Windows standalone puzzle

[Peter Haworth]

Glad you got it working.

Just a nitpick but you want to consider using numToChar(133) instead of
"...".so you only take up 1 char instead of 3.  Of course nothing's ever
that simple 'cause then you'd have to use ISOToMac as well when on a Mac..

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

> Inventive approaches, thank you. I continued to have trouble with using
> any function at all to trim the lines in a Windows standalone though
> everything I tried worked in the Mac IDE. It started working fine in the
> standalone when I put the identical code into the calling handlers. I still
> don't understand this, but I've got it working now.
>
> Re scalability, it's just for a short list of text snippets for a popup
> button, max length <= 20 or so.
>
> -- Peter
>
> Peter M. Brigham
> pmbrig at gmail.com
> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>
> On Aug 28, 2013, at 3:54 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:43 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> function shorten tList
> >>   repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of tList
> >>      put line n of tList into lineText
> >>      if length(lineText) < 75 then next repeat
> >>      put empty into tBefore
> >>      put empty into tAfter
> >>      if char 43 of line n of tList = space then
> >>         put space into tBefore
> >>      end if
> >>      if char -25 of line n of tList = space then
> >>         put space into tAfter
> >>      end if
> >>      put tBefore & "..." & tAfter into char 43 to -25 of of line n of
> >> tList
> >>      -- 3 periods, not a numtochar(201)
> >>   end repeat
> >>   return tList
> >> end shorten
> >>
> >
> >
> > Just saw this because of wonky spam filters. You can get identical
> results
> > to the above (without the errors) with:
> >
> > function shorten2 tList
> >   repeat for each line L in tList
> >      if length(L) < 75 then
> >         put L & cr after R
> >      else
> >         put (char 1 to 42 of L) & char (2 - offset(" ",char 43 of L)) to
> > (-2 + offset(" ",char -25 of L)) of " ... " & (char -24 to -1 of L) & cr
> > after R
> >      end if
> >   end repeat
> >   return R
> > end shorten2
> >
> > That returns variable-length shortened lines, as does the original. If
> > there isn't a special reason for that, then this is even simpler, and has
> > the shortening parameters as variables. Just call it with 75 and 43 to
> get
> > similar to the original.
> >
> > function trimLines tList, trimTo, elipseAfter
> >   repeat for each line L in tList
> >      if length(L) <= trimTo then put L & cr after R else put (char 1 to
> > elipseAfter of L) & "..." & (char (elipseAfter - trimTo + 3) to -1 of L)
> &
> > cr after R
> >   end repeat
> >   return R
> > end trimLines
> >
> > Both of these scale roughly linearly. For menus it's not likely to be a
> > factor, but on 3500 lines the original takes about a second on my
> machine,
> > and each of these take about a hundredth of a second.
> >
> > gc
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