No Check Box in the Dictionary??

[Peter Haworth]

This thread reminds me so much of going through all the same questions when I first started using LC.  Seems like  a document that listed all these little idiosyncracies of LC, specifically targeted at newbies, would be extremely useful.  Maybe one already exists somewhere?

One thing I'd add to Calvin's list of gotchas is to realise that you cannot permanently store data in a stack in a standalone program.  Lots of recommended workarounds of course but this is something you don't typically find out about until well down the development path (at least I didn't) because it's not a problem when working in the IDE,  and it can mean fairly major changes to your application.

Pete Haworth

On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Calvin Waterbury wrote:
> 
>> I don't mean to be picky, but neither "checkbox" nor "check box" is in
>> the dictionary.  If I missed something, please tell me?
> 
> By default the IDE is set to what an occasionally-rude person like myself might call "Lie Mode", in which the names it displays in the Property Inspectors aren't the actual "English-like" tokens used in the language itself, but presumably some more-English-like-than-English-like label that attempts to be more descriptive.
> 
> My personal problem with that is that I find it slows rather than smooths the experience of getting started with the tool, since using the GUI is a much smaller part of the experience than coding, and for coding you need to know the actual token.
> 
> As Phil noted that's a button style, so you can turn it up in the Dictionary entry for "style".
> 
> 
> Two tips to shorten the distance between "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" and "Ah, I get it" going forward:
> 
> 1. In LC's Preferences window, at the top of the first pane is an option labeled "Property labels are:" with the default setting of "Description of option".  If you change that to "Name of LiveTalk property" you'll pick up the language just a little faster, since the GUI will then reflect the tokens you'll be using in your scripts.
> 
> 2. Those coming from a background in VB, ToolBook, or a good many other IDEs are accustomed to finding a property sheet tool, which lists all of the properties for a selected object and allows a means of editing them.  The Property Inspector does a fine job of providing convenient ways to edit a subset of these, but for learning the language it can be very helpful to see a list of all of them.
> 
> Got you covered there:
> 
> 4W Props is a simple property sheet tool for LiveCode, available through the Stacks section in RevNet - in the IDE see:
> 
>  Development->Plugins->GoRevNet
> 
> HTH -
> 
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