I thought I was pretty clever at using “do”, often going down several levels, evaluating the whole way before trying to execute a single “do” statement.
Neither of the last lines seem to work: on mouseup put "A,C,T,B" into toSort put "ascending" into sortDir get "sort items of" && quote & toSort & quote && sortDir breakpoint --do it --do "sort" && toSort && sortDir do "sort" && quote & toSort & quote && sortDir end mouseup I feel there must be a way… Craig > On Mar 2, 2021, at 7:36 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > The number of lines being sorted makes o difference. > > The number of distinct sorts will - but at a single 'do' for each of "several > hundreds", you'll not even notice except (maybe) if you are benchmarking it > (around 5ms per 1000 'do's on an elderly MacBook Pro). > > Alex. > > On 02/03/2021 22:52, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: >> 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? >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >>> subscription preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
