Find restricted to given card

James Hurley jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 1 12:43:03 EDT 2011


Thanks John. That is perfect.

I changed the line from:

   Find "jim" in field "theText"

to:

   Find "jim" in field id the id of field "theText"

Too lazy to even look up the number.

Jim



John Dixon Wrote

> Hi Jim...
> 
> Just had a quick test... two cards each with a field...
> 
> on mouseUp
>    find "jim" in field id 1004
> end mouseUp
> 
> Without using the id, it finds 'Jim' in both fields as you are seeing. Using the id of the field it only looks in the one field.
> 
> be well




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