I hope not! If I do something, I'd be happy to put it out there as a plugin or something. But, that's why I wish I could find a way to have Google do it. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Randall Reetz <rand...@randallreetz.com>wrote: > 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. > > > Craig > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Randall Reetz <rand...@randallreetz.com> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> > Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 2:44 pm > Subject: Re: Finding Tips > > > 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 of the entire web. > Once the index is built, searches, in the google style, with results as you > have > described, are easily handled by their free and well documented and > automated > code. And of course such functionality would be very useful regardless of > a > user's level of expertise. > > Randall Lee Reetz > > On May 5, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Pete wrote: > > > Hi Craig, > > > > I guess I don't really consider myself a particularly experienced user - > I'd > > put myself around about a 4 on an experience scale of 1 - 10. I know > quite > > a lot about particular segments of LC's capabilities and practically zero > > about others. So when I need to start figuring how to do something in > those > > zero-knowledge segments, I need all the help I can get! That's partly > what > > this suggestion is about. > > > > As far as a keyword search on the dictionary, I think perhaps I didn't > > explain things very well. Think of it as a Google search. I'd key in > > "date" and I'd get a series of links that would show the dictionary > keyword > > and it's summary followed by a couple of lines of text from the entry > that > > include the word date. That would get me "date", "DateItems", dateFormat, > > dateTime, is a, centuryCutOff and most likely a bunch of other entries I > > don't even know exist (or at least haven't made the connection with). I > > click on a link that interests me ( "is a" in this case) and I see the > whole > > dictionary entry for that link. > > > > I do agree that what I'm suggesting is beyond the scope of the current > > dictionary application, but the information needed to provide that type > of > > functionality is all in the dictionary files. Now I come to think of it, > I > > wonder if Google has a way to index a specific file? > > > > > > Pete > > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com/> > > - Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM, <dunb...@aol.com> wrote: > > > >> Pete. > > > > [The entire original message is not included] > > _______________________________________________ > 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
