Miscellaneous
Search/Replace/Update
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Spell Check
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Mouse Function Indicator
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Information Balloons
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Internationalization
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Year 2000 Compliancy
The
Search/Replace entry in the
Edit menu
will popup the Search & Replace Panel.
The keyboard accelerator
Meta-I will do the same.
Using the Search & Replace Panel,
users can search and optionally replace
text in the figure.
It is also possible to apply
UPDATE to searched texts.
![[Search/Replace Panel]](images/search-text-panel.gif)
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Search for
- Specify the string to be searched. Pressing Return in this window
or pressing the Search button will start the search.
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Search
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Pressing this button will start the search for the text
in the Search for entry.
The results of the search will be displayed in the bottom window, with
the coordinates of each text object containing the word or words.
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Case Sensitive
- If this box is checked,
upper-case and lower-case letters will be considered significant when searching.
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Replace with
- Specify the string to replace the string
entered in the Search field.
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Replace
- If this button is clicked after the search,
the string specified in Search for field will be replaced
with the string specified in the Replace with field.
Search must be clicked once before clicking this button.
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UPDATE Settings
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If this button is clicked after the search,
the UPDATE function will be performed
on the matching texts, applying settings in the
Attribute Panel
to the matched text objects.
N.B.: The
Undo function
is not available for this feature.
Spell Check... in the
Edit menu or
keyboard accelerator
Meta-K will popup the Spell Check Panel.
Xfig will run the external spelling checker (resource
Fig.spellcheckcommand)
on
text in the figure,
and shows any misspelled words in the text.
![[Spell Check Panel]](images/spell-check-panel.gif)
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Status window
- This window shows the status of the spelling checker, and how
many words (if any) are misspelled.
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Misspelled words
- This listbox shows the misspelled words, with a scrollbar if necessary
If you click on a word it is copied to the Correction window
where you may edit it to correct it. Pressing Return in this
window or the Correct button will replace all occurrances
of this word in all text objects in the figure.
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Recheck
- Pressing this button will do a re-check of spelling. This is useful
after correcting words to verify the corrections.
N.B.: The
Undo function
is not available for this feature.
![[Mouse Function Indicator]](images/mouse-function-indicator.gif)
Mouse Function Indicator shows which functions are assigned
to each mouse button.
Although the function of each mouse button changes
depending on the state (selected mode, position of the mouse cursor,
state of SHIFT key or CONTROL key, etc) at the time,
the mouse function indicator shows the current function at all times.
If the TEXT mode is selected
and it is ready to enter text from keyboard,
the mouse function indicator shows that as a keyboard icon.
If left and right mouse button are switched,
message on the mouse function indicator can be switched with
-flipvisualhints option or Fig.flipvisualhints resource.
See also Information Balloons.
If this mode is ON
(see Global Settings Panel),
`balloon' messages corresponding to the object the mouse is positioned
over will popup after a predetermined time
(in milliseconds; resource Fig.balloon_delay).
Here is an example:
![[Balloons Example]](images/balloons-example.gif)
Both
Xfig and
TransFig/fig2dev are Year 2000 compliant.
They don't rely on any dates for their operation.
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