Feeling better today -:)
> From: Jacqueline Landman Gay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:07:57 -0500
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: There is no background script: card script come first...
>
> David Bovill wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Jacqueline, I missed this in the docs...
>
> Don't feel bad -- I had to search for a long time just to find the quote
> in order to post it. It is buried in the Concepts stack. I knew I'd seen
> it somewhere, but couldn't recall where. It took me a while to finally
> locate it.
>
> In regard to a previous thread about "selectGroupedControls", where a
> poster was criticized for not reading the docs -- that poster could just
> as easily have been me. I wanted to find this property name too a while
> back because I knew there was a setting for it, but I couldn't recall
> the name. I spent almost 30 minutes trying various searches to find it
> (this was before the list discussion happened.) It was frustrating. How
> do you look up a property that you don't know the name of? What do you
> search for? I can't remember what strings I tried looking for, but none
> of the words that seemed obvious to me were, in fact, related to the
> actual property name. I believe I searched for "group" but since it
> isn't at the beginning of the name, it wasn't found (I should have been
> using "find string" but it didn't occur to me I'd have to.)
>
NB. Do you know of any ("advanced") techniques for searching for keywords?
The problem is usually speed, as any intelligence isn't usually worth the
"wait". Here is a first go (thinking as I write) that might help with the
problem you/we have finding stuff in a dictionary:
1) Split handlers into word components (in this case "select Grouped
Controls").
2) Use "find" in cards starting with find whole-words-string
3) Or do something fancy with matchText on an index loaded into a
variable
4) Use a dictionary/thesaurus and do some substitutions if search fails
5) Use "consonant compression" to help search for typos/spelling
mistakes.
I've had a few goes in the past with writing "fuzzyFind" handlers, with not
a lot of joy. Any thoughts?
> So, don't feel bad. :)
>
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