An Enhanced Local (not Web) Search Utility

[Egg Bramhill]

Had a close look at this Acorn and whilst I can follow some of it, I can't follow it alltogether.

Firstly I previewed your xar file and searched for 'grid'. This returned four results. Good.

Next I searched for 'optomize' and got no results. Bad.

I seached the xar file for 'Optimize' found and gave it a mouse-over animation ptomization [Don't you just hate that 'z'].

It worked, but i set up no anchors and if this word appeared more than once would I need to set up a mouse over animation for every occurance of that word in the document?

[Don't know why Optomization keeps giving a smiley faced emogee??]

[Acorn]

Had a close look at this Acorn and whilst I can follow some of it, I can't follow it alltogether.
Firstly I previewed your xar file and searched for 'grid'. This returned four results. Good.
Next I searched for 'optomize' and got no results. Bad.
I seached the xar file for 'Optimize' found and gave it a mouse-over animation ptomization [Don't you just hate that 'z'].
It worked, but i set up no anchors and if this word appeared more than once would I need to set up a mouse over animation for every occurance of that word in the document?
[Don't know why Optomization keeps giving a smiley faced emogee??]

Egg & Gary, head-in-hands Emoji.

If you add the Search Box to any other file and Preview, you have no entries.
You, the author, are about to add meta-information into your document to set up searched words in better context than just here's a word and here's the same word again, somewhere else.
You build up a list of the document's importance to yourself so the reader gains a better experience and understanding.

If you want every instance of "grid" then you choose the one that is key in you document and add an explanation to its pop-up text.
Thereafter, and only if it was important, you could use Xara's Find and Replace and for each other instance, just add :: or possibly "Search::grid" or perhaps a more meaningful description around that specific grid's instance..
Use of the SearchBox for "grid" will then return all grids and you can read all of the descriptions and gain a better insight and location of the grid you were looking for (Star Wars joke).

Optomize will not be found as it is spelt Optimize.
Ctrl+F will not find misspellings but SearchBox might if you just use a partial term "opt", "Opt", "mize"; the first two would search out optimise, optimizes, Optimisation.
If you wanted to ensure a search for "optomize", you could use pop-up text "Alternative misspellings:ptomize, optomise" and highlight one instance of optimize somewhere in your document.

My premise is you are augmenting the document with concepts, keywords, alternative and context.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

Sorry Acorn. This kind of stuff just sails right past me. Before computers and calculators when I needed to find the center of a layout I was working on, I took a sheet of paper, made tics on the outside edges, and folded the two tics together. The fold was the center. That is how my brain works.

[Acorn]

Sorry Acorn. This kind of stuff just sails right past me. Before computers and calculators when I needed to find the center of a layout I was working on, I took a sheet of paper, made tics on the outside edges, and folded the two tics together. The fold was the center. That is how my brain works.

understood Gary, but you are quite at home with searching with DuckDuckGo and reading the associated text with your results. Such searching would be a disaster it there was no additional information; my approach offers that depth of detail. Look on it as the same approach to adding Alt text to images: title text to keywords, clever footnotes, guidance to a reader, synonym finder, a tagging mechanism.

My original concept was for a better web search mechanism but it will work for any Xara-generated electronic media, without accessing the Internet.

The CSS and JS Libraries do have to be stored within your design locally but that part is trivial.

It is a utility that allows a designer to be able to enhance a website. I think cmpan1 would understand.

Acorn

P.S. I too use the "tic" method, but on the screen. Draw a line between left and right points, Clone and rotate 90⁰: automatic centre.