Long URL in a field

[Jeff Massung]

Just to throw out another idea...

For my RSS app I wrote a routine that would truncate a link with "..." when
it would extend beyond the length of a field and set the linkText of the
chunk to the full URL so it'd still work.

Jeff M.

On Sun, Jun 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Sarah Reichelt <sarah.reichelt at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Emmett Gray <film2 at handheldfilm.com>
> wrote:
> > In the HC version of a stack I've converted, I have a "notes" text field.
> > The field has a vertical scroll bar, but not a horizontal one (and that's
> > what I want). In HC, a long URL will wrap so you can see the whole thing
> on
> > multiple lines. In Rev, it doesn't wrap so you can't see it all (although
> > you can still select it by dragging to the right). Can this behavior be
> > changed to be like in HC (i.e. force a line with no spaces to wrap)?
>
> No, wrapping on Rev only works with white space.
> So I wrote a routine to space out a long URL to fit a specific field:
>
> command formatFolderPath pFieldName
>     repeat while the formattedWidth of fld pFieldName >= the width of
> fld pFieldName
>          -- find the last slash & replace with slash & cr
>          put the text of fld pFieldName into tFolder
>          repeat with x = the number of chars in tFolder down to 1
>               if char x of tFolder = slash and char x+1 of tFolder <> cr
> then
>                    put cr after char x of tFolder
>                    put tFolder into fld pFieldName
>                    exit repeat
>               end if
>          end repeat
>     end repeat
> end formatFolderPath
>
> Then when using the file path, you just need to make sure you replace
> cr with empty and you get back to the original.
> There are obvious improvements that could be made, but for a quick
> fix, it works OK.
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
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