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Zax wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:36 am

Concerning the "autoFocus" on first editable field when opening a card, it's very annoying since years. It should be a stack property in order to choose its behavior.

Feel free to complain here, maybe they'll notice:
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22790

It's stored in the htmltext of the field.

CAsba wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 06, 2024 2:00 pm

Hi Jacque,
Sorry, I'm afraid I just didn't understand your question. I should explain that I really AM a complete beginner!

Klaus came to the rescue.

LC sets a flag on a stack whenever any change happens, and if it's true then you get the dialog. The problem is that LC automatically places the insertion point in the first unlocked field when the card opens and that counts as a change whether you type anything or not. I submitted a bug report requ...

I would also like to know what a "command" is, versus a "function" - I have not written this type of structure before. How does it differ from a "function"? Marc This may help: https://hyperactivesw.com/resources/#1690975538666-b0790d43-fedb The difference is explained near the end of the text.

It sounds like you may have accidentally set the mainstack's text to bold. All fields everywhere will inherit that setting, including substacks, if their own text properties aren't set. It's kind of easy to accidentally trigger the stack PI if you click out of a control while its own PI is open.

Here's a way to show the short file name in the list, while storing the file path invisibly using the metadata property. Metadata and linktext are similar, but linktext will underline the text, while metadata is completely invisible to the user. Sample stack enclosed. The main action is in the card,...

It may be that the text (characters) style is set rather than the field properties. Character styles override field properties.

Did you pass the key handlers if they didn't match the keystrokes you were interested in capturing? If not, that would explain why they failed.

I suspect that was a feature of OS 9. The HC team had access to the system source code as well.

If anyone is interested, here's a link to a Google Docs copy of my chat with Bard: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SpMQ5ZO72H6bfDZYlrUKiPsrMhKDYFTdF4FgtJy_2_0/edit?usp=sharing My prompts are in bold. You'll notice it hallucinated a "getAllControls" function which doesn't exist in LC -- but it kn...

Courtesy of NightCafe. I'm not very good at this yet.

ChatGPT has been trained in Python and Javascript, if I remember right (or maybe that's Bard?) but LC is obscure enough it isn't in line for formal training by its makers. That's why I decided to see if it could learn from me. It was kind of fun actually. The thing caught on pretty fast.

LCB is a more x-talk way to write LC externals and thus is linked exclusively to LC. It can't be used to write independent programs.

This is an example of hallucination, the tendency of chat bots to make up false information. I was playing with Google Bard which did the same thing. I corrected it through various interactions until it learned the language. At the end it thanked me for teaching it and said I obviously was fluent in...