Re: Sorting a List Field with Many Columns
Thanks to all who responded to my question. I'll play around with the itemdel property. It's one that I believe HyperCard doesn't have, and I suspect will be very handy. Regards, Greg _ Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance Concordia University _ "Take chances, make mistakes!" - Ms Frizzle, The Magic School Bus Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
RE: Sorting a List Field with Many Columns
An easy way to do it is to create a row of buttons above a tabbed field. In each button put the script as follows: --first button: on mouseUp sort lines of field "myField" by word 1 of each end mouseUp --second button: on mouseUp sort lines of field "myField" by word 2 of each end mouseUp etc. as for spaces between column text, there is probably an elegant way of scripting it.. however for my purposes I just put an underscore character "_" between words. rgds, Blair Moxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Gregory Lypny [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Subject: Sorting a List Field with Many Columns > > I've got a list field with tab-separated strings on each line, > which, in effect, creates the illusion of columns. When the field is > shown, I'd like users to be able to sort it using any column "title" as > the sort key (e.g., sort by column 1, column 2, and so on). What's the > best way to handle this given that the string in each column is not one > word? > > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
Re: Sorting a List Field with Many Columns
Gregory Lypny wrote: > I've got a list field with tab-separated strings on each line, > which, in effect, creates the illusion of columns. When the field is > shown, I'd like users to be able to sort it using any column "title" as > the sort key (e.g., sort by column 1, column 2, and so on). What's the > best way to handle this given that the string in each column is not one > word? Assuming you make a user property for each of the heading buttons which corresponds to its column number, you could do this: put the uColumnNumber of the target into tColNum set the itemdel to tab sort by lines of fld "Whatever" by item tColNum of each -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation Multimedia Design and Development for Mac, Windows, UNIX, and the Web _ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.FourthWorld.com Tel: 323-225-3717 ICQ#60248349Fax: 323-225-0716 Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
Re: Sorting a List Field with Many Columns
>I've got a list field with tab-separated strings on each line, >which, in effect, creates the illusion of columns. When the field is >shown, I'd like users to be able to sort it using any column "title" as >the sort key (e.g., sort by column 1, column 2, and so on). What's the >best way to handle this given that the string in each column is not one >word? try something like: set the itemdelimiter to tab sort field 1 by item 2 of each regardsm Tuviah Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.
re: sorting
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Leston Drake wrote: > Okay, I answered my own question. > > sort items of dValues descending > > is the right syntax. I forgot "items". You also forgot "numeric", at least if you want to do a numeric sort, which from the looks of it you do. Regards, Scott PS: And you also forgot to send in a bug report about the MetaCard crash, although at least with 2.3 I can't reproduce it ;-) > === > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Leston Drake > Subject: sorting > > Can anyone help me with sorting a list of numbers from largest to smallest? > > For example: > if dValues = "0.8,1.1,1.6,0.6,2.1" then I want the result of the sort to be > dValues ="2.1,1.6,1.1,0.8,0.6" > > I've tried using the sort command, but without success. > I've only succeeded in crashing MC (EG: "sort dValues descending by amount" will >kill MC) > > Is there a way to do this with the sort command? MC Help seems to indicate so, but I >can't get figure out the syntax. > I could obviously sort the list manually but I'm looking for something more >efficient. > > TIA > > -- > Leston Drake > LetterPress Software, Inc. > http://www.lpsoftware.com > -- > > > > This is the MetaCard mailing list. > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
re: sorting
Okay, I answered my own question. sort items of dValues descending is the right syntax. I forgot "items". === To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Leston Drake Subject:sorting Can anyone help me with sorting a list of numbers from largest to smallest? For example: if dValues = "0.8,1.1,1.6,0.6,2.1" then I want the result of the sort to be dValues ="2.1,1.6,1.1,0.8,0.6" I've tried using the sort command, but without success. I've only succeeded in crashing MC (EG: "sort dValues descending by amount" will kill MC) Is there a way to do this with the sort command? MC Help seems to indicate so, but I can't get figure out the syntax. I could obviously sort the list manually but I'm looking for something more efficient. TIA -- Leston Drake LetterPress Software, Inc. http://www.lpsoftware.com -- This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Sorting cards?
KIDware Technologies Education Software Developers www.kidwaretech.com Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2000 05:10:29 -0800 (PST) > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Digest metacard.v003.n195 > > One of the more frequent questions that I get from people to whom I > introduce Metacard is: how do you sort cards in a stack? The feature of > Powerpoint to show you a birds-eye view of your file, and be able to > arrange the slides by dragging and dropping would be a nice feature to have > in Metacard. It seems that Metacard does not have feature, so can anyone > help me out with a relatively easy way to sort cards? > > Thanks! > > Dennie Hi Dennie. You can go to the edit menu - Stack Properties - Click the Properties Tab - Select the Components button. From there you can move cards around in order. Hope this helps. -Mark Talluto This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Sorting cards?
On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Phil Davis wrote: > Hi Dennie, > > Dennie Hoopingarner wrote: > > > > One of the more frequent questions that I get from people to whom I > > introduce Metacard is: how do you sort cards in a stack? The feature of > > Powerpoint to show you a birds-eye view of your file, and be able to > > arrange the slides by dragging and dropping would be a nice feature to have > > in Metacard. It seems that Metacard does not have feature, so can anyone > > help me out with a relatively easy way to sort cards? > > > > There's no GUI of the kind you describe, but there's a script interface > to almost any kind of functionality you can imagine, including sorting > cards. There *is* sort of a GUI for this. The "Stack Components" dialog allows you to rearrange cards by selecting their names from a list and moving them up or down in the stack. It does this by setting the layer property of the cards. What's missing are "thumbnail" views of the cards in a stack. You could create these with "import snapshot" and sizing the images down, but this might be slow for a large presentation and you'd have to simulate the drag and drop part with scripting. But you should also consider that it can also be hard to use these graphical "slide sorters" because the slides all start to look the same when reduced to thumbnail size. Regards, Scott > -- > Phil Davis > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is the MetaCard mailing list. > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm > Scott Raney [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.metacard.com MetaCard: You know, there's an easier way to do that... This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
Re: Sorting cards?
Hi Dennie, Dennie Hoopingarner wrote: > > One of the more frequent questions that I get from people to whom I > introduce Metacard is: how do you sort cards in a stack? The feature of > Powerpoint to show you a birds-eye view of your file, and be able to > arrange the slides by dragging and dropping would be a nice feature to have > in Metacard. It seems that Metacard does not have feature, so can anyone > help me out with a relatively easy way to sort cards? > There's no GUI of the kind you describe, but there's a script interface to almost any kind of functionality you can imagine, including sorting cards. The "sort" command card in the MetaTalk Reference stack (MC 2.2.5) says this about it: start sort [ [ [ marked ] cards of ] [ ] [ ] [ by ] The sort command sorts either the cards in a stack or the lines or items in a container. is either "ascending" or "descending" with "ascending" being the default. is either "datetime", "text" or "numeric" with "text" being the default. can be any expression which differentiates the cards or chunks in a container. For example, to sort the cards of a stack by a particular field treating the contents of each field as a number, you would use something like: sort cards numeric by field "amount" end -- There's a lot more there about sorting, but this is the part that talks about sorting cards. If you just want to move an occasional card from, say, the 14th spot in the stack to the 3rd spot, you can do this: set the number of card 14 to 3 With these tidbits (and a few others), you can probably create the interface you want! HTH, Phil > Thanks! > > Dennie > > Dennie Hoopingarner > Assistant Director for Technology Implementation > Center for Language Education And Research > Michigan State University > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clear.msu.edu/dennie > > This is the MetaCard mailing list. > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ > Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm -- Phil Davis -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is the MetaCard mailing list. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm
