Is there a way to search within a window?

[tek0011]

Are there any functions or 3rd party programs that would allow me to search for text within an individual window?

I am using a program that generates 1000's of pieces of data and information, and it has no search function.

Is there any thing out there that would do this?

 

[mickey megabyte]

hi tek0011, and welcome to sevenforums,

is it possible to ctrl-a (to select all), then paste everything into another program (eg notepad or better), and then search from there?

also, what is your program? - it may help us suggest solutions.

 

[Oaken]

Listary may do what you want. There are both portable and installer versions (64-bit supported)?

 

[jacksunny]

Or try typing Ctrl-F into the program, sometimes that brings up a search function.

 

[fseal]

So this is a custom program (Not like using explorer or anything?) that is outputting tons of text in a long scrolling window?

If the program has no logging feature, which you could search the resulting log file in notepad or something. I would try to copy/paste the output window text into notepad and search it there.

I don't know of any addon that will arbitratily search text in just any window of any program. Though it sounds possible to write such a thing Would have been pretty easy on XP, may be much more difficult on 7.

 

[tek0011]

hi tek0011, and welcome to sevenforums,

is it possible to ctrl-a (to select all), then paste everything into another program (eg notepad or better), and then search from there?

also, what is your program? - it may help us suggest solutions.

Unfortunately, I cannot even ctrl-a to select all. Even if I could i think that way would take longer, for what I am trying to do.
It is a program specifically engineered for what we do at work.
Essentially there are 1000's of columns and rows, and I need to find certain columns and/or rows. Sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes just to locate, I am trying to get this down to 1-5 secs (if I had a search within a window, function).

I saw an Apple (ick) program that allowed to search within an actual window itself. Unfortunately I cannot find a similar program for Windows.

Thanks for your reply and any following thoughts/ideas.

 

[mickey megabyte]

in most programs, you can click on a column, and that will sort alphabetically under that column, making things easier to find..

i suppose it all depends on how the software was written in the first place.

a lengthy painful workaround would be to take screenshots, then ocr them...

 

[tek0011]

Listary may do what you want. There are both portable and installer versions (64-bit supported)?

Trying this right now. But cant even get the hotkey to pull up the search function. Ill let you know if this works.

 

[fseal]

No one is left that can modify the app to add a search function?

Actually I would love to have an external window text/list capture/search utility. Could grab lists of files from explorer for example, without having to drop to the command line to get the sameinfo into a text file

 

[Oaken]

You may need to add the application via the Listary options (just getting used to it myself).

 

[Mike Connor]

hi tek0011, and welcome to sevenforums,

is it possible to ctrl-a (to select all), then paste everything into another program (eg notepad or better), and then search from there?

also, what is your program? - it may help us suggest solutions.

Unfortunately, I cannot even ctrl-a to select all. Even if I could i think that way would take longer, for what I am trying to do.
It is a program specifically engineered for what we do at work.
Essentially there are 1000's of columns and rows, and I need to find certain columns and/or rows. Sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes just to locate, I am trying to get this down to 1-5 secs (if I had a search within a window, function).

I saw an Apple (ick) program that allowed to search within an actual window itself. Unfortunately I cannot find a similar program for Windows.

Thanks for your reply and any following thoughts/ideas.

What sort of window is it? Just a list box? Are the items static?

Can you save the contents to a file?

If so, there are various ways to search it. But I need to know what sort of window it is before making suggestions.

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[tek0011]

hi tek0011, and welcome to sevenforums,

is it possible to ctrl-a (to select all), then paste everything into another program (eg notepad or better), and then search from there?

also, what is your program? - it may help us suggest solutions.

Unfortunately, I cannot even ctrl-a to select all. Even if I could i think that way would take longer, for what I am trying to do.
It is a program specifically engineered for what we do at work.
Essentially there are 1000's of columns and rows, and I need to find certain columns and/or rows. Sometimes it takes 5-10 minutes just to locate, I am trying to get this down to 1-5 secs (if I had a search within a window, function).

I saw an Apple (ick) program that allowed to search within an actual window itself. Unfortunately I cannot find a similar program for Windows.

Thanks for your reply and any following thoughts/ideas.

What sort of window is it? Just a list box? Are the items static?

Can you save the contents to a file?

If so, there are various ways to search it. But I need to know what sort of window it is before making suggestions.

Regards....Mike Connor

The items semi static. lol. Its just like any other company made program. the contents can be saved to a file, which I can then search, but again I am trying to streamline this. Just a screen scraper of some type.

Listary might work, im digging into it, but it keeps crashing.

 

[Oaken]

Listary might work, im digging into it, but it keeps crashing.

I've been using the portable x64 version for a few days and it's worked perfectly? You don't have to use the hot key, when the window is in focus just start typing a query and it should appear instantly...

 

[Mike Connor]

The items semi static. lol. Its just like any other company made program. the contents can be saved to a file, which I can then search, but again I am trying to streamline this. Just a screen scraper of some type.

Listary might work, im digging into it, but it keeps crashing.

OK. If you can save to a file you can search it easily.

Try this first;

dngrep - dnGREP - Google Project Hosting

also, if it is just an ascii file, you can search it using any plain text editor with a search function. For many files you can just open them in Firefox and use various search functions there.

Regards....Mike Connor

 

[jacksunny]

Try WinGrep if Listary doesn't work.

 

[tek0011]

Try WinGrep if Listary doesn't work.

have tried this, but it seems to only search files. I need it to search the current window I am in.

Crazy this hasn't been written yet....

Even crazier our engineers didnt incorporate a search function in the program.

 

[tek0011]

Listary might work, im digging into it, but it keeps crashing.

I've been using the portable x64 version for a few days and it's worked perfectly? You don't have to use the hot key, when the window is in focus just start typing a query and it should appear instantly...

cant get the query window to open w/o using hotkey.

 

[tek0011]

The items semi static. lol. Its just like any other company made program. the contents can be saved to a file, which I can then search, but again I am trying to streamline this. Just a screen scraper of some type.

Listary might work, im digging into it, but it keeps crashing.

OK. If you can save to a file you can search it easily.

Try this first;

dngrep - dnGREP - Google Project Hosting

also, if it is just an ascii file, you can search it using any plain text editor with a search function. For many files you can just open them in Firefox and use various search functions there.

Regards....Mike Connor

thanks for the idea. however, I am attempting to do this w/o having to copy and paste the information elsewhere. My search continues. MacOS has one, how does Windows not. Listary is close to doing what I want it to, but I cant get it to work with certain windows.

 

[jacksunny]

Just curious, what is the name of the program for MacOS?

 

[tek0011]

Just curious, what is the name of the program for MacOS?

lol, great. let me find it again. took me forever to search.