[Gambas-user] New Find dialog...

[Benoit Minisini]

On Thursday 27 July 2006 23:59, sbungay wrote:
>    Glad you like it Mike. Yes it works well. The "show list feature"is
> indeed brilliant... and that is something I will probably grow fond of.
> Overall I can live with it, but I don't have to like it, then again it
> is nicer to live with something you like, so I made a few suggestions..
> I'm sure others can come up with better ideas than I.
>    I am working on a fairly big project now and I can tell you that
> having to click on that little find-previous button with the mouse is
> starting to get old really fast.
>    User Interface design is not so much a science as an art... and I
> don't know art but I know what I like.
>
> Mike Keehan wrote:
> > sbungay wrote:
> >>   I just did a ctrl+f and got this tool bar thing at the top of the
> >>editor. This is a replacement for a search & replace dialogue? IMHO is
> >>is not an improvement. Change it back... pleeeeeease!
> >
> > Well I disagree, sbungay.
> >
> > I think it works really well - takes up very little space, has simple
> > Find and Replace buttons, and the Show List feature is brilliant.
> >
> > The only thing I miss is the highlighting of all matches in the code,
> > but I can certainly live without that.
> >
> > It will take some time to try it out properly in a project, but my
> > first impression is that it is a very good replacement.
> >
> > Mike
> >

Did Mike's mail sent on the mailing-list? I didn't get it...

Anyway, I can't remove the new find & replace panel for just one people. I 
must wait for other people telling me what they think about it.

I did that for the following reasons:

1) I dislike the dialog on front of the editor.

2) I wanted to copy Firefox :-)

3) There is a technical problem with tool windows in the Qt library, even if I 
found a workaround. And I don't know if can have tool windows in the GTK 
component (I think I can, but I'm not sure at the moment).

You don't have to use the mouse for doing most of the find tasks. You can use 
the keyboard:

- CTRL+F to open the find panel.
- ESC to close it.
- F3 to search forward.
- SHIFT+F3 to search backward.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini