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From: twakeman@hpcea.CE.HP.COM (Teriann Wakeman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: "Finding" but not "going"
Message-ID: <6410007@hpcea.CE.HP.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 88 23:23:32 GMT
References: <441@stech.UUCP>
Organization: HP Corporate Engineering - Palo Alto, CA
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I think that you are stuck with Hypercard performing an autimatic goto.
you can emulate what you want by something on the order of:
lockscreen
set cursor to 4
push card
do your find
if the result is not empty then
 answer "couldn't find whatever" with "oh well..."
 exit event
end if
put your line number into a globalvariable or a field
pop card
end event

Sorry, this isn't exactly what you asked for but just an emulation of it.

TeriAnn Wakeman