Splitting long elements into two lines in an Option Menu

Richmond Mathewson richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Fri Apr 27 17:11:26 EDT 2018


Well that chopping up doesn't have to take place between fields: it 
could, say, start with
the string in a string-variable, and the chopped-up bits end up in a 
2-dimensional array.

Richmond.

On 27/4/2018 5:47 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> On a mobile device??
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Apr 27, 2018, at 02:09 , Richmond via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've just set up a stack containing 2 fields; one called "fff" containing your
>>
>> original string, another called "fCHOPPED" that is a scrolling list field.
>>
>> I have a button containing this script:
>>
>> on mouseUp
>>     put fld "fff" into FFF
>>     set the itemDelimiter to ","
>>     put 1 into KOUNT
>>     repeat until item KOUNT of FFF is empty
>>        put item KOUNT of FFF into line KOUNT of fld "fCHOPPED"
>>        add 1 to KOUNT
>>     end repeat
>> end mouseUp
>>
>> which puts the string into the scrolling list field like this:
>>
>> /Dialyse rénale
>>   insuffisance rénale
>>   maladie rénaleDID
>>   diabète de type 1//
>> //diabète insulino dépendant/
>>
>> Richmond.
>>
>>
>> On 27.04.2018 04:48, Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode wrote:
>>> /Dialyse rénale, insuffisance rénale, maladie rénaleDID, diabète de type 1//,//diabète insulino dépendant/
>>
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