I'm interested and will have a look at it after supper.
Thanks, Richmond.
On 4/2/17 8:01 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
Just for fun, I did as others have said and converted the stack to use a
field. Since each button used the same exact script (as far as I could
tell, too many to go through individually) it was easy to modify it to use
the selectedtext rather than the label of the clicked button. TO get the
fonts for the list I looped through buttons looking for all that contained
hex and grabbed the labels, sorted the resulting list so that it matched
your original arrangement, and voila'. Had to adjust the preopencard
handler to account for the changes. I missed something. If you're
interested, the adjusted stack is here.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bn5ihcosxd6vj8f/CHAR%20REF.livecode?dl=0
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Howdy Richmond,
Wise man do many things with few buttons. Elite master use single field.
That is the true path to LC enlightenment, avoiding all unnecessary sorrows
in coding and interface.
Having said that, you specifically asked for a way to circumvent the 32k
pixel limitation for positioning. That should be possible. (And doubly
worth mentioning because it could apply to other situations with fewer, but
larger, controls.)
If you split the 1600 controls into two groups rather than one, and add a
little special code to swap them smoothly while scrolling....
Thus you would never need 8703 buttons on top of each other. However, the
same is true of the 1600 or the 800. It's a fun exercise and a great test
of LC's limits and performance, but a different approach will be more
efficient.
Very nice topic for an app, I love Unicode tables! Very handy.
Best wishes,
Curry K.
LiveCode Training and Consulting
http://livecodeconsulting.com/
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