Okay. Thank you Ralph.
I was reluctant to use "do" for performance reasons. The sort could be
sorting a large number of lines - as many as several hundred sorts of a
thousand to ten thousand lines.
I could of course do timing trials, but does anyone from the mothership
(or anyone period) know if using "do" with a container sort causes any
appreciable performance hit? All the data is in a variable (vs fields).
On 3/2/2021 5:19 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote:
I found that you must us a "Do"(thank heaven for "Do"s) if you want to make variable any LC token that colorizes like "stack",
"the", "field", "button", "put" or "ascending".
I don't think "Do" is a kludge is this case.
Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of
Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Sent: Tuesday, March 02, 2021 4:56 PM
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Cc: Paul Dupuis
Subject: sort container parameters
I just discovered much to my dismay that you can not execute the following:
put "ascending" into tDirection
soft lines of tContainer tDirection international
apparently neither the sort direction (ascending|descending) nor the sort type
(international|text|datetime|numeric|binary) can be variable!
That means if you want to parameterize a sort direction, you have to do
something like:
if tDirection is "ascending" then
sort lines of tContainer ascending international else
sort lines of tCOntainer descending international end if
I see this a a bug or perhaps a failure to fully robust impliment the sort
container command? Does any one else see this as a bug?
I suppose I could work around it with a "do" but that seems like a cludge
do ("sort line of tContainer" && tDirection && tSortType)
Thoughts? Comments? Opinions? Am I expecting too much of LiveCode to have sort
direction and type actual parameters?
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