Revolution back to HyperCard

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Oct 14 21:10:44 EDT 2005


Timothy Miller wrote:
> Regarding hyperCard's SS (searchScript) I just did a quick test. You're 
> right about searching a stack's scripts. I got 150 hits in a few seconds 
> with Rev's find stack. That is indeed faster than SS, though SS was 
> always fast enough.
> 
> OTOH, Rev's find stack took 90 seconds to find 43 hits in a 
> field-text-only search. I previously reported the same search is 59 
> times faster with a simple script using the "find" command. If I do a 
> field text search using the "find" command in the msg box, hitting the 
> return key repeatedly, I can find all 43 hits in less than ten seconds 
> -- pretty much as fast as I can hit the return key.

What does each of these scripts do?

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