Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-24 Thread Chamundi Sabanathan
Newbie to Rev here... I've been following this one with interest. Got the idea that if Rev does so much for you without being told to (as mentioned this AM in another thread), perhaps it would supply a missing CR when you appended a line. Turns out it doesn't, but in checking for that I notice

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-24 Thread David Burgun
Dave, if we see the return character as a divider or separator rather than a terminator, it all makes a bit more sense, I think. The line count will always be the number of return characters + 1, as it is assumed that there is data both before and after a return character . I see what you are s

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread Dar Scott
On Thursday, April 22, 2004, at 11:51 AM, Ken Ray wrote: put the number of items of "Ken,Tom,Dar," --> 3 Right you are. I'd add that, though this can be confusing, it does have a benefit. A delimiter at the end allows an empty list of items to be distinct from a list of one item that is empt

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/22/04 11:06 AM, Klaus Major wrote: Hi Jaqueline, On 4/22/04 8:53 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Is this true? There's an exception for a one-line string with a trailing return. I.e.: this is line one Which returns "1" as the number of lines. thank you, that explains much :-) But the

RE: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread Ken Ray
>> The line count will always be the number of return characters + 1, as >> it is assumed that there is data both before and after a return >> character . > > On 4/22/04 8:53 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > > > Is this true? > > There's an exception for a one-line string with a trailing > retur

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Jaqueline, On 4/22/04 8:53 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Is this true? There's an exception for a one-line string with a trailing return. I.e.: this is line one Which returns "1" as the number of lines. thank you, that explains much :-) But then, on the other hand, this should not happen

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/22/04 8:53 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Is this true? There's an exception for a one-line string with a trailing return. I.e.: this is line one Which returns "1" as the number of lines. i did not know that. I didn't even think about that before. This might explain some behaviors I hav

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Is this true? i did not know that. I didn't even think about that before. This might explain some behaviors I have experienced before. HHmmm Tom On Apr 22, 2004, at 8:30 AM, Mark Smith wrote: The line count will always be the number of return characters + 1, as it is assumed that there is dat

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-22 Thread Mark Smith
Dave, if we see the return character as a divider or separator rather than a terminator, it all makes a bit more sense, I think. The line count will always be the number of return characters + 1, as it is assumed that there is data both before and after a return character . Remember, a return

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-21 Thread Phil Davis
miter. Phil - Original Message - From: "David Burgun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:59 PM Subject: Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651 > >In my simplistic view of

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-21 Thread David Burgun
In my simplistic view of things, here's how I make sense of your experience: - "the number of lines" returns the number of CR chars found in your target data. - the CR char was designed to do one thing: to end the current line, causing what follows it to be in a new line. If it exists in the middl

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-21 Thread Phil Davis
quot;Klaus Major" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "How to use Revolution" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 12:15 PM Subject: Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651 > Hi David, > > this one might be of interest to other listers, too! &

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi David, this one might be of interest to other listers, too! So please join in again ;-) ... But how comes the empty line 4 into play??? The linecount is 3 but there are (proven) 4 lines in the field??? Well to me there are 3 lines in the LIST (not sure what is the the field) and as most of wha

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-21 Thread Klaus Major
Hi David, Here is sample code to demonstrate: on mouseUp put empty into myLineList put myLineList & "Line1" & return into myLineList put the number of lines in myLineList into myLineCount put myLineList & "Line2" & return into myLineList put the number of lines in myLineList into myLine

Re: How do I Create a Custom Property, part 19,214,651

2004-04-21 Thread David Burgun
Here is sample code to demonstrate: on mouseUp put empty into myLineList put myLineList & "Line1" & return into myLineList put the number of lines in myLineList into myLineCount put myLineList & "Line2" & return into myLineList put the number of lines in myLineList into myLineCount put