Hi Timothy,
Did you try the following too? No need for the find command.
(I can't find it in this thread but then I can miss easily and if I
did, sorry in advance :-)
mark cards where field <fieldname> contains <string>
or
mark cards where field <fieldname> contains <string> and field
<fieldname2> contains <string2>
or
mark cards where field <fieldname> contains <string> and the hilite
of button <buttonname> [is true]
or whatever combination
This works for me on my large from HC imported stacks.
Greetings,
Wouter
On 09 Jul 2005, at 05:23, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 7/8/05 4:11 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
However, when I un-commented the handlers, the 'mark cards by
finding...' script continued to work. I saved and closed the
stack, re-opened it, and the command continued to work. This time,
I hadn't changed any field properties.
It's hard to avoid the conclusion that this is an intermittent bug
that is influenced by some combination of field properties and/or
field scripts and/or the placement of the field in a group, and/or
group properties, and/or turning on "behave like a background" in
the group properties.
Your testing was pretty thorough. All variants of the "find"
command work consistently for me in all my stacks, but when I see
something like this -- where it works in native stacks but not in a
converted HyperCard stack -- my experience has been that something
isn't quite right with the converted objects. This may be the case
in your situation. Rev does a very good job bringing in HC stacks,
but sometimes the HC file is a bit off (especially with very old HC
stacks) and Rev can't always convert it exactly. Since your stacks
have probably lived through several HC versions as well as Rev, I'm
starting to think that's the problem.
One (tedious) way to fix it might be to delete the fields in
question and re-create them in Rev; then they would be fully-native
Rev objects without any HC baggage. I have had to do that
occasionally with HC popup buttons, which sometimes don't transfer
over very well.
You could try setting the HCAddressing of the stack to false if it
won't affect your scripts (you'd have to test everything to see,)
and it might fix the "find" problem. It does fix some other
glitches sometimes. No promises.
But easier, since the "find" commands work for you in other stacks,
I think I'd just go with "find string" for this stack and leave it
at that. I am sure that any new stacks you create will "mark cards
by finding" fine.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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