problem with counting words

[Kay C Lan]

Open the User Guide (from the IDE Help Menu select 'User Guide' and type
Library in your pdf viewer's search box. Chapter 5.8 'Extending the Message
Path' should come up as the first hit.

This also may be helpful:

http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/11787-how-to-call-a-function-or-command-in-another-object

HTH

On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, <larry at significantplanet.org> wrote:

> Hi Robert,
> I understand what you wrote.  That is not a problem for me.
> What I want is to be able to put my function into the LC IDE so that I can
> use it in other stacks.
> You mention a library stack.  I do not know how to make one or use one. Is
> there some tutorial or something that will tell me how?
> Thanks,
> Larry
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Brenstein" <rjb at robelko.com>
> To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 7:15 PM
>
> Subject: Re: problem with counting words
>
>
>  Larry,
>>
>> Change the first line of your function to
>>
>> function commaInsert thisFigure
>>
>> Better yet:
>>
>> function commaInsert pFigure
>> put pFigure into thisFigure
>>
>> Then add before the last end the following line
>>
>> return thisFigure
>>
>> If you have your function anywhere in the path (like in the stack script
>> or library stack that is in use), then the following will work as you want
>>
>> put commaInsert(thisFigure) into field "myDollarDisplay"
>>
>> Robert
>>
>>
>> On 12.10.2014 at 17:09 Uhr -0600 <larry at significantplanet.org>
>> apparently wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Craig,
>>> I've written several functions within stacks, but have no idea how to
>>> create a library stack or, seems better, as a plug-in.
>>> For example, one function I use in many of the programs I'm writing is:
>>> commaInsert:
>>>
>>> on commaInsert
>>>
>>> put round(thisFigure) into thisFigure
>>>
>>> if thisFigure < 0 then put thisFigure * -1 into thisFigure
>>>
>>> put the length of thisFigure into L
>>>
>>> if L > 3 then put "," before char -3 of thisFigure
>>>
>>> put the length of thisFigure into L
>>>
>>> if L > 7 then put "," before char -7 of thisFigure
>>>
>>> put the length of thisFigure into L
>>>
>>> if L > 11 then put "," before char -11 of thisFigure
>>>
>>> put the length of thisFigure into L
>>>
>>> if L > 15 then put "," before char -15 of thisFigure -- THIS WOULD BE AT
>>> LEAST 1 TRILLION!!
>>>
>>> put "$" before thisFigure
>>>
>>> end commaInsert
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I use the above function (command) after performing math functions on
>>> numbers that I then want to display as dollar amounts with the commas in
>>> the right places.
>>> It would be very cool to have it available all the time through a
>>> plug-in. It would be even more cool if I could somehow add it to the LC
>>> dictionary and do this:
>>>
>>> put commaInsert(thisFigure) into field "myDollarDisplay"
>>> if thisFigure < 1 then set the textcolor of field "myDollarDisplay" to
>>> red
>>>
>>> Or even:
>>> put commaInsert(thisFigure + otherFigure) into [container]
>>>
>>> From what I've heard from programming friends, other languages allow for
>>> adding of functions to the dictionary as in the two line example in italics
>>> above.
>>>
>>> Do you know if that is possible in LC?  As far as I know, it is not
>>> possible.
>>> Larry
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: <dunbarx at aol.com>
>>> To: <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>>> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 4:53 PM
>>> Subject: Re: problem with counting words
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  Larry.
>>>>  But you can make your own "dictionary". Without limit. Most of that,
>>>> too, has been possible since Hypercard. You can define your own properties,
>>>> commands and functions, and place them in permanent use in several ways,
>>>> for example, as a library stack in use or a plug-in.
>>>>  Have you ever written such a thing? Please write back if you have not,
>>>> and we will play around for a while. Or if you have written such gadgetry,
>>>> but just never saved any of them for later, general use in your own
>>>> personal LC world, the tell us that as well.
>>>>  Craig Newman
>>>>
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