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Thank you! Your suggestion worked when there was only 1 digit in the field and a modification of it worked for two digit in the field. Rather than have 2 compound if statements in a row, I pulled out the common part and made it an initial if statement. The key to making this work was your cluing me ...

I'm sorry! I wasn't clear. This doesn't take care of either single character or double character cases! The only characters allowed are numeric. This allows any character to be inserted. Is there any way that we can write a command that says something like: if Field VolumeField is highlighted then ....

The "wait 0 milliseconds" worked fine. I turned off the visible property within the mouseUp handler. With the wait command, installed in key routines, the abort button disappears when pushed and the program aborts properly.

Thanks!

I have a program that uses long running loops. Within these loops, I''m copying one buffer into another, byte by byte. There are times that I may need to abort the operation so I created an "Abort Button". Within these loops I also have a test so that every 1000th time through the loop the program u...

Thank you! That explains a lot and handled my problem.

I tried what you suggested. Unfortunately, this doesn't appear to address the root of the problem, which is that I still have no way of detecting whether one or both digits in the Field have been highlighted or not. I have to perform different functions if there has been a highlight and if there has...

I'm having a problem using global variables. In the main stack (I only have 1 stack). I'm declaring a variable to be global as follows: Global gAbortFlag Then in the handler openStack I'm setting it to false using the following code: put false into gAbortFlag I have an abort button defined and when ...

I have a text entry field in which I use the handler rawKeyDown to limit the acceptable key strokes to numeric, backspace, delete, right arrow and left arrow. In this handler, I also restrict the entry to the range 0 to 99 (2 digits maximum). It works fine except for the case where there are 2 digit...

Thank you! This worked.

I'm working on a program that reads a csv file and am using the answer file function. The function has a parameter to specify the file type. However, when I get to the directory containing my file, all of the files are displayed, not just the csv files. I've tried various ways of entering the parame...

Thank you! This worked. It was not clear to me from the dictionary writeup that the result flag would be handled in this manner.

I wrote a program that appears to be working properly. However, a single line message box keeps popping up and I can't find out why. I've pinned it down to the execution of a single line of code. Here is the section of code that contains that line: I've used the editor for this blog to highlight the...

My thanks to all of you. This feature was not available in programming languages that I've used in the past. It's been over 30 years since I programmed professionally, and I had not used a stack based language of this type.

Part of it started working when I completely exited LiveCode and then used the program again later. This has happened once before while debugging another section of code. I guess that sometimes a stack has to be closed and reopened before proceeding with the debugging process. Usually using the appl...

In my program I'm reading a text file and then parsing it using itemDelimiter. The parsing seems to work if I read a tab delimited file and "set the itemDelimiter to tab". I can then access word 1, word 2 etc. and any leading spaces are ignored. However, if I use a comma delimited text file, and "se...