I have dveloped a simple bibliography stack, that will list the references
likely to be needed in a large legal case. It will be distributed to all
lawyers and expert witnesses, who will be able to quickly access the
information they need. There is an index card, with options to index the
records by author, title, or the first line of summary text. Clicking on the
index by title (or author, or first line) button triggers a repeat loop that
goes through all the cards extracting the contents of the title (or author,
or first line) field:
on mouseup
push card
lock screen;lock messages
repeat with i=1 to the number of cards of this stack
go card i
if there is a field "title" then
if field "title" is not empty then put line 1 of field "title" & return
after shunt
end if
end repeat
pop card
put shunt into field index
send mouseup to button "sortem"
end mouseup
The idea is that double clicking on a line in the index field takes one to
the relevent record(s)
on mousedoubleup
--Glist records the current content type of the index field
global glist
unmark all cards
switch glist
case 1
send mouseup to button gofirstline
break
case 2
send mouseup to button goauthors
break
case 3
send mouseup to button gotitles
end switch
end mousedoubleup
This was written when I still worked without a license, hence, in button
gotitles:
on mouseup
get the selectedtext of field index
mark cards by finding it in field "title"
go first marked card
end mouseup
So, the index is recreated afresh every time you switch from one view to
another (eg authors to titles). Thus, everything that appears in the index
definitely exists in the relevant card field. The problem I have, is that
doubleclicking most of the index lines gives the expected behaviour, but a
few do not.
For example I have a card containing the field which contains the title "The
Male Survivor". However, if you list by title, although it appears in the
index as it should, doubleclicking it does nothing. Debugging reveals that
no card is marked in the third of the above scripts. Changing the text in
the title field to "Yankee doodle dandy" (and then re-indexing) results in
the card being displayed and marked as expected. Change it back, and it
doesn't work again. Oddly enough, list by Authors, click on 'Mendel, M. P',
and 'The Male Survivor' card pops up no problem.
I am using revolution now, although most of the development was done under MC.
As usual, the customer awaits, and I am stumped. What am I missing here?
Thanks in anticipation
David
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