Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!ucsd!rutgers!apple!dan
From: dan@Apple.COM (Dan Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Re: Strange behaviour (dare I say bug)
Message-ID: <26782@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 5 Mar 89 06:55:10 GMT
References: <633@cf-cm.UUCP>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <633@cf-cm.UUCP> ralph@computing-maths.cardiff.ac.uk (Ralph Martin) writes:
>Would anyone ( Dan :-) ) like to comment on whats going on here, and why this
>doesnt work as I expected? And would anyone like to tell me how they have 
>implemented any find next buttons they use?

Here is the script of a button that I put at the bottom of the card
right behind where the msg box is.  After I do a find and want to find
the next occurance, I just click off to the side of the msg box,


on mouseUp
  set lockScreen to true
  go next
  do msg box
  if the result is "not found" then go prev
  else unlock screen with dissolve fast
end mouseUp

This will not find on the same card more than once.  Of course if the
msg box changes to something other than the find command then the
results are unpredictable.

There are times when you want to see each occurance on a card and times
when you do not.  Find is setup for the former situation, with scripting
required for the later.

Dan Allen
Apple Computer