[ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-30 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Thank you, Bob. www.FlexibleLearning.com/typingfilter Hugh Senior FLCo On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:39:29 +, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: I was having the same epiphany. I did this with a local mySQL database a little while back and it worked a peach. I had a little delay

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-30 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 7:36 AM, FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com wrote: www.FlexibleLearning.com/typingfilter Nice work, Hugh! I remember doing something similar about eighteen years ago and having to write the code to do a thousand lines of the search material at a time,

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
I was having the same epiphany. I did this with a local mySQL database a little while back and it worked a peach. I had a little delay timer going so that if the user typed another character within a certain time frame the counter would reset. Once the user stopped typing for a small length of

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-25 Thread Gerry
Video of my project (turn the sound off unless you like dogs barking): http://quick.as/erqospn9 I just do: SELECT * FROM companytable where company_name like '%searchText%' order by company_name ...then get the result in an array and pop it into the datagrid, updating as the user types. It's

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-24 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Richard TypingFilter for LiveCode is free as in no charge, gratis, for nothing, a gift, a present, complimentary... www.FlexibleLearning.com/typingfilter Hugh Senior FLCo On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:36 AM, FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com wrote: So as a Christmas gift to you

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-24 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Dec 24, 2014 at 8:51 AM, FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com wrote: TypingFilter for LiveCode is free as in no charge, gratis, for nothing, a gift, a present, complimentary... Thank you :) I put together a simpler and clumsier one, and would love to replace it. I avoid

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-24 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ohhh thanks! I did something like this in my recent app, but this looks much better. I’ll give you credit if I ever distribute it. Bob S On Dec 24, 2014, at 08:51 , FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com wrote: Richard TypingFilter for LiveCode is free as in no charge,

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Hugh, very nice. I couldn't resist trying this using an SQLite database instead of the preloaded data. I created a database with one table named Places with one column named Data that holds the preloaded data, then imported the preloaded data into it. The script changes were pretty

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-24 Thread Gerry
I wrote an sql based version of this for an abandoned iPad app - it displays the results in a datagrid from where they can be edited or deleted. If I find time in the next little while I'll package it up as a demo. Gerry On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 at 8:47 am, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Thanks

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-24 Thread Peter Haworth
Sounds interesting, I think Skip was interested in using a filter with a datagrid. I went a bit further with my test by using an FTS3 table and the snippet function to return the data. The nice thing about that approach is that the parameters to the snippet function include the html to use

[ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Over the years, people keep asking about how to implement 'display as you type' widget thang. So as a Christmas gift to you all, TypingFilter for LiveCode is fast, flexible and FREE. The download with example implementation and screenshots are available here...

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Wow... your timing couldn't be more perfect. I was working on something like that yesterday. Now I need to find a way to make this work with a datagrid :) Thanks again and Merry Christmas! SKIP KIMPEL On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 8:36 AM, FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com wrote:

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hugh, many thanks for that „little“ helper! Happy holiday to you and of course to all of the list. Matthias Am 23.12.2014 um 14:36 schrieb FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com: Over the years, people keep asking about how to implement 'display as you type' widget thang. So

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Skip, good to know you are already investigating how to use that tool with datagrids. ;) If you have a solution, would you please share your results/knowledge? Regards, Mattthias Am 23.12.2014 um 15:16 schrieb Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com: Wow... your timing

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 5:36 AM, FlexibleLearning.com ad...@flexiblelearning.com wrote: So as a Christmas gift to you all, TypingFilter for LiveCode is fast, flexible and FREE. The download with example implementation and screenshots are available here... Wow. THank you for releasing that.

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm assuming you need to do this when the user is typing into the datagrid's edit field. I recently needed to implement a right click popup menu to the datagrid's edit field and used the following method which should work for this purpose too. Make a button and copy the script of button Field

Re: [ANN] Free: Google-style typing filter for LiveCode

2014-12-23 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Actually, I need it to search for data already entered WITHIN the datagrid. SKIP On Tue, Dec 23, 2014 at 10:59 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I'm assuming you need to do this when the user is typing into the datagrid's edit field. I recently needed to implement a right click popup