Rhododendron.jpg
Rose.jpg

[Simon]

Yes!

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Simon

[jacque]

LOL. Yup. That was a purchased, potted begonia. The rose is still growing in my garden, the variety is called "Broadway". The crocuses were an experiment, we scattered them in the lawn. They were pretty the first year and then they all...croaked.

Thanks for the pic, Simon. I'm pleased..

[chris25]

sorry jacque, you posted too late for me to respond, you guys are in USA. And Simon, that "showPic" is an image area. And I had spent over 45 minutes on my own stack trying to get a word linked to reveal an image. No success. C'mon, I have tackled more difficult things than this, highlight a word connect to the image - how bloody difficult can that be for crying out loud? Someone wrote that some of the easiest tasks in Livecode can turn out to be the most unnecessarily complex in their "under the hood" workings. This is one of them.

In debug everything works,

on mouseClicked annoyMe
put annoyMe into infuriated
put image infuriated into image "explosion"
end mouseClicked

The image goes into the variable I see it go in, the variable then gets put into the image area - I see all the exif data go in. There are no problems in the breakpoint routine. But the Image never shows. I checked and fiddled with lock text settings lock size and position settings until property inspectors were coming out of my ears and everything no matter how stupid it was I clicked it and unclicked it. Nothing worked, nothing got that damn image to show itself, (it was not your flower jacque, that's safe). The livecode University tutorial has MISSED some important instruction, tip or hint. I read 'the launch url' tutorial but that is for links outside and going to another card. There are no other paragraphs, lessons, essays, ramblings, chin wags, waffles, complaints, moans, conferences, or business meetings on this that I could find. It's only because this should be a task one should be able do with their eyes closed whilst hanging upside down reciting shakespear in chinese, that It annoys me so much

[Dixie]

Chris...

instead of.. put image infuriated into image "explosion", do this..

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set the text of image "explosion" to the text of image infuriated

Dixie

[chris25]

No, not working for me....sorry Dixie.

[Dixie]

Chris.. that does work... post the script that you are trying to use

[chris25]

on mouseClicked tVarLink
put tVarLink into container
set the text of image container to the text of image "jpeg"
end mouseClicked

[Dixie]

Chris..

Changed a little... two ways , from clicking on a picture or clicking on a link

[chris25]

Hallo Dixie, you know what - this is so much more straightforward and simpler than what I have been busy with since yesterday. Why does the LCU method not work then? Beats me. But this does. Thankyou. Do you know Salisbury at all? Have links there. (no not livecode ones)