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Re: InStr Badness

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Subject: Re: InStr Badness
From: "Michael J. Hußmann" <michael at michael-hussmann dot de>
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 01:53:08 +0200
Seth Willits (seth at freaksw dot com) wrote:

> If they don't type in anything and search for it,
> you can't tell them that you found something. That's just not right.

Well, when the user searches for nothing and nothing is found, that's
something, right?

> (And yeah, I know you can test for the variable/editfield = "" and disable
> the button, but forget about that will you? :)

That's how search dialogs usually behave anyway. It sure beats allowing
the search and announcing a failure, no?

- Michael


Michael J. Hussmann

E-mail: michael at michael-hussmann dot de
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