Windows standalone puzzle

[Peter M. Brigham]

Yeah, I started out using an ellipsis but then I ran into the Mac/Windows font inconsistencies in another context. It took me a month of intermittent experimenting to discover how to use a <option/alt> keystroke to insert "®" and "—" into the Windows field. So in trying to solve the menu-building problem I moved to using all low-ASCII characters.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
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On Aug 28, 2013, at 8:22 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> 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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