Hi Guys

I have a GREAT idea but I'm no wizard when it comes to programming. Is
it possible to extend the FIND TEXT window that pops up when you press
control+F in IE5 and other MS products?

My plan is this. I want to be able to search for certain type of
strings... e.g. time/date. Suppose I am reading a loooong news item on
a site. And I want to find any words indicating WHEN... then I want to
pick Time/DATE from the find window and it should find words like:
TODAY, TOMORROW, YESTERDAY, etc... Obviously these things should be
customisable so that you can build your own wordlists. Time/Date is
probably the only one I will want to use but maybe some other person
might want to search for other types of words that can logically be
grouped together.

Is this possible?
Can you just write a plugin or even overwrite the current FIND TEXT
window library?

CE Auke wrote:

It's a call into the CommonDialog dll, so you'd need to see if
there's a way to override Windows' call to that function. If
it IS possible, it's not likely to be trivial programming.

Neither a plugin nor an overwrite (unless you want to re-write the
entire CommonDialog library and replace commdlg.lib/commdlg.dll.

You'd need (if it's possible) to hook into Windows and somehow
redirect that call. My sense is it's NOT possible, but I make no
claim to know even a fraction of all that's possible with Windows.
Windows is, in some regards, VERY flexible and configurable.

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