Find Dialog Window

This dialog window is used to find nodes in a graph that match a specified string. The string has to be entered in the Find field of the dialog. Two search options are available: Consider Case to distinguish between upper and lower case letters and Exact Match to ignore nodes where the entered string appears as a substring. Both options are not applied by default, so you have to select the check buttons to get the described behaviour.

After typing the string, the search can be started with the Find push button. This will not close the window. If exactly one graph node is selected, then the search starts behind this node, otherwise at the topmost and leftmost node of the graph. daVinci looks at each node of a level from the left to the right and continues with the next level by going from top to down. As soon as the text of a node (given by the node's attribute OBJECT) matches the specified string, the search stops and the found node is selected. Movement from the old to the new node is shown with animation which can be switched off or controlled in speed with menu Options/General Settings.... When no node of the graph matches the entered string, the search will be stopped after reaching the start node again and the user will hear a beep.

The navigator dialog window can also be used mouseless with keyboard operations.

Dialog Items of the Find Window

• Find (text entry field)
  In this field, you have to enter the text of the node you are looking for. Wildcards are not supported, so characters like * or ? do not have a special meaning.

• Consider Case
  Select this check button when upper and lower case letters should be distinguished from eachother for the search.

• Exact Match
  Select this check button when you do not want to find nodes with a text containing the searched string as a substring.

• Find
  Push button to start the search by looking for a node that matches the string currently entered in the Find text entry field.

• Close
  Push button to close the find dialog without performing any action.

• Help
  Push button to start the online help system with this page.