Some outliners and the features Unicode, search in the tree, website publishing

Posted by Achim
Nov 27, 2013 at 12:22 PM

Hi Peter,

glad I could help you a bit. So here’s some more:

Regarding the performance:
I tried to run a MNK-file with 20 MB of data from a 2.0. USB stick - not breathtaking fast but satisfying. From a HD, databases with 100 MB were no problem. Global full-text-searches need their time (few seconds) as MNK builds no index afaik.

Concerning search matters:
From your post I suppose you didnt’t discover the Find-As-You-Type-search yet. I think it’s even not mentioned in the Help File.
When selecting “All items” in the “View” menu you get a list of all (or you can choose a scope to search) item titles in the database. Now if you type your search string in the “Search” field (only lowercase), you get this list filtered in real time by the string you type. Doubleclicking leads you to the item.

Same goes for “All Attachments” below, where you can filter for certain attachment names.
Would be more convenient if it had an input box above the tree and not in a new (modal) window, but it’s pretty fast.

Unicode-Characters:
Yes that’s strange. If you copy some japanese characters from the editor into an item to rename it, they are shown properly - until you hit Enter or click somewhere else. Then they turn into question marks. Should be easy to fix for the author. MNK is based on Absolute Database, which provides full Unicode-support.

best regards

Achim