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by GregWills
Mon Jan 31, 2022 3:35 am
Forum: HTML5
Topic: annoying keyboard pops up
Replies: 8
Views: 5848

Re: annoying keyboard pops up

lcmark, thank you for that snippet of info. That is really exciting. I look forward to smaller file size, thus quicker loading and control of the pop up keyboard, which has been a bug bear from the very beginning. Maybe I will keep my html5 subscription. :D
Cheers
Greg
by GregWills
Wed Jun 02, 2021 9:14 am
Forum: HTML5
Topic: Not working as expected?
Replies: 38
Views: 28487

Re: Not working as expected?

It has been over 5 years since I commented on this post about the speed and function of Livecode HTML on mobile devices. I am about to update a series of programs that I developed back then. Many people do use these programs on their mobile devices even though they are advised that the programs are ...
by GregWills
Fri Aug 09, 2019 3:42 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Offset and wildcards
Replies: 10
Views: 6061

Re: Offset and wildcards

Sorry for the slow reply, I have been using the program to update the database. It is all working pretty nicely … as I look for glitches. After a day of data input (needed to be done), I ran a version with your script -hh. Beautiful. It gathers all the entries that are close to the name in the datab...
by GregWills
Tue Aug 06, 2019 12:26 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Offset and wildcards
Replies: 10
Views: 6061

Re: Offset and wildcards

Thanks Craig and Hermann for the suggestions. Always great to get other perspectives. I had tried the “is in” code in the script in an earlier version, and it sort of works. The problem came about when there was a student in the database lastName “Good”. However on the Attendance sheet (that is bein...
by GregWills
Sun Aug 04, 2019 5:58 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Offset and wildcards
Replies: 10
Views: 6061

Re: Offset and wildcards

Thank you for your thoughts. Does this mean that wildcards can’t be used with Offset? This is the script that I am currently using. It does the job - mostly - but does miss variations of some names. I think the script is clunky and thought there would be a more elegant way of looking for as many var...
by GregWills
Sat Aug 03, 2019 6:27 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Offset and wildcards
Replies: 10
Views: 6061

Offset and wildcards

Hi All Perhaps a simple question, but can you use wildcards with an Offset? I want to search for variations of a word. For example: offset(charsToFind, stringToSearch) charsToFind - Good-Smith stringToSearch - a database of last names I am searching each line of client data line by line looking for ...
by GregWills
Wed Jul 31, 2019 8:29 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

Thanks jameshale, that did the trick. Processing 177,631 items was completed in 28 seconds. Nice. I can live with that. :-) I ended up changing the itemdelimiter to “~”, as OpenOffice needed the itemdelimiter to be nominated each time the resulting exported .csv file was opened (not sure why, as it ...
by GregWills
Tue Jul 30, 2019 7:32 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

Thanks bogs for the timer. It greatly aided my sanity today :-) I had a mixed bag of times from this morning to this afternoon? But definitely with smaller numbers of items, times were reasonable. Large numbers of items (160,000) had ridiculous times. Thanks jameshale for your insight. That makes se...
by GregWills
Mon Jul 29, 2019 7:57 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

The above script is faster with small amounts of data, but dramatically slows down as the number of items increase. 10,000 items - 1 second (Speeds were timed with a stopwatch so are only a guide.) 20,000 items - 2 seconds 40,000 items - 4 seconds 80,000 items - 14 seconds 160,000 items - 50 seconds...
by GregWills
Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:40 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

Interesting how writing it down and seeing the information in another format can help!! I have answered my own question! repeat for tStudentNumbers add 1 to tCounter put tCounter * 15 into tNextSet -- item 15 of the next student put item tNextSet of tDataBaseHold into tSecond replace return with "¬"...
by GregWills
Mon Jul 29, 2019 6:17 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

Hi All I have been exploring AxWald’s approach to removing returns in an item and am having success at removing the returns from imported data, adding data to this item, then replacing the returns on export - to be opened in OpenOffice (then Joomla). I know that item 15 in the import has returns wit...
by GregWills
Sun Jul 21, 2019 3:33 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

:-( I have been trying to apply Alex Tweedly’s script but am struggling to understand how I use it. I haven’t required a custom function before so have been reading and exploring how they are constructed. Unfortunately I can’t work out how to call this script or what ‘defaults’ the script is referri...
by GregWills
Thu Jul 18, 2019 8:26 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

Thank you so much AxWald for your very clear explanation. Much appreciated. That was the problem. I am in Australia, so there are many commas running wild here. I have decided to use OpenOffice, as it provides more control over what csv’s will look like when saved. I’ve abandoned Excel, as it was st...
by GregWills
Tue Jul 16, 2019 8:05 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Re: Returns in a column

Thank you all for your replies. I have been wandering around in this 'swamp of sorrow' :-) for some time now! I will continue to see if I can get out, but I need some more assistance, before I go under :-( AxWald, I liked your approach, but couldn't get your script to work. Am I missing something? I...
by GregWills
Sat Jul 13, 2019 5:19 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: Returns in a column
Replies: 20
Views: 15925

Returns in a column

Hi Everyone A question regarding a .csv file. I have a spreadsheet with a number of single word columns. One column however is a ‘Notes’ column with text and returns. In Excel, the ‘Notes’ data is displayed and contained within the column. When this is imported into LiveCode each return creates a ne...

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