Arrrgghh -- Find and Replace

[Timothy Miller]

>
>There is a bug in the Find & Replace when used on fields. Chipp has 
>posted a fix and you can find the details here:
><http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-revolution/2005-February/050697.html>
>
>It really doesn't take long and normally the Find button becomes a 
>Stop button when searching, but I think in this case, it doesn't 
>even start searching.
>

Hi Sarah,

Thanks to you and others on this thread.

Do you mean to say that if I click on the "find" button again, it 
halts the search? I just tried that. I'm on v 2.5.1 of Dreamcard. It 
doesn't seem to work that way. As a matter of fact, it appears that 
if I click on the "find" button while the search is in process, it 
causes "find and replace" to start a new search as soon as it 
finishes the current one. The painfully long wait is doubled.

I don't think I understand the bug you mention. I.e., "...it doesn't 
really even start searching." As I recall, though I haven't taken 
notes, the thing does eventually find what it's supposed to find. 
It's just painfully slow. Maybe it misses some stuff, though. I 
wouldn't have noticed that.

I downloaded the patch. A big Thank You! to the author. It seems to 
help. I tried the same search with the same checkboxes checked -- 
field text, name, and script. Find and replace is still pokey, but I 
didn't have time to bake a batch of cookies.

In spite of the welcome patch, "find" in the message box searches all 
the field text in the stack almost instantaneously. The "find" in the 
find-and-replace window, searching for field text only, in "this 
stack" only, takes 100 to 1000 times as long. That just don't seem 
right.

It still seems to me that a "stop searching" button on this window 
would be a welcome addition, unless it can be made to work so fast 
that none would be necessary.

Is there something I'm not getting?


Best regards


Tim