Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!munnari!otc!metro!ipso!runx!clubmac From: clubmac@runx.ips.oz (Macintosh Users Group) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: HyperCard Find Message-ID: <1262@runx.ips.oz> Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 22:55:40 EST Article-I.D.: runx.1262 Posted: Sun Dec 6 22:55:40 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Dec-87 03:29:48 EST Organization: RUNX Un*x Timeshare. Sydney, Australia. Lines: 21 I was asked this question by a guy on the weekend, and was unable to help him. Any of you Hypercard gurus able to answer?? "I want to have a BACKGROUND button which has a script that tries to FIND an arbitrary text. However, when I try it, it only finds the text in BACKGROUND fields, not FOREGROUND. The FIND works properly when you use the MESSAGE box.. how come?" The guy concerned was not a programmer and so was quite pissed off that Apple had dangled this carrot in front of him (let him actually program up an application that suited his needs) and then taken it away (by introducing stupid bugs that, quite frankly, a non-programmer can live without... Jeff Laing (where for art thou comp.sys.mac.hypercard?) Club Mac Macintosh Users Group, Sydney, Australia Phone Home: +61-2-73-4444 Snail: Box 213, Holme Building, Sydney University, NSW, 2006, Australia ACSnet: clubmac@runx.ips.oz ARPA: clubmac%runx.ips.oz@uunet.css.gov UUCP:{enea,hplabs,mcvax,prlb2,uunet,ubc-vision,ukc}!munnari!runx.ips.oz!clubmac