Yeah, I started out using an ellipsis but then I ran into the Mac/Windows font inconsistencies in another context. It took me a month of intermittent experimenting to discover how to use a <option/alt> keystroke to insert "®" and "—" into the Windows field. So in trying to solve the menu-building problem I moved to using all low-ASCII characters.
-- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 28, 2013, at 8:22 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Glad you got it working. > > Just a nitpick but you want to consider using numToChar(133) instead of > "...".so you only take up 1 char instead of 3. Of course nothing's ever > that simple 'cause then you'd have to use ISOToMac as well when on a Mac.. > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Inventive approaches, thank you. I continued to have trouble with using >> any function at all to trim the lines in a Windows standalone though >> everything I tried worked in the Mac IDE. It started working fine in the >> standalone when I put the identical code into the calling handlers. I still >> don't understand this, but I've got it working now. >> >> Re scalability, it's just for a short list of text snippets for a popup >> button, max length <= 20 or so. >> >> -- Peter >> >> Peter M. Brigham >> pmb...@gmail.com >> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig >> >> On Aug 28, 2013, at 3:54 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmb...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>>> function shorten tList >>>> repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of tList >>>> put line n of tList into lineText >>>> if length(lineText) < 75 then next repeat >>>> put empty into tBefore >>>> put empty into tAfter >>>> if char 43 of line n of tList = space then >>>> put space into tBefore >>>> end if >>>> if char -25 of line n of tList = space then >>>> put space into tAfter >>>> end if >>>> put tBefore & "..." & tAfter into char 43 to -25 of of line n of >>>> tList >>>> -- 3 periods, not a numtochar(201) >>>> end repeat >>>> return tList >>>> end shorten >>>> >>> >>> >>> Just saw this because of wonky spam filters. You can get identical >> results >>> to the above (without the errors) with: >>> >>> function shorten2 tList >>> repeat for each line L in tList >>> if length(L) < 75 then >>> put L & cr after R >>> else >>> put (char 1 to 42 of L) & char (2 - offset(" ",char 43 of L)) to >>> (-2 + offset(" ",char -25 of L)) of " ... " & (char -24 to -1 of L) & cr >>> after R >>> end if >>> end repeat >>> return R >>> end shorten2 >>> >>> That returns variable-length shortened lines, as does the original. If >>> there isn't a special reason for that, then this is even simpler, and has >>> the shortening parameters as variables. Just call it with 75 and 43 to >> get >>> similar to the original. >>> >>> function trimLines tList, trimTo, elipseAfter >>> repeat for each line L in tList >>> if length(L) <= trimTo then put L & cr after R else put (char 1 to >>> elipseAfter of L) & "..." & (char (elipseAfter - trimTo + 3) to -1 of L) >> & >>> cr after R >>> end repeat >>> return R >>> end trimLines >>> >>> Both of these scale roughly linearly. For menus it's not likely to be a >>> factor, but on 3500 lines the original takes about a second on my >> machine, >>> and each of these take about a hundredth of a second. >>> >>> gc >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ 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
