Re: INDESIGN: Getting Find What / Change To Fields of Not-run Search
Re: INDESIGN: Getting Find What / Change To Fields of Not-run Search
- Subject: Re: INDESIGN: Getting Find What / Change To Fields of Not-run Search
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:50:17 -0700
Yeah. Right now I've opted to post the find what and change to fields into the editable text of a display dialog call, where the user can edit from that interface and proceed or cancel and edit in the Find/Change panel.
That also allows me to loop the dialog in the event of empty content.
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On 7/12/13 at 10:32 AM +1000, Shane Stanley wrote in a message entitled
"Re: INDESIGN: Getting Find What / Change To Fields of Not-r":
>On 12/07/2013, at 10:18 AM, Rick Gordon <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> The problem is when an item from the submenu of recent Find What or Change To choices is chosen. The find what field is not updated until either the user types a further edit into the find what field or a Find is run from the interface.
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>> Likewise, and separately, for the change to fields.
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>> Perhaps that's a bug (CS5.5).
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>It sounds like it -- you're going to need some way to force the changes to be committed. It might be as simple as forcing focus to some other element in the find dialog.
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>FWIW, a long time ago I found doing lots of find/change stuff with that dialog open could be flakey. You might even consider some way of avoiding that.
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