Space Oddity

[richmond62]

I made an image-as-a-button as I must have done about 5,000 + times before: BUT this image behaves as if the BROWSW mode is selected whether BROWSE or POINTER is selected.

This is a right @#$%^&*( as there is no way I can SELECT it or EDIT its script.

[tperry2x]

That is weird.
Not sure offhand what happened to that, but I was able to select it via the "Application Browser".
Then once I knew the name of it, I could do:

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export image "Labs" to file "/home/user/Desktop/labs.png" as png

I was then able to reimport the image into a new stack, and paste your script back into it.
Which is working, so yes - very odd.

Something about that image that the IDE really doesn't like, but exporting it again sorted whatever it was out.

[richmond62]

Very queer as that was an image imported inwith the stack from a button: as with all the other faux buttons I have ever used: I have never had that problem before.

[richmond62]

Joking apart . . .

At one point this morning OXT Lite stopped being responsive in all sorts of odd way: and that coincided with my internet going 'wonky' for about half-an-hour: now the internet is working again, OXT lite is 100%.

Obviously, somewhere down in the undergrowth (Engine?????) OXT Lite may STILL be sending messages of some sort to the mothership.

This will all come out in my upcoming book: "Donald Trump, Faeries at the bottom of the garden, Aliens knew my grandmother, and all the other conspiracy theories boiled up to make a tasty soup."

Sign-up for your copy now.

[tperry2x]

It shouldn't be sending / receiving anything. On the mac, I use littlesnitch and also lulu on another test mac as network monitors and can confirm there's no traffic exchange between the engine and any LC server anymore.
(There was initially when it used to check for LCC updates), but that has been turned off as default.

The only time it should reach out to anything network related is either if you are trying to access something in a browser widget, or something you scripted (or of course where it's checking for updates at my tsites domain).

There's a lot of telemetry back and forth on the mac at all times, so if the internet is flaky for whatever reason, it can cause all manner of gatekeeper and security things to kick in - as the OS thinks it has internet as the connection is active, but can't understand why it can't reach certain servers.

[richmond62]

but that has been turned off as default

Turned off OR removed?

If that code has NOT been removed I wonder if it can accidently be turned on again?

AND; this:

"Accidently is a common misspelling of “accidentally,” which means “unintentionally.” Although “accidently” has been used for centuries and can sometimes still be found in published works, it is recommended to use “accidentally,” as the former is now typically viewed as an error."

By WHOM ?

The way the internet imposes conformity really gets on my goat.

Mind you, the internet got on my case last week for using the Subjunctive; be it ever so wise!

[tperry2x]

I've always used "accidentally" as "accidently" makes no sense.
It implies there's been some kind of accident and the results look decidedly accidently.

It's very much of the same ilk as "bigly".

Anyway, be that as it may...
If you were to open the Preferences, then "view" menu > "Show IDE stacks in lists", then open the "Application Browser", navigate to the "Updates" card (Not the "Automatic Updates" card), then unhide the "Check for updates" button, then click it - then yes, you would be notified to download Livecode 10 on previous builds of OXT Lite 1.04 and lower.
Since then though, that update button does not do anything.

The worst that would do would be to download a new install of LC10 which would then require registration to access. It would be a separate install.

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I try to not get too wound up by local spellings these days though. As long as I can understand the gist of what they are trying to communicate, then it doesn't really matter.
Things like inwith / within etc:

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The other reason, as I'm sure you know, language is changing all the time (always has and always will) - and when they are inserting words such as "brat" and giving them additional meanings, then I'm past the point of caring.

Having said all that, it still winds me up that I have to "set the color..." and not "set the colour..." - but only from a programming aspect of "how do I set the engine up so it can accept both" kind of angle.

[richmond62]

And what, make I ask, is wrang with 'bigly', forbye?

And THAT spelling of 'colour' all comes down that lout, Dr Samuel Johnson and his monomania;

'colour' is NOT derived from the French 'couleur'' but from the Latin 'color': I have a facsimile of Webster's original dictionary,
and his introduction makes a better case for American spellings than old Johnson (who made no case beyond 'I say so').

Johnson, similarly introduced an 'L' into sodger ('soldier') because he, wrongly, thought it had come into English from the French 'soldat',
when it had come directly from Latin (later ignoramuses who knew nothing of etymology started pronouncing the 'L' that Johnson
had bunged in there).

The same goes for 'could' because Johnson drew analogies with 'would' and 'should'.

'Would' comes from 'will', 'should' comes from 'shall', but 'could' does most definitely NOT come from 'call'.

All that Johnson really did, however innovative his dictionary supposedly was, was show that he knew very little about that which he supposedly knew so much: and burden the users of 'British' English with a whole load of daft spellings. He also made some fairly off-colour (or, off-color) remarks about the Scots: probably having already proven what a coarse, unmannerly bloke he was during his trip up North.

A silly Professor of English tried to tell me there was no vocable 'breadth' the other day . . . I told them that they should bend their gully lugs a bit mair to the spoken language.

Oh, and while I'm here, William Shagspeer spelt his name in a fairly large number of ways: didn't stop him from writing some
mind blowingly good plays! I bet he wouldn't have given a tuppenny toss anent which way one spelt 'color/colour/culler'.

So: accidently or accidentally: you can be sure with me, at least, it's always on purpose.

[richmond62]

The worst that would do would be to download a new install of LC10 which would then require registration to access.

Even were I to have the money, from what I am smelling in the air, I would not spend it on that.