Jim You are a Godsend - I never knew of the metadata - I have a whole lot of refactoring to do. I was using the "hidden" tab fields trick but this is way better
This is going to make so much stuff so easy - and so much easier to debug Thanks again Lagi On 8 May 2017 at 09:34, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thank you all for your nice ideas > Tiemo > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im > Auftrag von J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > Gesendet: Samstag, 6. Mai 2017 22:15 > An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Cc: J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> > Betreff: Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array > > Use tabwidths instead of tabstops. I was working off faulty memory. > > > On 5/6/17 2:32 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: > > Cool stuff! Didn't know you could hide things with tab, and will have > > to look at metadata now. Thanks! > > > > On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > >> > >>> Jacque wrote: > >>> I've done this often, it's a nice clean solution. And now that we > >>> can set tabstops to 0, the second item won't be visible whether > >>> there's a horizontal scrollbar or not. > >> > >> > >> That’s right! tabwidths are handy for this hiding too. > >> > >> But I realized Tiemo might not even need to bother hiding the > >> otherData if he takes advantage of another property of fields - the > metadata property: > >> > >> set the metadata of line 1 of field 1 to otherDataString > >> set the metadata of line 2 of field 1 to otherDataString2 > >> > >> A field’s metadata is never visible. > >> Yet the otherData strings will travel along with each line as the > >> user drags the the lines up and down. > >> > >> LiveCode offers so much flexibility! We can usually have a choice of > >> approaches to any problem > >> > >> Jim Lambert > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> use-livecode mailing list > >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > >> subscription preferences: > >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode