LCB API's

Ali Lloyd ali.lloyd at livecode.com
Mon Aug 31 12:22:06 EDT 2015


The dictionary attempts to detect whether any code snippet is livecode
script or livecode builder - in this case it appears to be autodetecting
incorrectly. I will have to investigate ways of fixing this.

The syntax of everything is as it is displayed in the syntax field - the
"LocalDate" you can see is just the name of the dictionary entry.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 5:14 PM Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
wrote:

> In addition, in the dictionary, "localDate" is one word, but in the
> examples, and in the code in clock, it is not.
>
> On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That's where I looked.
> > If you look at the documentation for date, the only thing that comes up
> is
> > local date, but in the example, local is colorized as a modifier and date
> > as a keyword, and the same occurs with time - it is shown as local time,
> > but again, local is colorized as a modifier and time as a keyword, but
> > neither time nor date are documented per se, which makes me wonder what
> > syntax is really available, and if there are other modifiers.
> >
> > The example incorrectly sets the timezone as UTC0, when what it should be
> > doing is determining the timezone either by comparison to UTC or some
> other
> > means, and then setting.  I'd like to beat the rest of the community to
> the
> > punch and submit the fix to Git, but I don't want to waste my time if the
> > syntax is deprecated on arrival.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Peter TB Brett <
> peter.brett at livecode.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On 31/08/2015 16:38, Mike Kerner wrote:
> >>
> >>> Does anyone know how to find the LCB API's?  I was trying to fix a bug
> in
> >>> the new clock widget over the weekend, but the various functions that
> it
> >>> calls are not documented anywhere that I've looked, so far.
> >>>
> >>
> >> If you go into the dictionary in the IDE, there's a drop down menu at
> the
> >> top left.  If you select "LiveCode Builder" from the list, it'll show
> you
> >> all the syntax available.
> >>
> >> Which particular things did you run into in the clock widget that
> weren't
> >> documented?
> >>
> >>                               Peter
> >>
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