problem with counting words

Sun Oct 12 22:29:18 EDT 2014

Hello Kay,
I read the chapter in the user guide about creating a library.
I also read "insert script" in the dictionary and it talks about a limit of 
10 scripts(10 front and 10 back) in the compiled app.
What I'm unclear about is, may I have multiple functions within, say, a card 
or stack script?  In other words, if I have one script that contains 10 
commands within it that could be called up, is that counted as 1 script or 
as 10 scripts?
Thanks,
Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com>
To: "How to use LiveCode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2014 8:09 PM
Subject: Re: problem with counting words

> 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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