Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Your being too kind. That damnably insidious godawful excuse for a user interface ribbon is what I think you meant. Bob S On May 28, 2015, at 14:30 , Mark Wieder mailto:mwie...@ahsoftware.net>> wrote: Richard Gaskin writes: One man's "awkward" is another man's "context-aware". Yup. That's

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin writes: > > Mark Wieder wrote: > > Richard Gaskin writes: > > > >> One man's "awkward" is another man's "context-aware". > > > > Yup. That's how we ended up with that damn ribbon. > > This is how we got the ribbon: >

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > Richard Gaskin writes: > >> One man's "awkward" is another man's "context-aware". > > Yup. That's how we ended up with that damn ribbon. This is how we got the ribbon: I read every post at Jens

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin writes: > One man's "awkward" is another man's "context-aware". Yup. That's how we ended up with that damn ribbon. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

RE: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-28 Thread Ralph DiMola
Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Alex Tweedly Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 11:08 AM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: IDE: find a string in a field Thanks all. I would never

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thanks all. I would never have found this - I don't think I've closed the Script Editor since 2004 :-) -- Alex. On 28/05/2015 04:07, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/27/2015 8:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/27/2015 05:40 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I'm on Mac OSX. cmd-f does pop-up a dialog, and a

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > Close the script editor first. > Then click cmd-f. It's a whole different find window. > Just embrace the awkward workflow. One man's "awkward" is another man's "context-aware". When looking at your stack, Cmd-F brings up a search UI relevant for your stack. And when looki

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/27/2015 8:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 05/27/2015 05:40 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I'm on Mac OSX. cmd-f does pop-up a dialog, and allows me to set the scope (tab, card, stack, all stacks, etc.) - but nowheere (that I can see) does it give me a checkbox for "field text" ? Am I just blind to it

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-27 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/27/2015 05:40 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: I'm on Mac OSX. cmd-f does pop-up a dialog, and allows me to set the scope (tab, card, stack, all stacks, etc.) - but nowheere (that I can see) does it give me a checkbox for "field text" ? Am I just blind to it (quite possible) ? :-) Close the script

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
I'm on Mac OSX. cmd-f does pop-up a dialog, and allows me to set the scope (tab, card, stack, all stacks, etc.) - but nowheere (that I can see) does it give me a checkbox for "field text" ? Am I just blind to it (quite possible) ? :-) - Alex. On 28/05/2015 01:02, Mike Bonner wrote: In windo

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-27 Thread Mike Bonner
In windows, ctrl-f pops up a dialog, and you can then set the scope of the search. Make sure you check the box for "field text" On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > [ there must be an easy way to do this in the IDE, but I can't remember > it, and can't find t ] > > Somewhere in

IDE: find a string in a field

2015-05-27 Thread Alex Tweedly
[ there must be an easy way to do this in the IDE, but I can't remember it, and can't find t ] Somewhere in my stack(s) I have a field with a particular string in it - and I cannot remember what the field is called, or what group it's in. Is there a "find" variant that searches the text of fiel