How To - Step-By-Step Guides To Tasks In LiveCode
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Creating User Interfaces
- Using Tab Buttons
- How to create a rollover button with icon images
- How to apply the new graphics effects to an object
- How to make a stack with a window shape
- How do I Send Messages During A Drag Operation?
- How to show the progress of a download
- How do I populate a field when an option menu is changed?
- How do I scroll a card that is taller or wider than the window?
- Creating Hypertext Links in Fields
- How do I use the same controls on multiple cards?
- Pinning Drag-and-drop to the mat: a primer
- Detecting changes in a field
- How do I use a Progress Bar?
- How to manage and position objects when a stack is resized
- How do I move between cards in my stack?
- Play Sounds
- How do I display a PDF in Rev?
- How do I Create an ANSI Font Menu?
- How to make a simple line graph
- How to build an interactive plotter with a polygon
- How To Create a Custom Cursor
- How do I use Relayering?
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Text
- How Do I Use UTF-8 Text With Fields?
- How do I Display Tab Delimited Text in a Table Field?
- How can I search delimited data for a matching string?
- How do I use Unicode in Rev?
- How to count upper and lower case characters
- Using the flagged property in a field
- How do I style paragraphs in a field in LiveCode 5.5?
- How do I display a table in a field?
- How do I use hierarchical list support?
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Working with files
- How to list the files in a folder
- How to read in data from an XML file
- File Input/Output
- How do I import a text file?
- How Do I Process a Binary File?
- How do I export a csv file?
- How do I get the content of a URL on a web server into Revolution?
- How do I rename the headers on a text file?
- Uploading a file using FTP
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The LiveCode Message Path
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Custom Properties
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LiveCode tips
- How to communicate with other applications using sockets
- Opening a Stack from the Server
- How do I Locate Scripts or Custom Properties in my Project?
- How to relayer grouped controls
- Setting toolTip and toolTipDelay
- How do I get the path to common folders on my computer?
- How can I get the path to the folder a stack file resides in?
- Message box tips and tricks
- What Are The Alternatives To Using Global Variables?
- How to use date and time in Rev
- How to create simple lists in LiveCode
- How to create PDFs using LiveCode
- How do I Create an HTML E-Mail?
- How do I Attach a File to an E-Mail?
- Dropping System Folders on Fields
- How to Quickly Edit a Palette Stack in the IDE
- Visual Basic-to-revTalk cheat sheet
- How to create an application that opens when you drag a file onto it
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LiveCode Arrays
- How do I display an array in a table field?
- How do I convert tab delimited data into an array?
- How do I sort an array?
- How do I add keys to or delete keys from an array?
- How do I rename a key in an array?
- How do I store an array in a text file and then retrieve it again?
- How do I Search an Array?
- How do I Display an Array in Human Readable Form?
- How do I Store an Array Variable Inside of Another Array Variable?
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Using Behaviors
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LiveCode and Databases
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Creating an 8-puzzle game
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Groups
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Using Graphics
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Using Images
- How to Create a Thumbnail Image
- Vision: How do I Threshold an Image?
- Vision: How do I Blur an Image?
- Vision: How do I Edge Detect an Image?
- How to proportionally resize an image
- Vision: How do I Convert a Color Image to Grayscale?
- How do you embed an image in a stack so a path reference is not needed?
- Screenshot with Effects
- How do you display an image by dragging it on to a stack?
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LiveCode Plugins and Externals
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LiveCode revLets and the Web plugin
- How to build a revlet
- How do I communicate with the browser from a plugin?
- How do I determine which permissions a revlet has?
- How do I create a web-based revlet that references assets such as videos?
- How do I pass data from a webpage to a plugin?
- How do I Pass Variable Data from a Webpage to a Plugin?
- How to build a revLet without a security prompt
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Using dialogs
- How do I Create a Color Picker Swatch?
- How can I restrict an answer file dialog to just applications?
- How Can I Pass Data To and Get Data From a Dialog Window?
- How do I Create a Modal Dialog?
- How to control where the answer file/folder dialog starts
- How do I use the Project Browser?
- How do I create a scalable UI using graphics?