Thought I'd run this up the flagpole and see what you folks think:
For MetaCard to be taken seriously as a competitor in the VB space, or
anything related to databases, it needs some way to display multicolumn
lists in which the columns can truncate display.
Using a single field and truncating the text in a script will work, but its
only really reliable if we use a monospaced font, and stepping through each
line of each column to do the truncation in script on even a modest 3,000
records is prohibitively slow.
But in principle the idea would work if it were done in compiled code -- so
here's the request:
What if we had a function which takes some tab- and column-delimited data
and a set of tabstops, and returns the truncated text? Maybe something
like:
put TruncateColumns( <data>, <tabstops) into fld 1
This would reduce Raney's work significantly over making a whole new object
type, and would take care of the most critical bottleneck in doing database
work in MC.
Whaddya' think?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web
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