HyperCard Basics

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Richmond.


-- Both HC and LC allow sorting cards with a sortKey:


 sort cds by word 2 of the short name of this cd


-- It is true that there is no "go" menu, and you have to script your own find. What has replaced it, with cmd-F, is the find and replace gadget. Much more flexible and powerful, if less quaint.


-- There is a "recent" keyword in LC, but what HC really had was a super thumbNail dialog that showed all recent cards. Old fashioned but cool. LC seems to have diminished that functionality.


Craig









-----Original Message-----
From: Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wed, Sep 17, 2014 5:21 pm
Subject: HyperCard Basics


Having what my wife, all too accurately, terms "A crawl through your 
sh*t" [meaning digging through my self-reproducing piles of computer 
components, converters, second-hand hard drives and so on] I came upon 
[buried very deep indeed] a little book called
'HyperCard Basics'. How that booklet managed to get from Carbondale, 
Illinois, via Saudi Arabia, The UAE and Scotland to Bulgaria escapes me.

So; opened the thing for the first time since about 1994 and started 
reading:

Sorting Cards

The Sort by Name command in the Utilities menu lets you arrange cards 
alphabetically by either
first or last name.
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I wonder how one does that in Livecode?
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Searching for text

1. Choose Find from the Go menu.
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I wonder how one does that in Livecode?
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The Recent command

AS you go from card to card and stack to stack, HyperCard
automatically keeps a record of where you've been. The Recent
command in the Go menu shows (in miniature) the card you
have looked at, up to the last 42.

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I wonder how one does that in Livecode?

Certainly View/Recent does not do that.
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Quite fin reading that.

Richmond.

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