Sorting cards

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/1/22 2:18 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote:
> Something is trying to stir in a dusty corner of my mind, from long ago.
> 
> Didn’t hypercard have some kind of property/tag that cause cards to be excluded from sorting?
> 
> Or maybe it was something like foreground/background status?
> 
> As I think about tit, there *must* have been something, as hypercard and supercars 1.5 only had
> single stacks, and I’m pretty sure I sorted the debt/asset cards in my bankruptcy stack back in
> the 80s/90s, but would’ve wanted the basic information cards to stay in place.
> 
> 
> But now I’m coughing from that dust . . .

In HC you could "sort cards of this bg" or "sort cards of bg 2" or whatever. LC doesn't allow 
sorting by bg. That would help.

So I tried marking the few cards we wanted in front, then "sort unmarked cards," and LC threw 
an error. You *can* sort by marked cards, but not by unmarked. Given that there are 8K+ cards 
and only the first dozen need to be immovable, I didn't want to mark all the rest and keep 
track of new ones. I could I suppose, but ick.

I've told him he needs a database but he doesn't want to go there yet.

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