Setting list object's reset/terminate condition to number of rows in loaded text file

[ben robinson]

why not have a separate list object for each series of movies?  that way you
don't have to add and subtract rows from your list.

On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Eli <eliskim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all.
>
> My design plays several different series of movies, each of a
> different length. I've created a single list object, which I use
> multiple times, once for each series of movies (listed in tab-
> separated text files).
>
> Each different series has a different number of movies. But I'm having
> trouble getting my list object to change its terminateCondition (or
> resetCondition) to reflect each newly loaded text file's length.
>
> I've tried doing the following (based on a blog post I saw here
> <http://imaging.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/meg/Using_E-Prime>)
>
> If listfilename$ <> "" Then
>       List1.LoadMethod = ebLoadMethodFile
>       List1.Filename = listfilename$
>       List1.Load
>
>       List1.Reset
>       Set List1.TerminateCondition = Cycles(1)
>       Set List1.ResetCondition = Samples(List1.Deletion.Count)
> else
>     MsgBox("Incorrect list file chosen")
> end if
>
> But I don't really understand what the Deletion object is.
>
> So instead I tried
> Set List1.ResetCondition = Samples(List1.Size)
>
> The problem with this is that Size seems to change unpredictably each
> time I load a different text file.
>
> Is there a way to clear all properties of a list object at the point
> of loading each next text file, so that the list object's size
> reflects the number of rows in each loaded text file?
>
> Or is there another way to get each text file's number of rows into a
> list object's ResetCondition?
>
> Thanks!
> Eli
>
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