Help with drill-down script

[Peter Brigham MD]

Just a cursory scan through your handler, without an exhaustive  
parsing of the logic...

On Jun 21, 2010, at 10:17 AM, Emmett Gray wrote:

> Sorry for the long post. I've now got the last of my currently-in- 
> use HC stacks running in Rev, so I'm finally retiring HC/ 
> Sheepshaver. This last stack was huge, a labor of love for 20 years.  
> It's an address book whose feature set has not been matched by a  
> commercial application.
>
> Anyway, there's one feature: the first card is an index of all the  
> cards in the stack. In HC, all you need to do is start typing and as  
> you add letters, the selected line changes to reflect what you've  
> typed. When you get to what you want, you hit return and that takes  
> you to the respective card.
>
> Anyway, it's not working in Rev. What happens is, it selects the  
> first line with the first letter you type, but stalls there. Then,  
> if you hit return, it does nothing, just sits there. And if you wait  
> and start over, it doesn't respond. to that either, the original  
> selection remains. You have to clear that selection to get it to  
> start over.
>
> I don' have any idea what to do.
>
> The relevant field properties in Rev are shared text, lock text,  
> vertical scroll bar, list behavior.
>
> Here's the HC script:

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>        if the visible of the message is false then -- so it's  
> available when needed

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if you mean the message box, the syntax you are using doesn't work in  
Rev, generates an error

> Thanks for reading this far. And since you did, I can't resist  
> mentioning some of the features of this stack:
> 1) Smart synchronization: if the copy at the office gets a new email  
> address and the same person at home gets a new cell phone number,  
> both are kept and the card is flagged and put in a list. You can  
> deal with it later, like when you next go to that card which shows  
> the dates of both new entries, or go through the list if you want
> 2) Parsing of clipboard data, from v-cards, email signatures and the  
> like, when making new entries.
> 3) A "Business" checkbox which then alphabetizes business names  
> phone-book style, ignoring and initial "The" etc.
> 4) Auto-capitalization; you don't have to hit the shift key when  
> entering names. It's smart, knows about "de" and "von" etc.
> 5) One-click or keystroke phone dialing, via a modem, Skype out, or  
> Skype-to-Skype (if there's a Skype name in the Notes field).
> 6) Envelope printing of 4 different  custom styles (size, return  
> address)
> 7) Sifting to create subsets (Christmas card lists, European  
> contacts, email addresses, etc.) for export in CSV or tab-delimited  
> format
> 8) Smart printing of Filofax-style pages (no entry broken over a  
> page; print one side, turn the stack over and print again, all comes  
> out in proper order)
> 9) Ability to change the spelling or capitalization of a name, then  
> automatically moved to where it belongs as needed, and have the  
> corresponding Yellow or White pages version auto-updated.
> 10) Hidden "Filed as" field to override the default alphabetization,  
> useful for names like "van Beethoven" - filed under v or b?
> 11) URL launching (grabs the first or selected email or web address)  
> and file/app launching such as Word templates,  with the appropriate  
> info (name and address) in the clipboard
> 12) Unlimited delete and restore of cards (until you quit).
> 13) Name conflict resolution: If you have a John Smith entry, and  
> make a new John Smith card, you get an alert that he's there  
> already. You can delete the new one, the old one, or keep both
> 14) A database of national and international area codes so if you  
> have an unknown phone number you can see where it's probably located
> 15) And of course it relies on HC/Rev's brilliant "Find" so you can  
> for example type a first name and a state abbreviation or city name  
> to find someone whose last name you don't remember, but you know  
> where they live
> 16) Customizable abbreviations expanded on address data entry: ny  
> expands to New York, NY and de expands to Germany, but only if  
> followed by a space (or nothing) and must be the first characters of  
> the last line in the address field.
> 17) Phone numbers corrected to be in a standard form (dots &  
> parentheses replaced by dashes). US numbers get 1- in front, other  
> countries get their country code - you can use the abbreviations  
> used in the Address field such as de for Germany to enter the proper  
> country code so you don't have to remember it.
> There's more but I'll stop now...

Sounds like a handy tool...

BTW, how do you do the skype dialing? I'm interested in that.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig