Simulate Find Feature

[Daxston]

Hi,

I really like the Find/Find Next feature you have where the user can input some text similar to a Ctrl+F and continually hit Enter to Find the Next instance of the text.

Does the viewer expose any functionality that I can call via code (.NET) to do the same thing? I'd like to build my own textbox (so I have control as to what goes in there) and call your function to Find/Find Next the text in the document since you hightlight the text, reposition, etc...

Do you have any code that can do that?

Thanks,

Dax

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Dax,

You could call the "Find Next" end user command (ID:32992) and this will find the next occurrence of your search text.

Best,
Stefan

[Daxston]

Hi Stefan,

That sounds great but I can't get it to work in VB. Here is the code. Can you help?

pdfViewer.SetProperty("Search.What.Text", <TextToFind>,0)
pdfViewer.DoVerb("","ExecuteCommand","FindNext",0,0)


Thanks,

Dax

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Dax,

You are setting the text for the Advanced search pane with Search.What.Text, and then calling the FindNext - which is executing the simple search in our Viewer.

You need to either Specify the Find.Text - and then call the FindNext, or specify Search.What.Text and then call "StartFullSearch" - and "StopFullSearch" - to stop the advanced search's execution (as it could take some time for complex/longer documents).

Best,
Stefan
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