Re: New Search Behavior – Was: Preparing the release of Gambas 3.20

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 05/01/2025 à 20:26, gbWilly a écrit :
> On Sunday, January 5th, 2025 at 08:53, Christof Thalhofer chrisml@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > Am 04.01.25 um 01:44 schrieb Benoît Minisini:
> >
> > > I am currently preparing the release of Gambas 3.20.
> >
> > Still there is an awkward behavior of the new search feature:
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Hit 'Ctrl-F' two times to search in all source files.
> > Enter a string that occurs in multiple source files.
> > Hit 'Enter'
> >
> > The search jumps to the first finding.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------
> >
> > But is does not open the search result tab to show that there are more
> > than just one finding.
> >
> > The old search was much better in this case. I case of multiple findings
> > it opened the search result tab.
>
>
> I was curious what this is all about and I must say, I do miss the search result tab popping up. I now have to to make it visible myself.
>
> I, and I guess most of us, are used to it pooping up automatically when performing a search. I seldom want to run through all search results one by one, but I'm mostly looking for a result in a specific part of my total code. So the search result opening is where my main attention is.
>
> It is kind a like console popping up when running an application in gambas-ide. It ensures that debug output can be seen while running the project (that does happen automatically, right, or did I configure it so?). It is just more practical and save a lot of extra unneeded click.
>
> So, I have to agree with Christof. But for the rest the new search look very good and it does the job just fine.
>
> gbWilly

It should be better in the last commit.

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Benoît Minisini.