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From: dwiggins@atsun.a-t.com (Don Dwiggins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: fields script
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Date: 2 Nov 90 02:04:48 GMT
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In-reply-to: av@woo.oulu.fi.oulu.fi's message of 29 Oct 90 16:38:58 GMT

Yet another use for a field script:

To help me in looking for a job, I have a stack with several backgrounds,
with several cards per bkgnd.  For example, the "company" cards have fields
for name, address, contacts, interactions I've had with them, etc.  At the
front of the stack is an index card with fields for each of the backgrounds.
On it is a button that extracts the name field from each of the cards and
puts it into the appropriate field, one line per card.  Now for the fun
part: I want to be able to go to the card for a company by clicking on the
company's name in the index field.  The following script does this for me:

on MouseUp
  set lockScreen to true
  put (item 1 of rect of me) & "," & the mouseV into thisLine
  set lockText of me to false   -- the field is normally locked
  click at thisLine
  set lockText of me to true
  put word 2 of the selectedLine into i
  go to card i of bkgnd "Company Info"
  set lockScreen to false
end mouseUp

There may be a better way to do this in 2.0; I haven't seen that version
yet.

I've used variations of this in a couple of stacks.

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