novice question re "marked" and customkeys

[Mike Bonner]

You could come at this from a different direction. Since you can mark
conditionally, you can set a property (or global, or have a hidden checkbox,
or whatever) and then change your marks on the fly based on that.

IE, if you have a "darked" hidden checkbox on your cards and need to loop
through your darked cards its easy enough to

unmark all cards
mark cards where the hilite of button "mycheckbox"

Then just use marked normally.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> I think you are right Mark. A hidden field with the word "barked" or
> "darked" in it and some use of the find command would serve you better.
> Undarking all cards though would definitely require a repeat loop or a
> recursive call, with Exit to top when you cannot find any more.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Mar 31, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Timothy Miller wrote:
>
> > Hey dudes,
> >
> > The "marked" property is so easy to use. "go next marked" and "unmark all
> cards" are so fast and foolproof! Very handy.
> >
> > I'm wondering if I can somehow define my own versions of "marked"
> >
> > E.g., in a hypothetical stack, the "marked" of cards 3, 10, 22 and 99 is
> "true"
> >
> > I somehow define my own properties, like "barked" and "darked"
> >
> > In the same hypothetical stack, the "barked" of cards 1,2, 3 and 4 is
> "true"
> >
> > the "darked" of cards 2,4,6,8 and 99 is "true"
> >
> > Somehow I could "go next barked" or "go next darked" just as fast and
> easy as I could "go next marked"
> >
> > In this perfect world, I could "unbark" or "undark" all cards as easily
> as I could unmark them.
> >
> > I suspect this isn't really possible. I suspect the closest equivalent
> would be to use customkeys and repeat loops, to find the next card with a
> certain value of a certain customkey, and so on. I suspect this would be
> somewhat slower than "go next marked" or "unmark all"
> >
> > The marked of a card resembles a customkey, but I suspect it works
> differently. True?
> >
> > Is it possible to "go next" to a card with a certain value of a certain
> customKey? Or is it necessary to use a repeat loop to inspect the each card
> until I encounter the customKey and value I want?
> >
> > Is it possible to "set the poodleNose of all cards to empty"? I suspect
> not.
> >
> > Am I getting this right? Am I missing anything important?
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Tim
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