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 <gand...@doctortimothymiller.com>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 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-content in Mac OS, was available > as a last resort if I couldn't find something important. Today I was > searching for some notes I made several months ago. I couldn't remember > whether I had saved the notes in a LC stack, in stickies, in an email I sent > to myself, or whatever. I thought find-by-content would help me find the > notes. I knew they contained some rare or unique words. It didn't help. > > I can't fault other developers if Apple itself doesn't enable > find-by-content in its own applications. Come to think of it, find by > content probably doesn't work for bookmarks in Safari. Nor does it work for > "events" in iCal. Nor any content in Address Book, nor email messages in > Mail -- not sender nor recipient nor address nor content. Funny, I always > assumed it did all of these things, but never thought much about it. > > On the other hand, if Apple and other developers can easily enable > find-by-content, but don't, this seems inconsiderate all around. If Apple > doesn't want to bother supporting its own feature, and doesn't want to > encourage developers to support its feature, maybe Apple should eliminate > find by content. > > At minimum, Apple should take more care to notify users that find by > content only searches a small subset of all the files on their hard disks, > or even their documents folders. > > Regarding LC scripts, it appears these are not indexed, either. There are > plenty of unique strings in my LC scripts. They are not turning up. > > At one time, find-by-content was supposed to be a thrilling new feature in > some Apple OS rollout. Maybe OS 7? > > I long ago abandoned the naive daydream that computers will make my life > more convenient. Every new feature introduces new complications. So, I'm > over it. > > Tim > > > On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:12 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > > > Usually the vendor has to adjust their app to make spotlight indexing > 'Allowed' and 'visible'. Some vendors have created plugins and made them > available for download. > > > > Google "spotlight nabble revolution" to get a better take on the issue. > > > > For OSX QuickView, their are plugins for expanding the formats, eg. > '.php' files > > > > The best solution for now is to have an LC script export to a text file > all the info you would like to have Spotlight available. > > > > Hope this helps > > > > > > Jim Ault > > Las Vegas > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb <http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
