[comp.sys.mac.hypercard] Sorting a single background

ckix@vax5.cit.cornell.edu (George Paci) (02/26/91)

Is there any way to get the sort command in Hypertalk to sort
only the cards in a given background, instead of sorting the
whole stack?  I'm writing a simple checking stack, and right
now it's become a _set_ of simple stacks, since I couldn't
figure out how to sort only a single background.

I'm using HC 1.2 on an SE with a 20MB hard drive under Finder.

I checked the Help stack, and it had nothing about this.

Please e-mail me, since I don't read this group regularly enough
to catch everything before it's purged.

Thanks in advance,
--George Paci  (ckix@CornellA.cit.cornell.edu)

Ken.Knight@f421.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Ken Knight) (02/27/91)

In HC 1.2 you are out of luck. The sort just sorts everything as I
recall. If you switch to 2.0 you will get the ability to sort specific
backgrounds, portions of stacks, and control of sorting keys.


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