FRONTPAGE 2002 BUG REPORT: FIND IS GOOFY

[Jim Carlock]

Hello,

Don't know where to report bugs for FrontPage 2002. But here
is what I see as a "BUG".

When doing a find / replace and going through and manually
replacing text:

I'm searching for:

smileys/

There are a zillion smileys/ in the document and I have to make
sure I'm replacing just the smileys/ not the images/smileys/.

What FrontPage 2002 is doing is it finds the "smileys/smile001.jpg"
and when I replace it with "/images/smileys/" it immediately jumps
to the smileys/ that I just replaced. It should be continuing the search
after the replaced text, not inside of the searched text.

 

[Jim Carlock]

ANOTHER BUG REPORT:

After I've searched and replaced all the smileys/ ...

FIND does not find smileys/ anymore.

--
Jim Carlock


:
Hello,

Don't know where to report bugs for FrontPage 2002. But here
is what I see as a "BUG".

When doing a find / replace and going through and manually
replacing text:

I'm searching for:

smileys/

There are a zillion smileys/ in the document and I have to make
sure I'm replacing just the smileys/ not the images/smileys/.

What FrontPage 2002 is doing is it finds the "smileys/smile001.jpg"
and when I replace it with "/images/smileys/" it immediately jumps
to the smileys/ that I just replaced. It should be continuing the search
after the replaced text, not inside of the searched text.

 

[Jim Carlock]

The third BUG with FRONTPAGE 2002 is when you have
more than one document selected and you want to perform a
global change on the certain text.

Even though Selected Files Only is selected in the radio buttons,
FRONTPAGE 2002 (XP) automatically changes the selection
to All Documents AFTER the action is selected to change the
files. These bugs are basic programming stuff that anyone can
do and that Microsoft KNOWS how to do. There is only one
conclusion left, and that is that MICROSOFT purposely put
these BUGS in place with FULL KNOWLEDGE that they
are bugs.

And being that Microsoft employees know what they did and
the fact that they sold me a tire that will blow up with full knowledge
that the thing will blow up, it is a violation of LAW, breaks all
contracts and as such they can not be trusted in any of their
contracts and therefore all their contracts and license agreements
are invalid.

If a Microsoft Legal representative would like to contact me about
this, I am free to be contacted.

--
Jim Carlock


:
ANOTHER BUG REPORT:

After I've searched and replaced all the smileys/ ...

FIND does not find smileys/ anymore.

--
Jim Carlock


:
Hello,

Don't know where to report bugs for FrontPage 2002. But here
is what I see as a "BUG".

When doing a find / replace and going through and manually
replacing text:

I'm searching for:

smileys/

There are a zillion smileys/ in the document and I have to make
sure I'm replacing just the smileys/ not the images/smileys/.

What FrontPage 2002 is doing is it finds the "smileys/smile001.jpg"
and when I replace it with "/images/smileys/" it immediately jumps
to the smileys/ that I just replaced. It should be continuing the search
after the replaced text, not inside of the searched text.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

Most cars have doors that open from a hinge on the side. Some cars have
doors that open from a hinge on the top. Which car has the bug? Apparently,
in your case, the one that doesn't function the way you want it to. A bug is
a defect. What you are describing is a design feature. Microsoft is always
interested in hearing any suggestions you may have regarding desired feature
changes. Here's a URL where you can suggest away:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswis...=/isapi/gomscom.asp?target=/mswish/thanks.htm

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Jim Carlock]

Thanks Kevin.

I see NO design feature. I wanted to search through
selected pages, and Microsoft provided a way to do it,
but it instead searches through thousands of other pages.
That is NOT a design feature.

There are 3 selections to search through... They are labeled
as follows:

Find where:
* All pages
* Selected page(s)
* Current Page

Now when I select ten pages, and I select the radio option:
* Selected page(s)

And then the first time I search, the search goes through the
* Selected page(s)

And then subsequent searches changes the search behaviour
to search through the whole website, well, you are WRONG.

There is no feature there except a ludicrous bug.

Please tell me exactly how YOU see that as a feature ? I don't
think you can answer the question appropriately.

And when it behaves in that manner in doing search and replace,
it's more like a faulty tire that colleges around the world instruct
not to put the threads on backwards because the tire could blow,
and then Microsoft puts the threads on backwards so they can
sell a new product.

This is a violation of contract and licensing law. You can wish all
you like, and I can wish all I like but a faulty tire is a faulty tire
and when it blows, and it blows because Microsoft called it a
design feature to put the threads on backwards, then I suggest
you put wishful design feature Firestone tires on all your cars. I
suggest you buy a Ford and pray and wish that it doesn't catch
on fire. I suggest you walk outside holding up a metal rod during
a lightning storm, and design the rod with a copper feature. And
I suggest you go to George Walker Bush Junior and dance
naked for him in some Iraqi sand holding up an Israeli flag. If I
am way off target, please tell me, HOW is it a design feature?

If I am wrong, please correct me.

I thank you for your reply.

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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:
Most cars have doors that open from a hinge on the side. Some cars have
doors that open from a hinge on the top. Which car has the bug? Apparently,
in your case, the one that doesn't function the way you want it to. A bug is
a defect. What you are describing is a design feature. Microsoft is always
interested in hearing any suggestions you may have regarding desired feature
changes. Here's a URL where you can suggest away:

http://register.microsoft.com/mswis...=/isapi/gomscom.asp?target=/mswish/thanks.htm

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Kevin Spencer]

I don't need to correct you, Jim. Just hire a lawyer and ask him/her.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Jim Carlock]

Thanks for your wishful thinking...

--
Jim Carlock

:
I don't need to correct you, Jim. Just hire a lawyer and ask him/her.

--
HTH,
Kevin Spencer
..Net Developer
Microsoft MVP
Big things are made up
of lots of little things.

 

[Steve Easton]

Thanks Kevin.

I see NO design feature. I wanted to search through
selected pages, and Microsoft provided a way to do it,
but it instead searches through thousands of other pages.
That is NOT a design feature.

There are 3 selections to search through... They are labeled
as follows:

Find where:
* All pages
* Selected page(s)
* Current Page

Now when I select ten pages, and I select the radio option:
* Selected page(s)

And then the first time I search, the search goes through the
* Selected page(s)

And then subsequent searches changes the search behaviour
to search through the whole website, well, you are WRONG.

There is no feature there except a ludicrous bug.

That is not a bug, it's a design feature and it's one that protects you from inadvertently
changing something in every page in your site by accident, since there is no "undo" for
search and replace.

FYI, FrontPage and the operating system save the search and replace info you enter in
"Find" and "Replace With" in a location in the system registry so you can use the same
data if desired when you launch another instance of Find. However each instance will
always default to the original "Single page" settings so if by some "stroke of misfortune"
you click the wrong feature button.

It's a safety feature that forces you to make a conscious effort because the results can't
be undone.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

 

[Jim Carlock]

Thanks, Steve,

I was reporting 3 bugs... I know you aren't refering to the first one.
1) While doing a Search and Replace, after changing for example,
smileys/ to images/smileys, and while stepping through... it changes
the first smileys/ to images/smileys/ and then it highlights the next
smileys/ but instead of bypassing what it changed, it proceeds the
same smileys/ that it just changed. If I weren't stepping through
this, it wouldn't go into an endless loop. I was spefically changing
things one at a time, because I did NOT want to change all of
them in the website, even though I was going through every page
in the website. This IS a bug.
2) After doing a mass change, search does NOT find what was
just searched for, even though I tried to Search the whole
website, for instance, I searched and changed all the smileys/ so
I then was going to search and change all the images/images/smileys
but lo and behold, Search can not find any and it can NOT find
smileys/. This IS a bug.
3) The third one that you are referring too, does NOT work as
YOU think it does. You are way off base, because this is what I
did...

I selected 10 files to search. I highlighted 10 files. I then did the
CTRL+R to start the replace dialog. I then entered what I wanted it
to find. I then selected * Selected page(s). And whatever you are
talking about does NOT apply. This IS a bug.

Because the moment I clicked on the Replace All button, the dialog
changes what I selected and automatically starts going through every
page in the website. This is NOT a feature. This is a BUG.

I am using FrontPage 2002 (XP). Sorry if you misunderstood.

And I have a fourth thing that I'll report as a bug as well. If I
select one file and tell FrontPage to search it for something that
I know it contains, FrontPage comes back stating that the item
cannot be found. It simply refuses to search a file that is not an
..htm, .asp. The file had an extension of .inc. This is a BUG as
well, and if it is "by design", then Microsoft made a very poor
design choice because real tools do what you tell them to do
and real tools do NOT change what you tell them to do, and
it also means that Microsoft made their product a disfunctional
product with very limited usefulness.

I've been using FrontPage for about 10 years now. And I'm
trying to really use the product but it is failing and it fails
because Microsoft told it be useless, and they have broken FIND
and REPLACE.

Global find should be simple and easy to use without any MS
ingenuity. Their ingenuity is breaking their contract to provide a
useful product. If this is the way things get done, then I suggest
you do something useless too, like dance naked in a thunderstorm
carrying a Microsoft flag on a copper pole.

Thank you for supporting Microsoft. I guess you would support
Microsoft if they told you to kill your son, daughter and wife too.
Because that is exactly what you're doing, right now, supporting
a company BLIND. Ignorance is bliss! Peace to you.

--
Jim Carlock
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/
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:

Thanks Kevin.

I see NO design feature. I wanted to search through
selected pages, and Microsoft provided a way to do it,
but it instead searches through thousands of other pages.
That is NOT a design feature.

There are 3 selections to search through... They are labeled
as follows:

Find where:
* All pages
* Selected page(s)
* Current Page

Now when I select ten pages, and I select the radio option:
* Selected page(s)

And then the first time I search, the search goes through the
* Selected page(s)

And then subsequent searches changes the search behaviour
to search through the whole website, well, you are WRONG.

There is no feature there except a ludicrous bug.

That is not a bug, it's a design feature and it's one that protects you from inadvertently
changing something in every page in your site by accident, since there is no "undo" for
search and replace.

FYI, FrontPage and the operating system save the search and replace info you enter in
"Find" and "Replace With" in a location in the system registry so you can use the same
data if desired when you launch another instance of Find. However each instance will
always default to the original "Single page" settings so if by some "stroke of misfortune"
you click the wrong feature button.

It's a safety feature that forces you to make a conscious effort because the results can't
be undone.

--
Steve Easton
Microsoft MVP FrontPage
95isalive
This site is best viewed..................
...............................with a computer

 

[Peter Aitken]

Thanks, Steve,

I was reporting 3 bugs... I know you aren't refering to the first one.
1) While doing a Search and Replace, after changing for example,
smileys/ to images/smileys, and while stepping through... it changes
the first smileys/ to images/smileys/ and then it highlights the next
smileys/ but instead of bypassing what it changed, it proceeds the
same smileys/ that it just changed. If I weren't stepping through
this, it wouldn't go into an endless loop. I was spefically changing
things one at a time, because I did NOT want to change all of
them in the website, even though I was going through every page
in the website. This IS a bug.

There's an easy work around. Change all smileys\ to some character string
that does not occur elsewhere such as !%!%!%!%!%. Then change all !%!%!%!%!%
to images\smileys\.