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Date: Tue 24 Nov 87 15:40:08-CST
From: John Lawler  <J.AITJLAW@CHIP.UChicago>


I'm trying to set up a library system using Hypercard, and I'm hoping
someone can help me out on two things.

1) This library is supposed to be used to contain all the articles and
other references our group needs in its research, and we'd like to be
able to do a search for, say, the phrase "machine learning" and have a
scrolling list of ALL the articles that have that phrase in its title
pop up. The problem is that I cannot come up with a FAST (this stack
will eventually have many hundreds of card in it) routine to find and
list all the hits for that search. Has anyone figured out some way to
do this, either in Hypertalk or by using an XCMD?

2) Assuming I have a scrolling list of hits to my search, I'd like to
be able to just point to the title and have that card pop up. I've got
Raine Cohen's hypertext routine, but here's my problem: the field
that the hits would show up in is too narrow for the entire title to
fit in one line, so it wraps around. Fine, except I'd like to disable
to wraparound so that each line has only one title. It would sort of
be like normal Mac stuff - if the file name (or here, a title) is too
long, it would be go like "Machine learning and its use in ..." Again,
I was hoping someone had already figured this out so I won't have to
reinvent the wheel. The ... part is really not important, I'd be happy
with being able to disable wraparound on the field.



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