Script Improvement Advice

[Paul Charlesworth]

Thank you for all the suggestions. I am amazed that there are so many 
different ways to achieve the same result.

Paul


On Thursday, Jun 5, 2003, at 06:32 America/Detroit, Malte Brill wrote:

> Hi Paul,
>
>> What I would like to know is the most elegant beginners way to script
>> the placement of properties into each field on pressing an element
>> button. At this point I am adding the following script to each button:
>
> Here is my two euro-cents.
>
> I would start naming the fields you want to put your data into with a 
> static
> part and a number like:
>
> out1
> out2
> out3
> ...
>
> Create another field that holds your data, called "data"
> each record is on a line, delimited with a comma like:
>
> Hydrogen,1,1.008,...
>
> put the following script in your buttons:
>
> on mouseup
>   put 1 into theLine
>   --or whatever line of your "data" field is corresponding
>   repeat with i=1 to the number of items of line theLine fld "data"
>     put item i of line theLine fld "data" into fld ("out"&i)
>   end repeat
> end mouseup
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Malte
>
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