Calling the Find logic programmatically

My goal is to call the Find logic on the find and replace dialog and passing the parameters normally provided in the input fields on the find and replace dialog. I tried to pull the logic from the javascript in the find dialog but it started to get very complicated and I was unable to get it too work. The ideal pseudo code would look something like:

var fckEditor = FCKeditorAPI.GetInstance('htmlEntryField') ;
//call the find logic passing in the text you want the editor to find
fckEditor.find('Brian');
//editor highlights the first occurrence of the text 'Brian' in the editor - same behavior as the find dialog.

Any suggestions or direction would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian