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Date:         Wed, 27 Jan 1993 13:51:00 LCL
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From:         BERTW <[e-mail]>
Subject:      global change script
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Jennifer,
Here's a simple handler to allow you to look at every object on every page
in a book:

to handle setActivate
  step i from 1 to pageCount of this book
--go through the whole book
  put objects of page i into temp
-- get a list of objects on page i
  while temp <> NULL
-- pop the list until it's empty
    pop temp
-pull the top item from the list of objects on the page
-- initialize special variable "it" to that item e.g., "field id 3 of page
id 7"
      if it contains "field" -- i.e., it's a text field
        set activated of it to TRUE
      end if
    end while
  end step
end setActivate

Changing the activated property is specific. Once you have a specific
object (based on the conditions you evaluate - if fillColor of it is RED
and name of it is "video button" - etc.) then you can do with it as you
please. This sort of process can save a lot of time when you have to make
changes. To be fancy, you may want to do neat things with the sysCursor so
that others who use your script will know that something is happening as
they search every page in a large book. Step through backgrounds instead of
pages to get to background objects.

Bert Wolf IAT, UNC-CH
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