Thank you Denis and everyone else who responded!
After reading your suggestions and experimenting with them, it finally
clicked! Problem solved.
Chris
> From: Denis Bélisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 21:45:06 -0400
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: <lingo-l> Re: totally stumped
>
>
> On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 12:01 PM,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
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>> Message: 7
>> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 07:29:17 -0500
>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> Subject: <lingo-l> totally stumped
>> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> Help! I am totally stumped after 4 very long days of trying to figure
>> this
>> out! I thought I understood lists and very simple "databases"--just
>> saving
>> and opening a text file with fileIO. Well silly me!
>>
>> I have a section of this CDRom I am working on that has to capture the
>> text
>> of a checkbox, add it to a linear list (gMark1), and then somehow,
>> some way
>> store it in my database (gDatabase) list at a particular property
>> location.
>> Before it gets stored as a property list in my gDatabase, I need to
>> display
>> the captured text as text (not a list with the quotes and brackets) in
>> a
>> field member.
>>
>> Well, I can get the linear list developed, I can display it as a list
>> in the
>> field member with all the brackets and quotes and commas, I can even
>> get it
>> into the gDatabase, but I can't figure out how to put the linear list
>> at the
>> exact property location in gDatabase and I can't figure out how to
>> display
>> the contents of the linear list without it being in list form (just the
>> text). sigh.
>> [...]
>
> Chris,
>
> If I understand correctly, you have checkboxes as data entry - of which
> I assume you want to collect the text if hilited, a global variable
> containing a linear list acting as a buffer where you store the
> collected strings, and a global variable containing a property list
> that act as a permanent storage. Unless I fail miserably in
> comprehending the situation, most of what you want can be accomplished
> with three handlers (not counting the initialization on start movie)
> such as:
>
> < movie script begin>
>
> global gMark1,gDatabase
>
> on startMovie
> gMark1 = []
> gDatabase = [#prop1:[],#prop2:[],#prop3:[]]
> member("displayField").text = ""
> -- and a few checkBox members (checkBox1, checkBox2,checkBox3)
> end startMovie
>
> --HANDLER to collect data from hilited checkbox in a list
> on addToLinear whichCheckBoxList,whichList
> whichList = []
> -- add to linear list if checkBox hilited
> repeat with x = 1 to whichCheckBoxList.count
> if member(whichCheckBoxList[x]).hilite then
> whichList.add(member(whichCheckBoxList[x]).text)
> end if
> end repeat
> end addToLinear
>
> --HANDLER to store a list under a specific property in a propList
> on storeInDB whichList,whichDB,whichProp -- NOTE: whichProp is a string
> whichDB[whichProp] = whichList
> end storeInDB
>
> --HANDLER to display any list (of strings) in any field with one item
> per line
> on displayListInField whichList,whichField
> member(whichField).text = ""
> repeat with x = 1 to whichList.count
> member(whichField).line[x] = whichList[x]
> end repeat
> end displayListInField
>
>
> --For example:
>
> --addToLinear(["checkBox1","checkBox2","checkBox3"],gMark1)
> -- -- will add the text of all hilited checkboxes from the list to
> gMark1
>
> --displayListInField(gMark1,"displayField")
> -- -- will display the content of gMark1 in the field "displayField"
>
> --storeInDB(gMark1,gDatabase,"prop2")
> -- -- will store gMark1 at property #prop2 of the property list
> contained in gDatabase
>
> --displayListInField(gDatabase[#prop2],"displayField")
> -- -- will display the content stored at property #prop2 of gDatabase
> in the field "displayField"
>
>
> -- ALTERNATIVE HANDLER to bypass the buffer and to display right away
> on storeDirectInDB whichCheckBoxList,whichDB,whichProp
> whichDB[whichProp] = [] -- need this to overwrite
> repeat with x = 1 to whichCheckBoxList.count
> if member(whichCheckBoxList[x]).hilite then
> whichDB[whichProp].add(member(whichCheckBoxList[x]).text)
> end if
> end repeat
> displayListInField(whichDB[whichProp],"displayField")
> end storeDirectInDB
>
> --Example:
> --
> storeDirectInDB(["checkBox1","checkBox2","checkBox3"],gDatabase,"prop1")
> -- -- will store as a linear list the text of all hilited checkboxes in
> the list under
> -- -- property #prop1 of the property list contained in gDatabase (and
> display the result)
>
> <movie script end>
>
> I also suggested the alternative handler above as I couldn't be certain
> that you really need that gMark1 buffer. Why not collect and store in
> one shot? The data, once in gDatabase, is always there waiting...
>
> All of the above only crudely tested and in dire need of paranoïcs
> (error checking procedures).
>
> Denis
>
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