Find oddity?

[Peter M. Brigham, MD]

The old HC behavior is what I see on LC. However, if the text string is in a hidden field for which the dontsearch property = false, you will not see the find box in that field, then if you find again and the next find is in a searchable visible field, the box will appear again. You may have to set the dontsearch property of various fields in the mouseup handler before you perform the find in order not to confuse things for the user.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
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On Jan 18, 2012, at 5:20 PM, DunbarX at aol.com wrote:

> 
> 
> In good ol' HC, if you have a field somewhere with text (someText) in it, and a button that contains:
> 
> 
> on mouseUp
>  find someText
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> The text is found, and a box is drawn around it. If you press the button again
> the box disappears for a moment, and then is redrawn. This is known as finding once more.
> 
> 
> In LC, however, the second find makes the box disappear altogether, You can get it back if you find
> for a third time. (or fifth, etc.)
> 
> 
> Annoying, unless it is just me and mine.
> 
> 
> Craig Newman
> 
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