On Jul 23, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: > I have been working with your suggestions on the following script: > > put the number of buttons of me into nbr > put 1 into x > repeat with n = 1 to nbr > put the short name of button n of me into tName > if not the hilite of button n of me then next repeat > add 1 to x > put x & "." & space & tName & cr after theList > end repeat > put round(the height of field "final" / the textheight of field "final",0) > into tMaxLines > > put line 1 to tMaxLines of theList into field "final" > if x> tMaxLines then > put line tMaxLines+1 to x of thelist into field "final2" > show field "final2" > else > put empty into field "final2" > hide field "final2" > end if > > This script works but I have encountered two significant problems. First, > the first checkbox that is checked and inserted into field "final" is > numbered as 2. instead of 1. The second problem is that when field "final" > is "filled up" with the names of the checkboxes, the last checkbox name > cannot be seen in field "final" and consequently the next checkbox that is > inserted into the next field "final2" shows the next number. In other words, > checkbox numbered 13 does not show up in field "final" but checkbox numbered > 14 appears in field "final2". Do you have any suggestions?
1. Put the "add 1 to x" line at the end of the repeat loop (which is what I suggested originally) 2. Make maxLines = 12. Are you assigning this value explicitly, or my some script calculation? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ 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
