[Gambas-user] New Find dialog...

[Benoit Minisini]

On Friday 28 July 2006 19:19, Ron Onstenk wrote:
> 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.

It is a joke!

>
> > 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'?
>

I wanted the search not to be in a form nor 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 :( )

Actually the search list is there. The result is just displayed inside the 
project tree.

Regards,

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Benoit Minisini