[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] HELP WITH SORTING

drewster@orion.oac.uci.edu (Andrew T. Laurence) (04/02/91)

Geetings, o allmighty stack gods!!

  I'm making a stack that keeps track of my record/tape/CD collection, which 
includes the complete song list of each album.  Currently, it alphabetizes 
by the recording artists name.  Unfortunately, this leaves all of that par-
ticular artist' material jumbled in the ordered entered.  Is there any way
to have the "Sort" button alphabetize by artist name, and then by album name
(within a particular artist)?

Please email back.

Thanks,
Andrew Laurence
drewster@orion.oac.uci.edu

Peter.Carlson@f444.n161.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Peter Carlson) (04/27/91)

I just recently had the same problem, and from the gods came an answer, at 
least I that worked for me.  You can in your btn script write something as 
follows.
sort by field "Artist" & field "Song title"
oops forgot sort cds """""""""""""
what this is equivalent to is first sorting by "Song TItle" and then sorting 
by field "Artist".  To get it to work you sort backwards and the shortcut is 
the one line with concadentes (or what ever there called)
Goood luuuckk!!!!!!
Peter (humble servant of the gods) Carlson

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