Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Well, I win the fewest lines prize, but surely lose in the "does it work?" category.


Anyone know why this fails?



on mouseUp
   sort lines of fld 1 numeric by sum(the foregroundColor of each)
end mouseUp


Craig Newman



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From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
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Sent: Thu, Sep 18, 2014 12:52 pm
Subject: Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some)


Hi Francis,

I haven't tried this but it might work.

put the htmlText of fld x into myHtml
put char 4 to -5 of myHtml into myHtml
set the itemDel to ">"
sort lines of myHtml by item 1 of each
set the htmlText of fld x to "<p>" & myHtml & "</p>"

If this doesn't work, it might at least give a clue of how to handle 
this kind of problems.

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On 9/18/2014 18:46, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
> Hi from Beautiful Brittany (where, finally, it is raining),
>
> I have a list in a field, with backgroundcolor of some lines red, some yellow.
> Does anybody know how to sort the lines to separate out the two colours ?
>
> I can do it using a shuffle mechanism, but it’s not elegant enough (:>) !!
>
> The sort container command doesn’t give me the impression that this is a
> one-liner …….
>
> He who uses the least lines of code will gain my immediate admiration ……
>
> —Francis


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