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wfzen
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August 24, 2020
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Adobe Director discussions?

  • August 24, 2020
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I still use Adobe Director Lingo once a while. There used to be a discussion forum but it's gone. Is there an archive that I may search for answers that people asked before? Is there another public forum for this old software?

 

I have a question in sorting a list. When sorting, it sorts in alphabetic order. How do I know the order of the sort so I can find the items in a different list?

For example: 

list1 = ["aaa", "zzz", "mmm", "bbb"]

list1.sort would make it ["aaa", "bbb","mmm","zzz"], but I'd like to know the changed order is 1, 4, 3, 2 if the original is 1, 2, 3, 4. I need this so I can pick up the value from another related list based on the new order after sorting.

 

Sorry to post it hear. I thought there were many Lingo developers moved to ActionScript in the past.

    Correct answer ClayUUID

    I don't know Lingo, but I've never heard of any language providing such a feature. This very strongly points toward your approach to whatever problem you're trying to solve being fundamentally flawed. Perhaps you need to learn how to use property lists.

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    cogdogblog
    Participant
    June 14, 2024

    Hello, this is very much late, but I was very involved with Director in the 1990s and created the DirectorWeb site before then Macromedia even had any web site-- that site is gone too, you can find ghosts in the wayback machine . Learning to program Lingo, being part of the beta of Shockwave, it taught me much.

     

    The archives of DIRECT-L are closed up, you can find shreds of them in the Internet Archive

     

    This of course does not answer your four year old question, but came across this link looking for some history of the listserv.

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      ClayUUIDCorrect answer
      Legend
      August 24, 2020

      I don't know Lingo, but I've never heard of any language providing such a feature. This very strongly points toward your approach to whatever problem you're trying to solve being fundamentally flawed. Perhaps you need to learn how to use property lists.

      wfzen
      wfzenAuthor
      Inspiring
      August 25, 2020

      Thank you for the answer. That's the way to do it. I have to create a new property list and sort the list and then I can see the number in the changed order. THANKS for the great idea.

      Colin Holgate
      Colin Holgate
      Inspiring
      August 25, 2020

      On the part about where to talk about Lingo, Direct-L is still around. I'm sure people would be excited to hear a Lingo question.

       

      http://listserv.uark.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=DIRECT-L

       

       

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