[Gambas-user] New Find dialog...

[Ron Onstenk]

On Friday 28 July 2006 00:43, Benoit Minisini wrote:
> 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.
Ring, Ring...
I'm one of the other people.
Just finished a reply to Mike with my why.

> 
> I did that for the following reasons:
> 
> 1) I dislike the dialog on front of the editor.
Me too, But why was the form always on top?
That has puzzled me a long time and still does. 

> 
> 2) I wanted to copy Firefox :-)
gambas != VB, :) 
Why then copy FireFox? It is even less related to programming as VB.


> 
> 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).
I do not understand. The S&R was/is a Form and is supported by qt/gtk.
Why then a 'tool window'?

> 
> 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,
> 

Ron (without searchlist :( )