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From: jgsmith@watson.bcm.tmc.edu (James G. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: I wanna new sort
Keywords: help, please, grovel
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Date: 19 Jul 90 18:24:30 GMT
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What I think would be a really great XCMD for wanna you cool people to write
would be one that not only sorted a container, but performed the matching
re-ordering on a separate container.  I use hypertext indices in which each
item is associated with the name of a card (id actually) in a hidden field.
When info is added, the index must be resorted, and so the card id's in the
reference fld must be appropriately rearranged.  I do this in scripting now,
which means slow.

An alternative to actually sorting the other container is for the XCMD to 
return some sort of map as to how the sorting was done.

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(Any takers?)