What Mas OS are you using? If it's OS 9 then you can't create hybrid CDs
with Toast 4...It must be Toast 4.12 in order to work with OS9. You either
need to put Toast on a Mac with OS 8.x OR update your version of Toast.
At 11:27 AM 2/9/01 -0800, you wrote:
>The sort command for lists most definitely needs to be augmented with an
>optional comparison function argument. For example, if I had a list of child
>objects instantiated from a parent script that had a property named
>"miValue", and I wanted to sort the child object list based on the value
>held in that property, a comparison function would allow me to do that
>cleanly and quickly.
>
>sort list, #compareHandler {, targetObject}
>
>I could use it like this:
>
>sort mlThings, #mThingCompare, me
>
>Then my comparison function could be something like:
>
>on mThingCompare poThing1, poThing2
> return (poThing1.miValue - poThing2.miValue)
>end
>
>Just like qsort in Standard C, the comparison function would return:
>
>negative value = element 1 is less than element 2
>0 = element 1 and 2 are equal
>positive value = element 1 is greater than element 2
>
>And the list would be sorted according to that criteria. The only real
>problem I see to this is that a sorted list remains sorted, even when adding
>new items to it. So, after sorting, the comparison function would need to be
>accessible any time the list was altered.
>
>Is there a specific email address I should be sending suggestions like these
>to?
>
>-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
>Christopher Watson
>Sr. Software Engineer
>Lightspan, Inc.
>http://www.lightspan.com/
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>
>
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