Re: search function - can't work it!

On Wednesday 28 December 2005 04:13, Tom Cloyd wrote:
> My next bafflement: Amaya's search function is really frustrating to me.
> (again, I'm on WinXP, using Amaya 8.8.3.
>
> In several days of working with the program, I've gotten it to work
> exactly once, and I couldn't replicate that at all. I don't get it. Why is
> this so difficult? I work in text editors, HTML editors, word processors
> for hours almost every day. I'm writing a sophisticated search function in
> Ruby. But I cannot figure out Amaya's search function.
>
> The Help article only describes what I expect will happen - how the
> function should work. But, for me, it simply doesn't.
>
> I don't know where to start in describing my problem. I've tried all sorts
> of things, clicked all the options, buttons, etc. No matter what I do, it
> doesn't work. "Not found" - that's all I get.

The Amaya search is able to work in different views and perhaps you're 
searching in one view (selected view) where the word cannot be found.

Pay attention, in current versions, a string split to be presented in 
different colors or split by enclosed structured elements cannot be found.

> I sure hope I can be set straight on this problem. (But really, this
> function shouldn't be so obscure, I would think.)
>
> I look forward to some informed help!
>
> -- t.
>
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> Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC
> Private practice Psychotherapist
> Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
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> << tomcloyd@bestmindhealth.com >>
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