Thanks Bruce,
I must have had a typo cause I know I tried this !
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Richard Tribe, BBC Interactive dept.
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From: Bruce Epstein - Zeus Productions
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Sent: Friday, June 8, 2001 19:45
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Subject: RE: lingo-l OT
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Subject: RE: lingo-l OT - Number of Lingo words?
OK - how do I get all the words then? What I did was open the help.dir
file
and copy all the words out of the LingoWordsHyper text member... Where
else
could I get them from?
You can traverse the symbolTable
Here it is:
put interface (xtra DumpSymbolXtra)
-- xtra DumpSymbolXtra -- blabla from Holland!
--Functions--
* DumpSymbol integer index -- returns symbol at index from 0 to ?
Here is some sample code to print out a range of symbols
on dumpSymbols startIndex, endIndex
repeat with x =
Here is a fancier utility that finds the last symbol automatically. I also
created a revised version of the dumpsymbols utility. You can abort it by
clicking the mouse as it takes a long time to print out 1800+ symbols
on lastSymbol
emptySym = symbol(EMPTY)
repeat with x = 0 to the
Having done the Lingo pop-up menu for D8.5 I can tell you that there
were 1476 entries. This does not account for duplications (such as .count)
of which there were a few.
- jp
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-Original Message-
OK - how do I get all the words then? What I did was open the help.dir file
and copy all the words out of the LingoWordsHyper text member... Where else
could I get them from?
Thanks
Dave
PS - and why on earth would the help.dir file be missing over 400 words?
That seems strange...
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OK - how do I get all the words then? What I did was open the help.dir file
and copy all the words out of the LingoWordsHyper text member... Where else
could I get them from?
You can traverse the symbolTable with the dumpsymbol Xtra:
http://www.pimz.com/xtras/free/DumpSymbolPPC.hqx
Jakob
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