ALC@psuvm.psu.edu (04/13/90)
Need a little help here... I'd like to create a window (either regular or palette) which works like the Microsoft find dialog box - used to find text in the document. So, the user would type the find string into this top window and the FIND command would be executed on an underlying window. I've tried this: SEND "FIND STRING Whatever" TO WINDOW Bottom but this only finds the first occurance of the string "Whatever" in window "Bottom". If I use the button again, the highlight stays at the same string, even though I know there are more occurances. Typeing the same string as above into the message box works fine (each new occurance is highlighted) but when I do the same thing in a window, it doesn't work. I tried it with the window as a palette but the same thing happens. I've also tried this approach: setWindow window Bottom find string Whatever which is supposted to tell Supercard to send subsequent system messages to the window Bottom rather than the top window, but that doesn't work. The FIND command operates on the top window anyway. Any ideas?