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From: batman@apple.com (Ken Laws)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Wanted: "Find Next"
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Date: 21 Nov 90 21:54:02 GMT
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In article <1990Nov20.155800.2630@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au> 
n_hays@fennel.cc.uwa.oz.au writes:
> One thing which I find a particular nuiscance, however, is the change 
> to the way HC handles "finds".
> I have a simple script designed to extract a copy of any line 
> containing a particular word.
> It runs along the lines of:
>  
> Put "foo" into ThingToFind
> repeat until cooked
>   find string ThingToFind
>   do stuff with it
> end repeat
>  
> The problem is that HC 1.x could always be relied upon to find the
> NEXT example of ThingToFind on any given card. HC 2 always returns
> to the first example.

I've tried to reproduce this, but without the exact script I can't.
A few tests using 2.0 and 2.0v2 reveal no changes from 1.2.5's behavior.
The only things I can think of (off the top of my head) that would cause 
this problem are:
A. You go to another card after finding.
B. You use the "click" or "drag" commands.

Ken Laws
HyperCard Team (Kevin is my boss... and a damn good one, too)

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