Find vs. Offset
Peter Bogdanoff
bogdanoff at me.com
Mon Dec 17 18:54:27 EST 2012
I do see that there is much more management with the "offset", however, I believe I can use the offset without having to actually navigate to the other stack, and I found that going to another stack and using the "Find" there unlocks the screen (bad).
I want the entire search done in one go with a list of all the found occurrences.
On Dec 17, 2012, at 3:45 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> I do not know if I am understanding you correctly, but my instincts say that "find" is the right way to go. "Offset" would require more management, whereas "find" is pretty self reliant.
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> How would you use "offset" over multiple stacks anyway? Navigate to each card in each stack, and then test each field in turn, noting if the offset function returned a value or not? Certainly there is a value to this, in that the "offset" function can be tailored to find multiple instances.
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> Perhaps a mixture of the two, "find" to get quickly to a card that has a hit, and then "offset" to find multiple instances?
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> Craig Newman
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bogdanoff <bogdanoff at me.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Mon, Dec 17, 2012 6:31 pm
> Subject: Find vs. Offset
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> Hi,
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> I have a stack with multiple substacks. One of the substacks is a Search tool to
> find text in the other substacks. Given a string to find, it searches the other
> stacks, returns a list of the cards where the string was found (there may be
> multiple hits on the same card), and puts excerpts of the strings of text (3
> words before and after the found chunk) into a field. The user then clicks on a
> line of the field to go to a card where the text was originally found--there I
> do another Find to put the found box around the text.
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> Am I right in assuming that I should use the offset function to do the original
> search rather than the Find command?
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> I see that when I use the Find command, although I lock the screen, it is
> unlocked after going to each stack. Also I suspect it is a much slower method.
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> There is a lot more scripting to do with the offset to search multiple fields,
> and multiple hits in the same field, to I would like to know if this is the best
> method.
>
> Any experience with this?
>
> Peter
> UCLA
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