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[Pete]

Just for my own education, what is it about the standard mark and unmark
commands that doesn't achieve what Tim wants to do?  I might want to use
those commands in the future and if they should be avoided for some reason,
I'd like to know!
Thanks,
Pete

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Hey pretty clever. You could even trap for newCard and deleteCard to add
> and delete entries in the custom Property. That way you wouldn't have to
> repeat through all the cards again except for maintenance.
>
> It looks like the repeat loop is getting the value of a shared field on
> each of the cards. Couldn't you just set the property array element to empty
> for each card to initialize it, then have a custom function markme(theMark)
> which would simply set the array element to whatever you passed in theMark?
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 5:23 PM, Jim Ault wrote:
>
> > On Mar 31, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think the property thing will work because I don't think you can
> find a card with a property or enumerate them as such. (This AIN'T
> Applescript man!"
> >>
> > The 'property thing' does not refer to the CARD properties,
> > but the customProperties of the STACK
> >
> > ---- tested in a working stack  ------------------
> > --note  fld statusCode  is NOT shared
> > --  flds desiredCodeString  notnowCodeString
> > --    ARE SHARED
> > -- fld output  is NOT shared
> > --  all fields are in a group that behaves as backgound
> >
> >
> > on doCustomPropertyRun
> >   --  I use 'cps' to mean 'cust prop set'
> >   set the customPropertySet of this stack to "cpsStatusCodes"
> >   --make this set empty
> >   set the customkeys of this stack to empty
> >
> >   --you only need to do the repeat when changes are made
> >   --  or when the stack closes
> >   repeat with k = 1 to the number of cards
> >      put word -1 of the short id of  card k into thisCdId
> >      get k & "^" & word 1 to -1 of fld "statusCode" of card k
> >      replace cr with space in IT
> >      set the cpsStatusCodes[ thisCdId ] of this stack to IT
> >   end repeat
> >   save this stack --if it is run in the IDE, but not if an app
> >
> >   --To get the list of 'marked cards' you would do the following type of
> operation
> >   set the customPropertySet of this stack to "cpsStatusCodes"
> >   put the customProperties of this stack into statusCodeList
> >   -- now make a regular list
> >   combine statusCodeList using cr and "^"
> >   set the itemdel to "^"
> >   if field "desiredCodeString"  is not empty then
> >      filter statusCodeList with "*" & field "desiredCodeString" & "*"
> >      --and now you have a list of cd id's
> >   end if
> >
> >   if field "notnowCodeString"  is not empty then
> >      filter statusCodeList without "*" & field "notnowCodeString" & "*"
> >      -- and you have a shorter list if any have been removed
> >   end if
> >   -- if you want the card order, use the following
> >   sort statusCodeList numeric by item 2 of each
> >   put statusCodeList into fld "output"
> >
> >   --this allows showing a list of hits and changing the final list in
> many ways
> > end doCustomPropertyRun
> >
> > ----------------------------------------
> > Jim Ault
> > Las Vegas
> >
> >
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