Lessons tagged: field
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Updated on: Mar 31, 2010
How do I populate a field when an option menu is changed?
There are lots of situations where we might want to do something when a user selects an option from a menu. As an example this lesson will show you how to populate a field to display some information about what the user has selected. In this case we are displaying information about the differe...
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Updated on: Jan 25, 2011
Detecting changes in a field
It might on occasion be useful to detect when the content of a field changes. In this lesson we will see how to detect changes in a field by intercepting and handling messages.
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Updated on: Mar 20, 2012
Using the flagged property in a field
The new flagged property allows you to highlight a run of characters with a red dotted underline. The is particularly useful for highlighting mistakes.
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Updated on: Mar 20, 2012
How do I style paragraphs in a field in LiveCode 5.5?
In this lesson we will look at the new field features in LiveCode 5.5.
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Updated on: Mar 21, 2012
How do I display a table in a field?
The new field features in 5.5 allow you to embed simple tables directly into your text fields and alter their appearance.
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Updated on: Mar 21, 2012
How do I use hierarchical list support?
LiveCode now has support for hierarchical lists in fields. These are controlled with the listStyle, listDepth and listIndent paragraph-level properties.