Question about Find in Search

[TerryRitchie]

When you select find in the search menu an input box dialog appears. One of the options you can select is:

[   ] Whole Word

What exactly does this option do? I've been playing around with having it checked and unchecked but I see no difference. What am I missing?

[SMcNeill]

Check for extended versions of your search term.   For example:

PRINT "foo"
PRINT "foobar"

Search for "fo".   Then search for whole word "fo".   Then search for "foo" and whole word "foo".

With whole word, there has to be a match for the whole word -- and JUST the whole word.

"foo" will find "foo", but reject "foobar", for example. 

[TerryRitchie]

Check for extended versions of your search term.   For example:

PRINT "foo"
PRINT "foobar"

Search for "fo".   Then search for whole word "fo".   Then search for "foo" and whole word "foo".

With whole word, there has to be a match for the whole word -- and JUST the whole word.

"foo" will find "foo", but reject "foobar", for example. 

Ah, I see, thanks for explaining this.

[TerryRitchie]

I just discovered a new anomaly concerning Search --> Find. Copy the following code into the IDE.

Go to Search, then Find, and type in _rgb for the search term then hit ENTER

The first instance of _RGB32 is highlighted but not the second instance.

Now, click on the menu toolbar anywhere this is not menu text, just to the right of Tools for example. The second highlight will appear.

The very first time I did the search they both highlighted. But subsequent searches had this strange anomaly.

** Update, ok, now I'm having problems getting this to happen again. It seems using the mouse to access the menu options versus the keyboard may have something to do with this?

Code: (Select All)

'* Animation Demo *

SpriteSheet& = _LOADIMAGE("walksheet104x156.png", 32) '              load sprite sheet

_CLEARCOLOR _RGB32(255, 0, 255), SpriteSheet& '                      set transparent color

SCREEN _NEWIMAGE(104, 156, 32) '                                    enter graphics screen

DO '                                                                begin animation loop

    _LIMIT 5 '                                                      5 frames per second

    CLS , _RGB32(255, 255, 255) '                                    clear screen white

    c = c + 1 '                                                      increment cell counter

    IF c = 6 THEN c = 0 '                                            reset when necessary

    _PUTIMAGE , SpriteSheet&, 0, (c * 104, 0)-(c * 104 + 103, 155) ' display cell from sheet

    _DISPLAY '                                                      update screen change

LOOP UNTIL _KEYDOWN(27) '                                            leave when ESC pressed

SYSTEM '                                                            return to OS