The KFind Documentation: Onscreen Fundamentals
Description: Documentation for kfind
Keywords: kfind finfd

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### 3. Onscreen Fundamentals

In this section will be briefly described Kfind user interface.

The Kfind window separated in four areas: toolbar, search parameters dialog, viewing area and statusbar. The viewing area and statusbar are visible only after receiving search results.

### 3.1 Toolbar

Start Search

  Starts new search using parameters specified in parameters dialog.

New Search

  Clears results and hides viewing area.

Stop Search

  Stops runing search process.

Open

  Asks Kfm to start default binding for selected file.

Add to Archive

  Adds selected file to chosen archive.

Delete

  Deletes selected files and asks Kfm to refresh directory.

Properties

  Shows properties of selected file.

Open Containing Folder

  Asks Kfm to open folder containing selected file.

Save Search Results

  Saves results to file specified in Options->Preferences dialog.

Help

  Shows KFind documentation.

Quit

  Exits KFind.

### 3.2 Search Parameters Dialog

This dialog is the main part of `KFind`. It's used for specifying parameter for find utility. There are three find parameters groups:

Name and location

  This dialog is used to specify filename user is looking for. Filename is entered into combobox and can contain following wildcards:

  > `? matches any character

  > * matches any sequence of characters

  > [[]] matches a defines set of characters, e.g. [a-zA-Z0-9\.] matches upper and lower case ASCII letters, digits, and dot.

  > `

  The combo box stores names history. The Look in combo box and Browse button are used to specify directory where the search will be performed. Whether the `find` should look into subdirectories is specified by Include subfolders check button.
Date Modified

  This dialog allows searching for files created within a specified time period.

Advanced

  This page allows file searches for specific types of files e.g Postscript-documents, JPEG image files or WAV sound files. The search can also be restricted to files above or below a certain size.

### 3.3 Viewing Area

The viewing area contains results of find process. After clicking on item the functions open, add to archive,delete, properties and open containing folder will be enabled. Double clicking causes executing default binding.

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