Fwd: Obey dontSearch properties -- not working?

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Tue Sep 15 23:09:35 EDT 2009


Paul Foraker wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:23 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> I just did a quick test and it works here in 3.5. I tried searching for
>> both a whole word and a single letter. I don't have any diacriticals in my
>> test text though, I wonder if the glitch is with that. Does your stack honor
>> the dontsearch if you look for a whole word?
>>
> 
> On further testing, it appears that if a search term is found on more than
> one card, the "Obey dontSearch properties" checkbox is ignored.

This may be a glitch in the IDE search dialog. I was using the message 
box to find multiple instances and it works okay. I.e., in msg:

   find "searchterm"

Repeatedly hitting the return key in the message box finds only in 
fields where dontsearch is false. I didn't try the IDE dialog.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com



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