Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
The two methods produce 2 different results for me. Bob On Jun 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, James Hurley wrote: >> - >> >> Message: 4 >> Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:32:45 -0700 >> From: Bob Sneidar >> To: How to use LiveCode >>

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread James Hurley
> - > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:32:45 -0700 > From: Bob Sneidar > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: find by content with Mac OS > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > It does not. Wh

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Timothy Miller
I forced Spotlight to re-index. Now it finds-by-content all of the stuff in Apple applications it couldn't previously find. Sorry about the confusion. For most purposes, exporting LC data to a text file so Spotlight could find it by content would be far more trouble than it was worth. Certainly

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
Well the solutions presented in blogs i have seen are not panning out. Oddly, zip files containing Livecode stacks ARE being found by Spotlight, but not the stacks themselves. I think this will require the Livecode people to create a valid mdimporter file for livecode stacks. Bob On Jun 10,

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Devin Asay
Bob, On Jun 10, 2011, at 11:48 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I may have found a solution for this but to test it I need to know what the > file type is (not the filename extension) of a LiveCode stack. Anyone? Are you referring to the Mac file type code? It's RSTK. The creator signature for LiveCod

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Björnke von Gierke
one way to see filetypes is the "detailed files". another way is to go into the ressource fork yourself with the "resfile:" specifier for URL: put url ("resfile:" & the effective filename of this stack) On 10 Jun 2011, at 19:48, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I may have found a solution for this but to

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
I may have found a solution for this but to test it I need to know what the file type is (not the filename extension) of a LiveCode stack. Anyone? Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Thanks Jim and others. > > I have worked out ways to search my LC stacks quickly and conve

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
It does not. What you want to use is that little magnifying glass in the upper right of your screen in the menu bar. Command-F in the Finder only searches for the contents of files, but not I think Address Book files and such. Still using this method, I am not seeing any of my stacks after sear

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Bob Sneidar
You must have Spotlight indexing turned off. It works for me in ALL of the apps you suggested that it does not. Alternately, you may have a corrupted Spotlight index. You can google how to remedy that. Bob On Jun 9, 2011, at 6:04 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: > Thanks Jim and others. > > I have

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread Jim Ault
On Jun 10, 2011, at 3:43 AM, James Hurley wrote Is there something I am missing? Spotlight doesn't appear to index my scripts and I have everything checked in the Mac OS Spotlight Preferences. All versions of Rev and LC do not make the scripts or field data available for spotlight index

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-10 Thread James Hurley
> --- > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2011 14:11:19 -0700 > From: Richard Gaskin > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: find by content with Mac OS > Message-ID: <4df136f7.3050...@fourthworld.com> > Content-Type: text/plain;

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Hi Stephen, As far as I know, Command-F and Spotlight invokes the same functionality. In my previous message, I mentioned that find by content is not finding content in Safari Bookmarks, my saved email messages in Mail, and so on. This, I discovered by trial and error, and I assumed it was a "f

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread stephen barncard
You haven't used "Spotlight"? If it's set up right and you use good searching approach, it works quite well. On 9 June 2011 18:04, Timothy Miller wrote: > Thanks Jim and others. > > I have worked out ways to search my LC stacks quickly and conveniently > (more or less) for the things I need. I

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Timothy Miller
Thanks Jim and others. I have worked out ways to search my LC stacks quickly and conveniently (more or less) for the things I need. I can always use the "find" function in Stickies. I can search my email messages in Mail. This is the usual procedure. I always had the vague idea that find-by-con

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Jim Ault
On Jun 9, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I righ

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If so, is there any way to e

Re: find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 06/09/2011 11:47 PM, Timothy Miller wrote: My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If so

find by content with Mac OS

2011-06-09 Thread Timothy Miller
My feeble brain seems to suggest that Mac OS find-by-content will not find text in an ordinary field in a LiveCode stack (not to mention a button or script). I just tried it. OTOH, I don't have much confidence in my feeble brain. Am I right? If so, is there any way to enable such a feature? Of