Revolution back to HyperCard

[Jim Ault]

Agreed the Rev Find and Replace stack is not the same animal as the HC
Find...
however, it allows you to choose to search only fld text, and combine it
with the power of regular expressions.  For me the real power of this tool
is to use "script only" chkbox, then a regular expression and get a list of
all the script containers that match (even in multiple stacks), then dbl
click to open that script.
(or use the replace feature to do repair work without opening it, but I find
that rather dangerous)

This is much more of a developer tool for scripting and design, than a user
tool.
Remember the "ss" or searchscript command in HC?  Rev Find and Replace is
really much better and far faster, and more intuitive.

Jim Ault
Las Vegas


On 10/14/05 3:44 PM, "Timothy Miller" <gandalf at doctorTimothyMiller.com>
wrote:

> I have complained here before that the find stack is absurdly slow,
> in many instances. In HyperCard, command-f got you the find command.
> In Rev, command-f gets you the find stack.
> 
> To get the equivalent of hyperCard's command-f in Rev, type command-m
> to get the message box. Type 'find "whatever"' or 'find string
> "whatever"' or 'find whole "whatever'' and so on. Then hit return.
> 
> It's cumbersome, typing the quotation marks and stuff yourself.
> 
> Sarah suggested an improvement, which I use constantly.
> 
> put the following script in a button:
> 
> on mouseUp
>    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 30 ticks
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> It would make sense to label the button "Find". Put copies of this
> button wherever you might want a hyperCard-like find. Instead of
> command-f, just click the button. The script types the command in the
> message box, including quotation marks, and places the cursor between
> them, so it's just type and go.
> 
> It searches all fields in the top stack, until it gets to the last
> card. You can keep hitting return to search for the next instance,
> until you find what you want. It starts with the current card, and
> stops when it gets to the last card in the stack. If you want to
> search all fields in the stack, type command-1 first, to go to the
> first card. It doesn't search button contents, scripts, etc., as far
> as I know.
> 
> The other possibility is to write your own "find" stack. The "find"
> command in a script is fast enough. The native Rev find stack is
> probably so slow because it tries to do too many things with one
> script. Several separate find scripts with more specialized purposes
> would likely be much faster. I keep meaning to write a stack like
> that, but never find the time. No doubt someone else already has, but
> I don't know who.
> 
> HTH
> 
> 
> Tim
> 
>> What you describe there is the find stack.
>> 
>> The find command simply takes you directly to the card that contains the
>> information and hilites it with a rectangle...
>> 
>> cheers
>> Xavier
>> 
>> use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com wrote on 13/10/2005 09:39:10:
>> 
>>>  How does the find function works? Does it only list the cards where the
>> word
>>>  searched is found?
>>>  Thank you very much in advance for your cooperation.
>>> 
>>> 
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