Search Xara Galleries

[Soquili]

In the Off-Topic forum the question about searching the Clipart was brought up. http://talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=24817

Xara X, X¹, Xtreme, and Xtreme Pro have a Find function in the Galleries. This feature may have been in earlier versions. I don't have an earlier version to verify the feature exists.

Open a Gallery and click on the Options... button then click Find.

You can search titles and keywords.

The attachment shows the results of doing a Find for the word camera.

[WolfMoonHP]

Bill, thanks for the tip. I'd never looked at the "Options" button in the bitmap gallery!

This would only have helped Availor, however, if he had thought to search for "tack," rather than "pin"

[Soquili]

Thanks Will......I'm afraid I wouldn't have found that one. I think of those as push-pins and not as tacks

Very nice job done by 'the other Gary'....Gary Bouton

[sallybode]

Terrific, that is extremely useful. Can't say thanks enough, Bill.

[Soquili]

You are very welcome Sally.

If you create your own clipart you can add description, keywords, and a title that can be used for the Find.

Quote Xara Xtreme Help
Adding titles, descriptions and keywords to documents
You can add a title, description and keywords to your drawings document. If the files are then added to the Clipart Gallery this information is used during searches and for displaying the document in the gallery.
To add titles, descriptions and keywords to documents
You enter the information in the Comment field of the Document Info dialog box. The first line of the Comment field is taken as a description of the file, unless it starts 'KEY:' or 'TITLE:' in which case the item is assumed not to have a description.
If a line starts with 'TITLE:' the rest of the line is taken as the title for the drawing. If a line starts with 'KEY:' the rest of the line is taken as a list of keywords separated by commas or vertical bars ('|'). For example, a picture of a dog might contain the following information in the Comments section of the Document info dialog box (<ENTER> is where the user would have pressed <ENTER>):
A large great dane<ENTER>
KEY: Dog,Large,Animal,Mammal<ENTER>
TITLE:Great dane
Note
Comments are only added to the indexes when creating or updating them. Only .XAR & .WEB files are checked for these comments.