Just for fun, I did as others have said and converted the stack to use a field. Since each button used the same exact script (as far as I could tell, too many to go through individually) it was easy to modify it to use the selectedtext rather than the label of the clicked button. TO get the fonts for the list I looped through buttons looking for all that contained hex and grabbed the labels, sorted the resulting list so that it matched your original arrangement, and voila'. Had to adjust the preopencard handler to account for the changes. I missed something. If you're interested, the adjusted stack is here. https://www.dropbox.com/s/bn5ihcosxd6vj8f/CHAR%20REF.livecode?dl=0
On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 10:01 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Howdy Richmond, > > Wise man do many things with few buttons. Elite master use single field. > That is the true path to LC enlightenment, avoiding all unnecessary sorrows > in coding and interface. > > Having said that, you specifically asked for a way to circumvent the 32k > pixel limitation for positioning. That should be possible. (And doubly > worth mentioning because it could apply to other situations with fewer, but > larger, controls.) > > If you split the 1600 controls into two groups rather than one, and add a > little special code to swap them smoothly while scrolling.... > > Thus you would never need 8703 buttons on top of each other. However, the > same is true of the 1600 or the 800. It's a fun exercise and a great test > of LC's limits and performance, but a different approach will be more > efficient. > > Very nice topic for an app, I love Unicode tables! Very handy. > > Best wishes, > > Curry K. > > LiveCode Training and Consulting > http://livecodeconsulting.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
