looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

[Lagi Pittas]

Jim

You are a Godsend - I never knew of the metadata - I have a whole lot of
refactoring to do.
I was using the "hidden" tab fields trick but this is way better

This is going to make so much stuff so easy - and so much easier to debug

Thanks again

Lagi

On 8 May 2017 at 09:34, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Thank you all for your nice ideas
> Tiemo
>
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> Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] Im
> Auftrag von J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> Gesendet: Samstag, 6. Mai 2017 22:15
> An: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Cc: J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> Betreff: Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array
>
> Use tabwidths instead of tabstops. I was working off faulty memory.
>
>
> On 5/6/17 2:32 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> > Cool stuff! Didn't know you could hide things with tab, and will have
> > to look at metadata now.  Thanks!
> >
> > On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>> Jacque wrote:
> >>> I've done this often, it's a nice clean solution. And now that we
> >>> can set tabstops to 0, the second item won't be visible whether
> >>> there's a horizontal scrollbar or not.
> >>
> >>
> >> That’s right!  tabwidths are handy for this hiding too.
> >>
> >> But I realized Tiemo might not even need to bother hiding the
> >> otherData if he takes advantage of another property of fields - the
> metadata property:
> >>
> >>         set the metadata of line 1 of field 1 to otherDataString
> >>         set the metadata of line 2 of field 1 to otherDataString2
> >>
> >> A field’s metadata is never visible.
> >> Yet the otherData strings will travel along with each line as the
> >> user drags the the lines up and down.
> >>
> >> LiveCode offers so much flexibility! We can usually have a choice of
> >> approaches to any problem
> >>
> >> Jim Lambert
> >>
> >>
> >>
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