Find string "xxx" in field yyy OF THIS CARD

[dunbarx at aol.com]

Francis.


You are right in that the (my) find hint seems not to work. I think it used to, but now am confused. I will ask to have it removed.


This is a workaround, so that if your text is not on the card you are at, at least you will not be taken somewhere else. I am sure you could have written this yourself:



on mouseUp
   lock screen
   put the number of this cd into tCard
   find yourText
   if the number of this cd <> tCard then
      put "not found here"
      go cd tCard
      end if
end mouseUp


It seems that what we really need is either:


find yourText on cd yourCard --like I thought we had, or
find yourText on marked cds --something like that


Craig Newman



-----Original Message-----
From: Francis Nugent Dixon <effendi at wanadoo.fr>
To: use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 8:53 am
Subject: Find string "xxx" in field yyy OF THIS CARD


Hi from Beautiful Brittany,

I have been having problems with the "find" command.
In a stack with multiple cards, I want to find specific
strings on a card of my choice (the card currently displayed),
and NO other.

If I code "find string xxx in fld yyy of this card" ..

doesn't work.

If I look in the dictionary for the "find" command, I find no
information concerning a search on a specific card.
However, a user comment (from Craig) shows that we can use :

find yourtext in field yourfield of card cardOfInterest

by which I understand that you can define a specific
card by its number.  This does not work either.

Has anybody had problems like this, or have I reached
my first LiveCode "bug" ?

Is there any way of restricting a "find string" to a
specific card. I'm on LiveCode Build 1080 Version 4.5.0

-Francis

After nearly 50 years of dedicated computing, I still
find that Windows is a pane ......    :>)

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