Scripting a search in OO3

[Michael Terry]

On Friday, January 07, 2005, at 10:19AM, Fraser Speirs <fraser at speirs.org> wrote:

>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

Awesome. I missed that. Thanks very much. I believe the select command is new in Outliner 3, and a change from the way you set the selection in Outliner 2, where the selection was a property of the document class.

>...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.

Yes, absolutely.

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

Yep, that's one of the more sophisticated improvements I was thinking of.

Michael