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If you have a link or a button that executes: launch url "x-apple.systempreferences:com.apple.preference.security?Privacy_AllFiles//" It will open the correct panel. The user still needs to scroll to the Full Disk Access, unlock the setting with their admin password, and manually add the app. Thank...

jacque wrote: ↑

Wed May 09, 2012 7:25 am

If you set the destroystack property of the stack to true it won't stay in memory when you close it. Then you won't have to remember to do anything special.

There's a preference that automatically creates all new stacks with destroystack true. I always use it.

Another hidden gem!!

Don't know if this is documented anywhere, or if I should send it to someone. BTW, I'll just add that the easiest and most flexible way I've seen to re-order fields on a form (and this is from a really old database program I used back in the 80's) is to hold down the option or command key and then ...

Yes, something seems to have broken since I wrote the response a year ago, so now we need to layer the objects one at a time. 8 years on and I think it still doesn't work. I had a vertical stack of 7 fields with the layer values (top to bottom) of 8-23-9-10-11-14-12. Selecting those in order from t...

The red dots are easy to spot, which is VERY nice, and since the positional problem they had for ages has finally been solved (which was mainly why I set the explicit command) what are the pros and cons for either method these days? Interestingly, since red dots survive sessions, I all of a sudden ...

Mark. how have a I lived so long without knowing about that command??? Do you mean the "combine" command? The code snippet you posted did not mention that. Hi Craig, No, I meant something much simpler: breakpoint . Up until now if I wanted to interrogate what a value was at some point in my program...

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:33 pm

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put the customProperties of this stack into temp
breakpoint

Craig

Wow, how have a I lived so long without knowing about that command???

Thank you.
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Here's an example that compares the tree view widget to the displayArrayData(pArray, pIndent) function. Very different approaches to displaying array data but both have their uses. Data is from from this lesson https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/21022-how-do-i-display-an-array-in-human-readable-f...

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:24 pm

I have used the SE in the past as a tool to examine array variables, as opposed to using the "combine" command and load the results into, say, a field. The
Craig

I have done that as well.

Klaus wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 28, 2022 8:42 am

Or use the "tree view" widget to visualize "the customkeys" array!

Haven't got there yet, but sounds interesting. Tomorrows exercise

Mark. This property is in array form. You will see nothing if you just ask for it. Craig, Good point. If you use "customKeys" or its synonym "userProperties" you get a list of the keys of the array. To get the keys and their values I typically use a function I store in my stack script called displa...

Hi. There is a native property, "the customProperties", that does this. Craig Newman When I tried listing the "customProperties" of this (my) stack I got nothing. When I changed it to customKeys or userProperties I got a list of all of the custom properties of my stack. Have filed this under "The J...

Just set up a donation page at a payment processor, and have a link in a button within your app that launches that page in the user's browser. I use that simple method with my devolution toolkit, and it's brought in almost enough revenue to cover my domain registrations. :) Thanks Richard, Exactly ...

Hi, I'm thinking of marketing a LC product as shareware (well, the subcategory known as donation-ware). I'm wondering if anyone has experience doing this and in particular: 1. how did you license the software? 2. and how did you handle the donations end of it? Or, if you've never done this but have ...

Consolation prize: while this won't help your Mac needs, this is a fun read, a Linux Journal article by Dr Raney from '97 showing how to write a GUI alternative to top, by traversing the /proc directories directly: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2110 Thanks Richard. Interesting read. I think ...