> the ringing silence about my last post tells me that maybe I
> failed to make myself clear .
I think it's more a matter of asking too broad a question.
> how do I instruct Director to go through
> *all* the members of a given cast and compares them with the
searchWord
> text.
Ok, this will get you started. This is untested Lingo code, but, if you
have programming talent, you can take it and run with it.
repeat with i = 1 to the number of members of castlib 1
if (member(i).type = #text) or (member(i).type = #field) then
if offset(searchWord, member(i).text) > 0 then
-- you found a search word
end if
end if
end repeat
I use offset instead of contains because it's faster.
Additional ideas: you can search through all casts using nested loops.
You can store your results in a list (rtfm) in case there is more than
one occurrence.
Hope that helps.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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