Scripting a search in OO3

[Fraser Speirs]

On 7 Jan 2005, at 18:03, Michael Terry wrote:

> Depending on what features you want, the script can be made more 
> sophisticated, for example highlighting all found rows with a 
> particular style. You'd want a partner script to clear the highlights 
> too. In Outliner 2, it would have been possible to select the found 
> rows, but not anymore.

You can still script the selection:

set theRows to every row of front document whose topic is "foo"
select theRows

...seems to work for me.  In any case, I've found that using 
applescript filter references is much more flexible than the search 
field alone.

Actually, instead of selecting the found rows I'm faking a hoist by 
copying them into a temporary document.  Works quite nicely for me.

Cheers,
Fraser
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