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[Matthias Rebbe]

Hi Stephan,

that sounds very interesting. I tried this some weeks ago w/o success. Do you have a sample script to show.

Regards,

Matthias

Am 19.08.2012 um 00:24 schrieb stephen barncard <stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com>:

> I've been able to read/write to a field in a stack from an .irev document
> using livecode server. And while in the IDE on land,  I've used UI elements
> in the stack for testing routines that aren't used 'in the wild'. lc server
> doesn't seem to choke on those UI elements, usually ignores.  I think I've
> created and deleted cards too.
> And of course the custom properties are gold in the server environment for
> lookup and site (not user) settings
> Sometime whole library stacks created for the desktop can work verbatim in
> the server environment  such as Mark Smith's (the late one) mp3 tag reading
> and writing library.
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Don't believe you can manipluate the cards/objects directly. If you look at
>> this page: http://www.runrev.com/developers/documentation/server/  part
>> 3.2
>> using stacks it says you can't use visual related stuff when using a stack.
>> 
>> Since there is no actual stack displayed, hence no screen coords or
>> anything related.
>> 
>> Also if you look at page 14 here:
>> 
>> http://www.runrev.com/downloads/livecode/4_6_3/LiveCodeNotes-4_6_3-Server.pdf
>> print to pdf is not yet supported.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> I'm not fully following here . . . . If I can cause a stack to manipulate
>>> its cards and fields, I can make it do what I need.
>>> 
>>> If not, I may have to relearn forth/postscript . . . (ugh.  don't miss
>>> them)
>>> 
>>> 
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