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From: jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Help with Hypercard button
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Date: 24 Nov 88 05:24:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:08 pm  Nov 23, 1988 by jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu in uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.mac */
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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