Sorry about the lack of subject in the original post and thanks for a prompt
reply. here is some more info to your comments.
The reason I need to sort the property lis is because having created a list
of team names and scores ( the lowest of the two members from each team) I
need to extract the team names of the three highest scoring teams.
This also explains why each team name is listed twice (once for each team
member) but once I have selected the lowest score it is the team name I need
to extract not the team member.
Alan Robinson wrote:
> >
> > Hi list
> > Have a couple of problems really bugging me at the moment if anyone can
> > help.
> >
> > 1. Is it possible to use lingo to control the keyboard cursor such as
> > determine which field it is in and even which line of a field, or send
it to
> > the next field if it reaches a certain line number. I can only find info
on
> > the mouse cursor.
>
> yes. look into the selStart and selEnd properties.
>
> >
> > 2. Is it possible to sort a property list by values rather than
property.
>
> need more information on this one. what are you trying to do? in
> general, you do not need to sort prop lists, that the point of being
> able to refer to the values by properties. but maybe you have a
> compelling reason. i just don't know what it is.
>
>
> >
> > 3. I need help creating a routine that compares two scores from
different
> > lines of a field and stores the lowest value in a list along with its
team
> > name taken from the corresponding line of another field. So one field
> > contains team names each repeated twice and no specific order while the
> > other field contains all the scores.
>
> this is hard without seeing the lists. i don't know why each name is
> repeated twice. you have to be able to link the scores to the names,
> but once you do, you can build one property list where the team name is
> the prop and the score is the value.
>
> >
> > Sorry I have no example code but what I tried caused a fatal error and I
> > lost it.
>
> save the movie before you run it next time.
>
> >
> > Hope this is not too vague and someone can help.
> > Alan
>
> if you can give us more info, that would help.
>
> --bhakti
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