Chris,

What's different between the SelectorFinder in morphic vs mvc is that in morphic you can hit the RETURN key -- after typing in the desired selector fragment -- to launch your query, whereas in mvc you have to hit cmd-s (or alt-s) or the ENTER key, or choose "accept" from the type-in-pane's menu.  

(The mvc text editor treats a RETURN like any other character, but in morphic we can set up a text editing pane such that RETURN is interpreted as a request to "accept".  That's progress!)

If it's really true that the ENTER key doesn't work in an mvc SelectorBrowser on your machine, this may be a platform-dependent problem revolving around interpretation of the Enter key.  On the Mac, at least, ENTER works equivalently in mvc and morphic text panes, serving as a synoynm for "accept" in both cases.

As for the "find", "find again" etc. menu items you see in the type-in pane's menu in the SelectorFinder, these are just incidental byproducts of the fact that the type-in pane is a general text-editing pane -- what you're seeing is just the standard text-editing menu.   You can in fact do general text-editing in this pane if you really want to!   We didn't want to bother special-casing a more restricted menu here because -- well, because we never do.  I can see how it was puzzling in this case, but on the other hand, it's nice, wherever text-editing is possible, to see the same familiar set of text-editing menu items.

Hope this helps,

  -- Scott

At 12:22 PM -0800 3/23/99, Norton, Chris wrote:
>Hi Folks.
>
>I have to thank Maurice Rabb for getting me to play with the Selector
>Finder.
>
>Apparently, the Morphic Selector Finder is working as designed.  If I type a
>selector name, like "printOn:" in the upper left hand box and then type
><Enter>, the lower pane fills up with selectors whose name contains this
>substring.
>
>The MVC Selector finder does not do this.  I'm not sure if this is the only
>way to use the tool, as I just recently started playing around with it.  I
>can't seem to figure out how to use the "find...", "find again" or "set
>search string" popup items.  They don't appear to do anything in this
>dialog.
>
>In any event, the two dialogs do not seem to work the same, so I'm calling
>this a bug.
>
>Thanks.
>
>---==> Chris