Searching in Design Gallery

This may sound pretty basic, but I can't get it to work in P&GD11.
I was looking for a graphic element of a "ribbon of film" or "filmstrip", in which I might place a few pictures.
I went to the Design Gallery, clicked on More... and selected "Find".
I entered "Filmstrip" and clicked on Find First. Nothing happened (so not even a message that there were no search results).
Entered "Film" - again nothing.
Then I started scrolling through Clipart, but decided this was going to take forever. I noted the name of one Clipart graphic: Sun.
I entered "Sun" (again: an existing clipart) - nothing.
I clicked on Help. The procedure I used is described there as
Searching for an item name

You can search, for example, for all names containing the word red:

1.Choose "More" > "Find".
2.Type "red" into the text box.
3.Select "Search Names & Keywords" to search only the item names, e.g. file, color, etc., or "Search All Information" to search the names and keywords available in some galleries.


Obviously, I tried that... I mean followed the steps verbatim, searching for "red". Nothing happens. So that Find function does not seem to do anything :(
So how do I search for a specific element in the Gallery, because having a gallery with many cool items in it is pretty useless if you cannot search, but rather have to go through each category and actually look for what you want?

I ended up making the "filmstrip" myself, which ended up being fun to figure out, and looks okay. However, I was sort of hoping for a flowing ribbon filmstrip and what I have now is a rectangle with no curves. Oh well.

David

No the search on the Gallery is fairly crap.

However if you want info on filmstrips Google:

site:www.talkgraphics.com/ filmstrip

Oh great. Something else that doesn't work in a "normal way" in a Xara Product.
Why does Magix still include the procedure for searching in the Help file, when it doesn't work, has not worked for several versions?
I know, not your fault, just venting.

I did not use Google since I wanted a graphic/clipart (so not a JPG or PNG) that would work in G&PD11 as a sort of template. I also wanted to apply a wave of my own making to it. That ain't working on my own creation.
I'm not sure what you mean by:
However if you want info on filmstrips Google: (specifically the colon at the end makes this unclear)

site:www.talkgraphics.com/ filmstrip

When I click on the hyperlink, I can find some my self on the Talk Graphics forum. I have looked there and eventually entered "filmstrip" in search, found some stuff, and in the meantime responded to one (there). But you seem to say I should enter that in Google (the colon). Maybe you mean I should go to that site and then enter "Filmstrip" in Search (which I eventually did)? I am not a novice to forums, but perhaps giving just a bit more information about what you mean, might clarify what you intend?

David

Egg was talking about:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=site%3Awww.talk...m%2F+filmstrip

Aha, that worked.
I downloaded two examples for further study.
Thanks

David

If you just COPY & PASTE

site:www.talkgraphics.com/ filmstrip

into Google, that will give you the search ... Clicking the hyperlink just gets you back to the forum.

Cheers Siran & Keith. Unfortunately I can't break the talkgraphics bit of the link from linking back here. Yes, copy the complete line and paste it into a Google search box.

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

Cheers Siran & Keith. Unfortunately I can't break the talkgraphics bit of the link from linking back here. Yes, copy the complete line and paste it into a Google search box.

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A working link would be: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=si...com/+filmstrip

Acorn

Cheers Acorn, so you could use:

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=si...ics.com/+glass

whereby the url needs to be :

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=si...kgraphics.com/ plus the search requirement appended as +'search query'.


site:www.talkgraphics.com/ filmstrip

works fine provided the member knows how to use it.

Maybe athe Mods could create a "Search this forum" sticky ?

Egg, that's it.

I also created this Attachment 111030 a time back for such a purpose.

Acorn

That's excellent Acorn. Couldn't that php file be incorporated directly into TG?

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Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill

That's excellent Acorn. Couldn't that php file be incorporated directly into TG?

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It's not php, simply JavaScript built as a Bookmarklet.

I've no idea how it would be incorporated into TG.
It was suggested before.

Acorn

Yip it's a bit frustrating using the search facilities here at TG and also in the programme and anything to resolve both areas would be a bonus. Here, I have been so fed up in the past that I always use Egg's method, wasn't first mentioned by Bill Taylor.

Yes, Bill or Sledger.