Finding Tips

[Pete]

I hope not!  If I do something, I'd be happy to put it out there as a plugin
or something.  But, that's why I wish I could find a way to have Google do
it.
Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Randall Reetz <randall at randallreetz.com>wrote:

> Should we all of us write the same code?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dunbarx at aol.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:51 PM
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> Subject: Re: Finding Tips
>
> 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.
>
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