Ctrl-F find files.

dda · Post by **dda** » 2003 Aug 14, 01:30

I have been using the 2x Ctrl-F "find files" today, and thinking how attractive and useful it is.

I know that everything in 2x will eventually get into x2, but I'm wondering if this feature is on the "soonish" list.

I think if the old Ctrl-F function was in x2, I would cease to use 2x at this stage.

DDA

(0.0.0.39 is working well. I use it heaps every day in a variety of ways. No problems).

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Aug 14, 06:03

Ctrl+F works already, albeit with windows find
i can't tell when i'll start developing x2's find, but it is the only "big thing" left

kev · Post by **kev** » 2003 Aug 14, 14:04

is there any way ctrl+f in x2 could be associated with the 2x find rather than the crummy m$ one, just temporarily?

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Aug 14, 14:28

too much work, sorry!

actually from w2000 upwards the windows find is not bad, and it is damn fast too, especially with the indexing service running

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » 2003 Aug 24, 05:50

Hmmm, I can't get xplorer2 to open search at all. CTRL+F, or the Tools menu.

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Aug 24, 07:24

so what happens?
does windows search work on your system?

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » 2003 Aug 26, 13:06

If I go to an explorer window, and press the search button, everything works fine. However, I seem to have discovered over the past 2 days, that if i go right-click search, double click on a search file, or in any other way try to directly open a search window, it fails. I know this isn't your problem, but any ideas you might have would be nice

this has always been the case for me on both XP and 2003.

Now running 0.0.0.41

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Aug 26, 13:46

i can't really tell
but you can check the "find" verb in the registry
HKCR\directory\shell\find
and see what sort of command it tries to launch

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » 2003 Aug 26, 15:15

in the command folder there is %systemroot%\explorer.exe
in ddeexec i have [FindFolder("%l", %I)]
also in ddeecec there is two folders. application and topic.
in application there is folders
in topic there is apppropeties.

is any of that wrong?

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Aug 26, 17:26

that's what i have too
i also have this NoActivateHandler value under ddeexec with no content

that's one for searching the usenet for clues...

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » 2003 Aug 27, 09:43

yeah, i didn't mention that one because it was empty...

Any other ideas? Windows has always done this for me.

Post by **nikos** » 2003 Aug 27, 11:12

try a query with suitable keywords @ groups.google.com

TychoQuad · Post by **TychoQuad** » 2003 Aug 30, 15:49

Bah!

No luck, gave up and installed Agent Ransack!

Thanks for your help anyway

ironhead · Post by **ironhead** » 2003 Sep 12, 01:51

Did you switch to alternate Windows Shell? To this point we (alt. shell devs) have had a hard time implementing DDE (Microsoft is not overly generous in detailing specific Windows internals). If you have, you might want to try switching back to having Explorer as your shell to see if it works.

I myself am not running explorer, so CTRL-F doesn't work for me either....

vserghi · Post by **vserghi** » 2003 Sep 12, 07:22

Try these sites. they hold a lot of Windows type information, it's worth a try.

I managed to fix a similar problem where an un-install screwed my system to such an extent that I could't open the recycle bin from the dekstop, do a search, open my computer from the desktop. and various other problems. A two line command fixed all of this.

http://wintrouble.net/
http://www.techsupportalert.com/index.html