Sort cards doesn't work in 7.0

[Richard Gaskin]

Timothy Miller wrote:

 > Sorry about the panic yesterday. My “corrupted” stacks do open in 7.0
 > and I was able to save a version in format 5.5. They open up just
 > fine in version 6.7. My precious data is retrieved...

Really glad to hear that worked out, Tim.

Phil Jimmieson submitted an excellent request for smarter messages when 
opening a newer stack format in an older version, which I added some 
notes to this morning in hopes of expediting it:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12558>

One way or another, let's hope that 7.0.1 will be able to notify us when 
we try to later open 8.0 stack files.


 >...and my backup negligence is forever cured.

You're one of the lucky ones.  Most of us don't get religious about 
backups until after we lose critical data.


 > A tiny problem triggered my panic attack yesterday. That tiny problem
 > persists. The following button script works in 6.7, doesn’t work in
 > 7.0. I quote verbatim, trivial as it is:
 >
 > on mouseUp
 >    sort cards numeric by field "intakeSecs"
 >   answer the result
 > end mouseUp
 >
 >
 > The result is empty even when the script doesn’t work.

Doesn't work as in doesn't sort the cards, leaving them in the original 
order?

Hmm....I wonder if somehow card sorting didn't get the attention it 
needs in the string comparison overhaul for Unicode.


 > I suppose this might be a 7.0 bug, but it seems likely that such
 > a bug would have been discovered before now.

Hard to say.  I tend to externalize my data, paging it in and out of 
controls in a single card, so I'd never come across this in my own testing.

Anyone else here finding issues with card sorting in v7?

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