Has anyone got to the end of the BMI Calculator example?

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks - doesn’t always work for me. The thing has actually got into a loop now… telling me to edit some script but not apparently letting me do it. I’m tired of this. I REALLY want to understand LC8 and my next step was to see if I could adapt an old desktop app of mine to HTML5, but right now there are too many concepts I haven’t grasped so I can’t start. Grrr.

Graham

> On 7 Jun 2016, at 17:54, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The secret for me (which shouldn't be necessary) is to drag whatever
> control/palette/whatever is being referred to by the tutorial and it forces
> a redraw of the tutorial part itself, at which point I can get to the next
> step.
> 
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hmm - looks like confirmation that the example (well the guidance really)
>> is not robust. Since writing my email I did get a bit further by what
>> amounts to a process of random clicks, but now I’ve reached “resize and
>> position the graphic as shown” when nothing IS shown, so stuck again… very
>> frustrating.
>> 
>> Graham
>> 
>>> On 7 Jun 2016, at 17:25, jim at omnia.on-rev.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> Graham... I've been away from RunRev and LiveCode for quite a while and
>> wanted to reorient myself to the new features.  I didn't get to the end
>> either... Jim
>>> 
>>> On 2016-06-07, at 11:57 AM, Graham Samuel wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I’m still trying to get a handle on LC8, and I now have LC 8.0.1 on my
>> Mac, which AFAIK is the latest stable release. But I still can’t get the
>> BMI Calculator example to work all the way through - the guidance has
>> abandoned me at the first field, and the ‘fast forward’ arrow doesn’t do
>> anything.
>>>> 
>>>> Has anyone got to the end, and if so, how did they do it? I know I am
>> very much behind compared to all you LC 8 aficionados, but I am not yet
>> convinced that I really understand what a widget is, so I need to see a
>> whole working example to understand how widgets have changed the LC that I
>> have been using for so many years.
>>>> 
>>>> Can anyone help, or maybe suggest an alternative practical learning
>> strategy - or shall I just tinker around until the fog clears?
>>>> 
>>>> TIA
>>>> 
>>>> Graham
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