Mark,
Many thanks for your basic tip; "find string" works just like "whole"
in Hypercard. Terrific! You lost me in the last part of your message—as
I said, I'm technologically-challenged—but I can type "find string" all
day.
Owens
On Mar 22, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Owens,
Are you new to this mail list? If so, welcome...
Revolution's Find & Replace window is very different from HyperCard's
find function. Fortunately, you can still use the find command in
Revolution. There are at least two ways to do this.
You can open the message box and type
find string "Crazy Rhythm"
and press return. This should find you the string on the current card,
just like in HyperCard. If you type return again, it will find the
next instance of the string in the stack.
It might be a good idea to make a button with the same command. The
script of the button would be something like this:
on mouseUp
ask "Search for..."
if it is not empty then find string it
end mouseUp
of course, you can improve this script to have it remember the
previous search string et cetera.
When you convert your HyperCard stack, keep in mind that menus work
differently and externals are not converted. If your scripts use the
domenu command and externals, you will probably have to fix a few
compile errors.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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On 22 mrt 2009, at 22:37, tom owens wrote:
I am a technologically-challenged new user of Runtime Revolution. I
bought it to transfer my Hypercard files from an older iMac to an
iMac running System X. I have figured out how to open my files in
Revolution, but can't figure out how to go to a specific word or
phrase in the data. On my older computer I simply open Find and type
"whole 'Art Blakey'" or "whole 'Crazy Rhythm'" (it's a catalog of my
jazz records, with a separate "card" for each recording). Hitting
Return takes me directly to each recording in turn. In Revolution,
when I go to Find and Replace and enter my search word, it grinds
away and eventually gives me a list of six-digit numbers, which are
meaningless to me. And I haven't found a way to go to any of those
recordings. Help!
Owens
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