Re: [sword-devel] Counting Keys in a Module

2008-04-21 Thread mmital
Thanks for the reply. Very much appreciated. Mr. Smith's method seems to be very neat and I will try to implement that. I needed the count method because a virtual List Control that displays the lexicon needs to know number of entries in advance. Right now I am getting the count using a slightly

Re: [sword-devel] Counting Keys in a Module

2008-04-21 Thread DM Smith
Correction to my post. I should have said idx not dat. On Apr 21, 2008, at 4:09 PM, DM Smith wrote: > Troy A. Griffitts wrote: >> Theoretically, it is not always a good thing for a container object >> to >> provide a count method. The problem is more easily seen when >> thinking >> about a t

Re: [sword-devel] Counting Keys in a Module

2008-04-21 Thread DM Smith
Troy A. Griffitts wrote: > Theoretically, it is not always a good thing for a container object to > provide a count method. The problem is more easily seen when thinking > about a tree container. A count method can traverse the tree to sum all > nodes, but typically there is no efficient way t

Re: [sword-devel] Counting Keys in a Module

2008-04-21 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
Theoretically, it is not always a good thing for a container object to provide a count method. The problem is more easily seen when thinking about a tree container. A count method can traverse the tree to sum all nodes, but typically there is no efficient way to obtain this information-- with

Re: [sword-devel] Counting Keys in a Module

2008-04-21 Thread mmital
Hello, I was just wondering if you managed to solve your problem. I had the same question. Thanks, Jeremy Erickson wrote: > > Hi, > What is the proper way in Sword to quickly determine the number of keys > in a > module? Currently in BibleTime we use the following code to determine the