Well, I win the fewest lines prize, but surely lose in the "does it work?" category.
Anyone know why this fails? on mouseUp sort lines of fld 1 numeric by sum(the foregroundColor of each) end mouseUp Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:52 pm Subject: Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some) Hi Francis, I haven't tried this but it might work. put the htmlText of fld x into myHtml put char 4 to -5 of myHtml into myHtml set the itemDel to ">" sort lines of myHtml by item 1 of each set the htmlText of fld x to "<p>" & myHtml & "</p>" If this doesn't work, it might at least give a clue of how to handle this kind of problems. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 9/18/2014 18:46, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: > Hi from Beautiful Brittany (where, finally, it is raining), > > I have a list in a field, with backgroundcolor of some lines red, some yellow. > Does anybody know how to sort the lines to separate out the two colours ? > > I can do it using a shuffle mechanism, but it’s not elegant enough (:>) !! > > The sort container command doesn’t give me the impression that this is a > one-liner ……. > > He who uses the least lines of code will gain my immediate admiration …… > > —Francis _______________________________________________ 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