How to stay on a card when repeating a « find »

[Jim Ault]

It could be that an openStack/closeStack handler could do this make the
delay virtually unnoticeable:
on openStack
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds
>    set the dontsearch of cd x to true
> end repeat
end  openStack

Then the handler doing the work could:
on doFindWork
> set the dontsearch of this cd to false
> -- now use "find" to do the search here
   set the dontsearch of this cd to true
end doFindWork

Jim Ault
Las Vegas

On 2/4/06 9:27 AM, "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> André.Bisseret wrote:
>> Hi !
>> I have a background field that displays different texts on the different
>> cards of the background.
>> I need to find all the occurrences of one word (or string) on one card
>> only, in order to highlight each occurrence (set the backgroundColor).
>> So, when there is no more occurrence of a word on the current card, I
>> must prevent the find to proceed on following cards.
> 
> If your stack does not have too many cards, this works:
> 
> repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds
>    set the dontsearch of cd x to true
> end repeat
> set the dontsearch of this cd to false
> -- now use "find" to do the search here
> 
> The "dontsearch" property disallows any searches in any fields. The
> above script just sets all the cards so they are not searchable, then
> reverts the current card so that it is searchable.
> 
> This is fast enough if the stack doesn't have a lot of cards. You'll
> have to experiment to see if your stack is small enough to make the
> delay unnoticeable.