Hope this is not annoying so late in the thread and after you've just
cracked it...
But wouldn't it be simpler to set the dontSearch of the field to false
whenever it is hidden?
> From: Wilhelm Sanke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:01:25 +0100
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Finally: effective vis
>
> Finally a solution developed for my self-inflicted problem, how to find
> out the *real* visibility of searched fields of a stack where some of
> the fields were invisible - although their vis was "true" - because they
> were part of an invisible group. The search proceeds in a double
> repeat-loop for cards and fields, which contributed to the problem
> probably because of the number of neccessary "of"-nestings. Here the
> vis-checking part of the script:
>
> "if the visible of fld j of cd i of the topstack is false
> then put Return&"This field is not visible" after last char of
> SearchResult
> if word 1 of the owner of fld j of cd i of the topstack is
> "group" then
> put the owner of fld j of cd i of the topstack into
> foundgroup
> put word 2 of foundgroup into Word2
> if Word2 = "id" then # "id" must be in lower case in case
> "case-sensitive" is activated
> put word 3 of foundgroup into IDNumber
> if the vis of group ID IDNumber of cd i of the topstack is
> "false"
> then put Return&"This field is not visible" after last
> char of SearchResult
> end if
> if Word2 <> "id" then
> if the vis of group foundgroup of cd i of the topstack is
> "false"
> # this should not work (?), because "group" is also in the
> contents of foundgroup,
> # but somehow it does
> then put Return& "This field is not visible" after last
> char of Searchresult
> end if
> end if"
>
> The script could have been much shorter if there wasn't the apparent
> limitation for "of"-nestings (when using the script in a modeless search
> stack), but
>
> "if word 1 of the owner of fld j of cd i of the topstack is "group" and
> the vis of the owner of fld j of cd i of the topstack is "false" then
> ...."
>
> produces error messages as described in my last posting; interestingly
> "word 1 of the owner....." does not produce an error, but "the vis of
> the owner....." or the "the ID of the owner....." do.
>
> The - of course simple - solution, once you have found out what could
> have caused the problem, was to park the found group in a variable
> "foundgroup" and only then to check the visibility.
>
> Unfortunately
>
> "if the vis of group foundgroup of cd i of the topstack is "false""
>
> produces another error in case the group has only an ID and no specific
> name. So you have to run an additional check for this as in the script
> above.-
>
> To have a property like "effective vis" that checks the *real*
> visibility of a field would be convenient, but surely the need for such
> a feature is not very urgent.-
>
> Thank you for your patience if you chose to read this message.
>
> Regards,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke
>
>
>
>
>
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