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I have very little scripting experience. I'm having immense problem trying to populate my Data Grid with external text files (I struggle learning external stuff overall) so my workaround is to put the texts I need inside field tables inside an "inaccessible" card. So instead of importing external files to populate my Data Grids, I use the text of the field tables in that "inaccessible" card. It's working fine. My question is is my method as efficient as using external file or will it slow down my program?

Hi.

If you set the "dgText" of your DG with tab and return delimited data, it will just "go in". Is it then simply a matter of formatting?

Craig Newman

See also: http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/Datagrid_API