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 wh

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 http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/contributorfiles/pow

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

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 s

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 s

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-15 Thread Pierre Sahores
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. > I use this all the time on both H

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 total

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

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 > pr

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-14 Thread Ruediger zu Dohna
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 different syntax on the xTalk list on March 20th, but I hardly got any

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-09 Thread Marni
Richard, Have you looked at Pseudotable Plus, available at the CrossWorlds site? It has a script for converting data into the spreadsheet table, and others for adding and deleting columns from the table; some combination of these might give you what you need. --Marni On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 20:29:5

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-08 Thread Yennie
<> The ol' Nairn X's collection of Hypercard decent has an XFCN for extracting text from a column. Of course, that'll only help on MacOS. Would it be too much of a hack to put all of the original data into each field, and then use Metacard's built in tabs to give each field one super wide col

Re: Slicing and dicing tabular data

2000-06-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
On 6/8/00 9:09 PM, Terry Judd at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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 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?