| From: | Neil Bothwick |
| Date: | 6 Oct 2000 at 22:58:33 |
| Subject: | Re: Search Program |
Samuel Byford said,
> I suppose this is mainly for Neil's attention as i believe he is the
> SearchEngine creator. :>
> Would it be possible to implement a "hits" counter into the search engine
> please? AmigaFormat (or was it CUCD???? i forget.....) had this and it meant
> that it showed you how many versions of the file it found on each CD.
I'm not sure. It certainly wouldn't be a five minute job.
> I found this VERY useful because if I do a search on all AAcds and know that
> one file is only on one specific CD then as soon as the numbers go up I know
> Ive found the right CD and can stop the search rather than having to wait for
> it to finish going through all the CDs before finding out which CD I want.
> (this becomes ever more prevalent the more AAs come out!!)
Because some files appear on more than one CD, and they are searched in
reverse order, it would be useful to be able to interrupt the search as
the first hits are the most recent version.
> Also, whats with the box in the top right?? ever since AAcd1 this has been
> postagestamp sized, and resolutly empty?????
It should have an AA logo, as per the screenshots. If you're running it
from the CD it should always be there. If you've copied it to hard
drive, you also need to copy the AAlogo.ilbm file.
> (oh, as a positive - I think its probably the best search engine of all three
> CD systems (though Id like it to remember which setting (HTML, TEXT, AGuide)
> Id set it to...I always use AGuide. But now Im just being lazy......:) heheh
That should be fairly easy to do. It's only a matter of saving the
current state of the gadget to ENV:/ENVARC on exit.
Neil
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