Keep layout position when using Find/Change?

Question

When using Find/Change in InDesign CS4, each occurrence of the "Found" material is centered in the window, so the page moves around with each find. Is there a way to keep the page in a fixed position when searching through a document?

Answer 1

Actually, I can think of a shortcut for the hard part: The user uses the
regular find/change UI to make all their settings. Then, they run the
script, which will simply use the settings in the UI. Nice, huh! So you
could get a listBox of all the finds -- select the entry and you get
taken to the desired location. Click the "change" button and the change
is made. Here's a proof of concept:
#targetengine engine20
var myFinds = app.findText();
var w = new Window("palette");
var myList = w.add("listbox", undefined, myFinds);
var changeButton = w.add("button", undefined, "Change");
myList.onChange = gotoFound;
changeButton.onClick = makeTheChange;
w.show();
function gotoFound(){
app.select(myFinds[myList.selection.index].parentTextFrames[0].parent.parent);
     app.select(myFinds[myList.selection.index]);
function makeTheChange(){
     myFinds[myList.selection.index].changeText();
Obviously very rudimentary: but this does work in CS4. If the list is
too long, though, the change button will disappear off the bottom of the
screen. Also, really once the change is made, the item should be removed
from the list, but there's a bug in CS4 that makes it impossible to do
that simply, if I recall correctly (or was that only a tree list?)
Also, I have found that the only sure way of getting the entire spread
to show is as I've done it above (and it would need much more error
checking than this -- for instance, overset text).
Ariel