easy question? & Tiger weirdness revisited

[Eric Chatonet]

Hi Lars,

You could try:

mark cds where the reMake of this cd

Best regards from Paris,

Eric Chatonet.

Le 23 mai 05 à 14:41, Lars Brehmer a écrit :

> I have what I hope is an easy question that has me stumped.
>
> I took the discussion last week about why custom properties are so  
> fast to heart and made some major changes to an enormous stack of  
> mine to drastically reduce the file size and make it run much  
> faster.  I'm not a coder, just a rev user that profits immensly  
> from reading the posts on this list, so my original project has  
> been rebuilt countless times as I learn better ways to do things.   
> For example as a result of the custom props speed discussion, I  
> made a the simple change of putting several buttons in the  
> background and using the preopenCard handler to look at a custom  
> propery to determine whether a button should be visible.  Before, I  
> had up to 4 superfluous identical buttons on thousands of cards,  
> which bloated the file size and make it crawl at a snail's pace in  
> the IDE.  The thing I haven"t solved is re-marking certain unmarked  
> cards without having an extra object on those cards.  It used to be:
>
> mark cds by finding "blahblah" in fld "reMark"
>
> I want to get rid of the superfluous fields and text, so far no  
> luck.  I have tried several things like
>
> unmark this cd
> set the reMake of this cd to true
>
> When I want to mark the cards again, I tried
>
> mark cds where the reMake is true
>
> - this just don't work - I have tried everything I could think of  
> from the docs using "by" and "where" but I must be missing  
> something here.  As you can see, my coding skills are practically  
> non-existent.  I am convinced that this should be really easy, and  
> being the absolute poster child for creating pretty good apps with  
> the help of all you re-listers out there, I gotta ask: what am I  
> missing here?
>


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