Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

[Phil Davis]

My guess:
Try using "the effective foregroundColor of each" - that will cover your 
bases when there is no assigned foregroundColor.

Phil Davis


On 9/18/14, 10:24 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Schonewille <m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com>
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> Subject: Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some)
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>
> 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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