Does Frame have a limit on how long the expression can be? I know from annoying experience that it has a limit on how many nested levels you can have. Are there any other gotchas that I should be aware of?
-+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ -+ The rest of this email is background info to give y'all an idea of what I'm dealing with. Feel free to skip it unless you would like to provide some sympathy or are maybe a conditional expression guru and can offer some advice. I've currently got 14 different condition tags in a book, of which 3 are never seen publicly and are easy to deal with in the expression, 1 is used to indicate information that is under review for inclusion, and the other 10 overlap in various weird ways and took me, no lie, a week of experimentation to write 8 separate condition expressions to correctly generate the 8 different books being output from this set of files. (NB: There are 2 IPs. One currently has 3 versions, the other only has 1 but will likely have more soon, so I've already created tags to account for them.) They now want me to add another condition, which will actually wind up being as more than that since this is another IP with an unknown number of versions. (Hell, it's entirely possible the other two IPs will wind up with more versions than I've created tags for already, too.) I think I've worked out the how of adding the various "or" and "and not" expressions in, but I'm worried about any limits to Frame's capabilities here. Currently, my two longest expressions are 270 characters long, and I've managed so far to keep the parenthetical expressions to only 2 levels. Below is one of the long expressions I'm talking about. If anyone has suggestions for making it more elegant, that'd be nice, too. (DocIss, NoSeeEm, and WriterNote are the ones never seen by anyone other than the developers and internal reviewers. TBP is the one for information under review, and is sometimes combined with one or more of the other conditions depending on which book the information is slated for. This thing is a BEAST.) not ( "DocIss" or "Internal" or "LP" or "LPvA" or "LPvB" or "LPvC" or "NoSeeEm" or "SAS4vB" or "SAS4vC" or "TBP" or "WriterNote" ) or ( "SAS4" and ( "LPvB" or "LPvC" ) ) and not ("TBP" or "Internal") or ( "SAS4vA" and ( "LPvB" or "LPvC" ) ) and not ("TBP" or "Internal") Regards, Lin Sims _______________________________________________ This message is from the Framers mailing list Send messages to framers@lists.frameusers.com Visit the list's homepage at http://www.frameusers.com Archives located at http://www.mail-archive.com/framers%40lists.frameusers.com/ Subscribe and unsubscribe at http://lists.frameusers.com/listinfo.cgi/framers-frameusers.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com