Faster way to get tabStops?

[Mike Bonner]

Wow. Nice Bernd.

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:47 AM, BNig <bernd.niggemann at uni-wh.de> wrote:

> Hi Dan,
>
> I ran into the same problem and figured that acessing the field and ask for
> formattedWidth is slow.
>
> So I tried to minimize that.
>
> I took each tab delimited item an stuffed it into an array. For each column
> one key.
>
> You end up with each key holding the data of one column worth of data
>
> Then I put that column into a field that has the same properties as the
> original field and get the formattedWidth. This tells me the space I need
> to
> set the tabstops.
>
> That way I only access the field column times. This speeds up the whole
> process tremendously.
>
>
>
> To see it in action you can have a look:
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>
> http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-modified-Table-Field-0-2-9-td4683338.html#a4683384
> --------------------------
> watch for line breaks.
>
> look at the script of field "fData" handler mtfAdjustToWidthOfContent.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Bernd
>
>
>
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