Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

On 1/1/22 5:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Hi Alex, thanks so much for volunteering. There's a Dropbox transfer here: And...that was supposed to be private but anyone else who wants to look, feel free. Maybe you'll find some interesting things to cook. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

On 1/1/22 7:25 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: I suspect the "sort cards" is crapping out somehow / somewhere when it hits a "No such object" error on the missing field of  a card. I don't know if you can simply add an invisible, disabled field "title" on those extra cards (as I did

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

On 1/1/22 11:30 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: I’ve been looking at the exchange of messages here which had made me want to ask, why are you sorting cards at all? Wouldn’t it be easier just to use array pointers or an index for the cards. You can sort the pointers however you like

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

Hi Jacque, I’ve been looking at the exchange of messages here which had made me want to ask, why are you sorting cards at all? Wouldn’t it be easier just to use array pointers or an index for the cards. You can sort the pointers however you like and the cards never have to move at all according

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

Not sure if I understand it properly, but cards 1 and 2 (i.e. the index and the current choice) do not have a field "title" If I do a **sort card by field "title" ** then the cards come out unsorted (or improperly sorted, not sure). I added a field "title" to each of the first 2

Sorting cards problem, and a link

Hi Alex, thanks so much for volunteering. There's a Dropbox transfer here: The stack is huge, 8K+ cards. I told him he needs a database but he doesn't want to go there yet. In general it seems to work okay, at least for now. The stack was created 30

Re: Sorting cards

Fantastic, thank you. The more eyes, the better. Look for an email. :) I hadn't thought to collect the IDs and titles (title sort seems to work, it's the categories that fail.) But I did look at the original export text file for anomalies and couldn't find anything. I can try your suggestion.

Re: Sorting cards

On 1/1/22 4:40 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: paul pondered, I'm not sure about this, but do all the cards have the SAME background with the SAME fields (I think they were Category and Title?). If you have mixed backgrounds - I think there may be sort problems sorting on background

Re: Sorting cards

Except for the first two cards, all the rest use the same background. I created a single card with a single background, and then imported a text file, creating new cards along the way, so I'm sure they're all the same. On 1/1/22 4:36 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I'm not sure about

Re: Sorting cards

I'd be happy to look - but my knowledge is entirely LC - never touched HC, so that may prevent me seeing something relevant. Suggestions (that you may have tried already :-) : 1. loop through the cards: put the short ID of this card & TAB & field "title" ... after myVariable then try

Re: Sorting cards

Hmm, I better take that back. Here’s the original manual: https://vintageapple.org/macbooks/pdf/HyperCard_Users_Guide_1988.pdf I’ll plead 30 years . . . ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Sorting cards

paul plead > I meant different backgrounds on different cards. For example, cards 1-20 > have background ID 1234 but cards 21-40 have background ID 6789. I think both > both could even have the same name, and have the same fields, but a sort by a > bg fld might only sort the cards with the

Re: Sorting cards

On 1/1/2022 5:40 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: paul pondered, I'm not sure about this, but do all the cards have the SAME background with the SAME fields (I think they were Category and Title?). If you have mixed backgrounds - I think there may be sort problems sorting on background

Re: Sorting cards

On 1/1/22 2:18 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: Something is trying to stir in a dusty corner of my mind, from long ago. Didn’t hypercard have some kind of property/tag that cause cards to be excluded from sorting? Or maybe it was something like foreground/background status? As I think

Re: Sorting cards

paul pondered, > I'm not sure about this, but do all the cards have the SAME background with > the SAME fields (I think they were Category and Title?). If you have mixed > backgrounds - I think there may be sort problems sorting on background > fields. Again, this is from memory and I could

Re: Sorting cards

I'm not sure about this, but do all the cards have the SAME background with the SAME fields (I think they were Category and Title?). If you have mixed backgrounds - I think there may be sort problems sorting on background fields. Again, this is from memory and I could be wrong. On 1/1/2022

Re: Sorting cards

Something is trying to stir in a dusty corner of my mind, from long ago. Didn’t hypercard have some kind of property/tag that cause cards to be excluded from sorting? Or maybe it was something like foreground/background status? As I think about tit, there *must* have been something, as

Re: Sorting cards

I'm still not having much luck with this. Everything works as expected except that the first 50 cards or so simply don't move. I can't find anything different about them that would explain it. Anyone out there have an inclination to take a look and find what I'm missing? There's nothing

Re: I wish all a Happy & Prosperous New year

Folks: Happy New Year to you all too.. A special thanks to Curry K for the fabulous word import, Wordlib, product. I just tried it and I love it. Bill Prothero Sent from my iPad > On Dec 31, 2021, at 10:11 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > >  > Dittos! Welcome to 2022,