On Feb 28, 2004, at 10:07 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Is it possible to use a custom property as a sort key?
You mean, to sort cards?
yes, as you guessed to resort them back to their native order
I'm not sure I'm clear on what you want to do, but if it is to return the cards to their "native" order, then the usual method is to place the index number into a hidden background field (a grouped field) that is placed on all cards. Then you can just "sort cards of this stack by fld 'index'".
well, that's what I want to do by custom property. the trouble is if you don't sort on the card whether by field or customer property with value 1, they get sorted in a VERY bizarre order. I can't even really explain what the order is based on if you did a "sort cards of this stack by this card" on a card that was not actually the first one.
using a hidden background field to do the work of a custom property is a kludge.
If you are just trying to go to a card with a certain index number rather than trying to rearrange the cards, then a naming convention is easiest. Name your cards "flash1", "flash2", etc. Then you can:
go cd ("flash"&index)
can't do this as the card names are already tied into associated audiofiles.
Another way: keep the custom card properties and when the stack starts up, create an array by scanning through all the cards and storing their index property number along with the card ID. Then when you want to go to a particular index, look it up in the array and go to that card ID.this might be something to look into. it would be essentially what I am doing now on each "re-order" command, but would keep from having to do the search each time. This seems awkward though to have to create and manage a separate array just to access custom properties - rather than access them directly. I guess though that custom properties aren't really equals in Transcript terms to native properties. (short name, card ID, etc... ) this is unfortunate.
Actually Ken's response is probably the simplest answer for doing what I want to do. It is halfway between what I want to do and your methods. There are just so many ways of doing things in transcript!
Thanks very much! Chris
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