\image html findtool1.png
The \b Find toolbox can be invoked in several ways:
-- Pressing \a <Ctrl>-<F> key combination starts new
-search; the text previously entered by the user in the edit control of
+- Pressing \a <Ctrl>-<F> key combination starts a new
+search; the text previously input by the user in the edit control of
the \b Find toolbox is automatically selected.
-- Pressing \a </> (slash) key starts new search; the text
-previously entered by the user is cleared.
-- Pressing \a <F3> key repeats previous search in the forward
+- Pressing \a </> (slash) key starts a new search; the text
+previously input by the user is cleared.
+- Pressing \a <F3> key repeats the previous search in the forward
direction (from top to bottom).
-- Pressing \a <Shift>-<F3> key repeats previous search in
+- Pressing \a <Shift>-<F3> key repeats the previous search in
the backward direction (from bottom to top).
- Activating \a Find command from the Object Browser context popup
-menu starts new search (the same as \a <Ctrl>-<F>).
+menu starts a new search (the same as \a <Ctrl>-<F>).
Pressing \a <Escape> key closes the \b Find toolbox.
-The search is always started beginning from the first selected item in
+The search is always started from the first selected item in
the Object Browser. If there are no selected items, the search is
started from the top of the Object Browser contents. If there is an
-item which satisfies the search conditions, it is selected and
+item which satisfies the search conditions, it is selected and the
Object Browser is expanded to show this item (if it is collapsed).
The \b Find toolbox provides a set of widgets which are used to
-perform the search operations or affect on the search conditions:
+perform the search operations or change the search conditions:
- \a "Close" button closes the \b Find toolbox.
-- Line edit box is used to enter the text to be searched. Note that
+- Line edit box is used to input the searched text. Note that the
search is alwasy done by the object name, i.e. by the data displayed
in the "Name" column of the Object Browser.
- \a "Find first item" button searches the very first item
-which satisfies the search condition.
+which satisfies the search conditions.
- \a "Find previous item" button searches the previous item
-which satisfies the search condition.
+which satisfies the search conditions.
- \a "Find next item" button searches the next item
-which satisfies the search condition.
+which satisfies the search conditions.
- \a "Find last item" button searches the very last item
-which satisfies the search condition.
+which satisfies the search conditions.
- \a "Case sensitive" check box allows performing case sensitive
search.
-- \a "Regular Expression" check box allow performing the search of the
+- \a "Regular Expression" check box allows performing the search of the
items by the regular expression, for example:
- <i>Face</i> - matches all faces
- <i>Face_[\\d]</i> - matches Face_1, Face_2, etc.. (all faces)
- - <i>Face_[\\d]$</i> - matches Face_1, Face_2, but not matches Face_11, Face_12.
- - <i>^Face_[\\d]$</i> - same as above
+ - <i>Face_[\\d]$</i> - matches Face_1, Face_2, but does not match Face_11, Face_12.
+ - <i>^Face_[\\d]$</i> - the same as above
- <i>^ Face_[\\d]$</i> - matches nothing
-- \a "Wrap search" check box: when it is switched on and search
-reaches last item, satisfying the search conditions, pressing \a "Find
+- \a "Wrap search" check box: if checked and the search
+reaches the last item, satisfying the search conditions, pressing \a "Find
Next" button moves the selection to the very first item which matches
-search conditions (i.e. cyclic search is performed).
+the search conditions (i.e. a cyclic search is performed).
-If there are no items in the Object Browser which satisfy the search
-conditions, the edit control of the \b Find toolbox becomes
+If there are no items satisfying the search
+conditions in the Object Browser, the edit control of the \b Find toolbox becomes
red-colored:
\image html findtool2.png
-The \b Find toolbox has also auto-hiding feature. This works as
+The \b Find toolbox also has an auto-hiding feature. This works as
follows:
-- If input focus is inside the \b Find toolbox, auto-hiding is
+- If the input focus is inside the \b Find toolbox, auto-hiding is
automatically deactivated.
-- If input focus moves outside the \b Find toolbox, it hides
+- If the input focus moves outside the \b Find toolbox, it hides
automatically in 10 seconds after the last search operation (which can
be done by clicking \a "Find Next", \a "Find Previous" button, or typing
-something in the edit field); it means that each new search operation
+something in the edit field); each new search operation
restarts the auto-hide timer.
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