how to execute a search by a click on a custom button (without the find dialog)

Hello.

Yesterday I've tried to create a custom search-dialog in a tabbed palette for Adobe Bridge.

I need this custom dialog in a tabbed palette because I use Bridge as an image-database where I often need to search for keyword-combinations.

It is not efficient for me to open the find dialog for each search and add a search-criteria for every keyword.

So I want to create my easy custom search.

In this custom dialog I have my keyword-list where I can select the keywords I want to search for and the search-option "match all of the keywords" or "match one of them".

The creation and selection of the keywords and search-option works.

Now I want to click on a button in my tabbed palette (like clicking "find" in the find dialog), give the data to the Bridge search and execute it. But I don't know how.

It seems to me that I need the function getBridgeUriForSearch from the ExtensionHandler. But I don't understand how to do this (I didn't create the dialog as an extension) and I think there must be an easier way.

I use only information which you can insert in the normal find dialog - there are no new or unknown information for the Bridge search. So there must be a way that I can call the Bridge search with this information.

I would be very happy if somebody could help me...

Thank's Susi