Robert Berenstein [OT]

2003-08-29 Thread Shari
Robert, I could swear I've seen your name spelled Berenstein in the past. Just thought I'd let you know that right now, it shows up as Brenstein. Not an MC list thing. Something in your email settings. Shari C -- --Shareware Games for the Mac-- http://www.gypsyware.com

Compress/decompress

2003-08-29 Thread Shari
Compressing the data in a field and putting the compressed data into a customProperty works like a charm. Recalling the data is instantaneous. The stack is now less than 1 MB. * very happy Shari :-) * Now for the questions: I could not figure out how to compress an array. A

Re: Compress/decompress

2003-08-29 Thread Brian Yennie
Could you use combine and split to shuffle it between text and back? Something like: combine myArray using tab and return set the compressed_data of fld 1 to compress(myArray) ... put decompress(the compressed_data of fld 1) into myArray split myArray using tab and return I could not figure out

Corrupted stack access (was: Compress/decompress)

2003-08-29 Thread FlexibleLearning
In a message dated 29/08/2003 05:57:50 PM GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, one of my stacks became corrupted with all the experimenting. Unfortunately, it was the stack that holds some key pieces of code. (The backups do not hold the "successful" pieces of code that I wrote

RE: Compress/decompress

2003-08-29 Thread MisterX
Shari, You can get the scripts back by opening your stack with a good editor such as ultraedit on win32 or BBEdit on MacOS. Search for your script, bingo! copy paste... voila... nothing lost that is in a script or field that is not compressed or encrypted naturally... cheers Xa -Original

Re: Corrupted stack access

2003-08-29 Thread Alain Farmer
Any way to get at these buttons? Ouch! The only thing I know of is to drop the stack on MSWord and go hunting! You will get better results with BBEdit. Good luck, Alain F __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

RE: Compress/decompress

2003-08-29 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le ven 29/08/2003 22:51, MisterX a crit : Shari, You can get the scripts back by opening your stack with a good editor such as ultraedit on win32 or BBEdit on MacOS. or Nedit 5.xx under Linux Search for your script, bingo! copy paste... voila... nothing lost that is in a script or field

Combine/split arrays

2003-08-29 Thread Shari
Still working on the array issue. The array is multi-dimensional. There are always 2 numbers to get to a piece of info. The info retrieved is one line of data, originally comma delimited, but now delimited by semi-colon, as I thought the comma was throwing off the combine/split functions (I