Find and Goto Facilities

Find Dialog

montage.factory supports the ability to find Objects either by name or by category (where an Object supports categories, such as Performances).

Searches start from the currently selected Object.

Selecting the Find ... option on the Edit Menu brings up the Find dialog, that allows you to specify the string to search for. In addition there are several options that can be selected

Find What The text string to search for.
Match Case If this option is checked then the search is case sensitive. If this option is not checked then the search is case insensitive.
Match Whole Name If this option is checked then the search string must match the entire name of an Object. E.g. "pan" would match a Performance called "pan", but not a Performance called "pandora". If this option is not checked then the search can match a sub string within a name. E.g. "dor" would match a Performance named "dor" and a Performance called "pandora".
Use Wild Cards If checked, montage.factory will treat the "Find What" text as a "regular expression" to allow you more control over the search, such as matching text at the start of a name, or the end of a name, words with numbers in, etc.

The regular expression language used for montage.factory wild card support is the Perl Regular Expression Syntax. Rather than try and write up this powerful syntax myself into the montage.factory documents, I'll direct you to the Perl Regular Expression Syntax page for a description of how to use this powerful feature.

Find Category Dialog

You can also search by category be selecting Find Category ... option on the Edit Menu, which brings up the Find Category Dialog.

This option allows you to search, for example, for all string Performances in a file (assuming all Performances have been assigned a category). Note: only some Objects (such as Performances and Waves) have a category value.

Simply select the Category from the "Find Category" combo box that you wish to search for, and that's all there is to it.

Goto Dialog

Selecting this option on the on the Edit Menu brings up the Goto Dialog

Item Type The type of Object to go to
  • The list of types of Objects that can be selected depends upon the contents of the file.
  • If a Table View is selected then you can only go the type of objects shown by the Table
Item Number The number of the Object to go to.