Re: Finding Tips (in the documentation)

2011-05-06 Thread Pete
Great, thanks for the info. I saw those clump stacks but didn't think to look in custom properties. Sounds like you might be planning to implement full text searches so I think I'll just wait for your new release. Pete Molly's Revenge 2011/5/6 Björnke von Gierk

Re: Finding Tips (in the documentation)

2011-05-06 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Hi The built in Docu stores xml text in a custom property of several stacks called clump_.rev. I extract those into separate xml files, and then access those with my stack. Full text search is very hard to do within those xml files, because it's all stored in rev-htmlText. But people have done

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Pete
Thanks Jim. Björnke - Help! I might even be talked into doing a Livecode presentation of whatever I manage to cobble together! Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > I believe he accesses xml files. > > Björnke von Gierke's "

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Jim Ault
I believe he accesses xml files. Björnke von Gierke's "BvG Docu" has gone through some updates over the years He did a Saturday Live Livecode presentation about 2 months ago. Hopefully he will chime in and give you a better view of the 'behind the scenes' from his perspective. I think he us

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Pete
Thanks Scott, yes that was it. I just tried it out and, while it has some great features, I couldn't find the full text search I'm looking for. Pete Molly's Revenge On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Pete wrote: > > > I'm pretty sure

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Pete wrote: > I'm pretty sure I remember someone posting on the list within the last > couple of months about an alternative dictionary viewer, perhaps html based? > Anyone remember that? Björnke von Gierke's "BvG Docu" might be what you're thinking of:

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Pete
d we all of us write the same code? > > -Original Message- > From: dunb...@aol.com > Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:51 PM > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: Finding Tips > > Pete. > > > I see what you want. If you could get the dictionary file

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Pete
e dictionary file data, you could > easily write this yourself. > > > Craig > > > > > > -Original Message- > From: Randall Reetz > To: How to use LiveCode > Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 2:44 pm > Subject: Re: Finding Tips > > > Yes, google has t

RE: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Randall Reetz
Should we all of us write the same code? -Original Message- From: dunb...@aol.com Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:51 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Finding Tips Pete. I see what you want. If you could get the dictionary file data, you could easily write this yourself

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread dunbarx
Pete. I see what you want. If you could get the dictionary file data, you could easily write this yourself. Craig -Original Message- From: Randall Reetz To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 2:44 pm Subject: Re: Finding Tips Yes, google has the code. Has published

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Nonsanity
Just widening the search parameters in the Dictionary to search all the content instead of just names (extra credt: move name matches to the top) is all that's needed. This shouldn't be hard to implement... ~ Chris Innanen ~ Nonsanity On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Pete wrote: > I'd be inte

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Pete
I'd be interested in trying this out against the dictionary but I'm having a hard time finding the Google code to do it. I did a search for Google Desktop Search and the hits all led me to the Google Quick Search Box. I tried that but all that appears to do is search for file names, not the conte

Re: Finding Tips

2011-05-05 Thread Randall Reetz
Yes, google has the code. Has published the code. Gives out the code. Wants people to use the code. Makes it easy to use the code. Ect. Etc. Etc. And the code doesn't build content. It uses pre-existing content. It just builds an internal index much the same way that it builds an index o