Re, slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-07-06 Thread David Bovill
Tuviah couldn't find the spreadsheet object ... where/what's it called again? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sadhunathan Nadesan) Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:25:39 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: re, slicing and dicing tabular data | | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Re, slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-07-06 Thread diskot123
Tuviah couldn't find the spreadsheet object ... where/what's it called again? That would be group 1 (the one with 437 lines of script). You can see an example of use at card 3 of stack "table props". Again the stack can be found at

Re: re, slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-07-06 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
| i would like to know how to take her spread sheet object | and actually install it in a stack. can you help? | | Ensure that selectedGroupedControls is false, then select the group object | that contains the spreadsheet, and copy and paste that into your stack. | hi ok, i figured out

re, slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-07-05 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
| | From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Subject: Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data | Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 09:27:34 -0400 | MIME-Version: 1.0 | Content-Type: text/plain | Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit | | Fyi, I've contributed a new stack to the Cross Worlds site. It's a | standalone spreadsheet

Re: re, slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-07-05 Thread Sadhunathan Nadesan
oops, sorry, replace "button" with field. i tried attaching your script to a field not a button. | please pardon newbie ignorance! i would like to try out your SS object, but | at not sure how. it seems to be a single script set up for a unix | system? i tried the obvious of creating a test

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-15 Thread Steven D'Aprano
Raymond E. Griffith wrote: A "column" chunk type would be good. But would it be implemented with items? For example, if you have a several lines, each a comma-delimited list, column(2) of mylist would return item 2 of each line, separated by returns. Off the top of my head and totally

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-14 Thread Raymond E. Griffith
on 6/14/2000 5:01 AM, Ruediger zu Dohna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard Gaskin wrote: Or, if we wanted to entertain the concept of a "colulmn" chunk type, we could look at a broader set of language extensions. We have had an external for this for about 8 years now and I had proposed a

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-14 Thread diskot123
Fyi, I've contributed a new stack to the Cross Worlds site. It's a standalone spreadsheet object, with many of the standard features. regards, Tuviah Snyder Diskotek Custom Application Development SuperCard/HyperCard Conversion at a low price Web: http://members.aol.com/diskotek1/ ICQ:66810408

Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
I have a sticky problem, and maybe one of you has a cool solution: One of the apps I'm working on presents lists of tabular data, which may have as many as a couple thousand rows and potentially dozens of columns. I need to be able to display these quickly, as well as sort them, and to extract

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-08 Thread Terry Judd
It's really easy to get all the columns of a particular row ("get line 200"), but is there some way to effectively turn this on it's side, to effectively say something like "get column 3"? A "transpose" function in essence?

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-08 Thread Yennie
It's really easy to get all the columns of a particular row ("get line 200"), but is there some way to effectively turn this on it's side, to effectively say something like "get column 3"? The ol' Nairn X's collection of Hypercard decent has an XFCN for extracting text from a column. Of course,