Hello everyone,
I've created a search field that takes a phrase typed into it and
searches a data field for lines containing the phrase. It works in
the usual way where the search becomes narrower the more you type.
What I haven't been able to do is go backwards, that is, make the
search wider as characters are deleted from the end of the search
string when the delete key is hit. When the delete key is hit,
nothing happens, and I'm not sure how to work a delete key message
into the handler.
on keyDown pKey
put me & pKey into searchString
get fld "Data"
repeat for each line thisLine in it
if searchString is among the words of thisLine
then
put thisLine & return after hits--Whole words
next repeat
else
if thisLine contains searchString then put thisLine & return
after otherHits
end if
end repeat
put otherHits after hits
if the last character of hits is return then delete the last
character of hits
put hits into fld "Browse List"
put 1*the number of lines in hits && "records" into fld "Number of
Records"
pass keyDown
end keyDown
My second question concerns the format of the field itself and the
Geometry Manager. I jazzed up the field by importing three PNG images
to make it look like Apple's hot dog shaped search field. The two
rounded ends remain fixed in size and maintain their relative
positions while the middle segment is scaled horizontally if the stack
is resized. It all works wonderfully (I believe Eric Chatonet gave me
this tip ages ago --- thanks, Eric) except that whenever the stack is
reopened the middle segment is displayed in its original size
regardless of the size of the stack at the time it was closed. This
means the hot dog appears sliced until the user resizes the stack, at
which time the pieces will snap back together. Any fix for this
little glitch?
Regards,
Gregory
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