LiveCode's field features allow you to embed simple tables directly into your text fields and alter their appearance. This lesson applies to LiveCode 5.5 and later.
The sample stack
Create a new...
This tutorial describes how to use the different types of LiveCode fields to enter and display text.
Introduction
Fields allow you to display text in your application. You can also use fields to...
By default a table cell can be edited if the user double-clicks on the cell. This tutorial explains what goes on in the default column behavior so you can customize behavior if you would like....
This lesson will show you how to create a bare bones data grid table. Data grid tables are useful when you need to display rows of data in structured columns.
Locate Data Grid on Tools Palette ...
This lesson will show you how to display tab delimited text in a LiveCode table field.
What We Will Work With
On the left is a stack window with a button for selecting a text file (1) and a field...
A column template is nothing more than a LiveCode control that is named after a column in your table. This control is located in the row template group for your data grid. This lesson will discuss...
This lesson will show you how to dynamically display line numbers in your data grid table.
The Table
Here is the table that I will display line numbers in.
Add Line Number Column
Select the data...
Arrays are not plain text and cannot be displayed in a field without some extra work first.
This lesson shows how to use the "combine" command to convert data from an array to text....
This lesson will show you how to change the color of individual lines in a Data Grid table. Before you being this lesson you will need to read the lesson How Do I Override the Default Behavior for...
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.
How can you change...