number of colornames?

[wayne durden]

Oops!  Mea Culpa!  I generally avoid posting to the list because as in this
case, I almost always have done something in error and enough googling or
just some time away usually yields the answer.

This time I had convinced myself that something bizarre must be happening
along the lines of the array with same key thing...

It turns out it is an error in my looping.  As I am writing 4 columns of 25
fields on a card, I had 3 nested repeats and as I have done in the past I
set up the loop wrong so that I was creating dupes directly multiplying some
of the repeat vars instead of multiplying by a column and adding.  I
overlooked the repeated fields as dupes because the colors already had
numerical variations like steelblue1, steelblue2, etc...

It was tedious to track down because I was also using the screenmouseloc
keying off those repeat variables to get the rgbcolor and those lines helped
obscure the simple mistake...

I am so sorry Mark, Joe, Richard, et al... I truly appreciate the time you
took to answer.  Hopefully, I will have some to contribute to others in the
near future.  I have been a long time hypercard user, although for the last
several years I have been a realbasic user on the PC.  I have discovered
that there are a good number of problems that runrev can solve for me in
much much less time.  It is a love/hate relationship at times though.... :)

Thanks again all!

Wayne



On 2/11/07, Jim Ault <JimAultWins at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>
> Looking at the stack "color names reference", there are
> 37*15 tiles which is 555 and the colornames() yields 552.
> Their may be 3 dups in a few color runs.
>
> What are you looking at the show "2000+" names?
> Are the lines of your list sorted alphabetically or random?
> Are the names for each I unique?
>
> Could you please post the loop you are using to iterate and not getting
> the
> sensible answers?
>
> Jim Ault
> Las Vegas
>
> On 2/11/07 2:11 PM, "wayne durden" <wdurden at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I don't want to beat a dead horse or belabor a point, but:
> > the number of lines of colornames() returns 552
> > however as I iterate through the lines using something like
> > line i of colornames()
> > by the time I am at 552 I am nowhere near the end...
> >
> > I realize what is probably going on is that there are often 4 or so
> > variations on a single name like firebrick, firebrick1, etc.
> >
> > What is confusing is why the "number of lines" and "line i of" aren't in
> > agreement.  And assuming I do want to get all of the variations, how
> should
> > I set up the loop other than "repeat with i=1 to the number of lines of
> > colornames()"?
> >
>
>
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