jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (11/24/88)
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I am needing some help with Hypercard. Just starting to create a my first
stack, and I need to create a button which puts up the message box with
the following command script:
find "" in field "<fieldname>"
What I want to do for the user is to have all the text in the find command
execpt for the text that he/she will be looking for. Is there anyway to
do this in my button script? If there is I am interested in knowing how
it can be.
Russ Jacobson
Illinois Geological Survey
Champaign, IL 61820
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I have just about solved my question of putting the following text into a
message box:
Find "" in field "Genera & Species"
The script to do this in a button is as follows:
on mouseUp
go next
doMenu "Message"
Put "Find "& quote & quote & " in field " & quote & B
"Genera & Species" & quote into Message Box
end mouseUp
(the capital letter B after & in line 4 is a softreturn that did not print)
Now all I want to do when the message box comes up is have the I-bar cursor
inserted between the two quotes after find so that the user will simply be
able to type the word he/she is looking for in the indicated field. Is there
a way to do this easily with the basic tools hypercard provides? Or have I
gone as far as I can go with this button script??????
Russ Jacobson
Illinois Geological Survey
Champaign, IL
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