Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

Ouch! That’s why I always charge an hourly rate, and never quote by the job. Here’s hoping you solve your problem soon! Rick > On Jan 2, 2022, at 1:17 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 1/1/22 11:30 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: >> I’ve been looking at the exchan

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

On 1/1/22 5:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Hi Alex, thanks so much for volunteering. There's a Dropbox transfer here: And...that was supposed to be private but anyone else who wants to look, feel free. Maybe you'll find some interesting things to cook. -- Jacqueline Landman Ga

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

On 1/1/22 7:25 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: I suspect the "sort cards" is crapping out somehow / somewhere when it hits a "No such object" error on the missing field of  a card. I don't know if you can simply add an invisible, disabled field "title" on those extra cards (as I did f

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

On 1/1/22 11:30 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: I’ve been looking at the exchange of messages here which had made me want to ask, why are you sorting cards at all? Wouldn’t it be easier just to use array pointers or an index for the cards. You can sort the pointers however you like and

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

Hi Jacque, I’ve been looking at the exchange of messages here which had made me want to ask, why are you sorting cards at all? Wouldn’t it be easier just to use array pointers or an index for the cards. You can sort the pointers however you like and the cards never have to move at all according t

Re: Sorting cards problem, and a link

Not sure if I understand it properly, but cards 1 and 2 (i.e. the index and the current choice) do not have a field "title" If I do a **sort card by field "title" ** then the cards come out unsorted (or improperly sorted, not sure). I added a field "title" to each of the first 2 cards,

Sorting cards problem, and a link

Hi Alex, thanks so much for volunteering. There's a Dropbox transfer here: The stack is huge, 8K+ cards. I told him he needs a database but he doesn't want to go there yet. In general it seems to work okay, at least for now. The stack was created 30