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Known Issues

This is a list of known issues and bugs in the latest version of ABCFind.

  1. Floating Find/Replace Dialog Can Obscure the Matching Text.
  2. Permission denied errors when trying to overwrite a binary compatible file during compilation.
  3. Search Results Can Lose Track of the Location of The Match Text.
  4. Customize Menus Do Not Effect ABCFind Menu.
 

Floating Find/Replace Dialog Can Obscure the Matching Text

After pressing the Find button, the standard Visual Basic Find/Replace dialog will reposition itself if it is hiding the found text.  The equivelant ABCFind Find/Replace dialog does not perform this automatic repositioning.  A fix for this problem is being investigated and will be included in a future release.

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Permission denied errors when trying to overwrite a binary compatible file during compilation

In some rare cases you may get a permission denied error

 

when attempting to compile an ActiveX component (DLL, OCX or ActiveX EXE).  This will happen if the Visual Basic project has its compatible component (either Binary or Project) filename set to exactly the same path as the binary that you are attempting to overwrite.  This error can occur for a number of different reasons and you should refer to the Microsoft MSDN web site for details, but ABCFind can also be the cause of this error.  The best way to prevent ABCFind from causing this error is to remove it from the list of Visual Basic Add-Ins and restart Visual Basic.  To do this, click on the main menu Add-Ins and Add-In Manager....  This will display the Add-In Manager dialog box.  Select 'ABC Find & Replace dialog', uncheck the 'Load on Startup' checkbox and press OK.  Shutdown Visual Basic, reopen it and reload the required project.  You then be able to compile the project.  To reinstate ABCFind, return to the Add-In Manager dialog box, select 'ABC Find & Replace dialog', check the 'Load on Startup' and 'Loaded/Unloaded' checkboxes and press OK.

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Search Results Can Lose Track of the Location of The Match Text

All the matches displayed in the search results window will be linked to the text that is contained in the code module.  If these code modules are edited to such an extent that the code in the surrounding area of the matching text becomes considerably changed from original text then the search results window may lose track of where some of the matches are found. 

This is not really a bug in that it is impossible to develop a method of tracking the location of the matches that is 100% accurate without using a lot of processing power.  The method used by ABCFind has been highly optimized to use a minimal amount of processing power but on PCs where the a slow CPU is fitted or in code modules that are considerably big (several thousand lines) then ABCFind will suspend its background tracking processing on the matches.  If ABCFind did not do this then it would use so much processing power that even basic editing of code would become jerky and unusable.

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Customize Menus Do Not Effect ABCFind Menu

The ABCFind menu that is integrated into the Visual Basic IDE is not changed by using the Visual Basic IDE functionality to Customize menus.  This is by design.

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