LC-apps for HC

Ingar Roggen ingar.roggen at sosiologi.uio.no
Fri Nov 30 12:02:37 EST 2018


Hello, André,
I hope you still remember that we met in Las Vegas. I still use HyperCard and wonder if it has become easier to port HC-stacks to LiveCode? Do you know if there are any apps for that? And if not, would it be difficult to write them?
Regards
Ingar

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> 30. nov. 2018 kl. 14:41 skrev Andre Alves Garzia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
> 
> Kaveh,
> 
> I would work which lines should be shown and hidden inside a variable and then replace the whole field...
> 
>> On 30/11/2018 13:07, Kaveh Bazargan wrote:
>> Yes Andre, that is the line that fixed it, in a split second :-)
>> 
>> But here is a follow-up: Now I want to hide all lines that have no text style and only show lines with colored text. I use:
>> 
>> repeat with i = 1 to the number of lines of fld 1
>>       if the textcolor of line i of fld "text" is not empty then
>>          set the hidden of line i of fld "text" to false
>>       end if
>>    end repeat
>> 
>> This is taking time too. Any suggestions how to speed this up?
>> 
>> On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 12:12, Andre Alves Garzia via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>    There is another tip here in this thread about
>> 
>>    set the hidden of line 1 to -1 of field "the field" to false
>> 
>>    As a single command, it might be better.
>> 
>>    On 30/11/2018 12:07, Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode wrote:
>>    > Thank you guys. I am always embarrassed to ask here as I know
>>    the answer is
>>    > a one liner!!
>>    >
>>    > And Andre the screen was locked already. :-)
>>    >
>>    > On Fri, 30 Nov 2018 at 11:56, Klaus major-k via use-livecode <
>>    > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>>    <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>>    >
>>    >> Hi Andre,
>>    >>
>>    >>> Am 30.11.2018 um 12:48 schrieb Andre Alves Garzia via
>>    use-livecode <
>>    >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>>    <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>:
>>    >>> tied locking the screen first?
>>    >> tied AND locked?
>>    >> Andre, you are hardcore! :-D
>>    >>
>>    >>> On 30/11/2018 10:33, Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode wrote:
>>    >>>> I have a text field with some 3500 lines of text. I want to
>>    ensure all
>>    >>>> lines are visible, as I have hidden some before. I use:
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> repeat with i = 1 the number of lines of fld 1
>>    >>>>        set the hidden of line i of fld 1 to false
>>    >>>> end repeat
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> This is taking over 1 minute to complete. I have tried
>>    removing all
>>    >> styling
>>    >>>> from the text so e.g. backgroundcolor is empty, etc. Same result.
>>    >>>>
>>    >>>> Any suggestions pls?
>>    >> Best
>>    >>
>>    >> Klaus
>>    >>
>>    >> --
>>    >> Klaus Major
>>    >> http://www.major-k.de
>>    >> klaus at major-k.de <mailto:klaus at major-k.de>
>>    >>
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