[ANN][EN][FR] New Sophisticated Plugin from So Smart

[Wilhelm Sanke]

On Fri Jul 15 Eric Chatonet eric.chatonet at sosmartsoftware.com wrote:

> Dear Wilhelm,
>
> Please, read the plugin docs before posting such a mail which hurts  
> me and don't tell the truth.
> (snip)


Dear Eric,

Despite my earnest intention not to be "rude" it seems I underestimated 
this task (Here is the place for an appropriate smiley).

What I tried to respond to was the question of the joint search of 
Dictionary, Faq, Topics etc. at the same time and your reservations 
about the longer search time needed then.

Indeed I did not explore the many options you implemented in your 
"research centre",  and my comment about the differences of the found 
lines was more of an afterthought after a first test.

> Your stack does not search the actual dictionary but through custom  
> properties you have implemented (BTW a good idea for speed).
> Resources Picker searches always the "real" dictionary.


My tool "SearchDocs XML" searches the "real" dictionary, too, the only 
difference being that I stripped the XML tags and stored the pure text 
in arrays. The additional advantage of this procedure - apart from a 
momentous gain in speed - is that you can search for any length of a 
string in  the docs.
As an example, you could search for a longer string like "move an 
animation to its starting frame", which in most cases would not be 
possible with the search functions in the Rev docs, because the 
searchstring would probably be interrupted by XML tags in the real XML 
files.

I surely will explore your tool in full and provide feedback if 
questions or recommendations come up.

Best regards,

Wilhelm Sanke