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

[André.Bisseret]

Hello !
I much appreciate your answer (those from Éric and Jim too. (I got new 
insights about using Rev). Thanks a lot to the three of you.

Jacqueline, I like your tricky "dontsearch" solution. I tried it ; 
currently I have 320 cards and it works well and is very fast.
I am hesitating to use it because, at the end, after resetting the 
dontsearch of all cds to false, I must reset the dontsearch of certain 
cards to true ; well, anyway, the whole thing is running very fast !
Also, the number of cards in my app. is going to grow each years, so 
this solution could be provisional ; well, why not !
I have to make a decison, but, thanks to this list,  it is really 
comfortable to can choose among several solutions !

Best regards
André
Grenoble

Le Saturday, 4 Feb 2006, à 18:27 Europe/Paris, J. Landman Gay a écrit :

> 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.
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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