Not sure if I understand it properly, but ....
cards 1 and 2 (i.e. the index and the current choice) do not have a
field "title"
If I do a **sort card by field "title" ** then the cards come out
unsorted (or improperly sorted, not sure).
I added a field "title" to each of the first 2 cards, then it seems to
sort properly.
It's getting late, so I can't look at it more tonight - but I suspect
the "sort cards" is crapping out somehow / somewhere when it hits a "No
such object" error on the missing field of a card.
I don't know if you can simply add an invisible, disabled field "title"
on those extra cards (as I did for this simple test), or whether you
need to set the "marked" for only the relevant cards ...
Alex.
On 01/01/2022 23:45, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Alex, thanks so much for volunteering. There's a Dropbox transfer
here:
<https://www.dropbox.com/t/48p3udCRAwcRXnWb>
The stack is huge, 8K+ cards. I told him he needs a database but he
doesn't want to go there yet. In general it seems to work okay, at
least for now. The stack was created 30 years ago in HC, he imported
it to SuperCard, and now needs to move to LC. The original scripts
were very minimal, I added a few more and cleaned up the visual
appearance. I wrote an export script that he ran in SuperCard, and
then imported the file to the new LC stack, creating cards along the way.
The HC and SC stacks sorted correctly. Only LC fails.
The first 13 cards always sort to the front of the stack which is
where he wants them. They shouldn't, but they do, so okay. Go to one
of the recipe cards and choose to sort by category.
- The first 13 cards have no category so they don't move. Good.
- The next cards, up to about 50, remain sorted by title
- The following cards do sort by category, with each category
alphabetical (good)
Sort by title seems to work okay. If you can't duplicate the above,
sort by title first and then by category.
My question is, why don't "The Cheese Board" and "The Fruit Bowl" sort
to the Ts when sorting by title? We don't want them to, but how come
they don't? If you notice that Breakfast is out of order, it's because
there's a space in front of the category name. He did that on purpose
to keep it at the front.
I checked for spaces and other invisible characters in the title and
category fields and didn't find any.
It's just weird. Thanks very much for taking a look, I'm at a loss.
Jacque
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