that explains my problem. i've been seeing that as well, but i thought it
was a bug in my app. my app allows multiple databases, so it searches
however many databases the user has. that can take a while.
----- Original Message -----
From: K2 Consultants, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 1999 12:27 PM
Subject: System 'Find' behavior change
> Hi,
>
> We just noticed that the Find behavior is changed of late (from Palm IIIx
> onwards?)
>
> If the application takes longer than certain time to return the find
> results, then the OS simply says that "No matches found" with an optional
> button at the bottom that says "Find More".
>
> This is annoying to the user as the search stops and for the large
database
> that we have, they have to hit "Find More" button repeatedly until the
> desired data is found.
>
> Is this an intentional feature or it happens when the heap is somehow
> depleted (which is likely as the search needs to decompress data
repeatedly
> to find strings in them)?
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Sandeep Shah
> K2 Consultants, Inc.
>
>
>
