Hi Dan,
Don't use repeat loops. Just sort the lines by the number of chars of
item x and get the lineoffset for that line. When you know the line
number, you can get the formattedWidth of the longest item in that line
and base the tabstops on that.
If you use a clever function, you should also be able to sort lines
directly by the formattedWidth of their respective items, but that might
be a little slow again.
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On 2/19/2015 00:50, Dan Friedman wrote:
Greetings! I am trying to set the tabStops to fit the data a field. The
script below works great! However, ask it to process a few thousand lines with
10 or so columns, and you'll have time to get a cup of coffee! Any ideas on
how to speed this up? Maybe there is some magical property I don't about?
Thanks in advance,
-Dan
on formatData
set the itemDel to tab
put "" into theTabs
put 0 into l
repeat for each line tLine in fld "myField"
add 1 to l
put 0 into i
repeat for each item tItem in tLine
add 1 to i
if the formattedWidth of item i of line l of fld "myField" > item i of
theTabs then
put the formattedWidth of item i of line l of fld "myField" into item
i of theTabs
end if
end repeat
end repeat
put "" into fTabs
put 0 into i
put 0 into tTotal
repeat for each item tItem in theTabs
add 1 to i
add tItem+20 to tTotal
put tTotal into item i of fTabs
end repeat
replace tab with "," in fTabs
set the tabStops of fld "myField" to fTabs
end formatData
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