I would use binfile to a variable, rather than a custom prop.
I've seen LC 9 fields become unusable after reaching a certain # of
chars. I would trust LC 9 fields with 8 million chars - maybe not 80.
If users have a need to see what's going on, intentionally show them
what they need to see.
Hmmm. Food for thought both!
Loading I just use
put URL ("file:" & theFilePath) into tdata
I have always assumed that reading as binary is only for data that isn’t text.
I’ll try that. If I want to display some or all of the file in a field, do I
need to process the data read as a binary
Hi David
> Am 01.07.2020 um 18:10 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
> :
>
> David V Glasgow wrote:
>
> > Loading the plain text list of URLs from file is slowish, but more
> > importantly, for some time gives no indication that the file is
> > loading.
>
> Are you reading the file as tex
David V Glasgow wrote:
> Loading the plain text list of URLs from file is slowish, but more
> importantly, for some time gives no indication that the file is
> loading.
Are you reading the file as text or binary?
I would imagine reading as binary would be more efficient since it's a
straight p
Hello LCers
On Mac 10.13, LC 9.6
In my stack I have a field on one card consisting of imported text, which is
typically several thousand of internet searches/file names/URLs.
I search for a number of keywords, which are then aggregated, and by
navigating to another card, display summary stati
