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Useful Notes
- Unlike most other Cool Focus applets, Searchlight has few user-editable parameters. Because Searchlight is a utility, options we usually regard as essential for web designers (applet size, fonts, colors, behavior) have been left out to avoid unnecessary 'bloat'.
- Use the Up/Down buttons on the Search Results page to scroll backwards and fowards through the results. These become active only when there are more than 8 matches, and either arrow will become inactive when there are no more results to be displayed in the corresponding direction.
- Searchlight returns not only the text of HTML documents, but plain text (.txt) documents, file and directory names, paths, hosts and URLs, and HTML tags.
- After setting up your URL/Name parameters (or the equivalent markers in SingleSearch mode), you might wish to check that the displayed Names or URLs fit neatly within Searchlight's borders. Run a search for a word that occurs in every referenced URL (such as "html" if your entries are all web pages) so that every URL will be a match.
- Some Netscape Navigator / Communicator users will find that Navigator either refuses to initialize or insists that no matches are found when running Searchlight locally with links to local files. This is a result of Navigator's security paranoia which prevents it loading and reading local files. Users of any Cool Focus applet can use our free utility, ComTest, available from the Free Stuff section at Cool Focus.
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