Thanks a bunch, Sarah,
I haven't had time to study your script yet. I'm just leaving the
office, I'll look more carefully tomorrow. But it looks like a big
improvement on what I've been doing.
At first glance, it looks like it won't recognize when it's
repeatedly cycling through the same page if there are multiple hits
on the same page. If it doesn't, I'd like to add that feature, but
it's a pain in the neck for me to script it. It might be a piece of
cake for someone else.
If I put find whole in the message box, as in
find whole "Bush, Laura"
I wonder if Rev will consistently search whole as long as I keep
hitting the return key. HyperCard wouldn't. Okay, it's a stupid
question, I can find out by trial and error. I hope it does. I'll try
it tomorrow.
Regarding the "find and replace" window, I have tried several times
to stop a search with a command-period. It just plain won't stop.
(Clicking on the glowing red close button at the upper left won't
stop it either, even though the little X appears when the mouse is
over it.)
I've noticed other situations in other stacks where command-period
should stop a script, but it doesn't.
For instance, a command-period won't interrupt a script if an answer
dialog box is on the screen. It seems like it should. I was getting
ready to report this to Rev as a bug or an enhancement request. Maybe
it normally does work that way. I thought it was a Rev feature, or
maybe a Rev deficiency. Maybe it's another anomaly.
I don't think there's anything in my stacks that would intercept a
command-period. I'll check again, but I haven't set the cantabort
property to true in any of my stacks, or the allowInterrupts property
to false.
I just checked several of my stacks and Rev's "find and replace"
window. (Is it a stack? Is that why it's so slow?) allowinterrupts is
true. It's true in all my other stacks, also. Most or all of my
stacks act as if it is set to false. Meanwhile Rev won't recognize
the cantAbort property if I try to get it in the msg box. Not sure
why.
Life just seems to get complicateder and complicateder. All part of
the fun, I guess.
Thanks again. I'll be interested to read any comments you might have.
Other script ideas for easier finding are welcome, also.
Cheers,
Tim
Hi Tim,
I'm sorry to whine, but I really miss my hyperCard command-F. The
cursor was positioned in the message box to type my search term,
between quotation marks, and away I went. Hit the return key for
the next hit if I don't like the item I just found. Hit the return
key as many times as I want.
It worked about the same as typing
find "confabulation"
in Rev's message box. I think Rev is somewhat slower, but I can
live with that. What I don't like is having to type the whole
darned find command, including the quotation marks.
Here is a script to do it:
go to cd "Single Line" of stack "Message Box"
put "find " & quote & quote into fld "Message Field" \
of cd "Single Line" of stack "Message Box"
put " select char 7 to 6 of fld " & quote & "Message Field" \
& quote & " of cd " & quote & "Single Line" & quote & " of stack " \
& quote & "Message Box" & quote into tCmd
send tCmd to me in 2 ticks
It doesn't set the hilite in the correct button at the top of the
message box & it doesn't set the title, but it gets you to the
single line entry, puts in the find and selects between the quotes.
The delay in selecting is required because the message box remembers
your last selectedChunk and puts that back, so I have to wait until
that has happened before over-riding it.
On my web page <http://www.troz.net/Rev/>, you will find a plugin
called "FunKey" that allows you to allocate script snippets to
certain function keys. You may find that if you attach this script
to a function key, you have exactly what you want :-)
Rev's command-F find window remains much slower than the Find
command in the message box, even if both searches are restricted to
the same stack and to field text only. I can't imagine why. I just
tested it. I searched for "Gloria" in a fairly bulky stack that
contains a lot of names. Typing find "gloria" in the message box
found four instances almost instantly.
Then I tried find "gloria" with Rev's command-F "Find and Replace"
window. I clicked "field text" only, I chose "this stack" only, and
I checked "obey dontsearch properties." It was at least 1000 times
slower, maybe 5000 times slower, or more. And, in 2.6.1, it's still
not possible to abort a search in this window once you start one.
If you accidentally start the wrong search, you could grow a beard
before it was done searching.
It is just a script, so it can be stopped by Command-period, or
whatever you usually use to stop a script.
Cheers,
Sarah
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http://www.troz.net/Rev/
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