Ouch! That’s why I always charge an hourly rate, and never quote by the job.
Here’s hoping you solve your problem soon! Rick > On Jan 2, 2022, at 1:17 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > 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 and the cards never have to >> move at all according to your sort. You can do all of your sorting >> experiments that way, and just go to the correct card that your >> pointer index tells you to go to. It might be quicker too. > > In hindsight, you bet. This was one of those jobs I thought would take a day > or so, squeezed in over a weekend between my long-term project. A quick > export/import, minor visual adjustments, and done. The existing scripts were > minimal, mostly one-liners dating back to a novice using HC. In fact, the > only scripts I actually added were to convert some duplicate buttons to > popups and adjust for Cmd-F so it would work the way he was used to instead > of opening the LC Find dialog. > > And mostly it did work, thanks to LC's compatibility. I hadn't planned on > doing anything major and bid as such. If I'd known ahead of time there was > going to be a problem I might have set up an alternate method to start with. > > But then my curiosity took over, so I posted here and now it's a puzzle to be > solved. When that happens I find it hard to let go. If no here can figure it > out I'll probably fix it off the clock and write off the time. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
