Beware the Inadvertent Global Search and Replace

Art Campbell art.campbell at gmail.com
Fri Oct 16 05:21:49 PDT 2009


I wonder if there's a way to get a FrameScript set up to set initial
F/R options whenever the focus moves to the box or pod? Or get
something like Rick Quatro's Advanced S&R script tool to run when you
hit Ctrl-F.

Art Campbell
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:38 AM, Klaus Daube <frame at daube.ch> wrote:
>> 2009/10/14 David Dorbin <ddorbin at gmail.com>:
>
>> Now in Frame 9, when I press ctrl-f, the Find/Change pod displays, but
>> the cursor is rarely waiting there in the text box. In fact, the
>> "focus" seems to be unpredictable.
>
> There is still the hidden (not availiable in menus) dialog "Set up
> Find/Replace Options" which you get with ESC, f, i, s
> This dialog selects the already present text in the search field -
> which the Search/Replace does'nt dialoge even in FM 8.
>
> When you have set up this and dismissed with ENTER then Find/Replace
> with CTRL+f will show the item in the first field selected - but on the
> next call of this dialog it is not selected any more ... (tested in FM-
> 9).
>
> While this is useful for automating (send keystrokes to FM by a pgm),
> it is not very helpful for manual work.
>
> Klaus Daube
>
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