On 12/19/05 2:13 PM, "Brad Borch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, am I better off dropping text into an array in Rev to edit it, or > simply sorting and managing the text as a big hunk of text?
I would recommend you keep using the tab as a delimiter and do the following: <sorting using datetime> set the itemdel to tab sort gMyEvents datetime by item 1 of each Unless you need something that an array can do that simple lines with a single delimiter cannot, use what Rev does very well (words, items, lines) <editing as a big hunk of text> This can take various forms using one or more fields, list field(s), or table formatted fields. Questions: Do you want to copy and paste the whole text block from another program? ? read a text file from the hard drive ? edit one line at a time ? edit a column ? have Rev automatically set the start times given the end times of the line before, or enter these manually (or conversely, set the end times) ? assume that empty categories are the same as the line before ? allow drag and drop, or even smart-drag-and-drop ? one-click duplicate prev line, insert new line, delete selected lines, etc ? automatic renumbering In every case, arrays are not directly editable, but would be packed/unpacked into fields for editing. I do the same thing you are setting up, with Rev > text > SWF loadVars Jim Ault Las Vegas On 12/19/05 2:13 PM, "Brad Borch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have about 300 items for a timeline, each with a start date, an end > date, some simple classification, a title, and some text content. I'm > building a Rev back end to manage the timeline events, and a flash front > end to create an animated timeline. Flash will be reading what is > essentially a tab-delimited database. > > First, am I better off dropping text into an array in Rev to edit it, or > simply sorting and managing the text as a big hunk of text? > > Second, if the array is better, how do I sort the array? (I've already > built the Rev tool to split the text into the array). I've tried "sort > gMyEvents numeric by item 1 of each" (after defining the itemDelimiter > as tab). Is there a simple way to sort an array? Am I missing something? > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution