Hypercard data

[tom owens]

Mark,

Many thanks for your basic tip; "find string" works just like "whole" 
in Hypercard. Terrific! You lost me in the last part of your message—as 
I said, I'm technologically-challenged—but I can type "find string" all 
day.

Owens
On Mar 22, 2009, at 2:47 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

> Hi Owens,
>
> Are you new to this mail list? If so, welcome...
>
> Revolution's Find & Replace window is very different from HyperCard's 
> find function. Fortunately, you can still use the find command in 
> Revolution. There are at least two ways to do this.
>
> You can open the message box and type
>
>   find string "Crazy Rhythm"
>
> and press return. This should find you the string on the current card, 
> just like in HyperCard. If you type return again, it will find the 
> next instance of the string in the stack.
>
> It might be a good idea to make a button with the same command. The 
> script of the button would be something like this:
>
> on mouseUp
>   ask "Search for..."
>   if it is not empty then find string it
> end mouseUp
>
> of course, you can improve this script to have it remember the 
> previous search string et cetera.
>
> When you convert your HyperCard stack, keep in mind that menus work 
> differently and externals are not converted. If your scripts use the 
> domenu command and externals, you will probably have to fix a few 
> compile errors.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> On 22 mrt 2009, at 22:37, tom owens wrote:
>
>> I am a technologically-challenged new user of Runtime Revolution. I 
>> bought it to transfer my Hypercard files from an older iMac to an 
>> iMac running System X. I have figured out how to open my files in 
>> Revolution, but can't figure out how to go to a specific word or 
>> phrase in the data. On my older computer I simply open Find and type 
>> "whole 'Art Blakey'" or "whole 'Crazy Rhythm'" (it's a catalog of my 
>> jazz records, with a separate "card" for each recording). Hitting 
>> Return takes me directly to each recording in turn. In Revolution, 
>> when I go to Find and Replace and enter my search word, it grinds 
>> away and eventually gives me a list of six-digit numbers, which are 
>> meaningless to me. And I haven't found a way to go to any of those 
>> recordings. Help!
>>
>> Owens
>
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