Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?
This is what they wrote to me some time ago To use the urgent ticketing system, please send your email with urgent in the subject line, from the email address you are registered with for on-rev. This will ensure that the ticket is seen and read immediately, 24/7. Guglielmo On 10.03.2012 04:00, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Sorry but, does anyone know the urgent contact address for Livecode? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Passing parameters by reference
On Mar 9, 2012, at 5:05 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Maybe the array could be global (or passed as a parameter) and the subscript passed. ... There might be problems I don't see right off, such as access to the same array at two different levels at the same time. Hi, Dar. LC has a way to get and set a node at any level of an array, without code that concatenates [ ] to specify the node. In an array reference a single [ ] can enclose an array of keys, as you can see in the code below. Put the following into a button and click it. The code invokes the debugger so you can see the array and the result string on the variables tab. I agree it'd be good if LC could accept any array reference for invoking a handler that specifies pass-by-reference. Pete, I'd be glad to vote for your enhancement request. -- Dick script on mouseUp local tArray, tString put 4 into tArray[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] put getNodeViaListOfKeys( tArray, ( 1, 2, 3 )) after tString -- that is, get tArray[ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] setNodeViaListOfKeys tArray, ( 5, 6, 7, 8 ), 9 -- that is, put 9 into tArray[ 5 ][ 6 ][ 7 ][ 8 ] put comma getNodeViaListOfKeys( tArray, ( 5, 6, 7, 8 )) after tString -- 4,9 breakpoint end mouseUp function getNodeViaListOfKeys @pArray, pList local tKeys put pList into tKeys split tKeys by comma and null return getNodeViaArrayOfKeys( pArray, tKeys ) end getNodeViaListOfKeys function getNodeViaArrayOfKeys @pArray, @pKeysArray return pArray[ pKeysArray ] end getNodeViaArrayOfKeys command setNodeViaListOfKeys @rArray, pList, pValue local tKeys put pList into tKeys split tKeys by comma and null setNodeViaArrayOfKeys rArray, tKeys, pValue end setNodeViaListOfKeys command setNodeViaArrayOfKeys @rArray, @pKeysArray, @pValue put pValue into rArray[ pKeysArray ] end setNodeViaArrayOfKeys /script ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Enlarge with sample
On 03/04/2012 02:25 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: See 'resizeable' in the dictionary for a full explanation, you can set the property in any script, (preOpenStack makes sense) with… set the resizable of this stack to true and would that be 'resizeable'or 'resizable'? or, to be a bit eighteenth century: 'Inlarge' or 'Enlarge'? …or use the checkbox in the 'size position' pane of the stack inspector. Whichever setting you use for the stack should translate to the standalone, you should see the same re-size handle in the lower right corner on a Mac or see the same re-size cursors when you mouse over the window extremities on Windows. If it's not working for you, check that you have the Geometry script library included or use the automatic search for required inclusions under File Standalone Application Settings. I'm not sure that the Geometry script library affects the standalone window re-sizeing, but it certainly affects the controls on the cards. HTH Paul On 4 Mar 2012, at 10:21, Richmond wrote: Almost every day I get these marvellous e-mail messages from well-wishers that spur me onto new ideas with Livecode! Well, for want of anything else to do, I have been trying to enlarge . . . . . . a standalone, after it has been built as a standalone: While a stack is a stack one can drag the lower-right-hand corner if resizeable is set to true, and the stack will resize. Now, at the risk of looking very inexperienced, how can one set a standalone so the end-user can resize that stack? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?
Nicolas, I don't know what happened now but if the problem is loading dbmysql.so database driver then there might be a work around. Upload your own versions of the database drivers and use revSetDatabaseDriverPath to load them yourself. If that is what you're doing right now, then try acquiring the output from shell(ldd /path/to/dbmysql.so) This will tell you what shared libraries are being loaded, you may see a missing dependency there. If there is a missing lib, then, contact support and request it installed or at least a symbolic link to it. Cheers andre On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Nicolas Cueto nicon...@gmail.com wrote: Anything we mere mortals can check for you, in case it helps? Colin, I wish! But, the problem is server-side, so it needs someone with access to the server. Things seem to be back to normal. But the log page still shows an error when loading the dbmysql.so driver. Looking thru the archives, this dbmysql.so problem has happened before. Case-sensitivity was noted on by Andre Garzia, but, as I wrote, the setup has worked fine for years. So, why the hiccup now? And why at the same day of the week and time? If someone, mortal or not, has advice, please! P.S. Ditto on the still-unresolved problem with Android and post. Thanks. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?
Thank you all for the contact addresses. Things are back to normal. But, should it happen again, specially at the same time, I know where to contact. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: on-rev urgent problem -- Livecode contact address?
Andre, Maybe I recall wrong, but I did upload the drivers myself. I'll double check, though. Plus, did not know about the shell function, so I'll give that a try, too. Thank you. I'm worried though that dbmysql.so might not be the reason for today's and last week's down-times. Even though things are working now, the error logs still show a problem related to dbmysql.so. Cheers. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.
Pete wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. Most apps that have scrolling regions also have non-scrolling ones, such as a toolbar or other controls, so with groups we're in control of what can be scrolled and what remains stationary. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.
That was a pun, wasn't it! On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.
On 03/10/2012 05:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: That was a pun, wasn't it! On Mar 10, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode Of course, if one wanted, one could select all the controls on a card, group them, and set them up with scrollbars to conform to one's monitor resolution. Then make the card conform to the monitor res., but have larger real estate available. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.
An alternative for developing high area stacks would be a half resolution mode. The stack rect and other sizes would be in real pixels but the other pixels would be in virtual pixels, two for each real pixel. I'm doing something like that scripted. I'm developing at half size and the thing doubles in size when put into a full screen. It learns the half size properties so I can do a crude test on the wrong monitor and then go back. I'm now thinking that using Parallels at full screen to allow oversized resolution might also be a solution, but Parallels has rendering problems in that case. That might also be nice for the final monitor testing, but Parallels is limited to only a few size settings from within Windows, though it can do a lot by resizing in window mode. And the Parallels Display Adapter does not rotate. I'm also thinking of scrollbars that hang outside the window. And I'm still thinking about Mark Schonewille's idea. Dar On Mar 10, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Pete wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. Most apps that have scrolling regions also have non-scrolling ones, such as a toolbar or other controls, so with groups we're in control of what can be scrolled and what remains stationary. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode --- Dar Scott dba Dar Scott Consulting 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, home, office phone: +1 505 299 9497 For Skype and fax, please contact. d...@swcp.com Computer Programming and tinkering, often making LiveCode libraries and externals, sometimes writing associated microcontroller firmware. --- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.
On 03/10/2012 06:04 PM, Dar Scott wrote: An alternative for developing high area stacks would be a half resolution mode. The stack rect and other sizes would be in real pixels but the other pixels would be in virtual pixels, two for each real pixel. ??? Virtual pixels ??? Are these something like fairies at the bottom of the garden (virtually pixies). Err; sorry, that one just slipped out. ??? Would be grateful if you could explain what 'virtual pixels' are, and how one can do all that. I'm doing something like that scripted. I'm developing at half size and the thing doubles in size when put into a full screen. It learns the half size properties so I can do a crude test on the wrong monitor and then go back. I'm now thinking that using Parallels at full screen to allow oversized resolution might also be a solution, but Parallels has rendering problems in that case. That might also be nice for the final monitor testing, but Parallels is limited to only a few size settings from within Windows, though it can do a lot by resizing in window mode. And the Parallels Display Adapter does not rotate. I'm also thinking of scrollbars that hang outside the window. And I'm still thinking about Mark Schonewille's idea. Dar On Mar 10, 2012, at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Pete wrote: Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... It would be great but only for a relatively few edge cases. Most apps that have scrolling regions also have non-scrolling ones, such as a toolbar or other controls, so with groups we're in control of what can be scrolled and what remains stationary. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode --- Dar Scott dba Dar Scott Consulting 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, home, office phone: +1 505 299 9497 For Skype and fax, please contact. d...@swcp.com Computer Programming and tinkering, often making LiveCode libraries and externals, sometimes writing associated microcontroller firmware. --- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.
Hi Scott, If you group all controls and groups and set Select Grouped Controls to false (in the Edit menu) you can only select the main group and not the nested groups. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/za On 10 mrt 2012, at 04:37, Dar Scott wrote: Hi, Mark! I don't understand the problem with select Grouped Controls. Mental block I guess. What is the issue here? Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Passing parameters by reference
Dick: Thanks for the script, another little nugget of knowledge added to my LC store! I have entered an enhancement request - it's # 10070 Dar: The function in question is a general purpose one that gets called from many places. Sometimes I need to pass an array element and other times just a simple variable so I'd rather not complicate things by passing in an extra parameter that holds the array key if it is an array that's being passed. But that is a possible solution so thanks for the suggestion. Bob: Creating a temporary array works, of course, and that's what I'm doing for now. But it defeats the whole purpose of passing the parameter by reference since now I have to put the temporary array back into the real array after the call. I may as well just change the function to return the result of its code and pass the parameter by value instead of reference. Pete On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Dick Kriesel dick.krie...@mail.comwrote: Hi, Dar. LC has a way to get and set a node at any level of an array, without code that concatenates [ ] to specify the node. In an array reference a single [ ] can enclose an array of keys, as you can see in the code below. Put the following into a button and click it. The code invokes the debugger so you can see the array and the result string on the variables tab. I agree it'd be good if LC could accept any array reference for invoking a handler that specifies pass-by-reference. Pete, I'd be glad to vote for your enhancement request. -- Dick -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn
Andre Garzia wrote: I've heard that Google is dealing with that by shipping a new Android Emulator in the SDK. This new emulator will randomize the rect of the device upon every launch with values between 124 and 2048. =) That would actually be a very value feature, as it would reduce the number of lazy developers who live in a vacuum in which they assume the world has only the devices they personally test with. In this regard the modern mobile arena isn't much different from designing for the desktop for the last 20 years. The Mac premiered with no choice but a 512x342 BW screen, and it became stupid to design only for one fixed resolution not long after when VGA connectors were introduced. Today monitors commonly range from 800x600 to 2560x1440 and beyond, and we just write resizeStack handlers to work with 'em all. With mobile the only real difference is that pixel density also varies more than on desktop displays currently, so we need to take that into account as well. Fortunately the hard work of figuring out the logistics has already been done and guidelines are provided in the Android HIG: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/screens_support.html Today both iOS and Android support devices with multiple physical sizes and resolutions, and there's no reason to believe Apple will limit iOS to only two form factors forever. So those using Android are getting a head start on where every major player in the industry is headed: smart devs are designing with dynamic metrics to deliver an optimal experience across all possible devices... ...just like we've always been doing on the desktop. It hasn't been a good idea to presume a fixed display size since 1986. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Passing parameters by reference
On Mar 10, 2012, at 11:21 AM, Pete wrote: I may as well just change the function to return the result of its code and pass the parameter by value instead of reference. Hmm. Like this? put modified(a[s]) into a[s] This might be the best for now. Dar --- Dar Scott dba Dar Scott Consulting 8637 Horacio Place NE Albuquerque, NM 87111 Lab, home, office phone: +1 505 299 9497 For Skype and fax, please contact. d...@swcp.com Computer Programming and tinkering, often making LiveCode libraries and externals, sometimes writing associated microcontroller firmware. --- ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: a little help with find script
On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. Not even every month. Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance of a string in field foo I know how to write repeat loops, but can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when the last instance is found. Predictably, I didn't understand the advice I got, though I do appreciate it. With enough study, I could have figured it out. Instead, I tried to remember the way I've done it in the past, combined with trial and error. The string I want to find is Card ID I came up with this repeat find string card ID in field narrative if the foundChunk is not empty then put the foundChunk of card ID the short Id of this card into tVar if tVar is not among the lines of bigVar then put tVar return after bigVar else exit repeat end if end if end repeat This is primitive, hyperCard-like scripting I suppose. That's how homey rolls. It seems to work. Is this a bad way to do it? Is there a clearly better way? As far as I can tell, in a repeat loop, the find command somehow keeps track of the last found item and moves on to find the next one, but repeats forever unless you script some way to detect duplicate foundChunks and exit. Correct? I have another question before I can make this script do what I want, but I'll start a new thread, to avoid confusion. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
A little help with the foundChunk
So I've got a list of foundChunks in the form -- char 10 to 16 of field 1 of card ID 1586 How do I convert them to the form -- word 3 to 4 of field 1 of card ID 1586 I want to do that, because I want to include the next word in each foundChunk by adding 1 to word 4 of each line. Alternately, is there a simple way to write the find command so I end up with a list of found words in the desired format, instead of a list of found chars? I don't need a working script, just a hint or two. Thanks again. Not so many amateurs and newbies here anymore, mostly pros. Hope not to be a pest. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: a little help with find script
The result will contain not found if there is no match, and also on the find after the last chunk is found at which points it resets to the start. Something like the following is pretty straight forward, could be adjusted to accept card names as an additional argument so you could loop through all the cardnames (think thats already been suggested?) And then have the inner loop call the find function to build up your lists of foundchunks. on mouseUp -- could add a repeat for each line tName in the cardnames of this stack.. repeat until (findIt(asd,foo)) is not found put the foundchunk return after tVar end repeat end mouseUp function findit tString,tField --could add a card name argument and adjust the find. find tstring in field tField return the result end findit On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. Not even every month. Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance of a string in field foo I know how to write repeat loops, but can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when the last instance is found. Predictably, I didn't understand the advice I got, though I do appreciate it. With enough study, I could have figured it out. Instead, I tried to remember the way I've done it in the past, combined with trial and error. The string I want to find is Card ID I came up with this repeat find string card ID in field narrative if the foundChunk is not empty then put the foundChunk of card ID the short Id of this card into tVar if tVar is not among the lines of bigVar then put tVar return after bigVar else exit repeat end if end if end repeat This is primitive, hyperCard-like scripting I suppose. That's how homey rolls. It seems to work. Is this a bad way to do it? Is there a clearly better way? As far as I can tell, in a repeat loop, the find command somehow keeps track of the last found item and moves on to find the next one, but repeats forever unless you script some way to detect duplicate foundChunks and exit. Correct? I have another question before I can make this script do what I want, but I'll start a new thread, to avoid confusion. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: A little help with the foundChunk
Maybe something like this? on mouseUp put card id into tString put foo into tField put word [[tFirstWord]] to [[tLastWord]] of [[word -2 to -1 of the foundchunk]] into tMergit repeat until (findIt(tString,tField)) is not found put word 2 of the foundChunk into tStart put the number of words in char 1 to tStart of field 1 into tFirstWord put tFirstWord + (the number of words in tString) into tLastWord put merge(tMergit) return after msg end repeat end mouseUp function findit tString,tField find tstring in field tField return the result end findit On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: So I've got a list of foundChunks in the form -- char 10 to 16 of field 1 of card ID 1586 How do I convert them to the form -- word 3 to 4 of field 1 of card ID 1586 I want to do that, because I want to include the next word in each foundChunk by adding 1 to word 4 of each line. Alternately, is there a simple way to write the find command so I end up with a list of found words in the desired format, instead of a list of found chars? I don't need a working script, just a hint or two. Thanks again. Not so many amateurs and newbies here anymore, mostly pros. Hope not to be a pest. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: a little help with find script
Thankya Mike, If I understand you correctly, my script probably works right, might be a little kludgy. Another way to end the search is to look for not found in the result. Hope I got that right. I'm still studying your foundChunk script. Cheers, Tim On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: The result will contain not found if there is no match, and also on the find after the last chunk is found at which points it resets to the start. Something like the following is pretty straight forward, could be adjusted to accept card names as an additional argument so you could loop through all the cardnames (think thats already been suggested?) And then have the inner loop call the find function to build up your lists of foundchunks. on mouseUp -- could add a repeat for each line tName in the cardnames of this stack.. repeat until (findIt(asd,foo)) is not found put the foundchunk return after tVar end repeat end mouseUp function findit tString,tField --could add a card name argument and adjust the find. find tstring in field tField return the result end findit On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. Not even every month. Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance of a string in field foo I know how to write repeat loops, but can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when the last instance is found. Predictably, I didn't understand the advice I got, though I do appreciate it. With enough study, I could have figured it out. Instead, I tried to remember the way I've done it in the past, combined with trial and error. The string I want to find is Card ID I came up with this repeat find string card ID in field narrative if the foundChunk is not empty then put the foundChunk of card ID the short Id of this card into tVar if tVar is not among the lines of bigVar then put tVar return after bigVar else exit repeat end if end if end repeat This is primitive, hyperCard-like scripting I suppose. That's how homey rolls. It seems to work. Is this a bad way to do it? Is there a clearly better way? As far as I can tell, in a repeat loop, the find command somehow keeps track of the last found item and moves on to find the next one, but repeats forever unless you script some way to detect duplicate foundChunks and exit. Correct? I have another question before I can make this script do what I want, but I'll start a new thread, to avoid confusion. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: a little help with find script
Yeah same difference. On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: Thankya Mike, If I understand you correctly, my script probably works right, might be a little kludgy. Another way to end the search is to look for not found in the result. Hope I got that right. I'm still studying your foundChunk script. Cheers, Tim On Mar 10, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: The result will contain not found if there is no match, and also on the find after the last chunk is found at which points it resets to the start. Something like the following is pretty straight forward, could be adjusted to accept card names as an additional argument so you could loop through all the cardnames (think thats already been suggested?) And then have the inner loop call the find function to build up your lists of foundchunks. on mouseUp -- could add a repeat for each line tName in the cardnames of this stack.. repeat until (findIt(asd,foo)) is not found put the foundchunk return after tVar end repeat end mouseUp function findit tString,tField --could add a card name argument and adjust the find. find tstring in field tField return the result end findit On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: On Mar 9, 2012, at 12:28 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: Oops. Forgot how to do this. Knew it once. I don't write scripts every day. Not even every month. Please remind me how to write a script that finds and records every instance of a string in field foo I know how to write repeat loops, but can't remember how to keep finding and then exit when the last instance is found. Predictably, I didn't understand the advice I got, though I do appreciate it. With enough study, I could have figured it out. Instead, I tried to remember the way I've done it in the past, combined with trial and error. The string I want to find is Card ID I came up with this repeat find string card ID in field narrative if the foundChunk is not empty then put the foundChunk of card ID the short Id of this card into tVar if tVar is not among the lines of bigVar then put tVar return after bigVar else exit repeat end if end if end repeat This is primitive, hyperCard-like scripting I suppose. That's how homey rolls. It seems to work. Is this a bad way to do it? Is there a clearly better way? As far as I can tell, in a repeat loop, the find command somehow keeps track of the last found item and moves on to find the next one, but repeats forever unless you script some way to detect duplicate foundChunks and exit. Correct? I have another question before I can make this script do what I want, but I'll start a new thread, to avoid confusion. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
