On Wednesday, Oct 20 1999, John Ranck wrote:
> I have a metacard stack that I converted from hypercard. Now suddenly, the
> find function doesn't work, nor does the Messge box.
>
> I have the Home card (with the juggler on it) and my former hyper card
> stack open. When I press ctrl F, the find box doesn't appear, nor does the
> message box appear when I press ctrl M. When I bring these windows up from
> the tool bar and type a search criterion in them (e.g. find "do0xxx" in
> field 2) it returns "not found". I know what I'm searching for is in the
stack.
>
> Any idea what's going wrong? I was getting many script errors when I first
> converted the files, and have deleted most of them from the stack. I don't
> understand why that seems to disable even basic metacard functionality.
>
> Any input greatly appreciated.
Its hard to tell whats going on from your email. There are a few things you
might be doing. Is it possible that you've removed the MetaCard standard
frontScript or backScript? These scripts play a key role in bringing up
various parts of the UI on demand, and removal can cause things to fail.
Are you running without the tools stack? If so, you need to make sure
you've copied the find and message box stacks into your stack using the
Resource mover.
Have you placed a script or menu items in the path of the keyboard shortcuts
to open these items?
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Kevin
> JR
> John Ranck
> Harvard University Development Office
> 124 Mt. Auburn St.
> Cambridge, MA 02138
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.simmons.edu/~ranck
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