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From: drs@bnlux0.bnl.gov (David R. Stampf)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Bug in Hypercard 1.2.1
Message-ID: <1389@bnlux0.bnl.gov>
Date: 25 Jul 89 01:54:40 GMT
Organization: Brookhaven National Lab
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I've encountered a strange bug in hypercard 1.2.1 in which the find command
'find "xyz" in field "ABC"' finds the occurance of xyz in fields other than
"ABC".  If you use 'find "xyz" in field 37', where 37 is the number of the
field "ABC", then every is ok.

To demo this bug, make a new stack.  On the first card place two buttons, the
first with a script that reads

	on mouseUp
		find "xyz" in field "good"
	end mouseUp

and for the second,

	on mouseUp
		find "xyz" in field "bad"
	end mouseUp

on the second card, create a new background, and two backgroud fields named
"good" and "bad".  In each place the letters xyz.

If you return to the first card, then both buttons locate the string in the
first field that you created.  Referring to the fields by their numbers
behaves correctly.

Is this a well known bug?  Is it due to be corrected soon? Is there a collected
list of other bugs?

	Thanks

	< dave