Sorting...Is it just me?

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

I also noticed that unlike HyperCard, you can't sort the different
backgrounds in a stack...

Sort cds by bg id or sort bgs for example.

This is quite disappointing...

I tried also sort cards by the owner of each
and a bunch of other combos but no satisfaction...

Naturally, sorting by a field in a card which is
missing in another bg will cause a problem...

Any solutions?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> janschenkel at yahoo.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 10:21 AM
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Sorting...Is it just me?
> 
> --- Mark Smith <mark at maseurope.net> wrote:
> > I've just spent an infuriating hour trying to figure out 
> the strange 
> > results of trying to sort a stack using the name of each 
> card as the 
> > key. Searching the list (with Mark Weiders excellent Archive Search
> > stack) has finally solved the problem, but I'm astonished....
> > 
> > Sort cards of stack "aStack" by the name of this card......"THIS 
> > card"?????
> > 
> > I've been xTalking for more than ten years, and this form 
> would never 
> > have occurred to me in a million...
> > 
> > I mean, we wouldn't use:
> > 
> > Sort lines of fld "myField" by item 1 of this line
> > 
> > would we? Well of course we can't, quite rightly.
> > 
> > Surely "sort cards of stack "myStack" by name" or "by name of each"
> > would be more consistent.
> > Even the "english-like" nature of transcript is twisted by 
> the current 
> > form.
> > 
> > Anyone else think this is bizarre?
> > 
> > 
> > Rant over...
> > 
> > Mark Smith
> > 
> 
> Hi Mark,
> 
> While I can understand you find it counter-intuitive, it's 
> mainly because "this card" is a synonym for "the current 
> card" ; so slightly changing your code into :
> --
>    sort cards of stack "aStack" \
>         by the name of the current card
> --
> This version does exactly the same, but its purpose is much 
> clearer, isn't it ?
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
> 
> =====
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> same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)
> 
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