Hi Larry oops, please replace "OFFSET" with "Skippy" in my example ;-)
Am 12.04.2014 um 16:44 schrieb Klaus major-k <[email protected]>: > Hi Larry, > > Am 12.04.2014 um 16:38 schrieb [email protected]: > >> I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) on XP Service Pack 3 >> >> I have the following line in my script: >> set the hilitedline of field myGames to lineoffset(field myShort,field >> myGames) >> The line works just fine. However, if I add the optional Lines to Skip, >> like this: >> set the hilitedline of field myGames to lineoffset(field myShort,field >> myGames,1) >> then I get an incorrect result - the hilitedline is a line that does NOT >> have the string [field myShort] in it. The hilitedline is the line prior to >> the correct line. For example, line 67 instead of the correct line of 68. >> Furthermore, when I used a variable for Lines to Skip within a repeat >> statement and then stepped through in debugging, the variable would start >> off as 1, then go to 7 but in the next repeat it would revert back to 1 - >> even though the debug showed no change of the variable. >> >> Any help would be appreciated. > > you have to add the OFFSET manually to the resulting line number! :-) > ... > put 1 into tOffset > set the hilitedline of field myGames to (lineoffset(field "myShort",field > "myGames",tOffset) + tOffset) > ... > > And don't forget to put quotes around object names 8-) > >> Larry Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de [email protected] _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
