On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:50 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote:
> How about trying it without the "bg" in the latter one?
Absent-minded me! You were right. Both scripts now work normally on card 1.
Tim
___
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Timothy Miller
wrote:
> I tried pasting fields “intakeSecs" and “patient name” onto card 1. The
> following odd result occurred,
>
> --sort cards numeric by field “intakeSecs”
>
> Now works from card 1.
>
> —sort cards text by bg field "patient name”
>
> Still
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> I think there may be something else going on than just an empty field.
Absent field, not empty field.
But it wouldn’t surprise me if something else going on. See my next message on
this thread.
Tim Miller
__
On Oct 25, 2014, at 12:13 PM, Timothy Miller
wrote:
> Card 1 of this stack is an index card. A pair of buttons appear on the card
> 1, along with other stuff. “Sort cards by name” and “Sort cards by intake
> date.” Their function is obvious. I just realized than neither sort command
> works.
Timothy Miller wrote:
> IIRC, in ancient versions of hyperCard, this kind of sort didn’t
> work right if the script encountered a card where the field
> containing the sort key was absent. Apparently this anti-feature
> has returned to 7.0.
>
> If I copy the buttons and paste then onto card 2, wh
On Oct 25, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> I'm with Richard on this - I've never tried to sort cards numeric, and
> I'm not even sure what I would expect if I tried it. What does or
> doesn't work now, and what was the result previously? Does/did that
> sort numerically on the names of th
