On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 (Subject: Document Search Summary) Dar Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
(snip) > We have asked for search. We have it in abundance. > > Dar Scott > Just for the record: Indeed, after some waiting, we have it in abundance now. There are times in history when the situation is "rife" because circumstances and discussions demand new solutions, which then may be developed nearly simultaneously. Because of the discussion I had added a special button for searching the Transcript Dictionary to my general text search tool "Topsearch 1" that was added to the list of Revolution User Contributions. The extra button seemed to be necessary as the "revdocs" stacks are not "topstacks" by their nature. Two days later (please take "two days" not as an accurate description, but as a metapher for a slight difference in time) we were informed that a new -although somewhat hidden - search routine had also been added to Revolution to search the Dictionary, differing in a number of details. Further following the discussion, I considered - in a post to the list - to expand the search routines of "Topsearch" to encompass the whole of the Documentation. The result was "Topsearch 1.2", also to be found among the User Contributions. Again two days later (for accuracy see above) we got expanded search routines for the Documentation with Revolution 2.01 that were so competently described by Dar Scott. There are a lot of parallels between the details of the "Topsearch 1.2" solution and the new Revolution search routines, because both approaches attempted to deal with the same set of problems. I will not go into details, you can compare the routines for yourself if you like. I mention only one of the common features, because it may be of interest also outside of search routines, namely when dealing with larger quantities of text and intending to "hilite" specific strings in that text. This can be achieved by a combination of the replace command together with the htmltext property that provides the possibility to colorize (foreground or background of texts) all specific strings even in huge portions of text in the split of a second. I do not claim any credits for the approaches of the Revolution team; I claim credit for my side of the parallel development. As "Topsearch" is primarily a tool to search the text contents of *any current topstack* - hence the name "Top"-search - it would be worth considering if such a general text search routine (that works in a different way than the "find" routine) should be also integrated as a tool into the Revolution environment. Another "two days" would be sufficient to accomplish this. That would then make the stack "Topsearch" completely obsolete, although it could still be adapted to be used with Metacard and its sparser documentation. Regards, Wilhelm Sanke _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
