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function matTAG(eptr) local atr = fhIsAttribute(eptr) local evt = fhIsEvent(eptr) local fct = fhIsFact(eptr) given an eptr to (for instance): 'NAME' all of these fhIs* are false and that would be fine because it could be considered it is one of the gedcom tags by default However, I think a tag like ...

Look it up, its documented. I help where I can. Not being terribly advanced, it often goes to naught. Some help is on the FB group, some here.

How about you, what's your gadfly count?

You are not a super user Helen, and your 'advice' has always been singularly unhelpful. I bet you dont get told to read the documentation by Scuri when you ask a question, say for instance; regarding themes, because he knows his documentation is unintelligible and sparse, and he just whips out a con...

mike, ok, well that is the long way around the barn. since I am not writing to the gedcom much as of yet, I have the code here, and it looks like when fh 7 gets some more of its bugs out if I get the upgrade, then this sort of thing is wrapped in. I think my UTF8len works sufficiently to write displ...

maybe I am missing something very fundamental here. but I am not. where is the documentation of utf8.whatevers and how to use them? where is the code? if its only binaries, and since I don't know good old Steve-o, we are at the end of any discussion of using this scrap, because it looks flaky to me....

Mike,

Yes. and no.

yes, from the link in knowledgebase,copied it in

I used loadrequire and it got compat53, and got utf8 with no utf8.len that I can find

there is an artifact copy of util in utf8.

is it one of those, I have to use it before I know whats in it? it grabs modules as I use them?

If I was going to use those, I would have to find a compat53.lua and a 'utf8 libraries' in either the store or in knowledge base), I found a kepler on github that required c++ compiling, and a bunch of junk with it--- (loadrequire was found, in knowledge base, but not as an lua, a copy and paste in ...

Yes, absolutely sensible, I was only considering note fields, not any wrap of alphameric 'text' -- space is the gravamen. But it raises the question, should I 'gsub \t, space' ? and 'gsub \n, space ' or treat it as a break regardless of line length? I guess my lengths will have to be checked against...

I am trying to conceive of an algorithm of efficient text wrapping. say I have a string of text 2048 characters long and want to chop it into 80 char lengths. function WRAP(str, plen) --plen must be the maximum length to split lines at local wrap = {} slen = #tostring(str) llen = math.floor(slen/ple...

dont know why my brain did not see '%s%s%s' as an arg. fixed, but more issues in the offing, thanks to non-consistent fh.

I absolutely think it should work too, and I must be missing something simple. I am sure I have done this type of thing before. fred = rtvpgnam() local _pl = string.format('%s%s%s', __ipath.temp, rtvpgnam(), '.fh_prf') local _pl = string.format('%s%s%s', __ipath.temp, rtvpgnam, '.fh_prf') local _pl ...

local _pl = string.format('%s%s%s', __ipath.temp, ((rtvpgnam())), '.fh_prf')
ipath resolves in place
how do I get rtvpgnam to resolve in place? there is one return value

I am building a table, a typical example of what it should look like is: __ptr[1] = { _cp = { '_cp_01', (user data) }, -- rcd lookup handle, rcd handle(pointer) _dp[3] = { [3] = {'_dp_03', (user data)}, -- fld dta lookup handle, field handle(pointer) [7] = {'_dp_07', (user data)}, -- fld dta lookup ...

oh wait....
k = key
v = val
rtx = ''
you mean
cb_io_[ix-](k, v, rtx) end

and then use rtx after the callback, right?

I dont understand that, nor how to do that, at least not that I know of, can you elucidate, Helen? Thanks.

I have never done anything like this, and I am not conversant enough and there are no examples I can find to do this. I need to call or pcall a callback function defined in your program and get a return value rtx = cb_io_3(k, v) the internals of the callback decision are unimportant at the moment, b...

OK, things are not as they seem, here-- I would like some help with where I find the documentation for this, it is not in gridbox. Helen, you use a gridbox in Research Planner Mike, you use a gridbox in Flexible CSV importer. local lbl = iup.label { title = options.name or '', visiblelines = options...

thanks mike and helen

I guess at some point you should prepared to be innundated about iup matrix. I am off to read that documentation

this is getresults() in the above code I have 3 elements across in each line of my gridbox sfl contains the pointer to the first line--- which is key = QPRTFS (the key to the table I am working on ctx = *USR or *SYS VAL --some value-- or '' on display as QPRTFS *USR 1 I read in the userdata line at ...

yes, thank you, I am always having trouble with those ({ and )} -- and I cannot see well enough to distinguish them, and zerobrane does not allow me to color them differently. And it is even worse to see in fh debug.

now on to trying to fix get results.

I am creating what I believe to be a 3 across gridbox (sfl_elem =3 is numdiv in the gridbox) but somehow I am not getting the link, getresults see no brothers, and it displays as a list, one entry per line, while I expect 3. Something very simple I do not understand, or I misunderstand. Thanks. (a l...

after several backs and forths and many many reruns of my code, here is what I know. fh tells me that fh limit is around 1GB for mem. (not straightforwardly) but consider it the limit. they do not clean up at plugins end correctly (no other explanation is possible) I run my code with 3032 humongous ...

no the table is there, I am saying if I grab it up by inspecting the variable _famOBJ, with debug in an otherwise absolutely minimal program, it brings up a blank inspection window, no data shows. but it is there. If I do it in a normal program it runs out of memory, and does not show the inspection...