slang@bmerh563.bnr.ca (Steven Langlois) (04/24/91)
I'm new to HyperTalk so bare with me. Is there a Find Again type of command in hypertalk or does find just always find the first occurance from the current card? Steven Langlois ISDN Basic Rate Access BNR, a subsidiary of Northern Telecom Bitnet: slang@bnr.ca Bitnet from AppleLink: slang@bnr.ca@DASNET#
Harry.Myhre@p2.f863.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Harry Myhre) (04/26/91)
Steven Langlois writes in a message to All on 24 Apr 91
SL> I'm new to HyperTalk so bare with me. Is there a Find Again type
SL> of command in hypertalk or does find just always find the first
SL> occurance from the current card?
With HC 2.0, yes. Type find "cat" into the message box and press return. HC
2.0 will find the first occurance of cat in your stack and put a rectangle around
it. Press return again and it will find the next occurance.
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In article <284.2819CAE4@mcws.fidonet.org> Harry.Myhre@p2.f863.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Harry Myhre) writes: > >Steven Langlois writes in a message to All on 24 Apr 91 > >SL> I'm new to HyperTalk so bare with me. Is there a Find Again type >SL> of command in hypertalk or does find just always find the first >SL> occurance from the current card? > >With HC 2.0, yes. Type find "cat" into the message box and press return. HC >2.0 will find the first occurance of cat in your stack and put a rectangle around >it. Press return again and it will find the next occurance. Ok..... (I knew that one......) BUT how would one do it within a script ????? Do I HAVE to put what I'm looking for into the msg box along with find and send a return until there are no more occurances of what I looking for ??? I have a stack of 108 cards (with the possibility(sp?) of MORE) with eleven fields on each that I want to search & then mark the card for viewing or printing. I can mark cards with mark cards etc. and then act on those marked cards but this seems to work ONLY if I tell it to check one field. This is fine for some things (and I use it for them). How do I get it to mark EVERY card that contains something in A field that I am looking for ?? Find doesn't SEEM to work from a script .... -- |"The Snark WAS a Boojum, you see!"|Good : acs@unhd.unh.edu | |"Reality !?! Isn't that something |Better : ANDYS@psc.plymouth.edu | | you sprinkle on ice ??" |Best : oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu |
jdevoto@Apple.COM (Jeanne A. E. DeVoto) (05/02/91)
In article <1991May1.151453.14818@oz.plymouth.edu> oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel) writes: >I have a stack of 108 cards (with the possibility(sp?) of MORE) with >eleven fields on each that I want to search & then mark the card for >viewing or printing. I can mark cards with > mark cards > etc. and then act on those marked cards but this seems to work ONLY >if I tell it to check one field. This is fine for some things (and I >use it for them). How do I get it to mark EVERY card that contains >something in A field that I am looking for ?? If I understand you correctly, what you want is unmark all cards mark cards by finding "foo" go first marked card and then in your "find again" button on mouseUp go next marked card end mouseUp -- ========= jeanne a. e. devoto ======================================== jdevoto@apple.com | You may not distribute this article under a jdevoto@well.sf.ca.us | compilation copyright without my permission. ______________________________________________________________________ Apple Computer and I are not authorized | CI$: 72411,165 to speak for each other. |
gilbert@MDI.COM (John Gilbert) (05/02/91)
In article <1991May1.151453.14818@oz.plymouth.edu> oddjob@oz.plymouth.edu (Andrew C. Stoffel) writes: > >Find doesn't SEEM to work from a script .... There are some subtle aspects to using find that I think I have reasoned out by experimentation. I had similar problems to what you described. The bottom line centers around the find text remaining hilited. If you do a find, and move to a card, the found text will be selected. If you are doing this from within a script, it will work, but if you do anything else in the script prior to issuing your next find that causes the found text to no longer be "selected", then a subsequent find will find the same text again. The find operation is designed to find each occurance of something, including the "next" occurance on a card. The currently selected text on a card is a cursor of sorts, indicating where the next search will begin from (how you percieve what fields are next or previous, or at all serial may be a trick, perhaps it is handled by field number sequence??). If nothing is selected, it seems to start at the beginning of the card. What I did in situations like you described, situations that involve identifying cards with ANY occurance (one or more) of the text I was looking for, was to do something like: on foo repeat find "meaning of life" -- -- do all kinds of stuff -- go next card end repeat end foo Find works, and quite logically. But there are some things that you may not always consider. Most of the time I want to use it to find cards. But there may be cases where I may want to find each instance of text on a card. I have even been fooled by it finding text in hidden fields. Now that 2.0 offers the "don't search" property, that can be fixed in some cases. You should really check into the used of the mark all cards with... functionality, as it may provide an even better solution. John Gilbert -- John Gilbert gilbert@MDI.COM ..!uunet!mdisea!gilbert
weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss) (05/03/91)
You're right...it is next to impossible to do the find multiple times in a script. I actually gave up on doing it that way, and found a wonderful (but incredibly slow) XCMD/XFCN set that does finds throughout the entire stack, and takes you through the cards one by one. It came on the CAMEO stack from NOAA. -- \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | / - Michael Weiss weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu | School of Engineering and - - izzydp5@oac.ucla.edu | Applied Science, UCLA - / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | \
cdlee@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (CHUNDA LEE) (05/04/91)
In article <284.2819CAE4@mcws.fidonet.org> Harry.Myhre@p2.f863.n102.z1.fidonet.org (Harry Myhre) writes: > >Steven Langlois writes in a message to All on 24 Apr 91 > >SL> I'm new to HyperTalk so bare with me. Is there a Find Again type >SL> of command in hypertalk or does find just always find the first >SL> occurance from the current card? > >With HC 2.0, yes. Type find "cat" into the message box and press return. HC >2.0 will find the first occurance of cat in your stack and put a rectangle around >it. Press return again and it will find the next occurance. > > >-- >: Harry Myhre - via FidoNet node 1:102/851 (818)352-2993 >: ARPA/INTERNET: Harry.Myhre@p2.f863.n102.z1.fidonet.org >: UUCP: ...!{elroy,elroy!bohica}!mcws!863.2!Harry.Myhre >: Compu$erve: >internet:Harry.Myhre@p2.f863.n102.z1.fidonet.org In HyperTalk, one easy way to find all the "text" is put the FIND in a repeat route and put the condition "if the result is empty then exit repeat". In this subroutine you can add something you want to do after you find the string. CD LEE, cdlee@rpi.edu Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute