IDE: find a string in a field

[Alex Tweedly]

I'm on Mac OSX. cmd-f does pop-up a dialog, and allows me to set the 
scope (tab, card, stack, all stacks, etc.) - but nowheere (that I can 
see) does it give me a checkbox for "field text" ? Am I just blind to it 
(quite possible) ? :-)

- Alex.


On 28/05/2015 01:02, Mike Bonner wrote:
> In windows, ctrl-f pops up a dialog, and you can then set the scope of the
> search. Make sure you check the box for "field text"
>
> On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
>
>> [ there must be an easy way to do this in the IDE, but I can't remember
>> it, and can't find t ]
>>
>> Somewhere in my stack(s) I have a field with a particular string in it -
>> and I cannot remember what the field is called, or what group it's in.
>> Is there a "find" variant that searches the text of fields (or indeed of
>> all controls) ?
>>
>> Or even a way of searching everything (i.e. text of contrpols. scripts,
>> custom props, ....)
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- Alex.
>>
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