Finding Tips

[Pete]

Yeah, thought of that.  I had a quick search around the IDE stacks but I
can't find the dictionary data in there.  There are some xml and various
other files inside the Livecode package contents but I haven't had time to
track everything down.

I'm pretty sure I remember someone posting on the list within the last
couple of months about an alternative dictionary viewer, perhaps html based?
 Anyone remember that?

I really wish I could find a way to have the Google desktop search deal with
this but it appears that they've dropped it, at least for Macs.  I did find
a version of it online but when I ran the installer I got a message that it
wasn't supported on my version of OSX (Snow Leopard)
Pete
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On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 3:51 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> Pete.
>
>
> I see what you want. If you could get the dictionary file data, you could
> easily write this yourself.
>
>
> Craig
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Thu, May 5, 2011 2:44 pm
> Subject: Re: Finding Tips
>
>
> Yes, google has the code.  Has published the code.  Gives out the code.
>  Wants
> people to use the code.  Makes it easy to use the code.  Ect. Etc. Etc.
>  And the
> code doesn't build content.  It uses pre-existing content.  It just builds
> an
> internal index much the same way that it builds an index of the entire web.
> Once the index is built, searches, in the google style, with results as you
> have
> described, are easily handled by their free and well documented and
> automated
> code.  And of course such functionality would be very useful regardless of
> a
> user's level of expertise.
>
> Randall Lee Reetz
>
> On May 5, 2011, at 11:07 AM, Pete wrote:
>
> > Hi Craig,
> >
> > I guess I don't really consider myself a particularly experienced user -
> I'd
> > put myself around about a 4 on an experience scale of 1 - 10.   I know
> quite
> > a lot about particular segments of LC's capabilities and practically zero
> > about others.  So when I need to start figuring how to do something in
> those
> > zero-knowledge segments, I need all the help I can get!  That's partly
> what
> > this suggestion is about.
> >
> > As far as a keyword search on the dictionary, I think perhaps I didn't
> > explain things very well.  Think of it as a Google search.   I'd key in
> > "date" and I'd get a series of links that would show the dictionary
> keyword
> > and it's summary followed by a couple of lines of text from the entry
> that
> > include the word date. That would get me "date", "DateItems", dateFormat,
> > dateTime, is a, centuryCutOff and most likely a bunch of other entries I
> > don't even know exist (or at least haven't made the connection with). I
> > click on a link that interests me ( "is a" in this case) and I see the
> whole
> > dictionary entry for that link.
> >
> > I do agree that what I'm suggesting is beyond the scope of the current
> > dictionary application, but the information needed to provide that type
> of
> > functionality is all in the dictionary files. Now I come to think of it,
> I
> > wonder if Google has a way to index a specific file?
> >
> >
> > Pete
> > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com/>
> > - Hide quoted text -
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:50 PM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Pete.
> >>
> >>
> >> I see what you are saying, and I know you are an experienced user. But
> what
> >> you are asking may be beyond the scope of any dictionary. Searching for
> >> "date" gives, well, "date", and also "dateItems", "dateTime",
> "dateFormat"
> >> and others. It does not seem appropriate that methods of date validation
> be
> >> included there, rather only a precise definition and syntax.
> >>
> >>
> >> It is a bonus that examples are included, as well as user notes. And I
> >> always tout the "see also" stuff. All that seems like lagniappe.
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyone remember "Tricks of the Hypercard Masters"? After an LC Danny
> >> Goodman, that is what you are really yearning for.
> >>
> >>
> >> Craig
> >
> >
> > Pete
> > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
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