Yeah, I started out using an ellipsis but then I ran into the Mac/Windows font
inconsistencies in another context. It took me a month of intermittent
experimenting to discover how to use a option/alt keystroke to insert ® and
— into the Windows field. So in trying to solve the menu-building
Yes, exactly. I simply took the code out of the function handler and used it in
place of the function call in the mousedown handler in the button script, and
it worked fine. This happened with two quite different functions that
accomplished the same result: both of the approaches worked in the
At someone's suggestion on the list, I ended up using the hellip; html tag
and setting the htmltext to avoid the Mac/Windows issue, but I was putting
the data into a scrolling list field not a menu. Not sure if menus accept
htmltext, would be interesting to check that out.
Pete
lcSQL Software
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote:
function shorten tList
repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of tList
put line n of tList into lineText
if length(lineText) 75 then next repeat
put empty into tBefore
put empty into
Inventive approaches, thank you. I continued to have trouble with using any
function at all to trim the lines in a Windows standalone though everything I
tried worked in the Mac IDE. It started working fine in the standalone when I
put the identical code into the calling handlers. I still don't
Glad you got it working.
Just a nitpick but you want to consider using numToChar(133) instead of
so you only take up 1 char instead of 3. Of course nothing's ever
that simple 'cause then you'd have to use ISOToMac as well when on a Mac..
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Wed,
Do you mean that the code is no longer in a function at all, it's just part of
some build the menu routine, and that works, but if it's a function, even in
the same object, it's no good? That is odd.
gc
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On Aug 28, 2013, at 11:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought about writing the function to accept a parameter for the ellipsis
chunk but I went with expediency instead :-/
Sent from my iPad
On Aug 28, 2013, at 7:22 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
you want to consider using numToChar(133) instead
On 22/08/2013 01:03, Roger Eller wrote:
If they can edit what we see in a journalist presentation of the facts,
have they not in a way, erased some of the truth?
Yes in some strict sense. But any video shoot (or still photo) does that
anyway - the eye can handle very wide variations in light
I'm afraid you're not getting 'truth' via broadcasts
Everything on TV is always true. Talking heads are infallible and edits
only enhance the facts. Anything omitted was never worth knowing. Polls
and statistics can never mislead. If you doubt this, you will develop a
bad rash and be placed
On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
I'd see 'flash suppression' (if it could be done properly) as a similar
attempt to allow more people to watch a particular clip.
Where I live they've used 'flash suppression' for longer than I can
remember. My kids have
On 20/08/2013 16:52, Richard Gaskin wrote:
This is why I love this community:
...
Collectively, there's nothing we can't solve. :)
--
Richard Gaskin
I've often thought that if I had *any* technical question, I could ask
this list and there would be someone who knew (or at least had a very
If they can edit what we see in a journalist presentation of the facts,
have they not in a way, erased some of the truth?
~Roger
On Aug 21, 2013 7:41 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
On 20/08/2013 16:52, Richard Gaskin wrote:
This is why I love this community:
...
Collectively,
I see an of of in line -5. Also be sure of your cr's and your file paths!
Best wishes,
Curry K.
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On Aug 20, 2013, at 4:38 AM, Curry Kenworthy wrote:
Curry Kenworthy wrote:
I see an of of in line -5. Also be sure of your cr's and your file paths!
Good catch! I'd looked at Peter's code and completely missed that.
This is why I love this community:
When you need to optimize a routine into a three-line solution using
arrays, Alex Tweedly
On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Curry Kenworthy wrote:
I see an of of in line -5. Also be sure of your cr's and your file paths!
Good catch! I'd looked at Peter's code and completely missed that.
This is why I love this community:
When you need to optimize a
Amen. I don't put this into words often enough, but I love this list. I learn
from it constantly and the camaraderie and collaboration is wonderful.
Sometimes it's discovering a new way to approach an old problem, sometimes it's
unearthing a little corner of LC that I had not discovered,
So I have a small LC standalone built for Windows on a Mac, used as a utility
at work on a dumb PC terminal at my office that is networked to a server. I DL
the the utility to my (networked) Windows desktop and it helps me by storing
boilerplate text that I can use to paste into the new
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