Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!olivea!apple!apple.com!gandalf From: gandalf@apple.com (Martin Gannholm) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard Subject: Re: Sorting part of a stack? Message-ID: <10686@goofy.Apple.COM> Date: 12 Oct 90 00:39:18 GMT References: Sender: usenet@Apple.COM Distribution: comp Organization: Apple Computer, Inc. Lines: 24 In article dwiggins@atsun.a-t.com (Don Dwiggins) writes: > I have a stack with 3 backgrounds, with several cards per. I'd like to sort > just the cards within a given background. Since someone else already posted a solution for HyperCard 1.x, I won't repeat that. When you upgrade to HyperCard 2.0, you won't have to use the funky scripts to get the desired result. You can simply say "sort cards of this bg" or "sort cards of bkgnd foo". The cards of the specified bkgnd will be sorted in relation to each other, but all the other cards will retain their same position in the stack. This will be a different result from the one obtained by the funky-script approach if the cards of a bkgnd are interspersed with cards from another one. You can also say "sort marked cards", just sorting cards that have the new 2.0 property "marked" set. Martin Gannholm HyperCard 2.0 Engineer Apple Computer Exclaimer!!! I typed this myself = I speak for myself...