Flare 10 Find and Replace in Files

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 10:35 am

Hi all

Have I misunderstood the functionality here or is there a bug?

In V9, when I wanted to find some text in the whole project I could type it in the Find What box (or whatever it's called).
In V10, I can't type in the Find box, the only thing I can do is select text that I've previously searched for, using a drop-down box. To get round this, I have to type the text I want to find elsewhere, and then copy and paste it into the box.

Is this a bug, or is it deliberately designed to "work" like this?

(Please tell me they didn't do this on purpose!)

Post by **Nita Beck** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 12:51 pm

I don't have that problem at all in Flare 10. I can easily type in the Find box as well as in the Replace box. Don't know what to say...

wclass · Post by **wclass** » Mon Mar 10, 2014 5:58 pm

I can also type directly into the new Find or the Replace widgets.
There was another issue where people had problems with the keyboard, and a patch has been released. Could your problem be related to that?

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Tue Mar 11, 2014 2:40 am

I ran the update, the version I'm running is 10.0.1 - 05/03/2014:15:56.

I feel a note to Tech Support coming on.

How very odd - it's working again now! Might have something to do with restarting my machine a couple of times (for other non-Flare reasons). I'll keep an eye on it and will report it if it happens again. Thanks for the confirmation, folks.

svt-user · Post by **svt-user** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 11:03 am

I'm still seeing the same issue in 10.2.1 Almost as if a buffer has filled up with past recent search entries and can accept no more chars.

Toggling in an out of quick find seems to fix it.

Leon Descoteaux · Post by **Leon Descoteaux** » Wed Sep 10, 2014 12:20 pm

Same problem here. Sometimes it won't accept typing after several successful uses, other times it happens at the very first try after opening the project.

Support "couldn't replicate" (Case 64034, 8/5/2014), so we're left with composing text in Notepad and pasting it into the boxes (yes boxes; it also happens in the Replace box) whenever the boxes freeze. There is no consistency to this issue, so cache issues don't seem to come into play.

Post by **NorthEast** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 1:15 am

I still get this problem now and again, it's been in since the first version of v10.
Report it as a bug - the more people that do, the more likely it is to get fixed.

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Thu Sep 11, 2014 2:02 am

Bug submitted

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 1:26 am

I have had a reply from Tech Support this morning. I'll give it a try and let you know if that does the trick, but in the meantime here's what they said:

Please try performing a repair of all the instances of Microsoft .NET Framework on your machine by following the steps below:

1. Open Windows Control Panel
2. Programs and Features
3. Search for Microsoft .NET Framework Client Profile.
3. Right-click the item > Uninstall/Change > repair

The machine will need to be restarted to complete the repair.

Leon Descoteaux · Post by **Leon Descoteaux** » Fri Sep 12, 2014 6:11 am

Been there (.NET repair), done that...no joy!

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 5:48 am

Same here, as it happens. Have just emailed them to let them know. Let's see what happens... (I predict - not a lot!)

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:25 am

Has anyone else actually reported this as a bug, or am I the only one? I'm in communication with Tech Support and they say they haven't heard of this before, which I find rather surprising as it's been around for a while.

And what were you doing when it happened, what did you do to fix it?

Post by **NorthEast** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 7:48 am

ChoccieMuffin wrote:Has anyone else actually reported this as a bug

Yep, around 6 months ago - 56986; but I can't remember if it was supposed to have been fixed.

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:19 am

Apparently that's a bug about wrapping text around a graphic, Dave.

Post by **NorthEast** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:32 am

ChoccieMuffin wrote:Apparently that's a bug about wrapping text around a graphic, Dave.

:-)

That's the case number in the email they sent to me.

BTW, where are you checking the number - is there somewhere reliable to check these?

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Mon Sep 15, 2014 8:41 am

That was the message I got in an email from Tech Support, who I'm talking to by email at the mo.

TimK · Post by **TimK** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:16 am

Very old thread, but in case anyone is interested, I just downloaded the latest Flare, 10.2.2 and have the same problem with not being able to type in either the Find or Replace box.

kwag_myers · Post by **kwag_myers** » Tue Dec 23, 2014 11:49 am

I've run into this before and can't remember (sorry) if I rebooted Flare or the entire machine to fix it. But try closing Flare and starting it up again. If that doesn't work, restart your PC.

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Mon Jan 05, 2015 3:33 am

It happens when I've done lots of S&R one after the other.

I think the system just takes a lot of time to "catch up", because even if I don't do anything in particular to clear it, it sometimes resolves itself half an hour or so later. Annoying though...

RobinS · Post by **RobinS** » Wed Jan 21, 2015 3:25 am

I've been on version 10 since it came out (now on 10.2.2) and have just encountered this one for the first time!
No wonder they can't replicate...
I'll raise a bug report anyway.

ekaren · Post by **ekaren** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:22 am

The bug is still around. Generally, I need to close and restart Flare. Repairing .NET does not work for me. We received fresh builds less than a month ago and it happened days after that. Next time it happens, I will open a bug report.

It was supposedly fixed according to the Release Notes:

36498 Find and replace window is unnecessarily disabled in some instances.

sdcinvan · Post by **sdcinvan** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:30 am

ChoccieMuffin wrote:I ran the update, the version I'm running is 10.0.1 - 05/03/2014:15:56.

I feel a note to Tech Support coming on.

How very odd - it's working again now! Might have something to do with restarting my machine a couple of times (for other non-Flare reasons). I'll keep an eye on it and will report it if it happens again. Thanks for the confirmation, folks.

I have encountered this problem a few times.

I found that exiting Flare and re-starting fixed this glitch. I am not entirely certain but I believe I first encountered this issue between Flare v10.0.1 and v10.1. I am absolutely certain that I have not encountered this problem in Flare v10.2.2.

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 2:54 am

Bumped into it again just a couple of days ago, using the latest Flare (10.2). Pretty convinced it's a memory thing, or Flare just being really slow to catch up with all the messing around I was doing at the time (which was lots and lots of search and replace).

kwag_myers · Post by **kwag_myers** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:24 am

I recommend Search & Replace Master for large scale searches. I've found that it handles spaces better and you can use wildcards (although, that can be dangerous if you're not careful). I only use Flare's for a single topic or two.

ChoccieMuffin · Post by **ChoccieMuffin** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:39 am

Kwag, if I need to do mass Search and Replace operations I prefer to use FAR, but that is not appropriate in this instance as I want to look at the different instances of certain bits of text and see whether I need to change them or not. That is ONLY sensible inside Flare so I can see what else is going on around the bits I've been searching for. I was replacing each thing individually, not Replace All.

But I have been doing quite a few of that kind of thing, and had our piece of software that I'm documenting running as well, so that's why I am pretty convinced it's a memory thing, as it does seem to "catch up" eventually. It's a bit of a nuisance but nothing I can't live with in the grand scheme of things, as there are a other much more annoying things to be bothered about.

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