Toto... I have a feeling we're not in HyperCard anymore (backgrounds & groups)

[bogs]

Anyway, nobody seems to care much, even the old HC'ers. Oh well...

Or some of us came so late to the party that we have no point of reference

I do have to say, though, that all the insights I've gained from your descriptions are fascinating, so I really appreciate reading them

[jacque]

I was thinking more of a custom sort function but I hadn't worked through it in my head. Custom sort functions can do just about anything.

[dunbarx]

Custom sort functions can do just about anything.

And you are the best at those.

But the issue is not the sorting, it is the compartmentalization between the set of sorted cards with respect to all the others, that might lie on either side or both of the set of interest. But LC can do anything, with a little twiddling.

Do you think the original team thought HC bg's just not needed? Or maybe not important? Or did keeping them interfere with the implementation of the group structure we know?

Maybe they could not think of an additional term for background?

Craig

[jacque]

Do you think the original team thought HC bg's just not needed? Or maybe not important? Or did keeping them interfere with the implementation of the group structure we know?

MetaCard combined the feature sets of both HC and SC, and that is the more likely reason. SuperCard's implementation was more flexible.